Technique – die cutting

Featuring die cutting

Hello grazing deer

Hi there!

I just discovered the Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge and was totally inspired by this week’s sketch!

I knew I wanted to use the fabulous new Penny Black Grazing Fawn die (51-672) as my focal point so I did tinker with the sketch a bit… The circle frame dies are from Penny Black’s Framed die set (51-622) and I also added a sentiment from the Hello Deer mini stamp set (30-766).

I coloured the fawn image with distress inks and used a detail blending tool to get that texture on the trees!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Lots of love and greenery

Happy  Friyay everyone!

I’m playing along with the colour challenge at the CAS on Friday challenge blog today. The challenge this time is one colour – green.

For my take, I used products from Penny Black’s Delight collection and lots of regular distress ink. I coloured the three dies cuts from the Garden Greens (51-652) set using differnt shades of green and then adhered them to my card base before adding a jug from the coordinating Garden Fresh die set (51-703). Finally I stamped a sentiment from the Delectable stamp set (30-810).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Just Bee-cause

Hello again everyone!

My final card for today is my entry into the current Color Throwdown which has a palette of yellow, grey, black and white.

Now, I must confess that I was a little stumped when I saw this combo as I entered a very similar colour challenge a few weeks ago and knew I wanted to do something different this time! Plus, I was so tempted to recreate the fabulous challenge graphic in some way!!

First of all, I created a blended background using Hickory Smoke distress ink and then die cut a panel with an Oblong Hexagon die from The Stamp Market. I then cut and coloured a flower and bee from the Hero Arts Bees and Flowers die set. Finally I cut a Creative Expressions sentiment from black cardstock and adhered all my die cuts to the card base.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Cherry blossom smiles

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along a new-to me challenge,  Hand Stamped Sentiments using products by Penny Black.

I cut an ink-blended panel using a die from the dainty dashes stackers set (51-636) and then coloured a couple of the Cherry Blossom die cut images (51-419) using my Twinkling H2)s and prismacolor pencils.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Thinking of You clear stamp set (30-825).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Birdhouses

Hi there!

Next up today, I’m playing along with the sketch challenge over at CAS Colours and Sketches.

Such a unique sketch this week! I had so many ideas but in the end I pulled out the fabulous birdhouse dies that I got as a free gift from My Favorite Things, coloured them with distress ink and hey presto, today’s card. I’m not sure though…. I may have gone overboard with those pink birds….. what do you think?

Then sentiment is also from an older MFT set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Poppystamps flowers and butterflies

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Poppystamps challenge where the theme is flowers and butterflies! Two of my favourites! I can’t believe I only saw the theme at the end of the month – the challenge closes tonight so I made it just in time!

I used quite a few dies from my Poppystamps collection: the main image is the Blooming Branches Sidekick frame and stencil set, then I used the Dervyn Butterfly Trio and Emelia Butterfly Trio. Finally I added the freehand Happy Spring sentiment – althoughit has been super warm here today, technically it is still spring until mid June after all!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.