HI everyone!
Today’s card was made for the colour challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches – which has a very Valentines-inspired palette!
I used dies by Memory Box and Sugar Pea Designs and the focal point is actually cut from the centre of a Memory Box embossing folder. I added a sentiment by Savvy Stamps.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hello everyone!
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.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hello everyone!
It’s also time for another challenge at AAA Cards! This fortnight we’d like you to create a CAS card using just an edge of your card. Our optional twist is ‘snowflakes’.
I always seem to use blues and purples with white when I make snowflake cards so I’ve changed it up today and have used kraft! All products are by Penny Black – I used the snowflake edger die from the Spirited die set (51-721) – the partial snowflakes on the edger die are replicated in full in the Dancing Snowflakes die (51-708), so I cut them out and added them on top using tiny bits of foam. Finally, I stamped a sentiment from the When Snow Falls sentiment set (30-881) before adhering this to my kraft card base.
My team mates have come up with some beautiful cards which are on the AAA Cards challenge blog. We are also joined a previous challenge winner, Jane, who has some sweet inspiration on her instagram feed!
Hope you can play along with us!
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi everyone!
As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post.
Day 6’s inspiration is Day 7, 2011.
I loved that Tracey used a Cuttlebug embossing folder for this tag – I have that very same folder so I HAD to use that on my tag base! I paired it with a sweet wood-mounted stamp by Hero Arts.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Greetings and happy Saturday friends
Today I have to report that the craftroom was the scene of a Great Trauma. The savage destruction of a beloved embossing folder, the Pinecone Plethora by Gemini. It got mangled in my die cutting machine and the hinges split apart. I am still now sure how it could have happened… I think I was trying to angle it a little too sharply and well, its demise was the result…. At least my Gemini Junior survived I suppose. But unfortunately I can seem to fashion an at home repair… Does anyone have any suggestions… or do you know where I might be able to locate a replacement? Google tells me that they are only to be found in a store in the Philippines!
At least I managed to create something with it – my entry for the sketch challenge at the Freshly Made Sketches challenge .
I blended various distress inks and then embossed the background before lifting some ink from the berries. I then added a sentiment from My Favorite Things to complete my entry.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Today I’m playing along with the theme challenge at The Paper Players and the sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.
When I saw the Paper Players theme, I immediately thought of my WRMK numbered ‘next level’ embossing folder. Remember those next level sets? I loved them… I think WRMK was pretty much the first manufacturer to come out with 3D embossing folders. I couldn’t stop buying them. Luckily I have a bit more self restraint nowadays!
I kept the card very simple and just added a Savvy Stamps die cut sentiment plus a Hero Arts sentiment.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
LucieG Cards 