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Butterfly smiles across the miles

Hello everyone!

I’ve created a card for two of my favourite challenges today – Freshly Made Sketches and the Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of green, orange and blue.

Lots of different techniques and manufacturers for this one! A background panel embossed with a Simon Says Stamp folder, Craft Consortium paper cut with the Altenew Fine Frames Circles die and Memory Box’s Beloved Snowflakes die, an ink blended butterfly created with my favourite Memory Box butterfly (Vine Butterfly) and finally a Mama Elephant sentiment. It didn’t take too long to create as each of the techniques is pretty quick!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Corner Butterflies

Happy Saturday everyone!

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

I originally planned to use a leafy corner die for my take on the challenge – but then I decided to go with a couple of Memory Box butterflies instead! I used the Drifting Side Butterfly and the smaller Flitter Side Butterfly cut from Craft Consortium paper and white glitter card. I lightly applied Salvaged Patina distress ink to ground the butterflies but felt the card still need a little something so I embossed the background using the Spellbinders Flower Frenzy embossing folder.

The sentiment is by Concord & 9th.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas Card Throwdown – Guest Spot

Hello everyone!

I’m honoured to be the Guest Designer for the current sketch challenge over at the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

I was originally planning to use a stamped image for this card, but then I decided that the background would make the perfect backdrop for a little scene with an ombre sky!

I used Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean distress inks for the sky and added lots of glitter for the snow. For the image, I cut the Marvellous Pine die by Memory Box from regular white and white glitter card.  After colouring the regular white die cut with distress inks, I adhered it on top of the white glitter tree, slightly offsetting it to give the illusion of snow. To complete the image, I added a little die cut bird.

The sentiment is from a Penny Black set.

The Design Team have some amazing inspiration over on the challenge blog – you must check it out! Hope you can play along with the challenge!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 16

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 16 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I used a few older Memory Box dies for this card – the Scribble Snowman Background and Outline dies plus the Wintry Snowflake Bundle. I realised that rarely use the snowman even though he is very cute… I think it’s because the outline doesn’t fit on his base completely… I know it’s arty, but… well, I suspect I would use it more if the scribble head fit the base! Anyway, I cut the snowman background from some Tonic Specialty paper – I really like the texture on this… I must use it more often!

For the strip, I used the pretty Pinpoints Starlets embossing folder by Simon Says Stamp to emboss some vellum.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 15

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 15 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Color Throwdown challenge.

This week’s combo is aqua, kraft, gold and cream. I just love the inspiration pic and toyed with bringing in mid-century modern elements, but I really wanted to use the Sizzix Honeycomb Frenzy embossing folder that Broni used on one of her DT cards a few months ago – I rushed online and found said folder which arrived promptly but remained untouched!

So I started with a piece of embossed gold mirror cardstock and went from there. I chose the Snowflake Sprig by Memory Box and the Simon Says Stamp Alicia snowflake plus a My Favorite Things sentiment. I still felt the card needed a little something more so I added a few snowflakes from a Lawn Fawn set and LOTS of shimmery paint splatters!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 6

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 6 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

Today’s card ended up being quite stressful! I had been working on a completely different card, but I realised mid-evening that I really needed more time to play around with it…. but I still needed a card for Day 6…. argh!

In the end I went for this very quick and simple card using two very old Addison Ornament dies by Memory Box and an embossing folder by Spellbinders.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.