Christmas in July 2023 – Day 1

Happy Saturday everyone!

It’s that time of year again! LucieG’s Christmas in July! Woohoo! For the past few years, I’ve dedicated July to Christmas cardmaking and reaped the benefits in November/December when life always seems to get super busy! I LOVE having a good supply of cards to send to all my friends rather than stress about making them before the posting deadline. Plus I get a chance to use the festive supplies I didn’t get round to using last year… or bought in the after-Christmas sales this year!

Anyway, for Christmas in July Day 1, I’m playing along with the Freshly Made Sketches challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I started by creating a night sky by blending various purple distress oxide inks. I then inked up a tree from the Peaceful Woodland set (30-922) and heat embossed it with some rainbow glitter embossing powder – the sparkle is amazing in real life! I extended the lines for the ground using some black stickles and finally added a sentiment from the Jolly Snippets set (30-925).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Expressive

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown challenge where the colour combo is red, blue, brown and white.

I have been wanting to play with the beautiful Expressive cling stamp (40-897) that Penny Black kindly sent me and this challenge provided the perfect opportunity! I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and then masked it off so that I could sponge a distress ink background.

The sentiment is from the Trust Me Builder set (30-710).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Big Flowery Butterfly card

Happy Sunday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown challenge. When I saw the combo, I felt I had used it very recently so I had a look back at my archives and found this card and this one. I guess 2021 is quite some time ago now! Still, I wanted to do something different this time so I turned to the new-to-me Butterfly Card Creator die set by Spellbinders! I was inspired by this card by Yana Smakula to dig through my other Spellbinders die sets and use flowers and foliage from those sets rather than the ones that came in the Creator die set.

It took me far longer than it should have to arrange all the images but this was such fun to make! The sentiment is by My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Warm Happy Thoughts

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge using products kindly sent me by Penny Black.

I started by using the Butterfly Heart Pop Out die (51-291) to cut some white card. I popped up the butterfly wings and adhered it to my card base.  I then cut the Finesse die (51-679) and coloured it with my regular distress inks and a little coloured pencil before adhering it on top of the heart.

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from the Happy Builder mini stamp set (30-973).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Hollyhock Heaven

Happy Saturday everyone!

Today I’m using more products that Penny Black’s kindly sent me from their recent Hello Sunshine release. For this card, I usedAntique Linen distress ink to stamp the beautiful Hollyhock Heaven cling stamp (40-824) on some watercolour cardstock and coloured it using my Twinkling H2O paints. Once the paint was dry, I stamped the image again as I felt that some of the leaves needed a little more definition. I wish I could capture the shimmer on my photo!

To complete the card, I added a sentiment from the Happy Builder mini stamp set (30-973).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Another Bird Trio

Happy Sunday everyone!

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

I knew I wanted to use the cute Sizzix/Olivia Rose Painted Birds die set and used Craft Consortium paper to create a few birds. I then spent a LOT of time trying out different shapes to replicate the circles in the sketch. In the end, I used a foliage die from Honey Bee Studio.

The sentiment is by Woodware.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.