Annette Sullivan: Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator, Australia – Providing inspiration for handmade greeting cards
Category: Home-made Bling
Do you know that it is only 2 months until Christmas? I have made a slow start to my Christmas cards this year. Last year, I had most of them complete by now. Looks like my projects over the next few weeks will be mainly Christmas oriented. I will start with a clean and simple … Continue reading Evergreen Gumball Tulip
This week the technique challenge at Splitcoaststampers was to use woven ribbon on your project. I made a ribbon wreath using retired Mellow Moss ¼" Grosgrain Ribbon and added some home made bling to represent berries. My card base is Naturals Ivory layered with a piece of Early Espresso Core'dinations embossed with the Stripes TIEF … Continue reading Woven Ribbon Wreath
I have a couple of Christmas cards for you today. They use the new Delicate Designs TIEF snow flake and the Large Scallop Edgelit. The design is the same for both, only the colours and images are different. The base card is Naturals Ivory, stamped with images from Come to Bethlehem, Snow Swirled and Greetings … Continue reading Delicate Designs for Christmas
An elegant Christmas card full of bling for today's DTGD challenge. It uses Naturals Ivory, Brushed Gold and Very Vanilla. The images from Snow Swirled were stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with Gold Embossing Powder. I then 'blinged' it up with my home made bling using Crystal Effects and Gold Glitter. Not easy to … Continue reading Snow Swirled Gold Ivory
This week's online class at Crafter's Anonymous was a pretty little Top Note Trinket Box. It was very easy to make and is a good size to hold many types of small gifts. The inside of the box measures 4" x 2½" x 1" high. I used Tempting Turquoise for mine. The top Top Note … Continue reading Trinket Box
Check out this cute embossing folder called Petals-a-Plenty. It is perfect for Christmas cards. Here I have used it for the card background and again over the main image. You can see the fine detail here. For the sentiment, I used the Petite Pennants Builder Punch to create the 'pennant', and added some home made … Continue reading Petals-a-Plenty
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