Author: luciegcards

Day 4 – 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2018

Hi there!

I’m playing along with Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year.

The sponsor for Day 4 was Reverse Confetti. I don’t have any Christmas sets by Reverse Confetti but, having seen how the designers used a circles set, I decided that their  You are a Star set would work very well.

Lindsey M-p‘s tag provided my inspiration. Whilst she used the reverse of a stamp to create her background, but I couldn’t do that with the star set as the large images weren’t cut very close to the star shape. Instead, I used a smaller solid star stamp from the set and did some second generation stamping in green and red, like Lindsey. I embossed the large star in gold tinsel embossing powder – it’s so sparkly in real life!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Day 3 – 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2018

Hi there!

I’m playing along with Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year.

The sponsor for Day 3 was Concord & 9th. I love C9 – such an innovative and generous company! I was surprised that I only had one Christmas set by them – an older set – the Christmas Cottage set.

There’s an amazing selection of tags but I was particularly inspired by a tag by one of my favourite cardmakers – Jessica Frost-Ballas. I actually ended up making two very similar tags with the same supplies…. I think I prefer the first one I created with lots of trees… which one do you like?

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Jolly Snowman

Hi there friends!

The Color Throwdown challenge has quite a cool autumnal palette this week – red, kraft, aqua and orange, but I decided to use them for a Christmas card as I’m in the midst of festive cardmaking for the Caring Hearts card drive.

I used a fabulous snowman from the Papersmooches Cool Snowdudes set. This was a very easy shape to fussy cut, so you may be seeing more of him this year! Anyway, I stuck him to a panel that I had created by masking off an area I then covered with a light coat of Frayed Burlap distress ink followed by a stencilled layer of the same ink. I added a few little trees from an Avery Elle die and then the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.

I’m also entering this into the current Freshly Made sketches challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge (Anything Goes).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 2 – 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2018

Hi there!

I’m playing along with Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year.

The sponsor for Day 2 was Altenew. I love Altenew and have all their inks and quite a few florals and dies… but not that many Christmas stamps. I really want the new ornament stamp set, but I’ve managed to resist…. so far…

I loved the inspiration tags and decided to use Svitlana Shayevich‘s tag as inspiration – I offset my stamped image (from the Sketched Evergreen set) and used the same colour palette as Svitlana.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Bubble Bauble

Happy Friyay everyone!

I’m so excited that my Simon Says Stamp order arrived very quickly this month! I couldn’t wait to start playing with my new Ornate Ornaments stamps!

I was totally inspired by this card by the super talented Gayatri and had to CASE it! I stamped the ornament several times and coloured them using my Prismacolor pencils. I still felt the card needed something a little ‘more’ so I added some orange dots. I covered some of the bubbles with Tonic Studios Nuvo Crystal Glaze and then finished off the card with a die cut sentiment also by Simon Says Stamp.

I’m entering this into the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 1 – 25 Days of Christmas Tags 2018

Hi everyone!

Last year, I played along with Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags for the first time. I was so happy to complete 25 tags during November 2017 and it made a HUGE difference to my Christmas preparations…. and stress levels!

I’m so happy to see the event is back again this year! Once again, each day has a sponsor and I am going to try to use products from each sponsor wherever I can.

Simon Says Stamp was the sponsor for Day 1 and once again the inspiration tags were amazing. In the end, I chose to combine the tags made by Lorraine Aquilina and Lin Brandyberry. All dies and stamps are by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.