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A festive colour challenge indeed

Happy Festive Friyay!

Today I’m playing along with the current colour challenge over at the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

And what a challenge it is! Yellow, orange and red! Typical autumn colours for LucieG! When I saw the combo, all I could think of was my Christmas in July 2022 failed card which used similar colours and which I repurposed into this autumnal card….. I was determined to make a Christmas card this time that I would not repurpose later!

After looking through my dies, I decided to use an older My Favorite Things die set of three stockings which I coloured using distress inks. It’s a simple die set of three stocking images but I wanted a little something extra, so I die cut them again from textured paper, trimmed sections and adhered to each stocking.

I added thin card strips to my card base and then adhered a Memory Box branch die cut. I hung the stockings from the branch and secured them with foam tape. Finally I added a sentiment from a My Favourite Stamps set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Perky Flower

Hi everyone!

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

I’m continuing to make my way through my ‘new stuff’ box and so after testing a few other dies I chose the Simon Says Stamp Perky Flower die set that I got in their Thanksgiving sale – so not super old!

I tried all sorts of things for the background strips – die cuts, inky strips… but in the end I chose this older Bubble Burst Memory Box die which I adhered on a card base that I’d painted light blue.

The sentiment is also by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Cabin Snowglobe

Happy Festive Friyay everyone!

It’s almost the big day and I just couldn’t resist playing along with this week’s 52 Christmas card challenge where the theme is snow globe.

I used the Poppystamps Cabin Snowglobe pop up easel die set for my take on the challenge theme. Unfortunately, a couple of the tree dies were missing from my set when I bought it but I used my brand new Layered Evergreen Trees die set by Memory Box instead. I coloured all my images with distress inks and the sentiment is also by Memory Box.

I’m also going to enter this into the Poppystamps Cool Yule challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

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.