Pretty Pink Posh - Poinsettias

Hello!  I've had a couple of cards to share for the last few weeks, but December has been pretty crazy around here, and I'm just now getting the chance to share them.  During the 25 Days of Christmas Tags events, one of my favorite tags I made used Pretty Pink Posh's Stitched Poinsettias. (You can see the tag HERE.) It creates a large, beautiful flower, and I knew when I made the tag that I wanted to use it again to make some cards.  My first card is large.  It's 5x7 in size, which I rarely do, but the size was perfect to really let the poinsettia shine. 

It's interesting that the closer I get to Christmas, the more I want to use traditional Christmas colors on my projects.  I'm not sure why, but it happens every year.  I don't use red a ton throughout the year, but at Christmastime I can't get enough of it. On today's cards I decided to use it in a bit of an unusual way and cut the pine sprigs in red instead of the poinsettia.  

I used metallic silver for the leaf accents, added metallic silver jewels to the center of the flower, and embossed a sentiment from Penguin Pals in silver as well.  

I was left with some extra poinsettia and pine pieces, so I decided to use them to make a second card. I also tucked in a few vellum poinsettia layers.    

Pretty Pink Posh's script dies are my favorite, so it's no surprise that I reached for their Merry Christmas Script die to finish off my card. 

Thanks so much for visiting today!  I love the word merry.  You can't help but smile when you say it, and I truly hope that despite all the craziness of this year that your heart can feel merry this Christmas week and that you have a blessed Christmas!

Pretty Pink Posh: Merry Wishes

Good Morning!  I finally created my first Christmas card of the year....clearly I'm a little behind, but I am excited about the way it turned out.  I've used lots of Pretty Pink Posh goodness today.

I'm loving the decorations I see popping up around our neighborhood, especially the fun window treatments, so I used Pretty Pink Posh's Stitched Duo 3 die to make my own wintery window. After I die cut the window base I backed it with a layer of acetate on top of white cardstock.  

Next was the fun part.  I used modeling paste sprinkled with glitter to add snow to my window panes as well as some Pretty Pink Posh Pine Sprigs.  I was liberal with the glitter, so that extra stuck to the window adding to the frost effect.  If you zoom in reeeeeally close, you can see it. :) 

For the sentiment, I combined two of my favorite products.  I die cut "merry" from their Merry Christmas Script die and added "wishes" from the Simple Sentiments stamp set.  Pretty Pink Posh's Lattice Background is something I'm really loving lately, so I used that on my card base but left all the pieces intact.  It adds a great subtle texture.

Thanks so much for visiting today!  I hope you are off to the start of a great week!  

PS If you are shopping around on Cyber Monday today, Pretty Pink Posh is having a markdown sale with some products up to 50% off.  I don't get any kickback from this.  I'm just a true fan of the products and especially Paulina who runs the company, so I wanted to share. 

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Day 26 (Bonus Day!)

 

Y'all, we made it!  Can you believe it?  We are on the last day of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags.  A whopping 53 tags later, and I'm sharing my very last tag with you today.   Our bonus sponsor (yay more prizes for you!) is My Favorite Things.  

As I was creating this tag, all I could think about is a celebration.  A celebration of the end of a crazy, fun marathon of sharing tags and celebration of the Christmas season that is upon us.  I was hoping to embody that happy, joyful feeling in this tag.

My tag is the largest size from MFT's Stitched Traditional Tag Stax and began with the colorful sprinkles at the bottom.  My cute mom likes to do art projects with the grandchildren.  One day she used confetti glitter nail polish with them to bedazzle a project, and I thought it was so fun.  She gave me a bottle of the nail polish, and that is what I painted across the bottom of the tag. 

Then, I searched my stash and used the brightest inks I own to match the colors and ink up a sentiment from Hand-Lettered Christmas.  This is an older MFT set, but one I still love. 

I continued the colors one more time to make a rainbow scarf for this cute pup from MFT's Deck the Howls Stamp Set.  I popped him up on the confetti covered floor and called it a day. 

Thanks so much for dropping by today and for all the other days you've stopped by this month!  You are much appreciated.  Also, I want to express many, many thanks to Tracey for organizing this incredible event.  There is SO MUCH WORK done behind the scenes to organize and put on this event.  It starts months before it even begins.  If you have a second, I would love if you would head over to Tracey's blog and give her a big thank you.  While there you'll surely be inspired by the fabulous tags being shared today, and you'll find all the details on how to play along.  Also, you'll have one more week to get your last tags in, so I hope you'll continue to play along!

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Day 25

 

Good morning!  Today is a little extra special because I'm playing double roles as both a Pretty Pink Posh Guest Designer and a member of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags Design Team.  

It's also special because I think the world of Pretty Pink Posh's owner.  Paulina is as genuine, kind, and generous as they come!  I followed Paulina long before her company was born, and she has amazed me by her goodness time and time again.  Being a guest designer for her has truly been a sweet blessing.  I just had to sing her praises today! 

Okay, now to share my tag.  I've really tried to maintain variety in my tags, but you may have noticed that I have a thing for poinsettias.  I really was going to go a different direction, but in the end I couldn't help but use Pretty Pink Posh's Stitched Poinsettias. 

I'm not even sure the name of this color (I'm going with magenta), but it's between a purple and a pink and I love it, especially when paired with navy.  Yes, the leaves are a deep navy (not black).  I originally used only the solid magenta color for the poinsettia but decided just to see what it looked like with a few polka dot layers mixed in...and I fell in love.  I cut the center with silver foil and added a Metallic Silver Jewel because I couldn't not put a Pretty Pink Posh embellishment on here. 

The poinsettia dies create a really large flower, but I wanted mine to fit on Pretty Pink Posh's Decorative Tag 2 Die, so I only used the smallest two petal layers (cutting the polka dot and solid color in each size).  I used a shimmery cardstock for the base and added a little decorative layer on top that I cut with Pretty Pink Posh's Lattice Background Die.  I simply trimmed out a square that would fit the center of my tag.  I really like when flowers are paired with geometric shapes, and the diamonds here give just a hint of that.  

I cannot believe that the 25 Days of Christmas Tags event is wrapping up.  I'm not sure that my body knows how to sleep anymore!  Ha!  It's been fun, and I've been so inspired.  You'll absolutely want to hop on over to Tracey's blog today.  I happen to know that both of my design teams did a fabulous job.  You won't want to miss seeing their tags!

25 Days of Christmas Tags - Day 24

 

Good morning!  I'm happy to be sharing another tag for the 25 Days of Christmas Tags.  This time, we are using products from Heffy Doodle.  Is there a cuter name for a stamp company?  I can't say it or even think it without smiling. 

After the last few labor intensive tags I was ready to go back to something a little quicker and more straightfoward.  I used Heffy Doodle's Santa's Village to create a little Christmas scene, and I enjoyed every minute of it. :) Do you ever get that way where you just need a simple, feel good kind of project?

The Santa's Village set has everything you need to create the cutest village, but I just loved the idea of Santra tromping around in the snow outside of town to hand deliver a gift.  I added a little tag stamped with a "A gift for you" from The Greetery's Speed Tagging Christmas Sentiments, you know, because Santa is out delivering a gift. :) 

I'm so glad you visited today!  It's been fun to see familiar faces pop up so regularly in the comments.  You all have been amazing!  Don't forget to pop on over to Tracey's blog to see all the other fabulous creations for today.  Lots and lots of cuteness over there!