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Little Cotton Tails

Hello everyone!

Next up today is my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I knew I wanted to use the sweet Oh Bunny set by Simon Says Stamp for my take and I love Lisa Addesa’s clever card using this set so decided to incorporate her inspiration into my take on the sketch.

I used a couple of dies from the My Favorite Things Stitched Domes STAX die set to cut a window in my card base and a separate base for my bunny scene. I blended distress ink over the larger dome and then stamped, cut and coloured the largest bunny image from the stamp set.

I blended various green distress inks on a panel of white card which I then cut using a couple of Lawn Fawn grass dies. I then adhered the grass die cuts to the outside of the card and the bunny scene to the inside of my card. I adhere some white mini pompoms to each bunny.

To complete my card, I added a Memory Box sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

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.

Iconic Winter Countryside

Happy Festive Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the theme challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge.

The theme is ‘Winter Countryside’ but instead of reaching for my dies, I pulled out the Iconic Christmas stamp and die set from My Favorite Things. I bought this as soon as it was released a few years ago, but for some reason I don’t think I ever inked it up. Today was the day!

I adhered my little winter scene to a base that I had embossed with my newish Nellie Snellen Christmas Tree embossing folder and added a sentiment by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

MFT Card Design Superstar Contest 2023

Hello dear friends!

I’ve toyed with entering the My Favorite Things Card Design Superstar contest for the past few weeks, but didn’t think I could come up with something that would  use my MFT products in a unique and clever way. But this evening as I was playing with the Sunflower Wreath Die-namics set, an idea popped into my head and I decided to give it a go and enter the Clean & Simple category as that is my favourite style!

And here is my Christmas ornament made with non-festive dies! To start, I cut the wreath from the set and adhered it to a circle cut from navy card. Next I cut foliage images from the Farmhouse Foundations and Fab Foliage Die-namics sets, trimming the larger images a little.

After arranging the images on the die cut circle, I added a few birds from the Birdhouses set and some dots from the Sunflower Wreath set.

I adhered the bauble to my card base and added a sentiment from the Itty Bitty Holiday set to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

PS I’m not sure if I needed to share the contest graphic, but here it is just in case!

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 24

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 24 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Just Us Girls CAS challenge.

The challenge theme is ‘three of something’ and so it seemed like the perfect opportunity for me to use my Simply Graphic die set called Gang des peres de noel! I had such fun putting these together!

I cut the windows with an older My Favorite Things die and adhered it to my card base before adding the die cuts. The sentiment is by Creative Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hello Lovely Singing Birds

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown challenge which has a really interesting combo of orange, aqua, lilac and black.

I decided to use another bargain die set from Spellbinders’ recent Warehouse Clearance – I’ve had my eye on the Build a Winter Birdhouse for some time so I was very excited to snap it up! I added birds from another new-to-me set, Birds of a Feather by My Favorite Things. I loved this card that Laura Dovalo created using this set so I added vellum wings to my birds, just like she did!

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.