Love, light and floral wings

Hi there!

I’ve spent a lovely day in my craft room making cards with some beautiful products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their latest release, Scent of Spring.

First up is my entry into this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. The butterfly was created using the beautiful Floral Wings stencils (25-022) and die (51-809). I find it easier to cut the butterfly from white cardstock first before using the stencil set. I used various purple distress inks on the wings and then used Cosmic Shimmer Luna paste for a couple of the layers – so shimmery!

For the background, I masked off a square and blended distress ink on my card base before embossing it with the Noted folder (65-005).

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from the Love & Light mini stamp set (31-037).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Yellow petal egg

 

Hello there!

Today I’m playing along in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge where the colour palette is pink, yellow and green. Wonderful for Easter and spring cards!

I picked up the Birch Press Design Layered Petal Egg die set in a sale recently and have been looking forward to using it – today was the day! I took inspiration from this card I made three years ago and paired it with the Birch Press Design Oval Leaf Branches Contour Layers dies and a few Poppystamps flowers.

I adhered the adorned egg to a panel embossed using the Nellie’s Choice Egg embossing folder and added a sentiment by Simon Says Stamp to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Little Cotton Tails

Hello everyone!

Next up today is my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I knew I wanted to use the sweet Oh Bunny set by Simon Says Stamp for my take and I love Lisa Addesa’s clever card using this set so decided to incorporate her inspiration into my take on the sketch.

I used a couple of dies from the My Favorite Things Stitched Domes STAX die set to cut a window in my card base and a separate base for my bunny scene. I blended distress ink over the larger dome and then stamped, cut and coloured the largest bunny image from the stamp set.

I blended various green distress inks on a panel of white card which I then cut using a couple of Lawn Fawn grass dies. I then adhered the grass die cuts to the outside of the card and the bunny scene to the inside of my card. I adhere some white mini pompoms to each bunny.

To complete my card, I added a Memory Box sentiment.

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.

Daffodil delight

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A few weeks ago I made a card to celebrate the arrival of the first daffodil of the year in my garden and I’ve been wanting to use the fabulous Spellbinders/Simon Hurley Daffodil Frame die set again.

So today was the day. I decided that I would use this card as my entry into the Spellbinders Cardmaking Star contest and wanted to just use Spellbinders products (although non-Spellbinders products were permitted).

Once again, I cut the main daffodils image from the frame and used it with the separate flower and leaf layers.

I created a pot using half of the central section from the Infinity Punch & Pierce plate and then coloured all images with distress inks.

I made a stencil from the Essential Stylish Ovals die set and lightly blended an oval on a white card panel. I then embossed the panel using the Flower Frenzy folder and arranged the die cuts. I added a sentiment from the Butterfly Sentiments stamp set 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.