Technique – dry embossing

Featuring dry embossing

Timeless Tulips

Hello everyone!!

I’m still playing with the Sunshine and Smiles release from Pinkfresh Studio that I won last month. I just love how easy it is to colour their beautiful images with the coordinating stencil sets! I coloured the Timeless Tulips image this weekend and decided it would work well with the sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

The image is large – maybe 10cms tall so I decided to use a larger card base – this is 7″x5″ (yes, you know I hate inches but the whole inches I can cope with, it’s when I have to deal with fractions of an inch that my metric head can’t cope!). For the background, I embossed a white panel with the Radiant Burst embossing folder by Spellbinders and adhered the tulip image.

The sentiment is from the Sunshine and Smiles sentiment set. I rarely stamp sentiments in coloured ink but the brown version of this sentiment got lost in the tulip stems so I stamped it with one of the Pinkfresh inks that I had used to colour the image – I much prefer how it turned out!

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LucieG

Colourful block print radiant butterfly

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First up today is my entry into this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

My focal point again today is the stunning Birch Press Design Block Print Radiant Butterfly die set – I first used it for this card that I made as soon as it arrived a couple of months ago! I don’t know about you, but I always feel pretty chuffed when I use new products a lot – or more than once at least!

This time I cut the fabulous bold butterfly from Spellbinders card and adhered it to an ink-blended background embossed with the Stampin’ Up Painted Posies folder.

The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.

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LucieG

Spellbinders Weekender 2025

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This weekend, I took part in Spellbinders’ Weekender event. I was only able to watch a few classes live as the event was held in the US Pacific time zone which is 8 hours behind us in the UK, but it was a fun event!

Kim Kesti was first up on Day/Evening 1 (which I watched the following morning) and used a fabulous ship die set called Deckside Dreams. Kim’s ship was pretty colourful but as I’ve only been on one cruise (with Holland America), I used that ship as inspiration for a more monochromatic take. I sponged a little white ink on the hull/bow of the ship to mimic breaking waves.

The kit included some blue Hero Arts shimmer spray which I hadn’t used before. I was expecting it to behave like Distress Mica Sprays but it was far less easy to manipulate. The shimmer is amazing though!

Next up was Channin Pelletier’s card using my favourite product from the kit – am amazing die set called Beyond the Door. I’ve already played with this for this card and I think I will be reaching for it again and again! The kit included an amazing selection of coloured cardstock which I was particularly keen to see as it’s so hard choosing cardstock online. I supplemented it with some of my own cardstock for this card – including glitter card for that sea!

On Saturday, I was able to craft along with Cathy Zielske and created two cards. For the first card, we inked up an embossing folder using a Hero Arts Reactive Ink cube. I was VERY impressed with the coverage which is far better than I’ve achieved with other inks. May have to order more of those cubes!

I veered away from Cathy’s instructions on the second card – instead of embossing a yellow panel with the folder, I masked off a centre section, blended two distress inks (Mustard Seed and Wild Honey), rubbed in some Perfect Pearls, removed the masking tape and embossed the entire panel. It’s on old school Jennifer Maguire technique which she used with what I believe were the OG 3D embossing folders by We R Memory Keepers. Her post about this is still on her blog!

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LucieG.

Made in May Card 14

Hello everyone!!

It’s been a busy bank holiday Monday for me – mainly dodging rain showers to cut my lawn! Fortunately I just managed to squeeze in time for my entry into the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I used a few images that I had already created during earlier crafty sessions – more images from Pinkfresh Studio’s beautiful Sakura stamp set that I used last month and that woodslice is by Stampin’ Up.

The fabulous embossing folder is the Rosette Burst by Spellbinders and the sentiment is by Sugar Pea Designs.

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LucieG

Made in May Card 10

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I was short on time today so chose a very quick CAS card using one element of the Spellbinders Patchwork embossing folder.

The flowery panel was slightly too short for my card base so I cut it and then adhered the Heffy Doodle sentiment die to hide the gap in the panel!

I added a few glittery butterflies from a Paper Rose Studio die set to complete my card.

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LucieG

Made in May Card 6

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Today I’m finally using the fabulous buttercup die set by Simon Says Stamp that I just HAD to buy when I saw an amazing card created by the talented Cindy Norberg.

The wood slice is from a die cutting/embossing folder set by Stampin Up that I got some time ago but hadn’t used. The sentiment is from a set by The Greetery.