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Thank you Color Throwdown!

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.

Fresh floral wishes

Hello everyone!!

I’m popping in with another card JUST before the deadline for the Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge which the theme of ‘Petals & Thanks’!

I just had to use one of my older Pinkfresh dies – the beautiful Daisy Chain coverplate die from a few years ago. The palette I chose from the Colour Schemes Bible is citrus, limeade, fern, orchid and sweet pea – sweet names! I matched them as best I could to Pinkfresh inks and then selected a few older Altenew inks as well. The flowers and foliage are from the Fresh Florals product sweet and I chose a sentiment from the Playful Petals stamp set – although maybe I should have chosen one that actually says thanks?

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Thanks a bunch

Hello everyone!!

I can’t quite believe we’re almost at the end of November! Where did the month go? I almost missed the window to play along with the Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge which has a most LucieG-appropriate theme of ‘Petals & Thanks’! I’m very thankful I didn’t.

I just received the beautiful Bloomscape product suite from the latest release on Friday and couldn’t wait to ink it up! A few years ago I received a The Colour Schemes Bible which I’ve been turning to more often recently. The colour palette I selected didn’t include any green and I was going to include it as an extra ink for the foliage but then I thought – why not use purple? After all I love the blue/teal leaves that DT members frequently use, why not try something different? I’m rather pleased with how it turned out as I think the palette works so nicely together and I would’ve used the purple instead of the lighter blue had I added a green to the palette.

I also used my Octagon Grid Coverplate die again – this time to cut some satin silver card. It was VERY difficult trying to decide which images to omit from the card – I will have to use them on another card I think!

The sentiment is from the Beyond Happy set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Holiday Sparkle

Hello everyone!!

The Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge theme of ‘Texture & Shine’ is so much fun – I just had to create another card for it!

I inked up the fabulous Deck The Halls stamp set that I snapped up in a sale earlier this year but I hadn’t yet used. It’s such a delicate set, I love all foliage elements! I used my new Octagon Grid Coverplate die to cut regular white card and champagne glitter card and added the thin octagon frames from the glitter die cut to my white frame. I then tucked the foliage elements into the frame. There were a few emptier windows which I turned into shakers!

The sentiment is from a set that was included in the October 2024 Create & Connect event kit.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

LucieG Christmas in July 2025 Challenge

Hi everyone!

And that’s a wrap on Christmas in July 2025! Once again, I really enjoyed devoting a whole month to Christmas cards!

One of the aims I set myself was to create cards that weren’t too thick for standard mail and I have just spent the last 15 minutes checking each card! I created 36 cards this month and all bar 5 of them sailed through the 5mm slot in my mailing size guide ruler! Yay! I started to find it quite restricting to create thinner cards and I eased up on that part of my challenge as the month wore on so this result was a pleasant surprise!

I also enjoyed making a few twofers. In the past I’ve stamped/die cut lots of images (mainly trees!) and thought I’d use them at a later date, but I never did… so creating twofers was a good way of avoiding that!

It was so much fun to use the products that I bought in post-Christmas sales and also to dust off my older products. Playing with those 10+ year old stamps and dies brought back so many happy memories!

Many thanks to everyone who followed along and shared kind comments with me – I really appreciate all of you!

Have a great day!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 30

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.