Tag: Pinkfresh Studios

  • Merry Everything

    Merry Everything

    Ink smooshing is a very popular technique that creates backgrounds with random blotches of ink. A couple of tips: You can smoosh your ink pads onto your craft mat. That’s where the name of the technique comes from.

  • Interactive Father’s Day Card

    Interactive Father’s Day Card

    Once the glue has set, turn the piece right side up. You should be able to tug at the sliding tab and get the center of the sliding mechanism to fold up. If the mechanism works smoothly, you can remove the release paper from the foam tape and place the mechanism on the card base.

  • Emboss Resist

    Emboss Resist

    To watercolor with the spray stains, I made sure I shook the bottles until there was no mica sludge left at the bottom. Then I unscrewed the spray mechanism and touched the stem where I wanted the color. I used brushes to push the paint where I wanted it. The first layer was very blotchy,…

  • Mini Slimline Cards

    Mini Slimline Cards

    If you’re not sure how to place flowers, there are two principles that can guide you. The first one is to place flowers around the focal point of the card. The second one is to place decorations in a diagonal. If you combine the two principles, you cluster decorations around the sentiment and let them…

  • Pink Mother’s Day Card

    Pink Mother’s Day Card

    This is where things went wrong. Out of sheer habit, I doubled up the die cuts. That meant that I couldn’t create an eclipse card. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Find out how I recovered from my mistake.

  • Single-Layer Spring Card

    Single-Layer Spring Card

    At this point I really wanted to add dimension to the card. But it was supposed to be a single layer card. So instead of adding dimension, I added texture.

  • Chrysanthemum Sympathy Cards

    Chrysanthemum Sympathy Cards

    The main focus of these cards are flowers from Pinkfresh Studio’s Chrysanthemum collection. I applied the washi tape to tan cardstock to tone down the vibrant colors.

  • Cardmaking Weekend

    Cardmaking Weekend

    Cards from this weekend’s card classes will arrive in my Etsy store before the weekend.

  • Character Test

    Character Test

    But for now I’m going to focus 100% on Valley Oak Paper. I even updated my LinkedIn Profile to reflect that.

  • Boxes, Boxes, Boxes

    Boxes, Boxes, Boxes

    Weekend updates about boxes, older cards and a new box