Technique – die cutting

Featuring die cutting

Yellow petal egg

 

Hello there!

Today I’m playing along in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge where the colour palette is pink, yellow and green. Wonderful for Easter and spring cards!

I picked up the Birch Press Design Layered Petal Egg die set in a sale recently and have been looking forward to using it – today was the day! I took inspiration from this card I made three years ago and paired it with the Birch Press Design Oval Leaf Branches Contour Layers dies and a few Poppystamps flowers.

I adhered the adorned egg to a panel embossed using the Nellie’s Choice Egg embossing folder and added a sentiment by Simon Says Stamp to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Little Cotton Tails

Hello everyone!

Next up today is my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I knew I wanted to use the sweet Oh Bunny set by Simon Says Stamp for my take and I love Lisa Addesa’s clever card using this set so decided to incorporate her inspiration into my take on the sketch.

I used a couple of dies from the My Favorite Things Stitched Domes STAX die set to cut a window in my card base and a separate base for my bunny scene. I blended distress ink over the larger dome and then stamped, cut and coloured the largest bunny image from the stamp set.

I blended various green distress inks on a panel of white card which I then cut using a couple of Lawn Fawn grass dies. I then adhered the grass die cuts to the outside of the card and the bunny scene to the inside of my card. I adhere some white mini pompoms to each bunny.

To complete my card, I added a Memory Box sentiment.

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LucieG.

Thank you forget-me-nots

 

Hi there!

After a busy day in my garden yesterday, I rewarded myself with a full day in the craft room today. First up is the card I made for this week’s Color Throwdown challenge where the colour palette is light blue, grey and brown.

I pulled out a couple of older Greetery dies for my card – the Forget-Me-Not and Wood Slices die sets. I coloured the images with alcohol marker and distress inks – I was happy to use my brand-new Scorched Earth distress ink for the edge of the wood slice and also smooshed some Lost Shadow onto my card base!

After adhering the die cuts to my card base, I added a sentiment from a new set by The Greetery to complete my card.

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LucieG.

Daffodil delight

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A few weeks ago I made a card to celebrate the arrival of the first daffodil of the year in my garden and I’ve been wanting to use the fabulous Spellbinders/Simon Hurley Daffodil Frame die set again.

So today was the day. I decided that I would use this card as my entry into the Spellbinders Cardmaking Star contest and wanted to just use Spellbinders products (although non-Spellbinders products were permitted).

Once again, I cut the main daffodils image from the frame and used it with the separate flower and leaf layers.

I created a pot using half of the central section from the Infinity Punch & Pierce plate and then coloured all images with distress inks.

I made a stencil from the Essential Stylish Ovals die set and lightly blended an oval on a white card panel. I then embossed the panel using the Flower Frenzy folder and arranged the die cuts. I added a sentiment from the Butterfly Sentiments stamp set to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Happy Mother’s Day 2024 – part deux!

Hello everyone!

Next up is the second of two cards I gave to my lovely mum today!

I recently picked up the Poppystamps Floral Vase Easel Pop Up set in a recent sale! I love the possibilities for this incredibly versatile set although I have to confess that this card took me MUCH longer to make than I had anticipated. And I used LOADS of different distress inks! My craft table looked like it had been hit by a tornado!

The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set.

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LucieG.

Happy Mother’s Day 2024!

Hello everyone!

Here is the first of two cards I gave to my lovely mum today!

This card was created with products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their new Scent of Spring release. I started with a fabulous image from the Scent of Spring clear stamp set (31-049). I love that they have another iteration of their beautiful autumnal brolly that I used last September! I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and then fussy cut it.

I then cut a piece of white card using the new All-in-one Octagon (51-816) and adhered a small panel of blended distress ink behind the ocatgon before adhering it to a square card base. I added the Ocatgon frame and brolly using foam tape before stamping a sentiment created from stamps from The Sweetest mini stamp set (30-294).

Finally I added a few butterflies from one of my favourite sets – Flourish and Butterflies (51-198).

I’m entering this into the March Flower Challenge where the theme is ‘Make a Square card’.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.