Love and Friendship

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

Thank you posy

Hi there!

I’m playing with more products from Penny Black’s beautiful Daydream collection.

I stamped the main flower image from the Enliven mini set (30-705) before blending a light circle with distress ink. I didn’t bother masking the image as I knew I was going to be using darker colours on the petals and leaves, but I did lift off some ink using a little water.

After colouring the image with my Twinkling H2Os, I decided to add a few gold splatters. Annoyingly, as I was about to do this a large drop of water fell off my brush and into the centre of my ink-blended area. Argh! I ended up soaking up the water and adding a little more to create a whiter centre…. not what I intended but I think it worked out OK. After adding the splatters, I stamped a sentiment from the Flower Sparks set (30-281)

I was originally intending to make a square card but decided to trim down the panel to create a standard (UK A6) card and added a butterfly from the fabulous Flourish & Butterflies die set (51-198).

I’m entering this into the current Penny Black Saturday Challenge where the optional theme is Flowers.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Have a great day

Hi there!

I’m taking a little break from Easter cards to play along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge using products from Penny Black’s Daydream collection.

I masked off a section at the bottom of my card and applied a light layer of Pumice Stone distress ink before stamping the large image from the Flying Colors set (40-739) in Pumice Stone distress oxide ink.

I then cut the fabulous Viridescent leaf die (51-650) from an ink-blended panel and stuck it to my card base. The stem didn’t quite reach my ink-blended strip and so I die cut a small section again and adhered it to the card. I hid the join behind my sentiment which is from the Enliven mini set (30-705).

To complete my card, I added a few butterflies from one of my go-to die sets that I’ve had for years – Flourish & Butterflies (51-198).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hello Flower Cluster

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches.

I when I saw the sketch, I thought of the Flower Cluster die from Simon Says Stamp. I was quite relieved actually because it meant I would finally use it. I’ve had it for YEARS but for some reason it has sat, unused, in its packaging all this time. I really can’t understand why I haven’t used it… Just look at it, so pretty!

First I embossed the image and coloured it using alcohol markers and coloured pencils. Then I added the die cut outline on top of the embossed image. I completed my card with a few gems a sentiment from a SSS/Memory Box Stamptember collaboration set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Color Throwdown – Just Because

Hello everyone!

I’m delighted to be the Guest Designer over at one of my favourite challenges, the Color Throwdown. They have a lovely peaceful palette this week – light blue, grey and kraft

I used dies from a few different manufacturers – Penny Black (cat), Altenew (sentiment) and Poppystamps (circle). I sponged Hickory Smoke and Stormy Sky distress ink to quickly colour the images.

The Color Throwdown team are all sharing some gorgeous inspiration over on the blog. Hope you can play along too!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

AAA Cards One Inchie challenge with black and white twist

Hi there!

It’s time for the a new challenge at AAA Cards!  This fortnight we’d like you to create a CAS card using just one inch of you card base only. Yes, that’s right, everything should be inside that one inch square, even a sentiment if you choose to add one! Our optional twist is ‘black and white’!

I must confess, this one is TOUGH! I had no idea how small a one inch square was until I got our some ‘suitable’ stamps to use, only to discover that they were all much too big. I ended up using this cute kitty stamp by Magenta.

Following our challenge rules, I chose not to add a sentiment within the one inch image.

My team mates have come up with some beautiful cards which are on the AAA Cards challenge blog. We are also joined a previous challenge winner, Hannelie, who has some beautiful CAS inspiration on her blog!

Hope you can play along with us!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy St David’s Day 2021

Happy St David’s Day everyone!

I really can’t believe it’s March already, can you? Spring is definitely in the air in my part of the world at the moment so that’s the them I chose for my take on one of my favourite sketch challenges – Freshly Made Sketches.

To start with, I die cut some patterned paper using a die from the Penny Black Geometic Borders die set and adhered it to my card base. Then I adhered a vellum square on top. I stamped, coloured and fussy cut a beautiful daffodil image by Clearly Besotted which I stuck to the vellum square, hiding the glue I used to adhere the square.

To complete my card, I added a little bow from baker’s twine and a sentiment from Memory Box.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.