Technique – stencilling

Featuring stencilling

Lovely frame

Hello everyone!!

Well it’s been 24 hours and my new computer hasn’t collapsed again…. not sure I’m ever going to feel compfortable about it but it was nice to not spend most of the day troubleshooting.

Here’s the card I made today – originally planned for Friday before the computer problems zapped my spirit!

This Pinkfresh Studio Making Things Happen product suite was very much a last minute impulse addition to an order but I have lots of ideas for it! Today I kept it simple and paired it with a stem from one of my oldest Pinkfresh products – the Dainty Blooms die set from 2018. How is that EIGHT years ago?

The sentiment is from the Blissful Butterflies stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Lots of layers

Hi there!

Well the computer frustrations are continuing and completely eroding my crafty time. I’ve never had these problems before… I had heard that build quality had diminished significantly since Covid but I never expected all this rigmarole less than a month after buying a new computer.

Between frustrating calls and online chats, I was actually able to craft today. Lots of layers and lots of Pinkfresh Studio products on top of a background I embossed with a Sizzix folder that I don’t think I’ve used before.

The flower and sentiment is from the You’re the Best product suite and the frame was created with the Notched Corner Frame set. I also tucked sections of the Secret Garden background die behind the frame and added a few pearls. This card is thick and delicate and will definitely not be subjected to Royal Mail’s card destruction processes!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Beyond happy for you

Hello everyone!!

I picked up this beautiful Playful Petals product suite by Pinkfresh Studio when Craftstash was closing down last year. I was so chuffed to get a Pinkfresh bargain and couldn’t wait to use it… and here we are 8 or 9 months later…. Better late than never I guess!

This was a fun stamp to colour – it took me longer than I usually spend but I’m so grateful for these stencils – even when I take a bit longer, I’m still much quicker than when I used paint or pencils. And it’s far less stressful!

I ran the beautiful Charming Stitched Florals coverplate die over a white panel and adhered the flower image and a few pearls. To complete my card I added a sentiment from the Beyond Happy set.

Today is Day 20 of working through my newish/unused box and it’s starting to look emptier! I still have a fair number of embossing folders to use though!

This is my third project that I’m entering into the January Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge. The theme for the month is ‘Year in Review’ – and I have chosen the April 2025 theme of Floral Frenzy.

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LucieG

Best wishes blooms

Happy Friyay! Well, it is the last few minutes of Friyay here at least!

I had a lot of fun colouring the images from Pinkfresh Studio’s Folk Garden 2 cling stamp suite, but the actual design itself took me most of the evening – nothing seemed to work! I kept adding and removing elements and second guessing myself. I got there in the end I suppose!

I adhered the elements to a panel that I’d embossed with the Dotted Scallops coverplate, added an old Poppystamps bow and a Pinkfresh sentiment to complete my card.

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LucieG.

Chocolate Flowers

Hi everyone!!

Last year, I started seeing this amazing square embossing folder on Instagram. After doing some digging, I discovered that it only seemed to be available as part of the Altenew Chocolate Flowers kit…. which was out of stock everywhere. But good things come to those who wait… or wait and persevere! I managed to grab this as soon as Seven Hills got it back in stock and used a voucher to pay for most of it. It’s a bit crazy to buy an entire kit mainly for the embossing folder isn’t it?

After all that, it just sat in my new box! I got it in June, people! I’m quite ashamed of myself! Anyway, today was the day to rid myself of that shame and actually use the kit! And I used the whole thing, not just the folder!

I don’t buy many Altenew products nowadays (I think I overdid things back when layering stamps were all the rage!) so I was keen to try their stencil/die combo to compare with Pinkfresh. It wasn’t quite as easy as Pinkfresh for me and I didn’t line the die up properly… you can see a few white lines on my image, but I don’t think they’re too obvious? Next time I think I’ll die cut first because the die doesn’t add any additional etching onto the images.

I arranged the die cuts in a wreath on the embossed background and added a few die cut gold accents and a Poppystamps sentiment to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Joyful Day

Hello everyone!!

I picked up the Pinkfresh Studio Joyful Day product suite in a Black Friday sale. After passing on a beautiful leafy Stamptember collaboration back in 2023 (the one that got away!), I seem to have acquired MANY of their leafy products in 2025!

When I saw how the four stencils worked, I wasn’t too sure how best to use them… then I saw an amazing card on the Pinkfresh website  The designer used a darker shade at the opposite end of each section of leaf – something that I would never have thought of doing but which gave an amazing impression of depth!

I chose another combo from my new inspiration book and got blending. It took a little while and I need a bit more practice, but I like how the leaves turned out! I added a few sequins and a sentiment from the Fluttering Butterflies set to complete my card.

This is my second project that I’m entering into the January Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge. The theme for the month is ‘Year in Review’ – and I have chosen the June 2025 theme of Rainbow Reverie!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG