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5 Days of Christmas Giveaways- Day 4

Hi everyone! It’s Suzy here on the Pretty Pink Posh blog today with a card uses several older Pretty Pink Posh stamp sets including Winter Wonderland, Holiday Pals, and Christmas Friends.

I wanted to create a holiday scene using lots of images, so I made this card a slim-line, which measures 7” x 3.5”. I started by using Distress Inks on the background and cut some white glitter paper into a snow bank.

I stamped images from the 3 stamp sets on white cardstock with a light color of ink. I colored in all of these with colored pencils. I like how they leave such a soft look and let you add texture and shading. I colored 6 trees from the Holiday Pals stamp set to use on the background of the card. I stamped the four cute little friends from the Christmas Friends stamp set and arranged them in front of the trees.

I added some of the little birds from the Christmas Friends stamp set and then gifts from all three of these stamp sets. I arranged all of these into a little Christmas scene. I used the Happy Holidays Script Die for the sentiment. I die-cut it out of white cardstock and then applied clear glitter glue to the top of it for texture. I finished the card with some glitter drops and white glossy drops around the elements for snow. I also added a couple of the snowflake stamps from the Holiday Pals stamp set.

GIVEAWAY

For today’s giveaway we are giving away the popular 72 pack of Prismacolor colored pencils! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post sharing your favorite color medium (markers, colored pencils, watercolors, etc…) For bonus entries, like the Pretty Pink Posh Facebook page, subscribe to us on YouTube or follow us on Instagram

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Thanks so much for visiting today and being part of the Pretty Pink Posh’s 5 Days of Christmas Giveaway Week celebration! Have a great holiday season friends!

Suzy

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5 Days of Christmas Giveaways- Day 2

Hello, Gemma here to share some Christmas inspiration. I love combining new and older release sets from Pretty Pink Posh to create scenes. The Bear Friends are getting ready for Christmas on my card today.

I stamped and copic coloured images from Bear Friends and Holiday Signs. To dress up the bears for my winter scene, I added scarves and hats from the Penguin Pals and Reindeer Friends stamp sets. The presents are also from Reindeer Friends.

On a white card panel, I masked an area for the hill and blended distress oxides above for a wintry sky. Flicking with water adds droplets for a snow effect.

From the centre of the panel, I used a Window Frame die. I adhered the die cut piece directly on my card base, then added the rest of the panel to the card with foam tape. This creates a nice focal point in the centre.

I stamped one of the sentiments from Holiday Signs on the post, then adhered the images to the card. I finished by adding some Pearl White jewels to the centre area for Christmas sparkle.

GIVEAWAY

For today’s giveaway we are giving away a Gemini Junior! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post sharing your favorite holiday stamp or die set. For bonus entries, like the Pretty Pink Posh Facebook page, subscribe to us on YouTube or follow us on Instagram

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Thanks for joining us today. We’ll see you tomorrow for another day of Christmas fun!

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5 Days of Christmas Giveaways- Day 1

Hello Pretty Pink Posh friends! It’s Jeanne here and today we are kicking off Day 1 of our 5 Days of Giveaways in honor of this Christmas season. I’m sharing a cheery Christmas Card! I love to make cards with bright bold color and using a simple color block technique makes great results.

I started by cutting the Stitched Borders 3 die in several shades of ombre red and green. Because I like to save time, I cut several stackable border dies at one time. I reserve the extra die cuts for future projects. The next time I make a color block card I will have several colorful strips ready to choose from. Because the dies have a stitching detail the card stock cuts don’t release easily. I always place wax paper between the cardstock and the die to make removing them much effortless.

I adhered the stripes at an angle to the front of my card base. When the panel was covered I snipped off any bits that were overlapping. The stacked dies are really unique because they fit together edge to edge with no overlap so your finished card is very flat and smooth. Next I adhered the Winter Frame cut from white card stock to the colorful striped panel.

I adhered the Layered tree die in shades of teal over the colorful striped panel. For the most contrast I cut the top of the tree from a light shade of teal to adhere over the darkest stripes of red. The darkest shade of teal used for the bottom layer of the tree is placed over the lighter green stripes.

GIVEAWAY

For our first giveaway, we are giving away a $50 Pretty Pink Posh gift certificate! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post sharing your favorite holiday to craft for. For bonus entries, like the Pretty Pink Posh Facebook page, subscribe to us on YouTube or follow us on Instagram.

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Some sparkle and shine is always welcome around the holidays! A gold foil sentiment and a sprinkle of Ivory jewels make the perfect finishing touch!

I hope you give color blocking a try! You’ll love the clean bold color and designs!

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Organizing Your Embellishments + Giveaway

Hi, Friends! This is Caly and I’m really excited to share my new storage system for sequins, jewels, and all the tiny pretty things with you! I know this system isn’t new for a lot of people, but it’s new to me and it’s exciting and so rewarding to complete.

Previously, I was storing my sequins and jewels in the Craftmates Lockables XL 14 compartment units. While this is a beautiful system to store my sequins and jewels, I found adding new supplies difficult because I couldn’t easily rearrange the colors (because I love all things in rainbow order).

The Darice bead tray is sold 3 ways that are helpful for cardmakers – 82 piece (tray and lid with 78 “tiny” containers), 45 piece (tray and lid with 42 various sizes of containers), 2 piece tray and lid. I bought an empty tray to customize my own based on need and here’s a picture of what it looks like with the different sizes side by side for you.

A lot of people like the consistency of having tiny containers throughout the unit and almost all Pretty Pink Posh sequins and jewels fit into the tiny containers for me. If you don’t like the look of the bigger containers, you can spread the sequins/jewels/beads across more than 1 “tiny” container.

I love that with the new system, the containers are removable and you can rearrange at any time. I couldn’t do that with my previous system. The kits come with labels, but I used my Brother label machine to make labels and instead of putting them on the top where I think they’re intended to go, I decided to put them on the back.

I can’t stress enough how being able to move things around makes me so happy. There are always new colors and mixes to add to the ever-growing stash/collection so this system has been the best solution for that.

I sometimes use sequins or jewels as props – so this is also nice to be able to pull them out, use what I need, then put them away without disturbing a bigger storage unit full of other items.

I love my Pretty Pink Posh collection and am really pleased with this new organization set up. I hope you found this information helpful!

We wanted to have a giveaway in this post that both new sequin collectors, or ones who have been collecting a while, would enjoy. Enter the giveaway to win one of these storage trays and a $50 Pretty Pink Posh gift certificate (so you can fill those trays up even more)!

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If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. Paulina or I will be happy to answer them for you! Thank you all for stopping by today!

Caly

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5 Days of Christmas Giveaway Winners

It’s time to announce the winners from the latest giveaways! We had fun days of inspiration and as a little Christmas gift, I added a giveaway in each post. I love getting to interact with each of you and this was a small way of me being able to give some fun crafty items to the wonderful readers of the blog. Ready to see the winner? Let’s take a look!

Ladies, email me within 7 days with your name and address and I’ll get these items purchased and sent off to you directly!

Thank you to everyone who left comments and participated in the 5 Days of Christmas Giveaways posts. It was so fun to read your answers and pick out these crafty items to give away. We’ll be having more giveaways next month- stay tuned!

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Masking & Layering Techniques + Gemini Junior Giveaway

Hey everyone! It’s Justine here showing off a fun die cutting technique that involved the Gemini Jr Die Cutting Machine that is super trendy right now! Pretty Pink Posh is also generously donating a Gemini Jr machine as a giveaway right now over on the Pretty Pink Posh YouTube Channel. Just leave a comment ON THE VIDEO for a chance to win.

This video is so full of techniques – Copic Colouring and how to add shadows, precise stamping, die cutting two panels, masking leaves and more! For this card I used the Cherry Blossoms stamp set. There are so many great elements in this set and it’s perfect for this technique.

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For this technique, it involved some precise stamping and die cutting so it’s best to use a stamping tool like the MISTI. I stamped the exact same formation of flowers onto two different card panels. I coloured one of those panels only.

I then stacked both of the card panels onto each other and used the Hello Friend Script die to die cut through BOTH sheets of paper. This would be difficult to do with a manual die cutting machine (not necessarily impossible) due to the intricacy of the die and cutting through that thick of a layer.

TIP: If you don’t have the machine and want to do this technique, it is possible. Cut one panel, layer that panel onto the second one, use the die cut area to line up the die, then die cut again.

Giveaway details: Leave a comment on THIS video for your chance to win this giveaway. One comment per person, please. Comments must be left by August 17, 2018 to qualify for the giveaway. Winner will be notified via a comment reply and sent a message on YouTube.

I then went ahead and glued both panels onto card bases. I placed the coloured sentiment into the black and white panel and the black and white sentiment into the coloured panel. I added in all the little pieces to give it a more cohesive look.

I hope you enjoyed today’s video and technique. If you haven’t already, be sure to visit the Pretty Pink Posh YouTube channel. There are a lot of different technique videos there and we also share videos when we have a new release (our next one is in September). Thanks for stopping by and joining us today!

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Distress Oxide Inks Winner!

I have a quick little post to share the randomly picked winner of the set of Distress Oxide Inks from THIS post. A giant congratulations to Amy Cooley!

Amy, please email me your mailing information and I’ll get these ordered and sent off to you!

Thank you to everyone who has watched our Masking & Blending with Distress Inks video. We are so happy that you have enjoyed it!

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Designer Announcement + Giveaway

I wanted to announce the new team for this upcoming design term. I have been so blessed by amazing designers the last 3.5 years and as seasons change, sometimes it’s necessary to change things up in a team as well. We are saying a very fond farewell to Amanda, Liz and Vera.

We are welcoming three brand new Pretty Pink Posh designers to the team. Each of these gals have used my products on their creations for some time and I am thrilled to have them on the team! Please join me in welcoming Crystal, Maria and Thi to the Pretty Pink Posh team!

In honor of the new team, let’s have a big $100 gift certificate giveaway! Leave a comment on THIS post sharing your requests for future Pretty Pink Posh products (stamps, dies, embellishments). One lucky comment left by June 17th will win a shopping spree. Congratulations to Zsofia Molnar on being the lucky winner!

Thanks for joining us today. Be sure to give lots of love to the designers!

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Distress Oxide Inks Winner

I have a quick little post to share the randomly picked winner of the set of Distress Oxide Inks from THIS post. A giant congratulations to Nancy Lee!

Nancy, please email me your mailing information and I’ll get these sent off to you!

Thank you to everyone who has watched our Creating with Oxide Inks video. We are so happy that you have enjoyed it!

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Distress Oxide Inks + Giveaway

Hi there! Laura Bassen here and today I have a couple of fun projects to share using the Distress Oxide Inks along with some Pretty Pink Posh products.

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I had so much fun experimenting with the Distress Oxide inks using some of my favorite techniques. Below is a few backgrounds comparing the regular Distress Inks to the Oxide Inks. The top two were simple ink blended backgrounds with flicks of water using Wilted Violet, Broken China, Cracked Pistachio & Fossilized Amber. The Oxide Ink panels are on the right and the regular Distress Inked panels are on the left. The bottom two panels were created using one of my favorite techniques “ink smooshing”. I used Worn Lipstick, Spiced Marmalade & Fossilized Amber. You can see that the results are slightly different. Not a huge difference, but there is a difference.

Then I used the Oxide Ink backgrounds to create a couple of projects. This first card features the Bee Friends stamp set along with the coordinating dies.

I used the arch die from the Stitched Duo 3 dies & the rectangle die from the Stitched Notes dies to create a shaker card. I filled the shaker with Sparkling Clear, Bermuda Blue, Peridot Mist, Blue Lagoon, and Ocean Spray sequins.

This next card features the adorable Friends Forever stamp set with coordinating dies.

I simply colored the images with Copics and popped them up over the “ink smooshed” background and added a few Sparkling Clear sequins to finish it off.

GIVEAWAY: Want to win your own set of 12 Distress Oxide Inks? Paulina is giving one away to one lucky person! Leave a comment on this post sharing your top 3 current favorite crafting products. Comments must be left by May 9th at 11:59pm, PST. Winner will be announced later that week.

Thank you so much to Pretty Pink Posh for having me. I always enjoy playing with their adorable images. Thanks so much for stopping by!