Technique – heat embossing

Featuring heat embossing

Heat embossed heart

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown ! When I saw this week’s palette of red, pink and gold, I envisaged a red heart with a gold pattern and knew I wanted to do some heat embossing. That magical technique that took my breath away during my first stamping class! I don’t see much heat embossing nowadays – a lot of crafters seem to be into foiling. It’s times like this that I wish I still had a craft stire near me where I could take a few classes before deciding whether to embark on the world of foiling. Alas my last store closed in late 2019 and so foiling remains off my repertoire until I get a chance to play with it!

An so gold heat embossing was on the agenda for me this evening then! I chose and older Hero Arts background stamp and got busy! Once I embossed the image, I cut it with a Memory Box heart die and coloured it with Lumberjack Plaid distress oxide ink. I lifted some ink using water.

Turning to my card base, I initially played around with a hot pink background but in the end went with a lighter shade of pink which I embossed using a Simon Says Stamp folder.

After adhering the heart, I added a Memory Box stamped sentiment and a few gold sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

All you need is… smiles and hugs

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with some old and newer products from Penny Black. I started by heat embossing the All you need…. cling stamp (40-092) and blending Speckled Egg and Stormy Sky distress ink over it. I then cut the heart frame using a die from the Lovely Border die set (51-484). I added a butterfly from the Flourish and Butterflies set (51-198) and little birds from the Nestlings set (51-755)*. The sentiment is from the Banner sentiments (30-423)*.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

* Kindly sent to me by Penny Black

Tree-heart love

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with one of my favourite colour challenges – the Color Throwdown using some of my favourite Penny Black products.

This week, the colour combo is red, green and brown and I was SORELY tempted to make a Christmas card! In the end though, I decided to use one of my favourite Penny Black cling stamps – Tree-Heart (40-505). You can see a couple of my older creations here and here! Isn’t it funny that I also made them for Color Throwdown challenges?!

Today, I embossed the main image and coloured it with my Twinkling H2O paints and added some splatters. I cut a couple of strips brown card using a die from the Lovely Border frames set (51-484) and adhered them to my square card base. Finally I added a sentiment from the Special Sentiments set (30-574 ).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Dazzling Warm Wishes

Happy Sunday everyone!

I’m so happy to play along with one of my favourite colour challenges – the Color Throwdown which has a fab combo of black, white, grey and magenta.

Although I really wanted to make a card with a magenta bird after seeing the challenge graphic, instead I reached for the beautiful Birch Press Design Dazzle layer set – I love how quickly a card comes together with these layer die sets! They are so much fun to use! After adhering all the die-cut layers together, I embossed a sentiment from an older Simon Says Stamp/Darkroom Door collaboration set and adhered all the layers on top.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Day 1 – 6 Days of Christmas Tags 2022

 

Hi everyone!

Back in 2017, I discovered Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags and played along every year since then. Last year, she decided to stop hosting the challenge but as there’s 10 years of tag inspiration on her site, I decided to create my own event! So, I decided to create my own event and have decided to do that again this year! In November, I randomly selected 25 days from Tracey’s event blog posts from 2011 to 2020 and will be using those tags as my own inspiration! Unfortunately, life got super busy for me in the autumn so I wasn’t able to make 25 tags this year…. I only managed 6 which I will be sharing over my next few posts.

So for Day 1, the inspiration comes from Day 12, 2019. This is what I came up with in 2019.

I heat embossed some snowflakes on my kraft tag and added a Sizzix deer die cut. I covered his antlers in glitter and added a few pearls plus a stamped sentiment!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Sept 2022 Get Cracking on Christmas

Hello everyone!

I haven’t felt much like crafting this past week since the sad passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II. I’m glued to all the events and have been in awe watching history unfold. Although at times, I feel like I’m prying into private grief…

But today I was inspired to create with the beautiful Peaceful Woodland stamp set (30-922) that I received this week from Penny Black. I decided to play along with this week’s 52 Christmas Card Throwdown which has a colour combo challenge. The colours are blue, gold and white. I rarely use blue and gold together so was excited to see what I could come up with!

I embossed a tree from the set and then lightly sponged some Stormy Sky distress ink. I cut the image using a tag die from the Penny Black Tagged die set (51-007) and added some stickles and white pearls. I adhered the tag to my card base and stamped a sentiment from the Jolly Snippets set (30-925) – this is a brilliant sentiment set which I think I will be using a lot!!

This is doubling up as my festive card for Jenn Shurkus’s ‘Get Cracking on Christmas’. (As I was writing this post, I looked at my last Get Cracking on Christmas post – I missed August and July was part of my Christmas in July event, so I end up looking at June’s post. Weirdly, I had mentioned the Platinum Jubilee weekend in that very post! I’m glad that HM had the opportunity that weekend to have a very clear insight into how much the public appreciated her life of service.)

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.