Birthday

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.

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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!

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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!

The woodgrain strip is Craft Consortium paper and the sentiment is by My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Pinkfresh Studio Create and Connect February 2025

Hi everyone!

Last weekend, I took part in the Pinkfresh Studio Create and Connect ‘Cards by Theme’ event. I signed up for this event back in November after watching the unboxing video, knowing that it would be nice to have something to look forward to after Christmas – and it was such a happy January day when the box arrived at my door!

Class One – Birthday Balloons product suite

Yana Smakula’s class was up first and her theme was happy birthday. There was only one birthday stamp in the whole kit, but I have plenty of birthday stamps already! I love the balloons and the delicate coordinating die. I thought it was very clever to include floral stamps/die cuts separately as the balloons can be used with or without flowers. I switched up my colours to make it more me.

I also used the set for my interpretation of Dawn Woleslage’s Make and Take press plate/foil card. I just used the stamp with an older daisy Pinkfresh coverplate that I’ve had for a while. but still love!

 

 

Class Two – Altenew Briar Blossoms product suite

 

Next up was Bridget Casey for the guest company, Altenew. It’s been a long while since I bought Altenew stamps and I loved using the product suite they provided, which included an embossing folder. I ‘went rogue’ with my first card! The inspiration was delicate peach/pastel tones, with these amazing gold gel pen centres. I thought they would really stand out if I used vibrant colours and a black background! For the second card, I learnt a new-to-me technique to trap ink colour on vellum using adhesive sheets – I’ve already tried it out on another card.

Class Three – Pretty Blooms product suite

 

 

The theme of the final class of the day was ‘hello’ and Heather Hoffman used a fabulous floral product suite that included washi tape! I love these products as I have the ‘quick and easy’ route with washi or I can really put my own spin on it with the stamp and stencil combo.

 

 

 

 

Class Four – Majestic Swan product suite

 

 

First up on Day 2 was one of my favourite cardmakers, Raquel Arribas. We used my favourite product suite from the event, called Majestic Swan. So versatile and easy to use! I’ve already used it on other cards. I did another Make and Take with this set using Isha Gupta’s press plate/foil card as inspiration. Isha also designed this product suite.

 

 

 

 

Class Five – Butterflies in a Cloche product suite

 

 

Lea Lawson was up next with the ‘hello’ theme using the Butterflies in a Cloche set. I love how quickly I could create with this set! Another very versatile set! Once again I used Isha Gupta’s press plate/foil card as inspiration for my Make & Take card.

 

 

 

Class Six – Mix It all up!!

 

 

Final class of the day, and always the most involved, was Jennifer Maguire who focusses on ‘stretching’ our kits. I’m not an interactive cardmaker but I could be converted after making the amazing pop up balloon card. The second card was simpler, using that wonderful Majestic Swan product suite.

I’m not sure if I will sign up for the next class which is ‘Cards for Him’ but I will definitely be hitting that ‘buy’ button when registration for the August event opens up!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Row of Birthday Flowers

 

Hello everyone!

A quick post today with my card which is my very late entry into the Freshly Made Sketches and Color Throwdown challenges.

I used a beautiful Pinkfresh Studios set called Modern Botanicals for my take. This was a set that I received as part of the August Create and Connect set – it is so easy to colour with the coordinating stencils!

I didn’t have much crafty time to create this card so I didn’t add anything to the background – I would have liked to dry emboss it had time allowed. Instead I added a green strip to anchor the flowers, a few sequins and a Clearly Besotted sentiment.

I will be back a bit later with more photos – got to press publish now to hit the challenge deadline (hopefully)! (ETA – now added!)

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.