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Hi Pinkfresh friends! I have a beauty to share with you today. And wow, it uses a ton of new products so I hope it will give you a lot of inspiration.  Gosh, where do I start? First, I grabbed an A2 card panel which I run through my die cut machine with the Blanket Stitched Octagon Die . Then, I used one of the circles from the Braided Circles and randomly cut the panel in three places.  Grabbing another white A2 card panel, I ran that through my machine with the beautiful Charmed Stitch Floral Coverplate . Using the ever popular Coral Reef, I ink blended all over the embossed panel. To ink blend the large panel,  I used the brand new 1" blending brushes from Pinkfresh Studio. I am in love!! Those stunning flowers are die cut from white cardstock with the Garden Party Die , then ink blended using a variety of inks, namely Coral Reef, Peach Fuzz and Sage . To add some pizzazz, I also die cut Garden Party in the Champagne Glitter Cardstock so I could accent my florals and sentiment. Then it came to arrangement. I would say this is probably the most time consuming part really. I work in three's for balance. I mixed all the floral colours and petal designs together because I am rebellious like that :) I layered them up with thin foam squares and then added thicker foam square to attach them to the front panel. And BTW, that front panel is also popped up on dimensional tape so tons of dimension with this card! I hot foiled the Best Wishes from the new Here for You Sentiments Press Plate in champagne gold and then to finish, I added my favourite Champagne Glitter Drops . Do you feel inspired to use your new products? I sure hope so and, I am sure Pinkfresh Studio would love you to share your makes on social media. I know I would! As always, I have made a reel which you will find over on Instagram @pinkfreshstudio and @cherylespiecreates so keep and eye out for that too.  Until next time friends...

Hi Pinkfresh Studio friends!  Today, Pinkfresh Studio is celebrating the brand new "Here for You" release with a big blog hop! This release is packed full of stamps, dies, stencils and amazing press plates that are always popular! But there are also some new essentials that are so pretty and will make any craft space functional and beautiful. To celebrate with us, why not join in the hop for your chance to win? Giveaways: Pinkfresh Studio will be giving away the full release on the Pinkfresh blog & YouTube channel. Pinkfresh Studio will also be giving away a total of TEN $25 gift cards along the hop. As per usual with blog hops - the winners will be picked from the comments. Pinkfresh Studio will pull the winners & post them on September 18, 2024 on their GIVEAWAY PAGE . Remember to check that page & claim your prize within 2 weeks.   My Design- Playful Petals I am showcasing Playful Petals from the new release. I have made two cards, quite distinct from each other even though they use the same Playful Petals Suite. Make sure you also participate in the Instagram Hop tomorrow to see my other design! For today's, I masked off a border and lightly ink blended within the masked area using the brand new Pinkfresh Studio Large Blending Brush and Peach Fuzz dye ink. I blended a litte heavier at the bottom, going lighter further up. After removing the masking tape, I stamped the floral image directly over the peach blending with Pinkfresh Studio's Detail Black Ink. Using the new Here for You Press Plate , I hot foiled the Thank You in champagne. I popped this up on foam squares and then added some gold bling to the floral centres. I cut the edges with my deckle cutter which added a little extra something. I did not want it to be any more fussy than that. This is an easy card to emulate, so why not give it a go yourself? Well, I hope I have inspired you today friends, but I also hope I have got you in the mood to hop! For some further inspiration of this new release and, your chance to win click on each designers link below and leave some love. ....good luck!!

Hi Pinkfresh Studio friends! I am back today and sharing a 5 x 7 card instead of my regular A2 size but, using A2 sized Pinkfresh Studio products.  Sometimes, when using washi tapes I like to go over the A2 panel. I love to make it lush and layered. So, this was my solution, add the A2 panel on a 5 x 7 card base! Let's see how this card came together... First, I pulled out my very favourite Twist Pattern Die that was released recently. I cut this three times, 2 in white cardstock and the top layer in Glacier Cardstock . Using the same Glacier Cardstock  I cut out an A2 panel with the Blanket Stitched Rectangle Die . I layered up the Twist die cuts then added these to the A2 panel. Background done! Everyone knows I am a big Pinkfresh Studio Washi Tape fan- which, at the time of writing this blog post today, shows some washi's are on sale!! So, no surprise that I used the brand new and very glorious, Deck The Halls Washi Tape for my main card focus.  I cut two panels in thick white cardstock and adhered the washi tape. I die cut two panels so I would have plenty to play with. Then, proceeded to arrange the die cut pieces. If I am honest, this is really what takes the time with washi tape-taking the time to think about placement can really help for a great finished design. Some of the pieces are attached with thin foam squares, and others with the thicker foam squares. For the sentiment Pinkfresh Studio have just released this fabulous fonted (say that fast!), Holiday Greeting Sentiment Stamp Set . Arghhh, the font is amazing and reminds me of vintage Christmas in the Dickens era in London. I was tuck between two sentiments but ended up opting for this one. I used Calico White stamped on black cardstock then heat embossed with white embossing powder. Really makes the sentiment pop! I die cut a circle and popped the sentiment on top. I felt the sentiment just needed something behind it so it was not lost in the Twist Patter background.  To finish I used a few Ruby Glitter Drops to draw the colours together. This card is a glittering festive design and I love how it tuned out. I hope I have inspired you today friends...keep and eye out for my reel over on Instagram @pinkfreshstudio and @cherylespiecreates to see it coming together on video.  Bye for now

Hi crafty friends As a monthly guest designer for Gina K Designs I am fortunate enough to be sent a stamp and die set each monthto play with. I never know which set from the new release that it will be but, its always fun to see what I get! This month I received the Welcome Autumn Stamp & Die Set. There's some great images including the beautiful tree, the truck and those amazing pumpkins. For the truck card, I coloured all the images with Copics and added the leaves and a pumpkin to the back truck bed. To break up the background, I brought in the spruce green from the pumkin stalks and ink blended one of the Decorative Double Stencils. For the pumkin card, I coloured those magnificent pumkins with a combination of Copic markers. I added the die cut images to a glossy piece of cardstock that I had splattered with gold ink. For some extra interest I added some leaves, and usied a white gel pen for highlights. And for my tree card, I used my ink cubes to stamp the tree images in two tone colors as trees change in the autumn. I stamped two images at the back and for my third tree, I die cut it then, I matted it on champagne gold cardstock slighlty offset. One thing I want to draw your attention to, take a look at my pumkins on all the cards. You wil see i have coloured them in two different ways. This was to show that you have options, and both ways colouring effects look great so choose what works for you! Until next time friends...

Hi crafty friends! I have got some fun festive shaker cards to share today! In the brand new Magical Holiday release from Pinkfresh Studio was the most amazing Holiday Street Press Plate . There's also a stamp and coordinating stencils . I decided to use the Holiday Street Press Plate for one of my shakers and the new Radiating Snowflakes Press Plate for the other. I chose some shiny cardstock from my stash that had cool tones - I went with blue and mint green.  First, I hot foiled in silver the Holiday Street Press Plate on the mint panel and then hot foiled the Radiating Snowflake on the blue panel. I wanted to give the illusion that it was snowing over each background so I splattered white paint over them both. I pulled out some shaker pockets that I had in my stash for aaaaaaages and had never used! I sealed these on three edges of each hot foiled card panels, leaving open one side to add some bling.  Pinkfresh Studio has some of the best bling in the business and to add some of the bling into these pockets felt very indulgent but look fantastic in real life!! The pockets allowed for lots of movement of the bling which really helped. I sealed the tops of both panels then added the whole shaker panels to an A2 card base. Time for sentiments! The brand new Holiday Greetings Sentiment suite is perfection. The fonts are so nice and so festive. I decided to hot foil the press plates in sliver to coordinate with the panels.  ' From Our House to Yours ' was an obvious choice for the Holiday Street shaker and the ' Greetings This Holiday Season ' has such a lovely design I just had to use it with the Radiating Snowflake shaker.  Both shakers still felt a little plain, so I decided to white heat emboss the Amazing Things stamp set which has beautiful leaves on it. I cut the leaves up so I had some clusters to add behind the sentiments. I think this last step just added the perfect finish for these seasonal interactive shaker cards. These shakers were not complicated, so why not give it a go at making one yourself? See you next time!....

Hi Pinkfresh Studio friends!   Today, Pinkfresh Studio is celebrating the Magical Holiday release with a big blog hop! This release is packed full of seasonal stamps, dies, stencils, press plates aaaaaaand the beautiful Deck The Halls Washi Tape! The design team and guests have a ton of inspiration for you! To celebrate with us, why not join in the hop for your chance to win? Giveaways: Pinkfresh Studio will be giving away the full release on the Pinkfresh blog & YouTube channel. Pinkfresh Studio will also be giving away a total of TEN $25 gift cards along the hop. As per usual with blog hops - the winners will be picked from the comments. Pinkfresh Studio will pull the winners & post them on August 15th, 2024 on their GIVEAWAY PAGE . Remember to check that page & claim your prize within 2 weeks.   My Design- Deck The Halls Washi Tape Just look at this beautiful Deck The Halls Washi Tape ! It was designed by Dawn Woleslagle aka Wplus9 and who is also on our design team. Pinkfresh Studio sure know how to produce the best washi out there (in my hmble opinion). I have madea ton of cards in the past using wash ta[es by PFS. the quality is outstanding and can bring a card together in a jiffy. Its also incredicble value for money! For my design I created a double panel, one white and one in shiny green cardstock that matched well with the greens in the washi. On the green cardstock, I hot foiled the Diagonal Plaid Press Plate in gold. After die cutting out two lots of the Deck The Halls Washi Tape , I arranged them in the tope left corner of the hot foiled green panel. Giving the feeling of greenery and hanging baubles. Another must have from this release is the brand new Holiday Greetings Sentiments Press Plates . The fonts are magnificent and so seasonal, I love them! I hot foiled one of the sentiments from the set and added this to the green panel. The panels, the washi and the sentiment are all attached using foam squares. I love dimension! To finish, the Ruby Glitter Drops were a perfect accent for this festive card design. Well, I hope I have inspired you today friends, but I also hope I have got you in the mood to hop! For some further inspiration of this Magical Holiday release and, your chance to win click on each designers link below and leave some love. ....good luck!!

Hi crafty friends I hadn't gotten the chance to play with this set before I went on vacation, so I was excited to pull it out and see what I come up with. I sometimes find modern geometric patterns a challenge in my card making and, I do not gravitate towards them.  We all have our own styles, right? I decided to go BOLD to really show up the geometric pattern. I also thought this kind of pattern would also work well for a male card.  The colours I chose were Limoncello, Mimosa, Begonia, Sage and Warm Buff. Using one colour at a time, I ink blended using the stencils on white cardstock. When I have stencils like this, I find it easier to use a large piece of cardstock in my MISTI and push it to the right bottom corner. Then, I push each stencil into the same corner. It helps line up everything perfectly.  Once all the ink blending was complete, I die cut a panel with the largest of the Blanket Stitched Rectangles . What a perfect die for this! I chose four of the inks to ink blend rough patches on some white cardstock, then die cut the letters using the Jeff Alpha , which has the perfect modern font and, has lines embossed into the letters when die cut. This coordinated with the edges of the stencilled panel. I then popped these up on the white shadow cuts with foam dots. Before adding the word BEST, I did a quick splatter on the bottom right for added interest. The sentiment 'Celebrating You' is from the Beyond Happy Stamp Set . But,  do you see the other stamped words at the top? Well, I took that from the Arch Florals Stamp Set. It should say 'You are the best', but I cut off the BEST so it fit for my design.  That's me thinking out of the box! hahaha! To finish, I added some Silver Metallic Pearls but only three as I thought this card was busy enough.  So there you go, a Modern Geometric Card for a male recipient, yay! As my usual, I have filled my process, so make sure you check out my reel over on Instagram @pinkfreshstudio and @cherylespiecreates Until next time crafty friends...

Hi Pinkfresh friends! I am back on the card blog today sharing a card I created using the beautiful and timeless Heart of Gold Stamp set. This set was illustrated by the wonderful and talented Isha Gupta who is also a Pinkfresh Studio design team member! There is something elegant about this stamp set. I think it's because it's not too busy and the branch is so delicate but the lemons just pop. That little birdie is delightful! I stamped and heat embossed the image and the sentiment in silver. I knew this would look nice with Lemon Whip, Ocean Breeze and Sage that I had already decided to use for my ink colours. Using the Heart of Gold Co-ordinating Stencils, I ink blended very lightly and then a bit heavier in the areas I thought would be shadowed. For the lemons, I did add a bit of Sweet Mustard to the Lemon Whip to achieve this. For my background, I wanted some texture but I didn't want it to take over the front  image. Therefore, I dry embossed the Pretty Blossoms Hot Foil Plate. If you haven't tried this before you should. It's a great technique and it's always good to stretch your supplies. I'm not sure if Press Plates dry emboss well, but I will give it a try soon. After dry embossing, I ink blended the Ocean Breeze over the panel, then added some silver splatters. While that dried, I die cut then layered up the image and the sentiment with grey cardstock from my stash. This added a bit of dimension but was a bit more subtle than using black cardstock. To finish, I used a combination of Matte Silver Metallic Pearls and Turquoise Clear Drops around and on the images. So there you have it, a pretty and delicate Sunshine & Smiles card that will hopefully cheer up somebody's day! I filmed my process so keep an eye out for the reel over on Instagram @pinkfreshstudio and @cherylespiecreates Until next time, take care!

Hi crafty friends, For today's post I thought I would design a shaker card. I haven't created one for a while. I was looking at the brand new Border Stencils from the Happiness Release and really wanted to use them for a multi coloured background. As I was using a product from the new release, I thought I would also choose some florals from it. Therefore, I chose the Be Fearless Press Plate so I could hot foil it. To begin, I chose three colours to ink blend with the Border Stencils. I knew I would also want these three colours for my florals. The colours I went with are some good OG's, Ballet Slipper, Peach Fuzz and Mint. With the stencils I ink blended the Ballet Slipper first, then flipped the stencil over so the lines were in the opposite direction, the ink blended in Mint. I repeated this process for the Peach Fuzz and finished with another Ballet Slipper. Using the Terrarium Die that was released last May, and the recently released Notched Corner Frames, I die cut a front panel. This gave me a window in which I added some clear acetate. To attach it I used double sided sticky tape as it's so strong and I seem to get on better with that than glue. After layering up some for tape, and dusting with embossing powder, I added some Iridescent Clear Drops from my stash. When I was satisfied with the amount added, I adhered my striped die cut panel to the back. My shaker was born!! After attaching the shaker onto an A2 card base, it was time to add florals and the base of the terrarium (which I die cut from silver cardstock). The Be Fearless Stamp Suite has coordinating stencils and dies. So, using the same coloured inks I ink blended the flowers with the stencils. After die cutting them, I then I arrange them to the left and popped them up with foam dots. When choosing a sentiment I really wanted it to be bold. I pulled out the Foiled Sentiments and added the 'Oh Happy Day', how cute is that?! Added some dots and extra bling and voila!! Either a wedding shaker, an engagement shaker, or a birthday shaker-you choose! Keep and eye out friends for the reel that demonstrates how this card came together, over on Instagram @pinkfreshstudio and @cherylespiecreates Until next time....

Hi Pinkfresh Studio friends! Today, Pinkfresh Studio is celebrating the Happiness release with a big blog hop! This release is packed full of stamps, dies, stencils and the versatile press plates that you can either hot foil or, use as a press plate. The design team and guests have a ton of inspiration for you! To celebrate with us, why not join in the hop for your chance to win? Giveaways: Pinkfresh Studio will be giving away the full release on the Pinkfresh blog & YouTube channel. Pinkfresh Studio will also be giving away a total of TEN $25 gift cards along the hop. As per usual with blog hops - the winners will be picked from the comments. Pinkfresh Studio will pull the winners & post them on June 11, 2024 on their GIVEAWAY PAGE. Remember to check that page & claim your prize within 2 weeks. Beautiful Branch Press Plate & Twist Pattern Press Plate Arghhhhh, I absolutely love my card! hahaha. I do though! I had some shiny gradient cardstock and used the fabulous new Twist Pattern Press Plate and silver hot foil. The results were magical! That Twist Pattern Press Plate adds so much, definatly now on my favourites list of Pinkfresh Studio products! I hot foiled the Beautiful Branch and used the coordinating stencils to lightly colour it. To add some dimension, I added some Pinkfresh Studio Silver Glitter Cardstock on the back of the branches just slightly showing. I really love doing this actually, especially on sentiments. In case you were wondering about those butterflies, they are the Fluttering Butterflies Stamp Set heat embossed in white on vellum. Well, I hope I have inspired you today friends, but I also hope I have got you in the mood to hop! For your chance to win, make sure you leave a comment on each designers post in the hop ....good luck!!

Hi crafty friends The lovely Bindu at Crafty Meraki invited me to be a guest designer for their new release in May celebrating 4 years in business aka Merakiversary! How wonderful to have craft companies being able to celebrate milestones of success and share with us their designs to enhance our creativity! I was gifted a few different products from this release. My first card design showcases the brand new Crafty Meraki Artisan Flora Lily Para-Die and the back ground is the Crafty Meraki Fern Lattice Background A2 Let's talk cupcakes!! Everyone knows I love my florals but, I always have time for sugar! hahaha. This card showcases the Crafty Meraki Sweet Celebrations Para-Die and the Crafty Meraki Fern Lattice Hot Foil Plate. I actually used some white hot foil on a shiny lilac cardstock to achieve this look! Make sure you swing by Crafty Merki's store to find some more inspiration and to wish them a happy 4th Merakiversary! You can always come and visit me on Instagram @cherylespiecreates as I regularly post card designs which I am totally happy that you copy :) Take care and see you again soon...

Hi friends Let's talk Pinkfresh Studio Washi Tapes! I first started using Pinkfresh Studio Washi Tapes a few years ago and I was blown away by them. They are superb quality, amazing value for money and so versatile. Pinkfresh Studio has always appealed to me because of the beautiful designs, how pretty their products make my cards. I was always hesitant with washi tapes because I just could not see how I would use them for the style of card I tend to gravitate towards. For my card today, I decided on using the Celebrate Washi Tape. This truly is a versatile washi suitable for weddings, engagements, birthdays and graduations. I decided on using the pink hues for my card but there are also yellow and blue balloons should you wish to use those instead. For the background I pulled out the Stippled Plaid Press Plate that was released in February this year. I heat embossed it in gold because the washi tape has gold in it. Then, I pulled out the Cherry Blossom Dye Ink and added just a bit of ink blending around the edges. I thought this would tie in the pink hues from the balloons and the cake images. Just to break up the background and 'ground' the images, I added a white Blanket Stitched die cut oval in the centre of the base. Using a combination of glue and foam dots, I then added the die cut images to the right of the oval cardstock. In the coordinating Celebrate Stamp Set there are a couple of perfect sentiments. Therefore, I stamped one of them-Birthday Wishes in black ink and die cut it a couple of times in white cardstock. Then, one more time in gold cardstock. This adds a nice shadow touch to a finished sentiment. I placed the sentiment on an angle tucked in with the balloons. Then, to finish I die cut the bow in gold from the ever useful Wrap Around Elements that was released in April 2023. Added some Ice Clear Drops and voila! As my usual, keep and eye out for the reel over on Instagram at @pinkfreshstudio and @cherylespiecreates Until next time friends....