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Winter Wonderland in August | Pretty Pink Posh

By on August 5, 2018

Pretty Pink Posh Winter Wonderland by Thi LamHello, crafty friends! I hope you’re having a wonderful summer day today! It’s August and 90 degrees in California! Maybe it’s the heat that compelled me to make a Christmas card in the summer, but that’s what I did and I love it! Let’s begin the process on this cute card I made featuring Pretty Pink Posh stamps and dies.

First, I stamped Winter Wonderland critters onto white card stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored everything with Copic colors and die cut with coordinating dies.

Next, I die cut the Merry Christmas script die 3 times on white card stock. I stacked them and glued them together for dimension. If you’ve read a few of my other posts, you will know that I love me some dimensions…especially when it comes to word dies.

Then, I ink blended a wintery background with Distress Ink in Blueprint Sketch, Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass. After that, I sprayed some water and lifted some of the ink so I have those cool spots that Distress Ink makes when it reacts with water. Then, I flicked on some Gansai metallic white ink (because it was already on my desk. If I was to do this again, I would have chosen an opaque white paint) to look like a flurry.

After my background dried, I put the card together! I glued the sentiment die with Ranger media matte to the top of the card. The critters were arranged on the bottom. I left the bottom of my background white to look like snow and popped up all my critters with foam tape for…yup, dimension.

The card was finished off with some sparkling clear snowflakes and I am feeling 10 degrees cooler now! I hope you like my card and thank you so much for stopping by!


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Christmas Friends Gift Card Holder | Pretty Pink Posh

By on December 20, 2017

handmade Christmas gift holder cardHello! Today’s gift card holder card features Christmas Friends stamps by Pretty Pink Posh. I love these cute little guys and I love that I can just change up how I color their clothes to make them fit any card design. The card is designed to match the traditional colors found in the Target gift card I picked up.

Supplies

  • Christmas Friends stamp set
  • Winter Wonderland stamp set
  • Scallop Frame die set
  • Stitched Notes die set
  • Lawn Fawn Knit Picky pattern paper

I saw this knit gift card at Target and knew what paper I would be pairing it with but I didn’t know which stamp set I was going to use until I got home. I decided this time to use the smaller frame die that came with Pretty Pink Posh scallop frame die and cut out the green and white knit paper with it and inlay it this time (learned from my mistake with the last card). I’m going to use it’s reverse for another card that I did not show that’s very similar to this one. No waste!

I stamped my two cute friends from Christmas Friends and colored them with Copic markers to coordinate with the patterned paper and gift card.

I used foam tape to create a little space where I can tuck the card between the 3 images. More on this later.

I finished with the Happy Winter sentiment from Winter Wonderland stamp set and stamped it onto a tag I die cut from the Stitched Notes die set with green dye ink. I put that on foam tape as well for the top of the card so that I could tuck the gift card between the sentiment piece and the 2 Christmas friends. Unfortunately it wasn’t as secure as I wanted and kept sliding out the sides so I remedied that with a little glue dots behind the gift card. Problem solved!

I really liked the finish results of this card and I hope you do too! Thanks for stopping by!

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25 Days of Christmas Tags 2017 | Pretty Pink Posh

By on November 23, 2017

pretty pink posh handmade Christmas tags Today I am sharing Christmas tags for Pretty Pink Posh in Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags event! I’m really excited about sharing what I made with you today.

Supplies I Used:

I started by die cutting 3 Scallop Square Tags Dies onto white card stock. I love these square tags! I stamped snowflakes from Winter Wonderland stamp set and sentiments from the coordinating stamp set I used per tag in Versamark ink and heated white embossing powder since I was planning to do some emboss resist. After that, I blended Distress Ink for a blue tag using Peacock Feather and Broken China, a pink tag using Worn Lipstick and Spun Sugar and yellow tag in Fossilized Amber and Mustard Seed. I used painters tape to mask off the edges so they stayed white.

I colored all the images with Copic markers and fussy cut each and left a white border around. I then adhere everything with foam tape to give it a little dimension.

I finished every tag with a few sparkling clear confetti in different sizes and voila! The tags are done!

Don’t forget to stop by Tracey McNeely’s 25 Days of Christmas Tags to see what everybody else made!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Pretty Pink Posh November Release | Blog Hop

By on November 2, 2017

Pretty Pink Posh November Blog Hop

Hello crafty friends! If you just came from Nichol Spohr‘s amazing post, you are at the right place! How amazing are all the projects so far?! As talented as all the designers are, this release is so adorable, you can’t help but make cute stuff!

Win a $25 Gift Certificate

Before we get started, don’t forget! There are 4 $25 gift certificates up for grabs (two winners each day). Winners will be picked randomly along the blog hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PST on 11/7/2017. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog. Good luck!

pretty pink posh winter woodland handmade card

Key Players

Today’s card features a bunch of fun new products from the new release:

The Play

I started by stamping our adorable Winter Woodland friends onto white cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink to get myself ready for some Copic coloring. After coloring the images, I die cut them with the coordinating dies.

I cut a piece of Bristol Smooth paper to 5.5 and 4.25 inches then blended Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass and Evergreen Bough for my background. As I let that dry a little, I cut out the “Merry Christmas” word die out of glittery cardstock. Here’s a tip for glittery cardstock: In my experience, the glitter paper is always thicker than regular cardstock. I always use a shim to cut anything out of glittery paper. This die is gorgeous and very thin and intricate, so I definitely recommend a shim to get those beautiful, clean cuts.

I glued the Merry Christmas sentiment and a few of the branches from the stamp set to the background. I popped up the critters with foam tape and arranged my scene where the foxes and bunny are under the sentiment while the two birds are perked on the Merry Christmas sentiment.

I finished the card by adhering the Sparkling Clear Snowflake Sequins (which I am in love with) and a few of the 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins. Confession: I misplaced the dot in my ‘I’ in Christmas so I decided to use one of these little sequins in hit’s place! No harm, no foul, haha.

pretty pink posh winter woodland

I mounted the scene to an A2 card base (5.5 x 4.25 inches) I made with 110 lb. white card stock. I went back with a white gel pen just to add a little detailing and my card is finished!

Thank you so much for stopping by. Please leave a comment to enter to win a $25 gift card and continue hopping along. Next on the blog hop is the very talented Lisa Elton.

Here is today’s line up in case you get lost.

November 2

Pretty Pink Posh blog
Kay Miller
Amy Yang
Heather Hoffman
Joni Andaya
Nichol Spohr
Thi Lam <– You are here –>
Lisa Elton
Shannon McComb
Cathy Zielske
Yoonsun Hur

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Masking Mania | Pretty Pink Posh Reindeer Friends

By on October 20, 2017

Pretty Pink Posh - Reindeer Friends

Hello beautiful friends! Hope everybody is having an amazing Friday!

Today’s card features the adorable Reindeer Friends from Pretty Pink Posh. Plus – it’s my first time masking this much. I had a vision in my head when I designed this card and execution was a lot more difficult than I thought! But! The good news is, I learned a lot and the next time I do this kind of masking, I think I will have a better handle on it.

I first stamped the presents using Versafine Vintage Sepia ink onto watercolor paper since I will be using Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers for coloring. I then cut out 2 masks on Post-it paper (that eventually turned into 5) to stamp the fun mountain of presents! I then stamped the little reindeer that is holding a present on top. The sentiment was also stamped in Versafine Vintage Sepia and I was done with my stamping and ready to color.

I kept coloring very simple by alternating a few colors:

  • Reindeer – oatmeal, dark oatmeal and pale rose for the cheeks
  • Presents – pale rose, turquoise green, mid green, mustard

 

I trimmed down the watercolored piece and mounted it on glittery gold cardstock. I then foam-mounted the entire thing onto an aqua cardstock (in retrospect, I would trim down the watercolor piece more so more of the background color is showing – but after coloring so much, I didn’t have the heart to do it! But I think it would look a lot more balanced if I did.) then mounted the the entire thing on a top folding A2 base. I decided my masking wasn’t great and there were too many holes. Originally, I wanted this to be a one layer card but it didn’t happen because I was so unhappy w/ the “holes”. I stamped additional presents and colored them and mounted them on top of the holes where I didn’t have any presents. I finished the card with some Mermaid Mix sequins because I wanted those blues and gold sequins on the card. The smaller droplets are from the Mermaid mix but I also added the one 6mm Droplet for some added dimension and interest.

I hope you enjoying this little tutorial and my card. Thanks for stopping by!

 

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Lawnfawnatics Challenge #12 – Create a Scene

By on September 16, 2017

Hello everybody! The creative juices have been flowing lately and I needed to take advantage of it. When I received the Stamptember collaboration between Simon Says Stamp and Pretty Pink Posh, I saw wallpaper. So when I looked up the current Lawnfawnatics challenge and saw it was “create a scene” it was a pretty opportunity to combine some of my stamps together, which I haven’t been doing much lately.

I stamped the fireplace on first and made a mask on top and began working on my background. I ink blended the bottom and top in two different colors of ink and left a white band as base molding for the wall. I stamped the damask greetings stamps in the same ink color on top to make a wallpaper pattern. I was able to do this without my Misti since it was smaller stamps and I just wanted a wash of color to give it a vintage feel.

I then colored all the other images from Lawn Fawn Christmas Dreams with Copic markers and mounted them into the scene.

I hope you liked today’s card. Thanks for stopping by!

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