Christmas, New Year and Winter

Mica Holiday Blocks galore

 

Hello again!

Next up today is my entry in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of pink, grey and green.

Oh my goodness! When I started swatching my  new mica stains on Saturday morning, I had no idea where it would lead! I decided to use three of them (Winterberry, Merry Mint and Frozen Fog) for my card for the challenge. I pulled out the fabulous Tim Holtz/Sizzix Holiday Blocks dies and got cutting.

I think the die set works best with four or five colours so I added white glitter card into my palette. Once everything was cut out, I had great fun creating little mini scenes in each block – drawing on inspiration from Tim Holtz’s makers – particularly Pete Hughes, Cheiron Brandon and Stacy Hutchinson.

I then assembled the cards on various bases and added stamped sentiments to a few of them.

Photographing the cards was a MAJOR challenge – I couldn’t use my photography box because the mica was so reflective and making the Frozen Fog appear silver rather than grey… I had to abandon it yesterday and try when I had more time this evening. The pink and grey appear a little darker than in real life, but at least you can see they grey now!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Swirly tree

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

I was short on time this evening so I opted for a very quick make using a fabulous swirly tree die (by Dixi Craft) and a Penny Black embossing folder.

Originally I had just planned to use the tree and the green embossed strip but when I tried that I felt the tree needed more of an anchor, So, I added a second strip of matt mirror card and also a piece of glitter card to act as a trunk/pot.

To complete my card, I added a Penny Black sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

White trim a tree

Happy Festive Friyay everyone!

Once again I’m embracing Festive Fridays by playing along with the colour challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge where the combo is kraft, black and white.

I’ve been wanting to use the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Trim a Tree die set since September! Today was finally the day and it was so much fun to use! The tree is large and with all the layers, the tree is rather thick but still quite delicate – I think I will be handing this one out in person rather than sending it via Royal Mail! I added tons of glitter to the card but it’s so difficult to photograph! So frustrating!

I used a beautiful cover plate die by Alex Syberia called Sparkly Flakes – isn’t it pretty? Finally I added a Clearly Besotted sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Mod winter trio

 

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

There are so many possibilities for this sketch – I was torn between Christmas and autumn themes but then this afternoon I found myself reaching for my Tim Holtz/Sizzix Holiday Blocks thinlets dies and got cutting some Craft Consortium papers! I embossed a card panel with the Sizzix Honeycomb embossing folder and added some glittery ribbon to reflect the three strips in the sketch.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Cheery winter wishes

Hi there!

Today I’m finally using a beautiful cling stamp called ‘Cheery’ (40-909) that was kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I stamped the image in the centre of my card and coloured it with my Twinkling H2Os. I then added a frame from the Border Beauty Stick and Shine collection (15-008) and applied silver foil (21-001). The shine is so difficult to capture – this photo shows it beautifully but the angle of the lighting means that the greens are off – they are far closer to the colours in my first two photos!

Anyway, I masked off the frame and softly blended some Tumbled Glass distress ink across the background. I cut a couple of bows from the Jumbo Bauble die set (51-743) – one from white card which I coloured with my Twinklings and one from some silver card. After arranging them on my image, I added a sentiment from the Holiday Snippets set (30-307) and a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Snowcup

Happy Festive Friyay everyone!

I have to confess that I almost didn’t play along with the challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge where the theme is ‘Christmas Cup’. I do have a few Christmas mug stamps but I wanted to do something different…. Then today I remembered a bargain cup set that I go from Simon Says Stamp YEARS ago. I’ve never used the cup, but I did use the spoon from the set to make this card last year. Anyway, today was the day that the cup die finally had a chance to shine!

I also used one of my newest stamp sets – the Snowmen layered stamp set by Kitchen Sink Stamps, which sadly you can’t get from a UK store as far as I know (come on Seven Hills/ Dies to Die for/ Bumbleberrys!!)

I used three Altenew inks for the snowman and added extra die cuts coloured with distress inks. Lastly, I used a stencil with Tumbled Glass and Frayed Burlap distress inks to ground my die cuts and a sentiment from the Shine Upon You mini set (30-928) which was kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.