Hello everyone and welcome to Day 13 of Christmas in July 2020!
Today was super busy and I didn’t have much time to craft. I pulled out the wonderful Creative Expressions Paper Cuts Reindeer and paired it with a background I created some time ago using Ken Oliver Color Bursts – they really shimmer in real life! I added a small sentiment by Mama Elephant to complete my CAS card.
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LucieG.
Happy Sunday all!
Welcome to Day 12 of Christmas in July! Today I’m playing along with one of my favourite challenges – the Color Throwdown challenge. This week’s colour palette (orange, green, burgundy and pink) didn’t scream ‘festive’ at me like last week but I realised that I could make it work with some of my newest Simply Graphic dies! I decided to just colour the leaves and berries with distress ink – I quite like how it turned out!
I usually apply the ‘rule of three’ when adding stems to my vases but I couldn’t find any that worked here, but luckily I don’t think it feels to unbalanced, do you?
To complete my card, I added a sentiment by Mama Elephant and a few sequins!
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Welcome to Day 9 of Christmas in July! Today I’m playing along with the Memory Box / Outside the Box challenge where the theme is ‘framed’.
I bought this beautiful Memory Box Pine Tree Frame die last year but didn’t have time to use it, so I thought it would be perfect for this challenge.
I coloured the trees using Speckled Egg distress oxide ink – this colour really seemed to get greener as it dried! I adhered the coloured layer to two other die cuts to give it a bit of depth before adhering it to a panel I created from Distress Oxide inks some time ago.
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LucieG.
Happy Hump Day everyone!
Welcome to Day 8 of Christmas in July! Today I’m playing along with the colour challenge at CAS Colours and Sketches where the colour palette is – green, grape and blue! I wanted to create a card showcasing my gorgeous new snowflake die from Simply Graphic – so I kept this super simple!
To complete my card, I added a sentiment by Mama Elephant – their sentiment sets are turning into my go-to set for this Christmas in July!!
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LucieG.
Hello everyone and welcome to Day 5 of Christmas in July 2020!
It’s also time for another challenge at AAA Cards! This fortnight we’d like you to create a CAS card in ‘minutes’; our sponsor is Time for Tea Designs. Our optional twist is, Christmas in July! Yay!
I don’t really love making cards against the clock, as cardmaking is my hobby, but this one came together pretty quickly – just a couple of die cuts, some ink blending and stamping.
You know when you see a stamp or die that you HAVE to have and you are SURE it is going to be super popular… and then you never see anyone sharing their makes with it online? That’s how I feel about this Modern Art Treeline die from Poppystamps. I remember snapping it up as soon as I saw it back in 2016 and was excited to see how others would use it… I never saw anyone else use it. So weird.
Anyway, for my card. I lightly blended some regular distress ink on my card base and added the outline die cut before inlaying pieces cut from an ink blended panel I created some time ago. To complete my card, I added a sentiment by Mama Elephant.
My team mates have come up with some beautiful cards which are on the AAA Cards challenge blog. We are also joined a previous challenge winner, Kylie, who has some lovely inspiration on her blog!
Hope you can play along with us!
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LucieG.
Hello everyone and welcome to Day 2 of Christmas in July 2020!
Today I’m playing along with the current challenge over at Time Out Challenges where the theme is ‘days gone by’. I immediately thought of my retro ornament dies by Simply Graphic. Aren’t they fabulous. They bring back so many memories! I the branches dies are also by Simply Graphic. The sentiment is from a very versatile sentiment set by Mama Elephant.
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LucieG.
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