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Amazing vine leaves

 

Hello Everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the colour challenge at Sunday Stamps which has a the most amazing inspiration photo.

As soon as I saw the combo, I thought of the amazing colours produced when using Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide Stain! It’s my favourite oxide stain because of its unique colouring that appears as you wet and dry it multiple times. So I made a quick inky panel and then cut it using the Simon Says Stamp Vine background die that was gifted to me by a sweet crafty friend very recently.

The sentiment is by Whimsy Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Tremaine Square centrepiece

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

It’s another fabulous sketch this week, and I had originally planned to use a different shape for the focal point. But then when I was going through my dies for another card, I spotted this beautiful Tremaine Square die from Memory Box and changed my plan for this card! I adhered it to a piece of kraft cardstock and added a few gems. I cut a couple of Impression Obsession butterflies from an old inky panel and added some detail using a coloured pencil. I also added a little butterfly by Simon Says Stamp because I like the rule of three!

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from an old Hero Arts set,

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Leaf Bundle Hello

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Time Out challenge to CASE a beautiful card by Michelle Ferguson.

As soon as I saw Michelle’s card, I immediately thought of the Leaf Bundle embossing folder that I picked up recently from Simon Says Stamp. I decided that I wanted to ink up the folder so that the leaves popped, but I’ve had very limited success with this technique in the past. But today, I located an old brayer and used that to transfer Speckled Egg distress oxide ink – and I’m very happy with the result!

I added a vellum die cut (Sylvan Sprig by Poppystamps) and a sentiment by Concord & 9th plus a few Nuvo drops, although I wish I’d used silver Nuvo drops now rather than the purple as they look so dark in these photos!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Tickled Pink!

Happy Saturday Everyone!

The theme of this month’s Memory Box / Outside the Box challenge is ‘tickled pink’ and although I was tempted to do a heart card for this challenge, I ended up going with a butterfly theme!

I used the beautiful Drifting Side butterfly with the Just Because script, both by Memory Box. The background is a Simon Says Stamp Embossing folder that I’ve coveted for a while but managed to get just before Christmas!

I’m also entering this into a brand new challenge called ‘Can you handle the pressure‘ – where the twist is pink. Thanks for letting me know about it, Diane!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Birthday Stars

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the CAS on Friday challenge where the theme is ‘male’.

I often use greens and blues for male cards, but today I decided to use a different colour palette and used an older Simon Says Stamp background die (called Stacked Stars) to cut a panel I’d created with Color Bursts.

I added a few extra die cut stars and a sentiment by Hero Arts to finish off my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Happy thoughts butterfly

Hello again everyone!

Next up today I’m playing along in the sketch challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches using Memory Box dies.

It’s been a while since I made a butterfly card and it was so fun to pull out my butterfly dies for this card. I used the Swirl Butterfly and Darla Butterfly dies for my focal point, together with the beautifully intricate Playful Petal Bundle die.

The sentiment is by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.