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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

Timeless Tulips

Hello everyone!!

I’m still playing with the Sunshine and Smiles release from Pinkfresh Studio that I won last month. I just love how easy it is to colour their beautiful images with the coordinating stencil sets! I coloured the Timeless Tulips image this weekend and decided it would work well with the sketch for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

The image is large – maybe 10cms tall so I decided to use a larger card base – this is 7″x5″ (yes, you know I hate inches but the whole inches I can cope with, it’s when I have to deal with fractions of an inch that my metric head can’t cope!). For the background, I embossed a white panel with the Radiant Burst embossing folder by Spellbinders and adhered the tulip image.

The sentiment is from the Sunshine and Smiles sentiment set. I rarely stamp sentiments in coloured ink but the brown version of this sentiment got lost in the tulip stems so I stamped it with one of the Pinkfresh inks that I had used to colour the image – I much prefer how it turned out!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Garden Medley delight

Hello again!

Next up today is my entry into this fortnight’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of green, turquoise and orange.

I decided to use the stunning Pinkfresh Studio Garden Medley product suite which was part of the release that I won last month. When I watched the Sneak Peeks live, I ADORED the cards that Raquel made with this suite but felt that there was no way I could justify buying it because I don’t use background stamps enough. Well after winning it, you can guess that it was the first thing I inked up! It’s a true joy to colour with the stencils. In fact, I love using it so much, I ended up creating two cards with different shades of the combo.

Another member of the DT, Debby, shared an acetate card with this image and I had to give it a go! I love how they turned out, but they are so difficult to photograph! If you look at the first card, you can see that a square section has not been die cut – I thought I could use the reverse of this area for my message. I decided to try it without that square in the second image. I think I prefer it that way as you can see more acetate, although my message will be written in very small letters!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

You are Treasured

Hello everyone!!

Last month, I was lucky to win the entire Sunshine and Smiles release from Pinkfresh Studio. It was like Christmas when it landed on my doormat! I finally had time to play with some of the release on Saturday and made a card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

I lightly blended some distress ink over some Craft Consortium patterned paper, cut it with the largest die from the Dotted Postage Square die set and adhered to my square card base. I then stamped and stencilled the branches and vases using the Keepsakes of the Heart product suite. the sentiment is from the same set.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG

Spellbinders Weekender 2025

Hi everyone!

This weekend, I took part in Spellbinders’ Weekender event. I was only able to watch a few classes live as the event was held in the US Pacific time zone which is 8 hours behind us in the UK, but it was a fun event!

Kim Kesti was first up on Day/Evening 1 (which I watched the following morning) and used a fabulous ship die set called Deckside Dreams. Kim’s ship was pretty colourful but as I’ve only been on one cruise (with Holland America), I used that ship as inspiration for a more monochromatic take. I sponged a little white ink on the hull/bow of the ship to mimic breaking waves.

The kit included some blue Hero Arts shimmer spray which I hadn’t used before. I was expecting it to behave like Distress Mica Sprays but it was far less easy to manipulate. The shimmer is amazing though!

Next up was Channin Pelletier’s card using my favourite product from the kit – am amazing die set called Beyond the Door. I’ve already played with this for this card and I think I will be reaching for it again and again! The kit included an amazing selection of coloured cardstock which I was particularly keen to see as it’s so hard choosing cardstock online. I supplemented it with some of my own cardstock for this card – including glitter card for that sea!

 

 

On Saturday, I was able to craft along with Cathy Zielske and created two cards. For the first card, we inked up an embossing folder using a Hero Arts Reactive Ink cube. I was VERY impressed with the coverage which is far better than I’ve achieved with other inks. May have to order more of those cubes!

I veered away from Cathy’s instructions on the second card – instead of embossing a yellow panel with the folder, I masked off a centre section, blended two distress inks (Mustard Seed and Wild Honey), rubbed in some Perfect Pearls, removed the masking tape and embossed the entire panel. It’s on old school Jennifer Maguire technique which she used with what I believe were the OG 3D embossing folders by We R Memory Keepers. Her post about this is still on her blog!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Made in May Card 7

Hello everyone!!

Last year, I rediscovered Pinkfresh Studio products when I attended one of their online cardmaking events and I’ve been growing my collection of their product suites ever since.

Their older products are quite difficult to get hold of in the UK and I know I missed out on a lot of beautiful releases. Happily I was able to get hold of the stunning Breezy Blossoms cling stamp/stencil/die suite. The red rubber stamps emboss beautifully and are a joy to colour!

For today’s card I used the individual images to create a little wreath which actually serves as a frame for the sentiment that is from a set I received for one of their events last year. So I decided I could enter this into the current Pinkfresh Studio monthly challenge which has ‘Frame it Up’ as a theme.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG