Christmas, New Year and Winter

Christmas in July 2021 – Day 8

Happy Thursday everyone!

Welcome to Day 8 of Christmas in July 2021! Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches and the current Color Hues challenge.

I used another recent purchase – the fabulous Bottlebrush Trees by Spellbinders and lots of different blue distress inks for the background.

To complete my card, I added a sentiment by Mama Elephant – their sentiment sets are turning into my go-to set AGAIN for this Christmas in July!!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2021 – Day 7

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 7 of Christmas in July 2021! Today I’m playing along with the CAS Christmas Card Challenge! The challenge theme is poinsettia so I thought it was the perfect time to use my brand new Sizzix Poinsettia Impresslits embossing folder.

I originally bought it to try the embossing powder/distress crayon technique that Tim Holtz demonstrated a year or so ago, but so far I have failed miserably! I think my embossing dauber is completely clogged as I can’t get decent coverage with it. I will keep trying.

So in the meantime, I coloured the poinsettia with my beloved Twinkling H2O paints. I stencilled some glitter paste to my card base and then added an Elizabeth Crafts Designs oval die cut before adhering the flower.

The die cut sentiment is by Crealies – I love that clean font!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2021 – Day 6

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 6 of Christmas in July 2021! Today I’m playing along with the The Paper Players challenge where the theme is stars and/or stripes!

I’ve been wanting to use this large bold Christmas Bubble Tree by Couture Creations since I bought it straight after Christmas. So funny! I thought it was quite a new design but looking at the packaging, it’s actually from 2014! Wow!

Anyway, I started by creating an ink blended oval with distress inks. Then I adhered the tree die cut and added a few die cut stars.

To complete my take, I added a sentiment by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2021 – Day 5

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 5 of Christmas in July 2021!

Today I’m playing along with the Double challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches. I have to say it was a challenge to incorporate the colour palette into a Christmas card, but I actually enjoyed making this non-traditional Christmas card with the beautiful Twinkling Ornament layering die set.

I added a die cut bow from a Sizzix set and a sentiment by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2021 – Day 4

Happy Sunday everyone!

Welcome to Day 4 of  Christmas in July 2021! Today I’m playing along with the sketch challenge at the Global Design Project.

I used my brand new Sizzix 3D Christmas Tree embossing folder – I love how all those fabulous trees look on that metallic cardstock – but it was quite difficult to photograph! I added an older Memory Box die and a sentiment by My Favorite Things to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2021 – Day 3

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 3 of Christmas in July 2021!

Today I’m playing along with the current challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches.

As I wanted to reduce the layers on my card, I started off by embossing a square on my card base using a die. I lightly blended some distress ink to reinforce the shape, but didn’t press too heavily as I didn’t want to it detract from my focal point! I then coloured a couple of Simply Graphic stem dies together with a Poppystamps die with distress inks and adhered them to my card base. To complete my CAS card, I added a sentiment by The Ton Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.