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.
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LucieG
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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?
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LucieG.
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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.
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Welcome to Day 2 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024! Today I have one of those cards that is created for ‘November me’ (I hope!).
I thought that Creative Expressions ‘One Liner’ die cut collection was amazing – here’s a card I made with the tree from this collection. I was very excited to play with the One Liner Holly die that I also picked up in a sale earlier this year.
I wanted to let those bold lines shine so I decided that I wouldn’t include the centres of the leaves and berries. I coloured the image with alcohol markers and then adhered it to my card base. I added a thin frame from an Altenew die and a sentiment from a very old Hero Arts set.
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LucieG.
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There’s a really unique sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week! The team share amazing inspiration – it was quite difficult for me not to CASE a few of their brilliant ideas, but I really wanted to come up with something ‘different’.
In the end, I decided to make a graphic/deco design but as I was hunting for the deco stamp set that I wanted to form the basis of my design, I unearthed an old Altenew set called Be a Lighthouse…. and inspiration hit me! As a craft supplies hoarder curator, I knew I had some metal boats from back in the day when I used a lot of embellishments and thought that one of those would work perfectly in the centre of two stamped images. I was rather concerned that I wouldn’t be able to find them but can you believe that it only took me a few minutes? I usually spend longer looking on my table for a die I was just using!
Armed with my little boat and stamp set, I got crafty! I masked off a section of my card so that the rectangular sea stamp would appear more oval and I coloured the lighthouse image with my Twinkling H2O paints. I decided not to use a sentiment from the stamp set and instead used a small stamp from an older Simon Says Stamp set.
This ended up being SO different to what I had planned earlier today, but it was so much fun and BONUS – I used some very old supplies!
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of pink, mustard, rust and green – beautiful!
I decided that today was finally the day to break into my Altenew Leaf Mix die set. I fell in love with these dies when they were released back in the decade that was 2020. I couldn’t get hold of them until the following year, and then two autumns went by and the poor pretty set sat hidden and ignored in my ‘New Stuff’ box.
I created a few inky panels using my new Distress Mica Stains. I don’t have a pink spray (yet), but fortunately had a pink Nuvo shimmer spray which I managed to locate! I cut the panels with various dies from the set and arranged them on my card base. I felt that I needed something more so used a Spellbinders folder to dry emboss the background.
After adhering the leaves, I added a sentiment from an older Hero Arts set to complete my card.
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LucieG.
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