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Foil Holiday Lantern + HUGE Giveaway

Hi, friends! We’re excited to be collaborating with Xyron today, sharing foiled projects for the holidays! This is Caly and I have a decorative lantern to share with you using the Stitched Poinsettias and Pine Springs dies!

Pretty Pink Posh: Foil Holiday Lantern + HUGE Giveaway

I started by printing a big sheet of toner-filled cardstock to have a base for my foil to stick to to run through the Xyron Glaminator foil machine.  After printing, I cut pieces of red, gold, and green foil to cover the entire space, put them in my carrier sheet and ran them through the Glaminator.

Pretty Pink Posh: Foil Holiday Lantern + HUGE Giveaway
Pretty Pink Posh: Foil Holiday Lantern + HUGE Giveaway

Once I had my foiled cardstock, I cut the different colored sections and then placed my dies over them to run through my die-cutting machine to get my poinsettia and foliage.  They are so pretty!

Pretty Pink Posh: Foil Holiday Lantern + HUGE Giveaway

I adhered all the foiled pieces together to create my poinsettia and then adhered the leaves and pine springs with foam adhesive and then decorated my lantern.  I decorated my lantern two ways – heavy at the top as well as top and front.

Pretty Pink Posh: Foil Holiday Lantern + HUGE Giveaway
Pretty Pink Posh: Foil Holiday Lantern + HUGE Giveaway

GIVEAWAY: be sure to head to the Pretty Pink Posh Instagram for a chance to win a complete Glaminator prize pack!

These make for beautiful center pieces or just decorative pieces around your home. I hope you’ve enjoyed this project! Make your holidays shiny with foil and holiday dies from Pretty Pink Posh!

~Caly

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Happy Hanukkah

Hi friends, Jeanne here! The holidays are the perfect time to send cards to family and friends to remind them that they are dear to your heart.  It’s a small gesture to let them know that you are thinking of them and wish them good health and cheer. I have a few friends that don’t celebrate Christmas – instead they are celebrating Hanukkah! Doesn’t 8 days and nights of celebration sound amazing? Ok.. so a little jealous here! But seriously, of course I want to respect and celebrate their faith and send them my best wishes with a card that is appropriate for them.

Pretty Pink Posh: Happy Hanukkah

This Hanukkah card starts with a panel of white card stock inked up with Tumbled Glass Distress ink.  Next, I adhered the Leaves and Berries stencil over the panel and applied some Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers and Blueprint Sketch ink.  I gave the stencil a liberal splatter of water before peeling it off for a good cleaning.

NOTE: I use Pixie Spray light adhesive to keep the stencil firmly in place for clean inky images.

Pretty Pink Posh: Happy Hanukkah

I stamped the Happy Hanukkah sentiment on white card stock and cut it with the smaller Scallop Circle die cut.  The open window style die makes it easy to center the sentiment perfectly.

Pretty Pink Posh: Happy Hanukkah

I stamped the menorah in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with Copic Markers. The coordinating die cuts make this a snap to cut out.  I love that the flames are solid stamped images. I stamped mine with yellow ink and added highlights with a Copic Marker. 

Wishing you many blessings  – may the gifts of love, peace and happiness be yours! 

Cyber Monday Deals

With the upcoming year approaching, we need to make room for new products coming soon. For the very first time, we’re having a markdown sale with some products up to 50% off! 

Pretty Pink Posh: Cyber Monday Deals

SHIPPING NOTE: Orders placed over the Thanksgiving holiday will be processed as quickly as possible. Please note that First Class Shipping is not insured and tracking is not always available. If you would like your package to be insured in case of loss or damage, please choose Priority Mail.

Thank you to each person who has ordered this weekend. We are busy fulfilling your orders as quickly as we can. Words cannot describe how grateful we are for your continued support of our small business! 

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Christmas Card using Color Burst Powders + Video

Hi everyone, Ardyth here today with a cool, modern twist on a classic Christmas theme – a poinsettia wreath!

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I started by creating two colourful panels of watercolour cardstock, using Ken Oliver Colorburst powders. I used a mix for each one, to add variation and interest to them. I also spritzed shimmer sprays on them, to create some festive sparkle.

Pretty Pink Posh: Christmas Card using Color Burst Powders + Video

When they were dry, I cut the largest Stitched Poinsettia from the red panel and I cut the Winter Scene from the green panel. I used only the stitched circular frame on my card, but I kept the rest of the pieces for another card.

I arranged the ‘wreath’ on my card, and I created some fun contrast by tucking one of the flower petals underneath the green frame, and then popping up the rest of them with foam tape.

Pretty Pink Posh: Christmas Card using Color Burst Powders + Video

I used a tiny Merry Christmas sentiment from Holiday Signs, and I placed it where the slope of the sentiment would fit right underneath one of the petals. It’s just a tiny detail, but it definitely shows that thought was put into the placement of the sentiment.

Pretty Pink Posh: Christmas Card using Color Burst Powders + Video

To finish off the card, I used 3 of the smallest gold confetti from the new Celebration Confetti mix for some shine.

I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks for stopping by!

Black Friday Savings- BIGGEST Sale of the Year

Black Friday Savings- BIGGEST Sale of the Year

SHIPPING NOTE: Orders placed over the Thanksgiving holiday will be processed as quickly as possible. Please note that First Class Shipping is not insured and tracking is not always available. If you would like your package to be insured in case of loss or damage, please choose Priority Mail.

I hope you all have a blessed holiday season and find some items that you’ve been wanting in the shop. Stay tuned for lots of holiday inspiration coming soon! ♥

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Modern Christmas Cards + Video

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula. In this video, I’ll show you 2 modern and easy to make Christmas cards ideas using the same stamp, the Winter Wreath stamp set. As a bonus, I’ll also show you how you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled outlines to your stamped images. 

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I like modern designs in my cards so I decided to go for a slightly more modern color palette and a modern design. The design, however, can be done in more traditional colors, red, green and white. I use a lot of dark blues, some gold and just hints of red to make my cards look festive. 

Pretty Pink Posh: Modern Christmas Cards + Video

For my first card, I started with a panel of dark blue cardstock cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2”. I didn’t want the design to cover the entire front, I wanted there to be a small border, so I masked a ¼” border using low tack tape. 

Pretty Pink Posh: Modern Christmas Cards + Video

Next, I used a sentiment from the Joy stamp set, it reads “Wishing You a Blessed Holiday Season” and positioned it along the bottom edge of the card. I added single stamp images from the Winter Wreath stamp set and stamped them repeatedly to fill the entire background in. Don’t stamp your images all around the panel, stamp them one next to the other to make sure you build a nice solid background. 

If you feel your embossing ink pad isn’t juicy enough you might want to pause and cover the already stamped images with embossing powder and then continue stamping additional images. You don’t have to stamp them all and then cover all. You can work in small sections. 

Pretty Pink Posh: Modern Christmas Cards + Video

Also, save the smallest images for last. There’s an image of berries and it’s rather small so you can use it to carefully fill any odd gaps you might have on your background. 

To add some definition to the heat embossed images I used a darkest blue Copic marker I have in my stash, the B99 marker, and added subtle shading. This made a world of a difference and helped the images stand out from the background. I also added a bit of color to the berries. For this, I used Nuvo Drops in Red Berry.

My second card is very similar. I heat embossed the image of a wreath and a sentiment placed inside of it on the same dark blue cardstock. Next, I heat embossed and cut out additional, single images to adorn the wreath. I colored all, or rather added shading to all, using a dark blue marker. 

Pretty Pink Posh: Modern Christmas Cards + Video

I also heat embossed and colored a poinsettia. This time, however, I used white cardstock and colored not only the image of the flower, but also the white space around it to make it look like it was heat embossed on dark blue. I used R39, R27, R24 and R22 markers along with the B99. 

Images were adhered using glue and foam adhesive at the top of the wreath. I also used the same Nuvo Drops. Finally, I love to use jewels by PPP so I added a good amount of Midnight Black Jewels all around the wreath to spice the design up. It’s a simple card, but small finishing touches such as these jewels make it that much more special. 

Pretty Pink Posh: Modern Christmas Cards + Video

Finally, here’s the bonus idea I mentioned showing how you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled outlines to your stamped images. If you own a hot foil machine such as Glimmer by Spellbinders or another machine of the same kind you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled halo-like outlines to your stamped images. 

Pretty Pink Posh: Modern Christmas Cards + Video

To create this card I first foiled the image outlines (using coordinating dies) on the background. It took me 4 times to foil a full A2 card background. I used Winter Wreath coordinating dies (just the single image dies) and gold foil. 

Having done that I placed the panel into my MISTI tool and positioned the coordinating stamps one by one placing them each into their own coordinating foiled spot. From there I heat embossed the images using Antique Gold embossing powder. This is very similar to what I did for the first project, but instead of just heat embossing the images, I also added foiled image outlines making this card design extra special. It wasn’t hard to do, but it surely added a nice foiled touch to the card. 

Have fun stamping!

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Christmas Hummingbirds + Video

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a card that you can mass produce easily for after holiday thank you cards. I think these are a really sweet and fun idea to either thank someone for their gift, or for coming over on Christmas etc. It’s just a nice way to show your appreciation if you’re that person who loves to send any sort of card. I used the popular Hummingbird Thanks stamp set, just because I love it so much and the sentiment is perfect and then I also pulled in the Penguin Pals stamp set for the little Christmas hats, just to make it more festive!

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Pretty Pink Posh: Christmas Hummingbirds + Video

To start off my project today I stamped out a ton of the Hummingbirds onto some watercolour paper. I then clear heat embossed over them so it would be easier to contain my watercolour. I then used a mix of colours of Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers to colour these in. I went for an aqua, blue and purple colour combo to give that wintery feel. I then used red for the hats as well. Once they were coloured, I dried them off with a heat tool and cut them out using the coordinating dies.

Pretty Pink Posh: Christmas Hummingbirds + Video

Now that all my pieces were ready, I started on the backgrounds. I used my Mini MISTI to stamp my sentiment into the middle of the watercolour paper pieces and gold heat embossed them. I then ink blended in the centre of each of the panels with Peacock Feathers and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks. I flicked each of them with water and dried them again with a heat tool.

Pretty Pink Posh: Christmas Hummingbirds + Video

I then adhered my hummingbirds into place with foam tape onto each of my panels as well as their Santa hats on top. I did this to make them appear more festive since I plan to use these for holiday thank you cards, but you could leave them off if they’re for everyday use. Lastly, I took a piece of 12×12 patterned paper, cut it down into four panels and adhered all my panels together to complete my cards.

Pretty Pink Posh: Christmas Hummingbirds + Video

So that finished up my cards for today, I hope you all enjoyed. I love creating simple cards like this that are easy to mass produce and used for different seasons.

Thanks for stopping by today and I’ll see you next time.

Eloise

Christmas Tag Inspiration

We are excited to be a sponsor for the 25 Days of Christmas Tags again this year. Tracey always does a great job with this fun event and it will definitely inspire you for your upcoming Christmas tags!

Click photos to visit their blog posts and see their full tags!

 
 

Be sure to visit Tracey’s blog for info on how you can link up your project(s) and the prize information!

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you were inspired by these pretty tags.

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Stencil Theme Week- Day 7

Angelica here with a pair of clean and simple Christmas cards that will surely make a loved one smile. I have used a couple of my favorite techniques with PPP stencils to enhance them.

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 7

I started my project with the Wide Stripes stencil. This stencil is my favorite in PPP’s stencil collection. It’s such a simple design, with endless possibilities. For this project, I made a plaid design, using the grid on my Make Art Stay-Tion for perfect alignment. I blended Passion Fruit ink with a blender brush over the stencil until I was happy with the blend. I removed the stencil, turned my Make Art Stay-tion 90 degrees, re-attached the stencil, and repeated the ink blending process. Once finished, I used a T-ruler and a red Fineliner pen to add red grid lines. I die-cut the panel with the Stitched Notes rectangle, then moved on to assembling the cards.

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 7

I used the Joy die to die-cut Joy from the middle of the plaid panel, and to die-cut white card stock 3 times. I attached the plaid panel to a card base at an angle before adding the white letters I had stacked and glued together for dimension. I stamped and gold heat embossed a sentiment from the Joy stamp set, trimmed it, and attached to the card with thin foam squares. I finished the card with a die-cut Stitched Poinsettia, spraying it heavily with glitter spray before attaching it to the card with Glue Dots.

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 7

I made a dry-embossed background for my second card, using the Whimsical Christmas stencil.

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 7

I die-cut Sea Salt card stock with the Stitched Notes rectangle. I dry-embossed the panel in my die-cut machine, using the stencil and thick rubber mats. I attached the panel to a card base, trimming off the sides with my paper trimmer. I die-cut Joy 2 times from white card stock, glued them together, and added the plaid letters to the top. I replaced the O with a Stitched Ornament, using the heart die included in the Stitched Ornament die set to decorate the ornament. I added a stamped and gold-embossed sentiment from the Winter Friends stamp set. I used my Make Art Stay-Tion grid lines and magnetic ruler to align my letters straight and evenly to the the card base. I glued the letters first, then used foam squares to add the ornament. I added a small twine bow to the ornament to finish the card.

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 7

I hope you were inspired by this week of new stencil inspiration. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the stencil collection and get yours while they are 15% off through November 18, 2019!

Thanks for stopping by!

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Stencil Theme Week- Day 6

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 6

Good morning! Heather here and I have two fun cards to share with you today for Stencil Theme Week using a fun summery stencils from Pretty Pink Posh!

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 6

For both of these cards I used the beautiful Tropical Background stencil, and a fun technique combining white embossing paste with watercolors!

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 6

For both of these cards, I added embossing paste over watercolor paper in a bit of a random pattern – not going entirely to the edges, then set them aside to dry thoroughly.

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 6

Once those panels had dried, I colored over the top of each one with 3 different shades of watercolors for an ombre color effect!

The embossing paste absorbs the watercolor a bit differently, so it gives a great variation of colors – I love the texture it adds to these!

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 6

I set those aside to dry, and die cut the fun Aloha Shaker Die from white cardstock, then coated it with embossing ink, sprinkled on sparkly white embossing powder, and heat set. This gives them a fun, frosty, and glittery look!

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 6

Finished off by mounting those Aloha sentiments over the top of the now-dry backgrounds with foam adhesive. Once I added the foam adhesive to the back of the Aloha sentiments, I added a bit of liquid glue before adhering to the backgrounds to make certain they would adhere firmly over the embossing paste. Finished off with coordinating card bases and a few sequins from the Sparkling Clear Sequin Mix!

Pretty Pink Posh: Stencil Theme Week- Day 6

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