Technique – die cutting

Featuring die cutting

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!)

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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!

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LucieG.

Double Frame Berry Tree

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Today I’m using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black to play along in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a beautiful combo – teal, purple and green.

I really wanted to use the new Double Frames die set (51-825) last week when I was playing with the little chubby tree, so I knew that I would be using them for today’s card. I cut the inner  die cut from vellum and the outer frame from white card which I covered with a VERY light layer of Villainous Potion distress ink. I lightly blended Broken China distress ink on the centre of my card base and stamped the branch from the Fragile set (31-087) a few times (third generation stamping to get that light tone-on-tone effect). I layered on the frames using foam tape.

Next up, my focal point… today it’s the turn of the tree from the Berry Basket set (51-796) which I got last year but which was seriously neglected…. it’s such a fun, delicate design and worthy of as much attention as the little chubby tree really! Anyway, I cut it from green and white glitter card and also green mirror card and then layered the images together, adhering them along the stem only. After sticking it to my card base, I added a few mini pom-poms. Once they were firmly adhered, I fluffed up each of the stems and leaves… this card has a LOT of depth!

To complete my card, I used a sentiment from the Nature’s Rubies mini stamp set (31-937).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.