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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.

 

Made in May Card 3

Hello everyone!!

Today I’m playing along with the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Today I wanted to use a die set that I’ve had for over a year but never used – the Honey Bee Stamps Wagon Wheel. The wheel turned out to be much larger in real life than I was expecting and so I put it to one side and forgot about it. When I saw the sketch, I decided to see if I could make it work.

I chose a larger card size (just under 15cm x 15 cm) so I could still have a lot of that nice open space around the wheel. To ensure that the two background strips did not pull the eye away from my wheel, I used light ink blending and an Elizabeth Crafts border die cut from whit cardstock – so all the sketch elements are there!

I’ve had the Poppystamps cat die forever! It’s called Large Curious Cat and is dated 2013. I’m pretty sure I would have bought it as soon as it came out as I have a family of cat lovers so it would have had a lot of use back in the day! The Woodland Avery bird is by Flora and Fauna and I picked it up in a recent sale. Isn’t it cute!

The background embossing folder is by Stampin Up and the sentiment is by the Ton Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Pastel Always Smiling

Hello Everyone!

Last year I attended a few Pinkfresh Studio Create and Connect events and really enjoyed them. Since then I’ve been slowly growing my Pinkfresh collection and over Christmas, I picked up the beautiful Always Smiling stamp set and coordinating stencil and die sets.

The layered stencils mean that you can colour the image very quickly but of course I chose to do something different here! I loved how Raquel Arribas used different colours on different stencilled flowers so I had to try it! It was actually pretty straightforward and wasn’t as time consuming as I feared!

I used a sentiment from the set plus the largest dies from the Nested Elongated Ovals Blanket Stitched die set to create the frame. The base is the Honey Bee Stamps Dogwood Blooms 3D embossing folder.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 4

Hi everyone!

I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.

Today’s challenge is  a colour combo – red, yellow and blue. I always find it difficult to create with this combination, but this was a little easier as the blue was defined as ‘electric blue’ that looked closer to Tumbled Glass than a primary shade to my eye!

I used dies from Honey Bee Stamps’ Build a Snowman set, an October Afternoon background stamp and a favourite Ellen Hutson heart die.

The sentiment is by The Stamp Market.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Sweet Mr Snowman

Hi there!

Just popping in quickly to share my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. There are three overlapping circles this week – how could that not be a snowman?!

I used the Honey Bee Stamps Build a Snowman die set, together with some older patterned paper and a Nellie Snellen embossing folder for my entry.

The sentiment is by Pretty Pink Posh.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Another Bird Trio

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge .

I knew I wanted to use the cute Sizzix/Olivia Rose Painted Birds die set and used Craft Consortium paper to create a few birds. I then spent a LOT of time trying out different shapes to replicate the circles in the sketch. In the end, I used a foliage die from Honey Bee Studio.

The sentiment is by Woodware.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.