Technique – die cutting

Featuring die cutting

Neighbourhood Houses

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. When I first saw the sketch, I thought about using hearts or butterflies but then yesterday my new Dies to Die For order arrived and I knew it was the perfect opportunity for me to use my brand new My Neighborhood die set from My Favorite Things.

I coloured the images with distress ink and added Clearly Besotted sentiment. I thought it was finished, but when I was photographing the card, it felt a little bare so I added a few die cut hearts and sequins. Maybe a few too many? I’m not too sure… what do you think?

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LucieG.

Deco delight

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Today I’m playing along with the first Color Throwdown challenge of 2022 and it has such a super bold palette – black, gold or silver and white. Perfect for New Year’s cards, but I decided to go a different route – Art Deco !

I bought the Poppystamps Stepped Deco Frame before Christmas – I love the Art Deco sunrise/sunset design so I HAD to have this die when I saw it! I cut it twice – from gold and white cardstock and then did some inlaid die cutting! I added a sentiment from a Poppystamps set and a few gems from Lucy’s Little Things to complete my card.

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LucieG.

Jeu de l’Avent 2021 – 24

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My last post of the day is for my final Simply Graphic challenge card – made for Day 24 of their advent challenge,

Another colour combo challenge! The palette was kraft, pink and red and so I pulled out my SG dies and got busy! The sentiment is from Mama Elephant as I don’t have any Simply Graphic sentiments.

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LucieG.

Jeu de l’Avent 2021 – 14

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Next up today is the card I made for Day 14 of Simply Graphic’s advent challenge!

A really interesting challenge this one – to include other material in the card! When I first started crafting, I bought a LOT of embellishments online and I still have quite a few of them, so I decided that my material would be metal as I wanted to include a metal Christmas tree. As I was getting said embellishment, I spotted an old packet of material from Junkitz (remember them??!!) so added that into my design. I chose a couple of SG die cuts as well and added a Penny Black sentiment to complete my take.

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LucieG.