Pretty Pink Posh Birthday Celebration Blog Hop

Today, I'm thrilled to be participating in the

Pretty Pink Posh Birthday Celebration Blog Hop!

I love Pretty Pink Posh and all of their wonderful products,

so I was very excited to be asked to join in with the celebration!

Here's the card that I made for the happy occasion,

inspired by the new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge:

southmoonunder.com

(Please visit the Curtain Call Challenge Blog 

for all the challenge info and deadline and to see what the other

design team members created for the challenge!)

The sweet little owl and cat hats in the photo reminded me of 

the cute little animals in Pretty Pink Posh's Holiday Pals stamp set.

I decided to create a faux-shaker card

(because creating real shaker cards tends to overwhelm me -- hee!)

I started by smooshing three colours of watered-down dye ink onto my background.

Once that was dry, I stamped my sentiment (from SSS's Big Scripty Sentiments)

and created my frame using one of Pretty Pink Posh's Scallop Frames dies.

I stamped the three critters from Pretty Pink Posh's Holiday Pals stamp set

onto another piece of white cardstock and coloured them in, using some 

Zig Markers coloured onto an acrylic block, with water and a paintbrush.

I fussy cut them out by hand as a group.

Then, I adhered some of the new beautiful Sweet Pea Sequins Mix

onto my background, gathering a bunch behind the critters,

so it looks like they're all piled up behind them -- but they aren't really!

They're just adhered in a long line along the sides and top of the animals!

A few more strategically placed sequins finishes it off.

I'm also linking this up to Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge: Ombre.

Now, it wouldn't be a celebration without some gifts & goodies!

Here's the list of everyone participating in the hop:

Pretty Pink Posh blog

Liz Sarkisyan

Carly Tee Minner

Leigh Penner (that's me!)

Joni Andaya

Kimberly Crawford

Melody Rupple

Gayatri Murali

Maureen Merritt

Jennifer McGuire

Remember commenting at each stop makes you eligible to win!

Thanks for looking!

Wplus9's Get Sketchy #4

Today, I have a card to share for Wplus9's Get Sketch #4 Challenge:

I decided to use the Watercolored Anemones stamp set

to make my card:

I started by creating my background by inking a piece of white cardstock

that had been diecut using a Pretty Pink Posh stitched border die.

I stamped my sentiment (from SSS) twice -- once on the diecut and a second

time on the white background.

I coloured my large bouquet stamp using my Zig Markers and spritzed it with water

before stamping it onto white cardstock. 

Then, I trimmed it out by hand.

A few PTI rainstones finish them off!

Thanks for looking!

Five for Friday

1. Our taekwondo tournament in Winnipeg last Saturday went well. 

Jonah & Sage volunteered as runners (accompanying competitors to the podium)

and as computer techs.

They did such a great job -- always on task and dependable.

2. On Sunday, our local theatre had a Jurassic Park marathon.

I'd never been to a movie marathon before, and with Jonah counting down the days

 to the opening of Jurassic World (seven!), I thought this would be very fun!

They had 45 minute intermissions between the movies. 

The theatre is only a couple of blocks from our house, so we could quickly

zip home in between, which was nice.

3. Austin had his Spring Jazz Concert on Wednesday night.

His choir sang three songs, ending with "Happy", which was very fun!

4. Speaking of Austin and choir, a few weeks ago, he auditioned for the 

Central Manitoba Youth Choir:  a choir that has a couple of weekend retreats in the fall

and then tours Southern Manitoba for four days.

Well, last Monday, he got his acceptance letter in the mail!

I think this will be an amazing experience for him.

5. Today, I'm playing along with the Pretty Pink Posh Watercolour Blog Hop.

Here's my card:

I stamped the sentiment and flowers from Neat & Tangled's So Very Blessed stamp 

set in versa mark and heat embossed it in clear.

Then, I smooshed my new Altenew Frosty Pink & Coral Berry inks onto my cardstock

and used a paint brush to add some Frayed Leaf ink that I spritzed with water.

A few Pretty Pink Posh Pink Peonies sequins finish it off.

Thanks for looking!

CAS(E) This Sketch #126

Today, I have a card to share that I made for

 CAS(E) This Sketch #126 designed by Gayatri Murali:

Here's my card:

I stamped the branch & blooms from Altenew's Vintage Flowers stamp set 

on two pieces of PTI's white linen cardstock.

I used my MISTI to stamp them the same, but the one panel was stamped solely in soft stone,

while the other panel was stamped in simply chartreuse, sweet blush and berry sorbet.

I diecut the colourful panel using the rectangle die from Pretty Pink Posh's Stitched Duos dies.

I stamped the sentiment from SSSs Blessed stamp set in Versafine onyx black.

I love how with the MISTI, I can line the two panels up perfectly!

Visit CAS(E) this Sketch to see the rest of the DT's takes on the sketch 

and to play along, if you'd like.

You have until Thursday, June 11th to link up your card.


Thanks for looking!

Some Chickaniddy Crafts Christmas Cards

Hi there!
I'm off to a taekwondo refereeing seminar this morning in Winnipeg.

(I'm also planning on doing a little shopping afterwards --

can't wait to check out all of the spring styles!)

 

I've been busy lately (work, watching my kids' choirs perform at various festivals, etc.),

so I haven't been spending as much time in my craft area as I would like.

(That should change this week though, as I have the whole week off since it's spring break!)

 

I was looking through my cards for something to share and came upon these four cards

that I made in December but for some reason never posted.

 

They're Christmas cards that I made using some

Chickaniddy Crafts Jolly Good products. 

 

 

For this card, I used some Jolly Good patterned paper and an Illustration Sticker.

The sentiment is a Mama Elephant stamp.

I diecut the scalloped border using a Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Border 1 die.

 

This card using the same patterned paper as the first card, as well as a journaling card that

I diecut from this piece of patterned paper using Reverse Confetti's Tag Me Confetti Cuts.

 

This card uses the same Illustration Sticker as the first card, as well as some patterned paper

from the Jolly Good 6x6 paper pad and a diecut frame.

Once again, the sentiment is stamped using a Mama Elephant stamp.

 

And lastly, I made this card, using an image that I trimmed from this piece of patterned paper,

along with a couple of pieces of patterned paper from the Jolly Good 6x6 paper pad.

I created the scalloped border using the same

Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Border 1 die as I did in the first card.

 

Thanks for looking!

Muse #108

My friend, Michele is hosting Muse Challenge #108 and invited me to play along.

Her gorgeous card was very inspiring...

Isn't it lovely? 

I love the mustard, gold and black!

I immediately thought that I would use Altenew's Painted Flowers 

with black outlines and the insides stamped in mustard.

I had the designed planned out and everything...

so you can imagine my extreme frustration when I worked on this card for over

an hour on Tuesday evening... and nothing went right!

First of all, I stamped my black outlines on a Pretty Pink Posh stitched rectangle diecut.

Then, I went to stamp my mustard centres using some Heidi Swapp Mustard ink

and it was all greyish.

Yuck!

So, I started over...

The second time I did better, repeating my process, and the first mustard centre

looked great..... but the second one not so much. Grrr!

On my third attempt, I decided to use my MISTI and use the placement

from the second diecut as my guide.... but started with my centres.

This went well... I did my two layers of centres, stamped my black outlines,

and my sentiment and just went to add one last stamp....

and for some reason, grabbed the first attempt to line it up and not the second.

(I'm going to blame this on Sage. She was sitting at her craft table

playing Lego Friends and was talking to me and distracted me. ;) )

Anyway, the last tiny bloom was stamped in the wrong place!

I was so frustrated that when Austin came downstairs to ask if I wanted to watch an episode

of Lie to Me on Netlix, I said yes and abandoned my craft table.

The next afternoon, however, I got some courage and decided to finish the card.

I started by tossing out the first diecut into the garbage, so I wouldn't make the same mistake.

Then, I diecut two Pretty Pink Posh stitched rectangle diecuts and made two panels,

using my MISTI, starting with the centres stamped in mustard. 

This way, I figured if I screwed up again (yes, I admit, it was my fault, not my darling daughter's!)

then I wouldn't have to start all over again.

Well, the good news is that both panels turned out, so I ended up making two cards.

The first card uses a piece of Fancy Pants patterned paper as my background.

The white panel is matted on a piece of Heidi Swapp patterned paper

and the sentiment is from Wplus9's Fresh Cut Florals.

Here's a close up of my panel:

(See the little sprig right below the sentiment? That's what I messed up on my previous attempt.)

And this card also uses some Fancy Pants patterned paper as the background.

The white panel is matted on PTI true black cardstock.

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp's Blessed stamp set.

Thanks for looking!

Pretty Pink Posh New Release Blog Hop

*Note: This is my second post for today.
Please scroll down to see my post for Day 1 of the Countdown to Confetti New Release.


Welcome to the Pretty Pink Posh New Release Blog Hop!

I'm so excited to help introduce these fabulous new dies that
are available now at Pretty Pink Posh!
If you're following along with the hop, you should have arrived here from Nichol Magouirk's blog.
If not, don't worry, I have the complete list at the end of this post! :)

I have a card to share that I made using some of the new die and
I made it using CAS(E) This Sketch #113 designed by N@ Ali:

Here's my card:

I love Pretty Pink Posh's new picket fence die -- it's so sweet!

I started by diecutting my white panel using the Stitched Duos 2 die.

Then, I ran it through my diecutting machine a second time with the Picket Fence die.

I inked the sky (using some masks I made with PTI's cloud die) in hawaiian shores

and the grass in simply charteuse.

I stamped some Wplus9 Fresh Cut Florals on their coordinating diecuts and arranged

them in front of the fence.

I finished it off by stamping the sentiment (from Simon Says Stamp's Blessed stamp set)

and added a flag (diecut with another new Pretty Pink Posh die set -- Stitched Labels 1 dies.

So, that's it for me.

Next on the hop is Joni Andaya's blog.

You'll want to play along with the hop, because there are 

there are 2 $25 gift certificates up for grabs. 

Winners will be picked randomly along the blog hop. 

(Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PDT on 3/11/2015. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog.) 

Here's the list of blog hop participants:

Pretty Pink Posh blog

Nichol Magouirk

Leigh Penner (that's me!)

Joni Andaya

Gayatri Murali

Maureen Merritt

Amy Kolling

Stacey Schafer

Laura Sterckx

Lisa Elton

Thanks for looking!

Sparkle & Shine Challenge #1

*Note: this is my second post for today.

Please scroll down to see the card I made for Reverse Confetti's SFYTT.

There's a brand new challenge in blogland called Sparkle and Shine Challenge,

which is being sponsored by Pretty Pink Posh.

The founders of the Sparkle and Shine Challenge asked the Pretty Pink Posh DT

to play along with their first challenge.

Here it is:

Isn't it fun?

It totally made me think of Shamrocks and St. Patrick's Day.

So I searched through my PPP dies to find something I could use

to make a "four-leaf clover."

Here's my card:

Can you guess which dies I used to make my window?

It's the oval die from the Stitched Tags Dies!

And for the stem, I used the end of the scalloped border die from Stitched Borders 2 Dies.

I stamped the sentiment on my white card front using PTI's Wonderful Words Additions

and diecut the "lucky" using the coordinating dies.

I filled my shaker with Pretty Pink Posh's Woodland Mix Sequins.

So be sure to check out Sparkle and Shine Challenge

to see what everyone else made for the first challenge,

and to play along as well!

I'm also linking this up to the current Curtain Call Challenge - Lucky:

Thanks for looking!

Using leftovers

Just popping in today to share a card I made using some leftovers from a couple of projects.

I was making an Easter card for an upcoming CAS(E) This Sketch post and 

thought this Crate Paper patterned paper would work well as the background, but it didn't.

So, I used it on this card instead, along with a Pretty Pink Posh diecut (that

was left over from making another card, where I used the negative of this oval die).

I stamped on it using Simon Says Stamp's Blessed stamp set

and added a couple of PTI buttons to finish it off.

Thanks for looking!

Papertrey Ink Anniversary Challenges: Day 7 & 8

Happy Valentine's Day!
Do you have anything fun planned for today?
My son, Jonah, is singing at a wedding that my husband is doing the sound for...
And Sage & I are attending a taekwondo demonstration this afternoon.
So, nothing really romantic, but fun nonetheless. ;)

I have some cards to share for the PTI anniversary celebrations.

The first one is for Day 7: Heavy Metal Challenge.

On some stamper's select white cardstock, I stamped my butterflies (from You're a Masterpiece)

in versamark and heat embossed them in gold.

The sentiment is from Layered Banter Banner.

A trio of Pretty Pink Posh 4mm gold sequins finishes it off. 

Next. I have a card using the same butterflies that I heat embossed in black and painted in with ink.

(I actually made these last week when I made the first card in this post.)

It's for the Day 8: Blue Ombre Challenge.

Now, I have to say that I was totally inspired by Maile Belles' card to make mine.

Since I didn't have the stamp she used for the colours at the top, I used three different shades of PTI ink (from top to bottom: tropical teal (twice), hawaiian shores (twice) and aqua  mist)

and applied them to my card with a Tim Holtz blending tool and some post-its that I used as masks.

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp's Blessed stamp set.

And, once again, I added some Pretty Pink Posh 4mm Sparkling Clear sequins.

Thanks for looking!

Cas(e) This Sketch #110

Today, I have a card to share that I made for

 CAS(E) This Sketch #110 which was designed by me:



I decided to rotate the sketch 180˚.
Here's my card:

I started with some Crate Paper Kiss Kiss patterned paper.
I diecut the night sky using the largest scalloped circle from Reverse Confetti's Circles 'n Scallops Confetti Cuts.
I diecut the "you" from Tag Me, Too Confetti Cuts three times and layered them together.
The sentiments are from All About You.
A few Pretty Pink Posh Marshmallow sequins finish it off.

Visit CAS(E) this Sketch to see the rest of the DT's takes on the sketch 

and to play along, if you'd like.

You have until Thursday, February 19th to link up your card.



 



Oh, and before you go, I also have another Valentine's card up on the 
Reverse Confetti Blog today for the Confetti Camera series!  
I'd love for you to check it out!  

Thanks for looking!

A Stitched Sentiment tutorial

Hi there! I'm here today with a card (& a tutorial!) to share that I made using 

some Chickaniddy Crafts Scrumptious products.

I started with three pieces of Scrumptious patterned paper: Frolic in the Leaves, New Harvest & a floral pattern from the 6x6 paper pad.

Here's my card:

I decided to use a diecut word as a template for my stitching.
Here's what I did:

Here's a close up of the finished stitched sentiment.

After I was done stitching, I added some strips of Scrumptious patterned paper.

I diecut the floral paper from the 6x6 paper pad with a heart border die and adhered it to my card.

I trimmed the "grateful for you" banner by hand (it was on the back of the New Harvest patterned paper.

Oh, and before I go, I just wanted to let you know that 

I also have a card up on the Bazzill Basics Blog today.

Can you guess what die I used to create my puzzle piece?

Click here to find out.

Thanks for looking!