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I’ve been so wrapped up in getting to grips with my craftroom this past week, I almost forgot that it’s the third Thursday of the month which means it’s time for Jenn Shurkus’s Get Cracking on Christmas!
I went super CAS this month with a new-to-me Simply Graphic tree die and some pearlescent card.
The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.
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LucieG
Hello everyone!!
This year I plan to play along with Jenn Shurkus’s Get Cracking on Christmas on the third Thursday of each month. It feels a bit too soon to be the third Thursday of January already doesn’t it? But here we are! My first Christmas card of 2026!
I love Christmas tree dies although I do try to be mindful and take a breath before grabbing any new tree as soon as it’s released! But I HAD to have The Stamp Market’s Layered Tree die set. I used it a few times last year but I really wanted to create my version of a beautiful card that The Stamp Market shared as inspiration on their site. I picked up the Rounded Window Delight coverplate die in a Black Friday sale but didn’t get round to using it in December – today was my chance!
I tested a few tree designs and ended up using three layers from the smaller tree – The Stamp Market didn’t use the smallest layer in her design and I followed suit.
My twist on the inspiration (apart from the colours of course) is the background – I adhered the windows coverplate and trees to a panel that I cut with the Waffle Flower Crafts Sparkles Panel die.
No sentiment on this because I couldn’t bear the idea of covering up anything on the card!!
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LucieG
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It’s 2026! How did that happen? Seriously, the last quarter or 2025 just flew by didn’t it?
Here’s one of my New Year’s cards this year – sometimes the simplest design is the most effective! I cut some Tonic ombre glitter card with Tim Holtz/Sizzix stars dies and added a Waffle Flower sentiment.
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LucieG
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The theme for the December Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge is ‘Very Merry’ and I decided to CASE my last card using the challenge colour palette!
This time, I used the Holiday Diamond Coverplate for my background – I popped the trees and stars out and adhered the panel to some multicoloured mirror card. I coloured my embossed Festive Foliage Tree image with the challenge colours and added Evergreen into the mix. Once again the entire card is supported by an octagon from the Octagon Grid Coverplate die, although I made a larger folded card support for this tree, making it much more stable.
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LucieG
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Well it’s the end of an amazing era! One of my favourite challenges – Color Throwdown is very sadly finishing. Many thanks to the team for their amazing combos, creations and kind words over the past few years, I will miss the challenge and the inspiration.
I discovered the challenge back in 2016 and oddly I can clearly remember the card I made for the gorgeous combo of peach, yellow, light pink and white! I didn’t have a blog back then but shared my entry on instagram. For many years, I loved playing along with this challenge every week and I longed to join the DT! Alas that was never to be but I was so chuffed to be invited as a monthly guest designer in August 2019. I stepped away from a lot of challenges this year but knew I had to post one last entry!
My card today uses the combo of yellow, green and orange in a festive card. I’m pretty much over autumn now (as is our weather) and I adore creating Christmas cards! I knew this combo would work well with the Pinkfresh Festive Foliage tree product suite. My design is drawn from a Jennifer McGuire card from the last Create and Connect event – the whole card is supported by the tree pot (an octogen from the Octogen coverplate die) and the tree/pot are raised from the card base using some folded card – such a clever mechanism that adds amazing depth but flattens right down for posting!
The background is a favourite Sizzix 3D embossing folder.
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LucieG.
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The Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge theme of ‘Texture & Shine’ is so much fun – I just had to create another card for it!
I inked up the fabulous Deck The Halls stamp set that I snapped up in a sale earlier this year but I hadn’t yet used. It’s such a delicate set, I love all foliage elements! I used my new Octagon Grid Coverplate die to cut regular white card and champagne glitter card and added the thin octagon frames from the glitter die cut to my white frame. I then tucked the foliage elements into the frame. There were a few emptier windows which I turned into shakers!
The sentiment is from a set that was included in the October 2024 Create & Connect event kit.
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LucieG
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