Happy Friyay everyone!
Today I’m playing along with the technique challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge.
I ended up using my new Nellie Snellen Christmas Tree stencil with the coordinating embossing folder. I used the stencil with distress inks to highlight a few trees.
The sentiment is by Memory Box.
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LucieG.
Good morning everyone!
This week, I have the honour of being the Guest Designer over at one of my favourite challenges – the Color Throwdown Challenge.
The palette for this challenge is grey, aqua and green, such an interesting combination, don’t you think?
It took me a little time to come up with a design – and I ended up using so many different manufacturers on this card – a Tim Holtz stencil, dies by Spellbinders and Birch Press Design and a sentiment stamp by Concord & 9th!
There’s some amazing inspiration from the Color Throwdown DT over on the challenge blog – I do hope you can play along this week!
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LucieG.
Happy Easter everyone!
Today I’m playing along with the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge where the theme is ‘add texture’.
Using a Creative Expressions stencil , I applied texture paste across my card base and added a Memory Box egg and just a peek of the cute Simon says Stamp Peeking Chick die.
The sentiment is also from an older Simon Says Stamp set.
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LucieG.
Happy Saturday everyone!
Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown which has a fabulous combo of blue, rust and brown. It’s all change at my favourite colour challenge this week as the team welcome the talented Kelly! The team is always pretty stable but somehow I missed the farewell to Barbara, I loved her amazing takes on the colours. Many congrats Kelly on joining the amazing DT!
Last week I received and played with the amazing Spring Meadow stencil set by The Greetery. I enjoyed playing with it so much, I was determined to play with it again, although I surprised myself by reaching for it again so soon! I thought it might work well with this combo? What do you think? I used three shades of blue and added rust/brown to the flower centres, although I did use black for the darkest flowers.
The background embossing folder is by Spellbinders and the sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.
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LucieG.
Hi everyone!
Next up is one of the cards I gave to my lovely mum today!
I used the amazing Spring Meadow stencil set and matching die by The Greetery for this card. I have to say the stencil set works perfectly and meant this was a very quick and easy make! I’m looking forward to using this with different colour combos!
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Today I’m playing along with this week’s Just Us Girls challenge – this week is trend week and the challenge is to use a stencil.
I decided to use the Simon Says Stamp Dimensional Stars embossing folder and stencil set that I picked up on sale a few weeks ago. After embossing the stars, I coloured them using the three stencils in the kit and distress oxide inks (Salvaged Patina, Saltwater Taffy and Squeezed Lemonade).
I love the sentiment ‘You’re a Star’, but it’s not a very common sentiment in stamp sets. Maybe it isn’t used much in the US? Anyway, I know I have a few stamps… it took me a while to track one down but in the end I used part of a Poppystamps older stamp set. The ‘you’ die is also by Simon Says Stamp.
I used the Simon Says Stamp Floral Centrepiece embossing folder but then got a bit stuck with the positioning of the butterfly. In the end, I cut a heart from some ‘special vellum’ and used that to ground the butterfly. Can you see the pretty dots in the vellum? I bought this sheet MANY years ago, but knew it would be perfect to add very subtle interest to the heart!
To complete my card, I added a My Favorite Things sentiment and a few sequins.
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LucieG.
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