Color Throwdown Artsy Leaves

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown which has a colourful combo of green, yellow, red and white.

I managed to pick up the Tim Holtz/Sizzix Artsy Leaves die set last weekend – they arrived quickly and I have been looking forward to using a few of them – today was the day!

I cut them from some Craft Consortium paper and white glitter card before adhering them to my card base that I’d also covered with patterned paper.

The sentiment is by Penny Black.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Corner Butterflies

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I originally planned to use a leafy corner die for my take on the challenge – but then I decided to go with a couple of Memory Box butterflies instead! I used the Drifting Side Butterfly and the smaller Flitter Side Butterfly cut from Craft Consortium paper and white glitter card. I lightly applied Salvaged Patina distress ink to ground the butterflies but felt the card still need a little something so I embossed the background using the Spellbinders Flower Frenzy embossing folder.

The sentiment is by Concord & 9th.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas Card Throwdown – Guest Spot

Hello everyone!

I’m honoured to be the Guest Designer for the current sketch challenge over at the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

I was originally planning to use a stamped image for this card, but then I decided that the background would make the perfect backdrop for a little scene with an ombre sky!

I used Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean distress inks for the sky and added lots of glitter for the snow. For the image, I cut the Marvellous Pine die by Memory Box from regular white and white glitter card.  After colouring the regular white die cut with distress inks, I adhered it on top of the white glitter tree, slightly offsetting it to give the illusion of snow. To complete the image, I added a little die cut bird.

The sentiment is from a Penny Black set.

The Design Team have some amazing inspiration over on the challenge blog – you must check it out! Hope you can play along with the challenge!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

LucieG Christmas in July 2023 Challenge

Hi everyone!

Once again, I really enjoyed devoting a whole month to Christmas cards, although at times it was difficult to carve out time to craft every day.

Like previous years, I generally ‘shopped my stash’ to create my cards and I really enjoyed reliving some fun memories as I used some older supplies.

Thanks to everyone who followed along and shared kind comments with me – I really appreciate all of you!

Have a great day!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Bonus Day

Hello All!

I can’t believe Christmas in July is over!  I have really enjoyed this annual challenge, even if it was a struggle at times to craft every day!

In addition to cardmaking, I also decided to try my hand at cross stitch. It’s been years since I’ve done any sort of needlecraft but I found such a cute little reindeer kit in my local sewing store that I decided to give it a go.

I have to confess, it wasn’t a soothing make – stitching on navy cloth was hard on my eyes!! I had to undo a fair few stitches and ran out of red thread as a result, but fortunately I had another colour that worked well! I’m still quite tempted to try another kit – on white cloth this time! May leave it a few more months though!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 31

Hello there!

Welcome to Day 31 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

I received a nice crafty order this morning that included the fabulous Encircle embossing folder (65-009) and I could not wait to play with it! Such a unique folder – I love how the little dots within the circle are irregular!

After embossing a square panel, I added some stickles to dots at random. While that was drying, I cut the trunks from the Modern Christmas Tree die set (51-400) from various glitter card and arranged them on my card, trimming them down to add a little variety.

The sentiment is from the Meaningful stamp set (30-919)*.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

* Kindly sent to me by Penny Black