Christmas, New Year and Winter

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 20

Hi everyone!

I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.

 

The theme of Day 202’s challenge is ‘ugly sweater’.

Well, it may be difficult to believe but I don’t have any ugly sweaters in my crafty collection! So this was a real struggle to me! So I interpreted the challenge as ‘Christmas jumper’ instead! I pulled out the very old Hero Arts/Sizzix stamp/die combo that I finally got on ebay last year I think. I love the reindeers in their little Christmas jumpers – plus one of them looks like he’s jumping so I’ve got my own little play on words.

I don’t usually do scenes that cover a whole card but I bought this fabulous Sizzix stencil set a few weeks ago – I love how quickly stencilled scenes come together.

The sentiment is by from a very old Hero Arts wood-mounted stamp set. I stamped it from Cloud 9 Silver ink – unfortunately it dried with a rather mottled effect but I felt it went well with the card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 19

Hi everyone!

I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.

The theme of Day 19’s challenge is ‘wrapped in wonder’.

Lots of ideas for this one but I really wanted to use my new Nellie Snellen Presents embossing folder and stencil – so I did! I used new Pinkfresh inks and I have to confess that I was a little disappointed with the pink which turned out MUCH brighter than I would usually choose.

The silver parcels are cut from the Memory Box Pretty Presents die set and the sentiment is an older set by Poppystamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 18

Hi everyone!

I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.

The challenge for Day 18 is another sketch.

I bought this large Simon Says Stamp bauble die back at my first Create in 2015. It was a low key event compared to how it is nowadays but I absolutely LOVED it!

Anyway, I used it with some more Tonic Ombre glitter card and pulled out my old Darice and Sizzix 2D embossing folders.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 17

Hi everyone!

I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.

Day 17’s challenge is another colour combo – powder pink, plum and teal blue. What a fun combo!

I used the Christmas foliage die set that was in the Pinkfresh Studios Holiday Cardmaking event kit and coloured the images with distress ink. I arranged them on am older Memory Box frame that I cut from white glitter card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 16

Hi everyone!

I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.

The theme of Day 16’s challenge is ‘mistletoe mischief’.

When I saw the theme, I immediately thought I would use a Memory Box die that I use every festive season, but when I was going through my box looking for it, I spotted the lovely Mistletoe Branches dies by Waffle Flower Crafts and decided I should use that instead. I paired it with a Waffle Flower bag die and a Simon Says Stamp embossing folder.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 15

Hi everyone!

I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.

The theme of Day 15’s challenge is ‘twinkle twinkle’.

I picked up the fabulous Holy Stars die set by Simon Says Stamp when it was in their sale section a few years ago and I’ve been wanting to use it every Christmas since then but I hadn’t found a way to include it… until now!

My CAS also card uses an older Lawn Fawn background die with the fabulous new Tonic Studios ombre glitter card -which cuts beautifully!

The sentiment is by from a Moonstone set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.