PinkFresh Studio

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

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 26

Hi there!

It’s Day 26 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

I’m slowly building my Pinkfresh Studio collection and when I saw the Winter Berries product suite, I HAD to have it! It’s retired so it took me a while to track it down, but I’m glad I did – it is a joy to colour!

Today, I arranged all the die cut berry branches in a pail from the Taylored Expressions Antique Pails set and adhered everything to a base layer that I had embossed with a Nellie Snellen folder.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 24

Hi there!

It’s Day 24 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

I’m combining old and new again today! I picked up Pinkfresh Studio’s pretty Folk Snowflake product suite late last year. I’m not sure when it was released. Maybe 2023? I particularly loved the three sentiments that came with the snowflake image – but typically I haven’t used them today! The stamped sentiment is from a rather older Hero Arts set.

For the background, I used Memory Box’s Silent Snowflake Frame die from 2017 and added a few flakes from2015’s Shimmering Snowflakes set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 20

Hi there!

It’s Day 20 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

I’ve been missing creating with my Pinkfresh Studio supplies this month as I don’t have many festive products by them. But today I pulled out a product suite called Joy of the Season which I had as part of the October 2024 Create and Connect event.

I really like the arch design but I’ve been struggling with how to use it. Well today I realised that it would be a perfect frame to showcase a pretty embossed background! I chose the beautiful Pinecones & Berries folder by Spellbinders.

The sentiment is by Poppystamps.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Christmas in July 2025 – Day 18

Happy Festive Friday!

It’s Day 18 of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2025!

I’ve had this beautiful Piped Icing Star by Birch Press Design for sometime now. I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to use it…. and isn’t that snowflake amazing? That will be appearing on other cards soon I think!

The card design went through MANY versions: a background die (no), an embossed background (no), foliage at the top and bottom (no), foliage at the top only (also no)… but I think I needed to go through each step to get to the final version… and it didn’t actually take THAT long to go through all the stages. The foliage I kept is by Pinkfresh Studio and the cute bow is an older Poppystamps die.

Once again, I wasn’t sure where to put the sentiment so in the end I decided it didn’t need one!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Sunshine and Smiles all around!

Hello from an incredibly HOT London!!

Before I throw myself into Christmas in July, I wanted to share a few more cards that I made with Pinkfresh Studio’s Sunshine and Smiles release that I won last month.

I bought a few products when Pinkfresh arrived on the scene a decade or so ago but I didn’t really embrace their amazing product suites until I took part in the August 2024 Create and Connect event. I LOVED it and in particular how easy it is to colour their beautiful images with the coordinating stencil sets. Since then I’ve been tuning it to all their amazing Your Tube Live events, learning lots and buying a product suite or three!

First up are two more cards made from the beautiful Garden Medley product suite. I suspect that I wouldn’t have bought this suite because it’s not really my style (I probably would have bought the Keepsakes of the Heart). My goodness, how I would have missed out! I’m really hoping Pinkfresh creates something similar for Christmas!

I’ve shared these in other blog posts, but here are the two cards I created earlier this month, plus the cards I made with the Keepsakes and Timeless Tulips product suites.

Next up is the amazing lighthouse scene created with the Guiding Light suite. Oh, how I loved creating this! I had a lot of fun with the sky, but sadly the colours dried quite light – I need a heavier hand or darker inks next time.

 

 

 

 

The Playful Petals stencil/die set was also great fun to play with but again, I need to use darker inks I think – the colours are subtle in real life and don’t really show up in my photo. I played with lots of different layouts for these images but in the end I paired them with one of my oldest Pinkfresh die sets called Noteworthy Frames – dated 2018!

 

 

 

 

 

Last but by no means least is a card I created with the Summer Fun stencil/die combo. I confess that I wasn’t going to play with this one just yet but with it being the hottest day of the year so far I HAD to get it out today. I also used a background/frame die by Mama Elephant. The sentiment is from the Sunshine and Smiles sentiment set.

 

 

 

I had SO much fun with these products and I know I will be reaching for them time and time again – after Christmas in July of course. Many thanks once again to Pinkfresh for their amazing prize!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG