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30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 2

Hi everyone!

I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.

Today’s challenge is ‘Gingerbread Dreams’. I couldn’t find any gingerbread stamps or dies in my rather extensive collection but then I remembered the Gingermas House that I received in Pinkfresh Studio’s Holiday event kit!

I embossed it on kraft and coloured it with my Prisma coloured pencils. I embossed a kraft background panel with a Spellbinders folder and added The Greetery’s Pine Wisp die cut (which is actually cut from antique gold card) before adhering the house and adding a few pearls to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ghost Week – Day 5

Hi there and Happy Halloween!

It’s Day 5 of Ghost Week and I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge (I have NEVER entered this challenge so early!!) and this month’s Memory Box challenge where the theme is ‘happy haunting’.

For today’s card, I used the Cookie Jar die that was part of the Pinkfresh Holiday Event earlier in the month. I think I would have preferred to use a bigger card base to more add more white space around the focal point but I also wanted to use my Simon Says Stamp ghosts embossing folder one last time this year and guess what won that design struggle?!

I cut ghosts from Memory Box’s fun set of Haunting Ghosts which I’m proud to say that I have used on three cards this year! The fabulous houses are from Poppystamps’ Twisted Houses set – they worked so well with the jar!.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

A Happy Meowlloween

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s  Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Each year I tell myself ‘no more Halloween supplies’ and each year I succumb! I just couldn’t help myself when I spotted these cute Poppystamps Ghostly Cats dies when I was buying a few of their Christmas dies from Bumbleberrys. I was so surprised that we in the UK had the release on launch day – we usually have to wait a few weeks to get hold of it! And I was even more pleased to see that these dies are made in the USA!

Anyway, I have taken a few liberties with the challenge sketch. My kitties were smaller than the triangles in the sketch so I turned the sketch into and element on the card base.

The background panel is a Simon Says Stamp embossing folder (I used the debossed side so that the cute ghosts didn’t overwhelm the kitties) and the sentiment is from a very old set by My Favorite Things.

I’ve just seen that the Poppystamps challenge this month is ‘clean and simple’ – my favourite! So I’m entering this there too!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Color Throwdown Guest Spot

Good morning everyone!

This week, I have the honour of being the Guest Designer over at one of my favourite challenges – the Color Throwdown Challenge. Funny story – I was last the GD for their challenge a year ago today!

The palette for this challenge is light blue, cream and kraft, a fab combo! I was originally going to create a bouquet/vase combo but then I changed my mind!

Instead,  I pulled out The Greetery’s Wheat botanicuts set and cut it from white regular card and cream pearlescent card. I coloured the white card with Antique Linen distress oxide ink and I dusted the pearlescent card with the same ink for extra depth of colour. I mixed the two types of card when assembling the heads of the wheat stems.

I arranged the wheat into a bundle and added a blue glittery bow from the Fit to be Tied die set. I then smooshed some Frayed Burlap distress ink onto a white card base and adhered the bundle on top.

I felt that the card needed a little more blue so I added some birds from the Simon Says Stamp Layered Bird Bunch set. They are coloured with Stormy Sky, Frayed Burlap and Pumice Stone distress inks.

There’s some amazing inspiration from the Color Throwdown DT over on the challenge blog – I do hope you can play along this week!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Kitty Family Portraits

Hello everyone!

I took a few days away from my craft room after the cardmaking frenzy that was Christmas in July. I was very happy to get back in there this weekend. Yesterday wasn’t too successful and I didn’t like what I was creating, so today I turned to the fabulous Freshly Made Sketches challenge!

I was originally going to use the small embroidery hoops by The Greetery with flowers or birds, but then I decided on kitties! These mischievous felines are from the Sneaky Kitties die by Simon Says Stamp. I coloured them with distress inks and added some Craft Consortium paper to create walls for them to peek over.

The background embossing folder is by Stampin’ Up and I used a Newton’s Nook sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 24

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 24 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

Back to my beloved trees today and I chose the fabulous Simon Says Stamp Pointed Evergreens die as my focal point.

I cut the image from white glitter card and adhered it to a couple of layers cut from regular card. I loved how the talented Angie had added jewels to her trees a few days ago so I did the same… Glitter card and gems – well you can never have too much bling can you?!

I blended Stormy Sky distress ink to the bottom of a light blue card panel and adhered it to my cardbase. After adhering the tree image, I added an embossed My Favorite Things sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.