Hi Everyone!
This week’s Casology challenge theme is ‘square’ and here is what I came up with!
I cut an inked background with a Memory Box die and inlaid the pieces into the frame that I’d cut from glitter paper. I really wanted to add more bling, but I’m hoping to add this to my woefully small supply of male cards, so I just stamped a simple sentiment from Hero Arts to finish it off.
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LucieG.
Happy Friyay!
This week’s theme for the Less is More challenge is ‘use a real object’. I’ve been doing a lot of DIY recently so I decided to go with a nail! I wanted to use the phrase ‘you nailed it’ but I don’t have a stamp of that – although I bet I will find it in one of my stamp sets tomorrow! Anyway, I printed it off on white card on my home printer and then stamped the Altenew ‘yay’ above it using Delicata black shimmer ink – it is so shimmery in real life!
I used a die from the Hero Arts 12 point star set as the focal point and then stuck the nail on it using some washi tape…. not sure how long it will hold!
I then stuck the panel on a background that I had embossed with a Sizzix/Tim Holtz folder.
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LucieG.
Hi Everyone!
I am very honoured to be a guest designer for the current Time Out challenge. This time, the challenge is to CASE a card (at the end of this post) created by the talented Beverley Brown.
I’ve seen a few cards on Instagram where the designers coloured the background rather than the image, which I thought was so eye-catching so I decided to give that a whirl for my take on Beverley’s card. I stamped the gorgeous Penny Black stargazer lily which I then masked off before stencilling some distress ink to make a soft rainbow background. I added a die cute sentiment from Avery Elle (which I tweaked as I wanted to have a longer ‘tail’ before the word rather than after it!).
Do stop by the Time Out challenge blog and check out the inspiration from the fabulous design team! I hope you can play along too!
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LucieG.
Well ‘hi’ there everyone!
I thought I’d use another one of the backgrounds that I made during yesterday’s session playing with the Tim Holtz stamping platform. I embossed another Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous background stamp and then added some distress marker ink using the plastic bag smooshing technique.
I love this week’s sketch over at Case This Sketch and thought it would be really ‘easy’. Hmm…. not quite – you would not believe how many different die cuts/colour combos I tried with this background. In the end, I kept it very simple and it definitely works better than all my other options! Really loving those Altenew letters!
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LucieG.
It’s been a glorious day here – sunshine, blue skies and temperatures of 25+C. I should have been outside in the garden…. but instead I was in my craft room! I watched Tim Holtz’s video on his stamping platform, which I got a few months ago, but got a bot frustrated with, so I went back to my MISTI. Anyway, I was determined to give it another go and I’m so glad I did – I didn’t suffer any of my previous issues and created some amazing backgrounds!
Here’s one of the backgrounds I turned into a card – I used a Tim Holtz stamp with distress markers and then added a sentiment die/stamp from Simon Says Stamp. I finished it off with a few Pretty Pink Posh sequins!
So, all in all, a good, productive day, even if I didn’t make the most of the wonderful weather!
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LucieG.
Hi Everyone!
The theme for the current Simon Says Stamp Flickr challenge is ‘dots and/or stripes’. I used a couple of Simon Stays Stamp dies and some remnants from rainbow backgrounds that I created a few weeks ago as part of Online Card Classes’ Rainbow Maker class. I just can’t decide whether I prefer it with or without a sentiment (also Simon’s). What do you think?
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LucieG.
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