Technique – ink blending

Featuring ink blending

Dream and Discover

Hello again!

In between all my festive cardmaking so far this month, I’ve also found time to play with some stamps and dies that Penny Black kindly sent to me from their latest Dream & Discover release.

I just couldn’t wait to ink up the Jellyfish from the beautiful Swimming By set (30-845)! First of all, I blended some distress ink using an oval mask and stamped some seaweed (from Swimming By and Starfish Wishes (30-847) sets) before removing the mask. Then I stamped the beautiful Jellyfish using a light ink. I coloured in the image using my Twinkling H2Os before stamping the image again in Distress Oxide ink. This is when I realised that my colouring was far too soft, but I couldn’t use my Twinklings again because I didn’t want the oxide ink to bleed. So I turned to my Prisma pencils instead! Finally I added some sequin bubbles and a sentiment from the Snippets set (30-283)!

For my next card, I used the beautiful Seashells set (30-843). I love these shells so much! Super easy to fussy cut and a joy to colour! I wanted to add a little something different to the background so I cut up a die cut from the Wonky Squares die (51-424) to resemble a net!

For my last card today, I used the fabulous Tropical Paradise dies (51-643) which I coloured using distress inks before adhering to a partially-blended background. The sentiment is from the Grateful Heart set (30-467).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2021 – Day 17

Happy Saturday everyone!

Welcome to Day 17 of Christmas in July 2021! Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

I was so pleased when I saw this sketch as I immediately thought of the Poppystamps Dancing Snowflake Tile die that was a total impulse buy when I got carried away with the online Christmas sale at one of my favourite UK online stores last December. I certainly didn’t need it but I have so many snowflake dies…..but it’s just so pretty!

Anyway, I adhered it to a very old background remnant which I have held onto for YEARS! I’m glad I finally used it!

To complete my card, I added a sentiment by Hero Arts.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2021 – Day 14

Hello again everyone!

Welcome to Day 14 of Christmas in July 2021! I was having a quick look at the cards I’ve made so far and I can’t quite believe we’ve got to almost the halfway point and I haven’t made a card with a snowman or snowflake. So I’m changing that today using some Penny Black products.

I pulled out my favourite snowman die (Snowman Joy 51-272) – I always smile when I see this die, I think the name is absolutely perfect, he certainly looks like a joyful snowman to me! I coloured him using my Twinkling H2O paints. I created a soft ink blended panel using distress inks and adhered him on top. Finally, I added a few die cut snowflakes (Snow Family Cut Out 51-395) and a sentiment (Holiday Snippets 30-307).

I’m entering this into the current Sparkles Christmas challenge where the theme is more than one snowflake.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2021 – Day 8

Happy Thursday everyone!

Welcome to Day 8 of Christmas in July 2021! Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches and the current Color Hues challenge.

I used another recent purchase – the fabulous Bottlebrush Trees by Spellbinders and lots of different blue distress inks for the background.

To complete my card, I added a sentiment by Mama Elephant – their sentiment sets are turning into my go-to set AGAIN for this Christmas in July!!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2021 – Day 6

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 6 of Christmas in July 2021! Today I’m playing along with the The Paper Players challenge where the theme is stars and/or stripes!

I’ve been wanting to use this large bold Christmas Bubble Tree by Couture Creations since I bought it straight after Christmas. So funny! I thought it was quite a new design but looking at the packaging, it’s actually from 2014! Wow!

Anyway, I started by creating an ink blended oval with distress inks. Then I adhered the tree die cut and added a few die cut stars.

To complete my take, I added a sentiment by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2021 – Day 5

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 5 of Christmas in July 2021!

Today I’m playing along with the Double challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches. I have to say it was a challenge to incorporate the colour palette into a Christmas card, but I actually enjoyed making this non-traditional Christmas card with the beautiful Twinkling Ornament layering die set.

I added a die cut bow from a Sizzix set and a sentiment by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.