Happy Saturday everyone!
While my Great Festive Cardmaking Frenzy of 2017 may be over, I’m definitely not ready to put my Christmas supplies away!
For this card, I used a couple of dies from Simon Says Stamp together with a stencil and stamp from My Favorite Things.
I’m entering this into a number of challenges:
Casology Challenge (grey)
CAS Mix Up Challenge (stamping, die cutting, stencilling)
Simon Says Stamp Flickr Challenge (anything goes)
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hello Everyone!
After posting a ton of festive cards with trees, I’ve been focussing on using my other supplies!
Today I chose this fabulous polar bear die from Simply Graphic and did some inlaid die cutting with glitter paper.
I used an Echo Park stencil to create the background and then added a vellum die cut to ensure the bear stood out against the starry sky.
To finish off the card, I added a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.
I’m going to enter this into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge (winter/Christmas).
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi there!
I’m playing along with Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year.
The sponsor for Day 16 was Ellen Hutson. I have some wonderful Essential by Ellen stamps and dies and so it was quite difficult to decide what to use for today’s tag! I really like the set of tags that Lindsey M-P created for the challenge and got to work on my take!
I loved how Lindsey used a stencil for the background to one of her tags and so I stencilled a brick base onto my tag before adding the die cut Ellen Hutson tree!
Now, confession time! When I stamped the greeting, it wasn’t quite centred… I was so concerned that it was straight, I completely forget to centre it! To balance it out a little I added a few die cut starbursts to the background – I think they work ok!
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi there!
The theme for this week’s Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is ‘furry friends’ – perfect opportunity for me to ink up a new Newton’s Nook Designs set that I treated myself to last week!
I coloured the image using my Twinkling H2O paints and then fussy cut it as I don’t have the coordinating dies. After embossing the sentiment onto a strip of cardstock, I felt that the card still needed a little something extra. So I used a stencil to add a subtle background – I love this technique as I think it really helps to ‘anchor’ an image.
I’m also entering this into the current CAS Mix It Up challenge where the theme is stamping, glitter and own choice (stencilling).
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi there!
I’m playing along with Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags event this year.
The Day 4 sponsor was Reverse Confetti. Love love love their products and could not believe that I didn’t have anything Christmassy by them! Rather than re-purpose one of their sets, I decided to use a very old wood-mounted stamp from Funstamps as I had been absolutely inspired by the blue/white/snowmen tags that the DT had come up with – I guess my tag is a hybrid of tags made by Jen del Muro and Heather Hoffman.
I created a background using a stencil and the stamped a sentiment from Hero Arts before creating a shaker using a frame die from my Favorite Things. Then I turned to my ‘oldie but goodie’ snowman which I coloured with Twinkling H2Os before fussy cutting him out. I added him to the top of my shaker – thanks Jen, for that idea!
To create the ‘hanger’ for the ribbon, I cut part of a Simon Says Stamp ornament die and stuck that to the back of my tag and then stuck another piece of card on top to prevent it from moving.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi there!
I’m playing along with Tracey McNeely’s 25 Day’s of Christmas Tags event this year.
The sponsor for Day 2 was Newton’s Nook. I love Newton so I had a lot of choice when it came to choosing supplies for this tag! The inspiration tags were fabulous – there were so many that I could have chosen for today, but as soon as I saw Larissa Heskett’s tag, I knew I had to use that as my inspiration! I loved the background she did and was so pleased to see that she had explained the technique on her blog post.
Here is my take. I stamped an older Newton’s Nook image and then masked it off to work on the background. Following Larissa’s instructions, I took a stencil (the one I used was by Altenew) and inked over it with various distress inks before applying a layer of versamark. I then added clear embossing powder before blending some distress oxide and distress ink over it. So happy with the way it turned out! I will be using this technique again!
Anyway, I coloured Newton and his snowman with Twinkling H2o’s and then added a piece of ribbon to finish off the tag.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
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