Good morning! I’m thrilled to be a stop on the hop for the Pretty Pink Posh November Release blog hop! Have you checked out the new release yet? It’s full of adorable holiday stamps and dies along with some gorgeous mixes! Today I created two products, one is a more elegant card and the other is a whimsical shaped tag! 🙂
I love the look of colored pencil on colored cardstock and thought I’d go in a nontraditional direction for my poinsettia card! To start I stamped the poinsettias and leaves across a piece of teal cardstock with versamark and heat-embossed them with gold glitter embossing powder. Then I colored the flowers with my caran d’ache luminance pencils and left the leaves alone. I focused dark shades of blue towards the center of the petals and blended them out to white.
Next I stamped the sentiment onto navy cardstock and heat-embossed it with the gold embossing powder. I trimmed it down to a label and adhered it to the card with foam mounting tape. Finally I added a few navy nuvo drops to finish the card!
My second project is a holiday tag!
To start I stamped the Caroling Critters and sentiment from Holiday Greetings onto white cardstock with versafine and heat-embossed them with clear embossing powder. I colored them with copics and then masked the images. Next I blended faded jeans and chipped sapphire distress ink onto the background to create a sky and splattered it with white gouache! I removed the masking paper and let the background dry overnight.
Next I die-cut the panel with a large circle die and die-cut the same circle shape three more times from white cardstock. I stacked them together and adhered them to create a thick and sturdy circle. Then I added a little nuvo crystal glaze and glitter to some of the critters’ accessories! Once that dried I piled glitter, sequins, snowflakes, and glitter onto the circle and used a hot glue gun to carefully glue a plastic ornament to the cardstock circle. I held it in place for a few minutes until the glue started to set and then ran my finger around the outside of the ornament to make sure there was no extra glue. I made sure to let the glue dry completely before shaking the ornament so that the shaker elements wouldn’t stick to the wet glue! Finally I added a little ribbon and twine to finish the tag! I love that it can be used as a gift tag (you can write a message on the back of the ornament) but then can be added to a Christmas tree as a decoration!
And that’s it!
There are four $25 gift certificates up for grabs (two winners each day). Winners will be picked randomly from comments left along the blog hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PDT on 11/20/2018 and the winners will be announced on the PPP blog! Here are all the stops on the hop today:
- Pretty Pink Posh blog
- Laura Bassen
- Yana Smakula
- Eloise Blue
- Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Suzy Plantamura
- Lexa Levana
- Mindy Eggen
- Caly Person
- Justine Hovey
- Carissa Wiley
- Joni Andaya
- Gemma C.
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Jess, your poinsettia card is amazing..love the gold! Your holiday tag is so much FUN!
Wow, that poinsettia card is stunning! and that ornament tag is a wonderful idea that I might be trying!
Love the color choice! So pretty!
Wow! Great coloring! The Poinsettias are like 3-D
Love those blue poinsettias! They are very pretty. 🙂
The blues are amazing and I just totally am in love with the ornament idea. Way to go.
OMG!!! I’ve never seen such a stunning card. The teal and gold… WOW!. The tag is so cute. TFS.
The poinsettia card is absolutely stunning! Love the teal on teal. The tag is adorable too!
Love the shades of blue accented with gold on your card!
Beautiful card & tag! I absolutely love the blue colors in the card….it is so gorgeous! Thank you for sharing!
So beautiful, loving the blue…
Oh my!!! Stunning projects!!!Love yuor gorgeous Poinsettias!!!
WOW WOW WOW the ornament is so darned cute. I am going to make one! Thanks.
I’ve never thought of using gold with blue before. It looks great. Nice job.
Such great projects! The poinsettias are stunning! Love!
Your poinsettia is incredible. Beautiful color that can be winter, birthday, or holiday.
What a beautiful blue for the poinsettias. Love that glitter… The tag is really nice. I am glad that it can be added to your tree also. I have lots of ornaments that have been given to me that way.
love your work … I will be back to check out older posts
Love both of these beautiful creations, Jessica!
Love these cards and the entire release!
Love the ornament and your blue poinsettia card is stunning.
stunning card – love the tone on tone coloring:)
Okay, I just have to say, I am completely BLOWN AWAY by these amazing blue poinsettias! I could squeal! I have never seen anything like this before and I am completely inspired! Thanks for something spectacular today!
I stopped on this post because the blue poinsettia was stunning, but found your little circle tag amazing too.