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October Product Release Blog Hop Day 1

It’s time for our two day Product Release Blog Hop for the October 2016 release. This release was a big one and since it was the last one of the year, I wanted to make it packed full of extra amazing products. We released five brand new stamp sets with coordinating dies, three die sets along with some fun embellishments!

Today I have the super talented Joni Andaya featuring a card with the new Halloween Friends stamps and dies!

To begin, I first distressed my card panel with Evergreen Bough and Scattered Straw by Tim Holtz Distress inks.

Then I stamped this cuties from Halloween Friends Stamp set on a white cardstock, colored it with Copic markers and die-cut them with Halloween Friends Coordinating Dies.

Next, I splattered my panel using Scattered Straw. I simply smoosh the ink pad on an acrylic block, added some water and used my watercolor brush to create some splatters.

Next, once the panel is dry, I stamped the sentiment “happy haunting” this is also from the same set. I also distressed a strip of paper and die-cut it using one of the dies from the Scallop Border Dies.

To finish it off, I added some Pewter sequins in 4mm and 6mm, along with some 3mm Sparkling Clear. At the bottom of the card I added some Diamond Stickles and also added some on the images for a little extra sparkle.

Since this is our last release of the year, I wanted to make this extra special for my customers. Orders over $100, before tax and shipping, will automatically receive this not-yet-released 4 x 6 stamp set. This set will not be released to retailers until next year! This free gift offer is only valid until October 31, 2016 or while supplies last (they are still available)!

Ready to hop along and see LOTS more fabulous inspiration with this release?

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before October 20, 2016 at 11:59 PM PDT. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

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Melody Rupple
Kelly Latevola
Liz Sarkisyan
Nina-Marie Trapani
Gladys Marcelino
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I hope you enjoyed today’s blog hop. Be sure to stop by tomorrow for a whole new batch of designers and inspiration!

Thank you all for your enthusiasm about the new stamp sets, dies and sequins. I can’t wait to start seeing your creations with the new products in blog and social media land!

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Distress Ink Halloween Card + Video

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have a video tutorial to share today featuring one of the new stamps & coordinating dies – Halloween Friends.

I’m also going to share a simpler and faster way to create ink blended backgrounds and will talk a bit about ghost stamping! I filmed a video tutorial to walk you through the process from start to finish and explain everything in detail.

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Instead of using a piece of white paper to create my Distress ink blended backgrounds I’ve been using colored cardstock. The trick is simple, pick the color of cardstock to match the lightest color on your future ink blended background. So here, to create a background going from black to purple to light purple for this Halloween card, I used light purple cardstock as my base.

By the way, you’ll still be able to add water to your backgrounds, done on colored cardstock, to have Distress inks move and react like they usually do on white, and it will take you significantly less time (and ink!) to blend a background. It took me a little over 3 minutes to create a background for this card (while it usually takes no less than 10 minutes if I start on white).

Another trick I am sharing today is cutting critter silhouette out of black cardstock to use a shadow or create the illusion of having multiple critters on a card. This doesn’t work everytime and on every card, but it does look fantastic on those cards where the background is dark.

The last tip for today is to try using watermark embossing ink over the ink blended background to create ghost stamped images. Stamping with this kind of ink will create slightly darker transparent impressions that look like shadows or ghosts!

Pretty Pink Posh: Distress Ink Halloween Card + Video

Pretty Pink Posh: Butterfly Hexagon Shaker

Halloween Friends stamp set
Giving Thanks stamp set
Versamark: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Heat Tool: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Copic Markers: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp

I hope you’ve enjoyed this card and video!

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Peekaboo Winter Friends

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here this morning, and I’m back sharing another card with some more of the DARLING new release with you! For this one I had fun making a little interactive peekaboo window card – how fun are the Peekaboo Windows dies?!?!?

Pretty Pink Posh: Peekaboo Winter Friends

I started off by using one of the Peekaboo Windows Dies to cut three of the same windows in a piece of blue cardstock. I stamped a small lead in sentiment on the outside of the center window using the new FREE with purchase stamp set (full of beautiful sentiments!), then added some snowflakes using Winter Wonderland, overlapping the windows. The side border was created using Scallop Borders, then a couple torn strips of vellum, with a thin strip of black cardstock to ground the edge of it – hard to see in the photos, but a great little bit of added texture.

When you open the windows, look what is inside! I think this die would be super fun for advent calendars as well – the possibilities are endless!

The cute little boy and girl are from another new stamp set called Christmas Friends, die cut with the coordinating Christmas Friends Dies, and the sentiment is from Winter Wonderland.

Pretty Pink Posh: Peekaboo Winter Friends

I used my MISTI to perfectly place my sentiment on my white cardbase by laying my window over the top, placing my stamp on my MISTI, then lifting off the front panel before stamping. The little guy and girl I added adhesive too, then slid them in place before pressing down to adhere. (Shhh…don’t tell, but I had to trim the feet off the little guy so they didn’t poke out where my sentiment was!) :)

Pretty Pink Posh: Peekaboo Winter Friends

I attached the front panel with foam adhesive, so that there is some dimension where everything is poking through the windows underneath.

Pretty Pink Posh: Peekaboo Winter Friends

Now I want to put windows in all the things! Haha!

Have you purchased anything from this release yet? I’m curious to hear what caught your eye.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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Distressed Fall Foxes

Hello friends!! Amy L. here. Today, I am playing with the cute foxes from the Fox Friends Stamp Set. Foxes remind me of Fall. That’s why I chose to use some soft Fall colors in my background. I also created an offset shaker to nest the foxes and finished with a heartwarming sentiment.

Here are more details:

On a white panel, white heat emboss the SSS Doodle Background. Blend Fossilized Amber, Crushed Olive, Spiced Marmalade, Mowed Lawn and Seedless Preserves distress inks with mini blending tool. Die cut the panel with SSS Stitched Rectangles Die
For the shaker, I prepared a stamp storage pocket and the fuse tool. I used a circle die as template and fuse along the edge to make a round shape shaker with a small opening. Fill in the shaker with Gold Mini Star Confetti. Die cut two circle frames with Scallop Circles Dies and adhere onto the shaker. Mount the shaker offset on the panel with glue
Stamp the foxes in black. Color with Copic markers. Die cut them with coordinating dies. Mount with foam tape
White heat emboss the sentiment from the Birdie Friends Stamp Set on gray cardstock. Mount with foam tape

This finishes a cute Fall inspired card with foxes! Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful day! ☺

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Quick Seed Bead Shaker + Video

Hello crafters, this is Julia taking over the Pretty Pink Posh blog today! I want to show you how you can, quickly and easily, create a shaker card with the brand new, limited edition Autumn Seed Bead bundle that just released!

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The Giving Thanks stamp set and die set is perfect for this type of card since the dies for the leaves and pumpkins have enough detail so everyone know what they are. I decided to only cut a few openings into my panel along the left side of my panel, with the sentiment from Giving Thanks snuck in-between.

As with every shaker card, you’ll need to adhere a piece of acetate to the back of your panel and then add foam (dimensional) adhesive around the openings, making sure to not leave any gaps where the shaker elements could escape from. Then add the shaker elements, here the seed beads. I think they are perfect – they are tiny which allows me to add a lot of them even in small spaces and still be able to shake ‘em!

Once you adhere your panel on top, your shaker is done! You can stop here, and just leave it as is, but I wanted to add some very subtle dimension and detail and so I added a few more die-cut shapes of leaves and pumpkins. I used the same card stock that my panel was made from so the color would match exactly.

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you had fun with this tutorial! Catch you again soon!

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October 2016 Release Day + Free Gift!

Hello! It’s Melody here on the blog today and I am so excited to share a look at the new Giving Thanks Stamp Set from the new release that is now available! New stamps, dies and fun sequins mixes that are perfect for the holiday season!

How cute are this these sweet pilgrims! I colored them with Copic Markers and die cut them with the Giving Thanks coordinating dies. Behind the stamped images I added a fence with the Picket Fence Die.

I framed the card with the larger die in the Scallop Frames Dies. The pumpkins, acorn, and leaves are all included of the Giving Thanks Stamp Set. So many options to create a fall scene!

I finished off the card with Metallic Rose Gold Sequins in 4mm and 6mm.

Also, Paulina is giving away a not-yet-release 4 x 6 set in orders over $100, while supplies last. This set will not be available to retailers until next year!

October 2016 Release Day + Free Gift!

Thanks for stopping by! We can’t wait to see which products make it into your shopping carts.

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Watercolor Halloween (New Products)

Hello Pretty Pink Posh friends! Shannon here today to share a card featuring some awesome new products from the upcoming October 5th release.

I used the Halloween Friends stamp set along with its coordinating dies and the new Peekaboo Windows die set for my card.

To create my card, I started with a piece of watercolor cardstock and stamped all the small candy pieces and such along with my sentiment from the Halloween Friends stamp set and colored in with my Zig Real Brush markers and then went back over them with some water to give them a messy watercolor look and added some splatters for extra interest.

I ran my panel through my die cut machine with the Peekaboo die just slightly over top my sentiment. I stamped adorable costume critters on separate water color paper, colored in as well with my Zig markers and cut out with the Halloween Friends coordinating dies. I adhered my main panel onto a black card base, added my critters inside the window and decided to stamp the Boo! sentiment with white ink inside the window.

That’s it for my Halloween card today! Thank you so much for joining me today!

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Christmas Friends (New Products)

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing the new Christmas Friends stamp set and Christmas Friends Coordinating Dies. I also used the new fun Stitched Stars Dies.

To begin my card I first distressed my card base with Memento Danube Blue Dye Ink, then I used the large star die from the Stitched Stars Dies to die-cut a window from my panel to create a fun star shaker card.

Next, I stamped the front of the blue distressed panel and with snowflakes images from the new Christmas Friends stamp set. The bigger snowflake image is from the new Holiday Greetings stamp set (a free stamp set if you purchase $100 or more or will be available in 2017). Then I distressed another panel in yellow this will go behind the blue panel to reveal the new fun sentiment “warm holiday wishes” from Christmas Friends stamp set. The “sending you” sentiment and “pine needles” image are also from the new Holiday Greetings stamp set.

In this next image I just I want to show you how I position each piece to create my shaker. This time I die-cut the fun foam using the Stitched Stars Dies. Normally I would use a foam tape, but the fun foam saves you so much time.

The sequins I used are the new Holiday Shimmer Sequins Mix. There are some snowflakes in this mix, which really adds a nice little touch. To finalize this card, I added some Diamond Stickles at the bottom for a little shimmer.

Finally, I added the cute children, birds, and present images from new Christmas Friends stamp set and Christmas Friends Coordinating Dies to finish off the card.

Thank you so much for joining me today, I hope you liked it! Have a wonderful day!

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10 Minute Cards

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here to share a few cards that I made combining some beautiful Altenew stamps with Pretty Pink Posh dies and sequins – such a perfect combination! This is also your reminder of the Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop with Altenew, which ends in two days.

This always used to be one of my VERY favorite challenges! Something about trying to make a card in just 10 minutes – so stressful sometimes, and yet SOOO fun! Let me start by noting – I did NOT make all 3 of these cards under 10 minutes, I made each one separately, and each time shortened my time by about a minute or more. I figured it was fun to show how easy it is to take a simple design and make multiple cards all very quickly!

For these cards, I layed out the florals from Altenew’s Floral Shadow Stamp set in my full size MISTI – this allowed me to easily create more cards without having to stamp everything individually. I stamped the panels in 3 different ink colors from Simon Says Stamp – Laurel Green, Apricot, and Wisteria. I used PPP’s Scallop Ovals dies to create a frame – even trimmed thin strips of foam adhesive to make it pop off the background a bit.

This first card took me 9 minutes and 6 seconds – I was kind of scared I wasn’t going to make it in time! As usually happens, I had a clog in my glue bottle, couldn’t find my foam tape for a few seconds, and other tiny mishaps, but made with it almost a minute to spare! Whew! On this one I embellished with Rose Gold sequins in 6mm and 4mm.

This second card I shaved almost a minute off my time, so got down to 8 minutes and 17 seconds. I honestly thought I was going even faster than that – so I was surprised it took that long! Haha! On this one, I embellished with Metallic Gold sequins, again in 6mm and 4mm.

And finally, on this one I got my quickest time – 6 minutes and 57 seconds! YAY! You can see now how easy it would be to keep recreating this same card in different colors and with different sentiments! This last one I embellished with Metallic Silver, in 6mm and 4mm as before.

What do you think – do you like recreating extra cards when you find a design you love that works? Such a great way to spend a little time and make several cards at the same time!

Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!!!

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Winter Wonderland (New Products)

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here this morning, and boy am I excited to be able to share a card using some of the absolutely DARLING new releases with you (they’ll be available on October 5th)! There are stamps, dies, and sequin mixes galore – I had a hard time deciding what to play with first! I ended up making a snowy winter shaker card.

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The new Stitched Pieces die is so fun and versatile – perfect for shaker or window cards. I can see lots of possibilities with this one! I used it to create a shaker portion on the top and bottom, and a window in the center for my sentiment.

The adorable characters and sentiment are from the brand new Winter Wonderland stamp set – once I colored them up with Copics, I used the coordinating Winter Wonderland coordinating dies to cut them each out.

My shaker windows are filled with the beautiful new Winter Sparkle sequin mix, and I added snowflakes from another new sequin mix – Snowflake Sequin Mix – on the outside to embellish. A simple line around the outside with a fine line black pen and my ruler to help make it somewhat straight finish this off! See in the center how I left it open for the sentiment? This also adds great dimension to the card.

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What are you most excited for in the new release so far?

If you’re on Facebook, be sure to visit the blog hop event page HERE. We will have a $100 gift certificate giveaway on the event page once we reach 200 guests. Head over and join the fun and see sneak peeks leading up to the release and also the blog hop that is on October 13 & 14th!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!