Technique – die cutting

Featuring die cutting

Easter Bunny in Foliage

Happy Saturday!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a palette of sage green, purple and cream.

After overthinking my card for this challenge last week, I found this one MUCH easier! Flora and Faura shared their cute bunny die on Instagram earlier this week and I knew that I just had to use him again so that was my starting point! I paired him with a Poppystamps egg frame, Altenew foliage and a few Spellbinders flowers coloured with distress inks! Plus a sentiment from Taylored Expressions! Lots of different brands here! It was so much fun to make!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Easter Frames

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at The Paper Players.

Easter is fast approaching now, so time for me to get back to some seasonal cards! When I saw the sketch, I thought the You’ve been framed – Spring die set by Taylored Expressions would work well, so I pulled them out and got to work. I created a blended background using Distress Oxide inks, trimmed it into three rectangles and adhered three die cut frames. I inlaid aqua die cut pieces into the eggs and added a sentiment from the Mini Strips – Easter stamp set to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Wildflower Bouquet

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the CAS on Friday challenge which has the theme of ‘flowers’!

I really love all the bouquet dies that are around at the moment and just bought one by Marianne Designs which I decided to use for my card today. I must say, it’s actually much bigger than I was expecting but that meant that I could use some of my larger flower dies with it! For this card I reached for the beautiful flowers that Memory Box released about a year ago (Daisy Stems, Wildflower Stems, Lavender Stems, Seed Stems and Daisy Silhouette), which I coloured with distress inks and coloured pencil.

I added some stickles to the flowers and a Hero Arts sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Nordic Trio

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at Just Add Ink.

When I saw the sketch, I thought of some Marianne Designs dies that I got early last year – the set included a couple of test tube dies that I really wanted but somehow I never got round to using them!

Anyway, I cut the tubes from vellum and then came the challenge of choosing stems! My original planned flowers didn’t work – I think it’s because the tubes are close together. In the end, I used these wonderful Nordic Trio dies from Simply Graphic – I  think they work well with the layout of the tubes!

I added a sentiment by Memory Box and a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Honeysuckle Bowl

Hello again everyone!

Next today is my card for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

For my take, I used Paper Rose Studio’s Honeysuckle Plant and a bowl from a Sizzix die set, all coloured with distress inks. The sentiment is my Whimsy Stamps.

This was a really interesting sketch to play with and at first I used the die cut bowl to represent the middle strip in the sketch, but I didn’t really like how it looked, but I was much happier when I added that third yellow strip!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy Mother’s Day 2022!

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to share one of the cards I gave to my lovely mum today!

My mum has been very keen to have purple crocuses in her garden this year and when I saw The Greetery’s new crocus botanicuts set, I knew it would be perfect for a Mother’s Day card for her!

I spent a while trying a lot of different ink combos – using regular distress inks and distress oxides. In the end I just used one colour (Villainous Potion Oxide) and simply applied it more lightly for some petals. I absolutely loved making these flowers and ended up with a HUGE bunch for her card!

I adhered them onto a circle of patterned paper and then added an Avery Elle sentiment and a few sequins to complete my card.

I’m entering this into a new-to-me challenge, Cardz for Galz, where the theme is Spring Flowers for Mother’s Day.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.