Bel Air Creative Card Group Retiform Technique class

Last Thursday night at Bel Air Baptist Church Creative Card Group we played with the retiform technique. These are the cards that I demonstrated.



The first card is using Stamp Set Ocean Commotiion. I stamped the images on whisper white cardstock. I used not quite navy for my focal image, then I used marina mist around the edges and lastly I sponged with certainly celery in the middle. If you like this technique, you can find it on Splitc

The second card I have used gloss card and Vintage Vogue stamp set with Early expresso ink for my focal image and cajun craze around the edges and tangerine tango in the centre. The greetings stamp is from "Bring on the Cake" stamp set from the Autumn-Winter mini (page 13).

The last card I have made is using artistic etching with the Eiffel Tower in concord crush and around the outside in bashful blue and the centre sponged in certainly celery.

I am really happy the way these cards turned out. Hope you like them too.

Partial Emboss Technique

Today I tried a new technique which I plan to teach at Creative Card Group at Bel Air Baptist Church on Friday and next Tuesday classes.

I saw this technique on Stamp With Tami's blog here.

For my first card I have used whisper white as my base, a layer of rich razzleberry. My top layer is pink pirouette which I have partially embossed, and stamped on with stamps from the artistic etching stamp set.

Card One
Stamp Set: artistic etching, create a cupcake (happy birthday)
Ink: pretty in pink, rich razzleberry
card: whisper white, rich razzleberry, pink pirouette
Accessories: big shot, vintage wallpaper, embossing folder, rich razzleberry 1/8" taffeta ribbon, jewels - basic rhinestones, word window punch, modern label punch, 1 3/4" circle punch

These next two cards I have partially embossed the edge and used the medallion stamp instead of the artistic etchings. I have used 2 different colours, baja breeze on the first and pink pirouette on the second.



Card Two
Stamp Set: Medallion, create a cupcake (happy birthday)
Ink: baja breeze, marina mist
card: whisper white, baja breeze, marina mist
Accessories: big shot, vintage wallpaper, embossing folder, jewels - basic rhinestones, word window punch, modern label punch, 1 3/4" circle punch

Card Three
Stamp Set: Medallion, create a cupcake (happy birthday)
Ink: pretty in pink, Pink Pirouette
card: whisper white, pretty in pink, pink pirouette
Accessories: big shot, vintage wallpaper, embossing folder, jewels - basic rhinestones, word window punch, modern label punch, 1 3/4" circle punch