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Christmas in July 2024 – Day 5

Happy Festive Friday everyone!

Welcome to Day 5 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today I’m playing along with the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown’s technique challenge using stamps kindly sent to me by Penny Back.

When I saw that the challenge was to colour an image, I knew I had to build on my watercolouring practice! I used distress inks and my Twinkling H2Os to colour the beautiful Bulb Basket cling stamp (40-859). I really enjoyed colouring this… and I’m so pleased to have rediscovered my joy of colouring!

As I wanted to use a UK A6 card base, I fussy cut around a section of the image to free up more space to the right of my card base. The sentiment is from a set called Meaningful (30-919).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

All Smiles 2024

Hello everyone!

Today I’m sharing cards I made with some products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their new All Smiles release. This is a truly gorgeous release with some amazing stamps and dies. I was very excited to play with the teacups and flowers stamp sets – although I have to confess that I was a little apprehensive about colouring the larger images. But having spent a lovely morning with my paint brush, I think I had just fallen out of practice with water colouring! Before I started, I decided that I wouldn’t put any pressure on myself to create a specific card and would just practice with my different watercolours, card panels and paint brushes. It was such a relaxing time and I surprised myself with some images that I felt comfortable including on a card. So if you’re feeling like me, just focus on enjoying the colouring process and you may surprise yourself!

So onto the cards! First up is a card using a cup from the Brew-tea-full stamp set (31-063), cut with the Brew-tea-full Cut Out co-ordinating die (51-823) and coloured with a liquid watercolour. I love all the blooms in both flower sets that are in this release but in the end I chose to use the daisies from the Blooms stamp set (31-064) that I had coloured with a distress reinker. I cut the image with the Blooms Cut Out coordinating die set (51-824).

For the background, I embossed a panel of coloured card using the Rounded embossing folder (65-016), adhered it to a card base cut from the same colour card. Once I adhered the images, I felt it needed a little something extra so I added a branch, Airy (51-423), cut from glitter card and a small strip of green to ground the cup.

My second card also uses a cup from the Brew-tea-full stamp set (31-063), cut with the co-ordinating die (51-823) and coloured with a distress reinker. This time I wanted to do something a bit different, so used a Penny Black stamp from a few years ago as my inspiration – the stamp is called Sweet Sip (30-905) you can see the card I made with that fabulous image here.

I chose a kitty from the fun Fancy Cat dies set (51-347) and the gorgeous Dignified die (51-821) and coloured them with distress inks. I blended some Tumbled Glass distress ink on my card base and adhered the elements – I ended up separating the leafy branches when arranging the elements in my teacup. I added a leafy border from the Garden Edgers die set (51-549) to ground the teacup plus a sentiment from the Love & Light mini stamp set (31-037) and some stickles and sequins!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Thanks a bunch

Hi everyone!

Today I’m using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black for my card for the Just Us Girls colour challenge and the 700th challenge over at Just Add Ink where the theme is ‘just add shimmer or shine’. Congrats to the JAI team for that amazing milestone and thank you for all your inspiration and support over the years!

After all my problems photographing my last grey card, I decided that I would not be using grey card for my base this time! Instead I blended some Hickory Smoke distress ink across my white card base before applying parts of the Shimmering Tune Stick & Shine Sheet (15-005) and covering it with foil from the Metallics foils set (21-001).  Next I cut a tag from the Tagged die set (51-007) which I covered with Dried Marigold distress ink. I then cut and coloured three of the fabulous Flower Family dies (51-819) and arranged them on my tag. I added a small butterfly from the Flights of Fancy die set (51-132) to a small circle from the Encircled die set (51-074).

After working out where I was going to position my die cuts, I stamped a sentiment from the So Thankful set (30-914) and then adhered all my images using foam tape before adding a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Just by being you

Hi everyone!

Next up today is the card I made for the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

First of all, I cut the new Layered Bloom die (51-818) and Whisper die (51-737) and coloured them with distress inks before trimming the Whisper stem die and arranging the layered bloom on top. I then cut the fabulous YOU die (51-760) from some pink and white card, layered them together and adhered it to my card base. I stamped part of a sentiment from the Brighten The World stamp set (31-056) and tucked in the die cut stem.

I added a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Shining Wings dies 2024

Hello everyone!

Today I’m sharing cards I made with some dies kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their new Shining Wings release. This is such a beautiful release with so many products that I was excited to create with.

My first card showcases the stunning Ascending die (51-820) which is probably my favourite Penny Black foliage die! I used a stencil from the Background Basics set (25-021) and blended some distress ink on my card base. I coloured the Ascending die cut with distress inks and arranged it on my card, leaving room for a foiled sentiment from the new Shining Wishes Stick & Shine Sheet (15-017) which I covered with foil from the new Blooming foils set (21-003). I also applied some foil to a small piece of card for the bow from the Jumbo Bauble die set (51-743) and centres for my vellum flowers, which are cut with dies from a new-to-me set, Flourish (51-421).

 

I then turned my attention to the elegant Dignified die (51-821) which I coloured with distress inks. The background panel was cut using the largest die from the Dainty Dashes Stackers die set (51-636) which I adhered to a green card base. After masking off the frame, I blended a little distress ink over the centre of my white panel. I applied two butterflies from the from the new Shining Wings Stick & Shine Sheet (15-015) to a piece of card, added foil from the new Blooming foils set (21-003), fussy cut and adhered them to my card. I was so excited to see more of these beautiful butterflies as I use the ‘original’ die ALL the time – it’s from the classic Flourish and Butterflies set (51-198), and of course a die cut makes an appearance here – cut from vellum! The sentiment is from the new Brighten the World stamp set (31-056).

 

As soon as I saw the release, I was drawn to the pretty Flower Family die set (51-819). I am CONVINCED that this mirrors a wood-mounted stamp but I can’t find it in my (rather extensive) wood-mounted stamp collection or online! Anyway, this super simple card came together really quickly! I coloured the centres with different distress inks and added some gems. I blended some Black Soot and Chipped Sapphire distress ink across the bottom of a navy card panel and adhered the flowers.  I then chose a sentiment from the new Shining Wishes Stick & Shine Sheet (15-017) which I covered with foil from the Metallics foils set (21-001). To complete my card, I added a thin strip of silver card to anchor my flower family. Click here to see another card that I made with this die set.

 

Next up is my card using the bold Layered Bloom die set (51-818). I coloured it with distress inks and added it to a base that I had embossed with the Noted embossing folder (65-005).  The sentiment is from the new Shining Wishes Stick & Shine Sheet (15-017) and the foil is from the new Blooming foils set (21-003). Click here to see another card I made with this die set.

 

 

 

Last but definitely not least is my card using the gorgeous Refresh die set (51-817). I love this set of three big statement blooms – I’ve already planned more cards with it!! For this card, I tucked the flowers into windows in a panel cut using the Slimline Medley die set (51-718) and added a sentiment from the Trust Me builder stamp set (30-7100).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Note of encouragement

Hi again!

Next up today is another card created with products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their new Scent of Spring release.

I have been wanting to try out the new-to-me dry embossing/colouring technique that I saw Cindy (@crncards) demonstrate over on Instagram.

After dry embossing the image, you colour the debossed images and then swipe an ink pad over the whole panel. In theory, this should result in coloured images against an inked background….

For my first attempt, I decided to start with an easy take on the technique! I embossed a panel of gold card with one of my favourite embossing folders – Dots and Dashes (65-020) and then rubbed my Broken China Distress Oxide ink pad over the debossed side. Sure enough, the colour from the ink pad did not get into the debossed image!

I think this may be the best technique to showcase embossing folders and I’m excited to step up and colour my images next!

Anyway, I turned my practice panel into a card by adding the die cuts from the Note Edger set (51-812) and sentiments from the Note Builder mini stamp set (31-046).

You may have spotted that I added a few dots after the die cut word and before the stamped sentiment (using a cocktail stick) – this is because I felt that the Note Edger wasn’t fully centred across my card but I didn’t have much gold card left to cut another one. I think my dots balanced it out, do you?

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.