Hello everyone!
Today I’m playing along in the sketch challenge hosted by Sunday Stamps.
For my take on the sketch, I started by cutting some patterned paper with a die from Paper Rose’s Track Circle frame set. I then cut two older Simon Says Stamp dies – the Adeline Butterfly and the Calliope Flourish and coloured them with distress inks.
I added a few Nuvo drops to the flower centres, a Sugar Pea Designs sentiment and a few sequins to complete my take.
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LucieG.
Hi there!
Today I’m playing along with the colour challenge at The Paper Players.
I love that one of the colours this week is called ‘Daffodil Delight’ and so I just had to include them in my card! My new Marianne Designs daffodil die arrived this morning so I jumped at the chance to play with it straight away. I paired it with a Honey Bee Stamps Grapevine die that I cut twice. All die cuts are coloured with distress ink.
I used an older WRMK 3D embossing folders – I always think of these as the original 3D embossing folders, they really took embossing folders to the next level!
To complete my card, I added a sentiment from an older set by Neat & Tangled.
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Today I’m playing along in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.
I’ve recently reorganised my dies and when I saw the sketch, I decided to create what I’d originally thought of as the background using an Avery Elle kraft frame die. I sponged some distress ink onto the base of the frame to reflect the sketch.
I smooshed green and purple distress ink onto the card base and coloured the Memory Box Daisy Stems die cuts with the same colours as the background dried. After adhering the diecuts and frame, I added a Memory Box sentiment to complete my card.
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LucieG.
Happy Saturday!
Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fabulous palette of pink, lime green and grey.
When I saw the inspiration photo, I really wanted to play with my Kitsch Flamingo distress ink, which I felt would be perfect, especially as I haven’t used the colour very much as I tend to gravitate towards the pastels. However, I also had an idea for the Waltham Egg by Memory Box and went with it. I decided to colour the foliage on the egg with my Twinkling H2Os rather than the distress ink so Kitsch Flamingo stayed in my drawer.. again! I did use Hickory Smoke for the egg background.
Anyway, after assembling the egg, I adhered it to a panel that I’d embossed using Simon Says Stamps’ Splendid Leaves embossing folder and added a few white branches cut with the Memory Box viburnum branches. The sentiment is by Sugar Pea Designs.
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LucieG.
Happy Friyay everyone!
Today I’m playing along with the spring challenge at The Paper Players.
When I saw the challenge graphic, my eye was immediately drawn to the little nest and knew that it was time to pull out my Easter dies! I bought the Twiggy Nest die by Memory Box back in 2020 and only used it once or twice last year, so I’m determined to show it more love this year! I paired it with the Poppystamps Whittle Eggs which I cut from a panel of card that I’d covered in Speckled Egg Distress Oxide ink. I don’t recall using Speckled Egg ink for my Easter cards last year… not sure why as it’s clearly the perfect colour!
I smooshed some Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide ink on my card base and splattered some Speckled Egg ink. Finally I added a Memory Box sentiment.
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Yoday I’m playing along in the sketch challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches using Penny Black dies and stamps.
I started by blending some distress ink onto my card base and then cut two sections of white card using an edger die from the Border Collection (51-717) and adhered them to my card base. I cut the foliage using the Frosted Greens (51-710) and Garden Greens (51-652) die sets and coloured three of them with distress ink.
I used a stamp from the Perfectly Potted (30-874) stamp set for the vase (super easy to fussy cut – if only all fussy cutting was this simple, eh!!) and adhered everything to my card.
Finally I added a sentiment from the Snippets set (30-283) and a few sequins.
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LucieG.
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