Warmest wishes flourish

 

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone!

As I get back into a cardmaking routine, I knew I wanted to make time to play along with the 500th challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches. Congrats to the team for such an amazing milestone – and thank you to the various DT members for a decade of inspiration, encouragement and support!

We could choose any past challenge and add a seasonal twist. So, I made a wintery card with the sketch from Challenge Number 497!

First of all, I applied some distress collage medium to my card base and then added several different glitters. While that dried, I cut the beautiful Elegant Snowflake Flourish die by Memory Box from glitter card and white card and stuck the layers together. Once the glitter background was dry, I adhered the die cut to my card base and added a sentiment by My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Saltwater Berries

Hello there everyone!

Life got pretty busy towards the end of this year and I totally missed all the last posting deadlines. I saw all the mountains of mail outside the Royal Mail sorting office and decided that there was no way that any of my cards would make it through before mid January! And who wants to receive a Christmas card then? So instead I will be sending winter cards out in January! And so begins an epic winter cardmaking project!!

I’m also going to use this project to get to grips with my new lighting tent. I realised that I was spending far to long photographing my cards so I have invested in a small lighting tent and used it for the first time today. It seemed easier than my old set up and I’m looking forward to practicing with it over the next few months!

Anyway, for today’s CAS winter card, I used products kindly sent to me by Penny Black. I pulled out the beautiful Berry Bouquet brushstroke cling stamp (40-860) and some Arteza markers and distress inks. I was originally going to colour the berries different shades of red, but I liked my base colour (Saltwater Taffy) and abandoned the other colours! I did add some Stickles to random berries though!

I grounded the image by lightly sponging some Antique Linen behind the image and added a few aqua paint splatters. Finally I stamped a sentiment from the When Snow Falls set (30-881).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 6 – 6 Days of Christmas Tags 2022

 

Hi everyone!

As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post. Unfortunately I only had time to make six tags this year.

Day 6’s inspiration is Day 23, 2016.

For my take on the wreath tag, I used some die sets kindly sent to me by Penny Black – the Jumbo Bauble set (51-743), part of the big holly stem in the Holly-Days set (51-741), and sprigs from Stocking Stuffers (51-747) and Joy of Giving (51-748). The sentiment is from the Merry Edger set (51-745).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 5 – 6 Days of Christmas Tags 2022

 

Hi everyone!

As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post. Unfortunately I only had time to make six tags this year.

Day 5’s inspiration is Day 17, 2018. Click here to see the tag I made then!

I had so much fun with this tag! I chose a circle die from Simon Says Stamp and images by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 4 – 6 Days of Christmas Tags 2022

 

Hi everyone!

As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post. Unfortunately I only had time to make six tags this year.

Day 4’s inspiration is Day 13, 2019. Click here to see the tag I made in 2019!

After creating a tag with a sleigh yesterday, I thought it was so funny to have another sleigh tag today. For my super simple take, I chose a stamp from a very old Stampin Up set (Sleigh Full of Toys) which I coloured with my Twinkling H2O paints.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 3 – 6 Days of Christmas Tags 2022

Hi everyone!

As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post. Unfortunately I only had time to make 6 tags this year.

Day 3’s inspiration is Day 14, 2012.

For my tag, I used a tag die by Marianne Designs plus a Sleigh die by My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.