Hello everyone!
Today I created another card for Simply Graphic’s advent challenge!
This time, I chose the moodboard for Day 11. I was particularly drawn to the vase and the red ornaments on the window sill as well as the yellow glow from the candles. I used a Simply Graphic festive berry die with dies from their non-festive vase set. The sentiment is from an old Clearly Besotted set as I don’t have any Simply Graphic stamp sets.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Today I’m finally playing along with Simply Graphic’s advent challenge!
I discovered Simply Graphic a few years ago and fell for their dies – they are so delicate and unique! I’ve been watching the daily challenges on Instagram and hoped I would have time to play along – and today was that day! I’m not sure that I will be able to do many of the 24 challenges, but hopefully I will complete at least 12… we’ll see!
To start with, I chose the sketch from Day 3. This card uses an older polar bear die and a fun tree die from Simply Graphic. I added a Penny Black sentiment because I don’t have any Simply Graphic stamps.
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LucieG.
Hi everyone!
As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post.
Day 15’s inspiration is Day 15, 2018. I was particularly drawn to the more intricate nature of the tags in this blog post. You can see what I created back in 2018 here and this time I’ve chosen Tanja’s tag. I just LOVE how she created that background and I’m very grateful that she included instructions.
I used my brand new Pinecone Plethora embossing folder from Gemini. You may remember that my original embossing folder met with a rather sad end. But thanks to a lovely IG friend, I located and won its replacement in an ebay auction! Phew!
The dies are by Simply Graphic and Savvy Stamps.
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LucieG.
Happy Saturday everyone!
Today I’m playing along with this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of orange, peach, red and pink.
I found this a bit of a challenging combo… probably because I immediately though of creating something flowery but my initial design would have needed a green and I couldn’t get that out of my head. In the end, I pulled out some Simply Graphic ornament dies and distress inks and got to work on (yet another) non-traditional Christmas card. I wanted a bit of sparkle so used a Tim Holtz stencil to create a subtle glittery background. The sentiment is by My Favorite Things.
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LucieG.
Happy World Cardmaking Day everyone!
And it’s also ‘Originals Only’ day over on Instagram – a day when we show our support for all the wonderful designers who are constantly coming up with wonderful products for us all!
So here’s the card I created to thank just a few of the many companies who continue to inspire me.
I used dies by:
Memory Box (Jasper Leaves)
My Favorite Things (Birds of a Feather set)
Poppystamps (Whittle Oak Leaf)
Simon Says Stamp (Eucalyptus Leaves)
Stampin Up! (Boho Indigo die set)
Simply Graphic (Feuilles geometriques)
Creative Expressions (Elegant Arrangements)
Penny Black (Leaflets)
Hero Arts (sentiment)
I used the theme from the Global Design Project which is ‘leaves’.
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LucieG.
Happy Sunday everyone!
Today I’m playing along with this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a fabulous neutral combo of black, grey, cream and kraft.
I decided to create another mini slimline card and started with creating a blended rectangle on my card base. I then cut a vase from the Marianne Designs Vase collection and three Simply Graphic stem dies from various coloured cardstock. After arranging the stems and vase, I adhered them to my card base and added a sentiment by Penny Black to complete my card.
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LucieG.
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