Author: luciegcards

Joyful Day

Hello everyone!!

I picked up the Pinkfresh Studio Joyful Day product suite in a Black Friday sale. After passing on a beautiful leafy Stamptember collaboration back in 2023 (the one that got away!), I seem to have acquired MANY of their leafy products in 2025!

When I saw how the four stencils worked, I wasn’t too sure how best to use them… then I saw an amazing card on the Pinkfresh website  The designer used a darker shade at the opposite end of each section of leaf – something that I would never have thought of doing but which gave an amazing impression of depth!

I chose another combo from my new inspiration book and got blending. It took a little while and I need a bit more practice, but I like how the leaves turned out! I added a few sequins and a sentiment from the Fluttering Butterflies set to complete my card.

This is my second project that I’m entering into the January Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge. The theme for the month is ‘Year in Review’ – and I have chosen the June 2025 theme of Rainbow Reverie!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

CAS – the butterfly and the branch

Happy Monday everyone!!

My first crafty order of 2026 arrived this morning and I’m happy to say that I’ve already used one of the Simply Graphic dies on today’s card.

I’ve coveted the notebook pages die set for a while and so I happily grabbed he set when I had a discount code – they provide a great anchor for images! I cut one image from some patterned paper and added some Pumice Stone ink around the edges. I added an older Simply Graphic glittery die cut plus a pretty butterfly from the Memory Box Exquisite butterflies set.

The sentiment is by Sugar Pea.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Stylised Florals with a deco twist

Hi everyone!!

Another day, another Pinkfresh card! Today’s new and unused product suite of choice is the Stylized Florals die and stencil product suite.

I love Pinkfresh’s die/stencils combos – they make it super easy to create beautiful ink-blended die cuts as the stencilling/blending is done before the die cutting where those fabulous little details are also cut into the image.

I chose a fabulous colour palette from my colour book, pulled a lot of Pinkfresh inks and got blending! Before I cut the images I added some gold splatters. This set makes creating the floral swags very easy because once the die cutting is completed, you just have to adhere the images onto two branches that provide the base layer. No agonising over the configuration! Yay!

The background was made using the Pinkfresh Gatsby die which I got free with this order… and which may have contributed to me placing the order!!

The sentiment is by Creative Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Bitty Botanicals

Hello everyone!!

While I love making CAS cards, I also love acquiring lots of pretty flowery products and just couldn’t resist the Bitty Botanicals suite by The Greetery. Well I tried to resist it, but just ended up buying it bit by bit over six months!! It’s such a clever little set where the greenery is stamped and then the flowers are stencilled.

I was originally going to create a CAS card with the little flowers but I just couldn’t cut the background image when I finished the stamping and stencilling! Next time!!

I added the Diamond Ribbons die cut to the image and adhered a few glittery ribbons and a Pinkfresh Studio sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Beautiful Branches

Happy Friyay everyone!

Who remembers Prima flowers? Oh, how I loved them. Still do… I just never use them! Anyway, one fabulous set served as the colour inspiration for today’s card.

Today’s new and unused product suite of choice is the Beautiful Branch set by Pinkfresh Studio which was sold out in our UK retailers but which I picked up directly from Pinkfresh during their amazing Small Business Saturday sale.

I coloured two branches with Pinkfresh and Distress inks and arranged them on my card before stamping the sentiment. I added some stickles as this was going to be a mailable card but them decided to add a few tiny die cut butterflies which are pretty delicate and probably won’t survive whatever Royal Mail are doing during the mail processing nowadays!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Mix n Match butterflies

Hello again everyone!!

Quick admin note: After some significant computer problems, I can finally update my blog! Over the next day or so I’ll be catching up with the posts I couldn’t share here but which I shared on Instagram – blog posts will be dated per the date I created/shared the cards.

Back in August I bought this fun Waffle Flower Studio Mix n Match Butterfly set, but somehow didn’t get round to using it…. until today!

I coloured each butterfly with various Pinkfresh and distress inks then added some glitter card inlaid accents – those dots were a bit fiddly but totally worth it!

I paired my little butterfly collection with an amazing Spellbinders embossing folder that landed on my doormat this morning – yep THIS morning! I’m starting 2026 as I intend to go o – by using goodies when I get them!

The sentiment is by Pinkfresh Studio.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.