Technique – Stamping

Featuring stamping

Hollyhock Heaven

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m using more products that Penny Black’s kindly sent me from their recent Hello Sunshine release. For this card, I usedAntique Linen distress ink to stamp the beautiful Hollyhock Heaven cling stamp (40-824) on some watercolour cardstock and coloured it using my Twinkling H2O paints. Once the paint was dry, I stamped the image again as I felt that some of the leaves needed a little more definition. I wish I could capture the shimmer on my photo!

To complete the card, I added a sentiment from the Happy Builder mini stamp set (30-973).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Graceful love and thanks

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge using some products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

First of all, I decided to use the Butterfly String die (51-648) to reflect the five strips on the sketch. As I wanted to add an image to my design, I die cut them from white cardstock. For my focal point. I chose the beautiful Graceful stamp set (30-963) and coordinating die (51-770) from the new Hello Sunshine release. I coloured the flowers with my Twinkling H2O paints but the vase is actually paper piecing! This technique can be so effective and is super easy when you have an easy to cut shape like this vase!

The sentiment is also from the Graceful set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Treasured

Happy Wednesday everyone!

Penny Black has a fabulous new release called Hello Sunshine which has something for everyone – flowers, scenes, cute critters and sentiments – I was particularly pleased to see a few strip sentiments sets!

Today I’m using some of the products from this release that Penny Black kindly sent me and I chose to begin with the beautiful Treasured stamp (40-893). It’s a brushstroke stamp which I rarely use, but I don’t know why as they are so easy to use with the Misti! I used Milled Lavender and Peeled Paint distress oxide inks here – I lightly misted the stamp with water and I love how the colours changed with oxidisation. It looks like I used a bit of Antique Linen too doesn’t it…. but I didn’t!!!

Anyway, I used one of the sentiment dies from the release – Hello Edger (51-772). I coloured the word with Milled Lavender and actually included a smidge of Antique Linen because I wasn’t sure that the oxidisation would have the same effect again. I added a few butterflies to complete my card – they are from the Flourish and Butterflies die set (51-198) and I also cut one from the Butterfly Heart Pop Out die (51-291) .

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Doodle Eggs

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown which has a fabulous combo of pink, rust and green.

I decided it would be a fab combo to use for the Simon Says Stamp Doodle Eggs background stamp. I loved this stamp since it came out in 2018 but couldn’t justfy the purchase, so when it popped up in the Steals and Deals section last year, I managed to grab it. I coloured it with my Twinkling H2O paints and added a sentiment by Creative Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Easter icons wreath

Hi there!

I actually had time this evening to make a card… or rather I MADE the time – you see, as soon as I saw the Just Add Ink challenge graphic, I knew I to play along because I had the perfect set by Pretty Pink Posh!

My card is very CAS – a simple embossed background using a Stampin Up folder and then the wreath which I coloured with my Twinkling H2O paints.

The sentiment is by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Winged Wreath

Hello again  everyone!

My last card for today is another one I made for my lovely mum using Penny Black products.

When I saw the latest release, the Winged Wreath cling stamp (40-886) took my breath away. Isn’t it a beautiful stamp – so delicate and eye-catching!

I coloured it with my Twinkling H2O paints, and added LOTS of glitter and a few die cut butterflies from the Flourish and Butterflies set (51-198) and the Soaring set* (51-731).

The sentiment is  from the Without Limits mini stamp set* (30-949).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

*Kindly sent to me by Penny Black