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Happy New Year 2024

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Cabin Snowglobe

Happy Festive Friyay everyone!

It’s almost the big day and I just couldn’t resist playing along with this week’s 52 Christmas card challenge where the theme is snow globe.

I used the Poppystamps Cabin Snowglobe pop up easel die set for my take on the challenge theme. Unfortunately, a couple of the tree dies were missing from my set when I bought it but I used my brand new Layered Evergreen Trees die set by Memory Box instead. I coloured all my images with distress inks and the sentiment is also by Memory Box.

I’m also going to enter this into the Poppystamps Cool Yule challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Bellina Stem

Hi there!

Next up today is my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. It is a fabulous sketch and I have to say that I feel that the card I made over the weekend for this challenge didn’t do it justice!

So I just made this card very quickly instead – hope I make the deadline! I used the beautiful Bellina Butterfly stem card and a butterfly from the Emelia Butterfly trio, both by Poppystamps.

I used an older Simon Says Stamp stamp for the brushstrokes and the sentiment is by My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Happy 600th Sketch!

Hello again everyone!

Today I am truly honoured to be celebrating an amazing milestone with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge team and a group of super talented players! Today is challenge number 600!

I enjoy playing along with card challenges and Freshly Made Sketches is one challenge that I always try to play along with whenever I can. I love how different the sketches are and the DT and other players’ cards are always soooo inspiring!

I discovered the challenge in 2016 – I was just on instagram back then but I’m pretty sure that this was the card I made for my first challenge entry – challenge number 261! (I actually unearthed this after I made my card for this week – it made me smile to see that my entry back then also had a dry-embossed strip!)

For today’s fabulous sketch, I chose the Floral Cluster die by Poppystamps which I coloured with distress inks. After adhering it to a die cut circle, I embossed a grey strip with a Simon Says Stamp folder, added a sentiment by My Favorite Things and a few die cut butterflies by Poppystamps and Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 27

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 27 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s The Paper Players sketch challenge.

The star of today’s card is made from the fabulous Poppystamps Pine Needle Shoots die. I’m not sure how I missed it when it was released last year – I snapped it up as soon as I saw it online in January, knowing that it would get some use in July! I can’t believe that I didn’t use it until Day 27! But when I saw the sketch, I knew it was the perfect opportunity to showcase the pine needles. I cut each set of shoots three times from an ink-blended panel I made ages ago and then layered them up.

I used the amazing Sizzix 3D Christmas Trees embossing folder. I’ve had this a few years now and it is still one of my favorites!

The sentiment is from one of my trusty Mama Elephant sets.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 21

Happy Friyay everyone!

Welcome to Day 21 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

Super busy day = not much crafty time so I had to made a very quick card today.

I decided that it was time for another snowflake card so I flicked through all my dies and spotted this fabulous Mod Snowflake Bakcground die by Poppystamps. I don’t use it much because I have trouble getting a clean cut in some spots, but I loaded up with additional shims and cut some Craft Consortium paper with it.

I wanted to adhere it to a glittery backgound so I covered a panel in Nuvo glitter paste and then adhered the die cut on top when it was dry.

The sentiment is by Woodware.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.