Pinkfresh Studio Gentle Greetings & Greenery Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the Pinkfresh Studio Gentle Greetings & Greenery Blog Hop! This release is such a good mix of different items. Before we get into the card let’s talk about the giveaway!

Pinkfresh Studio is generously giving away the full release on the Pinkfresh Studio Blog & YouTube channel. They also will 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. They will pull the winners & post them on December 18, 2024 on their GIVEAWAY PAGE. You must check that page & claim your prize within 2 weeks. Good Luck!

I used the Cheerful Blossoms to create two different cards. I love that this style of set let’s you easily stamp, stencil, and cut multiples quickly. I stamped my flowers in Calico White Pigment ink and then sprinkled on some white embossing powder. I heated my embossing powder until smooth and then moved on to stenciling.

I chose five colors that all worked nicely together (Bubble Gum, Candy Violet, Turquoise, Aquamarine, and Sunshine) and I stared stenciling using a sticky mat to hold everything in place. I wanted to create a painterly look so I was fairly light handed. However, if you have no plans to use the markers (as I did later) then you can most certainly put down bolder color.

I knew I wanted to add those same colors to the background. For the first one I used ink smooshing on watercolor paper with my inks. I would smoosh it onto my glass mat, spray with water, pick up some color with an acetate sheet and deposit it onto the background. With the second background I used the leftover inks on my brush from stenciling the flowers and created a diagonal rainbow from one corner to the other. This one I lightly sprayed with water (because it’s not watercolor paper) and did a few spatters of clean water before blotting it up with a paper towel.

I did them same (lightly spray and then splatter) on to my flowers as well. If you would like a more painterly look you can use a small amount of water and add it randomly into the flowers to create more of the watercolor effect. I did not watercolor paper for this so it did you the water sparingly and made sure to blot it up with my paper towel. Last but not least I splattered on some Perfect Pearls for some shine to all the elements. Once they were dry I die cut the flowers out.

If you love the really soft look you can skip this part entirely. However, I do like a more vivid pop of color (especially in this dreary Ohio weather!) so I went back into the flowers with sometimes just one, two at the most, alcohol markers and added some more shading. You want to make sure to leave some of the stenciling color showing. It helps create the hand painted look. I paired these cheerful blossoms with the Notched Corner frame, I love how you can add the detail or not!

I cut my sentiments from the Basics Sentiment set and white heat embossed the sub-sentiments in white on white. I then ink blended the main words and the sub sentiments to match. I used two different colors over top to again create a more interesting look mimicking that of the “painted” flowers. You can check out the entire process and hear a little story time in the video below.

Thank you so much for stopping by and please continue on the hop by following the links below!

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Gentle Greetings & Greenery Full Release Bundle Shop at: PKFS	Cheerful Blossoms Stamp Shop at: PKFS	Cheerful Blossoms Die Shop at: PKFS
Cheerful Blossoms Stencils Shop at: PKFS	Cheerful Blossoms Press Plate Shop at: PKFS	Basic Sentiments Stamp Shop at: PKFS
Basic Sentiments Die Shop at: PKFS	Basic Sentiments Press Plate Shop at: PKFS	Sunshine Dye Ink Shop at: PKFS
Aquamarine Dye Ink Shop at: PKFS	Candy Violet Dye Ink Shop at: PKFS	Bubble Gum Dye Ink Shop at: PKFS
Turquoise Dye Ink Shop at: PKFS	Reverse Craft Tweezers Shop at: BA	Ocean Breeze Jewels Shop at: PKFS
Fairy Dust Ink Cube Pack Shop at: PKFS	Rise & Shine Ink Cube Pack Shop at: PKFS	Island Oasis Ink Cube Pack Shop at: PKFS

1/2″ Blending Brush set Shop at: PKFS	Calico White Pigment Ink Shop at: PKFS	Amalfi Coast Ink Cube Pack Shop at: PKFS
1” blending brushes Shop at: PKFS	Triangle Brass Tray Shop at: PKFS	Essentials Notched Corner Frame Dies Shop at: PKFS
Soul of Provence Ink Cube Pack Shop at: PKFS	Spellbinders PLATINUM 6 Shop at: SSS | SB | SB	LIGHT MIST SPRAY BOTTLE Shop at: TS

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12″ Paper Trimmer & Scorer Shop at: SB	Fiskars Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	3M Scotch FOAM TAPE Shop at: SSS
Copic Marker RV04 SHOCK PINK Shop at: SSS | BA	Copic Marker BG11 MOON WHITE Shop at: SSS | BA	Copic Marker BG45 NILE BLUE Shop at: SSS | BA
Copic Marker YG03 YELLOW GREEN Shop at: SSS | BA	Copic Marker YG17 GRASS GREEN Shop at: SSS | BA	Copic Marker V04 LILAC Shop at: SSS | BA
Copic Marker V06 LAVENDER Shop at: SSS | BA	White Detail Embossing Powder Shop at: HA	Copic Sketch Marker YR02 LIGHT ORANGE Shop at: SSS | BA
Copic Sketch Marker Y08 ACID YELLOW Shop at: SSS | BA	Clear Glitter Wink Of Stella Brush Pen Shop at: SSS | SB | HBS	Cottontail Embossing Powder Tool Shop at: SSS | TRHD | HBS
Copic Sketch Marker Y02 CANARY YELLOW Shop at: SSS | BA	UNIVERSAL PLATE SYSTEM Shop at: SB	Spellbinders 9″ Pro Shears Shop at: SB
Stampwheel Ultra Sticky Mat Shop at: SB | ALT	MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Shop at: SSS | SB | MSP | HBS	MINI MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Shop at: SSS | SB | MSP