Christmas, New Year and Winter

Festive Cardinal Pair

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 brown and red. Today I’m using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I’m also celebrating the safe return of my Penny Black Stick & Shine products which went AWOL in my craft room for a fair few weeks! The search has led to a much-needed reorganisation which is still ongoing!

I started by blending some Vintage Photo and Gathered Twigs distress ink on white cardstock and then cut a panel using the largest die from the Dainty Dashes Stackers die set (51-636). I then stamped the gorgeous Cardinal Pair cling stamp (40-912) and coloured it using distress inks and my Twinkling H2O paints. As I was restricted to browns and reds, I decided to lift some of the ink to create the white baubles. This is when I think disaster struck! I dropped some water on the bottom right of my background – creating was VERY obvious long watermark….

I didn’t want to trim down the panel so thought about adding a few snowflakes from the Extraordinary Stick & Shine sheets (15-003), but realised I wanted position the snowflakes elsewhere… so I hid the watermark with a handy sentiment from the Festive & Feathery mini stamp set (30-926) – phew!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

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.