Love and Friendship

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

Fresh Bouquet

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the colour challenge hosted by Sunday Stamps using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I stamped the fabulous Fresh Bouquet cling stamp (40-841) slightly off the edge of my card base and then coloured it in the challenge palette.  I used my Twinkling H2Os again – oh how I wish I could capture the beautiful shimmer in my photo.

I added a few gems to the flower centres and the sentiment from the Ever Thanks set (30-813) to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Wildflower Bouquet

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the CAS on Friday challenge which has the theme of ‘flowers’!

I really love all the bouquet dies that are around at the moment and just bought one by Marianne Designs which I decided to use for my card today. I must say, it’s actually much bigger than I was expecting but that meant that I could use some of my larger flower dies with it! For this card I reached for the beautiful flowers that Memory Box released about a year ago (Daisy Stems, Wildflower Stems, Lavender Stems, Seed Stems and Daisy Silhouette), which I coloured with distress inks and coloured pencil.

I added some stickles to the flowers and a Hero Arts sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Nordic Trio

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at Just Add Ink.

When I saw the sketch, I thought of some Marianne Designs dies that I got early last year – the set included a couple of test tube dies that I really wanted but somehow I never got round to using them!

Anyway, I cut the tubes from vellum and then came the challenge of choosing stems! My original planned flowers didn’t work – I think it’s because the tubes are close together. In the end, I used these wonderful Nordic Trio dies from Simply Graphic – I  think they work well with the layout of the tubes!

I added a sentiment by Memory Box and a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Honeysuckle Bowl

Hello again everyone!

Next today is my card for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

For my take, I used Paper Rose Studio’s Honeysuckle Plant and a bowl from a Sizzix die set, all coloured with distress inks. The sentiment is my Whimsy Stamps.

This was a really interesting sketch to play with and at first I used the die cut bowl to represent the middle strip in the sketch, but I didn’t really like how it looked, but I was much happier when I added that third yellow strip!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

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.