Sunny Studio Mitten Shaped Card

Hi friends! I have a unique holiday card to share today. It's a mitten shaped card and it's so easy to make with the Woolen Mitten dies plus Buffalo Plaid Straight die from Sunny Studio. 

To create the mitten shaped card base, I die cut two of the mitten shape. I then used the Buffalo Plaid die to add the fun check texture to one of the mittens (this will be the card front). To add color to my plaid mitten, I used the Straight Stripes Stencil with Catherine Pooler It's a Girl ink. 

I then decorated the mitten front using all the dies included in the Woolen Mitten set (poinsettia, leaves, cuff, buttons). After I had the mitten front decorated, I splattered with thinned white paint. 

On the back mitten piece, I scored a line towards the top of the mitten. I adhered the back to the front by applying the glue only above the score line. This creates a hinged card as you can see in the photo below.  I recommend stamping the inside sentiment before adhering the back to the front. It's much easier before it's attached to the front especially with the dimensional decoration on the front. 

For the outside and inside sentiments, I used the Inside Greetings Seasons stamps.     

Papertrey Ink Build An Angel Card

The countdown has begun! The Papertrey Ink October Release will be available on the 29th at 12pm ET and it's spectacular as always. There was one stand out product this month that I absolutely could not wait to use - the Build An Angel die set. This unique set includes dies to make a large and a medium size angel. The large measures 4.5 inches tall and the medium measures 3.75 inches tall. Both sizes have three different wing options. 

For today's card sample, I have used the large size and as you can see, it filled my A2 size card nicely. 

To start, I wanted to create a pretty background for the angel. I started with a panel of Mint Julep card stock. I inked up the panel with Pinefeather. I applied the Pinefeather ink heavy in the middle and lighter going outwards. Next I added tons of splatter with three different mediums. First I used plain water. This resulted in the larger droplet splatter. Then I used thinned white paint. And last I added more splatters with metallic gold water color. 

Next I die cut and assembled the angel. I die cut the angel body from white card stock and lightly sprayed it with the new Antique Linen Distress Spitz. This color gives the white card stock a lovely gold toned shimmer. It's difficult to see in the photo, but in person it's so pretty! 

I die cut the halo from gold metallic card stock and the wings are gold vellum layered onto white. 

The sentiment plus little foliage sprigs and berries come from a new stamp set this month. It's called The Bigs Christmas Sentiments and as the name implies, the set is full of large sized holiday greetings. This set includes lots of little sprigs and the berries for embellishment.  There are also coordinating dies to cut them all out which I love! I stamped the "peace and joy" using Pinefeather. Using the coordinating die, I was able to die cut the stamped greeting and then die cut a shadow layer in gold. 

*Links will be added to the new products once the release is live on the 29th. 

Pretty Pink Posh Holiday Wreath Builder Card

Hello friends! I'm sharing a card created with some new products from Pretty Pink Posh. I have always loved to create little paper wreaths to add to cards so I was excited to see the Holiday Wreath Builder die set from Pretty Pink Posh. This set has all the basic components to make a wreath. The possibilities are endless! For the card I'm sharing today, I made a very full pine wreath. 

I kept this card design on the simple side because the wreath really is the star here. I started with a white A6 card base. I created the background panel with the Cascading Snowflakes Stencil. I used a white opaque paste with the stencil. I moved the stencil around applying the paste only in select areas to get the random snowflake pattern. I then splattered the panel with thinned white paint. 

To create the wreath, I used all three sizes of pine sprigs included in the Holiday Wreath Builder set. I adhered them onto the large wreath base. I added in the little red berries and a double layer bow. I then gave the wreath a good splattering of white paint to give it the snowy look. 

To complete the wreath, I added sentiment strip ribbons coming down from the bow. I used the Upright Greetings Christmas set to stamp the Joyful Wishes. I then adhered the wreath to the background with thin foam tape. To finish off the design, I added several Sparkling Clear Sequins scattered all around the background. 

Sunny Studio Merry Mocha Season's Greetings

Hello everyone! I have another holiday card to share, made with products from Sunny Studio. This one features the adorable little mugs from the Merry Mocha stamp set. I've repeated the image three times sitting atop a fun peppermint stripe border. 

To recreate this card design you need the following Sunny Studio products:

• Merry Mocha stamp set and coordinating dies - for mug images
• Big Bunny stamp set and coordinating dies - for Season's Greetings 
• All is Bright paper pad - for peppermint stripe paper
• Snowflake Circle Frame die - for the die cut snowflakes

This card is A2 size. For the top three quarters of the background, I blended on some Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxide Ink and generously splattered with thinned white paint. I added a one inch wide strip of the peppermint stripe patterned paper to the bottom.

I added the mug images spaced evenly along the stripe border. I then tied some white and silver baker's twine just below the mugs. 

To give the background some interest, I added the snowflakes. I die cut the snowflakes from white card stock and them lightly sprayed with some Barn Door Distress Spritz. This gives them a faint red tint and sparkle.

Copics used to color the mugs: pink - R00, R30, R22; red - R22, R24, R27; green - G00, G03, G05; shading on whipped cream - YR30, R00; brown - E25, E44

Pretty Pink Posh Holiday Release Blog Hop

The October Release from Pretty Pink Posh is now available for purchase and we are celebrating with a 3 day blog hop! Be sure to leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway for a $50 gift certificate. Three winners will be randomly chosen (one each day) from comments along the hop. Giveaway closes on October 22nd at 11:59 pm PST and winners will be announced on the Pretty Pink Posh Blog.

Day 1 blog hop lineup:

Pretty Pink Posh blog

Nichol Spohr

Laura Bassen

Cathy Zielske

Mindy Eggen

Debbie Frank

Raquel Arribas

Lea Lawson

Zsofia Molnar

Leanne West <--you are here

There's so many fun holiday sets in this release but the Build An Ornament die set immediately caught my eye. I knew I had to make a card featuring these festive ornaments. 

Below is a list linking all of the Pretty Pink Posh supplies you'll need to recreate this card:

• Build An Ornament die set
• Cascading Snowflakes stencil (for snowflake background)
• Upright Greetings: Christmas stamp set (for stamped sentiment strips)
• Winter Foliage die set (for pine sprig)

Other supplies needed: opaque white paste to stencil snowflakes (I used Aleene's True Snow), white paint for splattering, glitter card stock, silver metallic card stock, Distress Mica Stains for coloring parts of the ornament, and baker's twine. 

This card design is an easy one to make so I won't go into too much detail about the process but I will share some of my creative notes and tips if you'd like to make a card like this. 

For the stenciled snowflakes, if you don't have a paste, a white pigment ink will work.  I just like to use the paste because it gives fabulous texture to the background and results in a nice opaque white snowflake on the solid color card stock. 

99% of the time on holiday cards, I'll generously add white spatters to the background & any winter foliage. I think it helps reinforce that wintery or snowy vibe. 

When making Christmas cards, I feel like this gives me the opportunity to add lots of sparkle and shimmer... especially with ornaments! So I didn't hesitate to use a white/silvery glitter card stock for these ornaments. For the colorful parts, I used Distress Mica Stains to add lots of shimmer. I die cut these pieces from white card stock and then sprayed with the following Mica Stains: Frosty Mint, Sugary Gumdrop, & Wicked Elixir. The photo does not do it justice but in person, the glitter and Mica Stain adds so much sparkle and shine to this card. 

Thanks so much for joining us today! Don't forget to leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway for a $50 gift card to shop at Pretty Pink Posh. 

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