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Piped Floral Lace Hello

Hello everyone!!

Between Christmas and the New Year, I started to tidy/reorganise my craft room and was a little taken aback by the amount of new/little used products I unearthed! I have promised myself that I will use them this year. Now this doesn’t mean I won’t be buying any more goodies (I’m only human after all…. and already have an order en route), but I will be mindful about using newer stuff more frequently and more than once!

I also want to send more cards this year. I have realised that I don’t send a lot of my creations – I prefer to make something as and when for my recipients. The only exception is Christmas in July, although I do craft with ‘categories’ of recipients in mind in that month for instance CAS admirers or those who don’t celebrate Christmas. Last July, I was also careful about the thickness of the cards I created as there’s a restriction for a standard card. So this year I will actively create with my existing goodies AND make Royal Mail-friendly creations…. AND get them in the post from time to time!

And so here we are today with the newest arrival in my craft room aka The Most Beautiful Embossing Folder Ever! This is the Altenew Piped Floral Lace 3D folder and I LOVE it! Just look at the incredible detail! It was VERY difficult to find a suitable die cut to add to this – in the end I cut some vellum with an older Honey Bee Studio die and added the Simon Says Stamp Giggle Hello die plus some pearls.

Technically this should be Royal Mail-friendly card but given the state of the cards that landed on my mat this Christmas (almost every single jewel ended up being exposed) – I would definitely add a piece of card to protect it… which probably pushes it beyond the standard postage limits.

I have ideas for making a more postage friendly card with this folder though…more of that later this month!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

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

Made in May Card 8

Hello everyone!!

I really enjoyed making today’s card – very CAS but with lots of die cut elements – so much fun!

The elongated oval die cut was embossed using the Spellbinders/Simon Hurley Plaster embossing folder which has such amazing texture! The stem dies are by Spellbinders and I completed by card with a little glittery bow by The Greetery.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 16

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 16 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today I have another twofer to share.

Today’s focal point is the Wide Pine Needle Shoots die set by Poppystamps – I’ve already used it once this month, but I had a few more ideas for it!  I cut it from dark green card and glitter card and got busy!

For my first card, I cut some green card with an Alex Syberia background die. I adhered my tree to a tag cut from an Altenew die and added a silver bow and die cut star before affixing it to my card base.

For my second card, I embossed the background with a Spellbinders folder and adhered my tree with another little die cut star. The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts wood-mounted set.

So which one do you prefer?

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 7

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 7 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024.

I chose a fun snowman from a Simply Graphic die set for my focal point today…. and then spent AGES searching for a background stamp that I couldn’t find…. maybe I don’t have it after all… but the upside was that I found some supplies that I’d completely forgotten about and they will soon be making an appearance on a card.

In the end I chose a circle stamp from an older Altenew set for the background.

To complete my card, I added a Mama Elephant sentiment and some stickles.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.