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Heart Week – Day 1

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 1 of Heart Week!

My heart card today is my entry for this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

I chose Memory Box’s Banded Heart Locket die as my focal point. I don’t remember much about this die – which is really unusual for me – maybe I won it in a challenge… I don’t think I’ve ever used it before!

I cut it from some gold glitter paper and adhered some vellum behind it. I added a few hearts cut from a very old Simon Says Stamp/Kelly Purkey die set and a bow from the Memory Box Crisp Bows set for a subtle spot of colour.

The sentiment is from a Clearly Besotted set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Floral Bouquet Heart

Hi there!

I hereby declare this week Heart Week! I have so many neglected heart dies and stamps that I want to use so I’m going to try to create a card with a heart or two every day this week… we’ll see how that goes!

In the meantime, first up is my entry for the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fun palette of green, blue and kraft.

I used the beautiful Memory Box Floral Heart Bouquet die which I coloured with alcohol makers and coloured pencils. I added some foam tape to the top centre of the heart so that it has a little bit of dimension.

I added heart trim to the card base using a Sugar Pea Designs border die and a sentiment from a Spellbinders set.

To complete my card I added a few pearls.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Snowdrops for you

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the current Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

Do you have a stamp you reach for year after year? I have a few, especially this beautiful Wintry Whites stamp (30-634) which I reach for when I see the snowdrops appearing in my garden. You can see the other cards I’ve made with it in previous years: 2021, 2022 and 2023.

For today’s card, I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the snowdrop image, cutting off the vase outline to leave just the stems. I then used the largest die from the Heart Balloons die set (51-493) to cut white cardstock that I spritzed with Wonderland Distress Mica Stain and lightly sponged with Frayed Burlap distress ink.

I cut the fabulous YOU die (51-760) from some speciality paper and adhered it to a panel on my cardbase. I stamped part of a sentiment from the Fragrant Friends stamp set (30-807) and arranged the die cut elements. Finally I added the tiny bow from the Little Ornaments die set (51-090), butterflies from the Flourish and Butterflies die set (51-198) and a few gems.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Sparkly Snowfall

Hi again everyone!

Next up today is the card I made for the Memory Box Snowfall challenge.

I started by creating a blended panel using regular distress inks. I then cut the beautiful Silent Snowflake Frame die from glitter card and adhered to my card base. I cut the Alpine Snowflake from holographic card and adhered to the centre of the card.

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from an older set by The Ton Stamps and  a few gems.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Best heart

Hi everyone!

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

I’ve been wanting to ink up the Wholeheartedly cling stamp (40-817) again and today was the day. I really think that this is my favourite heart stamp and an absolute joy to colour! This time, I stamped it in Lost Shadow distress oxide ink and then coloured it using my Prismacolor pencils.

I masked off a frame and lightly blended distress ink over the background. I then added a few vellum dragonflies from the Flutter die set (51-006) and a butterfly from the Flourish and Butterflies die set (51-198).

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from the Trust Me builder set (30-710) and a few gems.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Sparkly Nordic Bird

Hi again everyone!

Next up today is the card I made for the Poppystamps Sparkling New Year challenge.

I started by applying a layer of sparkle texture paste to a sheet of Craft Consortium paper. While that was drying, I built my bird! This little guy is cut from ivory glitter cardstock which I coloured with alcohol markers.

I have to say that I’m glad I received this Nordic Bird set directly from Poppystamps because I noticed that he’s actually looking in a different direction from the image on the packaging and on the DT cards on the blog… I don’t think this has happened with any dies that I’ve bought before and had I bought it somewhere else I suspect that I would have felt that something was amiss! At least I know for sure this is a bone fide Poppystamps product!

Once the paper was dry and sparkling, I cut the Snowflake Tall Curve border die twice and adhered it to my card base. To anchor my bird, I then added a glittery focal point cut using the fabulous Oval Burst die and added a Penny Black sentiment before adhering the bird and a few gems.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.