Category: Techniques

Creative Crew: Snowflake Soiree Chip

Creative Crew: Snowflake Soiree Chip

This is the third of my projects for the December Creative Crew challenges on Splitcoaststampers. The challenge: "Holiday Focus: December 24th is National Chocolate Day. While eating the best chocolate you can find, make a card using chocolate chip on it. If you CASEd someone fabulous, give credit to this wonderful stamper." I love Amanda … Continue reading Creative Crew: Snowflake Soiree Chip

Creative Crew: Evergreen Seasons of Style

Creative Crew: Evergreen Seasons of Style

eeThis is the second of my projects for the December Creative Crew challenges on Splitcoaststampers. The challenge: "Catalogue Focus: candy dots. Copy someone's artwork that loves brads or candy dots. Use candy dots generously on your project." Whilst 'surfing' Splitcoaststampers, I found this very pretty Christmas card by Tags which uses lots of candy dots. … Continue reading Creative Crew: Evergreen Seasons of Style

Creative Crew: Serene Silhouettes Modern Medley

Creative Crew: Serene Silhouettes Modern Medley

Today's card serves two purposes. The first is to show you the first of my last four projects for the Splitcoaststampers Creative Crew Design Team. The second purpose is to show you one of the new special Thinlits Card dies. The challenge: "DSP/Color Focus: Modern Medley or basic black and very vanilla. Check out the … Continue reading Creative Crew: Serene Silhouettes Modern Medley

Ornament Keepsakes Indigo Flip

Ornament Keepsakes Indigo Flip

Flip cards are all the rage at the moment. You can make them in one go with special dies, or use other dies and make them manually. Today, I am using one of the Labels Framelits to make a Christmas card. It is based on one I saw on Darlene DeVries blog. My base card … Continue reading Ornament Keepsakes Indigo Flip

Best of Flowers Stylish Eggplant

Best of Flowers Stylish Eggplant

A clean and simple stylish card in more ways than one. I double embossed a piece of Whisper White, firstly with the Stylish Stripes TIEF, and then the Oval Designer Frames TIEF. The bouquet of flowers from Best of Flowers was stamped in Elegant Eggplant on Whisper White, punched out with the Extra Large Oval … Continue reading Best of Flowers Stylish Eggplant

Flower Shop Pillow Top Cabana

Flower Shop Pillow Top Cabana

Today's technique is a version of Faux Tile, often known as Pillow Top Background. I created the pillow top by firstly stamping and masking one of the flowers from Flower Shop on Shimmery White card stock with Coastal Cabana ink. I then used the Simply Scored Diagonal Plate to add score lines which were sponged … Continue reading Flower Shop Pillow Top Cabana