Technique – dry embossing

Featuring dry embossing

Egg Week 2025 Day 6

Hi there!

It’s Day 6 of LucieG’s Egg Week 2025! Today I decided to CASE another card I made back in February which coincidentally turned out to be my card for Day 6 of Heart Week 2025 – so weird after my Day 3 card!

I used the new Spellbinders coloured card in Windy, Seaside and Fairy Tale to cut a few eggs which I then coloured with a darker shade of distress ink. I’m extremely grateful to Michelle at The Card Grotto who shared a very informative post comparing the cardstock – it really helped me narrow down my choices as I often find the card I buy online is much darker than my preferred palette! Spellbinders UK has A4 sized card too – which is brilliant… I can almost forgive them for discontinuing my beloved Portobello cardstock… almost!

The largest die cut egg is the Waltham Egg by Memory Box. It’s dated 2016 and I probably bought it when it was newly released. Isn’t it pretty? I embossed the mint (Seaside) egg with the Simon Says Stamp Dancing Floral folder and then added lots of die cut butterflies from Simon’s Flickering Butterflies die set.

The sentiment is from a set by Taylored Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Block print radiant butterfly

Hello again!

After last week’s stress to get my card uploaded just before the Freshly Made Sketches challenge deadline, I made sure that my card was finished MUCH earlier this week!

I originally wanted to combine the sketch with my ongoing ‘Egg week’ Easter focus, but I really wanted to start using the Birch Press Design Block Print Radiant Butterfly die set that landed on my doormat this week. So I pulled out my mirror card and distress inks and got busy!

This is such a fabulous bold butterfly, it really doesn’t need a supporting cast so I opted for a simple embossed background using the Simon Says Stamp Star Lattice folder.

The sentiment is by Sugar Pea Designs.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Egg Week 2025 Day 2

Hi there!

It’s Day 2 of  LucieG’s Egg Week 2025!

Today I used the Big Egg die set by Reverse Confetti. I actually tried this with several different papers and colours but in the end I chose this version with some beautiful My Mind’s Eye paper. The background is a Spellbinders folder and the bow is from a new Simon Says Stamp set.

The sentiment is from a set also by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ikebana card

Hi there!

I’m quickly popping in with my entry for this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

I’ll be back later to add more photos, but want to make sure I hit the challenge deadline!

ETA – I’m so relieved I managed to get my entry in this evening. This week has been busy and I really haven’t felt like crafting! I only had a couple of hours to create a card this evening and although the card came together quickly, I wasted a lot of time trying to stamp a ‘perfect’ sentiment…. and after all that,  I had huge computer issues. I really thought I wouldn’t make it.

Anyway, I used a fabulous die set by Sizzix called ‘Ikebana’. I cut the images from Craft Consortium paper and then dry embossed a piece of my precious Basic Grey paper with a favourite Simon Says Stamp embossing folder called ‘Spun Glass’. I splattered some gold paint over the background, but the splatters are rather subtle so you can’t really see them in my photos.

The sentiment ifs from a My Favorite Things set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Sakura Celebration Day 2

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. Lots of layers and lots of older supplies used by yours truly this week!

I started by adhering a section of Memory Box’s Grape Vine border die to my card base.

I then created the central fishtail panel using distress inks, an older Cuttlebug embossing folder and a die by Simon Says Stamp.

The focal point is an older sakura stamp from Hero Arts’ Asian Frames clear set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Daffodils and butterflies

Happy Sunday friends!

Spring seemed to spring in my little part of the world this week and I managed to do some gardening, although today was less pleasant. Still I was in the mood for spring crafting and when I saw that the theme for this fortnight’s challenge at CAS on Sunday was ‘spring’, I decided to play along!

The daffodils are popping in my garden and all around the place right now – I love the bright bursts of colour, especially on greyer days like today! So I grabbed the Simon Hurley/Spellbinders Daffodil Frame die set and my inks and got busy!

I added my image to a background I had embossed with the Simon Says Stamp Floral Butterfly Bouquet folder. I love these tulip images and only noticed the butterflies after I had read the folder name when it was released last month. So when I felt that my card needed something more, a few butterflies seemed the natural choice and I die cut some using the Simon Says Stamp Flickering Butterflies set.

The sentiment is from an older Memory Box set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.