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Heart Week – Day 5

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 5 of Heart Week!

What happens when Heart Week and Festive Friday collide? Well, you get my heart card today for starters – and it’s my entry for the sketch challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

My focal point today is a pretty tree from the Simon Says Stamp Festive Trees set, coloured using my Twinkling H2O paints. I cut the hearts from the Bundled Hearts set by Memory Box and adhered all images to a card base that I’d sponged with Tumbled Glass distress ink. I also stencilled a few hearts using an older Simon Says Stamp stencil

To complete my card, I added stamped sentiment from a My Favorite Things set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heart Week – Day 4

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 4 of Heart Week!

My heart card today is my entry for the February challenge at The Flower Challenge where the theme is ‘add a heart’.

Today, I used the pretty, new to me Meadow blossom frame die and stencil set by Poppystamps – this was a joy to colour! I paired it with the Drifting Butterfly die and a sentiment by Memory Box.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heart Week – Day 1

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 1 of Heart Week!

My heart card today is my entry for this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

I chose Memory Box’s Banded Heart Locket die as my focal point. I don’t remember much about this die – which is really unusual for me – maybe I won it in a challenge… I don’t think I’ve ever used it before!

I cut it from some gold glitter paper and adhered some vellum behind it. I added a few hearts cut from a very old Simon Says Stamp/Kelly Purkey die set and a bow from the Memory Box Crisp Bows set for a subtle spot of colour.

The sentiment is from a Clearly Besotted set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Floral Bouquet Heart

Hi there!

I hereby declare this week Heart Week! I have so many neglected heart dies and stamps that I want to use so I’m going to try to create a card with a heart or two every day this week… we’ll see how that goes!

In the meantime, first up is my entry for the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fun palette of green, blue and kraft.

I used the beautiful Memory Box Floral Heart Bouquet die which I coloured with alcohol makers and coloured pencils. I added some foam tape to the top centre of the heart so that it has a little bit of dimension.

I added heart trim to the card base using a Sugar Pea Designs border die and a sentiment from a Spellbinders set.

To complete my card I added a few pearls.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Sparkly Snowfall

Hi again everyone!

Next up today is the card I made for the Memory Box Snowfall challenge.

I started by creating a blended panel using regular distress inks. I then cut the beautiful Silent Snowflake Frame die from glitter card and adhered to my card base. I cut the Alpine Snowflake from holographic card and adhered to the centre of the card.

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from an older set by The Ton Stamps and  a few gems.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Colourful Nordic Flourishes

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Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fun palette of red, navy and pink.

I have to confess that I spent some time today trying to come up with a design for these colours! In the end, I decided to use the Poppystamps Nordic Flourishes die set that I picked up just after Christmas.

I cut the dies from three different Craft Consortium papers and then spent far too long arranging the elements on my card base! I realised that I needed to work around my sentiment (Hello Cursive Script Circle by Memory Box) and it actually became much easier to get a layout once that was in place!

To complete my card I added a few pearls.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.