Good morning! I just wanted to quickly pop in and give you a peek of a card I shared on the Pretty Pink Posh blog yesterday. It uses those amazing Winter Foliage Dies again. I’m quite fond of this one. You know me and simplicity. ;) You can check out my post HERE. And it happens to be part of another day of hopping, so by commenting over there you will have another chance to win a gift certificate. Just sayin’. :)
Good morning! Welcome to Day 1 of Pretty Pink Posh's October Release Blog Hop! You should have arrived from the amazing Tammy Stark.
Alright you guys...I am super excited to share this card with you today. I've been waiting for weeks! (And my family can tell you how patient I am when I want to share something I'm really excited about...just ask my sister who I have already begged multiple times to let me give her her birthday present early because I just don't think I can wait until the end of the month.)
Okay, I am completely smitten by the new Winter Mugs Dies. I love them! LOVE love them! I've totally decked them out for Christmas here, but the dies actually include some darling Halloween and Fall elements as well.
Truth be told, the inspiration for this card came from Pottery Barn. They had a photo of some stacked Christmas mugs, and I knew instantly that I wanted to create my own version of that. I pulled out Concord & 9th's Poppy and Evergreen cardstock and got to work.
I die cut three mugs and dressed up each one. The evergreen mug is adorned with a snowflake (also included in the Winter Mugs Dies), the white mug is stamped with "joy" found in the new Pine Wreath Stamp Set, and the poppy red mug is decorated with holly leaves and berries from the new Winter Foliage Dies. Then I filled it to the brim!
A little note about the berries. It's actually just one circle berry die, but I wanted it to look like the berries overlapped, so after cutting the berry, I put the circle die partially over the die cut and cut a notch out of it. By doing this, the notch perfectly lines up with the other berries.
Okay, onto the fillers. I used a shimmery grey cardstock to cut lots and lots of berries, pines, and leaves using the new Winter Foliage Dies. (Spoiler alert: these are hands down my favorite dies. You'll see in the coming days that I literally cannot stop using them. They make an appearance on pretty much everything I make these days, and if they aren't on there, I exercised some serious restraint to not use them.) I stuffed my cup full of foliage, and then I added two layered candy canes from the Winter Mugs set.
On my slimline card base, I blended Dove ink lightly through the Layered Snowflakes Stencils. Then I stacked my mugs a little skiwampus. The mugs have a slit cut in them, which makes them easy to fill and stack.
This card is extra special because I actually die cut extras and had a card making session with my mom and aunt who was visiting from across the country. It brought me a lot of joy to see how excited they were with their cards when they were finished making them.
(me) Lindsey Larsen
Hello! I'm happy to be participating in Simon Says Stamp's STAMPtember festivities today sharing the Pretty Pink Posh exclusive STAMPtember collaboration set called Coffee Friends. This is a fun set that will carry you through the fall and winter seasons, and if coffee isn't your thing, it can surely work for hot cocoa as well.
I started by stamping a couple of the cups using Altenew's Rouge and Paper Bag inks. I dressed them up a bit by masking and blending a little color around the band of one cup and adding a little heart to the other.
I set my cups aside and pulled out Pretty Pink Posh's Layered Foliage Stencils. I used just the leaf stencil and blended Altenew's Caramel Toffee, Paper Bag, and Rouge inks to create a frame around my card.
Then I used the same colors to stamp the tiniest heart stamp included in Coffee Friends around the frame. Finally, I splattered on various inks and added some Metallic Gold Jewels.
To finish my card, I stamped one of the sentiments included in Coffee Friends, popped up the cups, and stamped little steam swirls above them.
Thanks so much for visiting today! Remember, there is a limited quantity of this exclusive set, so make sure you quickly head over to Simon Says Stamp to snatch up the Coffee Friends Stamps + Dies before they sell out!
Good morning, friends! I've been so eager to share today's card with you! I fell in love with the Fall Basket Dies from Pretty Pink Posh the moment I saw them. One of the reasons I liked it so much is that I knew that it could be used all throughout the year. I've been having tons of fun using it for autumn cards, but I knew right away that I wanted to make a Christmas basket.
This card represents a lot of memories for me. My mom used to have a red and green apple basket, so that's what I did here using Concord & 9th's Poppy and Clover cardstock. The filled basket reminds me so much of the trimmings for our Christmas tree. In fact, I covered one of the branches from the Fall Basket Dies with white glitter to look just like some of the leaf picks I use.
But even more than that, this basket reminds me of my mom and my grandma. They both decorated the most beautiful Christmas trees each year. Long before Pinterest or Instagram or anything of the like, my mom and grandma were changing color schemes each and making pin-worthy works of art. Unfortunately it was also before phone cameras or many photographs in general so I don't have pictures of them, but I cherish the memories. One of my sisters has the same talent. I do not, and so the basket on this card makes me smile because there have been lots of years that my mom has showed up with a bag of picks or ornaments or just a little something extra that my tree "needed". She's great at elevating what you have. :)
Okay, so a little bit about how the card came together. I started by stenciling the background in Dove ink with the Falling Branches Stencil (easily one of my favorite stencils to date!). Then I assembled my Fall Basket and started die cutting fillers.
The white leaf sprig is from the Fall Basket Dies. The berry branch comes from the Fall Foliage Dies, and I cut it with C9's Poppy and Evergreen cardstock. Then I cut several of the Pine Sprigs Dies using Sprout Cardstock and blended Parsley Ink and Evergreen Ink on the pines for some color variation.
I added a squiggly strip cut with the Nature Essentials Dies across the bottom of my card front. I think it is supposed to be grass, but the positive and negative cuts together reminded me of stitching on a table cloth, so that is how I used it. I placed my filled basket on top and finished my card with a sentiment from the Holiday Scripts Stamps Set and Dies.
Thanks so much for reminiscing with me today. I hope you are headed into a lovely weekend!
