Christmas in July 2023 – Day 27

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Welcome to Day 27 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s The Paper Players sketch challenge.

The star of today’s card is made from the fabulous Poppystamps Pine Needle Shoots die. I’m not sure how I missed it when it was released last year – I snapped it up as soon as I saw it online in January, knowing that it would get some use in July! I can’t believe that I didn’t use it until Day 27! But when I saw the sketch, I knew it was the perfect opportunity to showcase the pine needles. I cut each set of shoots three times from an ink-blended panel I made ages ago and then layered them up.

I used the amazing Sizzix 3D Christmas Trees embossing folder. I’ve had this a few years now and it is still one of my favorites!

The sentiment is from one of my trusty Mama Elephant sets.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 26

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Welcome to Day 26 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this month’s Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge where the optional twist is ‘Twinkle’.

Twinkle challenge most definitely accepted!! I pulled out the fabulous Twinkle Background die by The Greetery that I didn’t get round to using when I bought it last Christmas and paired it with the gorgeous Twinkle Ornament layering die set by Birch Press Design.

I really wanted to use the amazing Simon Says Stamp Luxe Glitter card behind the background die, but I don’t have much of it so I didn’t really want to use so much on one card… so I used holographic card on the base and the glitter card on the ornament base only!

After assembling the card I added a big bow from The Greetery.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 25

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Welcome to Day 25 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Just Add Ink sketch challenge.

I had originally intended to colour a background stamp for this card but when I was going through my cling stamps, I spotted this cute Hero Arts set called Merriest Christmas Wish from 2011! Back in the day, there were no ‘clam shell’ stamp positioners and I never managed to get a decent impression using a clear block. So it languished at the back of my cupboard… until today!

I used Villainous Potion distress oxide – and was very relieved to discover some cardstock that matched the colour so well!

The sentiment is from the same set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 24

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Welcome to Day 24 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Just Us Girls CAS challenge.

The challenge theme is ‘three of something’ and so it seemed like the perfect opportunity for me to use my Simply Graphic die set called Gang des peres de noel! I had such fun putting these together!

I cut the windows with an older My Favorite Things die and adhered it to my card base before adding the die cuts. The sentiment is by Creative Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 23

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Welcome to Day 23 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Today I used a Spellbinders/Susan Tierney-Cockburn die set called Holiday Flora Pinecone and Evergreen Bough that I picked up in the sale a few months ago. I’m so grateful that Susan has made some amazing videos showing how to assemble these! The pine cones still took a while to create but I also tested out my new Waffle Flower Crafts grip mat when I coloured the scales – and it worked really well!

I used my fabulous Gemini embossing folder and a sentiment from My Favorite Things to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 22

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Welcome to Day 22 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown challenge using products by Penny Black.

This week’s colour combo is green, fuchsia, terracotta and light grey. Having seen the inspiration photo, I was sorely tempted to create Christmas cactus but in the end, I decided to ink up one of my favourite Penny Black trees, Tannenbaum (40-262). How can this be dated 2013? I think it has stood the test of time and is a true classic!

I started by creating an ink-blended background with distress inks and then stamped the image, masking off various sections. I always love colouring the tree’s garland and I was sorely tempted to use little pompoms like I did for this card back in 2020, but in the end I coloured it with my Twinkling H2Os and added a few gems.

The sentiment is from the Shine Upon You mini set (30-928)*.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

* kindly sent to me by Penny Black.