Good morning! I am thrilled to be a guest for the Pretty Pink Posh May Release Blog Hop! I’ve been a huge fan of Paulina’s gorgeous sequins since I started crafting in the summer of 2014 and discovered her online shop! At that time she was just selling sequins but has since expanded her line to include clever dies and adorable stamps and I was so excited to receive her May release in the mail! 😉
I’ve actually created 7 cards using the new stamps and sequins but figured you’ve got a bunch of hop stops and lots of fabulous projects to see so I’ll save some of mine for next week! 😉 Here’s my first card:
I started by stamping the Woodland Critters, Build a Bloom, and Bold Blooms images multiple times onto white cardstock with copic-friendly black ink and coloring them with copics. I used the coordinating dies to cut them out and then started arranging different scenes. Once I had a few scenes created I took quick photos of each scene using my phone and then worked on creating a background for each scene. For my first card I blended black soot, chipped sapphire, and seedless preserves distress ink onto watercolor paper and flicked water across the panel. Once it dried I decided it was a little darker than I wanted so I layered vellum over the watercolor paper. I die-cut the edges with the Scallop Borders 2 die set and left a little extra vellum on the top edge of the card so I could fold it over and adhere it to the back of the watercolor paper.
I stamped my sentiment from Thoughtful Greetings onto the vellum panel and heat-embossed it with silver embossing powder. Then I adhered my scene to the vellum. Once they were adhered I flipped the vellum over and added adhesive behind the stamped images so that it would hold the vellum down and be hidden from view. Finally I finished the card with a few Navy sequins and tied a silver twine bow to the top of the card!
For my second card I die-cut the Scallop Frame with white cardstock and layered it over dark blue cardstock. Then I carefully cut the sentiment stamp from Thoughtful Greetings apart and stamped part of it towards the top of the panel and part of it towards the bottom. I stamped it with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. Then I arranged the my critters and foliage between the sentiment and finished the card with a sprinkling of the Spring Meadow sequins mix!
I adore all these critters! They’re so cute! Honestly, this entire release is a must-have! The sentiments are perfect for all occasions and the mixes are gorgeous!
To celebrate the release Pretty Pink Posh is giving away 4 $25 gift cards (2 each day)! Winners will be selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop so make sure you leave a comment at each hop stop, on both days, for the most chances to win! Here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:- Pretty Pink Posh blog
- Vera Rhuhay
- Rebecca Keppel
- Heather Hoffman
- Shannon McComb
- Jessica Frost- Ballas
- Amy Yang
- Joni Andaya
- Ashley Marcu
- Jeanne Jachna
- Juliana Michaels
- Lexa Levana
- Yana Smakula
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Gah! Love these, and you KNOW I love that scalloped frame. It’s on my pinterest “to buy” board. Ahem.
Adorable cards! Thanks for the inspiration!
Oh Jess, these cards are fantastically adorable!!!
Those nose-to-nose hedgehogs are the most adorable creatures! How could anyone not smile when they’d receive a card like that?
Great cards! Love how they pop against the dark backgrounds! Your coloring is perfect! Loving this hop with all it’s talent and inspiration! Thanks for sharing yours!
I truly love both of your cards! I have to get these stamps!
How cute all of your cards
are with these sweet
characters! Love them all.
Carla from Utah
Darling cards! Love your colors!
luv your choice of dark cardstock to make the images pop! great design and coloring.
Very cute!
The way you used the dark background really makes the characters pop! Love it!
Darling cards.
Love the black/white with the hedgehogs.
So cute.
thanks for sharing.
fabulous set of cards!!
I just love this stamp set & your cards are adorable!!
I love the cutties and thee awesome designs you created for them
Love your cards!
Wow your cards are so beautiful, the vellum on the first card is really fantastic and the dark blue cardstock on the second card is perfect for these lovely critters.
Many thanks for your inspirations.♥
Hugs
Angela
I love your cards!!!
Yay Jess! Love both of your SWEET designs!
Really great. I love the greetings stamp set. Can’t wait to check out the rest of your cards next week. Thanks for hopping.
Pretty work! The black background is so striking on the hedgehogs card. Also love the navy sequins with the gray!
I like how you have framed these cards and the more intense colours. Shows how different the cards can be using the same stamps.
These are both so cute! I think I like the hedgehogs just a teeny bit more, but I love them both!
Wow these are fabulous cards you created using the critters in these new sets love it!
Cute cards.
What a cute lineup of cards. Love your color choices and all the scalloped edges.