Technique – die cutting

Featuring die cutting

Star Celebration

Hi there!

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge is celebrating its 8th birthday this week and so the theme is ‘Happy Birthday’. I paired these wonderful new-to-me SSS stamps with a SSS die cut from a distress oxide background I created when playing with the inks last week.

Im also entering this into the current Simon Says Stamp Flickr challenge (‘something new’).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Rainbow Flowers

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The theme for this week’s Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is ‘rainbow’. I used Tim Holtz/Sizzix dies to cut the flowers and then stuck them to a distressed background (which has a generous coating of distress mica spray – gotta love that sparkle!). Sentiment is by Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Egg-stra Special!

Happy Saturday! I used Lawn Fawn’s Happy Hatchlings die set for this Easter card. Yes, I confess it took a long time to do the inlaid die cutting for those dotty eggs! Even did a bit of controlled ink smooshing which is not one of my usual techniques but I think you’ll be seeing it more in future!!

I found this sentiment in my Easter stamp box – bought it years ago from Archivers. Ah, such a wonderful store and very sorely missed!

I’m entering this into the current Color Throwdown challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Thanks

The weather has been glorious today and I’ve been gardening – which means no time in my craft room! So here’s another card that I did for my SSS Flickr guest spot. I used a gorgeous new stamp from Penny Black and a die from Simon Says Stamp to create my very first hidden sentiment card.

The current challenge (‘something new’) runs until 13 April – hope you can play along!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Happy Spring!

Hi there!

The daffodils are gradually being replaced by tulips in my part of the world and today I saw some beautiful tulips in Borde Hill Gardens which inspired me to make this card using a beautiful Memory Box die. The stamp is by Simon Says Stamp and I also used a new Altenew Stencil to add some interest to the base card.

I’m entering this into the current Case This Sketch challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Celebrate

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I’m taking a break from my Easter crafting and pulled out an older background stamp by Penny Black together with dies from my Favorite Things and Lawn Fawn for this card.

I’m entering it into the current Casology challenge (text) and the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG