Love and Friendship

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

Bunny Kisses

Happy Sunday everyone!

It’s been a while since I played along with the Can You Handle the Pressure challenge, but as I was able to craft a lot this weekend, I decided to join in with the current challenge which has the optional twist of Easter

I’ve been excited to play with the cute Bunny Kisses die set by The Greetery and today was the day! I coloured the images with distress ink and added a little mini pompom to the bunny. I embossed some light pink cardstock with a Spellbinders embossing folder and assembled my little scene on a panel cut from an older My Favorite Things Die-Namics set. The grass is cut with a Lawn Fawn die.

The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Blue, rust and brown bouquet

 

Happy Saturday  everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown which has a fabulous combo of blue, rust and brown. It’s all change at my favourite colour challenge this week as the team welcome the talented Kelly! The team is always pretty stable but somehow I missed the farewell to Barbara, I loved her amazing takes on the colours. Many congrats Kelly on joining the amazing DT!

Last week I received and played with the amazing Spring Meadow stencil set by The Greetery. I enjoyed playing with it so much, I was determined to play with it again, although I surprised myself by reaching for it again so soon! I thought it might work well with this combo? What do you think? I used three shades of blue and added rust/brown to the flower centres, although I did use black for the darkest flowers.

The background embossing folder is by Spellbinders and the sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Great Day Bouquet

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge using some products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

When I saw the sketch, I knew I wanted to use one of my favourite background dies – the Geometric Circles die (51-644) with a jar of flowers from the new Charisma stamp set (30-969)*. I started by colouring the stamped image with my Twinking H2O paints and used the colours as inspiration for a distress ink background. I trimmed down the panel, adhered the background die cut and added some Stickles.

While that was drying, I set up my card base and used the Textural die (51-729)* for the background strip in the sketch. After assembling all the die cut elements, I added a little flower from the Swinging die set (51-618) to the jar and a sentiment from the Snippets stamp set (30-283).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

*Kindly sent to me by Penny Black

 

Winged Wreath

Hello again  everyone!

My last card for today is another one I made for my lovely mum using Penny Black products.

When I saw the latest release, the Winged Wreath cling stamp (40-886) took my breath away. Isn’t it a beautiful stamp – so delicate and eye-catching!

I coloured it with my Twinkling H2O paints, and added LOTS of glitter and a few die cut butterflies from the Flourish and Butterflies set (51-198) and the Soaring set* (51-731).

The sentiment is  from the Without Limits mini stamp set* (30-949).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

*Kindly sent to me by Penny Black

Texture and layers

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown ! After struggling with last week’s palette, this week’s was very similar…. but I was determined to play along! I pulled out my new bargain die set that I picked up in the Spellbinders sale and got crafty!

I remember actually seeing this set when it was the December 2021 large die set of the month. Our post was all over the place and I knew I couldn’t risk an international order at the time. Nowadays Spellbinders dispatches from the UK and so I was so delighted to finally get my hands on it – and it was very good value!

The stitching took FOREVER, but I enjoy doing it on the odd occasion. It does make me think about taking up embroidery… but I just don’t have time for another hobby at the moment sadly!

Anyway, I added the various layers from the die set and a few blooms and foliage from the Big Blooms and Holiday Blooms sets.

The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Backyard floral stems

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge .

I ordered a few dies from Bumbleberrys last week as soon as they received the latest release from the Memory Box family. I really loved the new Backyard Floral Stems die and it was so much fun to play with today. I added it to a background that I had embossed with a bargain Spellbinders folder that I picked up in their sale a few weeks ago.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.