Happy Festive Friyay!
It’s Day 10 of LucieG’s Christmas in July but I didn’t have much crafty time this evening so I stepped outside my CAS comfort zone and created a quick card with a large snowman using the Happy Snowman die set by Trinity Stamps!
I used some of my patterned paper mountain and the Simon Hurley/Spellbinders Sparkling Anow 3D embossing folder for the background.
The sentiment is from the Simon Says Stamp Big Holiday Words set.
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LucieG.
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It’s Day 9 of LucieG’s Christmas in July!
The star of today’s card is a beautiful Creative Expressions die called ‘Under the Tree’ which I used to create this card a couple of years ago. I decided that my fabulous Hunkydory ombre/patterned mirror card would work very nicely with the die but I wanted to see more of it so this time I kept the little die cut branches in situ!
The embossing folder is also by Creative Expressions and the sentiment is from an old My Favorite Things set.
The sentiment is from the Simon Says Stamp Big Holiday Words set.
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LucieG.
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It’s Day 7 of LucieG’s Christmas in July!
Well today I certainly didn’t create a Royal Mail-able card! I started with high hopes when I pulled out the Stamp Market’s Layered Christmas Trees die set. I don’t think I’ve used the large die before – I created this card with the smaller dies.
I was originally going to create a white glittery tree but before I knew it, I was layering green die cuts on top! I die cut an elongated oval from the card base and adhered some pink paper that I’d embossed with Spellbinders’ Dimpled embossing folder. Somehow the card kept getting thicker! I added some foam to the back of my tree and then I thought ‘in for a penny, in for a pound’ and threw on a load of bling!
The sentiment is from a Lawn Fawn set called Little Snow Globe Add-on.
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LucieG.
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It’s Day 6 of LucieG’s Christmas in July!
Have you ever tracked down and bought an entire die set because you HAVE to have just one of the dies. I have… a few times… but this sweet reindeer die involved the most detective work! I eventually tracked down the Elizabeth Craft Designs Holiday Stocking die set, but it took a while! And now I have that cute deer, I have to make sure I use him…. a lot!
Today I’ve paired him with an ombre background that I embossed with a folder which I bought many years ago (it’s a 2D folder) and unusually for me, I can’t remember the brand.
The sentiment is from a Whimsy Stamps set called Simple Sentiment Strips Holidays.
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LucieG.
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It’s Day 2 of LucieG’s Christmas in July – time to showcase an embossing folder!
I’ve always loved dry embossing – from the earliest days with a lightbox, stylus and metal stencil, to the wonderful Cuttlebug (which opened up the world of die cutting and plastic embossing folders) then to the amazing 3D folders we have nowadays. There are all sorts of amazing techniques used to showcase the amazing designs and depth, but when I try them I rarely like what I produce. I always go back to the straightforward dry embossing which I love!
Today I used a Spellbinders folder and some of the 12×12 paper that I am determined to use in my crafting after sorting through far too many boxes of 12×12 in May! Anyway, the paper held out really when and I rubbed a white ink pad across the embossed image to really highlight the gorgeous design.
The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.
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LucieG.
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I can’t quite believe that Easter is next weekend – it’s snuck up on me a bit! So I hereby declare today the first day of LucieG’s Egg Week 2026!
For my CAS card today, I used an egg from a Simon Says Stamp embossing folder and my favourite Speckled Egg distress ink. I also pulled out a piece of older vellum with glittery flecks, but that’s quite difficult to photograph!
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LucieG.
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