Happy Holidays, my sweet friends! I’m Laura Evangeline joining Pretty Pink Posh here on the blog for a fun Christmas Theme Week. The project I created to share today is inspired by a gift card.
I’m an avid collector of gift cards with cute designs (as well as postage stamps), and when I saw this one, I knew the Winter Foliage die set would be perfect to create a matching greeting card!
I then used Distress Oxide inks to color blend the pieces to match the gift card. I also used a bit of ink to shade the gift bag and color the white card base pale blue to match the background of the gift card.
After ink blending and assembling all of the flowers, I splattered several colors of ink over the pieces and set them aside to dry.
While everything dried, I trimmed the handle off the gift bag, replaced it with a bit of baker’s twine, and then used foam adhesive to attach the bag to a piece of woodgrain embossed white cardstock.
Once all the elements were dry, I was able to adhere everything together and slip in the gift card. I love how this turned out. It was so fun to create, and I can’t wait to create another gift card inspired card!
I started with the Layered Argyle stencils and created a light pastel colored argyle, ink blended background. This non traditional colors will match to the stocking die cut images perfectly.
Next I will color the stamped images with alcohol markers, matching the colors to the fun background colors.
To add a little shine, I added some fine iridescent glitter to one of the cuffs of one of the stockings. I simply drew over the stocking with Quickie Glue Pen and then poured the fine glitter on top.
Whether you love traditional or non traditional color scheme for the holidays, these Pretty Pink Posh stamps and dies will help you create the cutest cards! Thanks so much for stopping by! Happy Holidays!
Hello, it’s Jeanne here. It’s Christmas theme week at Pretty Pink Posh and today I’ve got something SWEET for you ….. CHRISTMAS CUPCAKES! I love this stamp set that includes six different decorated cupcakes that are sure to have you smiling!
My card starts with a stenciled Layered Winter Wreath background on soft pink cardstock. This is a three layer set that is super easy to work with and all you need are three colors – one for the branches, another for berries and a third for greenery.
The oval design that the stencil creates is the perfect focal point for a holiday sentiment. All that’s left is to embellish it with colorful cupcakes and a sweet bow adhered with adhesive foam tape. This gives them a little lift that adds dimension to your design.
The cupcake images are clean line designs that are easy to color. The hardest part for me was deciding which of these yummies to feature on my design.
I hope you’ll try mixing your stenciled designs with stamped images. Come back tomorrow for more Christmas inspiration!
Welcome back to Day 4 of our Christmas Theme Week. It’s Lindsey here, and I’m excited to share some “merry and bright” projects with you today. I love theme weeks because they let me bring out my favorites – old and new. Don’t you just love when they work together so seamlessly?
I’ll start with the card. I have a thing for tree trios. My mom always had multiple trios of trees decorating different areas of our home during the holidays, and I loved them. I created my trio with the Pine Trees Dies.
I wanted to keep this clean and simple, so instead of embellishing the trees, I ran them through the Pierced Snowflakes Plate. I was positively giddy when this die plate released and would use it on every project if I could. :)
I popped my trees up on a card base that I had dry embossed with the Snowfall Stencil and added a glittery banner/sentiment from the Love From Afar Dies.
Next up the gift bag and gift card holder set. I’m so excited about this one! The Gift Card Bag is one of my most favorite dies. It is a darling way to package a gift card, but you can also tuck in tiny gifts. My niece wanted earrings for Christmas and they will fit perfectly in here along with the gift card.
The gift card holder is simple on purpose: I really am going to attach a gift card on top. I layered both of the Stitched Gift Card Holders together. The top layer is stenciled with the Winter Words Stencil. Don’t you just love that font? After I attach the gift card, I’ll tuck this inside of the gift bag.
The Gift Card Bag uses more of my absolute favorite products. I used the Pierced Snowflakes Plate to add a little interest and tucked in a little layer of glittery gold at the top.
Then I adorned it with the beautiful Stitched Poinsettias Dies. I wanted to bring in a bit more gold, so I added a few pine and berry sprigs from my belovedWinter Foliage dies.
And there you have it! I hope that you are inspired to pull out your Christmas goodies and get creating. If you saw something (old or new) that you’d love to add to your crafty stash, don’t forget that this week all Christmas products are 15% off. Happy crafting, friends!
Hello everyone, it’s June here! I’m so exited to make my first blog post ever as a Guest Designer for Pretty Pink Posh! Today is Day 3 of the Christmas Theme Week and I have this fun festive card featuring a lot of the new holiday products to share with you.
To start off, I picked 4 images from the Christmas Cupcakes stamp setto color with my Copic Markers. I decided to add some of the small images from the Holiday Stockings stamp setto fill up the space of my card a bit more. I stamped them using brown ink instead to give a more subtle look.
When I saw the new Eyelet Rectangles dies I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them, which is using one of my favorite die cutting techniques: extending. I placed my paper and die onto my cutting plate, but didn’t roll it all the way through. I extended my die cut by lining it up again on the side I didn’t cut, and the result is an elongated rectangle, which I then cut down to 5 1/2 inch to fit my card base. I love getting more use out of my dies like this!
To make the main background of my card I cut out a panel to fit onto my scalloped piece. I blended a simple pink ombre background using Tattered Rose Distress Ink and added just a tad of Worn Lipstick on the top to brighten it up. I also splattered some Victorian Velvet onto it. When the panel was dry, I used the new Pierced Snowflakes plate to add some interest.
A thing I like to do when I can’t find the perfect cardstock color is making my own using ink. I only needed some small strips on the side of my panel, so I blended some Distress Oxide in the color Festive Berries onto some white paper to get that perfect shade I had in mind.
I wanted to bring some extra blue into my card, so I cut the ‘Merry’ from the Merry Christmas Shadow dies out of turquoise cardstock and mounted it onto its shadow backing piece, which I cut out of vellum.
To put to card together, I glued the panel down directly onto my card base and used foam strips to add some dimension to the cupcakes. I stacked some ‘Merry’ die cuts on top of each other to act as a substitute for the foam strips behind the sentiment. It can be tricky to hide foam behind a thin die cut, so this is the way I like to do it. I finished off my sentiment by adding the ‘wishes’ part of a sentiment that’s in the same Holiday Stockings stamp set I used before.
And that’s it for today! Be sure to check out the blog the rest of the week as well, you don’t want to miss out on all the fun projects the Design Team has prepared :)
To start things off, I took a piece of white cardstock in A2 size and added some color with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink. Then, I stamped, colored, and cut out the birds from the Winter Birds stamp set and a couple of tree branches from the Winter Woodland stamp set. I gave those images a splash of color with Ohuhu markers and used their matching dies to cut them out.
I attached the branches onto the card panel and gave the birds some dimension by sticking them on with foam tape. For the sentiment, I white heat embossed “Tweetest Christmas Wishes” on a piece of red cardstock and cut it with the smallest die in the Stitched Torn Rectangles dies. I raised this up with foam tape on the card panel. To add a touch of sparkle and texture, I glued some Ivory Pearls here and there.
Lastly, I glued the card panel onto an A2-sized white card base. And there you have it, my card featuring the most adorable winter birds.
A big thank you for stopping by today, and I really hope I’ve lit a creative spark in you to make some holiday cards. Have a fantastic day!
Hello crafty friends, Marine here, kicking off Christmas Theme Week with this set of Build A Stocking cards and their matching see-through Stocking Shaker tags. I went for my favorite color palette this season, which is red + pink + aqua + green, and did something I almost never do because I find it too messy: I used glitter to make my cards and tags even more festive.
So, let’s start with the cards, shall we? I cut two Eyelets Rectangles: an aqua panel and a light pink panel, and used the Layered Stockings stencils to create stockings on both panels along with oxide inks. With the stencil (A) I used worn lipstick, salvaged patina and mowed lawn. With the stencil (B) I used festive berries, peacock feathers and rustic wilderness. And with the stencil (C) I used white pigment ink. And once all the layers were done, I mixed a little bit of copic opaque white ink with water, and used a small brush to make splatters on both panels.
I assembled the different pieces, attached everything on my panels using 1mm foam squares and liquid glue, and then I created two identical “Merry Christmas” greetings. I white heat embossed “Merry” from Sentiment Strips: Christmas on a dark grey cardstock and trimmed it using a die from Sentiment Strips. I cut “Christmas” from Merry Christmas Shadow out of gold mirror cardstock, and its shadow out of vellum, I layered both pieces on top of each other, and attached my two-part greetings below the stockings on each panel. And finally I added glitter at different places, and a Metallic Gold Pearl in the center of each snowflake.
And I thought it would be fun to make matching tags, so I used the Stocking Shaker to make a couple of see-through tags. I started off by cutting four stockings out of red cardstock. At the back of two of them I attached a piece of acetate that I trimmed all around the stockings. On top of the two other stockings I also attached a piece of acetate that I trimmed. At the back of the first two stockings, I added foam strips, following the shape of my elements. I poured my shaker material inside each stocking: Jolly Santa confetti mix in one, and Candy Cane Lane confetti mix in the other. And then I stuck the two other stockings to the foam strips in order to close my Stocking Shakers.
I cut two additional Stocking Shakers out of white cardstock, cut the top parts off and attached them on my shaker stockings. Next I cut six Merry Script words: three out of aqua cardstock that I layered on top of each other to create dimension, and three out of light pink cardstock. I also white heat embossed two “Holly Jolly Christmas” greetings from Sentiment Strips: Christmas on dark grey cardstock, trimmed them using a die from Sentiment Strips, and then attached those pieces on the white section of each stocking. To be able to hang those see-through stockings, I cut two white handles using a die from Build A Stocking, attached both pieces on the top right hand corner of each stocking, added twine, ribbon and glitter.
Finally I cut two white glitter snowflakes using a die from Winter Mug that I attached on each stocking, and glued a Metallic Gold Pearl in the middle of each snowflake as a final decorative touch. And that’s it! How fun it was to create this set of cards and tags, I hope that these will inspire you. Thanks so much for stopping by, have an amazing day!
Hello friends. It’s Leica, and I’m here to show you a super easy Christmas shaker card made possible by the Tree Cover Plate. I get really excited when I can whip up a card in just a few minutes. Let’s get started!
First, I cut the Tree Cover Plate from light pink cardstock and glued a sheet of clear acetate on the back. I added foam tape all around the edges and in the spaces between the trees. Then, I sprinkled in some Christmas Cookie Shaker Beads. After that, I peeled off the backing of the foam tape and glued on a patterned paper that’s A2-sized.
For the words, I used white heat embossed with a saying from the Sentiment Strips: Christmas stamp set on red cardstock. Then, I cut it out with a die from the Sentiment Strip dies and gave it some extra pop by mounting it with foam. To make things extra special, I added Metallic Gold Pearls here and there for a touch of sparkle.
I’m just thrilled with how quickly this card came together. I hope it gets your creative juices flowing to make some cards with this new cover plate. Happy crafting!
With layer A, I blended distress inks in Lost Shadow, Hickory Smoke and Black Soot.
I used some Nuvo Glacier Paste in Golden Era with layer B. Remember to clean your stencil well after using any kind of paste. I put the stenciled panel aside to dry, whilst I worked on the sentiment.
I adhered a piece of black card on to a 6” square card base, then trimmed down the stenciled panel and adhered to the card with foam tape. I then added the foiled sentiments in the centre of the card to finish.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope this card inspired you!
Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new video today using one of my favorite PPP sets-Penguin Pals stamp set. I am coloring them with fun colors and putting them onto a box card!
I started with using the Layered Mittens Stencils to add green, blue and purple inks to a light blue piece of cardstock. After the splatter of metallic watercolor ink dried, I cut the scallop dies from the stenciled set and the box card dies out of a dark blue with the Scallop Box Card Dies. I assembled the box together using my adhesive runner.
Next I stamped my images from the Penguin Pals stamp set and colored them in with Ohuhu Art Markers, then used the Penguin Pals coordinating dies to cut them out. I added the penguins to my assembled box card and then moved onto the sentiment.
