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 Plate. This 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 Beads. Next 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!

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!

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!

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!

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.

Hi crafty friends, Debbie here on the blog today. Who doesn’t love a beautiful winter release packed with fun ornaments, snowflakes, and shaker dies! I am sharing the new Holiday Ornaments stamp set from the Winter Release. 

I always like to start off with my background, making it a slimline. First I cut a panel 4 X 8.5 inches to then later trim down. Placing the Cascading Snowflakes Stencil over the panel vertical. Ink blended on a light pink ink, slide it down and blended on the lower portion of the panel. Mask off if need to have a clean snowflake panel. I then layered back over the pink snowflakes and add a clear glitter paste, let dry. Then go over the bottom snowflakes. Make sure to clean the stencil right after removing it, the paste will dry on it. 

While the panel is drying, stamp out the images from the Holiday Ornaments with a no line ink or a very light ink that is Copic friendly. Leaving the stamps in the Misti, I Copic colored them in with red, pinks, teals and a yellow gold. Then placed the images back into my Misti, added anti-static powder,stamped with VeraMark Ink. Heat embossed with gold embossing powder. Then with the Holiday Ornaments coordinating Dies cut them out.

Knowing I was going to have them hanging I needed a string and bows. So from gold card stock I used the Beautiful Bows Dies and Simple Strips Dies. With liquid glue adhere to the ornaments and add foam to the back of the ornaments. The last thing I need was a sentiment, I then white heat embossed Merry and Bright from Winter Greetings. Die cut the sentiment out with the Coordinating Dies. Attaching it with foam squares and adding the panel to a card base.

Thanks for stopping by and stay crafty my friends!