Technique – colouring

Featuring colouring other than watercolouring

Springtime Tableau

Hi again!

Next up today is another card created with products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their new Scent of Spring release.

I inked up the fabulous springtime image from the Scent of Spring clear stamp set (31-049) which I coloured with my Twinkling H2O paints and Prismacolor pencils.

I then cut a piece of white card using the largest frame from the new Frame It set (51-814) and coloured it with distress ink before adhering it on top of the stamped image. I added the little bird from the Heart Balloons set (51-493) – I turned the die cut over and added a tiny bit of distress ink before adhering it down. I don’t usually like using the reverse side of a die cut but this one turned out quite well – it helps that it is so small I suppose!

Finally I added a sentiment from the Note Builder mini stamp set (31-046).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy Mother’s Day 2024!

Hello everyone!

Here is the first of two cards I gave to my lovely mum today!

This card was created with products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their new Scent of Spring release. I started with a fabulous image from the Scent of Spring clear stamp set (31-049). I love that they have another iteration of their beautiful autumnal brolly that I used last September! I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and then fussy cut it.

I then cut a piece of white card using the new All-in-one Octagon (51-816) and adhered a small panel of blended distress ink behind the ocatgon before adhering it to a square card base. I added the Ocatgon frame and brolly using foam tape before stamping a sentiment created from stamps from The Sweetest mini stamp set (30-294).

Finally I added a few butterflies from one of my favourite sets – Flourish and Butterflies (51-198).

I’m entering this into the March Flower Challenge where the theme is ‘Make a Square card’.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Flurry of festive wishes

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I’ve been wanting to use the beautiful Winged Pair cling stamp (40-908) for a while and when I saw this week’s sketch, I knew it would be perfect! I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and masked off the birds as I sponged a little distress ink across the background and added some splatters.

I used my new Blizzard embossing folder (65-013) for the background strip and sponged a little white ink to highlight the snowflakes – they are so pretty! (I’m not sure why my cards are appearing darker at the bottom – it must be the lighting – I need to look at my set up… maybe I’ll do this over the Christmas break!)

I trimmed down the image panel and stamped a sentiment from the Flurry mini set (30-927) before arranging everything on my 7×5 card base.

To complete my card, I added glitter to the branches – I hope you can see it, so difficult to capture in real life!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Beautified Christmas card

Hello friends!

Today I’m playing along with the current challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I chose a beautiful image from a clear set that was released a couple of years ago called Beautified (30-870). I love this set – it has some really elegant images which are so relaxing to colour! I stamped the image twice in a diagonal pattern following the sketch and then coloured them with my beloved Twinkling H2O paints. I fussy cut around the two central pine cones so that I could tuck the sentiment strip under them a little.

The sentiment is from the same set and I have to admit that getting the wording in the ‘right’ position took me the longest time… but I got there in the end!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Cheery winter wishes

Hi there!

Today I’m finally using a beautiful cling stamp called ‘Cheery’ (40-909) that was kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I stamped the image in the centre of my card and coloured it with my Twinkling H2Os. I then added a frame from the Border Beauty Stick and Shine collection (15-008) and applied silver foil (21-001). The shine is so difficult to capture – this photo shows it beautifully but the angle of the lighting means that the greens are off – they are far closer to the colours in my first two photos!

Anyway, I masked off the frame and softly blended some Tumbled Glass distress ink across the background. I cut a couple of bows from the Jumbo Bauble die set (51-743) – one from white card which I coloured with my Twinklings and one from some silver card. After arranging them on my image, I added a sentiment from the Holiday Snippets set (30-307) and a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Fall flourish

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge using some products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

The combo this week is orange, yellow and green – another set that’s perfect for autumnal cards! In fact when I saw this combo, I thought about doing a die cut leaf card…. but I really want to try my new mica stains for that idea and they haven’t arrived yet… hopefully they will get here this week!

Anyway, I LOVE Chinese Lanterns and thought that the beautiful Fall Flourish stamp (40-783) would work perfectly with the challenge colours. I coloured the image with my beloved Twinkling H2O paints and then fussy cut around the image – which wasn’t as tricky as I was fearing.

I decided that the yellow would serve as my backdrop and used a stencil from the Background Basics set (25-021) – I love how there are several sizes of stencils in this set – especially as I often use UK card sizes which are different from the US sizes. For this card, I used a larger rectangle stencil and blended Squeezed Lemonade/Scattered Straw distress inks before splattering some yellow paint on top.

I adhered the image with some foam tape and added some sequins and the sentiment from the Fall Fence set (30-931) to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.