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Christmas in July 2025 – Day 26

Hi there!

It’s Day 26 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

I’m slowly building my Pinkfresh Studio collection and when I saw the Winter Berries product suite, I HAD to have it! It’s retired so it took me a while to track it down, but I’m glad I did – it is a joy to colour!

Today, I arranged all the die cut berry branches in a pail from the Taylored Expressions Antique Pails set and adhered everything to a base layer that I had embossed with a Nellie Snellen folder.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Fabulous Crane

Hi there!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches. Cecile has shared a fabulous arty sketch and I totally thought I would use a die cut flower as the focal image… until I sat down at my craft table!

I picked up a few products that I had just received in my last Simon Says Stamp order and flicked though them… as soon as I saw the amazing Block Print Crane die by Birch Press Designs, I pivoted as I knew it would work perfectly with the sketch. I tried to resist buying this die as my common sense told me that I wouldn’t use it… but my resolve just disappeared when I placed my Simons order – I mean it is just so unique! I’m very happy I got to use it for my take on the sketch! !

For the background I used stencils by Taylored Expressions. I was going to add splatters or stamped dots but in the end decided that a few sequins would work well plus I could play around with their placement without committing!

The sentiment is from an older Sugar Pea Designs set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 6

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 6 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024! Today I’m honoured to be the Guest Designer for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown’s Sketch challenge.

I have to confess that it took me some time to create this card. I wanted to be true to my CAS style but there are a lot of panels in the sketch. Eventually I chose a subtle Taylored Expressions embossing folder to create two white background panels – they’re a bit difficult to see in the smaller photos, but they are there – promise!

I then added the beautiful Memory Box Frosty border that I trimmed a little plus additional die cut snowflakes and a sentiment from a very old Hero Arts wood-mounted set.

The Design Team has some amazing inspiration on the challenge blog – I hope you can play along!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

We three birds

Hi everyone!

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

I’m determined to make my way through my ‘new stuff’ box this year and so for my CAS take on the challenge, I used the Simon Says Stamp Layer Bird Bunch dies set that I got in their Thanksgiving sale – so not THAT old, considering what else is in my box!

I created the background with a Taylored Expressions stencil that could have been made for the sketch and coloured the birds with distress inks and coloured pencil. I adhered the birds and a few branches from a Sizzix set to my card base and added a sentiment by Clearly Besotted.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Colourful Coneflowers

Happy Monday everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the Color Throwdown which has a colourful combo of pink, green, magenta and white.

A few months ago my friend, the talented cardmaker Trina shared a beautiful coneflower card.  As a result, when I spotted the Taylored Expressions Cornflower dies, I snapped them up!

I finally used them this weekend – I thought the challenge colour combo would be perfect! I paired them with a Mama Elephant frame and a sentiment by Karen Burniston.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.