Technique – die cutting

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AAA Cards One Corner challenge with create a scene twist

Hi there!

It’s time for another challenge at AAA Cards!  This fortnight we’d like you to create a CAS card using one corner of your card base only. Our optional twist for this challenge is ‘create a scene’!

I had fun with this one! As the challenge spans Valentine’s Day, I knew I wanted to include that in some way as well as creating a scene. Inspired by this cute Frantic Stampers kitties die, I used Funky Fossil Designs’ Dry Stonewall stencil for the kitties to sit on and then softly blended some distress ink to create the moonlit sky. To complete my card, I added a few die cut hearts and my favourite Reverse Confetti sentiment – which I use every February without fail!

My team mates have come up with some beautiful cards which are on the AAA Cards challenge blog. We are also joined a previous challenge winner, Chrissie – who has some amazing CAS inspiration on her blog – you must check it out!!

Hope you can play along with us!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

 

Colourful Cottage Stem

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown! They have a wonderful pastel colour palette this week – pink, lavender, yellow and mint green!

I coloured the older Simon Says Stamp Cottage Stem die using Distress Oxide inks and a little coloured pencil for extra detail.

As I felt that pink and yellow were slightly underrepresented, I stencilled a little of both colours using a Funky Fossil Designs stencil, taking care not to overlap and create orange!

To complete my card, I added a few sequins and a Mama Elephant sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy Butterfly Thoughts

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown! They have another fabulous colour palette this week – pale pink, blue and grey!

I created a blended panel using Stormy Sky, Spun Sugar and Hickory smoke distress ink and then cut it using the Memory Box drifting butterflies background die.

I adhered the die cut to a card base and added a Mama Elephant sentiment and a few thousand Nuvo drops to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Love Always with Tender Heart

Happy Saturday Everyone!

The theme of the Memory Box / Outside the Box challenge is ‘hearts’ and of course I had to play along with one of my favourite Memory Box heart dies – the Tender Heart die. There are so many ways to use this beautiful die but I decided to go with a subtle colour palette of distress inks on a heart-shaped base rather than the inlaid die cutting that I’d originally planned.

I also added a couple of Poppystamps dies (Berry sprig and Tomei branch) and a Memory Box stamped sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

CAS Christmas – silhouette

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the challenge at CAS Christmas. The challenge theme is silhouette – so weird that I chose this challenge today after the AAA challenge went live earlier this morning with an optional twist of challenge.

I love that this challenge gives me the opportinuty to play with my festive supplies all year round. Today I chose to use a die set that I didn’t get a chance to play with before Christmas – the WInterhaven Dies set by Catherine Pooler. I used this tag as my inspiration!

The sentiment is by Hero Arts.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.