Spring and Easter

Easter Frames

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at The Paper Players.

Easter is fast approaching now, so time for me to get back to some seasonal cards! When I saw the sketch, I thought the You’ve been framed – Spring die set by Taylored Expressions would work well, so I pulled them out and got to work. I created a blended background using Distress Oxide inks, trimmed it into three rectangles and adhered three die cut frames. I inlaid aqua die cut pieces into the eggs and added a sentiment from the Mini Strips – Easter stamp set to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Springtime table

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the The Card Concept challenge using products sent to me by Penny Black.

As soon as I saw the inspiration photo, I thought of my mum and her garden… I think it’s the hat as she always wears one when gardening. Anyway, she has a lovely wrought iron table on the patio so I decided to go with a springtime table for my card – and it should come as no surprise that the challenge design style that I chose is CAS – no layers here, just straightforward stamping and colouring and a bit of very soft ink blending!

I stamped and coloured the beautiful Springtime Table cling stamp (40-829) with my Twinkling H2Os – I’m so happy that I caught some of the shimmer in my second photo. I don’t seem to colour much these days, but I had such a wonderful, relaxing time colouring this scene! However, that was my big error of judgement! After spending so long colouring the image, I just froze! I was convinced that I would mess up my colouring! It seriously took me five days to psych myself up to stamp the sentiment! And even then I couldn’t decide which sentiment to use but in the end I went with one from the Love Big set (30-898).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy Mother’s Day 2022!

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to share one of the cards I gave to my lovely mum today!

My mum has been very keen to have purple crocuses in her garden this year and when I saw The Greetery’s new crocus botanicuts set, I knew it would be perfect for a Mother’s Day card for her!

I spent a while trying a lot of different ink combos – using regular distress inks and distress oxides. In the end I just used one colour (Villainous Potion Oxide) and simply applied it more lightly for some petals. I absolutely loved making these flowers and ended up with a HUGE bunch for her card!

I adhered them onto a circle of patterned paper and then added an Avery Elle sentiment and a few sequins to complete my card.

I’m entering this into a new-to-me challenge, Cardz for Galz, where the theme is Spring Flowers for Mother’s Day.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hello Magnolias!

Hello everyone!

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

We’ve had some amazing spring time weather recently and I noticed that quite a few magnolia trees are starting to bloom! The perfect time to use my new Simon Says Stamp Etched Magnolia die I think!

I was originally going to include 3 magnolia blooms on the card but it felt a little overcrowded so I substitued the middle image for a bold Waffle Flower sentiment.

I used an older Memory Box die (Grape Vine Border) for the vertical strip.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Perfect Pussy Willows

Happy Sunday!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fabulous palette of grey, yellow, tan and black.

I just got my new dies from The Greetery’s spring release and I love how Betsy demonstrated how to add a bit of colour to the pussy willow stems so I decided to use those dies with the colour combo – I don’t think I would have ever used the combo of Tea Dye and Hickory Smoke distress inks for the stems otherwise! I like how they turned out! I added some yellow to the individual buds but also sponged a yellow circle to add a bit more of that colour to my card.

I added a Waffle Flower vase and a Sugar Pea Designs sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.