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You are Majestic

Hello everyone!

Day 9 of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge and today I’m playing with two Hero Arts stamps sets that were manufactured ten years apart!

Over a decade ago, I saw the cutest lion stamp ever – the only problem was that he was in a set with three other cute animals which I couldn’t justify buying…. but as we know, my willpower isn’t strong when it comes to crafty supplies and after a little while I caved and bought the Hero Arts Playful Animals set. Imagine my disappointment when I stamped up the lion and discovered that the rubber had a few faults in it! After while, I decided to contact Hero Arts to see if I could buy just the lion. The customer services team was amazing and immediately offered to send my the stamp free of charge to the UK! I was so surprised as I’d become quite used to difficult customer service experiences elsewhere in life! But I guess that it truly the Hero Arts way – own the issue and deal with it quickly and politely to exceed customer expectations. Given my recent experience with another manufacturer (where I was made to feel like a naughty child for asking to buy a replacement for one faulty clear stamp) I’d say Hero Arts still leads the way!

Anyway I paired the lion with a sentiment from the 2017 Color Layering Bengal Tigers set and assembled the card following a sketch from a new-to-me challenge, Paper Craft Crew Challenges.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy Flowery Thoughts

Happy Saturday!

Day 8 of the 30 Day Colouring Challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge.

Here is my card/colouring for today using a fun flowery stamp from Hampton Arts that I got during a work trip to the US a few years ago. My hotel was across the road from a Michaels and I was able to find some time to peruse the store and buy a few bits and pieces. I coloured it with my Twinkling H2Os and adhered it to a couple of pieces of coloured cardstock, following the sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches Challenge.

To finish off my card, I added a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp…. Am I the only one who struggles with strip sentiments sometimes? Trying to get it straight (using my MISTI) seemed to take as long as the colouring!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Find Your Happy

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Day 7 of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge.

Today I’m playing along with the latest challenge from The Paper Players. Have I mentioned how happy I am that I found this challenge? I love that each week there’s a different type of challenge, plus their timeline (announcing the challenge on a Sunday with a Friday deadline) is different and  really works well for me at the moment!

Anyway, on to today’s card. The theme of the challenge is CAS/summer beverages. I was a bit concerned when I first saw this challenge… I do have a few drinks stamps, but I don’t consider any of them to be that summery!! Imagine my relief when I spotted this cute Margaret Sherry/Penny Black Bear, ‘kickin’, from 2007! I don’t really do cutesy, but as I discovered earlier this year, I do love colouring this little bear.

For today’s card, I used my Twinkling H2Os and a light dusting of distress oxide ink. I added a little interest to the card base with the Penny Black Butterfly Edge stamp, also from 2007, although I suspect I bought this one a bit later!

The sentiment is from an older set by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy Purr-thday

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Day 4 of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge.

Today I’m playing along with the latest My Favorite Things sketch challenge. I don’t usually play along with these challenges as I don’t have that many stamps by MFT, although I love them a lot! However, I saw that you can play along even if you don’t use MFT products, which I’m really pleased about because they have some fun sketches!

I used an older wood-mounted stamp, Cat Blocks, by Inca Stamp/Personal Impressions and a sentiment from a MFT kitty set. I has so much fun colouring these kitties!

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LucieG.

Hello Lovely

Hello everyone!

Day 3 of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring challenge and my personal wood stamp challenge.

Today I’m playing along with the challenges over at the Color Throwdown and Try Stampin’ On Tuesday.

I used the fabulous Flower Cluster Sketch stamp by Hero Arts from the 2005 collection. The Color Throwdown colours (yellow, orange, hot pink and green) are much brighter than my preferred, more muted palette, but that’s why I love this challenge so much – it often pushes me beyond my colour wheel comfort zone!

I decided to practice with my Zig Clean Color Real brush pens. I still need a LOT of practice, but using them on Bristol cardstock makes them much easier to use!

When I finished colouring, I stamped a Mama Elephant sentiment and adhered the image to a base card that I’d assembled following the challenge sketch.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Father’s Day Sails

Happy Father’s Day to my dear Dad!

Today I’m playing along with the current CAS Colours & Sketches challenge, which is a super sketch this week.

I pulled out an old wood-mounted stamp that I bought YEARS ago when I first started stamping. It’s called Yacht Race by an Australian company, Stamp-It.

After I stamped the image, I cut around it using a My Favorite Things die and then coloured it using my Twinking H2Os. I adhered it to my base and added a Hero Arts sentiment to finish off my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.