Christmas, New Year and Winter

Merry Little Christmas wishes

Happy Friyay everyone!

Have you noticed that Fridays are becoming quite festive on my blog? I seem to be entering the Christmas Card Throwdown quite late each week! This week that was because I had no time for crafting until this evening AFTER I’d cleared up the craftermath from last Saturday! Anyway, I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge.

I lightly blended Weathered Wood and Speckled Egg distress inks across the lower part of a white panel which I then embossed using the Simon Says Stamp Refracted embossing folder. After adhering that to my card base, I added three little Charlie und Pauchen die cut trees.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Stencilled embossed trees

 

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the technique challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge.

I ended up using my new Nellie Snellen Christmas Tree stencil with the coordinating embossing folder. I used the stencil with distress inks to highlight a few trees.

The sentiment is by Memory Box.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Mod winter hugs

Hi everyone!

For my final card of the day, I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches.

There are so many possibilities for this sketch – too many sprang to mind and I dithered until the 11th hour when I grabbed my brand new Tim Holtz/Sizzix Holiday Blocks thinlets dies and got cutting! I used some Craft Consortium papers and so this card came together in less than an hour… I just made the challenge deadline – phew! The sentiment is from a Mama Elephant set. I think I would have preferred ‘winter wishes’ but this works!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

MFT Card Design Superstar Contest 2023

Hello dear friends!

I’ve toyed with entering the My Favorite Things Card Design Superstar contest for the past few weeks, but didn’t think I could come up with something that would  use my MFT products in a unique and clever way. But this evening as I was playing with the Sunflower Wreath Die-namics set, an idea popped into my head and I decided to give it a go and enter the Clean & Simple category as that is my favourite style!

And here is my Christmas ornament made with non-festive dies! To start, I cut the wreath from the set and adhered it to a circle cut from navy card. Next I cut foliage images from the Farmhouse Foundations and Fab Foliage Die-namics sets, trimming the larger images a little.

After arranging the images on the die cut circle, I added a few birds from the Birdhouses set and some dots from the Sunflower Wreath set.

I adhered the bauble to my card base and added a sentiment from the Itty Bitty Holiday set to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

PS I’m not sure if I needed to share the contest graphic, but here it is just in case!

Sweet Mr Snowman

Hi there!

Just popping in quickly to share my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. There are three overlapping circles this week – how could that not be a snowman?!

I used the Honey Bee Stamps Build a Snowman die set, together with some older patterned paper and a Nellie Snellen embossing folder for my entry.

The sentiment is by Pretty Pink Posh.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Christmas Card Throwdown – Fir branches

Happy Festive Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the current colour challenge over at the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black!

When I saw the combo, I thought the beautiful new Fir Branch brushstroke cling stamp (40-913)  would be perfect with a blue smooshed ink background. After smooshing Tumble Glass distress ink for the background and stamping the image once, I did something different for me – I filled in a lot of that white space by stamping parts of the beautiful image several times!!

I used a sentiment from the Happy & Bright sentiment set (30-873) and a few sequins and gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.