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10 Minute Cards

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here to share a few cards that I made combining some beautiful Altenew stamps with Pretty Pink Posh dies and sequins – such a perfect combination! This is also your reminder of the Ultimate Challenge Blog Hop with Altenew, which ends in two days.

This always used to be one of my VERY favorite challenges! Something about trying to make a card in just 10 minutes – so stressful sometimes, and yet SOOO fun! Let me start by noting – I did NOT make all 3 of these cards under 10 minutes, I made each one separately, and each time shortened my time by about a minute or more. I figured it was fun to show how easy it is to take a simple design and make multiple cards all very quickly!

For these cards, I layed out the florals from Altenew’s Floral Shadow Stamp set in my full size MISTI – this allowed me to easily create more cards without having to stamp everything individually. I stamped the panels in 3 different ink colors from Simon Says Stamp – Laurel Green, Apricot, and Wisteria. I used PPP’s Scallop Ovals dies to create a frame – even trimmed thin strips of foam adhesive to make it pop off the background a bit.

This first card took me 9 minutes and 6 seconds – I was kind of scared I wasn’t going to make it in time! As usually happens, I had a clog in my glue bottle, couldn’t find my foam tape for a few seconds, and other tiny mishaps, but made with it almost a minute to spare! Whew! On this one I embellished with Rose Gold sequins in 6mm and 4mm.

This second card I shaved almost a minute off my time, so got down to 8 minutes and 17 seconds. I honestly thought I was going even faster than that – so I was surprised it took that long! Haha! On this one, I embellished with Metallic Gold sequins, again in 6mm and 4mm.

And finally, on this one I got my quickest time – 6 minutes and 57 seconds! YAY! You can see now how easy it would be to keep recreating this same card in different colors and with different sentiments! This last one I embellished with Metallic Silver, in 6mm and 4mm as before.

What do you think – do you like recreating extra cards when you find a design you love that works? Such a great way to spend a little time and make several cards at the same time!

Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!!!

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10 Minute Craft Dash Returns!

If you read the post title and have followed the Pretty Pink Posh blog for a while, I’m sure you are super excited. For this special challenge blog hop, I am bringing back the popular 10 Minute Craft Dash and honestly, I couldn’t be more excited. This challenge is where I challenged crafters to create something within a 10 minute time frame. I really wanted to encourage crafters that they didn’t need to set aside a whole day, or several hours, to create something.

The super sweet Nina-Marie has created a post, along with a coordinating video, for today’s post. Let’s check out what she made…

Nina-Marie here with you today sharing a fun project -and challenge- with you today! This post is in collaboration with Altenew’s Ultimate Craft challenge and here at Pretty Pink Posh, we are featuring a fun 10 Minute Craft Dash.

I’ll be using a combination of Pretty Pink Posh and Altenew products; the Floral Shadow stamp set and Thanks die (from Altenew), along with the Birdie Friends stamp set, Scallop Borders die set and 3mm Sparkling Clear and mix sequins (all from Pretty Pink Posh).

In this challenge, you are required to make a card or project in 10 minutes or less! When I got the assignment topic for this post I knew this would be fun, but also REALLY challenging for me because I usually make cards that are pretty involved in the coloring process. I knew immediately that coloring of any length would be out of the question because it takes me MUCH longer than 10 minutes to color something in! Haha!

Another thing I do not do when I am making a card is actually PLAN; I like to create as I go along. I sometimes have a general idea with the direction of a card when I start out, but nothing real definitive. But for this, I knew I needed a solid plan to stick to because of the limited amount of time I had to work with. This layout for my card was super easy to put together, but at the same time, shows off the gorgeous floral pattern in the background perfectly!

Speaking of the background; I wanted to color SOMETHING in this card, but because of the 10 minute time frame, I knew it was going to have to be a fast technique. In this video, I’ll be sharing how I created this beautiful watercolor background in less than 4 minutes!

Be sure you check out the video below to see that, along with how I created the entire card in a total of 9 minutes and 42 seconds!

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Altenew
Virginia’s View Challenge
CASology Challenge
Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge
Ellen Hutson Pin-Sights Challenge
CAS(E) this Sketch Challenge
Tag You’re It Challenge
The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge
Less is More Challenge
Muse Challenge
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge
Color Q Challenge
One-Layer Simplicity Challenge
Seize the Birthday Challenge
Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge
Time Out Challenge
Color Throwdown Challenge
CAS Mix Up Challenge
Pretty Pink Posh 10 Minute Craft Dash Challenge

How to Play: Create a card/ craft project within 10 minutes featuring Altenew and post the time it took to create. Also, include the challenge graphic in your post and link back to the challenge!

Prizes: To celebrate this fantastic blog hop, Altenew is giving away $35 gift certificates to FIVE lucky winners. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew blog on October 17th, 2016.

* If you aren’t able to stay within the 10 minutes, you can still link up your post. (It might qualify for one of the other challenges part of this challenge blog hop)!

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Rainbow Challenge Winners

It’s time to announce the winners of the Rainbow challenge we hosted. It truly was a joy to see all the beautiful work submitted and read how you were inspired by the cards by the team and see you stretch your creativity.

It’s always hard for us to pick winners. Ultimately, it came down to the use of PPP products, how they interpreted the inspiration and of course, use of the pretty rainbow colors! I truly wish I could award you all prizes for joining along!

Rainbow Challenge Winners If you are one of the winners, please email me within 7 days to claim your $30 gift certificate. Nicola, as a special mention, you’ll receive a small gift as well! Please email to claim your prize.

Would you like to see more challenges occasionally? I would love to hear your thoughts!

Thank you to everyone who joined along in the challenge. Have a great rest of your Sunday!

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Rainbow Challenge

Hello, friends!

It’s been about four months since the last challenge I posted where YOU could share your Pretty Pink Posh creations. This is the perfect opportunity for me (and others) to see your stunning work. Many of my designers started as customers and once I saw their work, I invited them to join the team. Now is the time for YOU to share your creativity and beautiful works of art!

I pulled four different cards that some of my designers have created with a rainbow theme to serve as inspiration for this challenge. You could be inspired by the colors they used, stamps, layouts… it’s really up to you and your interpretation!

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If you are social on Instagram, be sure to hashtag #prettypinkposh and tag me @prettypinkposh so I can be sure to see your work there as well! I love seeing what my customers and readers create and as I’m looking to the upcoming months, I just may be in need of some new talent to join the team as a guest designer for new releases!

Happy crafting!

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Mixing It Up With Ellen Hutson!

Hi everyone, it’s Nina-Marie here today to share a fun way to combine your distress inks with traditional watercolors and achieve beautiful results!

I created this for Ellen Hutson’s Mix It Up challenge and I hope you’ll stop by their blog too so that you can link up your cards featuring Pretty Pink Posh and Ellen Hutson! This card is full of you products from both Ellen Hutson’s Essentials by Ellen line, and Pretty Pink Posh!

I used the Bohemian Garden stamps and Zipper Panel die sets (by Ellen Hutson), along with Pretty Pink Posh’s Rainy Days stamp set and Sparkling Clear mix sequins… I’m telling you, I love the Sparkling Clear sequins; they work for EVERYTHING!

I used my distress inks for the background and Prima’s Tropical Watercolor Confections palette to add color to my flowers.

I have put together a video showing how I created the card from start to finish, so be sure to check that out below, or over on the Pretty Pink Posh YouTube channel… don’t forget to subscribe too so that you don’t miss any of our future videos!

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I hope this card has inspired you to do some watercoloring using any watercolor mediums you have on hand…. remember that watercoloring looks good whether it is “controlled” or “freestyle”. Use the method you like best and give it a try. Then, link up your projects over at the Ellen Hutson blog for a chance to win a $50 gift certificate!

Happy crafting and thanks for stopping by today!

xoxo, Nina-Marie

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Valentine Challenge Winners

It’s time to announce the winners of the Valentine challenge we hosted. It truly was a joy to see all the work submitted and read how you were inspired by the cards by the team.

It was such a hard decision picking the winners, but ultimately, it came down to the use of products and how clearly we could see the entry. I truly wish I could award you all prizes for joining along!

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If you are one of the winners, please email me within 7 days to claim your $30 gift certificate. Maria, as a special mention, you’ll receive a small gift as well! Please email to claim your prize.

Would you like to see more challenges occasionally? I would love to hear your thoughts!

Thank you to everyone who joined along in the challenge. Have a great rest of your Sunday!

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Valentine Challenge

Hello, friends!

For quite some time, I’ve wanted to post a challenge where YOU could share your Pretty Pink Posh creations. This is the perfect opportunity for me (and others) to see your stunning work. Many of my designers started as customers and once I saw their work, I invited them to join the team. Now is the time for YOU to share your creativity and beautiful works of art!

I pulled four different cards that some of my designers have created to serve as inspiration for this Valentine challenge. You could be inspired by the colors they used, stamps, layouts… it’s really up to you and your interpretation!

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I’m really looking forward to seeing what you create!

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Valentine’s Day Shaker + Giveaway

Happy Valentine’s Day, sweet readers.

I don’t know about you, but I love this holiday. Granted, I’m single and don’t have a hot date planned this year, but I love the idea of spreading love to your friends, family and loved ones. Plus, it’s hard for me to resist all the pretty reds and pinks surround the holiday!

Today I’m joining my friends at Virginia’s View Challenge for the shaker card theme is happening right now. Since I’m a big fan of shaker cards and the Pretty Pink Posh sequins and confetti are perfect for these types of cards, I’m sponsoring a prize for a lucky participant.

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Since I knew I would be posting on Valentine’s Day, I thought I would add in as much pink and red as possible. I started out with the Lawn Fawn Summertime Charm set and dies (one of my favorites) and proceeded to fill up my mason jar with all sorts of sequins and confetti.

GIVEAWAY ALERT: Since it’s Valentine’s Day, I wanted to pass on a little love to one of my readers. Leave a comment sharing something fun, happy or silly that happened to you recently. (I’m in need of a laugh). One random winner will receive a $40 Pretty Pink Posh gift certificate!

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I hope you have a wonderful weekend and pop over on to Virginia’s View Challenge. There a TON of amazing shaker card inspiration, plus, it’s always fun to participate in a challenge that has prizes!

I’ll be back on Monday with a new post AND info on a one-day sale I’m having over in the Pretty Pink Posh Shop. Thanks for spending some time with me today!

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10 Minute Craft Dash #32

This post is such a bittersweet one for me. The sad news: this is the last 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge in the foreseeable future. If you’ve followed the challenge, you’ll know that this decision was a hard one for me to make. It’s been my “baby” these last 16 months and while I hate to see it go, with the declining number of submissions, this decision was imminent. Not to fret, I will always keep the challenge in the back of my mind and who knows what could happen down the road…

Now onto the happy news: today we are teaming up with our wonderful friends at the CAS-ual Fridays challenge! We did this collaboration last year and it was so fun, I was thrilled that it worked out for us to do it again. I want to note that my challenge is SEPARATE from their challenge, but if you were to incorporate a new year theme into your card, you could enter it in their challenge as well!

NOTE: their challenge starts at noon– only a couple hours away, but I wanted to be sure to mention that. :)

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Just like the last 10 Minute Craft Dash challenge, there isn’t a specific color palette. The requirements? Create some sort of holiday goodness, stay within the 10 minute time limit* and post your time in your post.

* If you aren’t able to stay within the 10 minutes, you can still link up your item! While it won’t quality for the winners spot, it might still be featured in the favorites!

Now onto the great prize! The lucky winner will get a $25 gift certificate to CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and gets to have a shopping spree. With the latest addition of Fri-Dies (steel dies) and new stamp sets, you’re bound to have all sorts of fun adding items to your shopping cart.

How to Play

Create a card/craft project within 10 minutes.
Post the time it took to create.
Be sure to include the challenge graphic in your post and link to the challenge.
You may combine a total of three challenges with your entry. You may enter the challenge a maximum of two times.
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Due to the holidays, we are giving you two FULL weeks to play along! Can we break our record of 100 entries? Play along and spread the word!

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10 Minute Craft Dash #28

Colors: Lipstick Red, Turquoise, Olive Green

Have you ever stumbled across a new color palette that you fall in love with instantly? Today’s colors do it for me. I love how fresh they are and also how they can be used for all sorts of seasons. As you’ll see in the samples below, half of the team went the route of Christmas (without any word from me!) and then the other half went the route of everyday creations. How fun is that?! You’ll get inspiration of all kinds in today’s post!

Today we have a returning sponsor, along with many of their design team. Be sure to scroll below so you can visit their links and see what they created with the colors!

* If you aren’t able to stay within the 10 minutes, you can still link up your item! While it won’t quality for the winner spot, it still could qualify as a favorites pick!

Now onto the great prize! The lucky winner will get a $25 gift certificate to Paper Sweeties! They recently started carrying Sweet Cuts, which are steel die cuts to match their sweeties. Also, they just had a new release and there are new fall stamps!

I’m thrilled to have some of the Paper Sweeties gals bringing inspiration today. Be sure to visit their blogs and see their inspiring creations with these colors!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Jeanne Jachna

Lori Hairston

Michelle Bala

Tammy Hobbs

How to Play

Create a card/craft project within 10 minutes featuring the color palette.
Post the time it took to create.
Be sure to include the challenge graphic in your post and link to the challenge.
You may combine a total of three challenges with your entry. You may enter the challenge a maximum of two times.
Subscribe to Pretty Pink Posh via Email

Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Summertime Charm	Lawn Fawn Clear Stamps, Summertime Charm	Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Basic Set	Mama Elephant Creative Cuts, Basic Set	Lawn Fawn Cut Dies, Summertime Charm
Lawn Fawn Cut Dies, Summertime Charm	Lawn Cuts Dies, Grassy Border	Lawn Cuts Dies, Grassy Border	Avery Elle 6×6 Paper, Sorbet Collection	Avery Elle 6×6 Paper, Sorbet Collection
May Arts Chevron Twill (red)	6mm Silver Confetti	Pink Peonies Sequins	4MM Pink Peonies Sequins	Raspberry Sequins
4mm Sparkling Clear Sequins	4mm Raspberry Sequins (cupped)	Marshmallow Sequins