Time has got the better of me this month so I am rushing to get a second entry into the Pink Fresh Studio Challenge for August in the Anything Goes Challenge category.
The Pink Fresh Studio monthly challenge is an Anything Goes Challenge: While the theme and colors are here to inspire you, feel free to enter any NEW project that primarily uses Pinkfresh Studio products. Whether you use the theme, the colors, both or none—it’s up to you. At the end of the day, we just want you to get crafty and have fun!
My Project:
My card has been inspired my Emily Midget’s use of soft brown and pink colours on a bisque betterpress card base. While I have used the Pink Fresh Studio Warm Buff ink on the bisque card I have added some sparkly elements using the Pink Fresh Studio Blush Glitter Paper for some sparkle in the frame, leaves and to mat the striped card. I have used a different pink combination of Pink Fresh Studio inks – Cherry Blossom, Peony, Begonia, and Sparkling Rose while still using the Warm Buff and Doe inks for the leaves. To finish I added some butterflies and a hot foiled sentiment and Ballet Slipper gems.
Products Used:
Pink Fresh Studio Magnificent Magnolia Press Plate, Stencil, Die
Pink Fresh Studio Plaid Betterpress Plate
Pink Fresh Studio Perfect Sentiments Press Plate, Die set
Pink Fresh Studio Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate, Stencil, Die Set
Pink Fresh Studio Fall Leaf Die
Pink Fresh Studio Nested Elongated Oval Blanket Stitch Dies
I have a card for you today for the Pink Fresh Studio September Challenge 2024. This month challenge is creating using leaves and wreaths and the colour combination is Raspberry Bliss, Paradise, Mulberry Blush, Mimosa, & Citron.
This challenge was a little difficult for me as I do not have a wide range of Pink Fresh Studio products. So I looked at what I did have where the leaves are separate from the flowers and found a couple of stamps I could use. One of the stamp/stencil/die sets I did have where the leaves were separate was the Magnolias which is an older set but still beautiful and I was able to make a wreath with the images.
To create my card I made a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ top folding card out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of white cardstock 4″ x 5 1/4″ and ink blended the bottom left of the card using Citron and Paradise inks leaving the top right corner with no colour. I then added Raspberry Bliss, Mulberry Blush and Mimosa inks to the Pink Fresh Studio Pink Fresh Studio Plaid Press Plate and embossed a piece of scrap paper with it to take most of the ink off the plate. I then spritzed some water on the plate and dabbed it with a cloth before embossing with the ink blended card twice – once with a vertical stripe and once with a horizontal stripe. I got a lovely soft plaid effect with lots of texture and this was adhered to the card front.
I adhered a circle frame with foam tape to the front of the card using the Pink Fresh Studio Essentials Stitched Scallop Circle Dies as a base to add the flowers and leaves on to create the wreath.
I stamped several images from the Pink Fresh Studio Magnolias Stamp set on white card using Detail Black ink. I coloured the images using the challenge inks – Citron and Paradise for the leaves and Mimosa, Mulberry Blush and Raspberry Bliss to the flowers and Citron, Mulberry Blush and Mimosa to the stems before die cutting with the coordinating die. I added the flowers and leaves over the circle frame starting with the full magnolia bloom on the bottom left and worked my way around the frame. I also added some leaves under the flowers and leaves to create more dimension.
I added some Sparkling Dust to the flowers and leaves using the fine tip on my My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press for some subtle shine and sparkle.
The sentiment is from the Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments set and was hot foiled with Aura foil. As I was foiling this the die moved slightly which gave me a more solid sentiment and worked well with the card. I die cut three more plain dies and stacked them together with the foiled sentiment on top and this was added to the centre of the frame adding some foam tape to ensure the sentiment was level.
The small butterflies were hot foiled with Aura foil using the Pink Fresh Studio Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate. The butterflies were coloured using the stencils with Mimosa, Raspberry Bliss, Mulberry Blush and Licorice inks and then die cut with the coordinating die. I added these on the card using some foam squares on the wings for more dimension.
To finish my card I added some Pink Fresh Studio Gems: Clear with gold dust to the centre of the large floral, the butterflies and around the sentiment and the outside of the frame.
Products Used:
Pink Fresh Studio Magnolias Stamp/Stencil/Die sets
Pink Fresh Studio Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate
Pink Fresh Studio Small Butterflies Stencil/Die Set
Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil/Stencil/Die set
Pink Fresh Studio Essentials Stitched Scallop Circle Dies
I enjoy colouring with alcohol markers but sometimes it is good to use stencils to colour my images as it makes it quick and easy to make a card. When I first got this Pink Fresh Studio Nothing But The Best Stamp & Die Set I wondered how it would look with a die cut edge when I saw a video that Bibi Cameron did on YouTube here using acetate to make a die cut edge be more stable. So I used the same concept but just did it a little differently and I was very happy with how it turned out. I added an extra layer of the die cut edge on top as well as another layer of the flowers to add some dimension to the card.
I also had some fun with embossing the Plaid Press Plate. using my Platinum machine and the lovely soft finish to the embossed edge came from a happy accident. I had tried inking the plate before embossing but it did not work out well and thought I had cleaned the plate but it wasn’t and it came out with this lovely soft aqua colour and it just worked so well with the colours I had used in the flowers. Especially as I had used an aqua colour (Turquoise) to ink the images first and also with the sentiment. I added a 1 1/2″ x 5 3/8″ strip to the bottom of the inside back to be able to show up the flowers better.
I struggle with leaving a lot of white space and as I had some of the plaid embossed card left I added a small strip and another coordinating plain aqua strip to the top of the card to cover the lacy edge from the Pink Fresh Studio Lacey Edgers 1 Dies.
Products Used:
Pink Fresh Studio Lacey Edgers 1 Dies
Pink Fresh Studio Nothing But The Best Stamp & Die Set
Pink Fresh Studio. Delighted For You Stamp and Die Set
This is my second card for the Pink Fresh Studio Monthly Challenge for June 2024. This month the challenge is to create an ombre or gradient element and the ink colours are Waterfall, Slumber, Sparkling Rose, Mimosa, Lemon Whip & Soft Lilac.
This card ended up quite different to what I had planned – I made so many mistakes that I had to cover up but in the end the card turned out ok I guess… I was trying to do a different gatefold card after watching an older video of Jennifer McGuires but I ended up gluing the right side flap down and adding the frame on the inside back of the card to cover up some excess glue but this actually gave a good space to write sentiments in the end.
My Project:
I cut a piece of white cardstock 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ and scored at 3″ and 7 1/2: to create a gatefold card. I used the Pink Fresh Studio Diagonal Plaid Press Plate by hot foiling with Spellbinders Opal foil to create the resist background for my rainbow ink blending using the challenge inks. I then trimmed this panel to two pieces – 2 7/8″ x 5 3/8″ and 1/18″ x 5 3/8″ and added these panels to the left and right side flaps. I ended up gluing the right flap down to the inside back of the card. I die cut 3 frames from the Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner Frame dies out of white cardstock and stacked them together. I then die cut a piece of vellum to fit behind the frames an I die cut a plain frame out of white cardstock and added it to the back of the frames to neaten the back before adding it to the left side panel and overhanging on the right side.
For the inside back of the card I die cut a panel out using the medium size dies from the Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner Frame dies out of white cardstock and adhered it to the inside back.
I stamped the floral image from the Pink Fresh Studio Delighted For You Stamp set in Wow embossing ink and heat embossing with gold embossing powder. I coloured the images using the coordinating stencil set using the challenge inks before die cutting the flowers out. I die cut another plain floral die and added the coloured image on top and added it to the right of the frame using foam squares inside the frame.
I stamped the sentiment from the Pink Fresh Studio Delighted For You Stamp set and gold embossed it before die cutting. I die cut another three plain dies and stacked them all together with the stamped image on top. This was then added to the bottom left of the frame using some foam tape to ensure the sentiment is flat.
I finished the card by adding some Glacier gems around the sentiment and flowers.
Products Used:
Pink Fresh Studio Diagonal Plaid Press Plate
Pink Fresh Studio Delighted For You Stamp, Stencil and Die Set
