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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.

Made in May Card 3

Hello everyone!!

Today I’m playing along with the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Today I wanted to use a die set that I’ve had for over a year but never used – the Honey Bee Stamps Wagon Wheel. The wheel turned out to be much larger in real life than I was expecting and so I put it to one side and forgot about it. When I saw the sketch, I decided to see if I could make it work.

I chose a larger card size (just under 15cm x 15 cm) so I could still have a lot of that nice open space around the wheel. To ensure that the two background strips did not pull the eye away from my wheel, I used light ink blending and an Elizabeth Crafts border die cut from whit cardstock – so all the sketch elements are there!

I’ve had the Poppystamps cat die forever! It’s called Large Curious Cat and is dated 2013. I’m pretty sure I would have bought it as soon as it came out as I have a family of cat lovers so it would have had a lot of use back in the day! The Woodland Avery bird is by Flora and Fauna and I picked it up in a recent sale. Isn’t it cute!

The background embossing folder is by Stampin Up and the sentiment is by the Ton Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Egg Week 2025 Day 1

Hi there!

I can’t quite believe that Easter is next weekend! Even though it’s very late this year and we seem to have been waiting for it forever, it has still snuck up on me a bit! So I hereby declare today the first day of LucieG’s Egg Week 2025! Today I’m also playing along with this fortnight’s  Color Throwdown challenge which has a fabulous spring combo of lavender, mint green and yellow.

I’ve had this card idea in my head for a while. I started with a panel which I blended with Pumice Stone, intensifying the ink coverage towards the bottom. I then cut this with my new The Greetery  Diamond Ribbons die and adhered it to my card base.

I cut and coloured Poppystamps’ Folk Decorated Eggs using distress ink (Squeezed Lemonade), distress oxide (Shaded Lilac) and Pinkfresh ink (Mint). I often find the name of purple inks to be a little misleading so tend to match colours using my eye for this challenge. Sometimes the CTD team members mention what inks they use and that is VERY helpful (thanks dear Broni!).

The sentiment is from a set by Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.