Pinkfresh December release Gentle Greetings & Greenery | Giveaway and Video!

Hi and welcome to the last Pinkfresh Studio release of 2024!
Wow, this year has absolutely FLOWN by, I can’t believe it is almost over already. So much happened this year, so many life lessons have been learnt, they have both been suffered through as well as empowered me. It’s been a year of self discovery, growth and so many ups and down. Life, eh? I can’t wait to see what 2025 has in store. Thank you for coming to my TED talk, by the way!

Ok, now to what we are really here for: Pinkfresh Studio’s December release, which is called Gentle Greetings & Greenery! I am one of the stops of a celebratory blog hop, you can find the whole lineup via the inLinkz link here and if you came here from the talented Enza Gudor you are in the right spot! The next stop on the hop is the amazing Heather Hoffman. If you come across any broken links, the whole line up can also be found on the Pinkfresh Studio blog post.

It wouldn't be a celebration without a generous giveaway, and this is no different! You can win THE ENTIRE RELEASE, yes, you read that right! You can actually win the whole shebang by commenting on the Pinkfresh release blog post, and you can double that chance by commenting on the Pinkfresh release YouTube video. If you hop along with us here on the blogs, and leave comments, there are TEN $25 gift cards to the Pinkfresh Studio shop that will be given to ten randomly drawn lucky people.

The winners will be announced on the Pinkfresh GIVEAWAY page on Dec 18th 2024, make sure to keep an eye on that page and claim your prize within two weeks!

I only have one card to share with you today BUT I also have a YouTube video for it, so I hope that makes up for it. You can find the video HERE, or click on the thumbnail down below. If you haven’t already done so, make sure to subscribe to my channel!

I have used the Fresh Herbs product suite, and it comes with a stamp set, coordinating layering stencils and coordinating diecuts.

I wanted my herbs to look quite natural so I have stamped the outline stamp up with Sage ink for one of them and Eucalyptus on a second panel. I wanted to make a really nice and big herb bucket. I have used the same two inks for the layering stencils, plus a touch of Limoncello and Lush Forest.

After I finished ink blending all of my herbs, I used the coordinating diecuts to cut them all out and put them aside for now.

For the bucket I have used Misty Coast, Rocky Slope and Metropolis to create a vintage look. In the video I and also sharing a few tips and tricks on how to get that optical illusion of the bucket being more 3D than 2D. Having the 1/2” Blending Brushes help with these smaller details!

I added Doe ink to the handles, and I tried to get that wood grain look to it by dragging my blending brush rather than going in circles but it wasn’t working. What I should have done was go for a darker colour, like Espresso, rather than do what I did… I grabbed a couple of Copic markers, and attempted (note the word ATTEMPTED) to create that wood grain look but meh…I think it botched the whole look.

For the little sign diecut I used the Copics again and it worked much better this way, and it was probably because I tried adding the Copics to the handles while the stencil was still in place. That just did not work!
I stamped up ‘sending love’ from the Fresh Herbs stamp set with Metropolis ink and then it was done.

I have also used the Interlaced Diamonds diecut for my background. It’s meant to look like vintage wrought iron trellis, to go with my vintage bucket. To get the look I first ink blended a bit of Rocky Slope on a piece of card stock and then I dragged the Metropolis ink pad onto it directly. When this was done I ran it through my diecutting machine and poked out the negative bits. The Interlaced Diamond panel was then glued down directly onto a card base, and then I arranged my herb bucket on top.

I really like how this came out and I had such a great time putting it together! If only gardening and growing herbs was this fast in real life, I would have fresh basil pesto every day, lol!

That’s it from me for today, I really hope you enjoyed this post and get a chance to watch the video too. Don’t forget to hop along with the rest of the hop and to leave those comments on the Pinkfresh Studio posts, that’s where the big grand prize winners will be drawn from! Good luck and happy hopping!

Lots of love and light, creativity and sparkle from Erica