There’s nothing more satisfying than creating your own DIY Patterned Paper with a stamp set of your choice like with Sweet Symmetry. You can choose your own colour palette and where you want to place your images on the paper too. It was such fun making this random pattern and once I’d stamped, I embossed […]
Category Archives: Technique
Spotlight Technique with Welcoming Woods
This Sunday I’m featuring a Spotlight Technique with Welcoming Woods stamp set. Sometimes you make cards with no specific occasion or person in mind. The Welcoming Woods stamp lent itself to making this long thin card which will fit in a DL envelope. It also lent itself to practicing the hinge-stamp method on the Stamparatus. […]
Five backgrounds with Textures & Frames
I must confess, I found it hard to get started on doing anything creative with Textures & Frames. Once I began, I found it hard to stop and within a blink of the eye, I’d created lots! Truth be known, I was a little scared of it, so I kept putting it off! So I […]
DIY background card with Textures & Frames
Hello and welcome to this Sunday’s DIY background card with Textures & Frames from the Sale-a-bration brochure. I hope you’re well and enjoying the summer break. Do you procrastinate when there are jobs you don’t quite know how or where to start? For ages, I’d been putting off playing with Sale-a-bration’s Textures & Frames stamp […]
Blending technique with Welcoming Woods
How quickly time passes so this Sunday I’m sharing a card I made using the blending technique with Welcoming Woods. Have you tried blending with brushes? They’re the bees knees! I love how seamlessly the colours merge into one another. The trees were stamped in Early Espresso, and looking skywards, I used Crushed Curry and […]
Floral Card with Shaded Summer
IInitially I had missed this stamp set altogether but since then, I’ve made a Floral card with Shaded Summer. Rifling through the Sale-a-bration brochure, I noticed that one of the free set of dies called Summer Shadows. It cross referenced the stamps which coordinated with the dies. I find it difficult to stamp floral images […]
Brilliant Blending for Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop
Hello and welcome to July’s challenge – Brilliant Blending for Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop. Thank you to the lovely Sara Sayers for setting the theme. Easy Trifold Card This is probably my most favourite fold. It has maximum impact, with minimal angst. More than thirteen years ago, when I first started card making, this […]
How to apply Soft Pastels – Part 2
I am so excited to be sharing how to apply Soft Pastels – Part 2 with even more ways to apply Stampin’ Up!’s Soft Pastel Assortment. In today’s video, I cover five more ways you can apply pastels so altogether there are ten! Extra non-Stampin’ Up! tools involve a grater, and a different kind of […]