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30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 7

Hi everyone!

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

The theme of today’s challenge is ‘deck the wreath’.

After some prevarication, I ended up creating a wreath with Spellbinders pine branch dies, bedecked with lots of fabulous dew drops for my take on the theme.

The embossing folder is also by Spellbinders and the sentiment is by Creative Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 6

Hi everyone!

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

The theme of today’s challenge is ‘stocking stuffers’.

I used dies from Memory Box and Spellbinders for my card, together with a Spellbinders embossing folder.

The sentiment is by The Ton Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

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.

Color Throwdown

Hello everyone!

It was so sad to read the tributes to Barbara Anders on the Color Throwdown blog this week. I had noticed that she had stopped designing a while ago as I always loved seeing her cards, she created some amazing inspiration. I also loved her joy of travelling and in particular her IG posts from my home town – her sense of adventure and love of travel and appreciation of her surroundings really touched me.

I send my heartfelt condolences to her husband, family and friends including the CTD team members past and present who shared such beautiful words. She touched many hearts and will be very missed.

The combo this week is orange, cream and kraft and I used a variety of Spellbinders products for my take. The sentiment is by Technique Tuesday.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ghost Week – Day 1

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 1 of Ghost Week!

For someone who doesn’t celebrate Halloween, I certainly have a LOT of Halloween crafty products. Each year I tell myself ‘No more’ and each year some slip into that crafty basket.

October has been busy so I haven’t had as much crafty time as I would have liked (does one ever?!) but I just came up with the idea of Ghost Week in the hopes of making use of my new Halloween dies… let’s see how we get on!

Of course as I’m supposed to be using new products, my ghost card today uses an old Spellbinders set that I’ve had for a couple of years. I cut the ghosts from felt that has sparkly flecks and added glittery stars and the sentiment from the set to a base that I’d covered with Craft Consortium paper.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Primary Tree

Hello again!

Next up today is my entry in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a primary combo of red, yellow and blue. One of my very first entries into the Color Throwdown was for this very combo in 2016, before I had this blog, but I did create this card for another primary combo in 2021. I have to confess that I find this combo very challenging and I was going to skip it until I saw the little chubby tree card I created a few weeks ago which combined an aqua/blue tree and red pearls… and so I was inspired to get crafty!

I saw a card using the Stampin’ Up Decorative Trees on Instagram in mid September. I rarely buy from Stampin’ Up partly because I’ve found their dispatch to be very slow and I’m very impatient for new goodies. But I liked the trees so much that I said that I would get them the next time I spotted an offer on shipping. I checked and there was a post for free shipping the very next day! I could not believe it! And to top it off, the order was actually shipped two days later!