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Christmas Theme Week: Day 1

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Hi crafty friends! It’s June and I’m sharing some details about a Christmas card I made using a combination of new and older products. I didn’t feel very inspired today, so let me walk you through the process I go through whenever that happens.

Whenever I don’t feel inspired, I like to go for simple color combinations and layouts I’m familiar with, so I don’t have to overthink when I’m creating. I started by coloring in my Holiday Ornaments using 3 colors I love to use together: pink, blue and purple. I started by coloring in the base in very pale shades. For the decorations on each of the ornaments, I went with a combination of gold and a darker shade of the base color. I really didn’t feel like playing around with color combinations within each ornament, so this did the trick! Easy peasy!

I used some of the small decoration pieces from the same set, like the bows and holly, to create some interesting details. I really like how I was able to bring back the red from the pink ornament this way. There wasn’t a string I could stamp, so I cut out the string from the Party Balloons to hang my ornaments. 

For my background, I did my extending method using the largest Eyelet Rectangle die. I have talked about this technique many times, because it’s one of my favorite ways to stretch my die collection, pun intended. I love the way this layout can frame any scene, so it was a great idea to use it so I didn’t have to think about my layout too much.

I cut out a smaller panel to fit inside the stitch lines of my die cut and added a soft ink gradient using Tattered Rose Distress Oxide. I ran that panel through my die cutting machine using the Pierced Stars Plate Die. I think it really gives it that little bit of detail my background needed. I backed my scalloped panel using a scrap piece of pattern paper that compliments the colors I chose.

To finish off my card, I stamped the ‘Tis the Season’ sentiment from the Winter Greetings stamp set in a coral red shade of ink. I glued everything onto my card base and popped up some of the pieces using foam tape.

And that’s it! I actually think this card turned out really cute even though I didn’t expect much today. Sometimes, staying in your comfort zone on these type of days can be the best option it seems!

I hope I’ll see you again soon, bye!

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Holly Jolly Ornaments + Video

Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new video today. I wanted to get a little inky today, so we’re going to have some fun with Distress mediums! I love the different ornaments from the Ornament Cover Plate, so that will be the focus for today’s card.

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I started with die cutting the Ornament Cover Plate from watercolor cardstock. You can see how I ink squished and layered on different Distress mediums in my video today, but I used Evergreen Bough and Pine Needles Distress Oxides to add ink to my card panel. I also sprayed Tree Lot Distress Mica Spray and brought in some Evergreen Bough Distress Ink to fill in some of the leftover white pieces.

For the ornaments, I watercolored them with Distress Watercolor Pencils, using water and paintbrushes to add color to the designs. Once everything was dry, I glued the panel and the ornaments to a card base. I cut the tops of the ornaments using the small die from the Ornament Cover Plate Dies from a shiny cardstock and added them to the top of each ornament.

Using the same cardstock, I cut the Holly Jolly Shadow sentiment. I cut the shadow from vellum and two additional sentiments from scrap, white cardstock. I glued the two white sentiments together and then to the back of the vellum. The shiny cardstock was glued to the top. This allows some dimension without foam that could be visible behind the vellum!

I added the sentiment to the center of the card and some liquid embellishment around the card that matched the cardstock I used for the sentiment and ornament tops.


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Cozy Warm Wishes

Hi friends Debbie here with an adorable shaker card using the Mitten Shaker Die. I just can’t believe this is my first time using it! 

So I started off with my background panel using the Layered Winter Hats Stencil. With a standard panel on a grip mat, I did just a pink and red inks for a  color combination to keep it simple. Once the ink blending is done, trim the panel down to 4 X 5.25 inches. 

Then I took a red cardstock panel and ran it through a cutting machine with Pierced Snowflakes PlateThis will be for a mat and to close the well filled with Christmas Cookie Shaker Beads later.

With the Winter Hat panel place the Mitten Shaker die on top and run through your cutting machine. On the back of the panel attach with double sided adhesive tape a piece of acetate to completely the Mitten window. Next die cut the Mitten Shaker Die out of red and white card stock. Trim off the base of the white one and adhere to the red one. Attach it to the top of the panel over the acetate. Next place the panel in the Misti and stamp on the sentiment with Staźon White ink from Winter Greetings Stamp set

On the back side add foam tape all the way around the window and fill it with the Christmas Cookie Shaker BeadsNext add the Pierced Snowflake panel over it to seal it up. To finish it up I added a small pink bow from the Beautiful Bows Dies and in the center of it I attached on Marshmallow Pearl.

Thanks for stopping by and stay crafty my friends!

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Merry & Bright Ornaments

Hello everyone, it’s June and today I’ll be sharing a Christmas card using my favorite die set of the new release: Build an Ornament!

This was definitely some of the most fun I’ve had while making a card because of all the mixing and matching that’s possible with this die set. I spent ages trying to decide on a cute color scheme and rearranging my die cuts. I decided to go for a muted, kind of vintage looking color palette. I cut 3 of the ornaments out of the different colors I picked and used those as a base to layer the other pieces on. Actually I cut out all 4, but that last one didn’t fit on my card, I think I’ll be using it as a tag to put on a Christmas present later on, because I don’t want it to go to waste.

I tried my best to get a nice varied look on each ornament so they all included my 4 colors: pink, blue, brown and cream, and also a hint of silver. I brought back that silver for the tops of the ornaments so everything matched. I finished off my ornaments by adding some white gel pen details. Since the Build an Ornament set didn’t have a string to hang the ornaments on, I used the string from the Party Balloons dies

I used a slightly darker shade of blue for my background and darkened up the edges using an ink in an even darker shade. I used the same ink to splatter onto my panel and I also splattered a bit of thinned out acrylic paint for some white, snow-like specks. I decided to bring back the silver even more by splattering white-silver metallic paint on my panel aswel. A lot of splattering today! I used the Pierced Snowflake Plate die from last year’s Christmas release to make the background look a bit more interesting. 

I wanted to add more images to the empty spaces around the ornaments, so I embossed some of the snowflakes from the Snowflake stamp set onto vellum using white embossing powder. This gave them an airy look that doesn’t distract too much from the ornaments.

For my sentiment, I went with the ‘Merry & Bright’ from the Winter Greetings. I absolutely love this set so I had to include one of its sentiments! I embossed it using white embossing powder onto brown cardstock that’s a shade darker than I used for the ornaments.

And that’s it for today! I hope you enjoyed reading about the card and I hope it inspires you to start creating as well. I’ll see you again soon, bye for now!

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Easy Watercolor Snowflake Cards

Hi Crafty Friends! Carly here and you might already know that I’m obsessed with snowflake cards.

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If you need a card from late fall until early spring, snowflakes are always the answer! Christmas…snowflakes. Birthday…snowflakes. Thank you…snowflakes. I could go on but I’ll stop, LOL!

The Snowflakes stamp set has quickly become one of my favorites! It pairs so well with these easy watercolor techniques that I’m excited to share with you in my latest video!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you were inspired by these cards!

Joyful Holiday Wishes + Video

Hello crafty friends. It’s Lisa Mears on the blog today sharing a stunning winter snowflake shaker card using the snowflake shaker die from Pretty Pink Posh. This die is perfect for making festive shaker cards that capture the magic of winter.

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For the background of my card, I ink blended Distress Oxide inks in the following colors: Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers, and Broken China. After ink blending, I placed the Cascading Snowflakes stencil over the ink-blended background and sprayed Prize Ribbon Distress Spritz over the stencil. This added a beautiful shimmer and shine to the snowflakes, creating a sparkling snowflake-filled scene.

I added the Snowflake Shaker to the snowflake card panel and added the Snow Days Shaker Beads to the inside of the snowflake.

For the sentiment, I heat embossed a sentiment from the Sentiment Strips Christmas stamp set and die cut it with the coordinating dies.

Thank you for stopping by today. Have a great day!

Lisa Mears

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Quick and Easy Holiday Card

Hello, Gemma here today to share a card featuring the new Christmas Lights Garland die set. I think this set is fabulous for mass producing fun holiday cards quickly and easily.

I began by die cutting the string from the Christmas Lights Garland set twice from a dark grey card stock. This will give a softer look to black card.

The other die in the set cuts out 5 lights at a time, which is a huge time saver. I die cut a rainbow of lights from pearl sparkle card, then adhered the lights to the string.

On my white top folding A2 card base, I stamped a sentiment from the Winter Greetings stamp set. I then adhered the two Christmas Light Garlands to finish this card. 

This was so quick and simple to make, I cut more strings to make a few more cards.

I hope you enjoyed this easy card idea. Thank you for stopping by!

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Autumn Many Thanks

Hi crafty friends! It’s Christina, and I’m back to share a vibrant autumn-themed thank you card featuring many of the die sets in the Pretty Pink Posh fall shop. Follow along as I take you through the steps to create this card perfect for the fall season. 

I started with creating the background panel for my card by die cutting the largest Stitched Torn Rectangle from light blue cardstock. Then I embossed the panel using the Deco Leaves Stencil. I love the subtle texture the embossing gives to the cardstock. To emboss using a stencil, I use the following sandwich in my die cutting machine:

1. bottom cutting plate
2. embossing mat
3. my die cut cardstock panel
4. the stencil
5. some shims
Every machine is different, so your sandwich may be different from mine.

Next, I distressed the background panel with brown Distress Ink and white gouache paint splatter before mounting it on an ivory cardstock panel with foam tape.

My next step was to die cut all the autumn-themed elements for my card. I chose pumpkins, sunflowers, mushrooms, and greenery from the Big Fall Cupcake, the Fall Basket, and the Fall Mug Additions sets. I die cut everything from colored cardstock and added some shading using Distress Inks and small blending brushes. Then, I assembled the die cuts before arranging them on the background panel. I tucked the die cuts in and around each other, using a combination of liquid adhesive and foam squares.

To finish up my card design, I die cut and assembled the Many Thanks Shadow Die from orange and ivory cardstock before attaching it with foam squares. For the final details, I added a couple of white gel pen highlights and a few gems from the Autumn Days Clay Confetti.

That completes this vibrant card featuring many of the beautiful fall-themed sets in the shop. Thanks for following along, and I’ll see you next time!

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Large Snowflake Card

Hello, Gemma here today, sharing a card with the new Stitched Snowflakes die set and Winter Greetings stamp set.

I began by die cutting the largest Stitched Snowflake from gold and white glitter card. I then cut them both in half, using the stitched lines as a guide.

Next, I cut two panels of sparkle card, blue and white, each half A2 size.  On the white sparkle card, I stamped a sentiment from the Winter Greetings stamp set. As the sparkle card is slightly glossy, I embossed it with clear gloss embossing powder so the ink wouldn’t smudge.

I adhered these panels to an A2 card base, then half of each of the snowflakes above to finish.

I hope you were inspired by. There are so many great color combinations you could try with this card design.