Annette Sullivan: Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator, Australia – Providing inspiration for handmade greeting cards
Category: Heat Embossing
A different take on one of the Mixed Bunch images today. I stamped one of the images in Versamark on Rose Red and heat embossed it using White EP. It was then punched out with the Blossom punch, and two of the petals cut away to form a butterfly. I curled the wings with a … Continue reading Mixed Bunch Butterfly
Last weekend, Madonna had a training day for her downlines. 9 of us were able to attend this great event. Madonna 'volunteered' Kirsty and Kirri to prepare a make and take for us to do, as well as her own. The first one was a stationery box from Kirri. I made mine in Very Vanilla … Continue reading Madonna’s Training Day
Yes, bleaching it is. Today's technique uses heat embossing and bleaching in the outlines of the image. I started with a piece of Wild Wasabi cardstock, stamped the floral image from Elements of Style using Versamark, then heat embossed it with black embossing powder. When it was cool, I used an Aquapainter to pick up … Continue reading Bleaching
Here I have tried another new technique. I call it faux stone. I used a retired Jumbo Wheel, Speckled, with Whisper White Craft Ink, then Soft Suede then Chocolate Chip ink to create a background on Crumb Cake cardstock. The tools were heat embossed with silver embossing powder, then coloured with Platinum Shimmer Paint and … Continue reading Faux Stone
Today's CAS card uses another simple sketch and masking. After masking the centre of a square card, I took out a retired background stamp, Print Patterns, and stamped a border on the base. Using a white gel pen, I created a faux stitched border, heat embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder, and added some … Continue reading CAS Masking
Hello. Today I have been experimenting with white embossing powder. After a visit to Lisa's blog, I thought I would CASE her beautiful daisies and add a few embellishments of my own. I have used the Versamarker to colour in the stems, white embossing powder for the flower outlines, gold embossing powder and rhinestones in … Continue reading White Embossing
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