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Made in May Card 12

Hello everyone!!

Sadly my plans for cardmaking fell by the wayside over the last week/weekend. Life just got busy! Fortunately I carved out some crafty time this evening to play along with the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I bought the kit for Spellbinders’ Weekender event in a few weekends time as I didn’t do the Pinkfresh event this month. Sadly they are on the US West coast time zone which means I won’t be able to attend most of the classes in real time but I hope that the class that uses this beautiful arch die set will be at a ‘friendly’ time!

I’m disappointed that the stencilled waves weren’t picked up in this photo but they are there!

The sentiment is by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Hello Spring Birds

Hi there!

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

I used the Bird Bunch die set by Simon Says Stamp and the Cherry Blossom Branches and Cherry Blossom Elements sets by Memory Box, plus a MUCH older sentiment by Simons for my card.

I’ll be back later to add more photos, but want to make sure I hit the challenge deadline! (ETA – now updated)

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ghost Week – Day 5

Hi there and Happy Halloween!

It’s Day 5 of Ghost Week and I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge (I have NEVER entered this challenge so early!!) and this month’s Memory Box challenge where the theme is ‘happy haunting’.

For today’s card, I used the Cookie Jar die that was part of the Pinkfresh Holiday Event earlier in the month. I think I would have preferred to use a bigger card base to more add more white space around the focal point but I also wanted to use my Simon Says Stamp ghosts embossing folder one last time this year and guess what won that design struggle?!

I cut ghosts from Memory Box’s fun set of Haunting Ghosts which I’m proud to say that I have used on three cards this year! The fabulous houses are from Poppystamps’ Twisted Houses set – they worked so well with the jar!.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ghost Week – Day 2

Hi there!

It’s Day 2 of Ghost Week and today I’m also playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

It’s such a versatile sketch this week and I was all ready to create a Christmas or autumn card before I thought of ghost week!

Today I’ve used two brand new die sets – the Poppystamps Ghostly Cats which I first used on this card and Memory Box’s fun set of Haunting Ghosts (I just used the smallest die).

I adhered the kitties and ghosts to an ink-blended strip and added a few die cut glitter stars. This one really has quite a cosmic feel doesn’t it?!

I’m also entering this into the current Poppystamps challenge – ‘Get your Spook on’!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy Mother’s Day 2024 – part deux!

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heart Week – Day 7

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.