Thank you

Thanks a bunch

Hi everyone!

Today I’m using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black for my card for the Just Us Girls colour challenge and the 700th challenge over at Just Add Ink where the theme is ‘just add shimmer or shine’. Congrats to the JAI team for that amazing milestone and thank you for all your inspiration and support over the years!

After all my problems photographing my last grey card, I decided that I would not be using grey card for my base this time! Instead I blended some Hickory Smoke distress ink across my white card base before applying parts of the Shimmering Tune Stick & Shine Sheet (15-005) and covering it with foil from the Metallics foils set (21-001).  Next I cut a tag from the Tagged die set (51-007) which I covered with Dried Marigold distress ink. I then cut and coloured three of the fabulous Flower Family dies (51-819) and arranged them on my tag. I added a small butterfly from the Flights of Fancy die set (51-132) to a small circle from the Encircled die set (51-074).

After working out where I was going to position my die cuts, I stamped a sentiment from the So Thankful set (30-914) and then adhered all my images using foam tape before adding a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Thank you forget-me-nots

 

Hi there!

After a busy day in my garden yesterday, I rewarded myself with a full day in the craft room today. First up is the card I made for this week’s Color Throwdown challenge where the colour palette is light blue, grey and brown.

I pulled out a couple of older Greetery dies for my card – the Forget-Me-Not and Wood Slices die sets. I coloured the images with alcohol marker and distress inks – I was happy to use my brand-new Scorched Earth distress ink for the edge of the wood slice and also smooshed some Lost Shadow onto my card base!

After adhering the die cuts to my card base, I added a sentiment from a new set by The Greetery to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Lighthouse thank you

Hello everyone!

There’s a really unique sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week! The team share amazing inspiration – it was quite difficult for me not to CASE a few of their brilliant ideas, but I really wanted to come up with something ‘different’.

In the end, I decided to make a graphic/deco design but as I was hunting for the deco stamp set that I wanted to form the basis of my design, I unearthed an old Altenew set called Be a Lighthouse…. and inspiration hit me! As a craft supplies hoarder curator, I knew I had some metal boats from back in the day when I used a lot of embellishments and thought that one of those would work perfectly in the centre of two stamped images. I was rather concerned that I wouldn’t be able to find them but can you believe that it only took me a few minutes? I usually spend longer looking on my table for a die I was just using!

Armed with my little boat and stamp set, I got crafty! I masked off a section of my card so that the rectangular sea stamp would appear more oval and I coloured the lighthouse image with my Twinkling H2O paints. I decided not to use a sentiment from the stamp set and instead used a small stamp from an older Simon Says Stamp set.

This ended up being SO different to what I had planned earlier today, but it was so much fun and BONUS – I used some very old supplies!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Butterfly thank you card

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a beautiful combo of blush, dusty blue and pink.

I received a few Poppystamps dies this morning – including the Beautiful Butterflies Sidekick Frame and Stencil set which I have been wanting for a while! So I just had to play with it straightaway!

The set includes a die that cuts a number of standalone butterflies which I cut from card and vellum. I coloured all the images with distress ink and added some pencil detail. For the background, I was inspired by Deb’s card with this set, so I cut some Penny Black clouds from masking paper and lightly blended some Stormy Sky distress ink over them. I adhered the frame to the panel and added the standalone butterflies and their bodies,

To complete my card I added a Penny Black sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Beyond words

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Hand Stamped Sentiments inspiration challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I’ve loved the effect of brushstroke stamps since my early stamping days but found it difficult to get it ‘right’ with wood-mounted stamps. Fortunately we now have cling stamps and the misti, which makes things so much easier!

I chose the beautiful Brilliant Berries stamp (40-911) which I coloured using distress inks and markers. I masked off a frame and lightly blended some distress ink over the background before splattering some dark green paint across the image. After removing the mask, I added some glitter to the berries, stamped a couple of sentiments from the Ever Thanks set (30-813) and added a twine bow.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

World of Thanks

Hi there!

Next up today is my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I struggled a bit with my original plan for this sketch so started over! I was so happy when I found my bargain Hero Arts Beautiful World stamp set that I bought over the summer but hadn’t yet used.

I coloured the image using my Twinkling H2Os and fussy cut it. I made a small cut into the image so that the flower cluster would sit on top of the sentiment strip (from the same Hero Arts set)

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.