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Pink Fresh Studio Monthly Challenge – Monochromatic Magic

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This month’s Pink Fresh Studio Challenge theme is Tone-on-Tone & Monochrome Magic. ✨ Pick a single color and bring it to life by layering different tones and shades—or explore the tone-on-tone technique for added depth and dimension. To spark your creativity, we’ve provided a color palette to choose from—just pick one hue as your star and let it shine!

Our 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 card today would fit into the Anything Goes Challenge but I feel it can also fit into the Monochromatic Magic theme as I have used purples and grey colours with a touch of silver for a soft and subtle colour palette.

My Project

My card is a standard side folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card with a twist. I have trimmed the front panel down and added a lace border and a grey plaid strip tone on tone card to the front panel. I have hot foiled the Magnificent Magnolia image on white cardstock and coloured it with purple and grey inks. I added some purple inks to the leaves to keep with the tone on tone theme and then added it over the front edge.

For the inside back of the card I have used the Magnificent Magnolia Press Plate to add some interest on the panel by using grey ink on the grey card to tie in with the plaid front and floral image.

I added silver accents with the lace on the front panel and also with the base layer of the sentiment panel on the inside back panel. The sentiment has been reverse hot foiled as well to allow it to stand out on the white background.

Finally, I have added silver pearls to the front and back of the card as shown.

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Magnificent Magnolia Press Plate, Stencils and Die Set

Pink Fresh Studio Plaid Press Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Fancy Edgers Die

Pink Fresh Studio Dotted Fancy Frames Die

Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Sheer Freesia Wisteria, Lavender, Misty Coast, Rocky Slope

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Spellbinders Better Press Pebble Card

Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock 110 Ib

Hammermill Cardstock

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Pink Fresh Studio Challenge Thank You Card

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Here is my second card for the Pink Fresh Studio November 2024 which is about ‘Thank You’ and the ink shades that are the best matches for the colors in the challenge are: Waterfall, Begonia, Mimosa, Citron & Storm.

I love using layering frame dies and creating dimension with foam tape to highlight pretty flowers and butterflies. For my second challenge card I have hot foiled the backgound using the Pink Freash Studio Stained Glass Hot Foil Plate and stenciled the panel using the challenge inks to create a rainbow effect. I then added a pretty frame using the large dies from the Pink Fresh Studio Dotted Fancy Frames with foam strips. I die cut some vellum using the medium dotted frame and added it to the centre of the frame and I then added a small frame to the centre with foam tape, but having it on a different orientation for the foiled sentiment from the Pink Fresh Studio Perfect Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Coordinating Die set.

I hot foiled the flowers from the Pink Fresh Studio Peony Fantasy Hot Foil Plate and coloured them with the challenge inks before die cutting them out with the coordinating die. I also reversed foiled the flowers as well and added the coloured flowers and some foiled floral accents around the label and sentiment.

I added a hot foiled butterfly that had been coloured with the challenge flowers and then added a butterfly that had been foiled on vellum over top to tie in with the vellum on the card and also to add some more contrast to the flowers.

A light sprinkling of glitter and some gold pearls completed the card.

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Peony Fantasy Hot Foil Plate, Stencils and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate, Stencils and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio Stained Glass Hot Foil Plate and Coordinating Stencils

Pink Fresh Studio Dotted Fancy Frames Dies

Pink Fresh Studio Perfect Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio Hot Foil Plate

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Waterfall, Begonia, Mimosa, Citron & Storm, Licorice

Pink Fresh Studio Blending Brushes

Pink Fresh Studio Pearls – Gold

Spellbinders Foil – Aura

Hammermill Cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb cardstock

Craft Perfect Pure White Vellum

Foam Squares

Foam Tape

Foam Strips

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

DMC Sparkling Dust

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Pink Fresh Studio Challenge November 2024

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I have been out of action for a while due to having surgery on a couple of fingers and missed last month’s Pink Fresh Studio challenge and it has taken a while to get back into cardmaking again.

This month’s challenge at Pink Fresh Studio is ‘Thank You’ and the following ink shades are the best matches for the colors in the challenge: Waterfall, Begonia, Mimosa, Citron & Storm.

It is always handy to have Thank You cards in my stash so I thought I would have a play with some new products at the same time. I have recently purchased the Pink Fresh Studio Dotted Fancy Frames and thought I would make a shaped easel card with the dies and it just looks gorgeous! My inspiration for adding the flowers to the front has come from one of the Pink Fresh Studio designers on Instagram a while ago.

I have hot foiled the flowers, butterflies and the sentiment using Aura foil and coloured the images with the challenge inks before embellishing the front of the card and creating the easel. A light sprinkling of glitter and some iridescent dew drops add the finishing touches to the card.

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Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Peony Fantasy Hot Foil Plate, Stencils and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate, Stencils and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio Dotted Fancy Frames Dies

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Waterfall, Begonia, Mimosa, Citron & Storm, Licorice

Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio Blending Brushes

Pink Fresh Studio Dew Drops – Iridescent

Spellbinders Foil – Aura

Hammermill Cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb cardstock

Foam Squares

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

Press’n’Seal

DMC Sparkling Dust

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Hope Your Day is Wonderful with Pink Fresh Studio

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Here is my final submission for this month 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.

For this card I have used the Pink Fresh Studio English Garden Washi tape to create the wreath using the Pink Fresh Studio Fancy Circles Dies as a guide to making the wreath.

I watched a video by Jennifer McGuire on how the get more out of vellum and I was inspired to use the Pink Fresh Studio Stained Glass die to die cut the background out of vellum and then coloured it with Mint ink. This technique made a soft background that still harmonised with the washi tape images.

The sentiment has been hot foiled with gold foil from the Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and the die cut with the coordinating die. I also die cut several plain dies to stack together and with the foiled sentiment on top I have added it to the centre of the circle.

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio English Garden Washi tape and coordinating die

Pink Fresh Studio Stained Glass Die

Pink Fresh Studio Fancy Circles Dies

Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die

Pink Fresh Studio ink – Mint

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Spellbinders Foil – Matte Gold

Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock – 100 Lb

Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb cardstock

Rajni Chawla’s Flowerite Vellum

Hammermill Cardstock

Foam strips

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Pink Fresh Studio Challenge Card

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I have another 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.

My second card for this challenge is quite different from the first card. I have used the Pink Fresh Studio Vines and Roses Stamp, Stencil and Dies focusing more on the leaves and small single florals to create a wreath. I have used the same inks as last time but the colours turned out quite different – especially on the leaves where I have only used the Citron and Paradise inks very lightly for a two tone effect which is lovely and fresh.

My card is a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card made from white cardstock. I have matted some silver cardstock with a smaller card that I have hot foiled using the Pink Fresh Studio Plaid Press Plate in Matte Silver and Prism foil.

The foliage and flowers from the Pink Fresh Studio Vines and Roses Stamp, Stencil and Dies were stamped with Detail Black ink and then coloured with the challenge inks using the coordinating stencils before be die cut with the coordinating dies.

I have die cut a large and small circle frame using the Pink Fresh Studio Pink Fresh Studio Fancy Circles Dies to create the base for the wreath. I added the large frame on the card and then added some leaves around the frame to create the base of the wreath. I then added the small frame over the top with some foam strips before adding the floral sprays around the circle.

I hot foiled the sentiment from the Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die in Prism foil on Hammermill cardstock. I also die cut another plain die and stacked it with the foiled sentiment on top. This was added to the middle of the wreath with foam strips.

To finish the card I added some silver pearls around the sentiment and wreath.

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Vines and Roses Stamp, Stencil and Dies

Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die

Pink Fresh Studio Plaid Press Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Fancy Circles Dies

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Pearls

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Raspberry Bliss, Paradise, Mulberry Blush, Mimosa, & Citron, Detail Black

Neenah Classic Crest Cardstock – 100 Lb

Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb cardstock

Hammermill Cardstock

Spellbinders Foil – Matte Silver, Prism

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Silver Cardstock

Foam strips

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Pink Fresh Studio Challenge August 2024 – Hope Your Day Is Wonderful

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I have finally got round to finishing off my cards for the Pink Fresh Studio August 2024 Challenge. This month the challenge is to use washi tape and or use the following inks: Sparkling Rose/Peony, Lavender, Mulberry Blush, Storm, and Sage.

For my first card I have chosen to use the challenge inks to colour the images of the Vines and Roses – Peony, Lavender, Mulberry Blush, Storm and Sage. These are interesting colours to use together and ones that I would not normally put together. So I was pleasantly surprised how the coloured images came together to create a cool colour combination. I normally use a lot of gold and warm colours on my cards so it was nice to use silver for a change.

For my background for my card I have hot foiled the Diagonal Plaid Press Plate with Matte Silver and Silver Speckled Prism foils. The press plates foiled perfectly and the background really sparkles with the Speckled Prism foils.

One of my favourite frame layering dies is the Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner dies and I use them a lot. Here I have die cut an outside frame as well as in inner frame for the florals and sentiments to be the focus of the card.

The sentiment is also one I use a lot as it can be used for so many different occasions – Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die. I have foiled the sentiment in Matte Silver foil and then stacked it with another two plain dies to add to the centre of the card.

To finish I added some silver pearls from Pink Fresh Studio for a clean and fresh look.

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Notched Corner Dies

Pink Fresh Studio Diagonal Plaid Press Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Vines and Roses Stamp, Stencil and Die Set

Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Detail Black, Peony, Lavender, Mulberry Blush, Storm and Sage

Pink Fresh Studio Silver Pearls

Neenah Classic Crest 80 lb cardstock

Neenah Classic Crest 110 lb cardstock 

Spellbinders Hot Foil – Matte Silver, Speckled Prism

Foam squares

Foam tape

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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Let’s Celebrate Pink Fresh Studio July 2024 Challenge

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Here is my second card for 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.

For my card todayI have got my inspiration from Dawn from WPlus9 Design for a pop-up frame card using the Pink Fresh Studio Vines and Roses Stamp, Stencil and Dies set and the Pink Fresh Studio Stained Glass Hot Foil Plate and die to meet the brief for this challenge. You can get the instructions on how to create a pop-up frame card here. I have switched up her design to make it my own by showing a hot foiled design from the Pink Fresh Studio Stained Glass Hot Foil Plate through the aperture and using the Pink Fresh Studio Essentials Stitched Scallop Square Dies to create the aperture in the front. I also added a piece of acetate behind the window to allow me to put the scallop edge die in to create the frame as well as adding the hot foiled sentiment on the front.

For the images I have heat embossed the stamped images with gold embossing powder to tie the florals and foliage to the gold in the hot foiled sentiments and background.

And to finish the card I have added some Crystal Stickles to the flowers and leaves and some clear with gold dust gems for some sparkle.

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Vines and Roses Stamp, Stencil and Dies

Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die

Pink Fresh Studio Stained Glass Hot Foil Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Essentials Stitched Scallop Square Dies

Pink Fresh Studio – Inks – Cherry Blossom, Mimosa, Marigold, Summer Shower, Eucalyptus

Pink Fresh Studio Gems – Clear with Gold Dust

Hammermill Cardstock

Spellbinders Matte Gold Foil

Versamark ink

Ranger Super Fine Detail Gold Embossing Powder

Heat Gun

Crystal Stickles

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Bearly Art Glue

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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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Pink Fresh Studio Peonies and Butterflies Challenge Card

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Welcome back and today I have another card for the Pink Fresh Studio March 2024 Challenge.. The challenge for this month was to use frames and the Pink Fresh Studio inks – Mango Sorbet/Fruit Punch, Sunkissed, Sweet Mustard, Eucalyptus, and Ocean Breeze.

For my card today I have used the Pink Fresh Studio Rounded and Braided Rectangle dies to frame luscious peonies coloured with Mango Sorbet/Fruit Punch, Sunkissed, Sweet Mustard, Eucalyptus and Ocean Breeze inks and finished with a gold hot foiled sentiment, butterflies and gold pearls.

For my card I have created a top folding 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card out of heavy weight white cardstock. I die cut the outer and inner braided frames from a piece of white 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card and backed it with some gold glitter card before adding it to the card front. I then die cut a frame using the middle braided dies on white cardstock and backed it with some gold glitter cardstock and added it to the card front with foam tape for dimension.

I hot foiled the Peony Fantasy images in gold foil and coloured them with the challenge inks before die cutting them out. I added the flowers and leaves to the top right and bottom left corners using foam tape on the top flowers for added dimension.

I hot foiled the sentiments using the Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and die cut it with the coordinating die. I also die cut two other plain sentiments and stacked them with the foiled sentiment on top and then added the sentiment to the centre of the frames.

I used the Pink Fresh Studio solid hot foil plate to reverse foil the small butterflies in Matte Gold foil and die cut them with the coordinating die. I added a butterfly to the bottom right and top left of the frame as shown.

To finish I added some gold pearls around the sentiment.

Products Used

Peony Fantasy Hot Foil Plate, Stencil and Die set

Pink Fresh Studio Rounded and Braided Rectangle dies

Pink Fresh Studio Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate, Die

Pink Fresh Studio Solid Hot Foil Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Die set

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Mango Sorbet/Fruit Punch, Sunkissed, Sweet Mustard, Eucalyptus and Ocean Breeze

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Glitter Card

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Pink Fresh Studio Blending Brushes

House of Paper White Cardstock 300 gsm

Hammermill Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations White Cardstock

Spellinders Foil – Matte Gold

Neenah Solar Crest 80 Ib

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

Foam tape/squares

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Butterfly Hugs

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I am a bit late with this challenge but I have had some camera issues and eventually had to get a new camera which I am still learning to use. This card is for the Pink Fresh Studio February 2024 Challenge which was to use the following Pink Fresh Studio inks Sparkling Rose, Sunkissed, Spruce Tips, and Paradise and gold or have some hearts in your project. I went for the inks as I do have them and I was very happy with my pretty colourful butterflies. I had to add the green inks and as I did not have any Pink Fresh Studio leaf dies I decided to do some ink smooshing with the Paradise and Spruce Tip inks and create a shaker element that looks like sky with the opal coloured sequins looking like clouds. I have used the Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Twist Circle dies to create the frame as this is similar to a Pink Fresh Studio die. I created some subtle texture just with scoring every 1/8″ on the top panel and finished the card with some hot foiled sentiments in gold and some gold pearls.

Products Used:

Pink Fresh Studio Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate, Stencils and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio Perfect Sentiments Hot Foil Plate and Coordinating Die

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Sunkissed, Sparkling Rose, Paradise, Spruce Tips

Pink Fresh Studio Blending Brushes

Pink Fresh Studio Gold Pearls

Amazing Paper Grace Elegant Twist Circles Die

Heartfelt Creations Luxe Gold Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Hammermill Cardstock

Heartfelt Creations White Cardstock

House of Paper Cardstock – White 300 gsm

Spellbinders Acetate

Spellbinders Sequins – Opal

My Sweet Petunia Precision Glue Press

Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive

Foam tape

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