Spring and Easter

Egg Week 2025 Day 3

Hi there!

It’s Day 3 of LucieG’s Egg Week 2025! Today I decided to CASE a card I made back in February which coincidentally turned out to be my card for Day 3 of Heart Week 2025.

I used the same Impression Obsession heart die but this time I covered it with little eggs that I cut from Craft Consortium paper using a Marianne Designs mini die set.

I wish I could say this card was a quick make but alas I kept playing around with the order of the little eggs so it took far more time than expected!

The sentiment is from a set by Sugar Pea Designs.

I’m entering this into the CAS on Friday challenge where the theme is ‘Easter’.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Egg Week 2025 Day 2

Hi there!

It’s Day 2 of LucieG’s Egg Week 2025!

Today I used the Big Egg die set by Reverse Confetti. I actually tried this with several different papers and colours but in the end I chose this version with some beautiful My Mind’s Eye paper. The background is a Spellbinders folder and the bow is from a new Simon Says Stamp set.

The sentiment is from a set also by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Egg Week 2025 Day 1

Hi there!

I can’t quite believe that Easter is next weekend! Even though it’s very late this year and we seem to have been waiting for it forever, it has still snuck up on me a bit! So I hereby declare today the first day of LucieG’s Egg Week 2025! Today I’m also playing along with this fortnight’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a fabulous spring combo of lavender, mint green and yellow.

I’ve had this card idea in my head for a while. I started with a panel which I blended with Pumice Stone, intensifying the ink coverage towards the bottom. I then cut this with my new The Greetery Diamond Ribbons die and adhered it to my card base.

I cut and coloured Poppystamps’ Folk Decorated Eggs using distress ink (Squeezed Lemonade), distress oxide (Shaded Lilac) and Pinkfresh ink (Mint). I often find the name of purple inks to be a little misleading so tend to match colours using my eye for this challenge. Sometimes the CTD team members mention what inks they use and that is VERY helpful (thanks dear Broni!).

The sentiment is from a set by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Daffodils and butterflies

Happy Sunday friends!

Spring seemed to spring in my little part of the world this week and I managed to do some gardening, although today was less pleasant. Still I was in the mood for spring crafting and when I saw that the theme for this fortnight’s challenge at CAS on Sunday was ‘spring’, I decided to play along!

The daffodils are popping in my garden and all around the place right now – I love the bright bursts of colour, especially on greyer days like today! So I grabbed the Simon Hurley/Spellbinders Daffodil Frame die set and my inks and got busy!

I added my image to a background I had embossed with the Simon Says Stamp Floral Butterfly Bouquet folder. I love these tulip images and only noticed the butterflies after I had read the folder name when it was released last month. So when I felt that my card needed something more, a few butterflies seemed the natural choice and I die cut some using the Simon Says Stamp Flickering Butterflies set.

The sentiment is from an older Memory Box set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Springtime Snowdrops

Hi there!

I was very pleased when I saw the sketch for this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches as I knew I had the perfect stencil to replicate the three panels. So I grabbed my inks, the fabulous Pinkfresh 1″ blending brushes and got busy!

I love snowdrops – it always amazes me that something so delicate is so hardy and the first flower to emerge from the depths of my winter garden. My snowdrops are almost completely finished now but I’m so happy to celebrate them with this card!

The sentiment is from an older Memory Box set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hello Spring Birds

Hi there!

I’m quickly popping in with my entry for this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

I used the Bird Bunch die set by Simon Says Stamp and the Cherry Blossom Branches and Cherry Blossom Elements sets by Memory Box, plus a MUCH older sentiment by Simons for my card.