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.

Happy Mother’s Day 2024 – part deux!

Hello everyone!

Next up is the second of two cards I gave to my lovely mum today!

I recently picked up the Poppystamps Floral Vase Easel Pop Up set in a recent sale! I love the possibilities for this incredibly versatile set although I have to confess that this card took me MUCH longer to make than I had anticipated. And I used LOADS of different distress inks! My craft table looked like it had been hit by a tornado!

The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy Mother’s Day 2024!

Hello everyone!

Here is the first of two cards I gave to my lovely mum today!

This card was created with products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their new Scent of Spring release. I started with a fabulous image from the Scent of Spring clear stamp set (31-049). I love that they have another iteration of their beautiful autumnal brolly that I used last September! I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and then fussy cut it.

I then cut a piece of white card using the new All-in-one Octagon (51-816) and adhered a small panel of blended distress ink behind the ocatgon before adhering it to a square card base. I added the Ocatgon frame and brolly using foam tape before stamping a sentiment created from stamps from The Sweetest mini stamp set (30-294).

Finally I added a few butterflies from one of my favourite sets – Flourish and Butterflies (51-198).

I’m entering this into the March Flower Challenge where the theme is ‘Make a Square card’.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Nordic Tulip Wishes

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge where the colour palette is peach, sage green and cream.

I decided to showcase a couple of new die sets that I just bought – the Nordic Flower Pot and Stems set and the Nordic Pattern Rings set by Poppystamps. I coloured the stems and pots with distress ink (Bundled Sage and Antique Linen) and added some tulip toppers cut from older Memory Box sets and coloured with Dried Marigold distress ink.

I arranged the flower pots on the Nordic Pattern Rings and then added a sentiment from a Memory Box stamp set to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Aerial Beauty

Hi there!

This morning I received some beautiful products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their latest release, Scent of Spring.

My package had spent a frustrating week enjoying the hospitality of British customs at Heathrow, and so I could not wait to get crafty! The first products I reached for were the amazing Aerial butterfly stencils (25-024) and die (51-811). I cut the butterfly from white cardstock first before using the stencil set. I inlaid the die cut back into the card that I had cut it from and kept it in place using masking tape on the back and then simply laid the stencils on top. It worked well for me as it meant that I could balance the white edging on each wing.

Anyway, I used various distress inks on the wings and then added glitter around the edges of the wings – this is so sparkly in real life!

For the background, I used the pretty new All-in-one Oval (51-815). I blended more distress ink on my card base before adhering the Oval background panel and then Miss Aerial on top.

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from the Delightful Day set (30-955) and a few sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Lovely Lilac

Hello again!

Don’t you just love it when you get your hands on fabulous new goodies as soon as they are released? My order from Seven Hills Crafts arrived this morning and I could not wait to play with my new Greetery dies and stamps! So next  up today is my entry for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I really wanted to emphasise my focal point -a stem from the new Lilacs Botanicuts die set by The Greetery so for me the challenge with this sketch was incorporating the two strips on the sketch into my design without compromising that aim.

I ended up using lots of white on white. I cut a panel of card using a die from the Macrame Openwork Base Die Set (I cut it twice to extend the width of the die cutting) and adhered a strip that I had used with the Aida Cloth Texture die.

Finally I added a sentiment from the brand new All Occasions Script Sentiments set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.