Hi everyone!
I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.
Today’s challenge is a sketch with lots of layers. I ‘cheated’ a bit and used ink blending instead of one layer!
I used an older Hero Arts cling stamp and my favourite Sizzix tree embossing folder for my take.
The sentiment is by The Ton Stamps.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi everyone!
I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.
Today’s challenge is ‘Gingerbread Dreams’. I couldn’t find any gingerbread stamps or dies in my rather extensive collection but then I remembered the Gingermas House that I received in Pinkfresh Studio’s Holiday event kit!
I embossed it on kraft and coloured it with my Prisma coloured pencils. I embossed a kraft background panel with a Spellbinders folder and added The Greetery’s Pine Wisp die cut (which is actually cut from antique gold card) before adhering the house and adding a few pearls to complete my card.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi there and Happy Halloween!
It’s Day 5 of Ghost Week and I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge (I have NEVER entered this challenge so early!!) and this month’s Memory Box challenge where the theme is ‘happy haunting’.
For today’s card, I used the Cookie Jar die that was part of the Pinkfresh Holiday Event earlier in the month. I think I would have preferred to use a bigger card base to more add more white space around the focal point but I also wanted to use my Simon Says Stamp ghosts embossing folder one last time this year and guess what won that design struggle?!
I cut ghosts from Memory Box’s fun set of Haunting Ghosts which I’m proud to say that I have used on three cards this year! The fabulous houses are from Poppystamps’ Twisted Houses set – they worked so well with the jar!.
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
It was so sad to read the tributes to Barbara Anders on the Color Throwdown blog this week. I had noticed that she had stopped designing a while ago as I always loved seeing her cards, she created some amazing inspiration. I also loved her joy of travelling and in particular her IG posts from my home town – her sense of adventure and love of travel and appreciation of her surroundings really touched me.
I send my heartfelt condolences to her husband, family and friends including the CTD team members past and present who shared such beautiful words. She touched many hearts and will be very missed.
The combo this week is orange, cream and kraft and I used a variety of Spellbinders products for my take. The sentiment is by Technique Tuesday.
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LucieG.
Hello again!
Next up today is my entry in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a primary combo of red, yellow and blue. One of my very first entries into the Color Throwdown was for this very combo in 2016, before I had this blog, but I did create this card for another primary combo in 2021. I have to confess that I find this combo very challenging and I was going to skip it until I saw the little chubby tree card I created a few weeks ago which combined an aqua/blue tree and red pearls… and so I was inspired to get crafty!
I saw a card using the Stampin’ Up Decorative Trees on Instagram in mid September. I rarely buy from Stampin’ Up partly because I’ve found their dispatch to be very slow and I’m very impatient for new goodies. But I liked the trees so much that I said that I would get them the next time I spotted an offer on shipping. I checked and there was a post for free shipping the very next day! I could not believe it! And to top it off, the order was actually shipped two days later!
Anyway, I used a couple of tree dies for this card, together with a circle die from The Greetery and a Spellbinders embossing folder.
The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Happy Monday everyone!
Today I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge using some products kindly sent to me by Penny Black from their new release – Wishing You Joy – Christmas Round 2 plus some older products.
When I saw the beautiful Rural Winter stamp (40-944), I zeroed in on the cluster of trees to the right of the image and knew that there would be so many possibilities with just a section of the stamp, as well as creating a card with the full landscape. I stamped the trees using various distress inks and pens and added some glitter to the background. I then added the cute deer from the Together die set (51-069) which I cut from gold glitter card and reversed the image. I always find that glitter card is the most forgiving card when reversing die cuts. I layered the deer on a few die cuts as its legs are very delicate before adhering it to my stamped panel. I added my most-used star from the Christmas Wonderland die set (51-562).
To create the shaker frame I cut the middle-sized image from the wonderful new Whirl die set (51-827) several times and adhered them together – you could also use foam tape instead of all the layers of card if you prefer. I added some sequin stars to create my shaker card.
For the card base, I used the new Comfy embossing folder (65-023)
This shaker card was really difficult to photograph in my photo/lighting box so I had to get a bit creative but I think I got there in the end!
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
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