It's a Pinkfresh Challenge

I've been enamored with Pinkfresh Studios papers lately and I just got a new 6x6 paper pack from the My Favorite Story collection and a pack of ephemera from the Some Days collection. The first thing I do when I buy a pack of die cuts is spread them all out to look at. This pack has lemons and florals and beautiful colors. After admiring them, I had to start using them. That meant I spent an evening playing around with the design and layers.

In this card, I used Newton's Nook dies for slimline cards and added the die cuts to each circle. I added pearls and called it a day.

This next one features a lot of the flower die cuts, matte enamel dot centers and silver corner stickers. The sentiment is also Pinkfresh and the paper is from the 6x6 pad.

The last one also uses a sheet of the 6x6 pad and I glued the wreath flat and adhered the die cut flowers on top with foam tape. I added the letter stickers and strip of stripes and silver line stickers. 

 

I still have ideas to use these die cuts for, and luckily you get a ton in the pack. I love 6x6 paper for the smaller patterns and the less expensive price point. I've got a million of them. What do you buy even though you have enough?

Happy Friday!

Chark

Lemon Cream Pie Day

I'm pretty jazzed to find out today is Lemon Cream Pie Day...I super love the lemon pie at Bob Evans. There's whipped cream, lemon filling and a little lemon candy on top. It's just the best...and now I'm wondering if they have lemon pie in the fall...hmmmm.

Here's the history of National Lemon Cream Pie Day from NationalDay.com

"Food historians believe lemon desserts have been around since the Middle Ages! Whipped cream, on the other hand, is a relative newcomer: it didn’t show up until the 16th century. It first appeared in recipes in Italy in the mid 1500s and then traveled to France and showed up in recipes there just after 1600. Somewhere between then and now, someone had the brilliant idea to marry them together in a way that’s basically sunshine baked into a pie dish. 

Here's a lemon cream pie recipe if you're a baker. I like baking way more than cooking and this seems doable...but it's a little involved. I like this recipe better, and you don't really have to be a baker to attempt this one.

I'm a pretty big fan of lemon, but I know some people aren't...so I'm going to throw in a recipe link for a chocolate cream pie. Shhh! I'd probably pick chocolate over lemon :)

If you only want to craft to celebrate National Lemon Cream Pie Day, here ya go. This is $1.50 digi image from JW Illustrations, it's colored here as pumpkin pie, but I think you could make it lemon.

You can hop over to Tutorial Tuesday to see how Denise made this lemonade card...though it's not pie, it sure looks tasty!

This free lemon digi art comes from A Little Sugar and you can check out how they used it here. Let me know what your favorite cream pie is!

Happy Friday!

Chark