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Hi Friends! Today I'm sharing a Holiday card I created with some non-holiday stamps. I wanted to make a snowflake card but I was missing a large, beautiful flake in my stamp collection.  So, I decided to make my own! Using some simple pencil sketch guides, and the handy  Misti stamp tool , it was pretty quick and easy to pull this together! I used the beautiful Pinkfresh Studio Pretty Paisley stamp set. I loved the insert paisley motif, and thought it would work perfectly for building my snowflake. If you have any stamp designs on hand that are linear in nature, they would work perfectly for this! Intricate borders, dotted borders, fancy motifs...The possibilities are endless! STEP 1 - TEMPLATE I first decided to cut a square piece of cardstock, measuring across two paisley motifs back-to-back to determine the length and width of the square. I then used a light pencil line to draw two lines, creating quadrants on my square, to act as a guide. STEP 2 - STAMP + EMBOSS I stamped...

Hi Friends! Welcome to the Pinkfresh Christmas blog hop. I'm delighted to be joining along, and we are hopping for not one, but TWO full days! We're so excited to be sharing a heap of inspiration with you.  And as always,  many fabulous prizes are up for grabs!  Before you hop along, a few important bits of info first.  If you are just joining us, head over to the Pinkfresh Blog to start your hop! If you are hopping along, you should have arrived here from lovely Heather Hoffman's Blog . I've linked your next stop at the end of the post, as well as the full hopping list for today :) PRODUCTS Here are just some of my favorite Pinkfresh Holiday designs that you will see featured on this hop and that I have been loving personally. Or you can see all of them here . I've also included a few handy text links below with all the remaining products used on my cards today. GIVEAWAY The Pinkfresh Studio Blog will be giving away two holiday stamp bundles and all you need to do...

If given a choice, I would add a bow to every card! And when I have the chance to make a card full of bows, I'm all over that. Today, I did just that with an early festive card :) This little number was super easy to pull together if you have a stamp and die bow but you could easily use sticker bows, felt bows, ribbon bows, or really any other type of bow you can get your hands on! Of course, depending on the material, your card may be more dimensional, but it would be just as fun and whimsical! To start my card, I used a pretty pattern paper from Pinkfresh Studio's Let your Heart Decide collection  for the base. Such a beautiful little pad of paper!  For the bows, I used Pinkfresh Studio's Great Joy stamp and die set and PTI ink colors in hues of Melon Berry, Green Parakeet, Blueberry Sky, Hibiscus Burst, Orange Zest, and Hawaiian Shores. I used the lovely Queen and Company Circle Shaped Shaker set to create the sweet shaker, and filled it with candy colored sequins, rh...

Hello Friends!! What a special day - there is so much to share with you all.  Firstly, I want to welcome you all to Pinkfresh Studio's blog hop ! It is such a privilege to be hopping on board with the talented Pinkfresh team this month as we unveil the gorgeous, new July release! I know you will love all the projects the talented team has created. Here's a wee peek of what I've been working on. But before we get to that, first things first! I want to share how you can get the most out of this fab hop. Aside from gorgeous inspiration, each blog on the hop will be giving away $25! All you need to do is leave a comment below, and then hop along to all the names on the list, and leave comments there as well for even more chances to win. Also, be sure to leave a little note on the Pinkfresh Blog, too, for a chance to win the entire July release! The winners will be posted on Sunday, July 15th on the GIVEAWAY PAGE  Please check this page within two weeks to claim your prize! Last...

Hi Friends! Today I have a fun and colorful card featuring my favorite new favorite Pinkfresh stamps - Fleur 1 . I featured them on Monday Favorites just last week, and it's been such a blast playing with this super gorgeous set. I hope I'm not boring you all - but when there are sooo many possibilities with such a prettily designed set, it's hard to put it away! For this card, I really wanted to play up the delicate nature of the sweet floral designs in the set. I've loved stamping them and coloring them, but something about white on vellum seems just so perfect to me with this beautiful style of flowers. They are so dainty and detailed, and I really think they look like the sweetest, finest lace.  I also wanted to make the background colorful and modern, so as to gjve the white details a bit more pop - kind of loving the contrast of bold and colorful against soft and sweet. I blended a few PTI ink colors with some Distress ink colors to achieve the rainbow effect on ...

I'm back with yet another floral card inspired by Pinkfresh Studio.  On Monday, I shared my Monday Favorites, and this set is definitely at the very tippy top of the list, so I thought I'd pop in and show another take on these pretty florals.  For today's card I was inspired by some beautiful floral fabrics I've been spotting lately.  I wanted to infuse a floral look that was fresh, modern and fun, without being too stuffy, so that I could do a little bit of beadwork for the focal piece.  I'm so in love with how this turned out - and it reminds me so much of a really pretty floral dress I love and wear all the time. It's so fun being inspired by everyday items and working that style into papercrafting :) To start the card, I stamped a flower on each corner of the card, followed by the branch design on each side, to make the pretty leaves touch in the middle. I believe this whole design took 10 impressions to make! So quick and simple.  After stamping the flower...

Morning! Today I have a very glittery, shimmery card to share.  I've been dipping into a few different mediums lately, and glitter has been at the top of my list! I was on the lookout for an ultra versatile sparkle that could work with a lot of different colors, and after heaps of searching, I found one I absolutely love. Today's card features sparkly bits with this new fave as well as favorite stamps from  Wplus9  and  Pinkfresh . To start this card, I used Wplus9's Southern Summer Florals 1 . I've seen piles and piles of gorgeous cards created with this lovely set - check out a few here . But I wanted to try something a little different, so I stamped a floral cluster onto my cardstock base, with PTI's water-based inks, using colors of Pinefeather, Hawaiian Shores, Tropical Teal, Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Lovely Lady, Blueberry Sky and Enchanted Evening.  And stamping all the bits, I used a water brush to gently go over all the designs, to give them a mut...