Hi everyone!
Once again, I really enjoyed devoting a whole month to Christmas cards, although at times it was difficult to carve out time to craft every day.
Like previous years, I generally ‘shopped my stash’ to create my cards and I really enjoyed reliving some fun memories as I used some older supplies.
Thanks to everyone who followed along and shared kind comments with me – I really appreciate all of you!
Have a great day!
LucieG.
Hello there!
Welcome to Day 31 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!
I received a nice crafty order this morning that included the fabulous Encircle embossing folder (65-009) and I could not wait to play with it! Such a unique folder – I love how the little dots within the circle are irregular!
After embossing a square panel, I added some stickles to dots at random. While that was drying, I cut the trunks from the Modern Christmas Tree die set (51-400) from various glitter card and arranged them on my card, trimming them down to add a little variety.
The sentiment is from the Meaningful stamp set (30-919)*.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
* Kindly sent to me by Penny Black
Hello everyone!
Welcome to Day 30 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!
I have to confess, I’m a little obsessed with pinecone stamps and dies, especially since the Great Pinecone Debacle of 2021 when a beloved stamp went missing for over a year!
Anyway, this obsession means that pinecones seem to make their way into almost every crafty order I place.. so I have to make sure I actually use my collection.
Today I used the beautiful Into the Blooms Pine die set by Papertrey Ink. I cut all the images from some Craft Consortium paper.
The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Welcome to Day 29 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! I started crafting for one challenge this morning but ended up with a card for two of them!
When I saw the Color Throwdown‘s palette this week (pink, aqua, yellow and lime), I decided to make a card with a favourite flowering Christmas tree die…. until I coloured said die cut and realised that I was inadvertently making a spring card!
So, I went with an alternative that I had also been toying with – and used the sketch from this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. In fact, I actually CASE’d myself as I created something similar back in December.
I started by lightly blending some Altenew Lime ink on the top of my card base and then adhering the coloured branches from The Greetery’s Pine Wisp die set. I then added ornaments from the Curio: Attic Ornaments set and logs of gems.
To complete my card, I added a sentiment by Penny Black.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Happy Friyay everyone!
Welcome to Day 28 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this fortnight’s CAS Colours and Sketches sketch challenge finally using a stamp with a story….
Back in 2011, I saw this fun stamp and cut reindeer set by Hero Arts and really wanted it but I had just bought another fabulous Hero Arts deer set which was quite similar and I couldn’t justify buying this one. I spotted it in a sale at one of my local craft stores (ah those halcyon days of bricks and mortar stores!!) a year or so later, but for some reason I didn’t pick it up….
Over the years I thought about it and checked Ebay every now and then….. and then two years ago a set popped up! My offer wasn’t accepted so I forgot about it again until last December when I saw it on Ebay and this time my offer was accepted! Yay! I’m not sure why it has sat unused since then, but hey, I waited 12 years for it, what’s a few more months?!
The sentiment is from a Penny Black set.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Welcome to Day 27 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s The Paper Players sketch challenge.
The star of today’s card is made from the fabulous Poppystamps Pine Needle Shoots die. I’m not sure how I missed it when it was released last year – I snapped it up as soon as I saw it online in January, knowing that it would get some use in July! I can’t believe that I didn’t use it until Day 27! But when I saw the sketch, I knew it was the perfect opportunity to showcase the pine needles. I cut each set of shoots three times from an ink-blended panel I made ages ago and then layered them up.
I used the amazing Sizzix 3D Christmas Trees embossing folder. I’ve had this a few years now and it is still one of my favorites!
The sentiment is from one of my trusty Mama Elephant sets.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
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