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Today I’m playing along in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.
I just love what Cecile called the whimsical fuzzy background!! My interpretation uses a Taylored Expressions abstract stencil and Salvaged Patina ink that I blended and then smooshed onto my card base. I decided to use my new Fleurs Graciles die from Simply Graphic as the focal point for this card and added a little Simply Graphic bow as well.
The sentiment is by Pretty Pink Posh.
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LucieG.
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Today I’m playing along in the Just Us Girls challenge which has a colour combo of red, black and white.
What a bold combo! I toyed with using a black background, but chose to use white in the end. I decided to use my new Fleurs Piquantes die from Simply Graphic as the focal point for this card and coloured the die cuts with black and red alcohol markers. I added detail to the flowers using red pencil, but it’s pretty difficult to see that.
I wanted to add something extra to the background and so stencilled some glitter paste using a star stencil. I added a Simon Says Stamp sentiment to complete my card.
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LucieG.
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Today I’m playing along in the colour challenge at the Just Us Girls challenge. The colour palette is ivory, soft rose and sage green – totally the colours I love to work with!
I decided to use an older Memory Box die, the beautiful Catalina Wreath, which is from 2011! It actually belongs to my mum but has lived in my collection for a while as she has taken a break from cardmaking. I coloured it with distress oxide inks and added a few white Nuvo drops. I stencilled some Nuvo glitter paste onto a piece of ivory card and then adhered the wreath and added a Creative Expressions sentiment to complete my take.
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LucieG.
Hello again everyone!
Next up today I’m playing along in the sketch challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches using dies by My Favorite Things.
I created the background with a Clearly Besotted stencil and distress inks.
The sentiment is by Poppystamps.
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LucieG.
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Today I’m playing along with the colour challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches and the Simon Says Stamp Flickr challenge where the theme is die cutting.
It’s been a while since I played with Simon Says Stamp products but I haven’t yet had a chance to play with some SSS dies that I bought in their Thanksgiving sale and I thought they’d be perfect for the soft colour combo. I cut the Etched Flower Buds die together with the leaves from the Etched Meadow Flower die set and coloured them with distress ink. I stencilled some Nuvo Moonstone glitter paste onto my card base and added the flowers once it had dried. Finally I added a sentiment from the Messages For Everyday set.
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LucieG.
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As Tracey McNeely isn’t running her 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year, I have created my own event using 25 days from Tracey’s event posts over the last decade, as I explained in this post.
Day 24’s inspiration is Day 4, 2020. Newton’s Nook Day! Here’s what I created in 2020.
I wanted to do ‘something different’ for this tag as it felt like I’d stamped and coloured quite a few images during the tag challenge! So I chose Andrea’s bold tag as my inspiration. I used a Newton’s Nook stencil and some silver luna paste. Very happy with how that turned out! Embellishing the tag was much more challenging! First of all I added some pine springs but they didn’t look right… In the end, I used an older Hero Arts wood-mounted stamp embossed in teal glitter powder plus a glittery Simon Says Stamp die cut!
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LucieG.
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