Technique – Stamping

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Whispering Daffodils and butterflies

Hi everyone!

Well after six years, Covid finally got me at Easter. And it was brutal! It seemed to drag on FOREVER. But I’m gradually getting back to being me, which is such a relief, I hated being so stuck and unproductive.

One bright spot over the past few weeks has been waiting for the new Pinkfresh Studio release. As soon as I saw the Whispering Daffodils product suite, I had to have it! Many thanks to Dies to Die For for getting my order out so quickly!

Funny story, when I looked at the stencils online, I got excited thinking that the set included some butterflies. Then I realised that the stencil was for the daffodil petals! However, I decided to try my butterfly idea out on the background of my card! I was a little nervous drawing those butterfly bodies, but I think they work? Lots of stickles on this card – hopefully you can see all the sparkle on my second photo!

I’m entering this into the current Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge which has a standing theme of ‘Anything Goes’ – I didn’t create with this month’s theme of ‘Ombre Obsession’.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Bits Blitz February 2026 – Day 2

Hello!

It’s Day 2 of my Bits Blitz which I talked about in this post.

Today, I decided to make one more entry for the current Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge which has a theme of ‘Geometric Genius’.

I used the Garden Trellis background die that I got free with an order last year and added some bits from the Flowers for the Soul products suite that I remember creating as soon as I received it. Don’t know why I never got round to using them!

The sentiment is from the Hope You Are Smiling set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Bitty Botanicals

Hello everyone!!

While I love making CAS cards, I also love acquiring lots of pretty flowery products and just couldn’t resist the Bitty Botanicals suite by The Greetery. Well I tried to resist it, but just ended up buying it bit by bit over six months!! It’s such a clever little set where the greenery is stamped and then the flowers are stencilled.

I was originally going to create a CAS card with the little flowers but I just couldn’t cut the background image when I finished the stamping and stencilling! Next time!!

I added the Diamond Ribbons die cut to the image and adhered a few glittery ribbons and a Pinkfresh Studio sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

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?

Thanks for stopping by!

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG