Technique – die cutting

Featuring die cutting

Fluttering Butterflies

Hello again!

Next up today is my entry in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a fun combo of yellow, pink and orange.

I fell in love with the beautiful Pinkfresh Studios Fluttering Butterflies product suite in August when only the dies and washi tape were available here in the UK. Fortunately Bumbleberry’s got the stamps and stencils in stock in September and I grabbed them straightaway!

I can’t believe I haven’t managed to use them but when I saw this week’s colour combo, I knew it was finally time to play with them!

I used Altenew inks to colour the butterflies and a Spellbinders embossing folder to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ornament branch

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s  Freshly Made Sketches challenge using some products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

When I saw the sketch, I thought that I would hang a row of baubles in the top left corner and another image to the bottom right corner but then I found this beautiful Ornament Branch die (51-481) and pivoted to that! I coloured it with distress inks and layered it to another die cut to provide some stability as it’s a delicate image.

I stamped a sentiment from the Festive and Feathery mini stamp set (30-926) but felt that the panel still needed something to balance the greenery in the top left so cut a section of the Ornament Branch and used that.

To complete my card I added a star from the Christmas Wonderland die set (51-562) to the centre of the ornament.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Row of Birthday Flowers

 

Hello everyone!

A quick post today with my card which is my very late entry into the Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown challenges.

I used a beautiful Pinkfresh Studios set called Modern Botanicals for my take. This was a set that I received as part of the August Create and Connect set – it is so easy to colour with the coordinating stencils!

I didn’t have much crafty time to create this card so I didn’t add anything to the background – I would have liked to dry emboss it had time allowed. Instead I added a green strip to anchor the flowers, a few sequins and a Clearly Besotted sentiment.

I will be back a bit later with more photos – got to press publish now to hit the challenge deadline (hopefully)! (ETA – now added!)

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Halloween Butterflies

Hello again!

Next up today is my entry in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a beautiful and unusual combo of burnt orange, black and sage.

I saw this sentiment online over the weekend – I think it was Instagram, but I can’t find it again now. But anyway it really made me stop and think… I decided it would be perfect to create some colourful bats from patterned paper for this week’s challenge.

Believe me, if you had told me a few years ago, hey even 48 hours ago, that I would be making a BAT card, I would NEVER have believed you. The bats have clearly recruited an excellent publicist this year!

I actually thought I had a lot of bat dies but when I looked through my supplies they were generally small and coordinating dies. So I chose some from a Spellbinders Halloween set that I bought a few years ago and got cutting.

I printed the sentiment onto some mottle-effect card that I have had forever and cut it with an irregular circle die to create a moon.

This was super difficult to photograph in my photo box – I may try to take the photos again in natural daylight…

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

A Happy Meowlloween

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s  Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Each year I tell myself ‘no more Halloween supplies’ and each year I succumb! I just couldn’t help myself when I spotted these cute Poppystamps Ghostly Cats dies when I was buying a few of their Christmas dies from Bumbleberrys. I was so surprised that we in the UK had the release on launch day – we usually have to wait a few weeks to get hold of it! And I was even more pleased to see that these dies are made in the USA!

Anyway, I have taken a few liberties with the challenge sketch. My kitties were smaller than the triangles in the sketch so I turned the sketch into and element on the card base.

The background panel is a Simon Says Stamp embossing folder (I used the debossed side so that the cute ghosts didn’t overwhelm the kitties) and the sentiment is from a very old set by My Favorite Things.

I’ve just seen that the Poppystamps challenge this month is ‘clean and simple’ – my favourite! So I’m entering this there too!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Great to see you

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s  Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I used the beautiful Paper Rose Studio Poppy Field Circle die set and a piece of Craft Consortium patterned paper.

I added a sentiment by My Favorite Things – although this card was completed before the release of the Princess of Wales’s video today, I thought the sentiment ended up being very apt!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.