Hello and Happy Halloween! It’s Keeway again and I’m back for my second guest post for Pretty Pink Posh. For all of you taking the kids out for trick or treating, stay safe! I recently moved to my first home only a week ago and my neighbors have decorated their homes for all the trick or treaters tonight. I hope there’s a nice turnout or else I’m going to end up with a lot of candy…eeks!

Hopefully your Halloween cards are all sent out, cause it’s time to get started on those winter holiday cards! Have you seen how cute the holiday sets in the October release are? Today I’ll be showing off one of them today, the Winter Wonderland stamp set.

Admittedly, today’s card took quite a bit of time since there’s a lot of layers involved even though it might not look like it! I started with blue A2 sized card stock and die cut Storybook 1 in the center. Then I heat embossed a few snowflakes from the stamp set in white in the top left and bottom right corners.

Next, I die cut the same Storybook 1 on white cardstock, extracted the pieces within the windows to inlay in the blue windows. I cut a curve in the top 2 pieces leaving areas window for my shaker window.

So here’s where it gets interesting and some piecing together. First, I adhered a piece of acetate directly behind my blue cardstock. Next, I inlaid my die cut snow pieces back into the window. Then, I added craft foam in back, all around the areas outside the clear windows, leaving a small area to add some Winter Sparkle Mix Sequins.

Now to seal all the sequins in, I need to add a background. I used another piece of white cardstock, blended on some tumbled glass distress ink, and then heat embossed my sentiment “baby it’s cold outside” in silver right where it will show in the top right window. Woohoo, now the shaker scene is done!

Lastly, I stamped my the eskimo, igloo, and polar bear on white cardstock and colored them up with copic markers. Then I die cut them with the Winter Wonderland coordinating dies and adhered them to my card with foam squares. It’s finally done!

Cheers, Keeway

Hello crafty friends, this is Julia again! Today I am going to show you how you can use an optical illusion for a super neat card design that can be adapted to all sorts of shapes and stamp sets. Let’s have a look!

As you can see, the big Stitched Hexagons shape die is perfect for this card. I think there might be an easier way to go about creating the shape, but I though it was easiest to cut out the Hexagon first and then die cut all the other shapes from the Giving Thanks set from it.

The main trick is to make sure you have many shapes that go over the edge of the Hexagon. By having many partial die cuts you’ll be able to re-create the hexagon shape later on, even though it’s just an illusion. But this is just a neat trick our brain plays on us because it needs to make sense of everything, and so it fills in the blanks and suddenly you have a shape emerging before your eyes.

I decided to color these images once I had them adhered with foam to the card. You could very well also just mounts the black and white images to a kraft card base (perfect for fall), or if you have winter images mount them on a blue or red card base, etc.

Want to see how to create this card from start to finish? Click on the graphic below!

Of course I had to sprinkle some sequins inbetween the die cuts – fortunately, the 4mm Wildflowers Mix took the guesswork out of the equation, and I had to add in some 3mm Sparkling Clear sequins because I have a Sparkling Clear addiction!

Hello there! It’s Keeway and I’m so thrilled to be here today as guest designer for Pretty Pink Posh. I don’t know about you, but I have been drooling over all the projects made with the October release. This release is a knock out and just filled with cuteness!!

We’re just less than 2 weeks away from Halloween so I thought it would be a perfect time show off the Halloween Friends set in today’s card. The first cutie that caught my attention in this set is the butterfly bear so I just had to color him up immediately!

I started by stamping the bear in a milk chocolate hybrid ink on white cardstock, and colored him with copic markers. I then die cut him with the Halloween Friends coordinating dies.

Next, on an A2 sized white cardstock base, I used a circle die to help me draw a circle in pencil to serve as guidelines for stamping my circle of candy. Of course, you can use anything to help you draw the circle. Sometimes I grab my washi tape, or water bottle, or whatever happens to be in my reach!

I then used the same milk chocolate hybrid ink and stamped the small candies and 2 of the ghosts in a circle. Then, I was able to color them in with copic markers.

The last part is positioning what goes in the middle. I used my mini MISTI to help me position the sentiment. I stamped it once before adding my butterfly bear, and then once after gluing the bear down. If you look closely, part of the first “t” touches the bear’s right wing, and the MISTI helped me ensure that I am stamping the same place. That finishes my “almost” single layer card!

Hugs, Keeway

Hello friends!! Amy L. here today with a winter card featuring the Winter Wonderland Stamp Set, Winter Wonderland Die Set and Holiday Greetings Stamp Set (free gift with $100 purchase while supplies last). I grew up in Hong Kong where it doesn’t snow. So, when I moved to the US, I was so happy because I could see and touch real snow! Here is my snowy card inspired by the sentiment “Let it snow” ☺

Here is how I made my card:

1. On a watercolor paper, mask off a slope. Blend distress inks in Tumbled Glass, Blueprint Sketch and Wilted Violet. Add droplets of Perfect Pearl solution and white paint splatters
2. Use the Stitched Hexagons Dies to die cut through the scene. Die cut another smaller hexagon from watercolor paper. Blend Mermaid Lagoon and Seedless Preserves distress inks. Treat with Perfect Pearl and white splatters. White heat emboss the sentiment
3. Stamp the igloo with Antique Linen distress ink. Watercolor with Tumbled Glass. Die cut out with coordinating die
4. Stamp out some snowflakes with distress inks in the same colors. Die cut out accordingly
5. Adhere everything in place with foam tape. Embellish with PPP 4mm Clear Droplets, Sparkling Clear Sequin Mix and Holiday Shimmer Mix