Love and Friendship

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Sending Smiles

Happy Saturday!

I’m still playing catch up with the Daily Marker 30 Day challenge so I’m popping in quickly with my colouring for Day 13!

I used one of my favourite Hero Arts wood mounted stamps – the Nice Little Flower Border from 2005. I remember using this stamp a LOT back in the day. It’s not as long as the width of my card, so I simply stamped it in the centre and then once either side. I never used to do that! I think I was nervous about lining up the image, but after using rubber stamps a lot again this year, I’m much more confident when I stamp with my wood stamps and Hero Arts stamp very well, so it was actually pretty easy to line up the image!.

I coloured it with my Twinkling H2Os and added a sentiment from a newer Hero Arts clear set.

I’m entering this into the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Sending you strength

Hello everyone!

Day 11 of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge.

Today I’m playing along with the latest challenge from The Paper Players. I was determined to use something other than my beloved Twinkling H2Os today so I opened up my Prisma Color pencils again! I loved colouring this older stamp, Delicate Flight, by Memory Box.

The image does not cover the full length of the card but I wanted to extend it so that the stems appeared under the sentiment. I simply cut the image and adhered it to my gold panel with a gap of about a centimetre between the two sections of the image. I adhered the embossed My Favorite Things sentiment over the gap. Shhhhh! no-one will ever know!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

You are Majestic

Hello everyone!

Day 9 of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge and today I’m playing with two Hero Arts stamps sets that were manufactured ten years apart!

Over a decade ago, I saw the cutest lion stamp ever – the only problem was that he was in a set with three other cute animals which I couldn’t justify buying…. but as we know, my willpower isn’t strong when it comes to crafty supplies and after a little while I caved and bought the Hero Arts Playful Animals set. Imagine my disappointment when I stamped up the lion and discovered that the rubber had a few faults in it! After while, I decided to contact Hero Arts to see if I could buy just the lion. The customer services team was amazing and immediately offered to send my the stamp free of charge to the UK! I was so surprised as I’d become quite used to difficult customer service experiences elsewhere in life! But I guess that it truly the Hero Arts way – own the issue and deal with it quickly and politely to exceed customer expectations. Given my recent experience with another manufacturer (where I was made to feel like a naughty child for asking to buy a replacement for one faulty clear stamp) I’d say Hero Arts still leads the way!

Anyway I paired the lion with a sentiment from the 2017 Color Layering Bengal Tigers set and assembled the card following a sketch from a new-to-me challenge, Paper Craft Crew Challenges.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Bali Corner

Hi there!

It’s time for a new challenge at AAA Cards! The theme for this fortnight is ‘one corner’ with the optional twist of flowers. Our sponsor is Uniko.

What a fun challenge… I love using flowers on my cards, especially at this time of year! After spending some time going through my wood mounted stamps, I decided to use a die! The Memory Box Bali corner die seemed made for this challenge – and I had a lot of fun colouring it in the current CAS Colours and Sketches colour combo (coral, grape and meadow)!

I added a sentiment from Reverse Confetti and a few mini gems to finish off my card.

My team mates have come up with some beautiful cards which are on the AAA Cards challenge blog. We are also joined by the talented Maja – she has some amazing cards on her blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy Flowery Thoughts

Happy Saturday!

Day 8 of the 30 Day Colouring Challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge.

Here is my card/colouring for today using a fun flowery stamp from Hampton Arts that I got during a work trip to the US a few years ago. My hotel was across the road from a Michaels and I was able to find some time to peruse the store and buy a few bits and pieces. I coloured it with my Twinkling H2Os and adhered it to a couple of pieces of coloured cardstock, following the sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches Challenge.

To finish off my card, I added a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp…. Am I the only one who struggles with strip sentiments sometimes? Trying to get it straight (using my MISTI) seemed to take as long as the colouring!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hello Lovely

Hello everyone!

Day 3 of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge.

Today I’m playing along with the challenges over at the Color Throwdown and Try Stampin’ On Tuesday.

I used the fabulous Flower Cluster Sketch stamp by Hero Arts from the 2005 collection. The Color Throwdown colours (yellow, orange, hot pink and green) are much brighter than my preferred, more muted palette, but that’s why I love this challenge so much – it often pushes me beyond my colour wheel comfort zone!

I decided to practice with my Zig Clean Color Real brush pens. I still need a LOT of practice, but using them on Bristol cardstock makes them much easier to use!

When I finished colouring, I stamped a Mama Elephant sentiment and adhered the image to a base card that I’d assembled following the challenge sketch.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.