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Christmas in July 2025 – Day 9

Hi there!

It’s Day 9 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025 and I must say that the subheading of this post, if I had one, would be ‘the one that almost got away’…

Today my tree image of choice is the Hero Arts Tree Pattern cover plate. This was released almost 2 years ago and I have spent most of that time convincing myself that I didn’t need this die. I already have MANY tree images and this particular coverplate was absolutely EVERYWHERE when it was released. That was actually what stopped me from buying it back then because I couldn’t think of a way of using it that would be different from all the ways it had already been used by the various Hero Arts designers.

But it was always there, lurking in the back of my mind….

I finally gave in and bought it from a US store earlier this year…. and of course a few weeks later one of my go-to UK stores got it back in stock!

Anyway, the good thing about ‘fast craft’ is that I haven’t seen this ‘in the wild’ for some time and I have lots of ideas for it now! First up was quite a labour of love – a shaker card! Yep, each of the trees (and the three stars) is a mini shaker! I die cut a layer of fun foam and adhered that to my patterned paper base, filled it with little beads and sequins before adding the acetate and a layer of die cut paper on top.

The sentiment is by Whimsy Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 7

Hi there!

It’s Day 7 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

I chose an older set for today’s tree card – Neat & Tangled Scandinavian Prints Christmas. It’s difficult to believe that this set is from 2016! I have the stamp set too but I wanted to focus on the dies today and cut them from various speciality card. The base is a fabulous Heffy Doodle background die, cut with a snowglobe shaped die.

The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

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.