Technique – die cutting

Featuring die cutting

Embossed cherry blooms

Hello again!

I’m back with my entry for this week’s Color Throwdown challenge. What a lovely spring palette this week – blue, pink and yellow.

I picked up the beautiful Cherry Blossom embossing folder and die set from Simon Says Stamp last November and it seemed perfect for this challenge. What a joy it was to use – the embossing is so deep!!

I created three ink blended panels and die cut the blossom shapes from the pink and yellow panels before embossing them. I embossed the blue panel and adhered it to my card base before attaching the die cut blossoms and adding a little gold stickles.

The sentiment die and stamp are also by Simon Say Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Fringed Flowers

Hello everyone!

Just popping in quickly with my entry for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge!

I’m having problems with my connection at the moment and I don’t want to miss the challenge deadline so I will be back later to fill in the details!

Edited to add: Now that I’ve entered the challenge, I can upload a few more photos and share a bit more about my card!

Memory Box’s new release arrived at Bumbleberry’s last week and I could not wait to order a few die sets! The Fringed Flowers set really stood out to me – I love the irregularity of the flowers, I don’t think I’ve got anything else like them at all! I cut them from Craft Consortium paper but used some different centres as I wanted something that was a little irregular and the centres in the die set seemed too perfect to my eye! I adhered the flowers to some white vellum and then turned my attention to the card base.

I spotted a white heat-embossed image in my ‘unused’ box and decided to trim that down for the background centre panel. I think the stamp is an older Hero Arts image. I dotted glue to the vellum behind the fringed flowers and adhered it to my panel and card base.

Finally I added a few gems – but no sentiment because time was short. I may add a sentiment under the vellum panel when I send it out, we’ll see!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Another purple foliage circle card

 

Hi there!

Next up today is my take on this week’s fabulous sketch at the  Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I just love all those layers!

After trying a few items, I decided to use the Paper Rose Studio Little Foliage Circle die as my focal point. I cut it several times and coloured it with various inks. I decided to cut and layer the little flowers rather than mask them and while I was adhering them I remembered that I had coloured in purple last time I used the die – back in 2021! Cutting and adhering the flowers was MUCH quicker I think!

I used a Spellbinders embossing folder for one panel and some Craft Consortium paper for the larger strip in the sketch – I blended some purple ink over the paper so that it would tie in with my inked flowers!

The sentiment is by The Ton Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Winter wishes Basket

Hello Everyone!

Today I’m playing along with one of my favourite challenges, the Color Throwdown. While I’m a little sad that the challenge has moved to fortnightly, I’m relieved that it is sticking around – I know that running a challenge is a lot of work for the DT/admins.

Anyway, this week’s combo is black, white and grey. Funnily enough I was going to use some layered background dies but when I checked my blog to see when I last used the plates, I discovered it was in January 2023 for the challenge that had the same combo plus red!!

So instead I used dies by The Greetery for my card. I used Craft Consortium paper for the basket – and it was MUCH easier to weave compared to cardstock!

The sentiment is also The Greetery.

I had the hardest time photographing this card! I’m STILL trying to find the best way to capture cards that don’t have a white base and sometimes it seems impossible for me…

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Pastel Always Smiling

Hello Everyone!

Last year I attended a few Pinkfresh Studio Create and Connect events and really enjoyed them. Since then I’ve been slowly growing my Pinkfresh collection and over Christmas, I picked up the beautiful Always Smiling stamp set and coordinating stencil and die sets.

The layered stencils mean that you can colour the image very quickly but of course I chose to do something different here! I loved how Raquel Arribas used different colours on different stencilled flowers so I had to try it! It was actually pretty straightforward and wasn’t as time consuming as I feared!

I used a sentiment from the set plus the largest dies from the Nested Elongated Ovals Blanket Stitched die set to create the frame. The base is the Honey Bee Stamps Dogwood Blooms 3D embossing folder.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.