Annette Sullivan: Independent Stampin' Up!® Demonstrator, Australia – Providing inspiration for handmade greeting cards
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For today's card, I have added water droplets to a watercolour wash background to provide some texture. Create a watercolour wash background on watercolor paper with Water Painters and Coastal Cabana, Azure Afternoon and Lost Lagoon inks. Allow to dry and add some water droplets of different sizes across the background. Stamp tree branch and … Continue reading Adding interest to a watercolour background
today I have a card made using the Ghosting or Versamark Resist Technique. If you look hard you can see the ghostly images. Stamp images on either Glossy White or Basic White with Versamark and allow to dry. Use Blending Brushes to add ink over the dry stamped images. Take a paper towel and lightly … Continue reading Ghosting or Versamark Resist with Dainty Delight
The Traditions of St Nick DSP was used to create a couple of Offset Gate Fold cards for Christmas. The first card has a Real Red base and the second one has a Wild Wheat base, Start with a standard card base of 21cm x 14.8cm (8½" x 5½"). Instead of scoring at 5.25cm (2-1/8") … Continue reading Offset Gate Fold Cards for Christmas
How easy is it to create this one layer card? Stamp some strips of cardstock with small images and use Blending Brushes to colour them. Attach them to the lower part of a Thick Very Vanilla card base. Stamp images over the rest of the card front with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Supplies: Stamp Set: … Continue reading A pop of colour with Faux Washi Tape
Here is another version of the four square side flap fancy fold card. (See the other one here.) The Thick Very Vanilla card base is 29.7cm x 10.5cm scored at 14.8cm, Fold on the score line and cut off a piece 4.3cm on the right hand side of the front (10.5cm from the left hand … Continue reading Four Square Side Flap Fancy Fold card for Christmas
Do you create any vintage style cards? I don't do them very often but love the look. Today I am trying a Faux Vintage Photo look with the retired Fanciful Fragrance stamp set. You can create either a black & white or a sepia look with this technique. For this card I am using the … Continue reading How to create a Faux Vintage Photo look for your card
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