First of all, I colored the poinsettia images from Poinsettias stamp set with my Copic markers and die cut with Poinsettias coordinating dies. I also cut branches from white card stock using Pine Sprigs Dies and inked tips of these branches with Tim Holtz Distress ink in Vintage Photo. I set all of them aside for later use.

Now it’s time for me to prepare the background. I cut an A2 panel out of a piece of Red heavy weight card stock, then I ink blended the edges of background using Black Soot Distress Oxide. I noticed many of our talented designers has been using this technique to create gorgeous backgrounds and I had to try it. It took me 2 minutes to make it and it turned out as great as I expected!

I assembled colored images and die cuts onto the background and splattered white paints to create snowflakes. At last, I stamped the sentiment “Season’s Greetings” from Decorative Ornament Stamp set using Versafine Oynx Black ink. This is a card that you could mass produce for Christmas. I highly encourage you to give it a try!

To create the background, I grabbed another piece of cardstock and ink blended the top surface with Tim Holtz Distress ink in Faded Jeans and Black soot. I added colored images and splattered white paint over. Then I poured all my shaker elements (4mm Sparkling Clear Sequins,Marshmallow Sequins and Midnight Black Jewels) and I added top panel to close the shaker window.

I decided to use a script die cut as the sentiment for this card. I cut from a white cardstock using Ornament Shaker Die. Then I hand cut the script word “Jolly” out of the original shape of die cut. I adhered it onto the lower part of this card. After I arranged colored images around the window, I embellished the front panel with Midnight Black Jewels and 4mm Sparkling Clear Sequins. To make this card looking not so flat, I ink blended with Black Soot onto the top and bottom edges of front panel along with the script die cut. I also splattered white paint at the bottom of window to create some snow on the ground for critters to stand on.

Welcome everyone to Christmas Theme week with Pretty Pink Posh! I hope you are enjoying all of the inspiration the team is showing.

Don’t forget to take advantage of the 15% discount on the Christmas Items in the store! Great way to stock up!

My project today is creating a Scalloped Box Pop up card with the Reindeer Friends stamp set. The critters over at Pretty Pink Posh are always so adorable but I have been in love with these reindeer since they were released.

I stamped my reindeer onto Neenah Solar White cardstock with MFT Extreme Black Ink. Then colored with my copic markers and used the coordinating die to cut them out. My box is created using the Scallop Box Pop Up card die with Chili Red cardstock. I decorated the panels with patterned paper from the Jolly paper pack from Pink & Main.

To adhere my reindeer I attached them to strips of acetate. That way I wasn’t hiding any part of them and some even look like they are jumping through the air!

My sentiment comes from the Holiday Greetings stamp set which has such a great variety of beautiful sentiments! The Scallop Box card folds up perfectly to fit into an A2 size envelope. What a treat it’ll be when someone opens the envelope and this box card pops up with these adorable reindeer!

I hope you enjoyed this card. We’ll see you tomorrow for another day of Christmas Theme Week!

Hello There! This is Caly and I’m sharing a card today for Christmas Theme Week!  I honestly can’t believe we’re into December!  I can only make a few more holiday cards before the month is over and we switch gears to spring.  Today, I’m sharing a card using Decorative Ornaments and Pine Springs – all new from Pretty Pink Posh.

If you don’t own any of these sets yet you’re in luck!  Pretty Pink Posh has 15% off items in the Christmas section!

I started by stamping the images on red cardstock and embossing the image with gold embossing powder.  I knew I wanted to add shading and color with soft colored pencils – so after embossing and die-cutting the images, I ink-sponged some dark red ink around each ornament – giving it shading around the outer edges.

To give the ornaments some color, I used Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils Gold 250, Light Green 171, Pine Green 267, Dark Red 225, Ivory 103).  I went over the areas I wanted to color first with Ivory to lay a base – then used the other colors to add shading and depth in those smaller areas.

I die cut the Pine Springs using two shades of green cardstock and also ink-sponged the edges to give them some added depth.  For the background, I used a light blue cardstock and ink-blended around the card panel using Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide Ink.  I adhered the pine springs on the card panel first, then punch some holes in the ornaments and strung them with gold thread before adhering them to the card panel over the pine springs using foam adhesive.  The sentiment is from the same stamp sent and stamped and embossed using white embossing powder.  To give the card a final touch, I added a clear lacquer (Glossy Accents) over the colored areas and some drops all over.

I really hope you enjoyed that!  The glossy accents really is an invaluable tool and adds a wonderful element.  Have a fabulous day, everyone!

Caly

Hello! It’s Lindsay here on the Pretty Pink Posh blog. Today I’m sharing this classic red and green color themed Christmas card highlighting the new Penguin Pals Stamp and Coordinating Die Set and Pine Sprig Dies.

I started with stamping my penguin and accessory images with a copic friendly ink and then copic colored them in classic red and green colors using R24, R29, R39 and G02, G05, and G28. I die cut these out using the Penguin Pals Coordinating Dies.

I got to work on my ink blended background using Distress Oxide Inks in Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and Lucky Clover. I cut down the ink blended background piece to 3 ¼ inches by 5 ½ inches in order to leave room for a border of pine sprigs.

I die cut the Pine Sprigs using two different colors of green cardstock and used Distress Oxide Inks in Mowed Lawn to add some detail to the pine sprigs. I then adhered the sprigs to the back of the inked background to create a border on the right hand side of the card.

I thought I needed some additional red elements so I cut a frame for the critters using Scallop Hexagon Dies from red cardstock. I also added a small border of red cardstock to line the sprig border.

I then got to creating my sentiment. I used the Season’s Greetings sentiment from the Decorative Ornaments Stamp Set and white heat embossed it on to black cardstock. I cut a little flag end onto the sentiment strip.

Aloha,

Lindsay