Hi Everyone!
Today, I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge
Narelle has created a fabulous sketch that was just crying out for me to dip into my patterned paper mountain again – so I did!
I used the fabulous Chinese Lantern die from Poppystamps – it actually has 3 stems but I cut off one stem so that the die cut aligned with the card elements.
The sentiment is by Hero Arts.
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LucieG.
Hi Everyone!
Today, I’m playing along with this week’s Case This Sketch challenge
I used my newest cute Christmas dies – the Whittle Penguins by Poppystamps, a background stamp and couple of dies from My Favorite Things and a Mama Elephant sentiment stamp. The Embossing Folder is by Taylored Expressions.
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LucieG.
Hi Everyone!
Today, I’m playing along with this week’s sketch challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches.
I love this unusual sketch and was originally going to use a few die cut trees but as I was looking for the tree die, I stumbled across the Poppystamps Boddington Cottage die. I thought I could make it work with the sketch and got to work!
I didn’t do too much inlaid die cutting this time – just the cottage. For the trees, I coloured some card using my Daniel Smith Watercolours and then stuck my die cut on top before adhering the image to the card base.
The embossed sentiment is from the September 2018 Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kit.
I’m also entering this into the current Poppystamps challenge – Anything Goes.
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LucieG.
Hello friends!
I’ve had this gorgeous Peony stamp set from the Ton since March but I’d been waiting to use it because I wanted to spend my time colouring such a beautiful image. Today was the day! I used my new Daniel Smith watercolours and got to work with the current colour palette from the Color Throwdown Challenge – red, yellow, brown and green.
When I finished colouring, I didn’t feel that I had used enough yellow so I smooshed some Mustard Seed distress ink on my base card – yellow is definitely more visible now!
I didn’t want the sentiment to detract from the beautiful image so added a small Mama Elephant sentiment stamped onto a punched tag to complete my card.
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LucieG.
Hello!
I’m here with my penultimate Crafts-U-Love DT post .
This month, I received a couple of products by Marianne Design, the Tiny’s Deer Family die set* and the Classic Label die* .
I started by cutting the label die and largest deer from white cardstock which I then coloured with various distress inks.
I adhered the deer to my tag base and stamped a sentiment from the Julie Hickey Designs Essential Christmas Sentiments set.
I then tried the tag against a white background, but felt the background needed a little added interest.
I toyed with doing some stencilling or dry embossing but in the end I decided to use some off-white paper by The Paper Boutique. The pack I used was sent to me for a past DT post; it’s no longer in stock at Crafts-U-Love, but the Christmas Visitor pack and the Happy Days pack have similar colours. After trimming the paper to size, I stamped a few little stars from another Julie Hickey Designs set.
To finish off the tag, I added some stiffened ribbon which I curled by twisting it around a paint brush before adhering the tag to my card base using foam pads.
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LucieG.
Products marked with a ‘*’ were sent to me by Crafts-U-Love for this and past DT assignments.
Hi Everyone!
Today, I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge
I had fun playing with products with a lot of different companies for my take – the large snowflake is by Bright Rosa whilst the smaller snowflakes are from My Favorite Things. I used a heart stencil from Simon Says stamp with a baby wipe to lift ink from the blended strip and stamped a sentiment from an older Penny Black set.
I’m also entering this into the current CAS Stencil challenge where the challenge is to use a baby wipe.
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LucieG.
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