Christmas, New Year and Winter

Festive Foliage wishes

Hello everyone!!

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Thank you Color Throwdown!

Hello there!

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Holiday Sparkle

Hello everyone!!

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

LucieG Christmas in July 2025 Challenge

Hi everyone!

And that’s a wrap on Christmas in July 2025! Once again, I really enjoyed devoting a whole month to Christmas cards!

One of the aims I set myself was to create cards that weren’t too thick for standard mail and I have just spent the last 15 minutes checking each card! I created 36 cards this month and all bar 5 of them sailed through the 5mm slot in my mailing size guide ruler! Yay! I started to find it quite restricting to create thinner cards and I eased up on that part of my challenge as the month wore on so this result was a pleasant surprise!

I also enjoyed making a few twofers. In the past I’ve stamped/die cut lots of images (mainly trees!) and thought I’d use them at a later date, but I never did… so creating twofers was a good way of avoiding that!

It was so much fun to use the products that I bought in post-Christmas sales and also to dust off my older products. Playing with those 10+ year old stamps and dies brought back so many happy memories!

Many thanks to everyone who followed along and shared kind comments with me – I really appreciate all of you!

Have a great day!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Bonus Day

Hi there!

I can’t believe it’s the first day of August and Christmas in July is over! But it is Festive Friday so that calls for a bonus Christmas in July card I think!

When I was thinking about this card, I felt I HAD to use the Hero Arts Tree Pattern cover die again – I used it for this card on Day 9.

This time I cut it from some Craft Consortium paper and chose five of the trees. I adhered them to a panel that I had embossed with my favourite Sizzix tree folder and added a few stars and a Mama Elephant card to complete my CAS card.

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 31

Hi there!

It’s difficult to believe but today is Day 31 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025! 31 days of cardmaking! I did it (again)! Yay!

Today I pulled out the older Simon Says Stamp Corbel Tree die and some purple ink and got cutting and blending. It didn’t actually take me too long to blend each of the petals, but rather than colour the little dots, I used dots cut from glitter card.

I adhered the tree to a background that I had embossed with Simon’s Sprinkle Snowglobe folder. Then came the nerve wracking part – stamping the sentiment! I deliberately chose a small one so that I didn’t need to curve it to align with the snowglobe base, which I always find difficult.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.