Hi there!
Welcome to Day 4 of Heart Week!
My heart card today is my entry for the February challenge at The Flower Challenge where the theme is ‘add a heart’.
Today, I used the pretty, new to me Meadow blossom frame die and stencil set by Poppystamps – this was a joy to colour! I paired it with the Drifting Butterfly die and a sentiment by Memory Box.
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LucieG.
Hi there!
Welcome to Day 2 of Heart Week!
My heart card today is my entry for the colour challenge at Just us Girls.
My focal point today is a bouquet of Simply Graphic dies, partly coloured using distress oxide ink. I also added an ink blended heart to the top of a Simply Graphic stem to fill out the centre of my bouquet.
I used the largest die from the Poppystamps Pinpoint Hearts die set for the background and a stamped sentiment from a Mama Elephant set.
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LucieG.
Hi again everyone!
Next up today is the card I made for the Poppystamps Sparkling New Year challenge.
I started by applying a layer of sparkle texture paste to a sheet of Craft Consortium paper. While that was drying, I built my bird! This little guy is cut from ivory glitter cardstock which I coloured with alcohol markers.
I have to say that I’m glad I received this Nordic Bird set directly from Poppystamps because I noticed that he’s actually looking in a different direction from the image on the packaging and on the DT cards on the blog… I don’t think this has happened with any dies that I’ve bought before and had I bought it somewhere else I suspect that I would have felt that something was amiss! At least I know for sure this is a bone fide Poppystamps product!
Once the paper was dry and sparkling, I cut the Snowflake Tall Curve border die twice and adhered it to my card base. To anchor my bird, I then added a glittery focal point cut using the fabulous Oval Burst die and added a Penny Black sentiment before adhering the bird and a few gems.
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LucieG.
Hi there!
Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fun palette of red, navy and pink.
I have to confess that I spent some time today trying to come up with a design for these colours! In the end, I decided to use the Poppystamps Nordic Flourishes die set that I picked up just after Christmas.
I cut the dies from three different Craft Consortium papers and then spent far too long arranging the elements on my card base! I realised that I needed to work around my sentiment (Hello Cursive Script Circle by Memory Box) and it actually became much easier to get a layout once that was in place!
To complete my card I added a few pearls.
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LucieG.
Hi there!
Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a beautiful combo of blush, dusty blue and pink.
I received a few Poppystamps dies this morning – including the Beautiful Butterflies Sidekick Frame and Stencil set which I have been wanting for a while! So I just had to play with it straightaway!
The set includes a die that cuts a number of standalone butterflies which I cut from card and vellum. I coloured all the images with distress ink and added some pencil detail. For the background, I was inspired by Deb’s card with this set, so I cut some Penny Black clouds from masking paper and lightly blended some Stormy Sky distress ink over them. I adhered the frame to the panel and added the standalone butterflies and their bodies,
To complete my card I added a Penny Black sentiment.
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LucieG.
Happy New Year friends!
I often feel drawn to bright colours, glitter and a dark card base for my New Year’s cards but this year I ended up creating cards with a white base and softer colours.
Here’s the card that I made for my lovely mum. I was inspired by this card by Karin. As I was thinking of trimming sprigs from the Poppystamps’ Fairhaven Oval die, I realised it would work very well with the card design. I coloured the image with distress inks and I added a bit of vellum that I had covered with Tumbled Glass distress oxide ink which I felt was softer than a card-based background. The background die is by Pinkfresh Studio and I used an alphabet die by My Favorite Things to create the greeting.
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LucieG.
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