Technique – stencilling

Featuring stencilling

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

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

Stylised Florals with a deco twist

Hi everyone!!

Another day, another Pinkfresh card! Today’s new and unused product suite of choice is the Stylized Florals die and stencil product suite.

I love Pinkfresh’s die/stencils combos – they make it super easy to create beautiful ink-blended die cuts as the stencilling/blending is done before the die cutting where those fabulous little details are also cut into the image.

I chose a fabulous colour palette from my colour book, pulled a lot of Pinkfresh inks and got blending! Before I cut the images I added some gold splatters. This set makes creating the floral swags very easy because once the die cutting is completed, you just have to adhere the images onto two branches that provide the base layer. No agonising over the configuration! Yay!

The background was made using the Pinkfresh Gatsby die which I got free with this order… and which may have contributed to me placing the order!!

The sentiment is by Creative Expressions.

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.

 

Beautiful Branches

Happy Friyay everyone!

Who remembers Prima flowers? Oh, how I loved them. Still do… I just never use them! Anyway, one fabulous set served as the colour inspiration for today’s card.

Today’s new and unused product suite of choice is the Beautiful Branch set by Pinkfresh Studio which was sold out in our UK retailers but which I picked up directly from Pinkfresh during their amazing Small Business Saturday sale.

I coloured two branches with Pinkfresh and Distress inks and arranged them on my card before stamping the sentiment. I added some stickles as this was going to be a mailable card but them decided to add a few tiny die cut butterflies which are pretty delicate and probably won’t survive whatever Royal Mail are doing during the mail processing nowadays!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.