Amazing Potted Shelves

Happy Saturday everyone!!

There’s quite a classic sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge but when I saw it I decide that I could actually use a new stamp and die set – the Mini Delight Potted Shelves stamp and die set.

I started by ink blending part of my card base and then stamped the shelf images using Distress Archival inks. I wish that the connectors had been a little longer so that I could stamp them from the top of the ink blending but I wanted to align the three shelves like the squares in the sketch so I decided I would use a die cut to anchor the top of the shelves.

I then had a lot of fun creating my little pots with Craft Consortium paper and also added a few Penny Black die cuts as well. Once I was happy with the images, I played around with various die cuts for the shelf anchors and ended up doing with The Stamp Market’s daisies cut from vellum.

To complete my card, I added a sentiment by The Greetery.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Timeless Tulips

Hello everyone!!

I’m still playing with the Sunshine and Smiles release from Pinkfresh Studio that I won last month. I just love how easy it is to colour their beautiful images with the coordinating stencil sets! I coloured the Timeless Tulips image this weekend and decided it would work well with the sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

The image is large – maybe 10cms tall so I decided to use a larger card base – this is 7″x5″ (yes, you know I hate inches but the whole inches I can cope with, it’s when I have to deal with fractions of an inch that my metric head can’t cope!). For the background, I embossed a white panel with the Radiant Burst embossing folder by Spellbinders and adhered the tulip image.

The sentiment is from the Sunshine and Smiles sentiment set. I rarely stamp sentiments in coloured ink but the brown version of this sentiment got lost in the tulip stems so I stamped it with one of the Pinkfresh inks that I had used to colour the image – I much prefer how it turned out!

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LucieG

Garden Medley delight

Hello again!

Next up today is my entry into this fortnight’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of green, turquoise and orange.

I decided to use the stunning Pinkfresh Studio Garden Medley product suite which was part of the release that I won last month. When I watched the Sneak Peeks live, I ADORED the cards that Raquel made with this suite but felt that there was no way I could justify buying it because I don’t use background stamps enough. Well after winning it, you can guess that it was the first thing I inked up! It’s a true joy to colour with the stencils. In fact, I love using it so much, I ended up creating two cards with different shades of the combo.

Another member of the DT, Debby, shared an acetate card with this image and I had to give it a go! I love how they turned out, but they are so difficult to photograph! If you look at the first card, you can see that a square section has not been die cut – I thought I could use the reverse of this area for my message. I decided to try it without that square in the second image. I think I prefer it that way as you can see more acetate, although my message will be written in very small letters!

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LucieG.

Colourful block print radiant butterfly

Hello everyone!

First up today is my entry into this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

My focal point again today is the stunning Birch Press Design Block Print Radiant Butterfly die set – I first used it for this card that I made as soon as it arrived a couple of months ago! I don’t know about you, but I always feel pretty chuffed when I use new products a lot – or more than once at least!

This time I cut the fabulous bold butterfly from Spellbinders card and adhered it to an ink-blended background embossed with the Stampin’ Up Painted Posies folder.

The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.

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LucieG

You are Treasured

Hello everyone!!

Last month, I was lucky to win the entire Sunshine and Smiles release from Pinkfresh Studio. It was like Christmas when it landed on my doormat! I finally had time to play with some of the release on Saturday and made a card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I lightly blended some distress ink over some Craft Consortium patterned paper, cut it with the largest die from the Dotted Postage Square die set and adhered to my square card base. I then stamped and stencilled the branches and vases using the Keepsakes of the Heart product suite. the sentiment is from the same set.

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LucieG

Row of Poppies

Hello again!

I haven’t played along with the Color Throwdown challenge for a few weeks. I think I was better when it was a weekly challenge! Anyway, I just saw that Broni was stepping down from the team and I knew I had to play along for her last challenge. I’ve loved seeing Broni’s inspiration for each challenge – she came up with some amazing takes on the combos and has been so kind and supportive about my cards over the years. I remember when she asked me to be a guest designer for a month – I was so honoured! The Color Throwdown is a challenge that I have always wanted to provide inspiration for! So thank you Broni for all your kindness over this years – your local community and church are lucky to have you! I hope you still continue to make and share your cards from time to time!

Onto my card. The combo is quite retro – aqua, grey and red so I was tempted to create a retro design… In the end, I opted for a classic floral card using a beautiful Memory Box die that I’ve had for a long while.

The sentiment is by Pinkfresh Studio.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.