Month: Feb 2023

Good vibes butterfly

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge .

I decided to go with a butterfly theme for my take on the sketch. I started off with some stamped butterflies, but I couldn’t get them to work in the way I’d envisaged. So I pivoted! I decided that the beautiful Memory Box Butterfly Vine die would be the focal point and used a circle of patterned paper for the second shape.

I masked off a section of my card base and used the Penny Black Script stamp (40-470) * for the horizontal strip and added the die cuts on top. Finally I added a sentiment from a Simon Says Stamp set to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

* Kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

Heat embossed heart

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown ! When I saw this week’s palette of red, pink and gold, I envisaged a red heart with a gold pattern and knew I wanted to do some heat embossing. That magical technique that took my breath away during my first stamping class! I don’t see much heat embossing nowadays – a lot of crafters seem to be into foiling. It’s times like this that I wish I still had a craft stire near me where I could take a few classes before deciding whether to embark on the world of foiling. Alas my last store closed in late 2019 and so foiling remains off my repertoire until I get a chance to play with it!

An so gold heat embossing was on the agenda for me this evening then! I chose and older Hero Arts background stamp and got busy! Once I embossed the image, I cut it with a Memory Box heart die and coloured it with Lumberjack Plaid distress oxide ink. I lifted some ink using water.

Turning to my card base, I initially played around with a hot pink background but in the end went with a lighter shade of pink which I embossed using a Simon Says Stamp folder.

After adhering the heart, I added a Memory Box stamped sentiment and a few gold sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heart die cut collage

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown which has a fabulous palette of red, brown, pink and green! It’s the month of love and I thought these colours would be perfect for a little love card. I pulled out some dies kindly sent to me by Penny Black and got crafty!

I coloured the largest heart from the Heart Balloons die set using Spun Sugar distress oxide ink (51-493). Next up was the Ardor stem (51-097) coloured with Lumberjack Plaid and Gathered Twig and some pencil for extra detail. Finally I cut and coloured the delicate Airy stem (51-423) with Peeled Paint and a splash of Stickles.

After arranging the die cuts, I stamped a sentiment from the Love Big set (30-898) and few brown pearls.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Warmest Snowdrop Wishes

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge using products by Penny Black.

Following the sketch, I used a couple distress inks to create a blended strip on the left of my card base. I then stamped and fussy cut the beautiful snowdrop vase image from the Wintry Whites mini set (30-634). I absolutely adore this image and as my snowdrops well and truly popped this week, I knew I had to use it again this weekend. You can see the cards I’ve made before here and here.

After colouring the image with my Twinkling H2O paints, I adhered it to my blended panel using sticky fixers for a bit of dimension. To complete my card, I added a sentiment from the Nature’s Rubies mini set (30-937) and a few sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

* Kindly sent to me by Penny Black.