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Amazing Potted Shelves

Happy Saturday everyone!!

There’s quite a classic sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge but when I saw it I decide that I could actually use a new stamp and die set – the Mini Delight Potted Shelves stamp and die set.

I started by ink blending part of my card base and then stamped the shelf images using Distress Archival inks. I wish that the connectors had been a little longer so that I could stamp them from the top of the ink blending but I wanted to align the three shelves like the squares in the sketch so I decided I would use a die cut to anchor the top of the shelves.

I then had a lot of fun creating my little pots with Craft Consortium paper and also added a few Penny Black die cuts as well. Once I was happy with the images, I played around with various die cuts for the shelf anchors and ended up doing with The Stamp Market’s daisies cut from vellum.

To complete my card, I added a sentiment by The Greetery.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Heart Week 2025 – Day 7

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 7 of Heart Week 2025 and what a fun week it has been too – mixing very old and very new products to create some fun heart cards!

My heart card today is my entry for this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. I used products from MANY different companies for this card – the branch is by Poppystamps, the hearts are Penny Black and a very old Simon Says Stamp/Kelly Purkey collaboration and the die cut hangers are from a Waffle Flower Crafts Christmas ornament die set! I used an inky panel I’d created from some Distress Mica Stain Spray for the larger heart and then some Craft Consortium paper for the aqua hearts. The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 25

Hi everyone!

I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.

The theme of Day 25’s challenge is ‘forest friends’.

I was originally going to create a little die cut scene but as I’ve already used a die cut reindeer earlier in the challenge, I wanted to do something else. I spotted this beautiful Penny Black stamp in my wood-mounted stamp collection. Can you believe it’s from 2006?! It stamps beautifully with distress oxide inks, although this design is very forgiving anyway.

I kept my design very CAS, adhering the trimmed image to a fishtail die cut and adding a sentiment by Mama Elephant.

I’m also entering this into the November Woodblock Wednesday challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ghost Week – Day 3

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 3 of Ghost Week!

I had such fun creating this card… and a LOT less fun to photograph it!

The card base is this gorgeous patterned ombre mirror card that I picked up in a sale! I was so excited to use it and very pleased with how it turned out… until I came to photograph it. The lights in my photobox reflected badly and none of my cameras would take a true likening. So I had no choice but to wait for natural light. We have typical British grey autumn weather right now so even this was difficult and I did have to brighten the images I took but I got there in the end.

I used dies by many of my favourites – Penny Black, Tim Holtz/Sizzix, Poppystamps and Memory Box.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Deer shaker

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s  Freshly Made Sketches challenge using some products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their new release – Wishing You Joy – Christmas Round 2 plus some older products.

When I saw the beautiful Rural Winter stamp (40-944), I zeroed in on the cluster of trees to the right of the image and knew that there would be so many possibilities with just a section of the stamp, as well as creating a card with the full landscape. I stamped the trees using various distress inks and pens and added some glitter to the background. I then added the cute deer from the Together die set (51-069) which I cut from gold glitter card and reversed the image. I always find that glitter card is the most forgiving card when reversing die cuts. I layered the deer on a few die cuts as its legs are very delicate before adhering it to my stamped panel. I added my most-used star from the Christmas Wonderland die set (51-562).

To create the shaker frame I cut the middle-sized image from the wonderful new Whirl die set (51-827) several times and adhered them together – you could also use foam tape instead of all the layers of card if you prefer. I added some sequin stars to create my shaker card.

For the card base, I used the new Comfy embossing folder (65-023)

This shaker card was really difficult to photograph in my photo/lighting box so I had to get a bit creative but I think I got there in the end!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Beautiful berries

Hello there!

Today I’m using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their new Christmas release, Wishing You Joy – Christmas Round 2 plus some products from previous releases.

I love embossing folders and I was delighted to see that Penny Black has just launched some 3D folders, one of which is my focal point for my card today. I was absolutely amazed by the depth and detail of the Berries Abound folder (65-022) when I used it for the first time – it really is stunning! I cut it with the coordinating die (51-851) and coloured it using the 3 stencil set (25-026) and distress inks with detail blending brushes.

This is a large image (I’m using a UK A6 card size for reference here) and I tried it with a few different sized cards and layouts before choosing this one! I added the basket from last year’s Berry Basket set (51-796) coloured with distress inks plus greenery for the basket (Garden Edgers 51-549) and the Holly Days branch die (51-741) – cut from white glitter card.

I added a sentiment from the Meaningful stamp set (30-919) to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.