Hi there!
It’s Day 14 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!
The star of today’s card is the Memory Box Frostyville Wreath from 2012!
I’ve often struggled with card designs for this wreath and I’ve tended to use it as a frame for a festive image. This time, I paired it with a MUCH newer Simon Says Stamp bow and a Pinkfresh Studio sentiment.
The background is a Spellbinders folder.
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LucieG.
Hi there!
It’s Day 13 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!
Today I’m celebrating Spellbinders bottlebrush trees! I used the second set of trees that were included in the fabulous Spellbinders/Simon Hurley Whimsical Bottlebrush trees set that I used earlier this month plus dies from the Sealed Christmas Tree Squiggle and Santa’s Workshop sets.
The background is my favourite Sizzix tree folder and the sentiment is by Mama Elephant.
Not a traditional colour combo today – I wanted to used Speckled Egg on my background and used a fabulous colour inspiration book that my parents got me a few years ago – I could never have thought of this combo myself!
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LucieG.
Hi there!
It’s Day 12 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!
Well it’s been one of the hottest days of the year and somehow I ended up spending the whole day in my kitchen doing my batch cooking! I didn’t get too hot fortunately but it did leave me with very little time for today’s card.
I pulled out the old Sim0n Says Stamp Mod Ornament from 2015 and paired with with a much newer Tim Holtz/Sizzix embossing folder for a very quick CAS card.
The sentiment is from a Mama Elephant set.
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LucieG.
Happy Festive Friday!
It’s Day 11 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!
Today I used the Simon Says Stamp Sprinkle Snowglobe embossing folder and some Pinkfresh Waterfall ink to create a snowglobe background.
The tree image is an older Memory Box die called Tall Pine and it’s from 2017 but I think I bought it far more recently than that.
I wasn’t sure where to put the sentiment so in the end I decided it didn’t need one!
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LucieG.
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It’s Day 10 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!
Today’s card is not what I had originally planned at all… but my original idea wasn’t working so rather than spend ALL evening on it, I pivoted and did something completely different!
To be honest, I’ve been searching for a way to include that amazing frame from my Spellbinders/Lisa Horton Nested Tree Frames set for a while and when I decided to use the sweet Poppystamps Rudolph Collage die again, I found a way to use it!
The sentiment and bow are by Simon Says Stamp.
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LucieG.
Hi there!
It’s Day 9 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025 and I must say that the subheading of this post, if I had one, would be ‘the one that almost got away’…
Today my tree image of choice is the Hero Arts Tree Pattern cover plate. This was released almost 2 years ago and I have spent most of that time convincing myself that I didn’t need this die. I already have MANY tree images and this particular coverplate was absolutely EVERYWHERE when it was released. That was actually what stopped me from buying it back then because I couldn’t think of a way of using it that would be different from all the ways it had already been used by the various Hero Arts designers.
But it was always there, lurking in the back of my mind….
I finally gave in and bought it from a US store earlier this year…. and of course a few weeks later one of my go-to UK stores got it back in stock!
Anyway, the good thing about ‘fast craft’ is that I haven’t seen this ‘in the wild’ for some time and I have lots of ideas for it now! First up was quite a labour of love – a shaker card! Yep, each of the trees (and the three stars) is a mini shaker! I die cut a layer of fun foam and adhered that to my patterned paper base, filled it with little beads and sequins before adding the acetate and a layer of die cut paper on top.
The sentiment is by Whimsy Stamps.
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LucieG.
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