Love and Friendship

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

Heart Week 2026 – Day 5

Happy Friyay!

Welcome to Day 5 of Heart Week 2026!

Today’s card has been a year in the making! I bought the cute Taylored Expressions egg cup dies last February with a view to making a cup full of hearts card but then something must’ve happened because I never got round to creating it! So today was the day. I dug into my beloved Basic Grey patterned paper mountain, pulled out some super old Simon Says Stamp/Kelly Purkey heart dies and got crafty!

I then spent far too long looking for a stamp set with the perfect sentiment. I know I found in the depths of my craft room at some point last year because I was annoyed I didn’t have it to hand for Heart Week 2025. Well guess what, it’s AWOL for Heart Week 2026 too! Great! So I chose a stamp from a trusty Mama ELephant set instead. When I find it again, I’m going to keep it on my craft table until Heart Week 2027!!

To complete my card I adhered my image to a background I embossed with Poppystamps piercing dies

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heart Week 2026 – Day 4

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 4 of Heart Week 2026!

You know what I’ve neglected for far too long? The original stencils! I bought quite a few back in the day but my attention shifted and although they are extremely organised, I rarely reach for them nowadays. While I was looking for a stencil for my card idea, I found this beautiful Funky Fossil stencil! I’m pretty sure I’ve used it before but I haven’t found a card photo. In any case, I know I haven’t used it since I’ve been using blending brushes which are quite honestly a gamechanger for these sorts of stencils.

So I put my original idea to the back of my mind, pulled out a colour combo, matched up my inks and got colouring!

I didn’t need much to complete my card – I don’t want to pull attention away from those butterflies! So I added a simple Sugar Pea Designs sentiment and a few gems and called it a day!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heart Week 2026 – Day 3

Hi there!

It’s Day 3 of Heart Week 2026!

It took me a while to tidy up yesterday’s craftermath which really cut into my crafty time this evening. Fortunately this card didn’t take me too long.

I think this Loop the Loop Hearts die is my oldest Birch Press Design die – I’ve never been able to find it used on any cards though! Anyway, when I saw Spellbinders’ Heart Swag embossing folder, I immediately thought of this die! I was determined to use them both today so I cut two panels using the Hero Arts rounded rectangular dies, embossed the larger one and added several die cuts to the other panel.

I then tried various layouts but I didn’t spend too long second guessing myself today!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heart Week 2026 – Day 2

Hi there!

It’s Day 2 of Heart Week 2026!

My original plan for today’s card didn’t quite work out so I pivoted to my trusty True Love Stem die by Poppystamps!

I cut it from some patterned mirror card and adhered it to a folk heart that I’d embossed with the Plaster embossing folder by Simon Hurley for Spellbinders.

To complete my card, I added a wood-mounted stamped sentiment and s few sequins.

Meanwhile, I think I’ll still do my original planned card at some point this week – I just need a longer crafty session and possibly a clearer table to work on it!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heart Week 2026 – Day 1

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 1 of Heart Week 2026!

Today I pulled out The Most Beautiful Embossing Folder Ever (Piped Floral Lace by Altenew) once again. I decided that a single die cut image would provide a great base to showcase those stunning embossed images. I added some ink to a die-cut heart and then ran it through the folder. Super quick and simple! Initially, I was just going to adhere a sentiment by The Greetery, but decided to add some thread to ground the image and add just a little something extra.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Enchanting Hello

Hi there!

It’s finally the last day of January! It seems fitting that I made another card with new-to-me, but hitherto unused, Pinkfresh Studio products today. This gorgeous suite is called Enchanting Flora – isn’t the washi tape stunning? All those soft colours! All those different greens together! Fabulous!

I used the main image plus a few of the smaller images today and then added a Spellbinders sentiment. I was pleased to find the perfect dusky pink glitter card and actually cut a few dots from the same card to scatter across the images.

I also have images that I stamped and stencilled which I’m really looking forward to turning into a card so watch this space!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.