Christmas in July 2026 – Day 25

Hi there!

It’s Day 25 of LucieG’s Christmas in July!

Today’s card is actually made with a couple of rejects from other cards I started to make earlier this month!

I’ve had this sweet Kaisercraft Christmas Pine die for AGES – I can’t even remember when I bought it, which is extremely unusual for me! Anyway, I actually made this tree on Day 1 but ended up going with another die cut on that day. The background frame is Impression Obsession’s Geometric Cutout 2 die which I have had in my festive wreath collection for as long as I had it! Well yesterday I decided to use it as my focal point but decided it was too big for what I wanted…. then I realised the die cut would work well as a background! So that’s what I did today!

The sentiment is from Whimsy Stamps set called Simple Sentiment Strips Holidays.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2026 – Day 24

Happy Festive Friyay!

It’s Day 24 of LucieG’s Christmas in July and my first twofer of the challenge.

I was planning to make a card with a wreath today but all my dies seemed a little larger thank what I had in mind so I decided to create my own. I was originally planning to just use smaller circle dies cuts but then I saw the larger circles that my die had also cut so I decided to make a second card with those. I’m not too sure anyone else can tell they are supposed to be wreaths though… maybe I should have added some bows?

I used sentiments from an older Hero Arts set called Birds & Branch Christmas and a Lawn Fawn set called Little Snowglobe Add on.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2026 – Day 23

Hi there!

It’s Day 23 of LucieG’s Christmas in July!

For today’s super-simple CAS card I chose an older die by My Favorite Things called Evergreen which I cut from satin silver card – I love those deep etched lines in the tree and supplemented them with some silver glitter card ornaments!

The background is created with one of my favourite festive dies – Winter Forest Background by Heffy Doodle. I just wish this was a portrait rather than a landscape orientation, but at least I can create panels, like I have here, so that I can still use it for portrait cards.

The sentiment is from an older Paula Pascual set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2026 – Day 22

Hi there!

It’s Day 22 of LucieG’s Christmas in July!

For my super-simple card I finally used a bargain die called Snowflake Curl that I picked up from Simon Says Stamp last year! I cut it a couple of times from some of my fabulous Hunkydory patterned mirror card and arranged them around a sentiment from the It’s Just Paper Winter Sentiments stamp/die set that I got from Craftstash before it closed down.

I hadn’t opened the set before and was quite shocked to discover that the dies are solid – like the earliest coordinating dies on the market – so you have to cut the card first and then stamp the sentiment on the die cut. Thankfully this is an easy process with the Misti!

It was quite a difficult card to photograph because I really wanted to show off that fabulous mirror card with all its different colours, but I got there!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2026 – Day 21

Hi there!

It’s Day 21 of LucieG’s Christmas in July!

I love the Simon Says Stamp Heirloom Ornaments embossing folder which I got late last year. The inspiration from today’s card came from an uncredited card on Simon Says Stamp’s website – presumably made by a DT member who simply embossed a couple of kraft triangles to create adorned trees! Brilliant idea.

I kept my take super-simple and Royal Mailable with just one tree cut with a die from Altenew’s Festive Triangles Stamp Set.

The sentiment is from one of my go-to Mama Elephant sets called Holiday Messages.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2026 – Day 20

Hi there!

It’s Day 20 of LucieG’s Christmas in July!

Welcome back to one of the cutest little Rudolphs in my collection – this chap is from the Ho Ho Deer Circle by Simon Says Stamp. I’ve used it a lot since I bought it back in 2019!

Today I paired him with a circle sentiment frame from My Favorite Things and also added an embossed background created with an older Crafters Companion folder.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.