Technique – stencilling

Featuring stencilling

Bright Garden Bouquet

Hi everyone!!

Another day, another Pinkfresh card! Today’s new and unused product suite of choice is the Garden Bouquet set which I picked up deeply discounted in an amazing Black Friday sale.

I wanted a bright and cheery card to a friend and totally stepped outside my comfort zone with the orange and yellow colour combo! I added an Altenew vase and adhered the images to a background panel that I had cut using the Charming Stitched Florals coverplate die, which I bought at the same time.

I had originally centred the vase and wasn’t going to add a sentiment. Then I decided to move the image to the left which opened up a great spot for a small sentiment – this one is by The Greetery.

Not much dimension on this card – just a few layers and stickles rather than gems. I really don’t know what Royal Mail is doing with these cards but at Christmas, all gems on every single card I received had been forced through the envelope (it’s quite a testament to the glue used that they were still in situ I suppose!).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Sunshine Flowers

Hello everyone!!

Back to my recent Pinkfresh Studio purchases today and I’ve chosen the cheerful image from the Humbled and Grateful product suite. I had a lot of fun colouring this image in a slightly different way today because I decided to focus the colour at the ends of the petals – I really like how it turned out!

I adhered it to a panel that I had cut with the Stitched Diamonds Coverplate die (another Black Friday bargain!) and added a sentiment that was lurking in my sentiments box.

It’s a little early in the month for me to commit a project to the January Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge but as we can add three entries I’m going to link it up. The theme for the month is ‘Year in Review’ – and I have chosen the April 2025 theme of Floral Frenzy!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Sweet Blossoms Oval

Happy Saturday everyone!!

Today’s crafty adventures started with Pinkfresh Studio. Be warned I suspect Pinkfresh will feature a lot this year as I went a bit wild with purchasing their amazing product suites last year after I rediscovered them in 2024.

I had wanted the beautiful Sweet Blossoms stencil/die combo for a while but it was sold out in the UK…. so when it was on sale at Pinkfresh I grabbed it up as fast as I could!

I often find it difficult to stay true to my CAS roots when I’m crafting with the Pinkfresh suites because I want to use every image I create! Today I have managed to use just 3 of the 7 images I created from the Sweet Blossoms. I HOPE I remember use the rest of the images soon!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Festive Foliage wishes

Hello everyone!!

The theme for the December Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge is ‘Very Merry’ and I decided to CASE my last card using the challenge colour palette!

This time, I used the Holiday Diamond Coverplate for my background – I popped the trees and stars out and adhered the panel to some multicoloured mirror card. I coloured my embossed Festive Foliage Tree image with the challenge colours and added Evergreen into the mix. Once again the entire card is supported by an octagon from the Octagon Grid Coverplate die, although I made a larger folded card support for this tree, making it much more stable.

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