Love and Friendship

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

Butterfly Stem

Happy Saturday!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a palette of orange, green and tan.

I may have over thought the palette here and ended up learning all about different shades of tan online! In the end, I tried to match the colour in the inspiration picture and cut some patterned paper with a Greetery die for the background panel.

Anyway, I used an older Memory Box die, the Rylan Butterfly Stem, which is dated 2016 but I thought it was a bit older than that! I coloured it with distress inks and added some orange butterflies from Memory Box’s Butterfly Ensemble and inlaid them in the stem – they don’t fill the space completely, but I think they are a pretty good match!

The sentiment is by Sugar Pea Designs.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

From My Heart

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the clean and simple challenge at The Paper Players. The theme is ‘bloom’.

I absolutely love Penny Black florals and their latest Springtime release contained some amazing stamps! I decided to ink up the beautiful From My Heart cling stamp (40-845) and offset it slightly so that there would be enough of that white space that I love to have when I make CAS cards! I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and then lightly sponged distress ink across the background.

I added a sentiment from the Love Big set (30-898) and a few Nuvo drops to complete my card. This is so shimmery in real life but that’s always so difficult to capture in a photo!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Catalina Wreath

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the colour challenge at the Just Us Girls challenge. The colour palette is ivory, soft rose and sage green – totally the colours I love to work with!

I decided to use an older Memory Box die, the beautiful Catalina Wreath, which is from 2011! It actually belongs to my mum but has lived in my collection for a while as she has taken a break from cardmaking. I coloured it with distress oxide inks and added a few white Nuvo drops. I stencilled some Nuvo glitter paste onto a piece of ivory card and then adhered the wreath and added a Creative Expressions sentiment to complete my take.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Older Simons die cuts

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the sketch challenge hosted by Sunday Stamps.

For my take on the sketch, I started by cutting some patterned paper with a die from Paper Rose’s Track Circle frame set. I then cut two older Simon Says Stamp dies – the Adeline Butterfly and the Calliope Flourish and coloured them with distress inks.

I added a few Nuvo drops to the flower centres, a Sugar Pea Designs sentiment and a few sequins to complete my take.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Pressed daisy stems

 

Hello everyone!

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

I’ve recently reorganised my dies and when I saw the sketch, I decided to create what I’d originally thought of as the background using an Avery Elle kraft frame die. I sponged some distress ink onto the base of the frame to reflect the sketch.

I smooshed green and purple distress ink onto the card base and coloured the Memory Box Daisy Stems die cuts with the same colours as the background dried. After adhering the diecuts and frame, I added a Memory Box sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

A vase for the best!

Hello everyone!

Yoday I’m playing along in the sketch challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches using Penny Black dies and stamps.

I started by blending some distress ink onto my card base and then cut two sections of white card using an edger die from the Border Collection (51-717) and adhered them to my card base. I cut the foliage using the Frosted Greens (51-710) and Garden Greens (51-652) die sets and coloured three of them with distress ink.

I used a stamp from the Perfectly Potted (30-874) stamp set for the vase (super easy to fussy cut – if only all fussy cutting was this simple, eh!!) and adhered everything to my card.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Snippets set (30-283) and a few sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.