Christmas in July 2024 – Day 23

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 23 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

When it comes to festive feathered friends, I always gravitate towards the fabulous cardinal… but how can I neglect our humble robins!

I bought this cute Tiny’s Red Robin die set by Marianne Design last year but I never got round to using it. Well that changed today. It’s a brilliant layering die set – I particularly love how the lower body tucks under the wing and gives some great depth to the image!

After trying a few different foliage dies, I settled on using a couple of die sets by Waffle Flower – the Beaded Wreath die set and foliage from the Layered Winter Bird set. I love how JJ used woodgrain card for her wreath a while ago and just had to try it – fabulous texture!

The background is one of my favourite folders – Gemini’s Pinecone Plethora.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 22

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Welcome to Day 22 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and it’s snowman time!

I love these cute snowmen from the Trinity Stamps Snowman Builder set – they can be a little fiddly to put together, but they are so worth it!

Time was short again this evening so I just did some simple ink blending to ground the images and added a Mama Elephant sentiment.

The sentiment is by Lawn Fawn.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 21

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 21 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

I felt it was time for another reindeer today so I chose the My Favorite Things Delightful Deer die set and some Craft Consortium paper and got crafty!

The aperture is cut with a Reverse Confetti die and I added some snowflakes from an older Hero Arts background die.

The sentiment is by Lawn Fawn.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 20

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 20 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

I picked up the pretty Poppystamps Nordic Whimsy Trees and Nordic Tree Toppers die sets in a post-Christmas sale this year and I’ve been looking at them on and off since the start of Christmas in July. I know I should use them, but for some reason I couldn’t figure out a way to make them work for me…

Then yesterday I saw the new Poppystamps Christmas in July release and immediately knew what had been holding me back – the trees needed trunks!

So, drawing inspiration from the new Nordic Treeline die (which I will HAVE to buy btw), I cut some trunks from another die set and got to work!

I used another Poppystamps die for the vellum circle and the hillside was created with a Memory Box die.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 19

Happy Festive Friday everyone!

Welcome to Day 19 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

The Spellbinders July Club 3D embossing folder is called Pine Cones & Berries so of course I had to have it! It arrived this morning and it is absolutely STUNNING – the texture is amazing, and I just had to make a card with it straightaway!

I paired it with a Tim Holtz/Sizzix pine die and some cones from the Stampin’ Up Christmas Pinecone die set. Again I uses layers of white glitter card for snow, but you can’t see the glitter very well in my photos sadly!

The sentiment is also by Sizzix.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 18

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 18 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today the beautiful Memory Box Gilded Sleigh takes centre stage!!

I coloured it with red distress inks and added gold card accents. I really should have used one of my MANY other trees, but the multi-layered Spellbinders’ Sealed Christmas Tree Squiggle die that I first used a few days ago just worked so well! I also added a couple of small gifts cut with Honey Bee Stamps dies.

I adhered my sleigh to a background cut with the Heffy Doodle Winter Forest Background die. Again, I probably should have used one of my many other background dies or folders, but I just love this die so much!

The gold-embossed sentiment is from the Puffy Holiday Greetings set by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.