Hello again everyone!
Next up today I’m playing along in the sketch challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches using dies from the Flower Stems set by Waffle Flower Crafts.
After colouring the dies cuts with Distress Oxide inks and coloured pencil, I cut an oval from my card base. I then adhered a piece of vellum embossed using the Simon Says Stamp Geometric Lattice embossing folder.
Finally I added a sentiment by Sugar Pea Designs, some sequins and stickles.
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LucieG.
Happy Thursday everyone!
Today I’m playing along in the Poppystamps challenge which has the theme of ‘Heart-felt’ and challenges us to use a heart and/or felt!
So I knew I wanted to add two colourful felt hearts to this beautiful Poppystamps True Love Stem… but could I find my felt anywhere? Nope! It’s completely disappeared! I know I only use it once or twice a year but I must have tidied it into a clever spot when I did some reorganising….
Luckily I found a few lilac and white scraps and coloured the white scrap using an alcohol marker. I coloured the rest of the die cut with distress inks and adhered it to a panel that I’d embossed with a Carabelle Studio folder. Finally I added a sentiment by Sugar Pea Designs – instead of the valentine’s card that I’d originally planned, I converted my designto an anniversary theme!
Now, who wants to bet that I’m going to find all my felt this evening?!
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Today I’m playing along in the Time Out challenge to CASE a beautiful card by Michelle Ferguson.
As soon as I saw Michelle’s card, I immediately thought of the Leaf Bundle embossing folder that I picked up recently from Simon Says Stamp. I decided that I wanted to ink up the folder so that the leaves popped, but I’ve had very limited success with this technique in the past. But today, I located an old brayer and used that to transfer Speckled Egg distress oxide ink – and I’m very happy with the result!
I added a vellum die cut (Sylvan Sprig by Poppystamps) and a sentiment by Concord & 9th plus a few Nuvo drops, although I wish I’d used silver Nuvo drops now rather than the purple as they look so dark in these photos!
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LucieG.
Happy Saturday Everyone!
The theme of this month’s Memory Box / Outside the Box challenge is ‘tickled pink’ and although I was tempted to do a heart card for this challenge, I ended up going with a butterfly theme!
I used the beautiful Drifting Side butterfly with the Just Because script, both by Memory Box. The background is a Simon Says Stamp Embossing folder that I’ve coveted for a while but managed to get just before Christmas!
I’m also entering this into a brand new challenge called ‘Can you handle the pressure‘ – where the twist is pink. Thanks for letting me know about it, Diane!
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Happy Heart Day! Today I’m playing along with the photo challenge at the Inspirational challenge blog.
I chose the beautiful Floral Bouquet die by Memory Box and coloured it with distress inks and coloured pencils. The background embossing folder is also by Memory Box and the sentiment is by Savvy Stamps.
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Tday I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge with a Valentine’s card using non-traditional colours!
I received an order from Simon Says Stamp this morning – I picked up a few of their embossing folders in a sale last month! Anyway, I could not wait to play, so I misted the reverse of some satin cardstock and got embossing with the Pinpoint Starlets folder. I love the deep embossing folders but I am very careful after the Great Pinecone Plethora Trauma of 2021! Anyway, I have found it easier to put a cutting plate on top of the embossing folder rather than below it – I find it ensures this satin cardstock stays in place.
I left the cardstock dry and die cut the hearts using a few Memory Box heart dies. I then adhered the Poppystamps Doodle Happy Valentine’s Day on the gold heart before sticking all the hearts onto the embossed base. I have to say this was very difficult to photograph but I got there in the end!
The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge has a theme of embossing this week, so I’m also entering this card over there!
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LucieG.
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