Hi there!
I’m getting pretty excited because it’ll soon be Christmas in July and I am so ready to make some festive cards! First of all this week though, I have my entry for the sketch challenge over at CAS Colours and Sketches.
I used the fabulous Floral Circle dies by Prinkfresh Studio together with a stamped Uniko sentiment.
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LucieG.
Hello friends!
Next today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown challenge which has another stunning colour palette this week – pink, peach and green.
To start, I lightly blended some distress ink on my card base and then lifted some ink through a butterfly stencil. Next, I coloured the Frame Builder Botanical Oval die set from Pinkfresh using my Twinkling H2O paints and adhered it to my card base. I adhered a Mama Elephant sentiment to an Avery Elle banner and finally added some Studio Katia gems to complete my card.
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LucieG.
Hi everyone!
Today I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.
I had such fun with this CAS sketch! I used an image from the Pinkfresh Studio Fleur 1 set which I coloured using my Twinkling H2Os. I then die cut a glitter strip, together with a heart strip using a Sugar Pea Designs die.
I added a sentiment from Pretty Pink Posh to complete my card.
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LucieG.
Hi Everyone!
Today I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge!
I pulled out the Hello with a Bouquet of Flowers die from Pinkfresh Studio and a couple of old backgrounds that I created with some distress oxide inks and colour bursts. I cut the panels and got to work inlaying all those little die cut bits. It took me a while but I like how it turned out in the end.
The sentiment is by Simon Says Stamp.
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LucieG.
Hi there!
I’m trying to add to my birthday card pile as it always seems to run low!
I created a lot of distress oxide backgrounds a while ago and today I decided to used one of them with the fabulous Pinkfresh Studios Botanical Branch die. I liked the negative so much that I created a second card with silver pearl cardstock.
The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.
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LucieG.
Hi everyone!
Today I have my next DT post for Crafts-U-Love using the ‘Always Flowers’ stamp set by Pink Fresh Studio. As usual, links to all the products are at the end of my post.
I noticed that my past couple of DT cards have been rather pink, so I was determined to use a different palette this time!
Step 1 – ink blending
Over the past few years, my style has definitely changed and I always tend to make my own backgrounds. My piles of pretty patterned paper are quite unloved, but I just can’t bear to part with them. I’m sure I’ll end up using them at some point (maybe!).
Anyway, when I started on today’s card, I hadn’t decided the size, so I used a larger piece of cardstock and blended three distress oxide inks. This ink is fabulous for blending!
Step 2 – stamping
Once I was happy with my blending, I randomly stamped images from the stamp set.
Step 3 – ink lifting
One of my favourite techniques with distress ink (regular and oxide) is ink lifting. I usually do this with larger images, but it’s easy to do with smaller images too. I simply ‘painted’ water onto each image and then blotted it off to remove the ink. As usual, when working with smaller images, it’s best to use a small brush for all that detail work, and also ensure that the brush isn’t too wet. I also made sure to wipe off my brush at regular intervals – otherwise I’d start applying some of the colour I’d just removed!!
Quick, easy and effective! Once I finished, I almost stopped and started to assemble the card as I love the effect so much!
Step 4 – colouring
But in the end I decided to watercolour the images using my distress inks, diluted with a bit of water.
After colouring the images, I felt that the gaps between the images was a little too large so I stamped a couple of images from the Pinkfresh Studio ‘Happy’ set.
I then cut down the panel to fit on a square card base. I stamped a Hero Arts sentiment onto a strip of card which I adhered to the base. (The remainder of the background card will go into my ‘bases box’ as I know I can use it on another card!) I then stamped, coloured and fussy cut a couple of flowers and adhered them and a few gems to finish off the card.
I’m also entering this card into the current Pinkfresh Studio challenge as I was inspired by their summer theme and loved their colour palette (although I was determined to stay away from pink!)
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Supply List
Here are the links to the products I used on my card. Products marked with an asterisk (*) were kindly sent to me to use.
Pinkfresh Studio – Always Flowers stamp set*
Hero Arts – Happy Birthday Messages stamp set
LucieG Cards 