Marianne Designs

Egg Week 2025 Day 3

Hi there!

It’s Day 3 of LucieG’s Egg Week 2025! Today I decided to CASE a card I made back in February which coincidentally turned out to be my card for Day 3 of Heart Week 2025.

I used the same Impression Obsession heart die but this time I covered it with little eggs that I cut from Craft Consortium paper using a Marianne Designs mini die set.

I wish I could say this card was a quick make but alas I kept playing around with the order of the little eggs so it took far more time than expected!

The sentiment is from a set by Sugar Pea Designs.

I’m entering this into the CAS on Friday challenge where the theme is ‘Easter’.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 27

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 27 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today I have a fourfer to share. Fourfer… is that even a word?! Ah well you know what I mean!

The idea for the cards popped into my head last night when I was looking for base card for my pinecone sprig. I tried some Tonic Studio speciality paper – it wasn’t right but I vowed to use it today… well I certainly did that! The tree images are from a set by Marianne Designs that I got a few years ago. I think I can safely say that I really don’t need that coverplate/tree die set that I was thinking about at the start of the month!

 

For my first card, I cut some black card with the fabulous Heffydoodle background die and added a generous amount of ink splatters! After I had arranged all my trees, I used Scattered Straw distress stickles to ground my little forest.

For my second card I used an Alex Syberia background die. I toyed with adding a sentiment but decided to keep it very CAS!

For my third card, I embossed the background with a favourite Sizzix folder – I just love those little deep embossed trees.

And last, but not least is my fourth card – I used an older My Favorite Things sentiment die for this one- and some more gold splatters!

So which one do you prefer?

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 23

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 23 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

When it comes to festive feathered friends, I always gravitate towards the fabulous cardinal… but how can I neglect our humble robins!

I bought this cute Tiny’s Red Robin die set by Marianne Design last year but I never got round to using it. Well that changed today. It’s a brilliant layering die set – I particularly love how the lower body tucks under the wing and gives some great depth to the image!

After trying a few different foliage dies, I settled on using a couple of die sets by Waffle Flower – the Beaded Wreath die set and foliage from the Layered Winter Bird set. I love how JJ used woodgrain card for her wreath a while ago and just had to try it – fabulous texture!

The background is one of my favourite folders – Gemini’s Pinecone Plethora.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Layered Gliding Butterfly

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

So many lovely layers with this sketch – a fab challenge for me this week as I wanted to do something different for all those layers but also ensure nothing detracted from the focal point.

To start, I embossed some vellum with the Simon Says Stamp Blooming Field embossing folder. I then die cut a Marianne Designs background image and positioned it on top of the vellum. Finally I added a butterfly from the amazing Gliding Butterflies embossing folder and die set. To complete my card, I added a few gems.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 3 – 6 Days of Christmas Tags 2022

Hi everyone!

As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post. Unfortunately I only had time to make 6 tags this year.

Day 3’s inspiration is Day 14, 2012.

For my tag, I used a tag die by Marianne Designs plus a Sleigh die by My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Wildflower Bouquet

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the CAS on Friday challenge which has the theme of ‘flowers’!

I really love all the bouquet dies that are around at the moment and just bought one by Marianne Designs which I decided to use for my card today. I must say, it’s actually much bigger than I was expecting but that meant that I could use some of my larger flower dies with it! For this card I reached for the beautiful flowers that Memory Box released about a year ago (Daisy Stems, Wildflower Stems, Lavender Stems, Seed Stems and Daisy Silhouette), which I coloured with distress inks and coloured pencil.

I added some stickles to the flowers and a Hero Arts sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.