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Heart Week – Day 5

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 5 of Heart Week!

What happens when Heart Week and Festive Friday collide? Well, you get my heart card today for starters – and it’s my entry for the sketch challenge at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown.

My focal point today is a pretty tree from the Simon Says Stamp Festive Trees set, coloured using my Twinkling H2O paints. I cut the hearts from the Bundled Hearts set by Memory Box and adhered all images to a card base that I’d sponged with Tumbled Glass distress ink. I also stencilled a few hearts using an older Simon Says Stamp stencil

To complete my card, I added stamped sentiment from a My Favorite Things set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heart Week – Day 1

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 1 of Heart Week!

My heart card today is my entry for this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

I chose Memory Box’s Banded Heart Locket die as my focal point. I don’t remember much about this die – which is really unusual for me – maybe I won it in a challenge… I don’t think I’ve ever used it before!

I cut it from some gold glitter paper and adhered some vellum behind it. I added a few hearts cut from a very old Simon Says Stamp/Kelly Purkey die set and a bow from the Memory Box Crisp Bows set for a subtle spot of colour.

The sentiment is from a Clearly Besotted set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Merry Berry Wreath

Happy Festive Friyay!

Today I’m playing along with the current theme challenge over at the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

I finally got my hands on Simon Says Stamp Berry Wreath dies set after their Thanksgiving sale last year and used it just once – for my mum’s Christmas card. So naturally I thought of it as soon as I saw the challenge theme. Although it’s only been a month since Christmas, I was VERY excited to play with this die set again.

I coloured all the die cuts with distress ink and adhered it to a base that I had embossed with a Spellbinders folder.

The sentiment is by Savvy Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Perky Flower

Hi everyone!

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

I’m continuing to make my way through my ‘new stuff’ box and so after testing a few other dies I chose the Simon Says Stamp Perky Flower die set that I got in their Thanksgiving sale – so not super old!

I tried all sorts of things for the background strips – die cuts, inky strips… but in the end I chose this older Bubble Burst Memory Box die which I adhered on a card base that I’d painted light blue.

The sentiment is also by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Privet branch

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fun combo of blue, olive and ivory.

Continuing my quest to Use New Things, I started with my new Simon Says Stamp Privet Branch die set and decided it would nestle nicely in the centre of the Spellbinders Infinity Punch & Pierce Plate, which isn’t in my new stuff box but I’ve only used once.

I created an panel with the Holly Branch distress mica stain for the privet die and cut the background plate from some shimmery ivory card. I then coloured a background panel with various shades of distress in and adhered all the elements.

To complete my card I added a Spellbinders sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

We three birds

Hi everyone!

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

I’m determined to make my way through my ‘new stuff’ box this year and so for my CAS take on the challenge, I used the Simon Says Stamp Layer Bird Bunch dies set that I got in their Thanksgiving sale – so not THAT old, considering what else is in my box!

I created the background with a Taylored Expressions stencil that could have been made for the sketch and coloured the birds with distress inks and coloured pencil. I adhered the birds and a few branches from a Sizzix set to my card base and added a sentiment by Clearly Besotted.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.