Author: luciegcards

Colourful Cosmos

Hello everyone!

When I saw the bright palette for this week’s Color Throwdown challenge (hot pink, lime green, yellow and pale blue), I knew I wanted to use them with the new Simon Says Stamp Cosmos background stamp. But I only purchased the stamp on release day, so knew that the stamp wouldn’t get to me in time!

I was DELIGHTED to be proved wrong when I saw my envelope from Simons on my mat this morning! Isn’t the stamp fabulous?

I stopped what I was doing and got colouring with my Twinkling H2Os and then added a few lines of Prismacolour pencils for a bit of depth. Really looking forward to playing with this stamp a lot more!

I’m also entering this into the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (anything goes).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

All you need is love

Happy Sunday everyone!

It’s time for a new challenge over at AAA Cards. This fortnight’s theme is ‘love’ and Uniko is our sponsor.

For my card I embossed and coloured a cute stamp from Impress Cards & Crafts. I bought it years ago – I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to use it! I added a simple sentiment from My Favorite Things to complete my CAS card.

My teammates have shared some gorgeous CAS cards on the AAA Cards blog and we are also joined by two Guest Designers Bev from Uniko and Sue from Sue’s Card Craft.

Thanks for stopping by – I do hope you play along with us!

LucieG.

With love

Happy Saturday everyone!

The theme for the current Simon Says Stamp Flickr challenge is ‘love/hearts’ so I decided to play along using the current sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches challenge blog.

To start, I created a few backgrounds by sponging on a few layers of Tonic Studios Nuvo embellishment mousse. I then cut each of these backgrounds, plus some black glitter card, with the gorgeous Clipping Hearts die from Simon Says Stamp and slotted the coloured hearts into the black heart frame.

I added a simple black frame cut using a My Favorite Things frame die and a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp to finish off the card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

You have a heart of gold

Hello everyone!

Busy week this week, with limited craft time, but I did find a little time tonight to play with this beautiful ribbon heart die from Poppystamps. Super simple card – just a die cut and a stamped/embossed sentiment from My Favorite Things. This wasn’t ANYTHING like I’d originally planned for this die, but I like the simplicity of this card. Think I’ll be playing more with this die before Valentines!

I’m entering this into the current Poppystamps challenge – ‘My Heart’.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Go Wild

Hi there!

The theme for this fortnight’s Less is More challenge is ‘cute/one layer card’ and I immediately thought of this gorgeous Woodware lion that I had bought on pre-order. He arrived yesterday and I couldn’t wait to ink him up and get colouring.

The image is MUCH bigger than I was expecting, so I stamped it on a 7×5 card base as I wanted to still have a good amount of white space on my card. I used my prisma coloured pencils to colour it in – I still have a lot to learn with these pencils, but this was a great image to practice with!

I edged the image with a light green pencil and added a sentiment from the stamp set to finish it off.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Wonderful Friend

Hi there!

So today’s card is a bit different for me – I broke into my vast supply of Prima paper flowers that I’ve had for MANY years! They are so pretty, but not very ‘trendy’ at the moment. Maybe they’ll make a comeback at some point?

Anyway, I created this card using the sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. Unfortunately, I am posting this too late to submit it, but I still wanted to share it here as I am also entering it into the current Simon Says Stamp Flickr challenge, which had a theme of ‘friendship’.

The dies and stamp are by Simon Says Stamp and the embossing folder is from Spellbinders.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.