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?

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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.

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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.

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LucieG

All Things Merry

Hello everyone!!

Today I’m playing along with the current Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge which has a theme of ‘Texture & Shine’.

I used a few of my new Pinkfresh products – the fabulous Bloomlight Stitches Coverplate die that landed on my doormat yesterday plus the Holiday Express dies (trees) and some patterned mirror card and got crafty! I added some glittery thread for added texture and replaced a few little circles on the background with glittery circles.

The sentiment is from a set that was the October 2025 Create & Connect event swag.

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LucieG

Basket of flowers

Hi there everyone!!

I’ve been taking a break from card challenges recently but when I saw that one of my favourite challenges, Freshly Made Sketches was celebrating a major milestone, I had to play along. This week’s challenge is number 700 meaning that the weekly challenge has been running for 14 years! 14 years!! Isn’t that amazing?! I’m really grateful to the team who always work so hard each week – coming up with amazing inspiration and leaving kind and uplifting comments. Thank you so much – I know being a challenge DT member is quite a commitment and I really appreciate all you do.

The challenge this week uses sketch number 14 and each DT member shared when they first started playing along with the challenge. I got curious and I think I started back in November 2016 for challenge number 261 – I didn’t have a blog back then but shared on Instagram only.

For my card, I used the gorgeous Into The Blooms – Above Ground die set by Papertrey Ink. This beautiful set was just released last month, and I just had to buy it from the US as I haven’t found a UK retailer for Papertrey. I love that basket and all the little elements… although I think some of those tiny dies may end up on the AWOL list before too long! I coloured the images with various inks and then arranged them on a card base that I had covered with four squares from the Dotted Postage Squares die set by Pinkfresh Studio.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG