Christmas, New Year and Winter

Christmas in July 2022 – Day 9

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Welcome to Day 9 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2022! Today I’m playing along in the Freshly Made Sketches challenge .

I love this sketch! So many possibilities! In the end, I decided it was time to unleash the pinecones! I paired the Forest Pine Branch die with my absolute favourite pinecone stamp by Hero Arts! This little stamp went missing almost a year ago and I couldn’t find it anywhere! It was made worse by the fact that the set was retired and couldn’t be found here in the UK. In the end, my brother got hold of the set for me in the US. And would you believe that the little pinecone eventually turned up in my adhesives a few weeks ago! I was so happy – even though I have a duplicate, I am so relieved that I didn’t throw it away accidentally!

For the background, I blended some Speckled Egg distress oxide ink and die cut a section using a die from My Favorite Things. I then embossed it using the Pinecone Plethora embossing folder by Gemini. My original folder broke in an unfortunate embossing accident last Christmas, but fortunately a lovely IG friend alerted me to it on Ebay and I managed to snag it! Yay!

To complete my card I used a sentiment by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2022 – Day 8

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Welcome to Day 8 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2022! Today I’m playing along in the CAS Colours and Sketches colour challenge.

I’ve been pondering how I could possibly use this combo in a festve card since Tuesday when the challenge started! I knew there had to be a way! And then inspiration struck this morning! I pulled out some of my Basic Grey paper mountain and die cuts and got crafty.

I used the Tree Line Hill by Poppystamps and smaller dies from two Penny Black die sets – the deer from the Moonlit set (51-663) and the star from the Christmas Wonderland set (51-562).

The sentiment is by My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2022 – Day 7

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Welcome to Day 6 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2022! Today I’m doing something I rarely seem to do – sharing a card that I created without a challenge in mind!

I wanted to use an absolutely gorgeous die set that I didn’t get round to using when I got it last December – the fabulous Christmas Time in the City die set by the Greetery. I coloured all the images using distress inks and used a Reverse Confetti frame die to ground the images. The frame is actually longer than the one in my card – I snipped off a section on either side and hid the joins under the die cut images!

The sentiment is from a set by My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2022 – Day 6

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Welcome to Day 6 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2022! Today I’m playing along in the Christmas Card Throwdown sketch challenge.

Time is not on my side this week so this was another quick make. I chose the gorgeous Twinkle ornament die by Birch Press Designs as my focal point and added strips of embossed card and Basic Grey paper.

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2022 – Day 5

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Welcome to Day 5 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2022! Today I’m playing along in the Just Us Girls challenge where the theme is mammals. Ha! Perfect excuse for a reindeer card!

It’s difficult to see in the smaller photos, but I started with a Uniko stencil and some moonstone glitter paste to add a bit of texture to my card base and added a Memory Box frame cut from glitter card. I then used an older die set (Delightful Deer) from My Favorite Things which I cut from kraft card and sponged with some distress ink.

Finally I added sentiment from an older My Favorite Things stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2022 – Day 4

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Welcome to Day 4 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2022! Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a fabulous palette of purple, blue and white, perfect for festive cards.

Annoyingly, my day took a bit of a turn and I didn’t have as much crafty time as I had hoped. I ended up making another very quick CAS card using the Snowflake banner die by Simon Says Stamp. The sentiment is a Simon Says Stamp/Avery Elle Stamptember collaboration from 2016.

I added a few Studio Katia gems to complete my card. In keeping with my frustrating day, one gem completely disappeared when I was gluing it to my card…. look closely. can you spot where it turned up?!!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.