Expressive

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown challenge where the colour combo is red, blue, brown and white.

I have been wanting to play with the beautiful Expressive cling stamp (40-897) that Penny Black kindly sent me and this challenge provided the perfect opportunity! I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and then masked it off so that I could sponge a distress ink background.

The sentiment is from the Trust Me Builder set (30-710).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Big Flowery Butterfly card

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown challenge. When I saw the combo, I felt I had used it very recently so I had a look back at my archives and found this card and this one. I guess 2021 is quite some time ago now! Still, I wanted to do something different this time so I turned to the new-to-me Butterfly Card Creator die set by Spellbinders! I was inspired by this card by Yana Smakula to dig through my other Spellbinders die sets and use flowers and foliage from those sets rather than the ones that came in the Creator die set.

It took me far longer than it should have to arrange all the images but this was such fun to make! The sentiment is by My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Warm Happy Thoughts

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge using products kindly sent me by Penny Black.

I started by using the Butterfly Heart Pop Out die (51-291) to cut some white card. I popped up the butterfly wings and adhered it to my card base.  I then cut the Finesse die (51-679) and coloured it with my regular distress inks and a little coloured pencil before adhering it on top of the heart.

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from the Happy Builder mini stamp set (30-973).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hollyhock Heaven

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m using more products that Penny Black’s kindly sent me from their recent Hello Sunshine release. For this card, I usedAntique Linen distress ink to stamp the beautiful Hollyhock Heaven cling stamp (40-824) on some watercolour cardstock and coloured it using my Twinkling H2O paints. Once the paint was dry, I stamped the image again as I felt that some of the leaves needed a little more definition. I wish I could capture the shimmer on my photo!

To complete the card, I added a sentiment from the Happy Builder mini stamp set (30-973).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Another Bird Trio

Happy Sunday everyone!

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

I knew I wanted to use the cute Sizzix/Olivia Rose Painted Birds die set and used Craft Consortium paper to create a few birds. I then spent a LOT of time trying out different shapes to replicate the circles in the sketch. In the end, I used a foliage die from Honey Bee Studio.

The sentiment is by Woodware.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hello Lovely Singing Birds

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown challenge which has a really interesting combo of orange, aqua, lilac and black.

I decided to use another bargain die set from Spellbinders’ recent Warehouse Clearance – I’ve had my eye on the Build a Winter Birdhouse for some time so I was very excited to snap it up! I added birds from another new-to-me set, Birds of a Feather by My Favorite Things. I loved this card that Laura Dovalo created using this set so I added vellum wings to my birds, just like she did!

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.