Love and Friendship

This category includes: Valentines Day, engagement, wedding, anniversary, friends

Best wishes with Butterfly Bliss

Hello everyone!!

After thinking I wouldn’t play along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week, inspiration struck so here I am!

I knew I wanted to create something a bit different, so instead of two rectangular panels, I cut two flowery shapes which I edged with ink and dry embossed with a Simon Says Stamp folder called Jubilee.

The images are from the new Pinkfresh Studio Butterfly Bliss product suite and coloured using my older Altenew inks.

The sentiment is by the Ton Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Sakura Hello

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along with this month’s Pinkfresh Studio challenge which has the optional theme and colour combo. I opted to use the theme which is ‘Floral Frenzy’ – perfect for most Pinkfresh designs!

Today I’m using the Sakura product suite that I picked up from Dies to Die for over Easter. I was fortunate to get the last set as this was released a year ago now – before I really discovered Pinkfresh. I didn’t get the Washi so will have to get that from another store at some point.

I really think this is my favourite Pinkfresh product suite so far – the stamps stamp beautifully with a lovely thin outline – almost like their red rubber cling stamps and the images are so easy to colour with the stencils. I’ve gone with the traditional combo for today’s card but I can’t wait to colour this in different colours – so much fun!

To complete my card I added a lacy vellum die cut, a few gold dots and a sentiment by Creative Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Block print radiant butterfly

Hello again!

After last week’s stress to get my card uploaded just before the Freshly Made Sketches challenge deadline, I made sure that my card was finished MUCH earlier this week!

I originally wanted to combine the sketch with my ongoing ‘Egg week’ Easter focus, but I really wanted to start using the Birch Press Design Block Print Radiant Butterfly die set that landed on my doormat this week. So I pulled out my mirror card and distress inks and got busy!

This is such a fabulous bold butterfly, it really doesn’t need a supporting cast so I opted for a simple embossed background using the Simon Says Stamp Star Lattice folder.

The sentiment is by Sugar Pea Designs.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Ikebana card

Hi there!

I’m quickly popping in with my entry for this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

I’ll be back later to add more photos, but want to make sure I hit the challenge deadline!

ETA – I’m so relieved I managed to get my entry in this evening. This week has been busy and I really haven’t felt like crafting! I only had a couple of hours to create a card this evening and although the card came together quickly, I wasted a lot of time trying to stamp a ‘perfect’ sentiment…. and after all that, I had huge computer issues. I really thought I wouldn’t make it.

Anyway, I used a fabulous die set by Sizzix called ‘Ikebana’. I cut the images from Craft Consortium paper and then dry embossed a piece of my precious Basic Grey paper with a favourite Simon Says Stamp embossing folder called ‘Spun Glass’. I splattered some gold paint over the background, but the splatters are rather subtle so you can’t really see them in my photos.

The sentiment ifs from a My Favorite Things set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Sakura Celebration Day 4

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along with this fortnight’s Color Throwdown challenge. Another pretty combo of blue, green and lime green this time.

I used a bit of artistic licence with today’s sakura card – not a drop of pink on this interpretation!

After trying MANY ideas with coloured card and patterned paper, I ended up with this super simple take by painting strips of colour and adding The Stamp Market’s Ready to Bloom die. The centres are from a small Spellbinders die set that I bought solely because I liked the little flower centres!

The sentiment is by Creative Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.