PinkFresh Foiling Feature by Lea Lawson
Happy Saturday, friends! Please join me in welcoming special guest Lea Lawson representing PinkFresh Studio on our blog today! They have been coming out with some really FABULOUS foiling products lately, and Lea is sharing a few of them in this post! Read on and enjoy!
Hi friends! This is Lea Lawson with Pinkfresh Studio, and I’ve got a fun card set full of foiling to share with you today! I’m not one to make cards for St. Patrick’s Day, but I love all the green we see in March. That is what inspired these cards…plus the fact that I recently purchased the Viridian Green Glimmer foil roll, and I REALLY wanted to use it. Lol!
We LOVE foiling at Pinkfresh Studio, and I featured a lot of this technique on my cards today! I started these cards by foiling the Bougainvillea hot foil plate with my Spellbinders Glimmer hot foil system in that Viridian Green foil I mentioned above. Next I foiled my Celebrate sentiment and Let’s Connect sentiment (from our Fancy Script Words hot foil set) in the same color. Finally, I used our innovative Solid Hot Foil Plate to foil the leftover “negative” foil design that the Bougainvillea design produced. We absolutely love that this one product produces far less foiling waste, and give you 2 for 1 designs with pretty much anything you foil!
With the foiling complete, I proceeded to ink blend the standard Bougainvillea hot foiled panel with the coordinating layering stencils in the following Pinkfresh Studio premium dye ink colors: Aquamarine, Mermaid Cove, Meadow and Emerald City. I cut down both the standard and solid foiled panels with our largest Essentials: Stitched Rectangle, then cut each one in half at an angle.
I cut two decorative edges from white cardstock using our Slim Lacy Edgers, and Lacy Edgers 1 die sets. I also cut out our Essentials: Fancy Oval Frame and Essentials: Stitched Scallop Rectangles from champagne colored glitter paper. Finally, I diecut the Celebrate sentiment and Let’s connect sentiment with their coordinating dies.
With all of the elements foiled and diecut I proceeded to put together my cards as shown, popping up many of them with foam adhesive for added dimension. I decided that each card needed a secondary sentiment, so I stamped and heat embossed them in white to aqua cardstock from our Simply Sentiments: Hello and Happy Birthday Sentiments stamp sets. I trimmed those down with a stitched banner die, and mounted them to each card front with some foam tape. To complete the cards, I accented them with our Jewels Mix in the following colors: Emerald City, Ocean Breeze and Glacier.
I hope you enjoyed my card set that features both standard and solid hot foiling! The solid hot foil pieces do feel a bit bold, very shiny and maybe a tad overwhelming to use at first. But by breaking them up like this in more of a color block design, it makes the solid design feel less scary. I hope you’ll try it out!
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Crafty with Caly: Coloring with Karin DecoBrush Pigment Markers
Hi friends! Happy Friday and welcome to the latest edition of Crafty with Caly with special guest Caly Person! She has some great tips and tricks to get beautiful results with Karin DecoBrush Pigment Markers! Read on and enjoy!
Hello! I’m so excited to share today’s card with you. It uses images from two stamp sets from Hero Arts and was voted a favorite of all the My Monthly Hero Kits from 2021. Originally an exclusive 6” x 8” set as a part of the January 2021 kit, its contents are now brought back for purchase as individual sets. I love the chubby bees from the new Sweet as Honey and Beelieve sets!
I have never colored stamped images with Karin DecoBrush Pigment Markers before and decided I would try them out on today’s card. They are opaque paint markers and are versatile on a variety of surfaces. For my card today, I stamped the images over Tim Holtz Distress White Heavystock paper using a hybrid black ink. I didn’t stamp the best impression because I knew I would restamp later for a more crisp impression – so make sure you keep your stamps in your stamp positioning tool if you want to try this technique.
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The coloring is not perfect. While the colors do somewhat blend, it is not perfect and that’s what makes these Pigment markers unique – you have to embrace the organic brush strokes from the pigment. Once I got over the fact that it wasn’t going to blend flawlessly like Copics or watercolors do, I relaxed with the coloring of my images. Once the pigment dries, you can layer colors and that’s what I did with the yellow stamen flecks.
Karin DecoBrush Pigment Markers used: White, Grass, Poppy, Pastel Red, Pastel Blue, Pastel Yellow, Gold, Cinnamon
After I was done painting/coloring, I placed my panel back into my MISTI and re-stamped the image using a black pigment ink to get a crisp impression and to hide the muted stamped lines from the pigment markers. I also embossed it with clear embossing powder to give it more texture.
For the background, I ink-blended some yellow ink and die-cut the Honeycomb die into a card panel to create a textured background for my flower stem. I attached my images with foam adhesive for dimension and finished with an embossed sentiment from the Sweet as Honey set.
I hope you liked this card! The Karin DecoBrush Pigment Markers are so unique and is a medium I need to remember to use more! Thanks so much for visiting today! ~Caly
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The National Craft Month Celebration CONTINUES with a sitewide SALE!
Happy Friday, friends! The celebration of National Craft Month continues with a special (and very rare!) sitewide sale going on this weekend ONLY! With code CRAFTMORE at checkout, enjoy 15% off your purchase! Shop early for the best selection, and enjoy!
