Author: luciegcards

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 25

Happy Festive Friday!

It’s Day 25 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

Today I’m using one of my favourite Memory Box dies – the beautiful and delicate Flowering Christmas Tree! I was so shocked that I haven’t used this since 2022! I was excited to colour the tree with my small blending brushes which I didn’t have three years ago – it was much easier than the detail blending foam I used in the past. Plus the sticky mat helped the process – crafting is always evolving isn’t it? Even for those of use who aren’t into glimmer or press plates!

I often find it difficult to come up with new layouts for these trees – I don’t want a busy layout to detract from the delicate die cut but I want to add something. Today it was a simple strip of coloured card and then I added a Waffle Flower vase and old Paula Pascual sentiment plus lots of little gems!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 24

Hi there!

It’s Day 24 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

I’m combining old and new again today! I picked up Pinkfresh Studio’s pretty Folk Snowflake product suite late last year. I’m not sure when it was released. Maybe 2023? I particularly loved the three sentiments that came with the snowflake image – but typically I haven’t used them today! The stamped sentiment is from a rather older Hero Arts set.

For the background, I used Memory Box’s Silent Snowflake Frame die from 2017 and added a few flakes from2015’s Shimmering Snowflakes set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 23

Hi there!

It’s Day 23 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

I still love my older Memory Box tree dies from 10+ years ago and decided that I needed to dedicate some time them again this month.

First up is the stunning Elyse Christmas tree. Isn’t it beautiful? I coloured some card with Speckled Egg distress ink for the tree – the second photo is more true to colour I think!

I mounted it to a couple of Spellbinders dies – The second layer was originally silver pearlescent card but I decided it was too heavy for the tree so switched to two white layers instead.

The sentiment is by Mama Elelphant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 22

Hi there!

It’s Day 22 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

Today I’ve paired a frame from the older Simon Says Stamp Holiday Frames die set with some fabulous vintage baubles from The Greetery’s Curio Attic Ornaments die set. The baubles arecut from Craft Consortium paper but you would not believe how often I second guessed myself on the pearlescent card I used for the other elements of each bauble!!! I got there in the end though!

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 21

Hi there!

It’s Day 21 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

It’s time to ink up Papertrey Ink’s fabulous Enchanted Forest tree stamps again! I was shocked to learn that this stamp set is from 2018 – I’m pretty sure that I only bought them a few years ago but a quick search of my blog reveals that I actually bought them in summer 2020!

I arranged my selection of trees on a Spellbinders die cut and added a Clearly Besotted sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 20

Hi there!

It’s Day 20 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

I’ve been missing creating with my Pinkfresh Studio supplies this month as I don’t have many festive products by them. But today I pulled out a product suite called Joy of the Season which I had as part of the October 2024 Create and Connect event.

I really like the arch design but I’ve been struggling with how to use it. Well today I realised that it would be a perfect frame to showcase a pretty embossed background! I chose the beautiful Pinecones & Berries folder by Spellbinders.

The sentiment is by Poppystamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.