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Christmas in July 2024 – Day 12

Hello everyone!

It’s Festive Friday and Day 12 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

While I was hunting for a stamp that I don’t think I own last weekend, I unearthed a few festive treasures that I HAVE to use! First up is this Hero Arts/Sizzix Trees background stamp/embossing folder set. The packaging says 2011 and I can’t remember when I last used it… Quite honestly I had forgotten all about it!

I stamped it onto some pale blue card and waited for the ink to dry before dry embossing it. I knew I wanted to use this bold merry stamp as well, but it took FOREVER (and many, many , many glittery die cuts) until I embellished it with silver thread. Sometimes the simplest card takes the longest, eh!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Bestest Folk Animals

Hello everyone!

There’s a super sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge – I love that it was a landscape design so I was determined to maintain the orientation, although I did tweak it a bit…

I wanted to use the Hero Arts Folk Animals stamp set from the April 2024 Add-Ons release. However, I wanted the fox to look towards the bird so that meant I needed to flip the sketch so that the  vertical strip was towards the right.

The sentiment is from an older Reverse Confetti set.

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LucieG.

Colourful Folk Art

Happy Saturday everyone!

After clearing up last night’s craftermath, I decided to make a card for this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a bright combo of yellow, orange and fuschia.

A dear crafty friend kindly gifted me products from the April 2024 My Monthly Hero Add-ons. It’s been a while since I had some new Hero Arts goodies to play with and Hero Arts will always hold a special place in my heart as I spent many a happy Saturday at the Craft Barn in Lingfield making cards with their wood mounted stamps back in the day!

I pulled out the fabulous Colour Layering Folk Art stencils set and got to work. I loved how Nichol Spohr used Distress Oxides with this set and I followed her technique of adding a layer of white ink before applying Distress Oxides (Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marigold, Carved Pumpkin, Scattered Straw and Mustard Seed).

To complete my card I added a few orange enamel dots and a sentiment from the Folk Animals stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

World of Thanks

Hi there!

Next up today is my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I struggled a bit with my original plan for this sketch so started over! I was so happy when I found my bargain Hero Arts Beautiful World stamp set that I bought over the summer but hadn’t yet used.

I coloured the image using my Twinkling H2Os and fussy cut it. I made a small cut into the image so that the flower cluster would sit on top of the sentiment strip (from the same Hero Arts set)

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Woodblock Wednesday: Silly Pup

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along with Amy Tsuruta’s Woodblock Wednesday challenge which is a monthly challenge celebrating our fabulous wood-mounted stamps. If you’ve read my blog for a while, you know I love my old wood-mounted stamps and could never part with them! Back in 2019 I even challenged myself to use them for the duration of a couple of the Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge – you can read about that here and here.

I saw a post about the challenge by Lin on instagram today and knew I had to play along. I love seeing how some cardmakers use their older stamps with newer products and I decided to do the same for my card! I chose the fabulous Silly Pup by Hero Arts. This stamp is dated 2006… Seriously, how can this be 17 years old?? I remember buying him – I generally buy cat stamps as I’m surrounded by cat lovers and so it was a Big Deal for me to buy a puppy stamp. But look at his spots!!! How could I not get him?!

I stamped and fussy cut him before adding coloured spots with my Twinkling H2O paints. I stamped his head a second time and adhered that to his body some foam tape – I did toy with using an action wobbler which would have been quite fun!

For my background, I dug into my newer supplies – the Birch Press Design String Art Frame die. The sentiment is also newer – by My Favorite Things.

Amy also said she wanted to know how we store our wood-mounted stamps. I store mine in A4+ Tuff boxes which I keep in my craftroom cupboards. I’ve taken photos of each Tuff box and indexed them so I know the exact location (cupboard/shelf). When I want to use a wood-mounted stamp, I look through my photos and can locate my stamp very quickly. I’ve had this system in place for YEARS and it works really well for me. Wish I could be that organised with my clear stamps and dies!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

 

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 28

Happy Friyay everyone!

Welcome to Day 28 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this fortnight’s CAS Colours and Sketches sketch challenge finally using a stamp with a story….

Back in 2011, I saw this fun stamp and cut reindeer set by Hero Arts and really wanted it but I had just bought another fabulous Hero Arts deer set which was quite similar and I couldn’t justify buying this one. I spotted it in a sale at one of my local craft stores (ah those halcyon days of bricks and mortar stores!!) a year or so later, but for some reason I didn’t pick it up….

Over the years I thought about it and checked Ebay every now and then….. and then two years ago a set popped up! My offer wasn’t accepted so I forgot about it again until last December when I saw it on Ebay and this time my offer was accepted! Yay! I’m not sure why it has sat unused since then, but hey, I waited 12 years for it, what’s a few more months?!

The sentiment is from a Penny Black set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.