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Bits Blitz February 2026 – Day 7

Happy Saturday friends!

Well I did it! One whole week of using up my bits! I must say that I’m pleased that I can get back to creating bits now – it’s quite a challenge coming up with designs that are still ‘me’ while using lots of bits!

I actually have two cards to share today:

First up is the card I created with the reject card base from my Day 3 card. While making that card, I felt that I had stuck the Altenew Linear Crossroads a little too high for die cuts that I had chosen to use. I didn’t want to waste it – it would be wrong when the whole point of this week is to address my unused piles rather than add to them. So, I chose a branch from the Pinkfresh Sakura product suite and added a sentiment and some stickles for a CAS and importantly Royal Mail-able card for a crafty friend.

Next up is a card using the Pinkfresh Studio Flowers for the Soul washi images. I added the Birch Press Design Calen die to my card base and some trim from the Heritage Lace die set. The sentiment is from the Simple Joys set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Bits Blitz February 2026 – Day 4

Hi there!

It’s Day 4 of LucieG’s Bits Blitz!

Today’s bits of choice are from the Pinkfresh Enchanting Flora product suite! This was a wonderful set of images to colour when I got it, but I think I got caught up in the rush of Christmas because I never used them on a card. I kept adding images to this card and ended up using all but one of my stamped images! Even then though it was a struggle because I kept wanting to save some for ‘later’…. which is exactly how I got myself into the bits overload in the first place!

That fabulous background is by Tim Holtz for Sizzix and I used a Waffle Flower Studio sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

CAS – The Botanicals Frame

Hello everyone!!

Today I pulled out a Pinkfresh product suite that I’ve had for quite for a while – in fact I stamped, coloured and even die cut the leafy image from the Lantern Botanicals product suite some time ago but I never got round to turning it into a card… until today.

I’ve mentioned before that I find creating CAS cards with Pinkfresh products rather challenging as I always want to use all the images I create from their product suites! As I just had a single branch to work with today, I found creating a CAS card quite easy! I paired it with the Ornate Oval Frame cut from pearlescent card and added a sentiment from a Create & Connect event set. As this card has been created with a recipient in mind, I know I will be posting it. The downside is that the Royal Mail’s systems seem to hate any form of bling nowadays so I added a few die cut accents instead to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Best wishes blooms

Happy Friyay! Well, it is the last few minutes of Friyay here at least!

I had a lot of fun colouring the images from Pinkfresh Studio’s Folk Garden 2 cling stamp suite, but the actual design itself took me most of the evening – nothing seemed to work! I kept adding and removing elements and second guessing myself. I got there in the end I suppose!

I adhered the elements to a panel that I’d embossed with the Dotted Scallops coverplate, added an old Poppystamps bow and a Pinkfresh 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.

Made in May Card 11

Hello everyone!!

Today I’m playing along with the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

Although I’ve been trying to use new/unused products this month, today’s card doesn’t have any new products! The star of the show is my lovely Honeysuckle Plant die by Paper Rose Studio that I’ve had for a couple of years now. I love this versatile image and thought it would work well for my take on the sketch!