Love and Friendship

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

Snowdrops for you

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the current Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

Do you have a stamp you reach for year after year? I have a few, especially this beautiful Wintry Whites stamp (30-634) which I reach for when I see the snowdrops appearing in my garden. You can see the other cards I’ve made with it in previous years: 2021, 2022 and 2023.

For today’s card, I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the snowdrop image, cutting off the vase outline to leave just the stems. I then used the largest die from the Heart Balloons die set (51-493) to cut white cardstock that I spritzed with Wonderland Distress Mica Stain and lightly sponged with Frayed Burlap distress ink.

I cut the fabulous YOU die (51-760) from some speciality paper and adhered it to a panel on my cardbase. I stamped part of a sentiment from the Fragrant Friends stamp set (30-807) and arranged the die cut elements. Finally I added the tiny bow from the Little Ornaments die set (51-090), butterflies from the Flourish and Butterflies die set (51-198) and a few gems.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Best heart

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I’ve been wanting to ink up the Wholeheartedly cling stamp (40-817) again and today was the day. I really think that this is my favourite heart stamp and an absolute joy to colour! This time, I stamped it in Lost Shadow distress oxide ink and then coloured it using my Prismacolor pencils.

I masked off a frame and lightly blended distress ink over the background. I then added a few vellum dragonflies from the Flutter die set (51-006) and a butterfly from the Flourish and Butterflies die set (51-198).

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from the Trust Me builder set (30-710) and a few gems.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Colourful Nordic Flourishes

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fun palette of red, navy and pink.

I have to confess that I spent some time today trying to come up with a design for these colours! In the end, I decided to use the Poppystamps Nordic Flourishes die set that I picked up just after Christmas.

I cut the dies from three different Craft Consortium papers and then spent far too long arranging the elements on my card base! I realised that I needed to work around my sentiment (Hello Cursive Script Circle by Memory Box) and it actually became much easier to get a layout once that was in place!

To complete my card I added a few pearls.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Basket of hearts

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I knew as soon as I saw the basket in the Berry Basket set (51-796) that I would be using it during all the seasons – so I’m kicking of my personal challenge with a love card!

I started with the Line of Hearts die (51-285) which I cut from glitter card. I then used the cut and coloured the largest die from the Framed set (51-622) with distress inks. I then cut the Heartlets die set (51-294) a couple of times and coloured all my images with distress inks.

As I was arranging all the images on a standard card base, I felt that the square frame was a little too big so I switched things up and moved to a square card instead. Sadly the frame still seemed too large so I will have to use that on another design! I adhered everything to the card base and added a few glitter heart ‘offcuts’ (from the Line of Hearts and Heartlets dies).

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from the Snippets set (30-823).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hoops Galore!

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a beautiful combo of pink, purple and green.

I used more items from my New Things box today – the Embroidered Blooms dies, Hoopla mini die set and Aida Cloth die from The Greetery’s Handiwork collection last summer. I coloured each of the die cut elements with distress inks. I was originally intending to cut the hoops from kraft card, but decided to use pink and purple hoops instead – I’m glad I did as I I think the kraft may have overpowered the delicate shades of the palette that I chose.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Perky Flower

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

I’m continuing to make my way through my ‘new stuff’ box and so after testing a few other dies I chose the Simon Says Stamp Perky Flower die set that I got in their Thanksgiving sale – so not super old!

I tried all sorts of things for the background strips – die cuts, inky strips… but in the end I chose this older Bubble Burst Memory Box die which I adhered on a card base that I’d painted light blue.

The sentiment is also by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.