catherine pooler greenery of the season

Are you looking for a beautiful & versatile greenery set for your holiday cardmaking? Have you seen the Catherine Pooler Designs Greenery of the Season set? It's gorgeous and I've been having so much fun creating with it!

The stamp set comes with so many classic holiday images like a poinsettia, holly, evergreen branches and more! And it has the outline designs and the solid images too which I really love because it doubles the stamping techniques you can use! There's a coordinating die and stencil too!

For this card I masked a section at the top of my card panel and used a blending brush to add Cotton Candy pink. 

With the masking tape still in place, I stamped some of the outline images in Rockin' Red. 

Then I removed the tape and added a sentiment from the Inside Out Christmas Sentiments and the holly. And I love how the holly turned out! I used the solid stamp first with In the Park green. Then I added a little Deck the Halls green to part of the holly stamp with a blending tool and stamped again. After that I stamped the holly outline and die cut it.

For this card I kept things super simple! All the color comes from an ink blended square in the middle (Cotton Candy & Rockin' Red) and then I stamped the poinsettias and sentiment in black.

I kept this card super simple as well. The color on this one is the "Merry Christmas" in the middle. I stamped it first in Cotton Candy and then used a blending tool to add a little red on the bottom of the words before stamping again. 

And for this card I masked a much bigger section and blended it pink. Then I used the stencil to add the poinsettias, first using more pink and then layering red. I could have achieved the same look with the solid stamp but the stencil made it much quicker.

I stamped the outline poinsettia on some of the solid flowers. Then removed the tape and added a sentiment.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you are inspired to get crafty😉

Hugs!!!

Carly

easy pull-tab card with ppp

I'm sharing a new video tutorial on the Pretty Pink Posh blog today, a super easy pull-tab card! You don't even need special dies! I would LOVE it if you stopped by and let me know what you think!

Hugs!!!

Carly

all about apple cards + ppp blog hop day 3

Pretty Pink Posh is ready for fall crafting with their gorgeous new release! And I'm thrilled to joining day 3 of the blog hop to share ideas with you!!!

Before I show you what I made, there's more fun! There are 3 $30 gift certificates to Pretty Pink Posh up for grabs! Enter to win by leaving comments along the hop by 11:59pm PST of September 16th, 2024. The winners will be announced on the PPP blog.

Now let's talk cards! You are about to see that I'm a little obsessed with apples this fall, LOL!

I used the largest die from the Patterned Apple set to cut a shaker window. You know I love a shaker!!! 

The background is Distress Oxide Festive Berries with a little DIY glitter paste over it (Glossy Accents mixed with glitter).

And the shaker bits are the adorable Apple Harvest confetti!

While I had the Patterned Apple set out, I created this card with a little easy multicolor stamping.

I love the effects you can create with solid stamps! For these apples I inked and stamped with Distress Oxide Tattered Rose first. Then I used a blending tool to apply some Distress Oxide Saltwater Taffy, Festive Berries & Lumberjack Plaid ink to parts of the stamp and then stamped again. 

And I'm a little obsessed with the PPP train sets so I had to make an apple train!

I stamped, die cut and colored the cars from the Valentine Train and Halloween Train. Also the large apple from the Patterned Apple set and the bunch of apples from the Fall Harvest set.

I stamped the train tracks across the card front with a bit of a curve. I also stamped the train links directly on the card front before adding the train cars with foam tape.

Your next stop on the hop is Dana's blog and I know she is going to have some eye candy for us!!!

And here's the whole list if you need it...

Pretty Pink Posh blog 
Emily Mydlowski
Laurie Willison
Carly Minner ---> you are here!
Dana Kirby
Jeanne Jachna
Lisa Mears
Kristie Marcotte

Thanks so much for hopping with us! Hugs!!!

Carly

holiday magic at catherine pooler designs

Are you ready to start some holiday cardmaking? You will be when you see the latest release from Catherine Pooler Designs...Holiday Magic!

The whole release is really fantastic and you know I had to start with a shaker card!

I used the holly leaves from the Candy Cane Christmas set to cut the shaker window. The background is ink blended with In The Park and Deck The Halls inks.

The sentiment is from the Inside Out Christmas stamps and the shaker bits are the Frankfurt Sequins. What do you think?

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs!

Carly

STAMPtember 2024 blog party

Happy STAMPtember everyone!!! The Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember release hit the shop yesterday and today we are celebrating with a giant blog party!

Before I show you the cards I've made, check out this adorable Big Birthday Cake stencil set you can get FREE with a $30+ purchase! Don't forget to write down that code to get your stencils!

And visit the SSS blog to see all the participants because you will definitely want to see what everyone made & find out about more STAMPtember gifts!!!

Ok, now let me show you what I've made...

This might be one of my favorite cards I've made in a long time! I used the positive & negative cuts of the Oh La La Butterflies and I just love how striking a simple die can be!

First I ink blended my card front and a scrap of cardstock with Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry and Carved Pumpkin. Then I used some Distress Spritz Picked Raspberry over the ink blending. I just love the shimmer!

Next I die cut the Oh La La Butterflies from a card panel, stamped it with "just breathe" from the Peaceful Trees set and added a little faux black splatter with a pen. 

On top of the folded ink blended card, I built a shaker container with foam tape and filled it with my favorite Soapy Bubbles sequins and closed it with acetate.

Finally I die cut more butterflies from the scrap of ink blended cardstock, folded them in the middle for a little texture and adhered them to the card. Perhaps not a super easy to mail card but I love how it turned out!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope to see you again soon!