Christmas in July 2024 – Day 29

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 29 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today I have another twofer to share.

Today the small but mighty Winter’s Wispy Trees by The Stamp Market take centre stage, ably supported by embossing folders!

For my first card, I chose a trio of trees and adhered them onto a panel embossed with a Simon Says Stamp folder. The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

For my second card, I chose a different trio of trees and was planning to adhere them directly to an embossed panel again. However, this Spellbinders folder produces some wonderfully deep embossing and the images felt a little heavy for the wispy trees. So I added a simple die cut, some chunky glitter and a Clearly Besotted sentiment.

So which one do you prefer?

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 28

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 28 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today I’m using products kindly sent to me by Penny Back.

When I looked through my Christmas in July cards, I was AGHAST that I hadn’t done any wreaths. Fortunately, I had just the stamp to rectify this shocking oversight! This beautiful image is called Christmas Circlet (40-796) and I coloured it with distress reinkers before fussy cutting it out.

I added a little Tumbled Glass distress ink to a card panel which I then embossed with the Noted embossing folder (65-005) before adding some gold splatters. I then adhered the Circlet to the card with sticky fixers. I chose the word from the Merry Edger die set (51-475) and added several layers of cardstock to lift it above my Circlet image. I toyed with adding a stamped ‘Christmas’ underneath but decided against it because I really wanted to add a bow and felt that the extra sentiment would be a little too much! The vellum bow was created from both bows in the Jumble Bauble set (51-743).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 27

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 27 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today I have a fourfer to share. Fourfer… is that even a word?! Ah well you know what I mean!

The idea for the cards popped into my head last night when I was looking for base card for my pinecone sprig. I tried some Tonic Studio speciality paper – it wasn’t right but I vowed to use it today… well I certainly did that! The tree images are from a set by Marianne Designs that I got a few years ago. I think I can safely say that I really don’t need that coverplate/tree die set that I was thinking about at the start of the month!

 

For my first card, I cut some black card with the fabulous Heffydoodle background die and added a generous amount of ink splatters! After I had arranged all my trees, I used Scattered Straw distress stickles to ground my little forest.

For my second card I used an Alex Syberia background die. I toyed with adding a sentiment but decided to keep it very CAS!

For my third card, I embossed the background with a favourite Sizzix folder – I just love those little deep embossed trees.

And last, but not least is my fourth card – I used an older My Favorite Things sentiment die for this one- and some more gold splatters!

So which one do you prefer?

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 26

Hello everyone!

Happy Festive Friday and welcome to Day 26 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

Today I used part of the Stampin’ Up Christmas Pinecone die set that I first used for this card. It’s very easy to trim this background die into three sections, so expect to see a couple of similar cards at some point.

I kept this simple with a few gold splatters, a Creative Expressions sentiment and a few die cut snowflakes around the pinecone image

Although now I’m worried about the sentiment… when I bought it, I envisaged it with a bunch of snowflakes and now I’m using it with snow-encrusted pinecones instead… I do hope my recipient gets it and doesn’t think I’m sending them cold, frosty/uncaring wishes. Ahh, it’s clearly too late in the evening and I’m overthinking this – please tell me you wouldn’t be offended to receive a card like this!!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 25

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 25 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

Today I chose the fabulous Vintage Ornaments 3D embossing folder by Spellbinders which I got just before Christmas last year. I made the mistake of embossing half a sheet of card with it – and then I could barely brim myself to trim the embossing – so this is a larger card than I would normally send.

I dusted the embossing with a little white ink and added a brand new Creative Expressions die which I cut from glitter card and Craft Consortium paper.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 24

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 24 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

Back to my beloved trees today and I chose the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Pointed Evergreens die as my focal point.

I cut the image from white glitter card and adhered it to a couple of layers cut from regular card. I loved how the talented Angie had added jewels to her trees a few days ago so I did the same… Glitter card and gems – well you can never have too much bling can you?!

I blended Stormy Sky distress ink to the bottom of a light blue card panel and adhered it to my cardbase. After adhering the tree image, I added an embossed My Favorite Things sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.