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Christmas in July 2024 – Day 16

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 16 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today I have another twofer to share.

Today’s focal point is the Wide Pine Needle Shoots die set by Poppystamps – I’ve already used it once this month, but I had a few more ideas for it!  I cut it from dark green card and glitter card and got busy!

For my first card, I cut some green card with an Alex Syberia background die. I adhered my tree to a tag cut from an Altenew die and added a silver bow and die cut star before affixing it to my card base.

For my second card, I embossed the background with a Spellbinders folder and adhered my tree with another little die cut star. The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts wood-mounted set.

So which one do you prefer?

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 7

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 7 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024.

I chose a fun snowman from a Simply Graphic die set for my focal point today…. and then spent AGES searching for a background stamp that I couldn’t find…. maybe I don’t have it after all… but the upside was that I found some supplies that I’d completely forgotten about and they will soon be making an appearance on a card.

In the end I chose a circle stamp from an older Altenew set for the background.

To complete my card, I added a Mama Elephant sentiment and some stickles.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 2

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 2 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024! Today I have one of those cards that is created for ‘November me’ (I hope!).

I thought that Creative Expressions ‘One Liner’ die cut collection was amazing – here’s a card I made with the tree from this collection. I was very excited to play with the One Liner Holly die that I also picked up in a sale earlier this year.

I wanted to let those bold lines shine so I decided that I wouldn’t include the centres of the leaves and berries. I coloured the image with alcohol markers and then adhered it to my card base. I added a thin frame from an Altenew die and a sentiment from a very old Hero Arts set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Lighthouse thank you

Hello everyone!

There’s a really unique sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week! The team share amazing inspiration – it was quite difficult for me not to CASE a few of their brilliant ideas, but I really wanted to come up with something ‘different’.

In the end, I decided to make a graphic/deco design but as I was hunting for the deco stamp set that I wanted to form the basis of my design, I unearthed an old Altenew set called Be a Lighthouse…. and inspiration hit me! As a craft supplies hoarder curator, I knew I had some metal boats from back in the day when I used a lot of embellishments and thought that one of those would work perfectly in the centre of two stamped images. I was rather concerned that I wouldn’t be able to find them but can you believe that it only took me a few minutes? I usually spend longer looking on my table for a die I was just using!

Armed with my little boat and stamp set, I got crafty! I masked off a section of my card so that the rectangular sea stamp would appear more oval and I coloured the lighthouse image with my Twinkling H2O paints. I decided not to use a sentiment from the stamp set and instead used a small stamp from an older Simon Says Stamp set.

This ended up being SO different to what I had planned earlier today, but it was so much fun and BONUS – I used some very old supplies!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Colourful Autumn Greetings

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of pink, mustard, rust and green – beautiful!

I decided that today was finally the day to break into my Altenew Leaf Mix die set. I fell in love with these dies when they were released back in the decade that was 2020. I couldn’t get hold of them until the following year, and then two autumns went by and the poor pretty set sat hidden and ignored in my ‘New Stuff’ box.

I created a few inky panels using my new Distress Mica Stains. I don’t have a pink spray (yet), but fortunately had a pink Nuvo shimmer spray which I managed to locate! I cut the panels with various dies from the set and arranged them on my card base. I felt that I needed something more so used a Spellbinders folder to dry emboss the background.

After adhering the leaves, I added a sentiment from an older Hero Arts set to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Butterfly smiles across the miles

Hello everyone!

I’ve created a card for two of my favourite challenges today – Freshly Made Sketches and the Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of green, orange and blue.

Lots of different techniques and manufacturers for this one! A background panel embossed with a Simon Says Stamp folder, Craft Consortium paper cut with the Altenew Fine Frames Circles die and Memory Box’s Beloved Snowflakes die, an ink blended butterfly created with my favourite Memory Box butterfly (Vine Butterfly) and finally a Mama Elephant sentiment. It didn’t take too long to create as each of the techniques is pretty quick!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.