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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Love your cards and these new stamps! Thanks for the hop.
these are adorable! I love the kissing hedgehogs!!
Beautiful cards with these new critter stamps!
Love your designs!
Love those hedgehogs and the other critters
Love your cards… those sentiments are perfect
Love your background colors. Can’t wait for your other cards!
Love your adorable critter cards! They are so fun looking.
These are such beautiful cards! I especially love the colors with the contrasting dark and light papers. Thanks for sharing! =)
Love the cards.
These are the sweetest little critters!
Wow! Beautiful and sweet cards!!!
Awesomely cute cards.
Both are beautiful! Love the bold backgrounds behind the animals!
These are so cute Jessica and I really like that you went with the navy blue sequins!
Your cards are so well done – love the details in them!! Those critters are so stinking cute!!
Super sweet cards. Thanks for sharing
I love the Woodland Critters and your adorable cards!
Love these cards! The first card is my favorite, I’m getting excited about the darker Distress Inks lately and I like how you used them in your background. Love this release!
Wow… both of your cards are gorgeous. I especially like the colors and layout of your first card. Loved reading about how you created the grey background… it came out stunning!! And love those navy sequins. Thanks so much for sharing your talent here!
Super cute cards!!
Beautiful cards. I like the dark rich background color with the little critter
Beautiful cards as always!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEK!! =)