It’s a fresh month, a fresh week, and a fresh new release from Pinkfresh Studio! If you’re the type who likes to get an early start on holiday cardmaking, then you’re in the right place because this release is full of holiday goodies.
As I’m sure you’ll agree, time is of the essence when creating holiday cards and if you can make more than one at the same time, that’s a big bonus! In the two cards I’ve got to share today, I’ve done exactly that. One of the new products in the Pinkfresh release is a Nested Chevron hot foil plate, and if you’ve been around here in the past, you’ll know I already put my Nested Chevron pop-out stamp and coordinating die to use a LOT! The new hot foil plate is perfect for adding a shiny holiday feel, and I didn’t let a single piece of that gorgeous foiled goodness go to waste in this crafting session.
To get started, I hot foiled the nested chevron image on a plain white panel of 110# cardstock. Pinkfresh Studio’s foil plates are some of the best quality I’ve tried to date, and I can honestly tell you that this foiled absolutely beautifully on the first try. I have a Big Shot die cutting machine, and have found that the best sandwich combo with my Pinkfresh foil plate products consists of the 2 shims that come with the Glimmer Hot Foil System, as well as one piece of 110lb cardstock as an extra shim. This is what I used when I went to foil the Nested Chevron image, and it worked perfectly – no overfoiling at all!
Next, I used the Nested Chevron die to cut the pieces apart. With the die in hand, I also cut out chevrons from pink, light green, and 2 shades of teal/blue cardstock. I love a good non-conventional holiday palette, and that’s what I was going for here.
This die cuts both thin and thick chevrons, so for my first card I lined up the thicker colored cardstock chevrons with the thinner foiled chevrons. For the second, I did the opposite. I used foam tape to add dimension to both, then reached for another new product duo – The Holiday Sentiments hot foil plate and coordinating die. If you loved the Perfect Sentiments and Celebrating You sets that were released earlier this year, the Holiday Sentiments are going to be your new favorite over the coming months of crafting! Just like the others, you get 10 sentiments on a single hot foil plate, and a single die to cut them all out in one go. (There’s also a coordinating stamp set.)
I took the opportunity to batch create a whole bunch of the Holiday Sentiments while my foiling machine was on, and eventually selected one for each card. They had dimension, they had shine, they had pops of color – they were done!
Giveaways + Blog Hop
What I’ve shown here is just a small portion of the new release, and you’ll find the whole thing here! There’s also a ton of inspiration to be had along each stop of today’s blog hop, so be sure to check out all the other designers below!
Pinkfresh will be giving away the FULL release over on their blog and YouTube channel, and there will be a total of 10 $25 gift cards chosen from all the blogs on the hop list. Winners will be picked from the comments, so be sure to leave a comment below, and visit all the other stops on the hop. Winners will be chosen on September 14th, and you’ll want to keep an eye on this page. If your name is chosen, you’ve got 2 weeks to claim your prize. Good luck!
Such fun colors!
Great non-traditional cards for Christmas.
Non-traditional Christmas cards. I love them!
Sweet cards
Love your combination of the foil plate and matching die. Very different holiday cards….I love them!
Wow! I love these bright and cheery Christmas cards!
Love your card!
Love the shine and dimension!
Modern and marvelous…love the style and colors!!!
Wow! It’s a chevron Christmas fest and I love it! I’m a traditional gal and not so brave to make Christmas cards like these, but so glad you are! What a fabulous and creative Christmas concept!!!
Love how you foiled some of the chevron!
Such pretty and fun cards!
Thanks for sharing!
Oh wow that chevron and those colors are beautiful! Thank you for sharing your beautiful creations.
Lovely!
I love your “fresh” ideas!
I love these pastel colored cards! This release is amazing!
super fun results with these new foiling plates
So cheery and fun! Delightful!
I’m so excited to share this release with my student outreach club members. They make cards for students that need a little extra or are struggling during the holidays. I am so excited to see how they use them.
Amazing and full of Hope!
Brilliant combo of products!!!
Love, love the color scheme!
I love using that chevron set. Thanks for the extra inspiration!
So clean and modern!
So bright & fun!
Love your use of the chevron foil plate and die together. So creative!
Great card! Thanks for sharing
I love foiling the sentiments on colored cardstock!!! Thanks for the inspo!
Fabulous colors!
Lovely, Non-Traditional Holiday cards.
Wonderful cards. I love those non-traditional colors.
I love the bright fun colors. Thanks for sharing with us. This release is so lovely.
Stunning love your cards and this release is awsome
Such beautiful cards! I love the bright colours!
Contemporary look, love it!
Gorgeous and unique colors. I absolutely love your cards!
So pretty. Thanks for the inspiration. Love this release.
Lobe this whole release. Love you card and the colors. PinkFresh never disappoints with their release. I love the sentiments.
Very fun & colorful cards.
Hi, Angela – These are fresh and modern, a new take on Xmas. I know a lot of people who would love these! Thanks for the ideas!! The chevrons are fantastic!!
Lori S in PA
Love the colors. The use of the Chevron
is great. thanks for sharing
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Definitely non-traditional but nice to see new ideas. Thank you.
What fun colors!!! I love these backgrounds!
This release is outstanding–I love so many of the products. The holiday sentiments are my favorite. I love the beautiful cards too!
Awesome card design!
Such fun cards in bright & yummy colors. Thanks for your inspiration.
oooh I’m a big fan of non-traditional colours for holiday cards – so fun!
such an amazing use of the foil plates. I love the non traditional colors as well
Just love the simplicity of these cards. The color palette is lovely!
Great way make a lot of cards that can be sent to anyone on your list. Cheery colors
I also love a non-traditional Christmas card! I can’t decide which one I like best but the foil with your colours creates such fun and happy cards! I love how simple yet how stunning they are. My kind of card!
I also like it when pink fresh releases products that work with my existing products. So I am really excited for these hot foil plates! Do you know if any of the other foil plates mix at all with the background dies?
I love the use of non-traditional colours!
Gorgeous non traditional Christmas design, pretty color choice and cool filing. Thanks for sharing.
this is a fresh perspective, love the card
I love the non-traditional color scheme!
I love the colors on your cards! So fun!
Beautiful cards! Love the non-traditional colors you used! I’m not into foiling yet, but I do have that awesome Chevron stamp set!
Gorgeous release. Great cards.
The chevron dies make and amazing card and your colors express the “joy” part of the sentiment.
Such a bright wonderful card with foiling and cutouts. Thank you for sharing.
Nice cards!
Your chevron multi-color is so beautiful. I love these new hot foil backgrounds so much. I was so excited to see them and the new holiday sentiments hot foils also TFS
I love the soft colors!
The non-traditional colors are fabulous! I love them. These colors would be great for any occasion and as Christmas cards they will shine.
Love your CAS approach!
Love those bold stripes!!
I love these foil plates! Thank you
Bright and cheery! Love it!
Beautiful backgrounds for your cards. Great way to use all those sentiments!
Beautiful cards! What an amazing release!
Such pretty non-traditional holiday cards. I love the way you combined the new chevron foiling plate with the previously released chevron cover plate. This would be a great combo to use any time of the year. Thanks for sharing!
Love the colors.
Gorgeous!! Love those colors!!
What a wonderful fresh take on holiday cards! Excellent!
Love the bright colours on your cards!! I love seeing new designs for holiday cards. Thank you for sharing.
I like the depth of the dies! Fun colors, and great sentiments with shadow.
What a unique take on a holiday card… I love it!
What a perfect combination of Pinkfresh’s chevron tools.
Amazing cards! Lovely colors. Wow those hot foil plates are game changers!
love these cards. so hip!
Love these cards!
Beautiful cards – love the colors!
The nested chevron dies look to be very versatile. Very pretty.
Great colors and neat use of the background. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome cards! Love the colors and designs…
Thanks for sharing.
Love the colors.
Super fun cards and colors!
Great color combo! The foiling detail looks fabulous!
So beautiful! Color combos are perfect.
It is just genius that the chevron hot foil plates work with the chevron dies!! I adore your cards!
Wow!! Bold colors with that new chevron plate!!! Gorgeous!!
Love your card!! It’s always so fun doing something nontraditional.
I’m loving the color combination!