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Sneak Peek: January 2025 Stencils

Hi friends! It’s Dana here today and I am excited to be sharing a sneak peek of two of the new stencils that are part of the new Valentine’s Day release. The new release will be available on January 6th and it’s packed full of amazing new products for Valentine’s Day and more!

New release will be available January 6th

For my first card I used the Scattered Hearts Frame stencil to create my card panel. I used dye ink and finger daubers for my blending. This stencil has scattered hearts around a large heart in the center. The large heart is the perfect place for a sentiment or an image. 

For my card, I decided to cover up the large heart with a heart I created with the Fringe Heart dies. I ink blended the layers in coordinating colors and then attached the heart to the center of my panel. Lastly, I used the Love Script die for my sentiment.

My next card uses the Circle Grid stencil. This stencil coordinates with the Icon stamp and die sets. The little images in the Icon sets fit perfectly into the ink blended openings. There is also a Square Grid stencil and a Diamond Grid stencil being released. I love how these stencils will coordinate with the icon sets.

I started my card by using the Circle Grid stencil to create my card panel. I again used dye ink and finger daubers for my blending. I stamped my images with the Valentine Icon set with VersaMark ink. I then heat set the images with gold embossing powder. I colored the images with Copic markers and used the Valentine Icon die set to cut them out.

Next, I used the Valentine Greetings set for my sentiment. Lastly, I attached the images and sentiment onto my panel with foam adhesive to finish my card. 

Thanks for joining me today and I hope you enjoyed my card. I know you will love these new products and I can’t wait to see what you create with them!!

Enjoy your day, Dana

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Sneak Peek: Heart Balloons + Upright Greetings

Hello everyone! This is Melissa and I’m here to share a couple of cards made with the adorable Heart Balloons stamps and Upright Greetings: Valentine stamps. These new products are irresistibly sweet and heartwarming. Let’s get started!

New release will be available January 6th

My first card uses a trio of Heart Balloons, each stamped with different patterns you can find in this playful set.  You’ll find hearts, polka dots, stripes, and so much more to choose from.  You’ll even find a balloon outline, streamers, and sentiments in this set.   

I layered my balloons over a die cut white Wonky Stitched Square that was stamped with a sentiment from the Upright Greetings: Valentine stamp set.  This was then layered over a larger die cut vellum Wonky Stitched Square.  

My aqua card base was cut using the darling XOXO Pierced Plate…I love this die!  I then added a strip of striped patterned paper across the bottom of my card and a pink glittered border across the top of the patterned paper, die cut using the Doily Borders dies. If you love scallops and eyelets, you’ll absolutely love these dies!

I layered a tiny Heart Balloons die cut and stamped image over the new Double Heart Shaker on my next card.  I created triple sentiments using one sentiment from the Heart Balloons stamp set, one from the Upright Greetings: Valentine stamp set, and the larger sentiment from the new Valentine Greetings stamp and coordinating dies set

My background was created using the cute Circle Grid Stencil, sprayed with Distress Spray to give it a loose, watercolor look. Once again I used the Doily Borders dies to add a red glittered border across my card front.

I love the new Valentine Holder Additions dies and used the tiny flower and leaves and hearts to add extra details to my card.

These new products are so refreshing and fun to create with.  I hope you enjoy creating with them too!

Melissa

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Sneak Peek: Valentine Icons + Valentine Greetings

Hi friends, it’s Jeanne here and I’m so excited to share sneak peeks of the new Valentine Icons and Valentine Greetings stamp sets. These two sets work together perfectly and are so versatile!

New release will be available January 6th

The Valentine Icons stamp set includes 12 image stamps of traditional Valentine images including hearts, sweets, love letters and more!  The coordinating die set has cuts for all of the images as well as a sweet little doily and two circle dies.  This makes them easy to color, cut and then stack and arrange as you like. 

I framed the stacked images with an Eyelet Rectangle that I cut the center from with a smaller rectangle die.   The pink background layer is debossed with the new XOXO Pierced Plate.

The Valentine Icons set does not include any sentiments so they’re perfect to pair with the Valentine Greetings to complete your designs. The Valentine Greetings coordinating die set fussy cuts the sentiments giving them a unique look that takes up less space than cutting with a banner or strip die so more of your design is visible. 

I used a Stitched Heart placed over an Eyelet Circle to create a focal point for this card.  It was easy to arrange the Valentine Icons along the edge of the circle to maintain the shape.

It doesn’t get sweeter than this!  I know you’re going to love the new release!

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Sneak Peek: Valentine Ghost Friends

Hello, crafty friends! Arsenia here, and I’m excited to share a sneak peek with you today! The Valentine Ghost Friends stamp set and coordinating dies are absolutely adorable — I couldn’t stop using them. For my color palette, I was inspired by vintage ghost valentines, which often feature a mix of red, blue, and black. Of course, I had to add a touch of pink to complete the look! Let’s dive in!

New release will be available January 6th

For my first card, I stamped the images from the Valentine Ghost Friends set in black and then colored them using alcohol markers in a mix of red, blue, and pink tones. After coloring, I used the Valentine Ghost Friends coordinating dies to cut out the images.

Next, I created the background using the new Circle Grid stencil — and let me tell you, I’m totally obsessed with all the stencils in this release! To add a little extra detail, I used another new stencil, the Layered Heart Sprinkles, to stencil partial red hearts onto the grid.

For the frame, I used the large die from the Eyelet Rectangles Dies, cutting out a rectangle from the center. I also die-cut a heart from the Eyelet Heart Dies. For embellishment, I added images from the new Valentine Holder Additions Dies. This die set is phenomenal, and I know you’ll love it too!

Finally, I worked on the sentiment. I used the Large Boo Shadow Dies and two sentiments from the Valentine Ghost Friends set. Ta-da — the card was done, and I think that ghost is just too cute!

For my second card, I began by stenciling the background using the new Layered Heart Sprinkles stencil. Then, I created a frame using the Stitched Torn Rectangles Dies to give the card some structure. The ghosts from Valentine Ghost Friends stamp set needed a resting place, so I die-cut the smallest heart from the Eyelet Heart Dies and placed the ghosts on top.

I added some finishing touches with dies from the Valentine Holder Additions Dies — you’re going to want to add these to your collection, trust me!

The final step was adding the sentiment. I used a love sentiment from the new Valentine Greetings set (another must-have — the font is just perfect!). I also included two additional sentiments from the Valentine Ghost Friends set, heat-embossed on white cardstock and die-cut with the Sentiment Strip Dies. To wrap it all up, I added some white gel pen highlights for a touch of whimsy. I love how it turned out!

For my third card, I used the remaining colored images from the Valentine Ghost Friends stamp set with coordinating dies. I once again used the Layered Heart Sprinkles stencil for the background. To give the ghosts a place to rest, I die-cut the smallest square from the Eyelet Squares Dies. I arranged the squares and ghosts and added a few embellishments from the new Strawberry Valentine Mix.

For the sentiment, I chose a phrase from the Valentine Ghost Friends set, heat-embossing it in white on pink cardstock. I then die-cut it using the Sentiment Strip Dies. For an extra touch, I used the Boo Die from the Ghost Shaker Dies. And with that, the card was complete!

Friends, I hope you enjoyed this sneak peek! I absolutely love this release, and the Valentine Ghost Friends stamp set is definitely one of my favorites. Thank you so much for stopping by, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Design Team Announcement + Giveaway

It’s time to announce the team for this upcoming design term. It’s bittersweet to say farewell to any designer, especially those who have become part of the Pretty Pink Posh family. However seasons in life change and sometimes goodbyes are necessary. We are saying a fond farewell to Lisa, Kristie and Kavya.

We are welcoming Emily, Jill, Sophie, and welcoming Melissa back to the Pretty Pink Posh team and are so excited to see their future PPP projects!

Arsenia / IG: plant769
Carly Minner / IG: carlyteeminner
Christina Rannow / IG: mycraftytrails
Dana Kirby / IG: dkirbystamps
Debbie Frank / IG: franklyjustcards
Emily Mydlowski / IG: popsofpaper
Gemma Campbell / IG: lollipolly
Jeanne Jachna / IG: jeannejachna
Jeannie Lieu / IG: insideoutjeans
Jill Hawkins / IG: jilldhawkins
June Helsen / IG: hellojuniper_
Lauren Taylor / IG: lauren.taylor.made
Marine Simon / IG: marine23simon
Melissa Phillips / IG: lilybeanmom
Mindy Eggen / IG: mindyeggendesign
Rebecca Keppel / IG: rebeccakeppel
Sophie Ems / IG: thepeppermintpost
Zsofia Molnar / IG: safsafdesign2016

In honor of the new team, we are doing a big $100 gift certificate giveaway! Leave a comment on THIS post on 3 designs/ products you’d like to see from us in 2025. One lucky comment left by January 5th will win a shopping spree.  Congratulations to Jennifer Spence on being the lucky winner. We’ll email you!

Be sure to give lots of love to the designers! We can’t wait to read your comments and suggestions!

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Holly Jolly Christmas

Hello crafty friends, it’s June and I’m was excited about the Ornament Cover Plate when I first saw the holiday release, but so far I hadn’t made a card with it yet because there were so many other products that inspired me! So finally this week, I picked it up to make a card.

I wanted to use the cover plate in the way it was intended, by turning the circles into ornaments. I can’t wait to use this die all year round though, because without the ornament pieces it makes a perfect base for whatever other theme you may want to make a card for.

I came across a beautiful color palette on Pinterest the other day and it worked perfectly for an idea I had in mind, even though it’s far from a Christmas palette. It combined a bright ochre with a vintage pink, and it somehow reminded me of the colors I liked using back in the day when I still scrapbooked. I used a lot of bright pattern papers with vintage looking illustrations on it and that instantly gave me the art direction I wanted to go in.

I stamped my favorite of the Holiday Icons and colored them using my Copic markers. All the icon sets Pretty Pink Posh has released come with decorative circles, but I couldn’t quite find the right circle, so I grabbed the scalloped one from the Candy Treats Dies instead. That little stitching it has around its border reminds me of a doily, so it really fitted the theme I wanted to go for. I cut out 6 of these so I could place one in each ornament with an icon layered on top of it. 

I completely covered my ornament panel using Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide. I used one of the Stacked Scallop Stencils and Mustard Seed Distress Oxide to create a subtle tone-on-tone look. I also blended a bit of this color on the sides of my panel. This stencil really gives me Christmas vibes, it reminds me of a garland so I think it fit nicely with the theme of my card. I also splattered some of the darker shade ink and thinned out white acrylic paint onto my panel to make it appear less plain.

To bring in that vintage pink color, I blended Victorian Velvet Distress Oxide on a piece of scrap paper and backed my ornament cover plate. I used 1mm foam tape to adhere my panel. I didn’t go for a shaker card this time, but I think it could’ve looked really cute now I look back at it!

To lean more into the vintage theme, I stamped the ornamental piece from the Winter Greetings Stamp Set 4 times to kind of make a border around my card. I also picked out a sentiment from the same set to go in the middle. I stamped both of these using the same Victorian Velvet ink. 

I hope you enjoyed reading about my card and I hope you’ve been having a wonderful December so far filled with lots of holiday cardmaking. See you again soon, bye!

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Christmas Lanterns Card Trio

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I’m thrilled to be back on the blog with this trio of pretty holiday cards featuring items from previously released stamp sets. As I was saying in my Big Christmas Cupcake rainbow trees blog post, I like all the types of holiday cards: cute, elegant, traditional, non traditional, pastel, bright, etc. And I think that today’s cards would definitely be tagged as traditional and elegant, with a vintage vibe since I stamped and colored my images on kraft cardstock.

Speaking of which, I started off by stamping all the images on kraft cardstock using an alcohol marker friendly black ink. I cut them all using the matching dies, and colored everything using my Ohuhu alcohol markers. As always, here is a detailed list of the stamp sets I used: • Christmas Candles – lanterns, candles • Poinsettia Corners – poinsettias, holly • A Little Birdie + Spring Robins – birds.

Once the coloring was done, I mixed some copic opaque white ink with water, and used a slim brush to add white splatters on all the images to give them more character and add a nice falling snow effect. I set them all aside to dry, and moved on to the backgrounds that I kept pretty simple.

I cut a large Eyelet Rectangle panel out of kraft cardstock, and two large Eyelet Square panels out of the same cardstock. I masked the scalloped edges using washi tape, and added a simple pattern on each panel using the Medium Polka Dots stencil along with vintage photo oxide ink. I mixed some ground espresso oxide ink with water, and used my slim brush to add brown splatters on the three panels. I did the same with copic opaque white ink, removed all the washi tape, and set my panels aside to dry.

I cut a 5,5 x 4,25 inches panel, as well as two 4,5 x 4,5 inches panels out of three different red pattern papers, popped my Eyelet Rectangle and Eyelet Square panels on those red panels using 1mm foam squares, and then on white card bases using liquid glue. I gold heat embossed “Merry” from Christmas Candles three times on red cardstock, and cut them using the matching die. I also white heat embossed “and bright” from the same set three times on dark kraft cardstock, trimmed them into slim banners using a Sentiment Strips die, and finally attached a “Merry and bright” greeting on each card using foam squares.

And that’s it! I hope you like this new set of cards! Thank you so much for stopping by, and see you next time.

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Penguin Merry Wishes + Video

Hi friends! Lauren here and I’m so excited to share a fun wintery holiday card with you today, featuring some of my favorite stamps – the adorable Penguin Pals Stamp Set. For this card, I’m combining a layered snowflake stencil background with a shaker element and some cute penguins making snow angels.

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To start, I created a soft, snowy background using the Pierced Snowflakes Die on light blue cardstock. For the stenciling, I used three layers: first, a soft blue (Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide), then a darker blue (Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide), and finally, a pop of green (Twisted Citron Distress Oxide) inspired by the Evergreen State Shaker Beads I planned to use in my shaker. The combination of tones in the snowflakes looks so beautiful and wintery, and adding some white splatters with opaque watercolor really made the background feel like a snowy scene.

Next, I stamped the penguins from the Penguin Pals Stamp Set and colored them with my Olo markers. I kept their color scheme simple, using warm grays for their bodies and bright yellow-orange for their beaks and feet. To tie in with the background, I gave each penguin a colorful scarf in shades of blue and green. After cutting them out with the Penguin Pals Coordinating Dies, I started planning my card layout, placing the penguins around my embossed sentiment on a shimmery blue label cut from the Easter Sentiments Coordinating Dies.

To turn this card into a shaker, I used a frame from the Fancy Cake Dies and added acetate to the back. I carefully applied foam adhesive to create a space for the shaker elements, making sure there were no gaps where the beads and confetti could fall out. For the shaker filling, I used a mix of Evergreen State Shaker Beads, Blue Shimmer Confetti Mix, and Aqua Shimmer Confetti Mix, which added lots of sparkle and movement to the design. Once everything was securely in place, I attached the shaker to a top-folding A2 card base. I couldn’t resist adding the adorable penguins around the sentiment, making it feel extra festive and full of winter cheer.

I absolutely love how this card turned out—it’s fun and full of sparkle without being overly glittery. I hope this tutorial inspires you to create your own shaker cards this holiday season, and if you love penguins as much as I do, this stamp set is a must-have!

Thanks for stopping by, and I can’t wait to share more creative inspiration with you soon!

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Merry Christmas Stocking

Hello crafty friends! Leica here, and I’m excited to show you how to make a fun A2-sized Christmas shaker card. Trust me, this card is an absolute delight to make, and whoever gets it will be over the moon! It’s so satisfying to give it a little shake. Let’s jump in!

I started with a white A2-sized piece of cardstock and gave it a fun background using the Layered Stockings Stencil. This stencil has three layers, and you can customize  your card panels with different ink colors. For my card, I used Festive Berries and Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide Inks. I added some splatters of gold acrylic ink to make it even more interesting.

To create the shaker part, I cut out a red frame using the Fancy Cake Dies. I glued a clear sheet on the back of the frame. Then, I added foam tape on the back of the frame and filled it up with the Jolly Santa Mix before sealing it shut.

Next up, I assembled a Christmas stocking using the Build A Stocking Dies and filled it with bits from the Holiday Mug Additions dies. For the words, I cut out “Merry” in gold glitter foam and placed it on top of the stocking. Then, I added “Christmas” on a strip of white cardstock and raised it up with some foam tape just below “Merry.”

Finally, I glued the card panel onto a standard A2-sized card base, and there you have it—my Christmas shaker card! I hope I’ve inspired you to give shaker cards a try. Be sure to share your creations with us using #prettypinkposhstamps. Happy crafting!

Holly Jolly Ornaments

Hello, Gemma here today to share a jolly Christmas card, featuring the Build an Ornament die set. This set has so many elements included, given lots of possibilities for designs.

I began by die cutting two ornaments from pearl sparkle card, along with the ornament toppers from gold glitter card. 

Next, I cut some of the different decorative elements, playing around with designs until I was happy with both ornaments.

To add some extra touches to the ornaments, I die cut gold glitter strings, using a die from the Simple Strips die set. I also adhered some foliage, using two dies from the Holiday Wreath Builder die set.

To add interest and texture to my A2 top folding white card base, I die cut a panel using the Pierced Snowflakes cover plate. I then added the ornaments on top.

For my sentiment, I white heat embossed ‘holly jolly’ from the Upright Greetings: Christmas stamp set on red card. I used a Sentiment Strip die to cut it out, then another strip from gold glitter card. 

I attached the two tags together, using a tiny attacher staple, then adhered the sentiment strips to my card to finish.

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday season.