Pretty Pink Posh New Product Release Blog Hop

Today is day two of the Pretty Pink Posh new holiday products Blog Hop. I hope you are getting really inspired to make holiday cards from all these amazing bloggers using the cute new products by PPP. I have two cards to share with you today using many of these new products.

Card 1:

This card uses two of the new stamp sets called Elegant Holly and Poinsettias. First, let's talk about that crazy background - I made it some time ago on THIS BLOG POST about making backgrounds ahead of time. It is just painted red watercolor circles. I was saving it for just the right card and then I used it on this one where most of it was covered - haha. I used a white rectangle die-cut from the PPP Stitched Notes die. 

I stamped the poinsettias with MFT Natural Ink and colored them in with Polychromos colored pencils. I kept them very soft and left the strokes showing. The Polychromos work more like regular pencils as they are oil based where the Prismacolors blend together more as they are wax based. I love the look of these especially when they are used soft as these are. I also stamped the Elegant Holly stamps with MFT Natural Ink and colored them in with colored pencils. I arranged all of the flowers and leaves over the white rectangle.

I stamped the sentiment from the Caroling Critters stamp set with intense black ink on a banner from the Honeybee Sentiment Banner set.  

I tucked that under the flowers and finished the cards with some PPP white jewels. 

Card 2:

This card is my favorite that I have made from the new products and it only uses one $8 stamp set! I used the Caroling Critters stamps, but I cut the critters apart so they were in groups of two. You can still use them all together, but this made them even more versatile! I used my Misti and randomly stamped them over a piece of white cardstock with MFT Natural Ink. 

I colored them all in with colored pencils - both my Polychromos and my Prismacolors. I used a fine tip black marker for the notes or you could just stamp them with black ink. I added shadows behind each of the animals with a Copic marker. 

I stamped the sentiment with white embossing powder on a die-cut from the PPP Stitched Label dies. I attached that to the top left of the card. I added some Watermelon Jewels and White Jewels around the greeting. 

Here are some other cards I have made with the new release that are on two older blog posts if you want to check them out. The first two are made using the new Ornaments stamp set and were on the PPP blog HERE. The second two are made with the Penguin Pals stamp set and are on my blog post HERE.

Next on the hop is Lexa Levana. Here is a list of all of the participants:

Pretty Pink Posh blog 

Laura Bassen

Yana Smakula

Eloise Blue

Jessica Frost- Ballas

Suzy Plantamura (you are here)

Lexa Levana

Mindy Eggen

Caly Person

Justine Hovey

Carissa Wiley

Joni Andaya

Gemma C.

There are 4 $25 gift certificates up for grabs (two winners each day). Winners will be picked randomly along the blog hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PDT on 11/20/2018. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog.

 Thank you so much for visiting my blog today and I hope you are enjoying this two day blog hop! Have a fun weekend friends! Suzy

Comments

[Jeannie F]

Beautiful and fun cards! Those caroling critters are adorable.

[Mary-Anne V.]

Wow your cards are fabulous and I love how you used the caroling critters on the second card.

[Tami Fenton]

Your cards are absolutely lovely! So glad I found your blog for inspiration.

[Patt H.]

Love the awesome coloring & design on the poinsettia card & the caroling critters are adorable. Off to check out your penguin posts!

[Denise Bryant]

Fabulous cards! Love the beautifully colored poinsettias and the adorable critters!

[Tami R]

Your cards are so bright and cheery!

[Kirsty Vittetoe]

Pure genius! Your cards are so pretty.

[Denise Mlady]

This poinsettia card is so beautiful and the carolers are so cute!! Your pencil coloring is just amazing.

[MelissaF]

Pretty pinky poinsettias and those caroling critters have my heart, but so do the penguins! Lovely and elegant Decorative ornaments too. Amazing coloring on all.

[Jean Marmo]

So very pretty! Love this hop!

[Sue D]

Pretty and cute cards.

[Dana M]

Wow, absolutely amazing cards!

[Silvia]

Wow.... everything is so beautiful here....I'm in loooove.

[Cynthia Cole]

Your cards are beautiful!

[Stacy Petersen]

All your cards are great, but the critter card is my fave!

[Marzee Carnes]

I love all of these, but especially your use of the Caroling Critters stamp set. I am always so surprised at the creative uses people come up with for stamp sets! I tend to look at them at face value, until someone does something like this. Amazing an adorable!

[Marisela Delgado]

Such beautiful cards

[Sammibug aka Sammi aka Samantha Houp]

Great cards! Love the watercolored background on the first one and your critter card is super cute!

Sammibug aka Sammi aka Samantha Houp

[Nancy Nelson]

Your cards are so inspiring. Each card is so different from the other, I love the subtle but pretty style of the Poinsettia card and then the card using the PPP Caroling Critters is so colorful and lively. Very nice cards. Thank you for sharing.

[Judie Attard]

Super cute cards and amazing colouring!

[Renee Vanepps]

LOVE the coloring and the different layers on your poinsettia card, and the critters card is so adorable!

[Cindyellen Robinson]

isn't that the way of it? we make a special background and then cover it up - it's still perfect, though. and all the rest of your cards are perfect as well.

[andrea murdock]

all these cards are gorgeous. your colouring is amazing

[Annalisa]

What fabulous cards! I always love seeing what you create, and this time is no different. Your coloring is just fabulous, and I hadn't seen the post about premade backgrounds, so that's a really helpful resource too. Thanks for sharing all your great ideas with us!

[Nana Griffin]

Great ideas.