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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).

I adhered the kitties and ghosts to an ink-blended strip and added a few die cut glitter stars. This one really has quite a cosmic feel doesn’t it?!

I’m also entering this into the current Poppystamps challenge – ‘Get your Spook on’!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

A Happy Meowlloween

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s  Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Each year I tell myself ‘no more Halloween supplies’ and each year I succumb! I just couldn’t help myself when I spotted these cute Poppystamps Ghostly Cats dies when I was buying a few of their Christmas dies from Bumbleberrys. I was so surprised that we in the UK had the release on launch day – we usually have to wait a few weeks to get hold of it! And I was even more pleased to see that these dies are made in the USA!

Anyway, I have taken a few liberties with the challenge sketch. My kitties were smaller than the triangles in the sketch so I turned the sketch into and element on the card base.

The background panel is a Simon Says Stamp embossing folder (I used the debossed side so that the cute ghosts didn’t overwhelm the kitties) and the sentiment is from a very old set by My Favorite Things.

I’ve just seen that the Poppystamps challenge this month is ‘clean and simple’ – my favourite! So I’m entering this there too!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 20

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 20 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

I picked up the pretty Poppystamps Nordic Whimsy Trees and Nordic Tree Toppers die sets in a post-Christmas sale this year and I’ve been looking at them on and off since the start of Christmas in July. I know I should use them, but for some reason I couldn’t figure out a way to make them work for me…

Then yesterday I saw the new Poppystamps Christmas in July release and immediately knew what had been holding me back – the trees needed trunks!

So, drawing inspiration from the new Nordic Treeline die (which I will HAVE to buy btw), I cut some trunks from another die set and got to work!

I used another Poppystamps die for the vellum circle and the hillside was created with a Memory Box die.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 16

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 16 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today I have another twofer to share.

Today’s focal point is the Wide Pine Needle Shoots die set by Poppystamps – I’ve already used it once this month, but I had a few more ideas for it!  I cut it from dark green card and glitter card and got busy!

For my first card, I cut some green card with an Alex Syberia background die. I adhered my tree to a tag cut from an Altenew die and added a silver bow and die cut star before affixing it to my card base.

For my second card, I embossed the background with a Spellbinders folder and adhered my tree with another little die cut star. The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts wood-mounted set.

So which one do you prefer?

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.