Crafty Comeback Party - Day 16 - Pretty Pink Posh + Giveaway

Good morning, and Happy Monday!  I hope that you've had a wonderful weekend!  I am feeling a lot better, which I am so thankful for.  I photographed an engagement session on Saturday morning - it was COLD, but beautiful, and my couple had such a great time!  I consider that a win!

We are in the final week of my crafty comeback party, and today is all about Pretty Pink Posh!  Paulina creates such fun stamps & dies, and really amazing sequin mixes too!  She also is such a kind human being, which is far more important than anything else.

Today I have 2 shaker cards to share with you (is that really a suprise when there are sequins involved?!).  They are two of my very favorite colors - pink & blue!

I'm going to start with this adorable card using the Angel Friends stamp set, and coordinating dies.  If I'm being completely honest here - I don't really know how to color!  It's on my list this winter to take some classes & learn how to do it properly & well (on that note - if you have taken any really amazing classes on coloring - please share them with me!).  The other factor is that I actually don't have Copic markers, or an equivalent.  I do have a set of the Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers, which I think are technically supposed to be more watercolor based.  But I desperately wanted to color these adorable little angels, so I did!  They likely aren't technically perfect, but I do love how they turned out!  

I added prisma glitter to their wings & the stars, because I love glitter and it just seemed fitting!  I also brushed along the top of the banner & a little bit on each end peice with my Wink of Stella clear glitter pen.  It doesn't photograph very well, but the touch of glitter is so pretty in real life!

I chose to make this card pink & blue, because while I don't believe that my children became angels when they went to Heaven...this set really does remind me a lot of them.  It makes me smile every time I look at this card, which means I likely won't give it away.  It will become part of my Christmas decorations instead!!

To create the blue background behind the shaker, I used the same ombre technique from this previous Ellen Hutson post.  I colored about an inch of the top of a block of white Strathmore art paper, then used a large watercolor brush and water to fade it to the other end.  Then I misted it with some white color shine to give it a little shimmer! 

I created the shaker using the Scallop Hexagon dies and a nice mix of Pretty Pink Posh sequins!  They are all linked below!  To finish, I accented with some pink Prima crystals that I've had in my stash for awhile.

 My next card is also a shaker card, using the Smile Shaker die and the Essentials: Lana Cutaways from W&W to create this one.

 I used the W&W Peppermint Zone creative screening to create the background, along with distress oxide inks.  It was so fun blending that background together, and then I misted it with white color shine to give it some shimmer!

The sequins are a combination from Pretty Pink Posh - most of the same ones as in my first card, and they are all linked below!

These both turned out so cute, and I'm so thankful to Paulina at Pretty Pink Posh for being part of my crafty comeback party!  I know that I will continue using all these amazing goodies she sent in the near future!

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