Hi there!
It’s Day 4 of Ghost Week and today I’m also playing along with this month’s Memory Box challenge where the theme is ‘happy haunting’.
Who said ghosts had to be white? I created some colourful felt ghosts with two new-to-me die sets by Memory Box – the brand new Haunting Ghosts set and the Ghosts in the Forest set.
The sentiment is by Creative Expressions.
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LucieG.
Hi there!
Welcome to Day 3 of Ghost Week!
I had such fun creating this card… and a LOT less fun to photograph it!
The card base is this gorgeous patterned ombre mirror card that I picked up in a sale! I was so excited to use it and very pleased with how it turned out… until I came to photograph it. The lights in my photobox reflected badly and none of my cameras would take a true likening. So I had no choice but to wait for natural light. We have typical British grey autumn weather right now so even this was difficult and I did have to brighten the images I took but I got there in the end.
I used dies by many of my favourites – Penny Black, Tim Holtz/Sizzix, Poppystamps and Memory Box.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi there!
It’s Day 2 of Ghost Week and today I’m also playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.
It’s such a versatile sketch this week and I was all ready to create a Christmas or autumn card before I thought of ghost week!
Today I’ve used two brand new die sets – the Poppystamps Ghostly Cats which I first used on this card and Memory Box’s fun set of Haunting Ghosts (I just used the smallest die).
I adhered the kitties and ghosts to an ink-blended strip and added a few die cut glitter stars. This one really has quite a cosmic feel doesn’t it?!
I’m also entering this into the current Poppystamps challenge – ‘Get your Spook on’!
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LucieG.
Hello All!
Well it’s the first day of August! I can’t believe Christmas in July is over! I have thoroughly enjoyed the challenge I set myself and I know I will be grateful to have all these cards in November when I will need them!
Anyway, as my Spellbinders Christmas in July package arrived yesterday, I carried on with my Christmas crafting so this is my Bonus Christmas in July card!
I used the fabulous Bibi Cameron Snowflake card Creator die set which I have coveted since it was released last year. This is one of those dies that I really wanted to see in real life before committing. Oh how I wish I still had one of the four bricks and mortar shops that I used to have within a 45 minute drive. Anyway, it was half price in the sale so I decided to get it. And it is BIG – 15cm point to point for the base. It quite an optical illusion though because this card doesn’t feel that bid.
I folded a sheet of A4 card in half and then hung part of the die over the crease – this way I still had a hinged card base after it was cut. I gave up a sheet of 6×6 holographic card for the detailed snowflake – which is surprisingly delicate! Once that was glued down, I decided that I wanted to add some more snowflakes rather than the foliage that comes with the set. I used Memory Box’s Star Snowflake Discs.
Finally I added a sentiment from the Many Merry Christmas Sentiments set, also a Spellbinders bargain. I have to confess though, I bought the whole set because of this particular sentiment which is so me!
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
It’s Day 30 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024! I was hoping that a Christmas in July crafty order would arrive this morning but sadly it didn’t… so I turned to my Plan B which I had started working on ‘just in case’.
The background is embossed with my beloved Pinecone Plethora folder and the main image is an oldie but goodie – the Antique Pine Label die by Memory Box. After colouring it with distress inks, I added a Simply Graphic berry die and a few cones from the Stampin’ Up Christmas Pinecone die set that I first used for this card.
After assembling the card, I felt the lower section needed a splash of that red mirror card so I added a few berries. I was a bit concerned that they aren’t attached to a stem but now looking at my photos, I think they work!
Of course the sentiment is from my go-to Mama Elephant set!
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LucieG.
Hello everyone!
Welcome to Day 20 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!
I picked up the pretty Poppystamps Nordic Whimsy Trees and Nordic Tree Toppers die sets in a post-Christmas sale this year and I’ve been looking at them on and off since the start of Christmas in July. I know I should use them, but for some reason I couldn’t figure out a way to make them work for me…
Then yesterday I saw the new Poppystamps Christmas in July release and immediately knew what had been holding me back – the trees needed trunks!
So, drawing inspiration from the new Nordic Treeline die (which I will HAVE to buy btw), I cut some trunks from another die set and got to work!
I used another Poppystamps die for the vellum circle and the hillside was created with a Memory Box die.
The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.
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LucieG.
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