Love and Friendship

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

Heart Week 2025 – Day 1

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 1 of Heart Week 2025!

My heart card today is my entry for this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

When I saw the sketch I immediately thought of my Martha Stewart lace border punches from back in the day! Oh how I loved them! I was excited when I started travelling to the US regularly for work back then so that I could pick up one or two in Michaels. I have never been able to part with them and today was their day to shine again. I used some Craft Consortium paper and a Hero Arts wood-mounted punch from 2005. Wow! I’ve been crafting a LONG time!! The sentiment is by Reverse Confetti.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Embossed cherry blooms

Hello again!

I’m back with my entry for this week’s Color Throwdown challenge. What a lovely spring palette this week – blue, pink and yellow.

I picked up the beautiful Cherry Blossom embossing folder and die set from Simon Says Stamp last November and it seemed perfect for this challenge. What a joy it was to use – the embossing is so deep!!

I created three ink blended panels and die cut the blossom shapes from the pink and yellow panels before embossing them. I embossed the blue panel and adhered it to my card base before attaching the die cut blossoms and adding a little gold stickles.

The sentiment die and stamp are also by Simon Say Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Fringed Flowers

Hello everyone!

Just popping in quickly with my entry for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge!

I’m having problems with my connection at the moment and I don’t want to miss the challenge deadline so I will be back later to fill in the details!

Edited to add: Now that I’ve entered the challenge, I can upload a few more photos and share a bit more about my card!

Memory Box’s new release arrived at Bumbleberry’s last week and I could not wait to order a few die sets! The Fringed Flowers set really stood out to me – I love the irregularity of the flowers, I don’t think I’ve got anything else like them at all! I cut them from Craft Consortium paper but used some different centres as I wanted something that was a little irregular and the centres in the die set seemed too perfect to my eye! I adhered the flowers to some white vellum and then turned my attention to the card base.

I spotted a white heat-embossed image in my ‘unused’ box and decided to trim that down for the background centre panel. I think the stamp is an older Hero Arts image. I dotted glue to the vellum behind the fringed flowers and adhered it to my panel and card base.

Finally I added a few gems – but no sentiment because time was short. I may add a sentiment under the vellum panel when I send it out, we’ll see!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Another purple foliage circle card

 

Hi there!

Next up today is my take on this week’s fabulous sketch at the  Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I just love all those layers!

After trying a few items, I decided to use the Paper Rose Studio Little Foliage Circle die as my focal point. I cut it several times and coloured it with various inks. I decided to cut and layer the little flowers rather than mask them and while I was adhering them I remembered that I had coloured in purple last time I used the die – back in 2021! Cutting and adhering the flowers was MUCH quicker I think!

I used a Spellbinders embossing folder for one panel and some Craft Consortium paper for the larger strip in the sketch – I blended some purple ink over the paper so that it would tie in with my inked flowers!

The sentiment is by The Ton Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Winter wishes Basket

Hello Everyone!

Today I’m playing along with one of my favourite challenges, the Color Throwdown. While I’m a little sad that the challenge has moved to fortnightly, I’m relieved that it is sticking around – I know that running a challenge is a lot of work for the DT/admins.

Anyway, this week’s combo is black, white and grey. Funnily enough I was going to use some layered background dies but when I checked my blog to see when I last used the plates, I discovered it was in January 2023 for the challenge that had the same combo plus red!!

So instead I used dies by The Greetery for my card. I used Craft Consortium paper for the basket – and it was MUCH easier to weave compared to cardstock!

The sentiment is also The Greetery.

I had the hardest time photographing this card! I’m STILL trying to find the best way to capture cards that don’t have a white base and sometimes it seems impossible for me…

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.