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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Beautifully colored poinsettias and the carol era are adorable!
This poinsettia card is so beautiful and elegant and I love the color scheme! What a great idea for the tag that it can become an ornament and such a fun little scene.
Beautiful and elegant blue poinsettia card and the holiday tag snow globe is super cute!
WOW!!!
SWOON!! SO BEAUTIFUL!! LOVE ALL of the AMAZING Inspiration!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!!
Stunning the both,but the ornament is really incredible.
Sooooo beautiful and the ornament is incredible.
Both projects are wonderful!
The poinsettia card is a show stopper! WOW!
Both of your projects are wonderful but I especially love the poinsettia card. I love non-traditional colors for Christmas. My cards this year are pink and kraft.
I don’t know which I love most! The poinsettia card is gorgeous. I am not familiar with the pencils you used, and am headed to check those out. The tag is adorable and gives me great ideas for ornaments to make. Love them both!
FABULOUS poinsettia. Wow, what great color choice.
Your card is absolutely stunning! The coloring is amazing! I so wish I could color like that, wow! Love your ornament too! So cute!
Sammibug aka Sammi aka Samantha Houp
I adore the ornament card you made with the PPP Caroling Critters set. I am absolutely I see of your PPP Pointsettia card. You are very talented. Thank you for sharing with us and inspiring me.
I thought the card was pretty stunning, but then I saw the tag :O :O BEAUTIFUL! Thanks for the inspiration!
Wow.. just breathtaking..I am so in love with the coloring on colored cardstock that is so popular right now! Gorgeous results!
the blue poinsettias are stunning. what a great idea. and the tag is ADORBS!!! that is a GREAT idea for those ball things from the big box stores (she runs off to go shopping yet again. . .)
gasp!!! that blue poinsettia card!!! both projects are amazing
I just want to live in that blue poinsettia card. The color choice, the coloring, it is all perfect. And what a cute idea for an ornament. Thank you so much for sharing these gorgeous ideas with us!
Jess, I am loving the blue tones and gold in the poinsettia card! I would never have thought of that! (Which is why I follow on IG to learn and get inspiration:-) ) and I’m a sucker for Christmas ornaments! Love the idea that the holiday tag can also be used as ornament, very lovely! Thanks for sharing this with all of your followers 🙂
Love your ornament.
Love the way you colored those poinsettias! And the ornament is so adorable!😍
Oh!! That poinsettia card is GORGEOUS!!! I LOVE the color and the gold embossing and the shading!! All so stunning! And the ornament is super cute!
What a stunning poinsettia card in blue! And that tag is super cute and fun for the recipient!
The detail on that penguin card is fabulous!