Love and Friendship

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

Bestest Folk Animals

Hello everyone!

There’s a super sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge – I love that it was a landscape design so I was determined to maintain the orientation, although I did tweak it a bit…

I wanted to use the Hero Arts Folk Animals stamp set from the April 2024 Add-Ons release. However, I wanted the fox to look towards the bird so that meant I needed to flip the sketch so that the  vertical strip was towards the right.

The sentiment is from an older Reverse Confetti set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Colourful Folk Art

Happy Saturday everyone!

After clearing up last night’s craftermath, I decided to make a card for this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a bright combo of yellow, orange and fuschia.

A dear crafty friend kindly gifted me products from the April 2024 My Monthly Hero Add-ons. It’s been a while since I had some new Hero Arts goodies to play with and Hero Arts will always hold a special place in my heart as I spent many a happy Saturday at the Craft Barn in Lingfield making cards with their wood mounted stamps back in the day!

I pulled out the fabulous Colour Layering Folk Art stencils set and got to work. I loved how Nichol Spohr used Distress Oxides with this set and I followed her technique of adding a layer of white ink before applying Distress Oxides (Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marigold, Carved Pumpkin, Scattered Straw and Mustard Seed).

To complete my card I added a few orange enamel dots and a sentiment from the Folk Animals stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Meow You Doing?

Hello everyone!

There’s a fabulous sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches – when I saw it, I had so many different ideas…. I think I will be using this again very soon!

For today’s card, I decided to use a couple of new Poppystamps products that I picked up in a sale at the start of the year. The focal point is the Napping Cat die and I’ve also used a sentiment from a Poppystamps sentiment set. The background stamp is from a Flora and Fauna set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Red Bouquet

Happy June everyone!

How can it be June already? After a super busy May, I’m hoping to have more crafty time this month and I want to gear up for my annual Christmas in July challenge!

Today I’m playing along in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a very patriotic red, white and blue combo. I briefly toyed with creating a litt;e London scene with some of my older stamps but my dies won the day and so I ended up with a non-patriotic card, although I do feel this could also be used as a remembrance card.

The two flower dies are by Simon Says Stamp (Layered Perky Flower and Cosmos Stem) and I adhered them to a background embossed with my favourite Stampin Up folder called Painted Texture.

The stamp is by The Greetery.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Inspired by Wedgwood

Hello there!

This evening I suddenly remembered that I wanted to play along with the Poppystamps Bloom Where You Are Planted challenge.

I had originally planned to use the flower dies I had purchased from Poppystanos’ newest release, but time was short and the card I had in mind would be a little too fiddly to complete by the deadline (well, OK as I’m in the UK – my bedtime really!).

So, instead, and using Wedgwood pottery as my inspiration, I pulled out a ten-year old die and got creating! The die I used is called Brighton Flower Border. Isn’t it pretty! I really must remember to use it again when time is not of the essence – I can just imagine a card with the Brighton flowers in cheery colours!

So although this card came together really quickly, I spent far too long looking for the Memory Box paper stack that I wanted to use for it! Whenever I want to use this stack, it seems to disappear on me. I found it in the end, but I’m definitely going to make a note of where I hide/store it next. It’s so frustrating when things go AWOL isn’t it? One of the least joyful parts of crafting me thinks!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.