Christmas in July 2020 – Day 7

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 7 of Christmas in July! Today I’m playing along with a new-to-me challenge – the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown! This week, they have a sketch challenge which I thought would be perfect for my newest festive stamp – the super-cute Rudolph Pressies from Woodware/Creative Expressions.

I coloured Rudolph using my Twinkling H2O paints and then masked him off to apply some distress oxide inks. The sky is actually a blend of Tumbled Glass and Speckled Egg, but you can’t really see it properly in these photos.

I cut some strips from an older BoBunny paper pad – as the green strip has ‘Merry Christmas’ printed along it, I decided I didn’t need to add another sentiment. I did however add a few white snowflakes to the card base to give it a little something extra!

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

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2020 – Day 6

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 6 of Christmas in July! Today I’m playing along with the Freshly Made sketches challenge – such a cool design this week!

I knew I wanted to include the Poppystamps Snowflake Screen die and the Memory Box Scribble Snowman dies into my take, but I did find it quite difficult to choose a third element. I thought of a stack of snowballs, a Christmas tree, holly or a pine branch. And then I decided on a cardinal! I actually used a non-festive set for my little cardinal – the My Favorite Things Birds of a Feather set.

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

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2020 – Day 5

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 5 of Christmas in July 2020!

It’s also time for another challenge at AAA Cards!  This fortnight we’d like you to create a CAS card in ‘minutes’; our sponsor is Time for Tea Designs. Our optional twist is, Christmas in July! Yay!

I don’t really love making cards against the clock, as cardmaking is my hobby, but this one came together pretty quickly – just a couple of die cuts, some ink blending and stamping.

You know when you see a stamp or die that you HAVE to have and you are SURE it is going to be super popular… and then you never see anyone sharing their makes with it online? That’s how I feel about this Modern Art Treeline die from Poppystamps. I remember snapping it up as soon as I saw it back in 2016 and was excited to see how others would use it… I never saw anyone else use it. So weird.

Anyway, for my card. I lightly blended some regular distress ink on my card base and added the outline die cut before inlaying pieces cut from an ink blended panel I created some time ago. To complete my card, I added a sentiment by Mama Elephant.

My team mates have come up with some beautiful cards which are on the AAA Cards challenge blog. We are also joined a previous challenge winner, Kylie, who has some lovely inspiration on her blog!

Hope you can play along with us!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Christmas in July 2020 – Day 4

Happy Saturday everyone!

Welcome to Day 4 of  Christmas in July! Today I’m playing along with two challenges – the Case this Sketch challenge and  the Color Throwdown challenge. This week’s colour palette is perfect for Christmas foliage – red green, black and white! I spent a little while trying to decide between holly and poinsettia and as you can see, the latter triumphed! I used the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Poinsettia Parade die and cut a couple of panels I had created with Color Bursts and Distress Oxide inks.

To complete my take, I added a sentiment by Sugar Pea Designs and a few gems!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2020 – Day 3

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 2 of Christmas in July 2020!

Today I’m playing along with the current challenge over at Time Out Challenges where the theme is ‘days gone by’. I immediately thought of my retro ornament dies by Simply Graphic. Aren’t they fabulous. They bring back so many memories! I the branches dies are also by Simply Graphic. The sentiment is from a very versatile sentiment set by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2020 – Day 2

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 2 of Christmas in July 2020!

Today I’m playing along with the current sketch challenge over at The Paper Players – I had so much fun with all these layers. I used the Deco Trees die by Memory Box. It’s difficult to see from the photos, but I have some slightly distressed silver cardstock which I used behind the trees – I am still reeling from the shock of finding this cardstock so quickly! That never normally happens, does it!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.