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Heart Week 2026 – Day 5

Happy Friyay!

Welcome to Day 5 of Heart Week 2026!

Today’s card has been a year in the making! I bought the cute Taylored Expressions egg cup dies last February with a view to making a cup full of hearts card but then something must’ve happened because I never got round to creating it! So today was the day. I dug into my beloved Basic Grey patterned paper mountain, pulled out some super old Simon Says Stamp/Kelly Purkey heart dies and got crafty!

I then spent far too long looking for a stamp set with the perfect sentiment. I know I found in the depths of my craft room at some point last year because I was annoyed I didn’t have it to hand for Heart Week 2025. Well guess what, it’s AWOL for Heart Week 2026 too! Great! So I chose a stamp from a trusty Mama ELephant set instead. When I find it again, I’m going to keep it on my craft table until Heart Week 2027!!

To complete my card I adhered my image to a background I embossed with Poppystamps piercing dies

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Heart Week 2026 – Day 2

Hi there!

It’s Day 2 of Heart Week 2026!

My original plan for today’s card didn’t quite work out so I pivoted to my trusty True Love Stem die by Poppystamps!

I cut it from some patterned mirror card and adhered it to a folk heart that I’d embossed with the Plaster embossing folder by Simon Hurley for Spellbinders.

To complete my card, I added a wood-mounted stamped sentiment and s few sequins.

Meanwhile, I think I’ll still do my original planned card at some point this week – I just need a longer crafty session and possibly a clearer table to work on it!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 18

Happy Festive Friday!

It’s Day 18 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

I’ve had this beautiful Piped Icing Star by Birch Press Design for sometime now. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to use it…. and isn’t that snowflake amazing? That will be appearing on other cards soon I think!

The card design went through MANY versions: a background die (no), an embossed background (no), foliage at the top and bottom (no), foliage at the top only (also no)… but I think I needed to go through each step to get to the final version… and it didn’t actually take THAT long to go through all the stages. The foliage I kept is by Pinkfresh Studio and the cute bow is an older Poppystamps die.

Once again, I wasn’t sure where to put the sentiment so in the end I decided it didn’t need one!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 10

Hi there!

It’s Day 10 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

Today’s card is not what I had originally planned at all… but my original idea wasn’t working so rather than spend ALL evening on it, I pivoted and did something completely different!

To be honest, I’ve been searching for a way to include that amazing frame from my Spellbinders/Lisa Horton Nested Tree Frames set for a while and when I decided to use the sweet Poppystamps Rudolph Collage die again, I found a way to use it!

The sentiment and bow are by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 2

Hi there!

It’s Day 2 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025 and I’m happy to report that it much cooler today and we had a few hours of glorious rain this morning. My house is finally cooling down! Phew!

I’ve made another mailable card today. In fact I actually feel it might lack a little something (foam tape!!)

I’ve used another new Poppystamps die that was released last year – the Nordic Wreath plus some of my precious Basic Grey paper mountain.

The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 1

Happy Tuesday everyone!

It’s that time of year again! LucieG’s Christmas in July! Woohoo! It may be the hottest day of the year so far for us in London, but will that stop me celebrating all things festive? No way!

I’ve dedicated July to Christmas cardmaking since 2019 and had always felt that I reaped the benefits in November/December when life always seems to get super busy! Last year, instead of playing along with challenges, I chose to create for the pure joy of creating Christmas cards and I LOVED it! Unfortunately, later in the year I realised that a few of my cards were too thick for mailing at the standard rate so I still ended up making more cards in November/December. So this year, I want to make sure I have a good selection of ‘mailable’ cards.

First up, for Christmas in July Day 1, I’m using a new die that was released last year but I didn’t manage to use on a card – the Nordic Treeline die by Poppystamps. I actually CASE’d one of my own cards which was a favourite from last year’s Christmas in July. I would have liked to have given the trees a little dimension but I want to mail this card so I stuck the die cut directly to the background panel with glue rather than foam tape.

The sentiment is from a set that I bought from Craftstash before they sadly closed.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.