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Archives for September 2015

Happy New Year

We have had the best time this week collaborating with Pretty Pink Posh. 
Paulina is just so sweet and generous, and their products are luscious. I now NEED more of these confetti sequins. They’re just my favorite. I sometimes have “issues” with the hole in the center of sequins. I’m weird. 
The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, is next week and I made this card to send to my sister. It’s my first shaker card, and honestly, I need to work on my methodology.
Very simple to put together. I watercolored some the front panel, then used the Star of David die from Simon Says Stamp to cut out the shaker area. Added some foam to the back, filled it in with the confetti and sealed up the back. 
Here’s my favorite part of the card. I performed a bit of stamp surgery on a new sentiment from Hero Arts and now it’s perfect for both the Jewish New Year and regular old New Year! 
We’ve got some great challenges coming up this month, we hope you’ll join us and use up some of your Pretty Pink Posh stash. Don’t forget that you can stock up at our fabulous sponsor, Simon Says Stamp.

Happy hibiscus

Hi, Bhavana here!! This month our collaborating  partner is Pretty Pink Posh.  Thank you Paulina for the wonderful dies and sequins you sent to us.
For the first card I used the second layer of stamp from Hero arts Hibiscus layering stamp set and stamped all over to create the background also stamped the center piece too.  Stamped the complete flower on a white cardstock and hand cut it. Arranged the banner, flower and the sentiment strip together and added pretty pink posh sparkling clear sequins. 
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For the second card I stamped the second layer of the leaves and used pretty pink posh gold star sequins.
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Hope you all enjoyed the beautiful cards shared by our design team using Pretty pink posh products and see you soon with the new challenge this month till then Happy crafting!!

Umbrellaflies!

Hi friends!

I’m so excited to be here today sharing a project I made using Pretty Pink Posh sequins!

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 So for my card I used the umbrella-tops from Hero Arts set Sun Showers, as butterflies! I stamped them on Neenah cardstock 6 times, using Simon Says Stamp
inks, then cut them out. I was a bit smudgey with my stamping, so I went back over the white areas with a gel pen. 

I placed them in a visual triangle over the card, so they’d look like butterflies! Added some stickles and Pretty Pink Posh sequins, then stamped a sentiment!

The background stencil is from My Favourite Things, and was inked with a blending tool and Simon Says Stamp ink in Mint!

I love how these umbrellafies (see what I did there?! Umbrella butterflies–Umbrellafies!), turned out!

Hope you’ll come back again tomorrow! lots more to show you 🙂

Thank you so much to the delightful Paulina for agreeing to collab with us!! it’s been a blast! Can’t wait for the rest of the month!

See you soon!

It’s Bean too long!

Oh Hi everyone!

This is Gayatri here today!
So exciting to say we are collaborating with Pretty Pink Posh this month. This collaboration is special for me as I am part of both the design team.

 For today’s card, I decided to do something punny. I love Stamp Your Own Salad stamp set from Hero Arts. I think the sentiments in this set are cool and punny. So I made a fun card to give a long lost friend. Here is the card.

I stamped a white cardstock panel with the beans image from the set in green ink and leaf with black ink to give a nice contrast. Then I used the bracket die from Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Borders 3 die set to die cut at an angle. Love the stitched detail on the die cut. I also die cut a green cardstock using this die at the similar angle to the stamp panel. I layered and glued them with the green cardstock showing out a bit. I adhered this on the white card front using foam adhesives. I stamped the sentiment on the bottom right of the card front near the pointy edge of the bracket die cuts. Finally embellished with Pretty Pink Posh’s Onyx 6mm and 4mm sequins. Here is another photo of the card.

I love the simplicity of this card. The colour contrast makes me happy. I had fun making this card.  Hope yo are enjoying the collaboration. More coming tomorrow 🙂

I have listed all the supplies I have used to make this card below.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Felt leaves to start feeling the Autumn

Hi! I hope you had a great Summer or holidays or time off. Whatever you had, I hope it was fun and you had some rest. I have my mind already in Autumn and this card shows that. We are playing this month with Pretty Pink Posh supplies.

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 Here is my proposal.

First, I die cut pieces from kraft cardstock using the Stitched Borders die by Pretty Pink Posh. Then I added with glue the felt leaves by Hero Arts, a great product with strong colours. Last, the greeting is included in the new clear stamp set Color Layering Fall Trees by Hero Arts.

A bit of Wink of Stella as bright detail. I hope you liked the card.
See you soon!