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Embracing Green

Hello Everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the ‘Can You Handle the Pressure‘ challenge where the twist is green. Have I mentioned how much I love this challenge! It’s fabulous to actually use my collection of embossing folders!

As Easter is fast approaching, I decided to incorporate that into my card. I chose the Pebble embossing folder by Carabelle Studio because I always think it looks like eggs! (On that note, why are there NO Easter embossing folders??? I tried to get one that Darice made a few years ago but apart from that I don’t think I have seen any others… quite odd really!).

I decided to incorporate green by adding foliage to a die cut egg. However, after I had die cut the My Favorite Things Fab Foliage dies, I decided to switch things up a bit! I die cut an egg which I then coloured green with my Distress Oxide inks and then adhered the white die cuts!

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LucieG.

Vintage Eggs

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the ‘Choose Two’ challenge at Just Add Ink.

The choices were flower, paper and/or pattern and I decided to use some of my patterned paper mountain – so I went for the second two of the trio, although you could say I also chose flowers as one of the papers includes flowers!

I was inspired by a CAS card that Fraeulein.diy shared last year on Instagram and pulled out some pretty papers from Basic Grey’s Lucille collection. I used Memory Box dies to cut the paper eggs and then threaded some thin twine before adhering the eggs to the card base. Finally I stamped a Memory Box sentiment to complete my CAS card.

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LucieG.

Easter Bunny in Foliage

Happy Saturday!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a palette of sage green, purple and cream.

After overthinking my card for this challenge last week, I found this one MUCH easier! Flora and Faura shared their cute bunny die on Instagram earlier this week and I knew that I just had to use him again so that was my starting point! I paired him with a Poppystamps egg frame, Altenew foliage and a few Spellbinders flowers coloured with distress inks! Plus a sentiment from Taylored Expressions! Lots of different brands here! It was so much fun to make!

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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.

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LucieG.

Butterfly Stem

Happy Saturday!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a palette of orange, green and tan.

I may have over thought the palette here and ended up learning all about different shades of tan online! In the end, I tried to match the colour in the inspiration picture and cut some patterned paper with a Greetery die for the background panel.

Anyway, I used an older Memory Box die, the Rylan Butterfly Stem, which is dated 2016 but I thought it was a bit older than that! I coloured it with distress inks and added some orange butterflies from Memory Box’s Butterfly Ensemble and inlaid them in the stem – they don’t fill the space completely, but I think they are a pretty good match!

The sentiment is by Sugar Pea Designs.

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LucieG.

Catalina Wreath

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the colour challenge at the Just Us Girls challenge. The colour palette is ivory, soft rose and sage green – totally the colours I love to work with!

I decided to use an older Memory Box die, the beautiful Catalina Wreath, which is from 2011! It actually belongs to my mum but has lived in my collection for a while as she has taken a break from cardmaking. I coloured it with distress oxide inks and added a few white Nuvo drops. I stencilled some Nuvo glitter paste onto a piece of ivory card and then adhered the wreath and added a Creative Expressions sentiment to complete my take.

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LucieG.