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My last card for today is the card I made for Day 18 of Simply Graphic’s advent challenge!
This time, we had to include at least one animal so I chose the fabulous SG deer – I just love his antlers, don’t you? I added a few SG berry die cuts and a bit of silvery thread to complete my take.
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LucieG.
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Next up today is the card I made for Day 16 of Simply Graphic’s advent challenge!
The theme was embossing! Oh how I love both heat and dry embossing! I selected the latter and used my fabulous Crafter’s Companion/Gemini Pinecone Plethora folder. I added SG label and foliage die cuts. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted as I don’t have any Simply Graphic sentiments.
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LucieG.
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Next up today is the card I made for Day 4 of Simply Graphic’s advent challenge!
A really interesting challenge – to CASE an older summery card by Cecile and convert it into a wintery card! I used a couple of SG dies and mirror cardstock for my take. The sentiment is from a Penny Black set as I don’t have any Simply Graphic stamp sets.
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LucieG.
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First up today is the card I made for Day 19 of Simply Graphic’s advent challenge!
You know how I love a good sketch challenge and this one was particularly interesting because the sentiment was placed above the images! I loved Cecile’s interpretation and decided to stamp three blocks of colour to ground my images. I added a few die cuts and a New Year’s sentiment.
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LucieG.
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Today I’m paying tribute to my 2021 yoga journey with a card using products from Penny Black!
But first, a little background story. About a year ago, a post popped up on my instagram feed about Adriene’s 30 day yoga programme. I was intrigued… I had tried yoga before but it hadn’t stuck – I had always become bored and demotivated and stopped… but something about this programme made me want to try it. So I did…. and somewhere along the way something just clicked. By Day 20, I had started to feel disappointed that the programme was coming to an end…. And then I discovered that each month the Yoga with Adriene team issues a new calendar of mostly older sessions – I was delighted – I knew that I needed the variety that a curated calendar would provide.
I started last January with zero expectations. Certainly no intention to practice daily beyond January! Yet that is exactly what has happened! Today, I completed my 361st consecutive day of practice (1 January was an intro session)! And I feel so much better for it! Some days I have practiced for an hour. Other days, 10-15 minutes…. But I have got on that mat every single day! I still have a long way to go – I know that the impact of decades of my western lifestyle can’t be erased over a year or two or three. But that’s ok. I love my daily sessions and I know have made progress this year. I’m in it for the long haul.
So onto the card! To start with, I created an ink-blended background section using distress inks and then stamped, coloured and fussy cut the main image from the Breathe mini set (30-473). Next, I cut some flourishes and butterflies from vellum using dies from the Flourish and Butterflies die set, 51-198) and adhered everything to my card base. Finally I stamped the sentiment from the Breathe set.
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LucieG.
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Next up today is the card I made for Day 15 of Simply Graphic’s advent challenge!
Another colour combo challenge! The palette was shades of blue and brown plus either gold or copper. I rarely use copper so I pulled out my old pearlescent cardstock an got to work! I loved all the different textures in the challenge graphic so I tried to replicate it by using different cardstocks in my card. I used one of my favourite dies from Simply Graphic – unfortunately it doesn’t cut very well at top so I rarely use it. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp as I don’t have any Simply Graphic sentiments.
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LucieG.
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