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Christmas in July 2023 – Day 31

Hello there!

Welcome to Day 31 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

I received a nice crafty order this morning that included the fabulous Encircle embossing folder (65-009) and I could not wait to play with it! Such a unique folder – I love how the little dots within the circle are irregular!

After embossing a square panel, I added some stickles to dots at random. While that was drying, I cut the trunks from the Modern Christmas Tree die set (51-400) from various glitter card and arranged them on my card, trimming them down to add a little variety.

The sentiment is from the Meaningful stamp set (30-919)*.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

* Kindly sent to me by Penny Black

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 22

Hello everyone!

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.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 17

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 17 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Just Add Ink challenge which has a fabulous festive inspiration photo this week.

I’ve been struggling with my crafty mojo this month so I decided that I would use some old Freshly Made Sketches to help me along. Today the random generator came up with number 169 and it was actually a perfect sketch for a Penny Black stamp that I had been wanting to use again – the beautiful Nature’s Decor mini stamp set (30-608). I coloured it with my Twinkling H2O paints, cut it out and added a couple of elements from the Jumble Bauble diet set (51-743)*. I then added the sentiment from the Nature’s Rubies mini stamp set (30-917)*.

For the two strips, I used a border from the Geometric Borders die set (51-196) which I cut in half and then added some stickles to the centres.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

*kindly sent to me by Penny Black

Vellum Birthday Blooms

Happy Friyay everyone!

Today I’m playing with the new Petals die set (51-777) kindly sent me by Penny Black.

I started by adhering some patterned paper to my card base and then cutting a load of flowers from vellum. I added some lines to the reverse of each petal with an embossing tool to give some shape to each flower. After adhering them to the card base, I added the centres cut from glitter and pearlescent card.

The sentiment from the Special Sentiments stamp set (30-574).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 13

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 13 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with the colour challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I started by cutting a circle from my card base using a die from the Stitched Circles set (51-551) and then adhering an ink-blended panel behind it. I cut the Berries die (51-712) from white cardstock, coloured the berries with an alcohol marker and some glittery Nuvo drops. I adhered it to my card and added a (tweaked) die cut bow from the Joy of Giving set (51-748) and a few birds from the Nestlings set (51-755).

The sentiment is from the Jolly Snippets set (30-925).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 12

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 12 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

First, I created an ombre ink blended panel with distress oxide inks and cut it with the fabulous Immense Joy die (51-742) kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I then stamped the cute snow cat from the Snow Days stamp set (30-882) on my card base and coloured it with my Twinkling H2o paints. You can’t really see it in the photo, but I coloured a background as well. To complete my card, I added some glitter to the snowcat – it’s so sparkly in real life!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.