Annette Sullivan: Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator, Australia – Providing inspiration for handmade greeting cards
Category: Techniques
Flower Garden for Christmas? I thought the shimmery look of the embossed Flower Garden would make a classic Christmas card. The base card of Riding Hood Red was layered with a piece of the same which was embossed with the Woodgrain TIEF. A piece of Whisper White was then embossed with the Flower Garden TIEF … Continue reading Flower Garden Christmas
My card today is a simple Christmas sample. I layered the base of Naturals White with a piece of Gumball Green that was embossed with the Woodgrain TIEF. I added a piece of the Chocolate Chip Scallop Dots ribbon [dots to the back] across the bottom of the card as a ground for the sentiment. … Continue reading Beautiful Season Gumball Espresso
Julia showed us how to make this Corner Diamond Fold card in the online class at Crafters Anonymous. I made one a long time ago [then known as a side spring card] but had not thought of this technique in recent times. My base is Summer Starfruit stamped in Summer Starfruit with some of the … Continue reading Perfectly Penned Starfruit Corner Diamond Fold
My third Blooming with Kindness card also uses Emboss Resist. This time, instead of using the dark colour to emboss and sponging with the light colour, I tried it the other way around. The embossing was with So Saffron and the sponging with More Mustard. The sentiment was embossed with More Mustard. Both the flower … Continue reading Blooming with Kindness in Saffron Mustard
Today's Blooming with Kindness has a blue sparkle to it. Using a base card of Naturals White, I added a layer of Pacific Point DSP that was cut with a Labels Framelits die. The flower and sentiment were stamped with Versamark and then heat embossed with a sparkly blue EP [not SU]. The EP bears … Continue reading Blooming with Pacific Point
My next few posts will highlight some cards that I have made with Blooming with Kindness. The first one uses Naturals White for the card base, with a layer of Gumball Green which has been embossed with the Woodgrain TIEF. I stamped the flower image and a sentiment on Whisper White with Versamark and Cherry … Continue reading Blooming with Kindness
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