Leaf Bliss

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

The combo this week is mustard, orange, navy and aqua -perfect for autumnal cards.

I created an inky panel using Mustard Seed, Spiced Marigold and Crackling Campfire distress inks and then die cut it with the new Leaves Turn die set (51-788). These leaves are big so you don’t need many of them to make a statement! I created another panel from Salvaged Patina distress oxide ink and die cut that several times with the Winter’s Best berry stem die (51-791).

I heat embossed a beautiful sentiment from the Always Thankful set (30-932) – and managed to get spots of white embossing powder everywhere, despite using antistatic powder…

I then arranged all my die cuts – this always takes a bit longer than I expect, but I got there in the end!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

MFT Card Design Superstar Contest 2023

Hello dear friends!

I’ve toyed with entering the My Favorite Things Card Design Superstar contest for the past few weeks, but didn’t think I could come up with something that would use my MFT products in a unique and clever way. But this evening as I was playing with the Sunflower Wreath Die-namics set, an idea popped into my head and I decided to give it a go and enter the Clean & Simple category as that is my favourite style!

And here is my Christmas ornament made with non-festive dies! To start, I cut the wreath from the set and adhered it to a circle cut from navy card. Next I cut foliage images from the Farmhouse Foundations and Fab Foliage Die-namics sets, trimming the larger images a little.

After arranging the images on the die cut circle, I added a few birds from the Birdhouses set and some dots from the Sunflower Wreath set.

I adhered the bauble to my card base and added a sentiment from the Itty Bitty Holiday set to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

PS I’m not sure if I needed to share the contest graphic, but here it is just in case!

Sweet Mr Snowman

Hi there!

Just popping in quickly to share my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. There are three overlapping circles this week – how could that not be a snowman?!

I used the Honey Bee Stamps Build a Snowman die set, together with some older patterned paper and a Nellie Snellen embossing folder for my entry.

The sentiment is by Pretty Pink Posh.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Yellow Wispy Flowers

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of blue, navy and yellow.

Whenever I use my Birch Press Design’s Wispy Blooms Contour Layers die set, I always mention how much I coveted it when I first saw it. Sadly I don’t seem to play with it enough so I was very pleased to think of it today when I was planning this card. I coloured the images using distress inks and set to one side to work on my background. The blue frame is part of the Spellbinders Infinity Punch & Pierce plate die which I picked up in the early August sale. I also bought the Stylish Ovals which coordinate so nicely but they oversold on their sale stock so they refunded those sadly. It kind of put me off using the plate die, especially when I saw the die set was in stock at full price. I’m glad I finally got round to using it!

I applied some more distress ink to the edges of my card base to add more navy contrast to my card and adhered the frame. I then stencilled some glitter paste to the white background to add something a little extra! Once that was dry I adhered my blooms and added a die cut sentiment by The Ton.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas Card Throwdown – Fir branches

Happy Festive Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the current colour challenge over at the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black!

When I saw the combo, I thought the beautiful new Fir Branch brushstroke cling stamp (40-913) would be perfect with a blue smooshed ink background. After smooshing Tumble Glass distress ink for the background and stamping the image once, I did something different for me – I filled in a lot of that white space by stamping parts of the beautiful image several times!!

I used a sentiment from the Happy & Bright sentiment set (30-873) and a few sequins and gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ghost Kitty Wishes

Hi there!

After very hot weekend, I was finally able to craft in the late afternoon – sneaking in here just in time with my entry this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I stamped and embossed the cute kitty ghost from the Ghostly Greetings (30-594) set and added a touch of shimmer using my Twinkling H2O paints – so difficult to capture in a photo! I then used masking paper to mask him and a small circle before creating a Halloween sky with my distress oxide. I really wanted to create a luminescence around the moon and kitty image so I used a VERY light hand. This took a while to get right – I felt my first attempt (below) was a bit heavy!

I couldn’t believe that I don’t seem to have a Halloween strip sentiment in any of my Penny Black sets!! But that’s not a problem, because I have a few of the versatile ‘builder’ stamp sets and I was able to create this sentiment from the Happy Builder mini stamp set (30-973).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.