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Pinkfresh Studio “Kindness in Bloom” Release Blog Hop

October 8, 2024

Good morning friends! I am hopping along with Pinkfresh Studio today to share inspiration using some of the gorgeous new goodies from the Kindness In Bloom release! This new release is filled with stunning florals in all forms: stamps, dies, stencils, and press plates, but we also have some marvelous new Essentials dies that are going to be staples in your craft room, as well. I have two projects using some beautiful blue tones, so let’s get started with the details!

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For both of my projects today, I used the new Print Shop Modern Botanicals stamp, die, and stencil product suite (there is also a coordinating Press Plate, but I focused on the stamp set today so that I could do some heat embossing!). To start, I stamped the beautiful Print Shop Modern Botanicals cling stamp twice onto some pale aqua cardstock from my stash using white pigment ink, which I then covered with Iridescent Blue embossing powder to create a shimmery, iridescent, almost tone-on-tone embossed outline. I embossed two of these floral panels in this way: one to use as a background and one to die cut to use as accents for another card!

Before die cutting one of the panels, I used the coordinating stencils with Waterfall, Turquoise, and Paradise inks to add some beautiful monochromatic details to the floral images. After I had finished blending, I used the fabulous one-pass die to die cut all of the flowers in one fell swoop. So convenient!

For my first card, I created a beautifully textured background by pressing the floral bouquet into some more of the lovely pale aqua cardstock. To achieve the textured letterpress look on colored cardstock, I tried a technique that I saw the incredibly talented Carissa Wiley demonstrate. I placed a piece of letterpress paper behind my A2 panel of colored cardstock and used some light washi tape to temporarily adhere the two pieces together. I then used my Better Press system to impress the beautiful bouquet from the new Always Smiling product suite into the corners of my panel. The thick cotton letter press cardstock allows the cushion for the Press Plate to impress the images into the regular colored cardstock! Isn’t that ingenious? Carissa is amazingly clever! After removing the washi tape and letterpress panel, I used a blending brush to blend Turquoise ink around the edges of the panel, enhancing the beautifully detailed letter press images.

To further enhance my card front, I die cut the largest frame from the new Dotted Fancy Frames Essentials die set, placing it in the center of an A2 sized panel of Pinkfresh Studio Aqua Glitter Cardstock. I reserved the die cut frame itself for the next project and instead used foam adhesive to pop up the negative space around the edges of my textured background panel, creating a tone-on-tone glittery shaped frame. I tucked a vellum Dotted Fancy Frame die cut on the bottom right corner of the card and arranged my stenciled Print Shop Modern Botanicals die cuts around a greeting from the Always Smiling Press Plate set, which I foiled onto some more aqua cardstock using Spellbinders’s Skybright foil and die cut with the coordinating die. Finally, I embellished my bouquet with some shiny foil “twine” cut using the older Wrap Around Elements dies and added a few coordinating Aqua Glitter Drops for added sparkle!

My second card is a bit simpler, using some of the leftovers from my first project to create this dainty, monochromatic card. I embellished the full A2 embossed and stenciled Print Shop Modern Botanicals background panel with the leftover Aqua Glitter Dotted Fancy Frames Essentials die cut, adhering it around the edges of the background with some liquid adhesive. I think it is such a pretty addition to the subtle floral background! I also used the smallest die from the Dotted Fancy Frames Essentials die set to cut a piece of vellum, upon which I would build my focal point.

For my focal point, I hot foiled my greeting from the new Blooming Arch Press Plate set, which I created by first hot foiling the sentiment Press Plate, then hot foiling the leftover foil panel using Pinkfresh Studio’s Solid Hot Foil Plate and cutting with the coordinating die. (It looks black in the photo because hot foiled images are so difficult to photograph accurately, but I promise the sentiment is a coordinating pale aqua!) I popped up the sentiment in the center of the vellum piece using foam adhesive, then arranged some leftover Print Shop Modern Botanicals die cuts behind the sentiment. I flipped over the vellum piece and added some thin foam square adhesive behind the solid die cuts in order to keep my vellum piece clean. Finally, I added a few more Aqua Glitter Drops for added sparkle!

Well, that’s all for my projects today! Now for some fun giveaway information:

Pinkfresh Studio will be giving away the full release on the Pinkfresh blog & YouTube channel. They will be giving away a total of TEN $25 gift cards along the hop. The winners will be selected from the comments, so the more comments you leave along the hop, the more chances you have to win!.
Winners will be selected and announced on October 16, 2024 on our GIVEAWAY PAGE. Winners must check that page & claim their prize within 2 weeks.

Here’s the full hop list in case you get lost:

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and happy hopping!

Video: Unexpected Holiday Anemones with Pinkfresh Studio!

November 17, 2023

Hi friends! I am over on the Pinkfresh Studio YouTube channel today with this vibrant holiday card featuring the gorgeous new Nothing But the Best stamps + dies and Karin Brushmarker Pro watercolor markers.

Watch the video below or HERE on YouTube.

In case you can’t watch the video, here are some of the highlights:

I started by heat embossing the Nothing But the Best stamp onto some Fabriano Artistico cold press watercolor paper using silver embossing powder. I taped the panel down to my watercolor board, then used Karin Brushmarker Pro markers in jewel-toned shades of red and green to create a stunning holiday floral arrangement. A friend of mine had deep red anemones with black centers for her bridal bouquet, and since then I’ve adored the idea of these intense flowers as an addition to a holiday bouquet! After watercoloring, I die cut the image with the coordinating die.

To add some texture behind the watercolored floral arrangement, I ran an A2 panel of plain white cardstock through my die cut machine using the Diagonal Stitched Plaid cover plate. This die adds a hint of texture and pattern to the background, and I think that plaid is the quintessential holiday pattern, don’t you? I also die cut a vellum tag from the Shaker Tag Book die and a black glitter bow from the Wrap Around Elements die set to accent the hot foiled “peace and joy” sentiment (from what I now realize is a discontinued set- but a heat embossed greeting from the Holiday Large Sentiments Stamps + Coordinating Dies product suite would be a good replacement!)

After fiddling with my die cuts to decide the best arrangement, I decided to be brave and chop my watercolored flower bouquet in half so that I could create a visual cascade running down the front of my card. Before adhering the two floral die cut pieces, I adhered a glittering Ornate Rectangle Frame die cut with some foam adhesive, then added my remaining die cuts with some more foam adhesive, hiding the foam tape behind the solid die cut adhered to the vellum tag. The final touch was a few Matte Silver Pearls to add one more element of silver to my card front!

Well, that’s all for my project today. I love using unexpected combinations to create unique holiday cards. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!

More Pinkfresh Studio Birthday Inspiration + Instagram Hop!

April 25, 2023

Hi there! Pinkfresh Studio is celebrating their 9th Birthday this month with a gorgeous assortment of products perfect for creating festive, elegant, and trendy birthday cards! We had a blog hop yesterday to share lots of inspiration using the new release, and I actually intended to share these projects then, but I had just gotten back from Simon Says Stamp’s CREATE event and well, to be perfectly honest…. I was exhausted, ha! (You can check out that post HERE.) Luckily for me, though, Pinkfresh Studio is also having an Instagram Hop today, so I have another opportunity to share this pair of birthday cards that are an homage to aqua!

I seem to have an unnecessarily enormous (well, to some people 😉 )collection of colored cardstock, which is funny when you consider how much time I spend coloring on plain white cardstock, but cards like these are exactly the reason why I need to have alllll of the colored cardstock shades, even if they are just slightly different from each other. My cards today use the fabulous and super versatile new Wrap Around Elements dies as the central focus, adding in a few other elements from the April Release, as well! Let’s get started with the details!

The fringe die in the Wrap Around Elements die set is brimming with possibilities for layouts and color schemes, and I couldn’t resist creating a fringed background covering the entire card front in a beautiful aqua ombré! I began by cutting strips of fringe in four different gradient shades of aqua (I will link individual colors below) and adhering them to an A2 card front in light to dark. I also die cut a coordinating frame using one of the Blanket Stitched Rectangle dies. I popped up the frame with some foam adhesive, but there is so much dimension from the fringed die cuts that you can hardly tell!

Once I had created my background, I die cut a few rosettes from the new Rosettes dies (which are out of stock at Pinkfresh, but you can purchase them HERE at Simon Says Stamp!) and then used Aqualicious ink to blend some details on the rosettes with the coordinating stencils (which are also in stock HERE at Simon Says Stamp!). I heat embossed a greeting on one of the darker teal cardstocks using a sentiment from the new Ribbons and Balloons stamp set, and cut it out with the coordinating die. I added the die cut pieces to the card front with some foam tape, then added a few sparkling Aqua Glitter Drops for some sparkle!

My second project is a fairly simple one, but I think it’s super effective and would be great for a gender-neutral birthday card! I started with die cutting the strings from the Wrap Around Elements from some iridescent white foil cardstock, and I die cut the bow die three times from the same white cardstock, layering them together to create a big fluffy bow! I hot foiled a Geo Blocks background on some super pale aqua cardstock using Opal hot foil to create a super subtle and slightly iridescent pattern on my pale aqua cardstock. I trimmed it down, then adhered the die cut strings to the panel, folding them over the edge and adhering them to the back to create a seamless look. I layered the foiled panel on a full size A2 card front using foam adhesive.

To create the greeting, I heat embossed the new Basic Banners: Celebrate stamp onto some more pale aqua cardstock using black pigment ink and heat embossed it with some white pearl embossing powder, creating a charcoal pearl sentiment that is a little softer than a typical black sentiment. I die cut the heat embossed greetings with the one-pass Basic Banners die, leaving me with lots of leftover sentiments to use elsewhere! I added the fluffy die cut bow with a tiny dot of foam tape, then tucked a sentiment banner beneath it with some more foam adhesive. It looks like a little package from Tiffany, I think, but would work perfectly for a gender-neutral birthday card!

Well, that’s all for my projects today. Pinkfresh Studio is hosting an Instagram Hop over on their Instagram page, with tons and tons of prizes, including a chance to win the entire release, so be sure to head over to Instagram to check it out! I will have the hop linked on my Instagram, and you can check me out @eamidgett. Thanks so much for stopping by today, and have a marvelous day!