Christmas, New Year and Winter

Golden background challenge

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a wonderful festive combo of green, purple, blue, and gold.

I used my new Simon Says Stamp Fancy Ornaments embossing folder and die set – this is a beautiful set and I was so chuffed to pick it up in a recent sale! I coloured the ornaments with distress inks. I adhered them to the amazing Sparkle 3D Texture Fades embossing folder – the impression is AMAZING on the mirror card… but a real challenge to photograph!

To complete my card I added a sentiment cut from white glitter card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Flurry of festive wishes

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I’ve been wanting to use the beautiful Winged Pair cling stamp (40-908) for a while and when I saw this week’s sketch, I knew it would be perfect! I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and masked off the birds as I sponged a little distress ink across the background and added some splatters.

I used my new Blizzard embossing folder (65-013) for the background strip and sponged a little white ink to highlight the snowflakes – they are so pretty! (I’m not sure why my cards are appearing darker at the bottom – it must be the lighting – I need to look at my set up… maybe I’ll do this over the Christmas break!)

I trimmed down the image panel and stamped a sentiment from the Flurry mini set (30-927) before arranging everything on my 7×5 card base.

To complete my card, I added glitter to the branches – I hope you can see it, so difficult to capture in real life!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Winter branch card

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I was short on time this evening so I opted for a very quick make. I started with the fabulous new Woodgrain Circle (51-797) which I coloured with distress inks. Next I cut and coloured the Festive Finesse die (51-784) with distress inks and pencil. This is a very delicate die so I adhered two together to give it a little more stability.

I then blended Victorian Velvet distress ink over a strip of card and embossed it with my new Filigree embossing folder (65-010) before adhering all my elements to my card base.

To complete my take I added a few aqua pearls and a sentiment from the Nature’s Rubies mini set (30-937)

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Noel in a tub card

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of cobalt blue,, aqua and gold.

I decided to play with a lot of my Black Friday crafty bargains – the Noel is from the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Winter Big Tidings die set and the foliage is from the Festive Gatherings set. I also used the new-to-me Garden Tub by The Greetery which I cut from gold pearlescent card which I had spritzed with Tumbled Glass distress oxide spray.

I adheered all the elements to a background that I had embossed with a Spellbinders folder and added a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas Card Throwdown – December Guest Spot

Hello everyone!

I’m honoured to be the Guest Designer for the current colour challenge over at the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

I started with a piece of lilac cardstock and blended Villainous Potion distress ink around the edges and in towards the centre. I then embossed it using Penny Black’s Blizzard embossing folder.

I cut gold glitter and pearlescent card with the fabulous Pointed Evergreens die by Simon Says Stamp and layered the glitter trees on top of the pearlescent image, slightly offsetting the image. I adhered the trees to my card base and then added a small purple panel that I’d covered with rainbow embossing powder as I didn’t have the right shade of purple glitter card. I had wanted to use Distress Sparkle Texture Paste which I really like but it took a LONG time to dry completely and so I had to find an alternative.

The sentiment is from a My Favourite Stamps set.

The Design Team have some amazing inspiration over on the challenge blog – you must check it out! Hope you can play along with the challenge!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Beautified Christmas card

Hello friends!

Today I’m playing along with the current challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I chose a beautiful image from a clear set that was released a couple of years ago called Beautified (30-870). I love this set – it has some really elegant images which are so relaxing to colour! I stamped the image twice in a diagonal pattern following the sketch and then coloured them with my beloved Twinkling H2O paints. I fussy cut around the two central pine cones so that I could tuck the sentiment strip under them a little.

The sentiment is from the same set and I have to admit that getting the wording in the ‘right’ position took me the longest time… but I got there in the end!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.