Author: luciegcards

Greetings window

 

Hello everyone!

OK, so I know when I planned my wood-mounted stamp challenge, I earmarked July for using my Christmas stamps. However, it seems I can’t wait for Christmas in July! It’s just Day 6 of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge and I’ve already inked up a Christmas stamp!

In my defence, when I saw the Stampendous Greetings Window in one of my stamp boxes, I knew it would fit the CAS Christmas challenge so well that I just HAD to use it! The theme of the challenge this month is ‘gifts’ and I thought this stamp would be perfect for that!

I decided to use a sketch from a new-to-me challenge, TGIF Challenges, so my first step was to choose some patterned paper. I had my doubts about using a gift-themed paper as I was a bit concerned that it would be too matchy-matchy… but I think it works OK in the end. After embossing the image, I coloured it using my Twinkling H2O paints and then adhered it to my base card using sticky fixers. Et voila! Super quick and easy Christmas card done! Must remember this design when I create cards for the Caring Hearts drive later this year.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Yay!

Hello everyone!

Day 5 of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge.

Today I’m playing along with the latest Case This Sketch challenge with the fabulous new colour combo over at the Color Throwdown (pink, aqua, lavender and mint).

I must admit, I spent a LONG time mulling over my entry for the sketch challenge. It’s a fabulous sketch but I wanted to use a wood-mounted sentiment stamp AND incorporate some colouring! Eventually I alighted on one of my newer wood stamps, Yay by Hero Arts. I embossed it using white powder, masked off the letters and blended some Distress Oxide over the background before colouring the letters using my Zig Color Clean Brush markers and some regular distress ink.

Then I had to figure out what to use on the background – as I didn’t feel one of my leafy swirl dies would fit with the sentiment. I was flicking through my dies and stumbled on the Hero Arts Party Confetti Fancy background die and thought its elements could work quite nicely with a bit of careful placement. So I cut it from a distress oxide panel and arranged the streamers in a similar pattern et voila! My completed entry!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy Purr-thday

Hello everyone!

Day 4 of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge.

Today I’m playing along with the latest My Favorite Things sketch challenge. I don’t usually play along with these challenges as I don’t have that many stamps by MFT, although I love them a lot! However, I saw that you can play along even if you don’t use MFT products, which I’m really pleased about because they have some fun sketches!

I used an older wood-mounted stamp, Cat Blocks, by Inca Stamp/Personal Impressions and a sentiment from a MFT kitty set. I has so much fun colouring these kitties!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hello Lovely

Hello everyone!

Day 3 of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge.

Today I’m playing along with the challenges over at the Color Throwdown and Try Stampin’ On Tuesday.

I used the fabulous Flower Cluster Sketch stamp by Hero Arts from the 2005 collection. The Color Throwdown colours (yellow, orange, hot pink and green) are much brighter than my preferred, more muted palette, but that’s why I love this challenge so much – it often pushes me beyond my colour wheel comfort zone!

I decided to practice with my Zig Clean Color Real brush pens. I still need a LOT of practice, but using them on Bristol cardstock makes them much easier to use!

When I finished colouring, I stamped a Mama Elephant sentiment and adhered the image to a base card that I’d assembled following the challenge sketch.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Father’s Day Sails

Happy Father’s Day to my dear Dad!

Today I’m playing along with the current CAS Colours & Sketches challenge, which is a super sketch this week.

I pulled out an old wood-mounted stamp that I bought YEARS ago when I first started stamping. It’s called Yacht Race by an Australian company, Stamp-It.

After I stamped the image, I cut around it using a My Favorite Things die and then coloured it using my Twinking H2Os. I adhered it to my base and added a Hero Arts sentiment to finish off my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hello amazing friend, you rock!

Hello Friends! Happy Saturday!

I’m excited that today marks the first day of another 30 Day Colouring Challenge. My mojo has been AWOL recently, so I’m hoping this challenge give me the inspiration I need. I love playing along and I’m hoping to colour something every day during this challenge. Let’s see how that goes!

Last time, I set myself my own sub-challenge – to only use wood-mounted rubber stamps for my colouring!  I recently went through my old cards and Hero Arts stamps for the Hero Arts’ 45th anniversary Show & Tell. It made me want to reach for my wood-mounted stamps again. So, I’m aiming to use them most days during this challenge, but in the second half, I plan to devote myself to Christmas in July and will be using Christmas stamps. Pretty excited about that actually! I’m ready to play with my festive stamps again!

So with that in mind, here is my car/colouring for Day 1 using the fabulous Flowers and Leaf background stamp by Hero Arts, made in 2007. How can that be 12 years ago? Anyway, I coloured it with my Twinkling H2Os and adhered it to a card base that I’d covered with old patterned paper. I stamped a few Clearly Besotted sentiments and added them to the card, following the sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.