Technique – dry embossing

Featuring dry embossing

Fir tree branches

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the technique challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge.

So when I tidied my craftroom after Christmas in July, I unearthed a stack of festive embossing folders that I picked up from Simon Says Stamp in an after Christmas sale. I was rather annoyed with myself for forgetting them – mind you in my defence, they were well hidden in my craft room!

Anyway, when I saw the challenge theme of embossing folder, I knew I had to play along. I used he Fir Tree Branches folder with some Nuvo embellishment mousse. The sentiment is by Creative Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy 600th Sketch!

Hello again everyone!

Today I am truly honoured to be celebrating an amazing milestone with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge team and a group of super talented players! Today is challenge number 600!

I enjoy playing along with card challenges and Freshly Made Sketches is one challenge that I always try to play along with whenever I can. I love how different the sketches are and the DT and other players’ cards are always soooo inspiring!

I discovered the challenge in 2016 – I was just on instagram back then but I’m pretty sure that this was the card I made for my first challenge entry – challenge number 261! (I actually unearthed this after I made my card for this week – it made me smile to see that my entry back then also had a dry-embossed strip!)

For today’s fabulous sketch, I chose the Floral Cluster die by Poppystamps which I coloured with distress inks. After adhering it to a die cut circle, I embossed a grey strip with a Simon Says Stamp folder, added a sentiment by My Favorite Things and a few die cut butterflies by Poppystamps and Simon Says Stamp.

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LucieG.

Corner Butterflies

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I originally planned to use a leafy corner die for my take on the challenge – but then I decided to go with a couple of Memory Box butterflies instead! I used the Drifting Side Butterfly and the smaller Flitter Side Butterfly cut from Craft Consortium paper and white glitter card. I lightly applied Salvaged Patina distress ink to ground the butterflies but felt the card still need a little something so I embossed the background using the Spellbinders Flower Frenzy embossing folder.

The sentiment is by Concord & 9th.

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 31

Hello there!

Welcome to Day 31 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

I received a nice crafty order this morning that included the fabulous Encircle embossing folder (65-009) and I could not wait to play with it! Such a unique folder – I love how the little dots within the circle are irregular!

After embossing a square panel, I added some stickles to dots at random. While that was drying, I cut the trunks from the Modern Christmas Tree die set (51-400) from various glitter card and arranged them on my card, trimming them down to add a little variety.

The sentiment is from the Meaningful stamp set (30-919)*.

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LucieG.

* Kindly sent to me by Penny Black

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 27

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 27 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s The Paper Players sketch challenge.

The star of today’s card is made from the fabulous Poppystamps Pine Needle Shoots die. I’m not sure how I missed it when it was released last year – I snapped it up as soon as I saw it online in January, knowing that it would get some use in July! I can’t believe that I didn’t use it until Day 27! But when I saw the sketch, I knew it was the perfect opportunity to showcase the pine needles. I cut each set of shoots three times from an ink-blended panel I made ages ago and then layered them up.

I used the amazing Sizzix 3D Christmas Trees embossing folder. I’ve had this a few years now and it is still one of my favorites!

The sentiment is from one of my trusty Mama Elephant sets.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 23

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 23 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Today I used a Spellbinders/Susan Tierney-Cockburn die set called Holiday Flora Pinecone and Evergreen Bough that I picked up in the sale a few months ago. I’m so grateful that Susan has made some amazing videos showing how to assemble these! The pine cones still took a while to create but I also tested out my new Waffle Flower Crafts grip mat when I coloured the scales – and it worked really well!

I used my fabulous Gemini embossing folder and a sentiment from My Favorite Things to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.