October 2026 Challenge: Fall Foliage

Happy October, Pinkfresh Studio fans! 🍂 There’s something especially fun about crafting this time of year, and our October challenge is the perfect excuse to bring a little fall color to your projects. Whether you love cardmaking, scrapbooking, journaling, mini albums, or other paper crafting projects, we’d love for you to join in!

This month’s theme is Fall Foliage! Think warm autumn colors, beautiful leaves, and all the seasonal inspiration that comes with them. This month’s challenge color scheme also includes gold and black—gold for a golden autumn feel, or black paired with purple and orange if you want to take your project in a more Halloween-inspired direction. Of course, you can also interpret the theme in your own way!

Try turning a favorite floral set into a fall-inspired design simply by changing up the colors, adding leaf die cuts, or giving a familiar design an autumn twist. There are so many ways to bring the feeling of fall to your project!

And don’t worry if you don’t have fall-specific products on hand. Take a look through your Pinkfresh Studio stash and see what you can give an autumn twist! We’ve linked a selection of products at the end of this post that are especially well suited to the theme, but there’s no limit to what you can use. We can’t wait to see your beautiful fall-inspired creations!

Quick reminder: You can enter up to 3 new, never-before-seen projects in each month’s challenge.

Check out yesterday’s post for the September challenge winners and Top 3 Projects. Maybe you will be featured next! Ready to join the fun? Let’s get crafting!

For those inspired by the color scheme, here are the best matching ink shades: Detail Black, Clementine, Begonia, Regal Kiss, Spanish Moss.

✨ Remember: ✨
Our monthly challenge is an Anything Goes Challenge: While the theme and colors are here to inspire you, feel free to enter any NEW project that primarily uses Pinkfresh Studio products. Whether you use the theme, the colors, both or none—it’s up to you. At the end of the day, we just want you to get crafty and have fun!

Let’s see what you create! 💛

Here is some inspiration for you from our amazing team to get you started and maybe spark some ideas for your projects (click on the images for more info):

Raquel Arribas:

Karin Högger:

Andrea Moritz:

Karlla Dauer:

Susi Becerra:

Now it's time for YOU to play along!

Rules:

1. Create a new card, layout, journal/notebook page, mini album, DIY or any paper project. You can use the challenge graphic posted above as inspiration, but remember: you can submit any new project, as long as it was mainly created with Pinkfresh Studio. 
2. Post your project to your personal blog, Instagram or online gallery. Please make sure you link back directly to the challenge.
   
3. Add a direct link to your project using the InLinkz below.
4. You may enter up to 3 new, never seen before projects into our challenge each month.
5. 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.
   

Prizes:

One entry will receive a $50 gift card to the Pinkfresh Studio Store! All entries, both card and memory keeping, are eligible to win the prize.

Deadline:
Get your creations linked up by Tuesday, October 27th at 11:59 pm CT. Winners & the Top 3 will be announced on Saturday, October 3rd.

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: 

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