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Faux-Bleached Letterpress Cards with Annie Williams
Hi there, this is Annie Williams and I’m excited to be back on the blog today to share this easy and fun faux-bleached letterpress technique with the new BetterPress System from Spellbinders. You can go to town coloring the beautiful BetterPress designs, but with so much gorgeous detail already in the plates, I wanted to play around with simpler coloring techniques. Here I used ink-blended backgrounds with some soft faux-bleaching to create a bold look for these simple and pretty cards. Distress Inks with Faux-Bleached Letterpress I started with Distress Inks for this technique because I love the vibrancy of the colors and wanted to create a bold ink-blended background…
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Four Petal Sweet Day Flowers 2 Ways
Hello crafty friends! It’s Rachel Alvarado from RachelAlvaradoDesigns.com. I have two projects to share with you today that feature the gorgeous new Four Petal Sweet Day Flowers stamp set. Stamped Floral Card For my first card, I created a bold floral card using the Four Petal Sweet Day Flowers Clear Stamp Set along with the new Essential Four Petal Labels Etched Dies. To start my card, I first created my card base from a 4.25” x 11” piece of Snowdrift Card Stock. I scored this piece at 5.5” along the long side and then used a rounded corner punch to give my edges a curved look. Next, I die cut…
