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Welcome to Day 18 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2022! Today I’m playing along in the Just Us Girls colour challenge.
I just received the fabulous diamond frame die by Waffle Flower Crafts and couldn’t wait to get crafty with it! In the end, I layered a few die cuts and inlaid the gold sections. The ornaments are from The Greetery’s Curio Attic Ornaments set and the sentiment is by My Favorite Things.
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LucieG.
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Welcome to Day 6 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2022! Today I’m doing something I rarely seem to do – sharing a card that I created without a challenge in mind!
I wanted to use an absolutely gorgeous die set that I didn’t get round to using when I got it last December – the fabulous Christmas Time in the City die set by the Greetery. I coloured all the images using distress inks and used a Reverse Confetti frame die to ground the images. The frame is actually longer than the one in my card – I snipped off a section on either side and hid the joins under the die cut images!
The sentiment is from a set by My Favorite Things.
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LucieG.
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Today I’m playing along with the ‘Choose Two’ challenge at Just Add Ink.
The choices were stencilling, heat embossing and/or texture paste. Well I haven’t used texture paste for ages so I knew I definitely wanted to use that and chose stencilling as my second option.
I started off by lightly stencilling a My Favorite Things brick stencil onto my card base with Pumice Stone distress ink. Then I mixed a little Speckled Egg distress ink into some texture paste and applied it through the stencil.
I decided to add The Greetery’s Pussy Willow Botanicuts dies as my focal point – all coloured with distress oxide ink and Prismacolor pencil. The sentiment is by Memory Box.
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LucieG.
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Today I’m playing along in the spring Time Out challenge.
I’ve been wanting to use the full Curio Spring Findings die set from The Greetery for a while and this challenge was the perfect excuse, especially as the challenge graphic reminds me of the Crocus Mother’s Day card I made with The Greetery dies!
This card was quite the labour of love – it took me so much longer than expected to colour all those little die cuts with distress ink. But I got there in the end! I adhered all the dies onto a base I’d created by lightly blending some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink onto Simon Says Stamp fog cardstock. I like how that turned out so will definitely be doing that again!
To complete my card, I added a sentiment from Pretty Pink Posh.
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LucieG.
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Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a very LucieG-palette of pink, sage green, lavender and blue.
It’s weird, but when the combo contains MY colours, I always feel a bit more pressure to show them off well. Today, I decided to create a bouquet of colourful wildflowers using The Greetery’s Wildflower botanicuts and a bouquet die from Simply Graphic, all coloured with distress inks. The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.
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LucieG.
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Just wanted to share one of the cards I gave to my lovely mum today!
My mum has been very keen to have purple crocuses in her garden this year and when I saw The Greetery’s new crocus botanicuts set, I knew it would be perfect for a Mother’s Day card for her!
I spent a while trying a lot of different ink combos – using regular distress inks and distress oxides. In the end I just used one colour (Villainous Potion Oxide) and simply applied it more lightly for some petals. I absolutely loved making these flowers and ended up with a HUGE bunch for her card!
I adhered them onto a circle of patterned paper and then added an Avery Elle sentiment and a few sequins to complete my card.
I’m entering this into a new-to-me challenge, Cardz for Galz, where the theme is Spring Flowers for Mother’s Day.
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LucieG.
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