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Pink Fresh Studio July 2024 Challenge

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I am enjoying playing with the Pink Fresh Studio Challenge July 2024 this month. This month the challenge is using Geometric designs on your projects and the coordinating inks are: Cherry Blossom, Mimosa, Marigold, Summer Shower & Eucalyptus.

I have gone totally outside my comfort zone with my first (hopefully) card for this challenge and gone with a black and white theme using the Pink Fresh Studio Stained Glass Die as my geometric element. I have die cut two dies – one from silver glitter paper and one from white cardstock and mixed up this die by putting the white die on top of the silver die upside down to create even more patterns with the die. I have also used the Pink Fresh Studio Essentials Stitched Scallop Square Dies as a diamond in the centre of the card to tie in the diamond geometric theme and also provide a focal point for the sentiment which has been heat embossed with white on black cardstock.

I have coloured the floral images from the Pink Fresh Studio Delighted For You Stamp set using a no line colouring technique and after die cutting the images I have gone around the edges with black Copic marker to help the images blend into the black background. I am not a fan of using grey colours to colour flowers white and for the flowers I used the colours that Dawn from Wplus9 Design demonstrated here and I was very pleased with my first effort. I also used Dawn’s method of adding glitter to the images but next time I will use a much finer glitter but it still looks stunning in real life.

Some silver pearls finish the card and focus on the sentiment.

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Delighted For You Stamp and Die set

Pink Fresh Studio Stained Glass Die

Pink Fresh Studio Essentials Stitched Scallop Square Dies

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Glitter Paper

Pink Fresh Studio Metallic Pearls – Silver 

Memento ink – Tuxedo Black

X-Press It Card

Copic Markers E00, G20. BG70, YG00, E00, B20, G99, YG24, Y15, Y11

YG67, YB63, YG25, YG23, 100

Foam Tape/squares

Heartfelt Creations Black Cardstock

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300 gsm

Versamark ink

Ranger White Embossing Powder

Heat Gun

Nuvo Pure Sheen Glitter – Diamond

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Sending a Hug with Amazing Paper Grace Rose Garden

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I have been enjoying going back through the Amazing Paper Grace Dies of the Month and creating with them and it is interesting to see how much I have progressed both with cardmaking and also with taking photographs since these dies came out. Here is my original post when this die set came out. Today I have made a card using the Amazing Paper Grace December 2020 Die of the Month – Rose Garden Promise. I have coloured the roses and leaves with Copic Makers and added some Wink of Stella to the coloured images to create a sparkly stained glass window effect. Of course I had to add some flowers but these could easily be omitted to be able to send easily in the mail.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

For my card I have made a 5″ x 7″ top folding card out of heavy weight white cardstock. I cut a piece of white alcohol marker friendly cardstock 5″ x 7″. I die cut the outline die out of scrap white cardstock and used this as a stencil to colour the roses and leaves with Copic markers. I then added some clear Wink of Stella to the coloured images. I die cut two outline dies out of white cardstock and stacked them together before adding them over the coloured images. I then die cut another die out of gold cardstock and paper pierced the frame to highlight the coloured images.

I die cut three sentiments from the Amazing Paper Grace Picture Perfect Window Scene Dies – two from white cardstock and one from gold cardstock. I stacked these together with the gold die on top, cut the sentiment in half and added it to the centre of the frame.

I die cut a flourish out of gold cardstock and adhered it to the top left of the frame. I made some small pink and yellow flowers using the Amazing Paper Grace Petite Floral Potpourri Dies and added them over the flourish. I die cut small leaves out of green cardstock using the small leaf dies from the Amazing Paper Grace Layered Cherry Blossom dies and added them around the flowers.

To finish the card I added some gold pearls around the sentiment.

Amazing Paper Grace Dies Used:

Rose Garden (Die of the Month December 2020)

Picture Perfect Window Scene Dies

Layered Cherry Blossoms

Petite Floral Potpourri Dies

Other Products Used:

Spellbinders Mirror Gold Cardstock

House of Paper White Cardstock 300 gsm

Spellbinders Essential Cardstock – Rainforest, Snowdrift

Dress My Craft Soft Floral Paper

Neenah Solar Crest 80 Ib

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Lemon Whip, Begonia

Distress Oxide ink – Mowed Lawn

Copic Markers – R85, R83, R81, RV00, G99, YG67, YG63, YG03

Wink of Stella – Clear

Spellbinders Gold Pearls

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CAS Poppy Card

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I have been slowly working on my Copic colouring over the past year and have been gradually building up my markers stock at the same time. I have been taking classes at Kit and Clowder and learning about colour combinations and also creating depth and texture with blending colours. I feel that I have finally clicking with the colouring and feel more confident in making cards and wall art with the finished images. Here I have a free image from Altenew that I have coloured with Copic makers and made a card that I can safely give to someone. All I needed to do was trim the image down and mat with black and pink cardstock for a very pretty and striking card. I also added some clear Wink of Stella to the flower and leaves.

Products Used:

Altenew Free Poppy Image

X-Press It Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Onyx, Dahlia

Bearly Art Glue

Clear Wink of Stella

Copic Markers

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Amazing Paper Grace With Grateful Thanks

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I have just purchased a new hot foil machine so of course I had to try it out and yes I am much happier with this machine. I really love the border hot foil plates from the Amazing Paper Grace Delicate Impressions collection by Becca Feeken. The Amazing Paper Grace Diamonetta Background Hot Foil Plate creates the perfect background to add some gorgeous fussy cut coloured flowers from the Amazing Paper Grace Sweet Blooms Border Hot Foil Plate. Add these to a very pretty decorative floral border and a ‘heartfelt’ sentiment and the card is complete.

Dies were provided by Amazing Paper Grace for today’s creations.

My Project

For my card I have cut a piece of cardstock 6 3/4″ x 8″ and scored at 5″ along the long side leave a front flap of 3″. I die cut the decorative floral border from the Amazing Paper Grace Graceful Floral Border Dies out of white cardstock and adhered the side under the front flap. I cut a piece of white cardstock 6 3/4″ x 2 7/8″ and adhered it to the underside of the front flap hiding the end of the decorative border. I then cut a piece of gold cardstock 2″ x 6 3/4″ and adhered it to the right side of the inside back of the card. I cut a piece of gold cardstock 6 1/2″ x 2 3/4″ and adhered it to the front flap. I cut a piece of white foil friendly paper 6 1/4″ x 2 1/2″ and foiled it with with Amazing Paper Grace Diamonetta Background Hot Foil Plate with gold foil. This was then applied over the gold panel on the flap. To finish the panel I die cut decorative edges out of gold cardstock using the Amazing Paper Grace Graceful Floral Lace dies and adhered them to the panel to add a decorative finish to the panel.

I hot foiled the Amazing Paper Grace Sweet Blooms Border Hot Foil Plate onto Hammermill white cardstock with gold foil. I then coloured the flowers and leaves with Copic markers and fussy cut the images out. These were then added over the diamond background within the border as shown.

To finish the card I hot foiled the sentiment from the Amazing Paper Grace Heartfelt Sentiments in gold foil on white cardstock and diecut it with the coordinating die. I also die cut two plain sentiment dies from white cardstock and stacked all three dies together with the foiled sentiment on top. This was then added to the front of the decorated panel on the card.

Amazing Paper Grace Products Used:

Graceful Floral Lace Border Dies

Diamonetta Background Hot Foil Plate

Sweet Blooms Border Hot Foil Plate

Heart Felt Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die

Other Products Used:

Crafter’s Companion Centura Pearl Snow White Cardstock – Hint of Gold

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Hammermill 100 Ib White Cardstock

Spellbinders Foil – Gold

Copic Markers – RV55, RV63, V000, E99, Y38, Y11, B00, G99, G94, YG25, YG03

Bearly Art Glue

Hello Happy Birthday Peonies

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This year it has been my mission to learn how to colour with alcohol markers. I have been taking lessons with Alyce at Kit and Clowder and I am so enjoying them and I am finding that I they are so much easier to use and the colouring is much quicker – better for my neurodivergent brain lol. Anyway, I have been purchasing different floral stamp sets to practice with and one of the sets I purchased was the Gina K Designs Majestic Peony Cling Stamp set. This is such a beautiful design and great for practice. Here is one of my first attempts at colouring using Copics on Neenah Classic Crest 80 Ib paper and I have used a colour combination from one of the classes that I have taken. (I have since discovered I prefer to use X-Press It card as it is much easier to blend). I have done a similar card design to this a few years ago. I had completed an Altenew class – All About Layering 4 (2) and I used all Altenew products then. You can see the post here.

I must admit that I do struggle with adding sentiments to coloured images as I feel that I have spent sooo much time colouring the images and don’t want to cover them up. Here I feel I have made a compromise by adding the die cut ‘hello’ and adding the stamped sentiment to the bottom right of the card just covering a small portion of the coloured image.

My Project

I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ base card out of white cardstock. I cut a piece of gold cardstock 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and adhered it to the front of the card base. I then cut a piece of black cardstock 4 1/8″ x 5 3/8″ and embossed it with a diamond embossing folder from my stash. This was then added to the front of the gold card.

I stamped the peony image from the Gina K Designs Majestic Peony Stamp set in Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah Classic Crest 80 Ib cardstock. I coloured the image in with Copic markers and then fussy cut the image. I went round the edges of the image with a Memento Tuxedo Black Marker to get rid of all the white edges and then adhered the entire image on the black embossed card.

I die cut four ‘hello’ dies from the Altenew Fancy Hello die set – three from black cardstock and one from gold cardstock. These were then stacked together with the gold die on top and then adhered to the centre of the card over the flowers.

I stamped the sentiment from the Altenew Dotty Blooms stamp set in gold pigment ink on black cardstock and heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. I die cut the sentiment out using a banner die from the Altenew Featured Sentiments Die Set and die cut another plain banner from black cardstock. I adhered the stamped banner on the plain banner and added the sentiment to the bottom right of the card as shown with some foam strips.

To finish I added some gold pearls around the die cut ‘hello’.

Products Used:

Gina K Designs Majestic Peony Stamp Set

CTMH Diamond Embossing Folder

Altenew Fancy Hello Die

Altenew Dotted Blooms Stamp Set

Altenew Featured Sentiments Dies Set

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Memento Tuxedo Black Marker

Copic Markers – RV10, RV21, RV23, FV25, RV29, YG11, G21, G94, G99, B05, B12, B000

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift, Onyx

Neenah Classic Crest 80 Ib

Bearly Art Glue

Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

Encore Gold Pigment ink

Heat gun

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Have a Wonderful Day with Roses

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I love love love roses and when I saw the new Crafters Companion Vintage Rose 3D Embossing Folder – Timeless Rose I had to get it and it is just gorgeous. I have coloured the image with Copic Markers and then added a stunning frame to showcase the beautiful roses. Of course I had to add some cute butterflies made from Memory Box dies that I have had for many years. I really love this sentiment as it is so versatile and can be used for so many different occasions.

My Project

I have created a side folding 5″ x 7″ card base out of white cardstock. I then cut a piece of X-Press It paper 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″ and embossed it using the Timeless Rose embossing folder. I coloured the roses and background with Copic markers and adhered it to the card front.

I cut a piece of white cardstock 5″ x 7″ and die cut the frame using the Nos. 3 and 4 dies from the Heartfelt Creations Fancy Classic Oval Dies. I wanted to keep the decorative frame see through so I cut a piece of acetate 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″ and adhered it behind the whole frame. I then added the decorative frame to the acetate inside the outer frame and cut the inner oval out using scissors (I found it much easier doing it that way). To complete the decorative frame I have die cut the outer decorative frame from gold cardstock and added it to the frame as shown. The frame was then added to the front of the card with foam strips.

I heat embossed the sentiment from the Heartfelt Creations Heartfelt Sentiments on black cardstock using gold embossing powder. I then die cut the sentiment out using a die from the Altenew Featured Sentiments Die Set and added it to the front of the roses with foam strips.

I die cut the butterflies out using Lawn Fawn Pearlescent Paper and Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock. These were assembled and added to the card front.

To finish I have added gold pearls around the frame.

Products Used:

Crafters Companion Vintage Rose 3D Embossing Folder – Timeless Rose

Heartfelt Creations Fancy Classic Oval Dies

Memory Box Pippi Butterfly Dies

Memory Box Isabella Butterfly Dies

Altenew Featured Sentiments Die Set

Heartfelt Creations Heartfelt Sentiments

X-Press It Paper

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Black Cardstock

Lawn Fawn Pearlescent Vellum

Spellbinders Acetate

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Bearly Art Glue

Bearly Art Foam Strips

Wow Embossing Ink

Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

Copic Markers – G28, G07, YG25, YG23, B00, B000, R39, RV25, RV23, RV21, R81, E93

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Sending Sunshine and Lots of Love

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I am really enjoying my marker colouring and I have a clean and simple card to share with you today. I have downloaded some free images to colour from the Altenew website here. These are great images to practice with and this image was one of them. I have used mostly Altenew Sunshine Valley Alcohol Markers Set F (finished off with Copic markers) to colour this image in after printing the image out on X-Press It paper. I have to admit I do prefer to use Copic markers – the brush is much easier to use and more juicy. However, I have not used the Altenew markers much so they may have dried out a bit. I will keep playing with them. I have kept the card very simple to highlight the flowers.

Products Used:

X-Press It Paper

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Black Onyx

Altenew Sunshine Valley Alcohol Markers Set F

Copic Markers RV10, E37, E15

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Magnolias Just For You

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This year I decided it was time to get started learning how to use alcohol markers and started doing classes with Alyce Keegan at Kit and Clowder. I have rediscovered my love for colouring and love love colouring with Copic marker as they are easier to hold in my arthritic hands. I am still building up my stock of markers and also learning new colour blends so I have used one of the colour blends from the Birds in Bloom Marker class. I do love this sweet stamp set from Beccy’s Place that I recently purchased through Krafters Cart and I couldn’t wait to have a go with colouring this. And I was very happy with the result.

I struggle with cutting up images that I have spent time colouring in but in this case I did not lose much and I love how the branch of magnolias look like it is coming from the side of the card and looking out over the window to the sky behind. The card front has been inspired by Dawn at WPlus9Design on YouTube.

My project:

I have created a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ top folding card base. I cut a piece of white cardstock 5 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and scored at 1/4″, 1/5″, 4 3/4″ and 5″ along the 5 1/4″ side. I cut a piece of white cardstock 4″ x 5 1/4: and using the cloud stencil from Waffle Flower I stenciled some clouds using Tumbled Glass ink. This was then added to the front of the card.

I die cut the circle out of the centre of the card using a circle die from the Amazing Paper Grace Fluted Classics circle die. I then embossed using the Honey Bee Stamps Dogwood 3D embossing folder and then I then folded the edges using my bone folder. I die cut a circular fluted frame using the Amazing Paper Grace Circle Fluted Classics die and added it around the circle. I added a piece of acetate behind the circle window with some double sided tape. To complete the front of the card I adhere the edges to the edges of the card front.

I stamped the images from Beccy’s Place Magnolia stamp set on Neenah cardstock in Tuxedo Black ink. I coloured the images with Copic Markers and then die cut the images out using the coordinating dies. I die cut another set of blank dies and adhere the coloured images to these. I adhere the branches around the circle and trimmed the single branch to fit the card front. I added some Wink of Stella to the flowers for some subtle shine.

Finally I stamped the sentiment from Beccy’s Place Magnolia set on black cardstock with Wow embossing ink and heat embossed with white cardstock. I trimmed the sentiment and adhered it to the bottom right of the card with some foam tape. (I would stamp the sentiment before embossing the front next time). And then I added some clear iridescent gems around the flowers and sentiment.

Products Used:

Beccy’s Place Magnolia Stamp

Beccy’s Place Magnolia Die

Amazing Paper Grace Circle Fluted Classics

Honey Bee Stamps 3D Embossing Folder – Dogwood

Waffle Flower Cloudy Stencil

Heartfelt Creations White Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Clear Cardstock

Memento Tuxedo Black ink

Bearly Art Glue

Neenah Classic Crest 80Ib White Cardstock

Copic Markers – RV25, RV23, RV21, E93E47, E44, E43, G99, G94, YG25, YG11

Taylored Expressions Iridescent gems

Foam Strips and squares

Clear Wink of Stella

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