Hi everyone!
I’m playing along with Martin’s 30 Day Christmas Card Challenge this month.
Day 17’s challenge is another colour combo – powder pink, plum and teal blue. What a fun combo!
I used the Christmas foliage die set that was in the Pinkfresh Studios Holiday Cardmaking event kit and coloured the images with distress ink. I arranged them on am older Memory Box frame that I cut from white glitter card.
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LucieG.
Hi there and Happy Halloween!
It’s Day 5 of Ghost Week and I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge (I have NEVER entered this challenge so early!!) and this month’s Memory Box challenge where the theme is ‘happy haunting’.
For today’s card, I used the Cookie Jar die that was part of the Pinkfresh Holiday Event earlier in the month. I think I would have preferred to use a bigger card base to more add more white space around the focal point but I also wanted to use my Simon Says Stamp ghosts embossing folder one last time this year and guess what won that design struggle?!
I cut ghosts from Memory Box’s fun set of Haunting Ghosts which I’m proud to say that I have used on three cards this year! The fabulous houses are from Poppystamps’ Twisted Houses set – they worked so well with the jar!.
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LucieG.
Hi everyone!
Last weekend, I took part in the Pinkfresh Studio Create and Connect Christmas event. I signed up for this event back in July after receiving my August event box which was amazing. You can read my thoughts about the August event here.
We did some amazing folding for Anett Gelencsér’s class. I managed to do just one Make and Take over the weekend – and it was using images from her stamp/stencil/die set combo.
Next up was one of my favourite cardmakers, Nichol Sphor. We focused on adding text to cards and although my ‘heat resistant’ acetate curled a bit, I enjoyed the techniques! Lea Lawson’s class was the last one of Day 1. We used a fabulous cookie set and I deviated a bit to use kraft card and distress oxides!
I didn’t do the guest company class (class 4), but these are the cards I made for Classes 5 and 6. I adore the foliage die/stencil set that Heather Hoffman used – I think it will become a staple in my Christmas crafting for years to come! And Jennifer Maguire’s class was a lot of fun – we made cards that I wouldn’t make by myself – and that is why I love these events so much as they are an opportunity to try something new!
I do plan to sign up for the next class. February 2025 seems a long way away but I’m sure it will creep up on us very quickly!
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LucieG.
Hello again!
Next up today is my entry in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a fun combo of yellow, pink and orange.
I fell in love with the beautiful Pinkfresh Studios Fluttering Butterflies product suite in August when only the dies and washi tape were available here in the UK. Fortunately Bumbleberry’s got the stamps and stencils in stock in September and I grabbed them straightaway!
I can’t believe I haven’t managed to use them but when I saw this week’s colour combo, I knew it was finally time to play with them!
I used Altenew inks to colour the butterflies and a Spellbinders embossing folder to complete my card.
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LucieG.
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!)
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LucieG.
Hi everyone!
This past weekend, I took part in my first Pinkfresh Studio Create and Connect event. I signed up for this event back in March after much dithering as it’s a lot of money, especially with the taxes and shipping for those of us outside the US! Plus we didn’t get to see what we were buying (that is changing for 2025).
When my kit arrived in July, I knew I had made the right decision! Inside my box was a fabulous collection of stamps, dies, stencils and washi tape, all carefully kitted into separate bags for each of our classes. I immediately signed up for the next event which is in October with Simon Says Stamp as the guest manufacturer.
So on to the cards!
Class 1 with Kim Kesti of Spellbinders which was the guest manufacturer. Some cardstock was also included in their kit, but I chose to switch up some colours so they were closer to my preferred colour combos. The third card was a Make & Take by Heather Hoffman which I made with pearlescent card.
I was really looking forward to Class 2 with Dawn Woleslagle. She did a watercolour class at Simon Says Create 2018 which was amazing and I was really looking forward to trying the Washi tape. I’ve had my eye on some PFS Washi tape/dies for a while but this was a great way to see whether I liked working with it! And I do! So I immediately ordered the tape and dies but I’m hoping that the stamps and stencils come back into a UK store as I really enjoy choosing my own colours to create with. I also did Kristina Werner’s Make & Take cards – I loved that they were narrower cards as I have a lot of card bases that are narrow like that… although I did cheat and used Craft Consortium paper rather than the ink pad dragging technique demonstrated by Kristina.
Class 3 was the last one on Day 1 and it finished at midnight so it was a late night! Heather Hoffman created two fun cards with dies and stencils. I switched up the colours again and although I wasn’t sure about the stencilled mountains, that card keeps catching my eye!
Day 2 started at 3pm my time with Class 4 led by Lea Lawson. I don’t recall embossing through stencils before but I was pleasantly surprised at how it turned out. I also cheated here and used Craft Consortium paper instead of an ink blended background behind that fun background die. I did Jennifer Maguire’s Make & Take with the flower image from the set – she also used Spellbinders products with an amazing double embossing technique!
Class 5 with Kristina Werner was great fun. We used a cling stamp that stamped multiple flowers and then coloured them with three stencils and die cut them all in one go. Super easy and the dies lined up perfectly. And Kristina’s layered flowery card design was so cleverly designed! I loved this class and the set we used, I can’t wait to play with it again! I also did Dawn’s Make & Take – such a pretty design with multiple frames!
The last class was with Jennifer Maguire who had created two interactive/pop up cards – not usually favoured by this CAS crafter! But they were interesting to create and I loved how I could mix things up a bit! I chose to use Craft Consortium paper again instead of the ink pad swiping technique and also decorated the pull-up panel that Jennifer had left white – it was very quick to pop the die cut images on the panel. I used more of the washi tape on the pop up card.
So, what did I discover through this event?
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LucieG.
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