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Christmas in July 2025 – Day 6

Hi there!

It’s Day 6 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

While I had decided that I wouldn’t play along with challenges this month, I smiled when I saw the sketch for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge because I had a set of dies on my craft table that would work beautifully… so I played along!

The set of dies in question are the A6 Christmas Sparklers die set by Creative Craft Products, a brand that was in Craftstash.

I chose a portrait layout which I felt worked better given the size of the dies and used a die from Pinkfresh Studio Noteworthy set to create the label.

The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set.

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 4

Happy Festive Friday!

It’s Day 4 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025 and I have a twofer for you today.

I used the Memory Box Starburst Snowflake Discs die set that cuts a trio of snowflake images to cut five sheets of mirror card. I was originally planning a regular A6 card but preferred how I arranged the discs on a square panel so switched to a square card. After assembling my card, I decided to see whether I could use the negative pieces (ie the snowflakes) on a second card. I resisted the temptation to add more die cuts to that creation as I like all that white space.

I didn’t add a sentiment to either of these cards because I didn’t want to hide any of the pretty die cuts. I may add a small stamped sentiment to the second card – I think there’s a suitable spot above the larger black snowflake.

These cards are also less than 5mm thick!

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 2

Hi there!

It’s Day 2 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025 and I’m happy to report that it much cooler today and we had a few hours of glorious rain this morning. My house is finally cooling down! Phew!

I’ve made another mailable card today. In fact I actually feel it might lack a little something (foam tape!!)

I’ve used another new Poppystamps die that was released last year – the Nordic Wreath plus some of my precious Basic Grey paper mountain.

The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 1

Happy Tuesday everyone!

It’s that time of year again! LucieG’s Christmas in July! Woohoo! It may be the hottest day of the year so far for us in London, but will that stop me celebrating all things festive? No way!

I’ve dedicated July to Christmas cardmaking since 2019 and had always felt that I reaped the benefits in November/December when life always seems to get super busy! Last year, instead of playing along with challenges, I chose to create for the pure joy of creating Christmas cards and I LOVED it! Unfortunately, later in the year I realised that a few of my cards were too thick for mailing at the standard rate so I still ended up making more cards in November/December. So this year, I want to make sure I have a good selection of ‘mailable’ cards.

First up, for Christmas in July Day 1, I’m using a new die that was released last year but I didn’t manage to use on a card – the Nordic Treeline die by Poppystamps. I actually CASE’d one of my own cards which was a favourite from last year’s Christmas in July. I would have liked to have given the trees a little dimension but I want to mail this card so I stuck the die cut directly to the background panel with glue rather than foam tape.

The sentiment is from a set that I bought from Craftstash before they sadly closed.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.