The Greetery

Butterfly Stem

Happy Saturday!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a palette of orange, green and tan.

I may have over thought the palette here and ended up learning all about different shades of tan online! In the end, I tried to match the colour in the inspiration picture and cut some patterned paper with a Greetery die for the background panel.

Anyway, I used an older Memory Box die, the Rylan Butterfly Stem, which is dated 2016 but I thought it was a bit older than that! I coloured it with distress inks and added some orange butterflies from Memory Box’s Butterfly Ensemble and inlaid them in the stem – they don’t fill the space completely, but I think they are a pretty good match!

The sentiment is by Sugar Pea Designs.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Perfect Pussy Willows

Happy Sunday!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fabulous palette of grey, yellow, tan and black.

I just got my new dies from The Greetery’s spring release and I love how Betsy demonstrated how to add a bit of colour to the pussy willow stems so I decided to use those dies with the colour combo – I don’t think I would have ever used the combo of Tea Dye and Hickory Smoke distress inks for the stems otherwise! I like how they turned out! I added some yellow to the individual buds but also sponged a yellow circle to add a bit more of that colour to my card.

I added a Waffle Flower vase and a Sugar Pea Designs sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Bag of Happy Thoughts

Happy Friyay from a VERY windy London!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fabulous palette of light blue, dark blue, forest green and brown.

Dies from lots of different companies on this one – all coloured with distress inks! I knew I wanted to use my brand new Flat Paper Bag die by Waffle Flower Crafts, and paired it with the Memory Box Flower Cluster die. Once I assembled the images, I knew I needed more greenery so I added a few extra branches from the Altenew Branches and Berries die set.

I then cut a piece of patterned paper using a die from The Greetery’s Nordic Circles and adhered it to my card base before adhering the flower bag image. Finally I added a few Nuvo drops and a Mama Elephant sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Little Glittery Heart

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I’m still using my Valentine’s and heart products and when I saw the sketch, decided this cute square of hearts die by Impress Cards and Craft would be perfect. I cut it from light grey cardstock and then mounted it onto black cardstock. I added a few white hearts and a glittery one right in the centre!

For the centre strip, I went for white on white and used a border die by The Greetery. Finally I added a sentiment by Lawn Fawn. Would you believe that I bought the entire mini stamp set just for that sentiment years ago, but this is the first year that I actually remembered to use it!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Retro deck the halls

Hello again everyone!

Next up today is my entry for this week’s Color Throwdown challenge, which has quite a retro combos – pink, turquoise, green and black.

I turned to my new die sets from The Greetery. The background was created with the Pine Wisp die set and then I added ornaments from the Curio: Attic Ornaments set. To complete my card, I added a sentiment by Sunny Studios.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.