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Christmas in July 2024 – Day 29

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 29 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today I have another twofer to share.

Today the small but mighty Winter’s Wispy Trees by The Stamp Market take centre stage, ably supported by embossing folders!

For my first card, I chose a trio of trees and adhered them onto a panel embossed with a Simon Says Stamp folder. The sentiment is by Mama Elephant.

For my second card, I chose a different trio of trees and was planning to adhere them directly to an embossed panel again. However, this Spellbinders folder produces some wonderfully deep embossing and the images felt a little heavy for the wispy trees. So I added a simple die cut, some chunky glitter and a Clearly Besotted sentiment.

So which one do you prefer?

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 28

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 28 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today I’m using products kindly sent to me by Penny Back.

When I looked through my Christmas in July cards, I was AGHAST that I hadn’t done any wreaths. Fortunately, I had just the stamp to rectify this shocking oversight! This beautiful image is called Christmas Circlet (40-796) and I coloured it with distress reinkers before fussy cutting it out.

I added a little Tumbled Glass distress ink to a card panel which I then embossed with the Noted embossing folder (65-005) before adding some gold splatters. I then adhered the Circlet to the card with sticky fixers. I chose the word from the Merry Edger die set (51-475) and added several layers of cardstock to lift it above my Circlet image. I toyed with adding a stamped ‘Christmas’ underneath but decided against it because I really wanted to add a bow and felt that the extra sentiment would be a little too much! The vellum bow was created from both bows in the Jumble Bauble set (51-743).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 12

Hello everyone!

It’s Festive Friday and Day 12 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024!

While I was hunting for a stamp that I don’t think I own last weekend, I unearthed a few festive treasures that I HAVE to use! First up is this Hero Arts/Sizzix Trees background stamp/embossing folder set. The packaging says 2011 and I can’t remember when I last used it… Quite honestly I had forgotten all about it!

I stamped it onto some pale blue card and waited for the ink to dry before dry embossing it. I knew I wanted to use this bold merry stamp as well, but it took FOREVER (and many, many , many glittery die cuts) until I embellished it with silver thread. Sometimes the simplest card takes the longest, eh!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 11

Hello everyone!

Welcome to Day 11 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and more trees today!

I LOVE the Papertrey Ink Enchanted Forest stamps and dies that I picked up a few years ago, but I was shocked to see that I haven’t used them since this card in 2021. Well, that has changed and I’ve now got lots of trees in different colours all ready to go!

Today I paired the trees with the brand-new Winter Forest Background die that I picked up from the Heffy Doodle closing down sale.

The sentiment is by The Ton.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 7

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 7 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024.

I chose a fun snowman from a Simply Graphic die set for my focal point today…. and then spent AGES searching for a background stamp that I couldn’t find…. maybe I don’t have it after all… but the upside was that I found some supplies that I’d completely forgotten about and they will soon be making an appearance on a card.

In the end I chose a circle stamp from an older Altenew set for the background.

To complete my card, I added a Mama Elephant sentiment and some stickles.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Christmas in July 2024 – Day 5

Happy Festive Friday everyone!

Welcome to Day 5 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2024 and today I’m playing along with the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown’s technique challenge using stamps kindly sent to me by Penny Back.

When I saw that the challenge was to colour an image, I knew I had to build on my watercolouring practice! I used distress inks and my Twinkling H2Os to colour the beautiful Bulb Basket cling stamp (40-859). I really enjoyed colouring this… and I’m so pleased to have rediscovered my joy of colouring!

As I wanted to use a UK A6 card base, I fussy cut around a section of the image to free up more space to the right of my card base. The sentiment is from a set called Meaningful (30-919).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.