Love and Friendship

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

Vases silhouettes

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along with two of my favourite challenges, the Color Throwdown and Freshly Made Sketches.

I’ve been waiting for the Altenew Spring Mantle Decor set to reach the UK since it was released in mid April. I snapped it up as soon as Seven Hills Crafts got it into their store over the bank holiday!

I carefully blended Salvaged Patina and Picked Raspberry distress oxide inks to create the background. In addition to the foliage from the new die set, I added part of a branch from the Berries and Branches die set. The sentiment is also by Altenew.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hello grazing deer

Hi there!

I just discovered the Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge and was totally inspired by this week’s sketch!

I knew I wanted to use the fabulous new Penny Black Grazing Fawn die (51-672) as my focal point so I did tinker with the sketch a bit… The circle frame dies are from Penny Black’s Framed die set (51-622) and I also added a sentiment from the Hello Deer mini stamp set (30-766).

I coloured the fawn image with distress inks and used a detail blending tool to get that texture on the trees!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Lots of love and greenery

Happy Friyay everyone!

I’m playing along with the colour challenge at the CAS on Friday challenge blog today. The challenge this time is one colour – green.

For my take, I used products from Penny Black’s Delight collection and lots of regular distress ink. I coloured the three dies cuts from the Garden Greens (51-652) set using differnt shades of green and then adhered them to my card base before adding a jug from the coordinating Garden Fresh die set (51-703). Finally I stamped a sentiment from the Delectable stamp set (30-810).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Just Bee-cause

Hello again everyone!

My final card for today is my entry into the current Color Throwdown which has a palette of yellow, grey, black and white.

Now, I must confess that I was a little stumped when I saw this combo as I entered a very similar colour challenge a few weeks ago and knew I wanted to do something different this time! Plus, I was so tempted to recreate the fabulous challenge graphic in some way!!

First of all, I created a blended background using Hickory Smoke distress ink and then die cut a panel with an Oblong Hexagon die from The Stamp Market. I then cut and coloured a flower and bee from the Hero Arts Bees and Flowers die set. Finally I cut a Creative Expressions sentiment from black cardstock and adhered all my die cuts to the card base.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hello there cherry blossoms

Hi everyone!

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

I was really pleased to see the slimline card sketch this week as I thought I could finally use a die I bought at the start of the year thinking it was a LOT smaller than it turned out! Online shopping is tricky isn’t it? Anyway I was so glad to finally use a couple of dies from the Paper Discovery Cherry Blossoms and Lanterns die set!

The sentiment is by Savvy Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Cherry blossom smiles

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along a new-to me challenge, Hand Stamped Sentiments using products by Penny Black.

I cut an ink-blended panel using a die from the dainty dashes stackers set (51-636) and then coloured a couple of the Cherry Blossom die cut images (51-419) using my Twinkling H2)s and prismacolor pencils.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Thinking of You clear stamp set (30-825).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.