Hello everyone!
Next up is the second of two cards I gave to my lovely mum today!
I recently picked up the Poppystamps Floral Vase Easel Pop Up set in a recent sale! I love the possibilities for this incredibly versatile set although I have to confess that this card took me MUCH longer to make than I had anticipated. And I used LOADS of different distress inks! My craft table looked like it had been hit by a tornado!
The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set.
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LucieG.
Hi there!
Welcome to Day 7 of Heart Week! What a fun week it’s been! And I still have more ideas and stamps and dies that I want to use!
Anyway, my heart card today is my entry for this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.
I stated by creating an ombre ink blended panel using Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers and Unchartered Mariner distress oxide inks. I cut a large heart using an old Ellen Hutson die set and then cut smaller hearts from two Memory Box dies – Bundle Heart and Tender Heart. I have to confess it took me a LONG time to arrange all those hearts!
I cut a small section of a Studio Light border die and adhered it to my card base before adding the heart and finally a sentiment by My Favorite Things.
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LucieG.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
Ode of Remembrance, Laurence Binyon.
Card made using Penny Black supplies: Finesse die (51-769)* Jumbo Bauble die set (51-743)* and Trust Me Builder stamp set (30-710).
(* kindly sent to me by Penny Black)
Hello everyone!
Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge using some products that arrived this week in my order from Simon Says Stamp.
The combo this week is orange, pale blue and cream – another set that’s perfect for autumnal cards and I loved the inspiration photo so much – I was VERY tempted to pull out my pumpkin dies! But my keenness to use some of my new purchases won instead!
I love the Simon Says Stamp Gliding Butterflies embossing folder and stamp set as soon as I saw it in this year’s Stamptember release! I rarely pay full price for embossing folders but this one is too special and I’m to impatient to wait for a sale. I coloured the butterflies with Altenew and distress inks and thought about using some foundry wax like Nichol Spohr did with her AMAZING inspiration canvas. But I decided against it in the end because I need more practice with that medium!
As I wanted to use a lot of butterflies, I chose a slimline cardbase and applied a few sprays of Unravelled distress mic spray. The shimmer is amazing!!
I stamped a sentiment from the Thinking of You set (30-825) that Penny Black kindly sent me before adhering the butterflies to my card base.
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LucieG.
Happy Festive Friyay everyone!
I have to confess that I almost didn’t play along with the challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge where the theme is ‘Christmas Cup’. I do have a few Christmas mug stamps but I wanted to do something different…. Then today I remembered a bargain cup set that I go from Simon Says Stamp YEARS ago. I’ve never used the cup, but I did use the spoon from the set to make this card last year. Anyway, today was the day that the cup die finally had a chance to shine!
I also used one of my newest stamp sets – the Snowmen layered stamp set by Kitchen Sink Stamps, which sadly you can’t get from a UK store as far as I know (come on Seven Hills/ Dies to Die for/ Bumbleberrys!!)
I used three Altenew inks for the snowman and added extra die cuts coloured with distress inks. Lastly, I used a stencil with Tumbled Glass and Frayed Burlap distress inks to ground my die cuts and a sentiment from the Shine Upon You mini set (30-928) which was kindly sent to me by Penny Black.
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge using some products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.
The combo this week is orange, yellow and green – another set that’s perfect for autumnal cards! In fact when I saw this combo, I thought about doing a die cut leaf card…. but I really want to try my new mica stains for that idea and they haven’t arrived yet… hopefully they will get here this week!
Anyway, I LOVE Chinese Lanterns and thought that the beautiful Fall Flourish stamp (40-783) would work perfectly with the challenge colours. I coloured the image with my beloved Twinkling H2O paints and then fussy cut around the image – which wasn’t as tricky as I was fearing.
I decided that the yellow would serve as my backdrop and used a stencil from the Background Basics set (25-021) – I love how there are several sizes of stencils in this set – especially as I often use UK card sizes which are different from the US sizes. For this card, I used a larger rectangle stencil and blended Squeezed Lemonade/Scattered Straw distress inks before splattering some yellow paint on top.
I adhered the image with some foam tape and added some sequins and the sentiment from the Fall Fence set (30-931) to complete my card.
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LucieG.
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