Altenew & Pretty Pink Posh Collaboration Blog Hop

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Today Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh are joining forces for a special collaboration blog hop full of inspiration, special offers and prizes galore! You should have hopped on over here from Heather Hoffman, but if you haven't then be sure to start out at Altenew HQ. :)

Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh products complement each other beautifully and they're ideal for making a start on your Christmas/holiday projects! I couldn't resist shaking things up a bit by inking up Altenew's Modern Deer stamp set (again!) and pairing it with Pretty Pink Posh clear 4mm sequins.

I've also paired the Modern Deer stamp set with the Winter Cottage stamp set for the backdrop of the scene. I simply coloured elements of it with a white gel pen and added touches of glitter glue for an icy sparkle. :)

This blog hop is a pretty special one as Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh are celebrating our their first anniversary of collaborating so they're celebrating in style by having amazing giveaways and offers!

There's two $100 prize packs from Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh up for grabs. Two winners will be randomly selected from comments left on any one of the blogs in the blog hop. You've got to be in it to win it, so be sure to leave comments by Wednesday 2nd November 2016 at midnight EST. Winners will be announced on the Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh blogs on Thursday November 3rd.

Also, if you fancy a little retail therapy, then Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh are offering you 10% off your entire order. Simply enter 'ALTENEWLOVESPPP' at the checkout for Altenew orders and 'PPPLOVESALTENEW' for Pretty Pink Posh orders. Hurry though, the offer is only available until midnight EST on Sunday 30th October 2016.

Right, that's enough babbling from me. There's some serious hopping to be done! Next on your hopping adventure is Shannon McComb. :)

Thanks so much for hopping on by today!

Altenew & Pretty Pink Posh collaboration blog hop!

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Happy Friday and welcome to a fabulous blog hop full of sequins, super stamps, delightful dies, inspiration, prizes and more as Altenew joins forces with Pretty Pink Posh!

You should have hopped across here from Yuki Yoshioka but if you haven't, then be sure to start out at Altenew HQ. :)

Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh products make the perfect pair for gorgeous goodies to create fun cards. I couldn't resist using the Stitched Duo 2 die set to transform those circles into balloons along with adding a scattering of sequins and a sentiment from my go-to Altenew birthday stamp set, Birthday Greetings. :)

Now what's a blog hop without some prizes? We have two $30 gift certificates for Altenew and two for Pretty Pink Posh to give away. There are two ways to win as Altenew will pick two winners for the Pretty Pink Posh gift certificates and Pretty Pink Posh will pick two winners for the Altenew gift certificates. The best thing is that all you have to do is leave a comment along the hop by Monday 26th October 11:59pm EDT to enter. Simple! Winners will be announced on the Altenew blog and Pretty Pink Posh blog. :)

Well I best let you continue hopping! You're very near the end as the next, and final, stop of the blog is Pretty Pink Posh HQ!

Thanks so much for hopping along with me today and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Finally shaking the sequins...

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Happy Monday! It was a little shock to the system to hear my alarm go off so early after having a lovely two weeks off, but it only took a matter of minutes to get back into school-mode.

So if you popped by this blogeroo on Friday, you'll see that I unintentionally rebelled from the fabulous theme of Pretty Pink Posh's Sequin Shaker Blog Hop that was run in collaboration with Top Dog Dies plus many other great companies.

Oh I know the clue was in the title, but those sequins are so distracting with their pretty little ways *wink*. Anyways, I'm hoping to make up for my crafting faux pas today with today's card. Yes, an actual sequin shaker card has now been created. 

The frame for the shaking business was created by die cutting the lens from the Top Dog Dies Camera Die and snipping off the flash section. It created a great circular frame and left me with solid circles to play with at a later date, on a future project. :)
 

• To give a good depth to get those sequins shaking, I die cut the frame from some ancient funky foam I had in my stash. It beats having to layer up lots of cardstock frames. 
• I purposely picked pink foam to go under the dark green frame to give it a fun contrast and to tie in with the colours of the fuchsias in the frame. 
• I got busy with some embossing paste and a Tim Holtz stencil for the card base. The stencil wasn't wide enough to cover the card base, so I simply applied the paste through the stencil on one half of the card and then once that had dried I did the same to the other side. I also missed a section (trying to avoid the shaker section) but the stencil was easy to place to perfection once the original paste had dried and allowed me to touch up missed sections. 

These shaker cards are so fun, and so easy to create. The hardest part is always deciding what to put inside the shaker compartment. For this card, is was a mix of Pretty Pink Posh amethyst and pansy purple sequins.

Well that's all from me today. I hope you've had a great start to the week and thanks for finding the time to visit today.





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Pretty Pink Posh & Top Dog Dies Hop!

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Hoooooooray for Friday! Well, kinda hooray seeing as it's my last day of freedom for the Easter holidays. It's back to work on Monday...Holidays zoom by so fast!

So today I'm sharing a little party card that got a little sequin crazy. It's all part of the fun of a blog hop where Top Dog Dies, along with many other wonderful companies, joins forces with Pretty Pink Posh!

Pretty Pink Posh is getting busy with the hop tomorrow and also has a sweet offer:

Pretty Pink Posh specialises in the most adorable embellishments for your crafting projects. As part of the Top Dog Dies DT we were sent little packages of sweetness to play with and I received some yummy amethyst and pansy purple sequins.

Now before I go on, you may notice that my card is anything but a shaker card. My bad. I just got distracted and busy with the sequins before reading the small print. Ooops! Sorry! I aim to make up for it by making a shaker card as soon as I can. Sorry again!

So I rebelled from the blog hop theme unintentionally and paired these sequins with the Top Dog Dies Vintage Alphabet Die and made my own kinda ticker tape using the butterfly flourish from the Butterfly Finishers Die Set.

Oh, and I added a touch of sparkle to my die cut letters using my faithful clear Wink of Stella pen. That pen is like a magic wand to me! 

OK so I went a little sequin crazy on my card, but I couldn't resist! I also started with the lighter shade of sequins at the top and the darker ones at the bottom for a very slight ombre effect.

Be sure to hop along and see what amazing projects the rest of the Top Dogs Dies DT whipped up. I bet the rest of the DT used their brains and created wonderful sequin shaker cards for your viewing pleasure!

Top Dog Dies
Amy Tsuruta
Giovana Smith
Karen Letchworth
Katie Brooks
Renee Robbins

Thank you so much for stopping/hopping on by here today. Have a wonderful weekend!