Technique – die cutting

Featuring die cutting

Bitty Botanicals

Hello everyone!!

While I love making CAS cards, I also love acquiring lots of pretty flowery products and just couldn’t resist the Bitty Botanicals suite by The Greetery. Well I tried to resist it, but just ended up buying it bit by bit over six months!! It’s such a clever little set where the greenery is stamped and then the flowers are stencilled.

I was originally going to create a CAS card with the little flowers but I just couldn’t cut the background image when I finished the stamping and stencilling! Next time!!

I added the Diamond Ribbons die cut to the image and adhered a few glittery ribbons and a Pinkfresh Studio sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Beautiful Branches

Happy Friyay everyone!

Who remembers Prima flowers? Oh, how I loved them. Still do… I just never use them! Anyway, one fabulous set served as the colour inspiration for today’s card.

Today’s new and unused product suite of choice is the Beautiful Branch set by Pinkfresh Studio which was sold out in our UK retailers but which I picked up directly from Pinkfresh during their amazing Small Business Saturday sale.

I coloured two branches with Pinkfresh and Distress inks and arranged them on my card before stamping the sentiment. I added some stickles as this was going to be a mailable card but them decided to add a few tiny die cut butterflies which are pretty delicate and probably won’t survive whatever Royal Mail are doing during the mail processing nowadays!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Mix n Match butterflies

Hello again everyone!!

Quick admin note: After some significant computer problems, I can finally update my blog! Over the next day or so I’ll be catching up with the posts I couldn’t share here but which I shared on Instagram – blog posts will be dated per the date I created/shared the cards.

Back in August I bought this fun Waffle Flower Studio Mix n Match Butterfly set, but somehow didn’t get round to using it…. until today!

I coloured each butterfly with various Pinkfresh and distress inks then added some glitter card inlaid accents – those dots were a bit fiddly but totally worth it!

I paired my little butterfly collection with an amazing Spellbinders embossing folder that landed on my doormat this morning – yep THIS morning! I’m starting 2026 as I intend to go o – by using goodies when I get them!

The sentiment is by Pinkfresh Studio.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Bright Garden Bouquet

Hi everyone!!

Another day, another Pinkfresh card! Today’s new and unused product suite of choice is the Garden Bouquet set which I picked up deeply discounted in an amazing Black Friday sale.

I wanted a bright and cheery card to a friend and totally stepped outside my comfort zone with the orange and yellow colour combo! I added an Altenew vase and adhered the images to a background panel that I had cut using the Charming Stitched Florals coverplate die, which I bought at the same time.

I had originally centred the vase and wasn’t going to add a sentiment. Then I decided to move the image to the left which opened up a great spot for a small sentiment – this one is by The Greetery.

Not much dimension on this card – just a few layers and stickles rather than gems. I really don’t know what Royal Mail is doing with these cards but at Christmas, all gems on every single card I received had been forced through the envelope (it’s quite a testament to the glue used that they were still in situ I suppose!).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Sweet Snowbells

Hi there!

Today’s CAS card showcases the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Snowbell Bouquet die set that I’ve been wanting to use since I bought it last May. I almost used it this weekend but decided to wait until my own snowdrops appeared – only a few stems are peeking through the arctic tundra that is my garden right now. But I didn’t put it away… and when I saw Beth Stern had a sweet new foster called Snowbelle yesterday, I decided it was a sign!

I used a Penny Black frame to ground my images and the sentiment is from an older Clearly Besotted set.

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LucieG.

 

Sunshine Flowers

Hello everyone!!

Back to my recent Pinkfresh Studio purchases today and I’ve chosen the cheerful image from the Humbled and Grateful product suite. I had a lot of fun colouring this image in a slightly different way today because I decided to focus the colour at the ends of the petals – I really like how it turned out!

I adhered it to a panel that I had cut with the Stitched Diamonds Coverplate die (another Black Friday bargain!) and added a sentiment that was lurking in my sentiments box.

It’s a little early in the month for me to commit a project to the January Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge but as we can add three entries I’m going to link it up. The theme for the month is ‘Year in Review’ – and I have chosen the April 2025 theme of Floral Frenzy!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG