Christmas Greetings and Joy - Pretty Pink Posh October Release Blog Hop

Good morning! So excited this morning to be hopping for Day 2 of the blog hop to celebrate the FABULOUS BRAND NEW holiday release from Pretty Pink Posh - full of adorable winter, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year stamps, dies, Confetti mixes, and stencils!!! Keep reading for more info, details on my card I'm sharing today, AND of course, some giveaway info at the bottom as well!

I have a total of 3 cards to share with you today using this beautiful new release - shall we get started?!?!?

I'm so thrilled with how this card came out! I love the beautiful new Stitched Poinsettia Die, and thought it would be super fun to use with Shimmer Powders - and it worked just like I was hoping!

I die cut all the layers of the die from watercolor cardstock, then sprinkled on some shimmer powders in the proper colors, then misted with water and set aside to dry nice and thoroughly. Once all the layers dried, I layered them up with a bit of liquid glue to hold all the layers together.

I finished off with a bit of soft stenciling on a white cardbase using the new Christmas Background Stencil with Antique Linen Distress Oxide Ink, then adhered the flower in place. Finished off with a simple sentiment from the new Winter Wreath stamp set. Don't you just love all the dimension and texture on this gorgeous bloom?

Next up, sticking with a fairly similar color scheme, but shaking things up this time!

The new Winter Frame Die is so intricate and gorgeous - I love it so much! Perfect to create a shaker card filled with the lovely new Merry Confetti Mix!

I added the large "JOY" word using the Joy Coordinating Dies. I die cut them from white cardstock, did some ink blending on the bottom of them with Candied Apple Distress Oxide ink, then went over it with a sparkly Nuvo Aqua Glitter Pen - it reacts with the ink to give a sparkly watercolor effect!

Finished off with some more ink blending just around the outer edges of the frame using Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide ink, then heat embossing a sentiment from Joy stamp set on a strip of white cardstock and blending the same ink over it to make a perfectly coordinated custom sentiment.

And finally, I couldn't throw away that negative from the previous card, so I changed up the color scheme and put it to good use on another card!

For this card, I started off by creating a background to go behind the window created from the Joy Coordinating Die. I used blue cardstock with the new Snowflakes Stencil - first adding a bit of Hero Arts Unicorn white ink, then leaving the stencil in place and blending over some sparkle with my Nuvo Glimmer Paste - love the sparkly but opaque look I ended up with!

While that dried, I colored up one of the little cuties from Holiday Signs. I added a sentiment to his sign from Joy stamp set, heat embossed on a bit of the same blue cardstock as my snowflake background, then trimmed into a thin strip and cut the words apart to fit on the sign.

Finished off with a thin mat of deep gray cardstock, a light blue cardbase, and popped the little penguin up on foam adhesive to finish!

GIVEAWAY INFO:

Now the fun part - there are a total of 4 $25 Gift Certificates up for grabs - 2 for each day of the hop!!! Winners will be picked randomly along the blog hop. Make sure and leave comments by 11:59 PM PDT on October 22, 2019 to qualify! Winners will be announced after that on the Pretty Pink Posh Blog!

Here is the entire Blog Hop line-up:

Pretty Pink Posh Blog
Kay Miller
Channin Pelletier
Caly Person
Thi Lam
Sharna Waksmulski
Ardyth Percy-Robb
Vera Rhuhay
Melody Rupple
Alix Davis
Nicky Meek
Dana Kirby

Heather Hoffman (you are here)

Yana Smakula

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