Poppystamps

Featuring Poppystamps products

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 19

Hi everyone!

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

The theme of Day 19’s challenge is ‘wrapped in wonder’.

Lots of ideas for this one but I really wanted to use my new Nellie Snellen Presents embossing folder and stencil – so I did! I used new Pinkfresh inks and I have to confess that I was a little disappointed with the pink which turned out MUCH brighter than I would usually choose.

The silver parcels are cut from the Memory Box Pretty Presents die set and the sentiment is an older set by Poppystamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 14

Hi everyone!

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

The theme of Day 14’s challenge is ‘Christmas morning’.

It took me a long while to choose a stamp for this challenge! I asked a few friends what the theme conjures up for them – they said presents but I wanted to take a different route…

I originally thought of a peaceful landscape to create a Christmas dawn but while looking through my older stamps, I unearthed my Elzybells stamps and found this sweet Rudolph image. I immediately thought that this could be my different take on the theme – dear Rudolph, completely exhausted on Christmas morning after his very busy night!

I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and distress inks and created a window scene using the Poppystamps Grand Madison Window die and a brickwork embossing folder by Stampin’ Up.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 12

Hi everyone!

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

The theme of Day 12’s challenge is ‘bauble bliss’.

Now I do have quite a lot of bauble dies so there were MANY products for me to choose from today. I ended up mixing very old with very new – a Poppystamps shelf die that was released earlier this year plus a Memory Box bauble border die which is from 2013 accoridng to the packaging!

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ghost Week – Day 5

Hi there and Happy Halloween!

It’s Day 5 of Ghost Week and I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge (I have NEVER entered this challenge so early!!) and this month’s Memory Box challenge where the theme is ‘happy haunting’.

For today’s card, I used the Cookie Jar die that was part of the Pinkfresh Holiday Event earlier in the month. I think I would have preferred to use a bigger card base to more add more white space around the focal point but I also wanted to use my Simon Says Stamp ghosts embossing folder one last time this year and guess what won that design struggle?!

I cut ghosts from Memory Box’s fun set of Haunting Ghosts which I’m proud to say that I have used on three cards this year! The fabulous houses are from Poppystamps’ Twisted Houses set – they worked so well with the jar!.

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.

Ghost Week – Day 2

Hi there!

It’s Day 2 of Ghost Week and today I’m also playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

It’s such a versatile sketch this week and I was all ready to create a Christmas or autumn card before I thought of ghost week!

Today I’ve used two brand new die sets – the Poppystamps Ghostly Cats which I first used on this card and Memory Box’s fun set of Haunting Ghosts (I just used the smallest die).