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Christmas in July 2023 – Day 13

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 13 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with the colour challenge at the 52 Christmas card challenge using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I started by cutting a circle from my card base using a die from the Stitched Circles set (51-551) and then adhering an ink-blended panel behind it. I cut the Berries die (51-712) from white cardstock, coloured the berries with an alcohol marker and some glittery Nuvo drops. I adhered it to my card and added a (tweaked) die cut bow from the Joy of Giving set (51-748) and a few birds from the Nestlings set (51-755).

The sentiment is from the Jolly Snippets set (30-925).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 12

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Welcome to Day 12 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

First, I created an ombre ink blended panel with distress oxide inks and cut it with the fabulous Immense Joy die (51-742) kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I then stamped the cute snow cat from the Snow Days stamp set (30-882) on my card base and coloured it with my Twinkling H2o paints. You can’t really see it in the photo, but I coloured a background as well. To complete my card, I added some glitter to the snowcat – it’s so sparkly in real life!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 11

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Welcome to Day 11 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

Today I’m playing along with a new-to-me challenge called Peace on Earth Christmas Challenge. One image in the inspiration collage, the blue cone wreath, took my breath away and I was totally inspired!

While I have a LOT of pine cone dies, I decided to create a wreath of blue pine sprigs using panels created with three distress inks/oxides and an Impression Obsession die set! Once I assembled the wreath, I added a Penny Black bow and a sentiment by My Favorite Things.

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 9

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Welcome to Day 9 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

This CAS card took far longer to create than it should have because I didn’t like my numerous ink-blended ovals! In the end I chose this one which is a combination of Saltwater Taffy, Wilted Violet and Stormy Sky distress inks! I adhered the little snowman scene from an older Create-A-Smile die on top.

For the background, I used the fabulous Spun Glass embossing folder by Simon Says Stamp.

No sentiment on this card – after spending so long on that ink blending, I just felt I’d mess up a stamped sentiment!

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LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 8

 

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 8 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023! Today I’m playing along with this week’s Color Throwdown challenge.

This week’s combo is pink, teal and grey – another combo I recognise – here is what I came up with almost five years ago!

I used an older die set from Creative Expressions with some Tattered Rose, Hickory Smoke and Salvaged Patina for my take this time!

The sentiment is from a Simon Says Stamp/Gina K Stamptember collaboration a few years ago.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2023 – Day 7

 

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 7 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2023!

So remember the card I abandoned yesterday? Well of course when I looked at it today, I realised that it was actually fine! So I finished it off and here it is!

The inspiration for this card is the Spellbinders July Small Die of the Month kit and specifically the STUNNING card that Annie B Wills made with it!

Obviously, I don’t have the kit, but I do have a LOT of little festive Spellbinders dies so I pulled out all my sets and got busy!

The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.