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Category: Techniques
Have you seen the latest single stamps? There are some wonderful Christmas images. Here is one of them - Wonderful Blessings. An absolutely beautiful Nativity scene that creates the perfect Christmas card. I cut a circle in a piece of Basic Gray and then embossed the negative image with the Stylish Stripes TIEF [from the … Continue reading Wonderful Blessings Silver Gray
Here is a great example of paper piercing. I used one of the Windows Frames shapes from the Festive Paper Piercing Pack to create three frames on a piece of Whisper White and then stamped the bouquet of flowers from Best of Flowers in two of the frames and a sentiment from Simply Sketched in … Continue reading Best of Flowers Artichoke
An unusual combination of colours on this Christmas card. I added some strips of Crumb Cake and Early Espresso to a piece of Cajun Craze which was then embossed with the Square Lattice TIEF and layered onto a base of Naturals Ivory. The image from the retired Come to Bethlehem was stamped on Very Vanilla … Continue reading Come to Bethlehem Espresso Craze
I finally got to use the Shaker Frames which have been sitting on my desk for many months.This basic Christmas card has a base of Cherry Cobbler, a layer of Season of Style DSP, a piece of Originals Mistletoe Old Olive Ribbon [retired] and the shaker. To make the shaker, I stamped an image from … Continue reading Chalk Talk Christmas Cobbler Shaker
A very clean and simple card. I used some Quatrefancy DSP on the Ric Rac section of the Tasteful Trim Bigz XL Die. These pieces were adhered to a piece of scrap and then added to a strip of Island Indigo and placed on a base of Naturals White. I stamped the sentiment in Island … Continue reading Feel Goods Ric Rac Indigo
Today I am using a technique known as Faux Diamonds. It gets it name from the sparkly diamond-like finish. After stamping some images from Stippled Blossoms on Whisper White with Rich Razzleberry, Coastal Cabana and Midnight Muse inks, I covered the entire surface with Versamark and heat embossed it with Iridescent Ice EP. This was … Continue reading Stippled Blossoms Coastal Razzleberry
