Christmas in July 2023 – Day 17

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 17 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Just Add Ink challenge which has a fabulous festive inspiration photo this week.

I’ve been struggling with my crafty mojo this month so I decided that I would use some old Freshly Made Sketches to help me along. Today the random generator came up with number 169 and it was actually a perfect sketch for a Penny Black stamp that I had been wanting to use again – the beautiful Nature’s Decor mini stamp set (30-608). I coloured it with my Twinkling H2O paints, cut it out and added a couple of elements from the Jumble Bauble diet set (51-743)*. I then added the sentiment from the Nature’s Rubies mini stamp set (30-917)*.

For the two strips, I used a border from the Geometric Borders die set (51-196) which I cut in half and then added some stickles to the centres.

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LucieG.

*kindly sent to me by Penny Black

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 16

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Welcome to Day 16 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I used a few older Memory Box dies for this card – the Scribble Snowman Background and Outline dies plus the Wintry Snowflake Bundle. I realised that rarely use the snowman even though he is very cute… I think it’s because the outline doesn’t fit on his base completely… I know it’s arty, but… well, I suspect I would use it more if the scribble head fit the base! Anyway, I cut the snowman background from some Tonic Specialty paper – I really like the texture on this… I must use it more often!

For the strip, I used the pretty Pinpoints Starlets embossing folder by Simon Says Stamp to emboss some vellum.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 15

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Welcome to Day 15 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Color Throwdown challenge.

This week’s combo is aqua, kraft, gold and cream. I just love the inspiration pic and toyed with bringing in mid-century modern elements, but I really wanted to use the Sizzix Honeycomb Frenzy embossing folder that Broni used on one of her DT cards a few months ago – I rushed online and found said folder which arrived promptly but remained untouched!

So I started with a piece of embossed gold mirror cardstock and went from there. I chose the Snowflake Sprig by Memory Box and the Simon Says Stamp Alicia snowflake plus a My Favorite Things sentiment. I still felt the card needed a little something more so I added a few snowflakes from a Lawn Fawn set and LOTS of shimmery paint splatters!

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 14

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Welcome to Day 14 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

I originally planned today’s card with a challenge in mind – unfortunately I didn’t get round to making it before the challenge deadline, but then I decided to make the card anyway!

I chose the older Simon Says Stamp Corbel tree die which I cut from white card three times and then inlaid pieces cut from some Craft Consortium ink drops paper. This turned into quite a labour of love as there were a lot of tiny bit – those little circles were especially fiddly and kept on disappearing on my craft mat!!

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LucieG.

Vellum Birthday Blooms

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing with the new Petals die set (51-777) kindly sent me by Penny Black.

I started by adhering some patterned paper to my card base and then cutting a load of flowers from vellum. I added some lines to the reverse of each petal with an embossing tool to give some shape to each flower. After adhering them to the card base, I added the centres cut from glitter and pearlescent card.

The sentiment from the Special Sentiments stamp set (30-574).

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 13

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Welcome to Day 13 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with the colour challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I started by cutting a circle from my card base using a die from the Stitched Circles set (51-551) and then adhering an ink-blended panel behind it. I cut the Berries die (51-712) from white cardstock, coloured the berries with an alcohol marker and some glittery Nuvo drops. I adhered it to my card and added a (tweaked) die cut bow from the Joy of Giving set (51-748) and a few birds from the Nestlings set (51-755).

The sentiment is from the Jolly Snippets set (30-925).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.