Card sketch – Friends for Life. When you’re stuck for inspiration a card sketch is a useful tool to re-ignite your creativity. In the current 2024-25 Annual Catalogue on page 22 there are several sketches provided to help you. The one I’ve chosen for today is no. 9 in the first row and uses strips […]
Category Archives: Technique
Birthday card with Everyday Greetings
Birthday card with Everyday Greetings. One of the online exclusives called Season of Green & Gold Suite collection is HUGE!!! This suite collection includes gorgeous winter greenery, luscious pops of gold, and unique layers of vellum and berry gems. I don’t know about you, but I find it really difficult to get in the Christmas […]
Dry embossed background card – Country Flowers
Dry embossed background card – Country Flowers. Today’s project is another card using the Country Flowers bundle. I’ve used the Eyelet 3D embossing folder to create a dry embossed background for the card in lieu of using pretty patterned paper. I love it when you use tone on tone card stock. The Spotlight on Nature […]
Spotlight technique with Spotlight on Nature
Spotlight technique with Spotlight on Nature. I’ve been using the Spotlight on Nature dies in previous posts so I thought it was time to feature the stamp set as well. In today’s post, I’m sharing a card made with the spotlight technique. I used the Stylish Shapes dies and a punch which unfortunately has retired. […]
Floating Panel DSP card
Floating Panel DSP card . The theme in June for the Tech 4 Stampers Blog Hop is to use Designer Series Papers. The papers I used is from the Unbounded Beauty Suite Collection on pages 54 – 55 in the 2024-25 Annual Catalogue. They have the 2024-26 In Color palette in its Unbounded Beauty 12″x […]
Blending technique with Beach Day
Blending technique with Beach Day. I am so pleased that the Beach Day stamps and dies have carried over and is still available. I didn’t get a chance to play with them when it first appeared in the January-April 2024 mini. Blending technique There are lots of ways to blend colour but in my card […]
Embossed Birthday card – Sweet Citrus
Embossed birthday card – Sweet citrus. Fruity cards may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but I love lemons so I couldn’t resist this stamp set. I also love the Sweet Citrus hybrid embossing folder because it leaves such a deep impression in the card stock. This set is also one that is retiring so […]
Watercolour and emboss technique
Watercolour and emboss technique. I used Nature’s Prints Cling stamp set to create this card. This set is retiring too and is discounted. You can see it in this post HERE. The Nature’s Prints Cling stamp set has dies to match called Natural Prints. There is a 20% discount on the stamp set and 50% […]