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30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 14

Hi everyone!

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

The theme of Day 14’s challenge is ‘Christmas morning’.

It took me a long while to choose a stamp for this challenge! I asked a few friends what the theme conjures up for them – they said presents but I wanted to take a different route…

I originally thought of a peaceful landscape to create a Christmas dawn but while looking through my older stamps, I unearthed my Elzybells stamps and found this sweet Rudolph image. I immediately thought that this could be my different take on the theme – dear Rudolph, completely exhausted on Christmas morning after his very busy night!

I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and distress inks and created a window scene using the Poppystamps Grand Madison Window die and a brickwork embossing folder by Stampin’ Up.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

30 Day Christmas Card Challenge 2024 – Day 1

Hi everyone!

I can’t believe it’s November already, can you? It’s always a busy month for me but when I stumbled on Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge, I decided to jump right in! All my own cards are done thanks to Christmas in July so this one is for the joy of creating.

The first challenge is ‘O Christmas Tree’ well of course I had to use the Stampin’ Up Decorative Trees for this one didn’t I? The sentiment in the set is absolutely perfect for today’s theme! The glitter circle was cut with a Hero Arts stars background.

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!

Anyway, I used a couple of tree dies for this card, together with a circle die from The Greetery and a Spellbinders embossing folder.

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

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 30

Hello everyone!

It’s Day 30 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024! I was hoping that a Christmas in July crafty order would arrive this morning but sadly it didn’t… so I turned to my Plan B which I had started working on ‘just in case’.

The background is embossed with my beloved Pinecone Plethora folder and the main image is an oldie but goodie – the Antique Pine Label die by Memory Box. After colouring it with distress inks, I added a Simply Graphic berry die and a few cones from the Stampin’ Up Christmas Pinecone die set that I first used for this card.

After assembling the card, I felt the lower section needed a splash of that red mirror card so I added a few berries. I was a bit concerned that they aren’t attached to a stem but now looking at my photos, I think they work!

Of course the sentiment is from my go-to Mama Elephant set!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 26

Hello everyone!

Happy Festive Friday and welcome to Day 26 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

Today I used part of the Stampin’ Up Christmas Pinecone die set that I first used for this card. It’s very easy to trim this background die into three sections, so expect to see a couple of similar cards at some point.

I kept this simple with a few gold splatters, a Creative Expressions sentiment and a few die cut snowflakes around the pinecone image

Although now I’m worried about the sentiment… when I bought it, I envisaged it with a bunch of snowflakes and now I’m using it with snow-encrusted pinecones instead… I do hope my recipient gets it and doesn’t think I’m sending them cold, frosty/uncaring wishes. Ahh, it’s clearly too late in the evening and I’m overthinking this – please tell me you wouldn’t be offended to receive a card like this!!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.