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Christmas in July 2023 – Day 24

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 24 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Just Us Girls CAS challenge.

The challenge theme is ‘three of something’ and so it seemed like the perfect opportunity for me to use my Simply Graphic die set called Gang des peres de noel! I had such fun putting these together!

I cut the windows with an older My Favorite Things die and adhered it to my card base before adding the die cuts. The sentiment is by Creative Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 23

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Welcome to Day 23 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Today I used a Spellbinders/Susan Tierney-Cockburn die set called Holiday Flora Pinecone and Evergreen Bough that I picked up in the sale a few months ago. I’m so grateful that Susan has made some amazing videos showing how to assemble these! The pine cones still took a while to create but I also tested out my new Waffle Flower Crafts grip mat when I coloured the scales – and it worked really well!

I used my fabulous Gemini embossing folder and a sentiment from My Favorite Things to complete my card.

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 21

Happy Friyay everyone!

Welcome to Day 21 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

Super busy day = not much crafty time so I had to made a very quick card today.

I decided that it was time for another snowflake card so I flicked through all my dies and spotted this fabulous Mod Snowflake Bakcground die by Poppystamps. I don’t use it much because I have trouble getting a clean cut in some spots, but I loaded up with additional shims and cut some Craft Consortium paper with it.

I wanted to adhere it to a glittery backgound so I covered a panel in Nuvo glitter paste and then adhered the die cut on top when it was dry.

The sentiment is by Woodware.

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 20

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Welcome to Day 20 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

Today I wanted to play with my Poppystamps Holiday Mistletoe die. I thought I hadn’t used it since the Nightmare White on White Experience of 2020 but looking through my archives, I did actually use it in 2021 – how typical that I only remember the nightmare!

Anyway, today I cut it from some Craft Consortium ink drops paper and then coloured the stems brown with distress ink. I cut the berries from different paper and stuck them on top. I blended some Picked Raspberry and Crackling Campfire distress ink very lightly to create a central panel for my little arrangement. Once I adhered the stems in place, I added a Spellbinders bow and a sentiment also by Poppystamps.

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 18

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Welcome to Day 18 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

Who remembers Quickutz? And Archivers? Remember their amazing collaborations? I remember getting them on Ebay and then being so excited to pick them up in person when I started going to Chicago for work. It was a bit of a trek to Archivers but always so worth it!

Today I’m playing with a die set from 2008. How can that be FIFTEEN YEARS AGO?! I was so excited to get this set! And I got coordinating paper as well – I’m sure I still have some of that left in my Chistmas box!

The sentiment is by My Favorite Things.

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 17

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 17 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Just Add Ink challenge which has a fabulous festive inspiration photo this week.

I’ve been struggling with my crafty mojo this month so I decided that I would use some old Freshly Made Sketches to help me along. Today the random generator came up with number 169 and it was actually a perfect sketch for a Penny Black stamp that I had been wanting to use again – the beautiful Nature’s Decor mini stamp set (30-608). I coloured it with my Twinkling H2O paints, cut it out and added a couple of elements from the Jumble Bauble diet set (51-743)*. I then added the sentiment from the Nature’s Rubies mini stamp set (30-917)*.

For the two strips, I used a border from the Geometric Borders die set (51-196) which I cut in half and then added some stickles to the centres.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

*kindly sent to me by Penny Black