Spring and Easter

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.

Daffodil Wreath

Hi there!

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

I love that one of the colours this week is called ‘Daffodil Delight’ and so I just had to include them in my card! My new Marianne Designs daffodil die arrived this morning so I jumped at the chance to play with it straight away. I paired it with a Honey Bee Stamps Grapevine die that I cut twice. All die cuts are coloured with distress ink.

I used an older WRMK 3D embossing folders – I always think of these as the original 3D embossing folders, they really took embossing folders to the next level!

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from an older set by Neat & Tangled.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Sparkly Forsythia

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along in the March Four Seasons Challenge which has a fabulous spring inspiration board! One of the photos that caught my eye when I looked at the board was a beautiful vase of forsythia and as my forsythia bush has just burst into bloom, I knew I wanted to focus on that!

I used Penny Black’s beautiful Delicate & Dainty cling stamp (40-510)! I love this stamp but I haven’t used it much since I bought it five years ago… seriously, how can it be five years – I remember creating this card with it as if it was yesterday!

Anyway, back to this card. I lightly blended some distress ink and then stamped the image with Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide. I coloured the image using two shades of yellow gouache and then added a sentiment from the Thinking of You clear stamp set (30-825). I added a frame cut with the largest die from the Stitched Frames die set  (51-709), some yellow Nuvo drops, sequins and pearls.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Waltham Egg card

Happy Saturday!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fabulous palette of pink, lime green and grey.

When I saw the inspiration photo, I really wanted to play with my Kitsch Flamingo distress ink, which I felt would be perfect, especially as I haven’t used the colour very much as I tend to gravitate towards the pastels. However, I also had an idea for the Waltham Egg by Memory Box and went with it. I decided to colour the foliage on the egg with my Twinkling H2Os rather than the distress ink so Kitsch Flamingo stayed in my drawer.. again! I did use Hickory Smoke for the egg background.

Anyway, after assembling the egg, I adhered it to a panel that I’d embossed using Simon Says Stamps’ Splendid Leaves embossing folder and added a few white branches cut with the Memory Box viburnum branches. The sentiment is by Sugar Pea Designs.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.