January 2023 Challenge
Welcome to the January challenge at Pinkfresh Studio - the first one of 2023! You all created such amazing projects for last month's challenge, and we can't wait to see what you create this month! This challenge is for ALL papercrafters - including scrapbooking, cardmaking, minis, journals, notebooks & more!
If you haven't checked it out yet, we featured our Top 3 Cards & Layouts, plus the prize winners from the December challenge on last week's post! Who knows...maybe it will be YOU this month! You never know unless you play along! :)
January is a Challenge Review!
This is a great chance to catch up on a challenge you missed in 2022, or revisit a favorite from the year!
You can find the details on each of 2022's monthly challenges here (except January, since it was a Challenge Review of the previous year as well) - click on the month to check them out:
February 2022 - All About Love
August 2022 - Beautiful Backgrounds
September 2022 - Stripes & Gradients
December 2022 - Happy Holidays
As always you can use just the theme, just the colors, or use both for your projects! Here is some inspiration for you from our amazing team:
Karlla Dauer
Cheryl Espie
Vicki Parker
Emily Midgett
Nathalie DeSousa
Carissa Wiley
Andrea Moritz
Anett Gelencsér
Karin Hoegger
Debby van Diepen
Josefine van der Hoeven
Channin Pelletier
PRIZES
One cardmaking entry and one memory-keeping entry will receive a $50 gift card to the Pinkfresh Studio Store! The two winners will be randomly selected based on these two categories.
Gift card winners: When winning a gift card, the amount of the gift card can be put towards any order in the Pinkfresh Studio online shop. Winning a gift card does not change order minimums if your location requires them or shipping costs. Please check our Shipping Rates page for all the info you need before entering a giveaway for a gift card code.
Now it's time for YOU to play along!
Rules:
- Create a new card, layout, journal/notebook page, mini album, DIY or any paper project using the challenge graphic posted above. While it is fine if you use a few items from other companies, the focus should be on Pinkfresh Studio product.
- Post your project to your personal blog, Instagram or online gallery. Please make sure you link back directly to the challenge.
- Add a direct link to your project using the InLinkz below.
- You may enter up to 3 new, never seen before projects into our challenge each month.
- Please make sure to leave a comment on this post! Feel free to tell us a couple details about your project, or mention some challenges you'd like to see in coming months.
Deadline:
Get your creations linked up by Tuesday, January 31st at 11:59pm CST. Winners & the Top 3 will be announced on Saturday, February 4th.
For even more inspiration and amazing projects, make sure to follow Pinkfresh Studio on all our social media sites!
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We want to see your projects on Instagram! Please add the hashtags #pinkfreshstudio & #pinkfreshchallenge, and tag @pinkfreshstudio to your uploads so we can see them too!
Happy crafting! We can't wait to see what you create! Please add the link to your creation below. It's come to our attention that the link list code isn't showing up in some browsers. You can also access and add your project at this link:
CHALLENGE LINK LIST
29 Comments
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Glad I was able to participate this month. I joined in on the beautiful backgrounds challenge.
I always love participating in your challenges and I love seeing everyone else’s creations!
I like that January is set up to revisit past challenges.
Link #72 for July Shimmer and Shine. First card using hot foil plates and my new foil press :)
Thanks for the opportunity to revisit these fun challenges! I was still working on Xmas pics, so the holiday challenge worked great, and then I came back and did a texture one too! I’m always awed by the talent from your DT and from the fans who participate.
I used the May 2022 – Anything Spring challenge for my layout!
Love the Year In Review Challenge! There are so many options! Can’t wait for the next one 😊
Entry #59 for my 2nd layout for this months challenge this time creating a background
My entry is #56. I was dying to play with this new peony stamp and the May- Anything Spring was perfect!!
Entry #51. I created this Christmas layout using the March “Frame it up!” Challenge
My entry is #48, I chose March 2022 ‘Frame it Up’ by using the frame theme and color inspiration. I let nothing go to waste here and made a trio of cards.
My card is #44 which could go into frame
It up or the shimmer and shine! So
Much gold foil no need for gems!
My card is #44 which could go into frame
It up or the shimmer and shine! So
Much gold foil no need for gems!
Thanks so much for the challenge! Loved that I got to play along with past challenges I missed the first time around!
Excided to participate! I entered 2 cards using the Anything Spring May 2022 Challenge option.
I made a suite of thank you cards this month using the stained glass background die. After applying the white die cut to white cardstock, I recut the background in numerous shades of blues and greens. I glued the cut diamond shapes onto the background to add a touch of color. I completed the look with Floral Ephemera, thank you reverse foiled and cut from Classic Words Die Set with the matching shadow of blue vellum, and blush glimmer dots.
My card is #34, since I missed this challenge in February last year I had to do it! Love the colors and florals!
I was super excited to see that you offered the Review challenges for January! I created a layout mixing an older PFS paper with a newer one. I love how my layout turned out too!! I focused on the April 2022 challenge-geometric shapes. I might have accidentally gotten the colors in there too. ;)
Love the January challenge as I need to catch up on a few I missed last year. I opted for 🌈. Thanks for this opportunity to share my work. Always great fun!
Always enjoy the year in review challenges. I picked beautiful backgrounds because I absolutely love my Lush Vines background stamp. My favorite themes are ones that everyone with Pinkfresh products can enter. In other words, not too specific. I really appreciate that you continue monthly challenges when many companies no longer give us that chance to win. Wishing you the best in 2023.
Thanks for doing a review challenge again this year! There’s a lot I still need to catch up on, especially from December!
Love the January round up challenges! I was aiming to do Spring as I missed that challenge last year… But I seem to have ended up with Rainbow with a touch of sparkle and shine!
I’m excited that I actually had time to play along with this month’s challenge!
So many possibilites, thanks for the inspiration.
Always great to revisit a favourite challenge! I played along with May :-)
I always love your different challenges. Thanks for all the beautiful inspiration and ideas! I’m excited to enter this month.
So excited to participate this month. Loved all the challenges in 2022
Great challenge! I think I’m going to use the color scheme for the July Shimmer and Shine Challenge.