Retro Week: Sunday

This is a serious retro card. I made it many years ago, but I always liked it.


I stamped the little Hero Arts shadow in Versamark and then coloured it with chalks. Then I just overstamped the flower (Penny Black).

Retro Week: Saturday

I loved the Brilliance Inks when they first came out. Then they kind of got put aside as other new and cool stuff came out.

Then a few years later, Tseukineko released some new colours that made me fall in love all over again.


The background on this card is just direct to paper with a couple of the new (at the time) colours (I think Pearlescent Olive and Cosmic Copper). Then I overstamped the image in black. The metallic sheen on the paper I created was stunning.

Retro Week: Friday

I liked this card so much that I made tons of them to give away.


I used a set from Hero Arts (Buds & Stems) and just created the five flowers and added a couple of gems to the centers of two of the flowers.

So simple, but I still loved it. The card itself is a purple, but for some reason it isn't showing that very well in the image.

Retro Week: Thursday

It's been fun looking back at cards I made and liked. I didn't pick the ones that I didn't like and it's nice to be reminded of different techniques that I used and which turned out.

Here is a pretty easy card.


I just made a background using Distress Inks. I smeared them on my craft sheet, spritzed with water and then pushed my white cardstock into the wet mixture. Then I just added some stamped images in various brown Distress inks and my favorite Eiffel Tower (Art Impressions) stamp in black. I stitched the outside of this card, but for the class, I just poked holes and drew the stitches.

Retro Week: Wednesday

I love the look of interference colours on black. Years ago, they brought out Opalite Inks (Tseukineko) for stamping on dark colours. I saw a demo where you created a background out of the reinkers at a Stampers Celebration several years ago in Calgary. I was sitting down working on this card and had a brain wave that I bet you could get that metallic interference look by painting with them.

So, I stamped the pear (A Stamp in the Hand) with black ink and then painted with the Opalite reinkers (I just put a few drops on a non stick craft sheet and literally painted). I quite like how it turned out.

Retro Week: Tuesday

This card is using an old technique from Technique Junkies (definitely check them out!).


It's fairly simple. Stamp your image and then stamp a flourish and just punch random holes along the flourish. Put a contrasting colour behind and you have a very cool look!

Retro Week: Monday

Here is another old card I made.


I love this Eiffel Tower stamp and script background (both by Art Impressions). I seem to use them a log. This card is just the two stamps stamped in blue ink. Then I used a little glue and added some glitter so areas of the Eiffel Tower.

All done in navy, of course; one of my favorite colours!