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Christmas in July 2025 – Bonus Day

Hi there!

I can’t believe it’s the first day of August and Christmas in July is over! But it is Festive Friday so that calls for a bonus Christmas in July card I think!

When I was thinking about this card, I felt I HAD to use the Hero Arts Tree Pattern cover die again – I used it for this card on Day 9.

This time I cut it from some Craft Consortium paper and chose five of the trees. I adhered them to a panel that I had embossed with my favourite Sizzix tree folder and added a few stars and a Mama Elephant card to complete my CAS card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 9

Hi there!

It’s Day 9 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025 and I must say that the subheading of this post, if I had one, would be ‘the one that almost got away’…

Today my tree image of choice is the Hero Arts Tree Pattern cover plate. This was released almost 2 years ago and I have spent most of that time convincing myself that I didn’t need this die. I already have MANY tree images and this particular coverplate was absolutely EVERYWHERE when it was released. That was actually what stopped me from buying it back then because I couldn’t think of a way of using it that would be different from all the ways it had already been used by the various Hero Arts designers.

But it was always there, lurking in the back of my mind….

I finally gave in and bought it from a US store earlier this year…. and of course a few weeks later one of my go-to UK stores got it back in stock!

Anyway, the good thing about ‘fast craft’ is that I haven’t seen this ‘in the wild’ for some time and I have lots of ideas for it now! First up was quite a labour of love – a shaker card! Yep, each of the trees (and the three stars) is a mini shaker! I die cut a layer of fun foam and adhered that to my patterned paper base, filled it with little beads and sequins before adding the acetate and a layer of die cut paper on top.

The sentiment is by Whimsy Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Sakura Celebration Day 2

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. Lots of layers and lots of older supplies used by yours truly this week!

I started by adhering a section of Memory Box’s Grape Vine border die to my card base.

I then created the central fishtail panel using distress inks, an older Cuttlebug embossing folder and a die by Simon Says Stamp.

The focal point is an older sakura stamp from Hero Arts’ Asian Frames clear set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heart Week 2025 – Day 1

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 1 of Heart Week 2025!

My heart card today is my entry for this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches.

When I saw the sketch I immediately thought of my Martha Stewart lace border punches from back in the day! Oh how I loved them! I was excited when I started travelling to the US regularly for work back then so that I could pick up one or two in Michaels. I have never been able to part with them and today was their day to shine again. I used some Craft Consortium paper and a Hero Arts wood-mounted punch from 2005. Wow! I’ve been crafting a LONG time!! The sentiment is by Reverse Confetti.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Fringed Flowers

Hello everyone!

Just popping in quickly with my entry for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge!

I’m having problems with my connection at the moment and I don’t want to miss the challenge deadline so I will be back later to fill in the details!

Edited to add: Now that I’ve entered the challenge, I can upload a few more photos and share a bit more about my card!

Memory Box’s new release arrived at Bumbleberry’s last week and I could not wait to order a few die sets! The Fringed Flowers set really stood out to me – I love the irregularity of the flowers, I don’t think I’ve got anything else like them at all! I cut them from Craft Consortium paper but used some different centres as I wanted something that was a little irregular and the centres in the die set seemed too perfect to my eye! I adhered the flowers to some white vellum and then turned my attention to the card base.

I spotted a white heat-embossed image in my ‘unused’ box and decided to trim that down for the background centre panel. I think the stamp is an older Hero Arts image. I dotted glue to the vellum behind the fringed flowers and adhered it to my panel and card base.

Finally I added a few gems – but no sentiment because time was short. I may add a sentiment under the vellum panel when I send it out, we’ll see!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.