Happy Sunday everyone!!
Today’s CAS card showcases two Simon Says Stamp product that I bought last year – the fabulous Birdies die set plus a pretty floral wreath embossing folder. Although this is a very simple card, I spent a while on it – mainly second guessing myself as usual.
The sentiment is from a Waffle Flower Stamps that I’ve had for a while but rarely used, even though it lives in my sentiments box, right on my craft table!
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hello everyone!!
Between Christmas and the New Year, I started to tidy/reorganise my craft room and was a little taken aback by the amount of new/little used products I unearthed! I have promised myself that I will use them this year. Now this doesn’t mean I won’t be buying any more goodies (I’m only human after all…. and already have an order en route), but I will be mindful about using newer stuff more frequently and more than once!
I also want to send more cards this year. I have realised that I don’t send a lot of my creations – I prefer to make something as and when for my recipients. The only exception is Christmas in July, although I do craft with ‘categories’ of recipients in mind in that month for instance CAS admirers or those who don’t celebrate Christmas. Last July, I was also careful about the thickness of the cards I created as there’s a restriction for a standard card. So this year I will actively create with my existing goodies AND make Royal Mail-friendly creations…. AND get them in the post from time to time!
And so here we are today with the newest arrival in my craft room aka The Most Beautiful Embossing Folder Ever! This is the Altenew Piped Floral Lace 3D folder and I LOVE it! Just look at the incredible detail! It was VERY difficult to find a suitable die cut to add to this – in the end I cut some vellum with an older Honey Bee Studio die and added the Simon Says Stamp Giggle Hello die plus some pearls.
Technically this should be Royal Mail-friendly card but given the state of the cards that landed on my mat this Christmas (almost every single jewel ended up being exposed) – I would definitely add a piece of card to protect it… which probably pushes it beyond the standard postage limits.
I have ideas for making a more postage friendly card with this folder though…more of that later this month!
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hello there!
Well it’s the end of an amazing era! One of my favourite challenges – Color Throwdown is very sadly finishing. Many thanks to the team for their amazing combos, creations and kind words over the past few years, I will miss the challenge and the inspiration.
I discovered the challenge back in 2016 and oddly I can clearly remember the card I made for the gorgeous combo of peach, yellow, light pink and white! I didn’t have a blog back then but shared my entry on instagram. For many years, I loved playing along with this challenge every week and I longed to join the DT! Alas that was never to be but I was so chuffed to be invited as a monthly guest designer in August 2019. I stepped away from a lot of challenges this year but knew I had to post one last entry!
My card today uses the combo of yellow, green and orange in a festive card. I’m pretty much over autumn now (as is our weather) and I adore creating Christmas cards! I knew this combo would work well with the Pinkfresh Festive Foliage tree product suite. My design is drawn from a Jennifer McGuire card from the last Create and Connect event – the whole card is supported by the tree pot (an octogen from the Octogen coverplate die) and the tree/pot are raised from the card base using some folded card – such a clever mechanism that adds amazing depth but flattens right down for posting!
The background is a favourite Sizzix 3D embossing folder.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi there!
I can’t believe it’s the first day of August and Christmas in July is over! But it is Festive Friday so that calls for a bonus Christmas in July card I think!
When I was thinking about this card, I felt I HAD to use the Hero Arts Tree Pattern cover die again – I used it for this card on Day 9.
This time I cut it from some Craft Consortium paper and chose five of the trees. I adhered them to a panel that I had embossed with my favourite Sizzix tree folder and added a few stars and a Mama Elephant card to complete my CAS card.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi there!
It’s difficult to believe but today is Day 31 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025! 31 days of cardmaking! I did it (again)! Yay!
Today I pulled out the older Simon Says Stamp Corbel Tree die and some purple ink and got cutting and blending. It didn’t actually take me too long to blend each of the petals, but rather than colour the little dots, I used dots cut from glitter card.
I adhered the tree to a background that I had embossed with Simon’s Sprinkle Snowglobe folder. Then came the nerve wracking part – stamping the sentiment! I deliberately chose a small one so that I didn’t need to curve it to align with the snowglobe base, which I always find difficult.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
Hi there!
It’s Day 30 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025 and my last non-tree post of the month!
Originally I thought I would do a snowman card but then I remembered that it was Woodblock Wednesday … despite my best efforts this year, I haven’t managed to play along with Amy’s monthly challenge – time to change that!
So I pulled out one of my favourite wood-mounted festive stamps – the wonderful Kitty Claws by Stampendous. I’ve said it before, but I could never part with many of my wood-mounted stamps because they have stories attached to them – like my Christmas ornaments. I shared Kitty Claws’s backstory in my first Christmas in July here. You know I still remember my mum buying the original stamp?!!
The challenge with using older supplies is coming up with different ways of showcasing them. Fortunately this year I have the Spellbinders Molded Frame embossing folder which can showcase a focal point in an elegant and crisp way!
After colouring and fussy cutting the image, I adhered some glitter – I do hope you can see it? I also added a sentiment by Newtons Nook and a random snowflake that was on my table from an earlier card.
Thanks for stopping by!
LucieG.
LucieG Cards 