Author: luciegcards

Egg Planters

Hello everyone!

Today I have my card for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge using products by Penny Black.

I’ve been looking forward to colouring the Delicate cling stamp (40-832) ever since I first the new Springtime 2022 release! Isn’t it a fabulous idea? Perfect for either Easter or more general spring cards!

I decided to use a section of the stamp for the sketch challenge and coloured the image using my Twinkling H2O paints before splattering aqua paint generously! I then trimmed down the panel and fussy cut around one little flower so that it fell off the edge of the panel. I adhered it to my card base and added a strip of glitter paper, positioning that little fussy cut section on top.

I used the sentiment from last year’s Spring Day set (30-805) and fussy cut around it. I adhered it onto my card base – it’s actually strategically positioned to hide part of the foliage from the fourth egg cup!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Easter Bunny in Foliage

Happy Saturday!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a palette of sage green, purple and cream.

After overthinking my card for this challenge last week, I found this one MUCH easier! Flora and Faura shared their cute bunny die on Instagram earlier this week and I knew that I just had to use him again so that was my starting point! I paired him with a Poppystamps egg frame, Altenew foliage and a few Spellbinders flowers coloured with distress inks! Plus a sentiment from Taylored Expressions! Lots of different brands here! It was so much fun to make!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Easter Frames

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at The Paper Players.

Easter is fast approaching now, so time for me to get back to some seasonal cards! When I saw the sketch, I thought the You’ve been framed – Spring die set by Taylored Expressions would work well, so I pulled them out and got to work. I created a blended background using Distress Oxide inks, trimmed it into three rectangles and adhered three die cut frames. I inlaid aqua die cut pieces into the eggs and added a sentiment from the Mini Strips – Easter stamp set to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Fresh Bouquet

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the colour challenge hosted by Sunday Stamps using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I stamped the fabulous Fresh Bouquet cling stamp (40-841) slightly off the edge of my card base and then coloured it in the challenge palette.  I used my Twinkling H2Os again – oh how I wish I could capture the beautiful shimmer in my photo.

I added a few gems to the flower centres and the sentiment from the Ever Thanks set (30-813) to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Wildflower Bouquet

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the CAS on Friday challenge which has the theme of ‘flowers’!

I really love all the bouquet dies that are around at the moment and just bought one by Marianne Designs which I decided to use for my card today. I must say, it’s actually much bigger than I was expecting but that meant that I could use some of my larger flower dies with it! For this card I reached for the beautiful flowers that Memory Box released about a year ago (Daisy Stems, Wildflower Stems, Lavender Stems, Seed Stems and Daisy Silhouette), which I coloured with distress inks and coloured pencil.

I added some stickles to the flowers and a Hero Arts sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Nordic Trio

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at Just Add Ink.

When I saw the sketch, I thought of some Marianne Designs dies that I got early last year – the set included a couple of test tube dies that I really wanted but somehow I never got round to using them!

Anyway, I cut the tubes from vellum and then came the challenge of choosing stems! My original planned flowers didn’t work – I think it’s because the tubes are close together. In the end, I used these wonderful Nordic Trio dies from Simply Graphic – I  think they work well with the layout of the tubes!

I added a sentiment by Memory Box and a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.