Technique – Stamping

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Sincere Apologies

Hi everyone!

The theme for this week’s Casology Challenge is ‘sorry’ and here is my take.

I die cut an oval from some masking paper and then used distress inks to create a blended background. It didn’t turn out as I’d expected, but I quite liked the effect so I decided to use it for the card base. I stamped an older Stampendous image using Delicata brown shimmer ink and then finished off the card with a Clearly Besotted sentiment.

I’m also entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge which has a fun mood board this week!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Merry Making – Day 5 Holiday Watercolour

Hi there

Day 5 of Online Card Classes’ Merry Making Class was all about Holiday Watercolour. More fabulous techniques, all outside my comfort zone and all bar one using supplies I didn’t have.

So I chose to follow Debby Hughes’s card for this day of class as I had a Molotow Masking pen…. Luckily I decided to test it before I used it and it seemed to have turned into a permanent blue pen! Argh. I really wanted to follow Debby’s techniques so I adapted it a little and created the snowy background using clear embossing powder and the emboss resist technique instead of masking fluid!

The background was a real challenge for me – I prefer to create backgrounds by blending ink, but I knew I had to give the watercolour background a go. I’m glad I did – I still need more practice!

Anyway, I masked some Avery Elle penguins to create the main image (they are so cute, aren’t they) and embossed a sentiment from the same set to finish it off.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Rainbow birthday star

Hi everyone!

The theme for this week’s Less is More challenge is ‘stars’ PLUS it’s one layer card week! I seriously think I could have made at least a dozen cards for this challenge – there are so many possibilities!

I used stamps from The Ton for this card. I was inspired by a colourful card that Virginia Lu had created for The Ton and decided to put my own CAS take on it, using distress oxide inks.

I was a bit disappointed that the sentiment didn’t stand out as much as I had planned, but I think it still works.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Pumpkin Farm Window

Hi everyone!

I’m back with another card I made for a challenge – this time for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I coloured an Art Impressions image using my Twinkling H2Os and then adhered a white panel using funky foam. The strip of paper is from My Mind’s Eye and I used a Hero Arts stamp for the sentiment strip. To finish off the card, I cut a couple of Memory Box pumpkins that I had also coloured with Twinklings.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Being different isn’t a bad thing…

Hi there!

The cue word for this week’s Casology challenge is ‘odd’ and here is my take using a sweet Stamping Bella Stamp! I guess it’s really more of an Easter/Spring stamp BUT it fit the challenge perfectly in my view!

I coloured the birds with my Twinkling H2os and then added some more shimmer to the ‘odd one out’ with my Nuvo Aqua Shimmer Pen.

So confession time… This card started out as a standard UK A6 card…. but I messed up when I stamped the sentiment. My paper must have moved slightly in my MISTI. Rather than lose the image I’d coloured, I framed it and re-stamped the greeting. Phew. And I do like a lot of white space!!

Sorry about the quality of the photos – I had to take them under artificial light as we have been affected by the red sun caused by Hurricane Orphelia today – very eerie indeed. It was dusk-like from midday onwards! I can only liken the feeling to the 1999 eclipse!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Hey Pumpkin!

Hi everyone!

The colour combo for this week’s Color Throwdown challenge is very similar to last week’s – orange, taupe and black, so of course that calls for another pumpkin card!

I found the perfect taupe card in my collection, but it hasn’t photographed well, which is disappointing. It’s greyer in real life.

Anyway, I added a Memory Box pumpkin cut from black and orange glitter paper and then added the Honey Bee sentiment in the beautiful Delicata shimmer black ink.

I felt the card still needed ‘something’ so I embossed a square frame die cut to finish it off.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.