Technique – die cutting

Featuring die cutting

Red Bouquet

Happy June everyone!

How can it be June already? After a super busy May, I’m hoping to have more crafty time this month and I want to gear up for my annual Christmas in July challenge!

Today I’m playing along in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a very patriotic red, white and blue combo. I briefly toyed with creating a litt;e London scene with some of my older stamps but my dies won the day and so I ended up with a non-patriotic card, although I do feel this could also be used as a remembrance card.

The two flower dies are by Simon Says Stamp (Layered Perky Flower and Cosmos Stem) and I adhered them to a background embossed with my favourite Stampin Up folder called Painted Texture.

The stamp is by The Greetery.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hark the Herald Angels sing

Happy Festive Friyay!

It’s been a while but I’m back with a festive card – after all, I’ve got to get into training for Christmas in July! Today I’m playing along with the current technique challenge over at the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

The DT had a Tic-Tac-Toe challenge for us this week and I chose the centre line – Angel/Favourite Colour/Holiday Sentiment.

It was the perfect challenge for the bargain Memory Box Gilded Angel Backdrop die that I picked up in September last year, but didn’t use… until now! I paired it with a Memory Box background die, some blended purple ink and a Hero Arts stamped sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Inspired by Wedgwood

Hello there!

This evening I suddenly remembered that I wanted to play along with the Poppystamps Bloom Where You Are Planted challenge.

I had originally planned to use the flower dies I had purchased from Poppystanos’ newest release, but time was short and the card I had in mind would be a little too fiddly to complete by the deadline (well, OK as I’m in the UK – my bedtime really!).

So, instead, and using Wedgwood pottery as my inspiration, I pulled out a ten-year old die and got creating! The die I used is called Brighton Flower Border. Isn’t it pretty! I really must remember to use it again when time is not of the essence – I can just imagine a card with the Brighton flowers in cheery colours!

So although this card came together really quickly, I spent far too long looking for the Memory Box paper stack that I wanted to use for it! Whenever I want to use this stack, it seems to disappear on me. I found it in the end, but I’m definitely going to make a note of where I hide/store it next. It’s so frustrating when things go AWOL isn’t it? One of the least joyful parts of crafting me thinks!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Thanks a bunch

Hi everyone!

Today I’m using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black for my card for the Just Us Girls colour challenge and the 700th challenge over at Just Add Ink where the theme is ‘just add shimmer or shine’. Congrats to the JAI team for that amazing milestone and thank you for all your inspiration and support over the years!

After all my problems photographing my last grey card, I decided that I would not be using grey card for my base this time! Instead I blended some Hickory Smoke distress ink across my white card base before applying parts of the Shimmering Tune Stick & Shine Sheet (15-005) and covering it with foil from the Metallics foils set (21-001).  Next I cut a tag from the Tagged die set (51-007) which I covered with Dried Marigold distress ink. I then cut and coloured three of the fabulous Flower Family dies (51-819) and arranged them on my tag. I added a small butterfly from the Flights of Fancy die set (51-132) to a small circle from the Encircled die set (51-074).

After working out where I was going to position my die cuts, I stamped a sentiment from the So Thankful set (30-914) and then adhered all my images using foam tape before adding a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Just by being you

Hi everyone!

Next up today is the card I made for the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

First of all, I cut the new Layered Bloom die (51-818) and Whisper die (51-737) and coloured them with distress inks before trimming the Whisper stem die and arranging the layered bloom on top. I then cut the fabulous YOU die (51-760) from some pink and white card, layered them together and adhered it to my card base. I stamped part of a sentiment from the Brighten The World stamp set (31-056) and tucked in the die cut stem.

I added a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.