Technique – die cutting

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Egg Week 2025 Day 6

Hi there!

It’s Day 6 of LucieG’s Egg Week 2025! Today I decided to CASE another card I made back in February which coincidentally turned out to be my card for Day 6 of Heart Week 2025 – so weird after my Day 3 card!

I used the new Spellbinders coloured card in Windy, Seaside and Fairy Tale to cut a few eggs which I then coloured with a darker shade of distress ink. I’m extremely grateful to Michelle at The Card Grotto who shared a very informative post comparing the cardstock – it really helped me narrow down my choices as I often find the card I buy online is much darker than my preferred palette! Spellbinders UK has A4 sized card too – which is brilliant… I can almost forgive them for discontinuing my beloved Portobello cardstock… almost!

The largest die cut egg is the Waltham Egg by Memory Box. It’s dated 2016 and I probably bought it when it was newly released. Isn’t it pretty? I embossed the mint (Seaside) egg with the Simon Says Stamp Dancing Floral folder and then added lots of die cut butterflies from Simon’s Flickering Butterflies die set.

The sentiment is from a set by Taylored Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Egg Week 2025 Day 5

Hi there!

It’s Day 5 of LucieG’s Egg Week 2025! Today I’m playing with an older product that I bought in a sale last year plus a brand new die.

The older die set is the Egg Carton set by Reverse Confetti. I coloured the carton with distress ink and then cut the eggs from my beloved Basic Grey patterned paper.

I’m really loving lace products at the moment and when I saw the new Mama Elephant Caly Circle Lace die set, I had to get it! Isn’t it fabulous cut from vellum?

The sentiment is by Taylored Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Egg Week 2025 Day 4

Hi there!

It’s Day 4 of LucieG’s Egg Week 2025! Today’s card is not what I had in mind at all… I spotted a challenge and decided to play along at the last minute. I loved the idea of using non-spring colours for an egg card (and in fact I have one in progress) but when I saw the combo for this fortnight’s CAS Colours & Sketches challenge, I pivoted!

I don’t have any Stampin Up inks or card so I just matched up what I saw on screen as best as I could! I used Basic Grey and Craft Consortium papers for the Blackberry Bliss and Pebbled Path colours and created a panel from Victorian Velvet distress ink which I felt was similar to the Moody Mauve. The colour turned out ‘muddier’ in real life than in my photos where the artificial light seems to have bleached it a bit.

I used the Petal Egg Layer die set by Birch Press Design and the Privet Branch die by Simon Says Stamp. I decided I needed more of the Victorian Velvet/Moody Mauve so added a shadow layer behind the grey leaves,

The sentiment is from a set by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Block print radiant butterfly

Hello again!

After last week’s stress to get my card uploaded just before the Freshly Made Sketches challenge deadline, I made sure that my card was finished MUCH earlier this week!

I originally wanted to combine the sketch with my ongoing ‘Egg week’ Easter focus, but I really wanted to start using the Birch Press Design Block Print Radiant Butterfly die set that landed on my doormat this week. So I pulled out my mirror card and distress inks and got busy!

This is such a fabulous bold butterfly, it really doesn’t need a supporting cast so I opted for a simple embossed background using the Simon Says Stamp Star Lattice folder.

The sentiment is by Sugar Pea Designs.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Egg Week 2025 Day 3

Hi there!

It’s Day 3 of LucieG’s Egg Week 2025! Today I decided to CASE a card I made back in February which coincidentally turned out to be my card for Day 3 of Heart Week 2025.

I used the same Impression Obsession heart die but this time I covered it with little eggs that I cut from Craft Consortium paper using a Marianne Designs mini die set.

I wish I could say this card was a quick make but alas I kept playing around with the order of the little eggs so it took far more time than expected!

The sentiment is from a set by Sugar Pea Designs.

I’m entering this into the CAS on Friday challenge where the theme is ‘Easter’.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Egg Week 2025 Day 2

Hi there!

It’s Day 2 of LucieG’s Egg Week 2025!

Today I used the Big Egg die set by Reverse Confetti. I actually tried this with several different papers and colours but in the end I chose this version with some beautiful My Mind’s Eye paper. The background is a Spellbinders folder and the bow is from a new Simon Says Stamp set.