I thought I would share with you another set of cards and technique that Learned recently on the Creative Card Retreat I attended. I am catching up with some of the presentations still and this tutorial came from one of the Creative team Jackie Bolhuis. These are the cards I made and the envelopes to match and you may just be able to see the inside decoration for the end card in the photograph! The cards look really striking in the new bright in-colours and you simply cut four circles in different graduating sizes using a circle punch - I used my layering circles dies. The you cut them in half on your trimmer. Then arrange. So this is how I layered up my half circles and then the photograph belo shows how I arranged them onto the card. Then simply add a sentiment to the card. The bright colours look great with black but what about trying pastels or a gradient of the same colour, or even glitter card - what about stitched circle dies? Lots and lots of variations and combinations with
I had a lot of fun this weekend at an online retreat with Brandy's Cards. One of the tutorials was heat embossing with white embossing powder onto vellum. I made three cards using the tutorial at the retreat but all of my cards are very different because the stamp sets are the ones I have and not the ones used by Brandy. So for example in the card above I stamped the butterfly stamp Butterfly Brilliance onto a piece of vellum using versa mark ink and then sprinkled on white embossing powder and heat it with my heat tool. The once dry I cut the image out using the co-ordinating dies from Stampin' Up and this gave me 6 butterflies which I then coloured on the back using blender pens. I found the darker colours worked the best and shone through the most. You don't see the back - so it is very forgiving technique if your colouring isn't very good! Following Brandy's lead I also decorated inside the card and made a matching envelope. I think its going to be a thing! Anot