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Christmas in July 2025 – Day 8

Hi there!

It’s Day 8 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

Today I pulled out the Spellbinders Layered Noel Foliage stencil set and used it with non-traditional colours (Milled Lavender distress ink and cubes from Pinkfresh Studio’s Urban Raincoat set of grey inks). Spellbinders have a few stencil sets in this series and I deliberately chose one where I felt could easily use a different sentiment instead of the stencilled ‘Noel’.

This card will go to a friend who doesn’t celebrate Christmas but always sends Christmas cards, so I chose a wintery Creative Expressions die cut sentiment. I’m sad that Creative Expressions has closed but fortunately their dies are still around in many online stores!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 5

Hi there!

It’s Day 5 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

Time for another little tree I think! This time I chose the Lisa Horton/Spellbinders Nested Tree Frame die set. I just love that quirky little tree! I cut the three layers from the tree from patterned mirror card. The white snow layers are cut from white holographic card, but that’s difficult to see from these photos.

The die set contains a number of fabulous frames, but I wanted to do something a bit different so chose the Molded Frame 3D embossing folder as my background.

Can you believe that even with the dimension from the embossing and the layered tree die cut this card sailed through the 5mm slot in my mailing size guide ruler?! Yay!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 3

Hi there!

It’s Day 3 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

Another day, another new die set! I picked up the fabulous Spellbinders/Simon Hurley Whimsical Bottlebrush trees in a sale last December. I love the variety offered by this small set but decided to focus on just one of the trees today (pretty sure the other tree in the set will make an appearance at some point this month).

Would you believe that all of the trees are made from just one piece of Craft Consortium 6×6 paper? Their papers are so versatile!

The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set.

This card is also less than 5mm thick as I’ve used paper rather than card for the trees, but this does mean that the branches are quite delicate so I will probably add more glue before sending it out.

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LucieG.

Timeless Tulips

Hello everyone!!

I’m still playing with the Sunshine and Smiles release from Pinkfresh Studio that I won last month. I just love how easy it is to colour their beautiful images with the coordinating stencil sets! I coloured the Timeless Tulips image this weekend and decided it would work well with the sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

The image is large – maybe 10cms tall so I decided to use a larger card base – this is 7″x5″ (yes, you know I hate inches but the whole inches I can cope with, it’s when I have to deal with fractions of an inch that my metric head can’t cope!). For the background, I embossed a white panel with the Radiant Burst embossing folder by Spellbinders and adhered the tulip image.

The sentiment is from the Sunshine and Smiles sentiment set. I rarely stamp sentiments in coloured ink but the brown version of this sentiment got lost in the tulip stems so I stamped it with one of the Pinkfresh inks that I had used to colour the image – I much prefer how it turned out!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Spellbinders Weekender 2025

Hi everyone!

This weekend, I took part in Spellbinders’ Weekender event. I was only able to watch a few classes live as the event was held in the US Pacific time zone which is 8 hours behind us in the UK, but it was a fun event!

Kim Kesti was first up on Day/Evening 1 (which I watched the following morning) and used a fabulous ship die set called Deckside Dreams. Kim’s ship was pretty colourful but as I’ve only been on one cruise (with Holland America), I used that ship as inspiration for a more monochromatic take. I sponged a little white ink on the hull/bow of the ship to mimic breaking waves.

The kit included some blue Hero Arts shimmer spray which I hadn’t used before. I was expecting it to behave like Distress Mica Sprays but it was far less easy to manipulate. The shimmer is amazing though!

Next up was Channin Pelletier’s card using my favourite product from the kit – am amazing die set called Beyond the Door. I’ve already played with this for this card and I think I will be reaching for it again and again! The kit included an amazing selection of coloured cardstock which I was particularly keen to see as it’s so hard choosing cardstock online. I supplemented it with some of my own cardstock for this card – including glitter card for that sea!

 

 

On Saturday, I was able to craft along with Cathy Zielske and created two cards. For the first card, we inked up an embossing folder using a Hero Arts Reactive Ink cube. I was VERY impressed with the coverage which is far better than I’ve achieved with other inks. May have to order more of those cubes!

I veered away from Cathy’s instructions on the second card – instead of embossing a yellow panel with the folder, I masked off a centre section, blended two distress inks (Mustard Seed and Wild Honey), rubbed in some Perfect Pearls, removed the masking tape and embossed the entire panel. It’s on old school Jennifer Maguire technique which she used with what I believe were the OG 3D embossing folders by We R Memory Keepers. Her post about this is still on her blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.