Pretty Pink Posh Class at Impress Rubber Stamps in Tukwila, WA

Hi guys! Just wanted to pop in and invite you to join me for two classes I am teaching on June 10th, 2018...

Join us for two classes at Impress Rubber Stamps in Tukwila, WA. Featuring Pretty Pink Posh newest May and June release. Sign up for one or both. 

From 11:30-1:30 we will have Pretty Pink Posh Floral Showcase:
Designer Crystal Thompson will be teaching techniques to create an array of cards featuring fresh florals used in various techniques for every occasion. 

Then from 2:30pm- 4:30pm, we continue on with Gorgeous Backgrounds class. Learn ways to stretch your stamps, play on background patterns and more! We are making 4 coordinating cards. 

Bring your favorite coloring medium (ie. markers, pencils), liquid adhesive, foam adhesive, tape adhesive and scissors. All other materials will be provided. There will be a gift courtesy of Pretty Pink Posh for every student.

Call the store to sign up 206-901-9101, $38 per class.

Let me know if you signed up! I can't wait to see you! 

Crystal 

Studio Katia 2nd Birthday Celebration Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi there guys! Welcome to my stop of the Studio Katia second birthday celebration! You should have arrived from Amy Kolling's blog.

I am super excited to be here celebrating Katia's 2nd birthday, I was so excited I made two cards with the new release!

First up is this floral beauty

I wanted to use the newest Chunky Confetti Glitter, and I thought the outer layer of this card would be awesome to add. 

I used tombow adhesive on the card base, added my chunky glitter just on the edge. 

Then I stamped the center cardstock with the Lovely Blooms stamp in light pink. Then heat embossed the sentiment from the same set. 

  
On a separate cardstock, I stamped, colored and hand cut the Lovely Blooms image and placed that over the white panel. To finish up, I added a bit of glitter Nuvo drops to the center of the florals. 

For my second card, I wanted to make a square card!

To make this I used the Brush Stroke Wave stencil, with gray and pink ink, blending those into each other.  For the Seashell Shaker, I die cut it out of pink cardstock. The inner part I used clear Nuvo Drops and for the outer part for the shell I used glitter Nuvo. Once those were dried up, I place those on the center of the card.

The mer-people were colored with Copics. I thought the tails needed to be super special, so I used the Dots Chunky Glitter.

The sentiment was then heat embossed with silver powder

The outer edge of my card panel was decorated with Copic dots that matched the tails of my mermaids.

 I am specially fond of these guys, they are super cute! 

Now onto the giveaway!

Studio Katia is giving away TWO $100 CAD gift certificates on each day of the Hop, winners will be chosen from the comments left on all blogs of the Hop!

****I am personally purchasing a $25 gift card to give ONE of you for leaving a comment below and becoming a follower on my Instagram. Simply click HERE to take you to my feed and press Follow! My handle is crystal_thompson_design ( I will check here for comment and follow so please be sure to say you became a follower) I will select a winner next Saturday for my personal giveaway! *****

Dana Gong is your next stop. If you get lost you can find the full hop list below or visit Studio Katia Blog!

Studio Katia (Rowena)

SimonSaysStamp

Amy Kolling

Crystal Thompson

Dana Gong

Erum Tasneem

Jessica Frost Ballas

Ilina Crouse

Heather Hoffman

Tracy Freeman

Olga Moss

Simon Hurley

Carol Mayne

Laurie Case

Kristina Pokazanieva

Kari VanNoy

Natalia Zubkova

Amanda Bodine

Liliya Rytsar

ClearSnap and Pink & Main Collaboration blog hop

Hi there! Welcome to my stop of the ClearSnap and Pink & Main collaboration blog hop! 

For today's project I have me two very bright cards using the Aloha Pineapple stamp set. 

To make this card I:

1. Trimmed the white cardbase

2. Stamped the solid backgrounds in ColorBox® Premium Dye Ink in Dandellion and Blush

3. The crown was stamped in ColorBox® Premium Dye Ink in Olive for the yellow pineapples and ColorBox® INK Premium Dye Mini Inkpads for the pink pineapples.

4. The top layer of the pineapple skin was stamped in ColorBox® Premium Dye Inkpads in Raspberry and Wheat for the traditional pineapple.

5. The "aloha" was stamped in ColorBox® Premium Dye Inkpad in Blush, and the "friend" in Raspberry.

I really like the one layer card, and how easy it can be to mail out. 

Fro my second card, I wanted to create a background with the pineapple shell and the hello from Hello Friend stamp set.

To make this card:

1. Stamped the square skin shell from Aloha Friend using ColorBox® Premium Dye Inkpad in Dandelion over a lighter yellow shade of card stock.

2. On a separate piece of cardstock, I stamped the pineapple in  ColorBox® Premium Dye Inkpad in Dandellion and Otter, the crown was stamped in Olive .

3. Using the outer corner of the pineapple crown I did a rock n' roll technique with Dandelion then over stamp with Olive to get both colors on the ink pad. Then I stamped the crown on the edges of the white cardstock.

4. Using my stamp positioner, I stamped the "hello" in  ColorBox® Premium Dye Inkpad in Leather over the pineapple and the white cardstock.

5. With foam adhesive I added the pineapple matching up where the letters met.

6. To finish off, I added some silver glossy dots.

Isn't this a happy card? 

GIVEAWAY:

There are prizes available for this hop! Pink and main will be giving a $25 gift code to their website, and Clear Snap will be giving away a prize pack valued at $25. All you have to do to win a prize is hop along the blogs and follow and leave comments on their posts. We will choose 2 random winners from the comments posted. We will post the winners on June 1st.

Here is the lineup for the hop… enjoy!

Pink and Main
http://pinkandmainblog.com/pink-and-main-and-clear-snap-blog-hop/

Crystal
https://crystalthompsoninks.blogspot.com/2018/05/clearsnap-and-pink-main-collaboration.html

Kate
http://www.katecrafts.com/2018/05/25/pink-and-main-clearsnap-blog-hop/

Tonya
https://creativeaddictiontopaper.blogspot.com/2018/05/candid-strawberry-moments-layout.html

Pam
https://stamperatheart.blogspot.com/2018/05/pink-and-main-clear-snap.html

Tami

http://blog.clearsnap.com/2018/05/colorbox-diy-mixed-media-frame/

Pamela
https://geezypeaseypapercrafting.blogspot.com/2018/05/pink-and-main-collaboration-with.html

Mitsyana
https://www.upontippytoes.com/2018/05/pink-and-main-clearsnap-blog-hop.html

Jessica

http://blog.clearsnap.com/2018/05/stamping-card-pink-main-and-clearsnap-colorbox-blog-hop/

Thank you so much for joining me on this post celebrating ClearSnap and Pink & Main Collaboration. Your next stop is Kate! 

Hugs,

Crystal

Sending Happy Mail | May Release | Pretty Pink Posh

Hello! Happy Friday! Just wanted to stop by today and show you this card I made using Pretty Pink Posh newest release. 

This was super simple to make! The background is composed of simple watercolor and the sentiment stamped in black ink.

 I colored the mail box with Copic Markers and die cut using the coordinating dies.

 The edge of the white card base was cut with scalloped borders 1, and placed black and white patterned paper behind it.

Wasn't this just so fun and simple?! I paired this card with a little gift and sent it off to a friend. I hope that you get inspired to use this set, as it could easily make quite a few card sets.

Thanks!

Crystal

Color Pencils on Kraft | Color Combos with Crystal | Unity Stamp Company

Happy day friends! Crystal here with my second installment to the month of May Kraft Color Combo series. I am so excited to be sharing this card made with the gorgeous florals from Wild Florals kit and Mother sentiment from from Another Name for Love.

If you have not seen this set yet, you should definitely check it out; I absolutely adore this stamp set..



In my project for this post, the pencil coloring on kraft cardstock creates a mesmerizing effect! I specially love the softness it provides. This would be easy to re-create and mass produce this to keep in your card stash. Just switch the sentiments if need be!



To make this card, I have stamped the Wild Florals flower 3 times, slightly overlapping them on the bottom of the kraft card stock.

Then I used my Chameleon pencils to color. First I used the white on all the tips of all the leaves and petals. Next I used a yellow shade to fill in below the white. Blending in 2 other shades of darker yellow on the center of the florals. The leaves were colored with a light green on the bottom of them.



Then I stamped the sentiment "Mother is another name for love" from the kit Another Name for Love.  As a finishing touch, I added splatters of white gold water color from my Starry Gansai Tambi.



If you would like to see how i created this card, be sure to press play on the video below this post!





I’d totally love you FOREVER, if you would give this video a thumbs up, and subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Thanks for visiting with me today; I’’ll be back soon with a brand new kraft color combination video for you!



Crystal

May 2018 Release Blog Hop | Pretty Pink Posh

Happy day friends! Crystal here with a pretty card post and I am so excited to be sharing this card made with the Flourishing Fushia from Pretty Pink Posh. If you have not seen this set yet, you should definitely check it out; I absolutely adore this stamp set.

Now to my project!

How pretty and realistic are these Fushia Stamps! The Hugs Shaker Die has been trimmed out to create a mesmerizing effect!  I love the details in this image. I used Copic markers to color the image.

The look of the Flourishing Fushias and Hugs Shaker Die together is gorgeous.

 Finally, I finished off this card by adding some pretty Pearl White Jewels.

The combination of soft and bright colors in this sweet card really turned out fun and I hope you are inspired by what I’ve created!

Now onto the GIVEAWAY!

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 5/14/2018. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog.

So be sure to leave your comment below and continue hopping ! Your next stop is Joni Andaya 

Pretty Pink Posh blog 

Kelly Latevola 

Yana Smakula 

Laurie Willison

Suzy Plantamura

Melody Rupple 

Alexandra Stapleton- Smith

Jessica Frost- Ballas 

Heather Hoffman  

Crystal Thompson 

Joni Andaya 

Lydia Fiedler 

Mindy Baxter 

Yoonsun Hur 

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Crystal 

New Unity Kraft card stock Series | Color Stamping on Kraft | Unity Stamp Co.

Happy day friends! I am here with a fun card and post. I am so excited to be sharing this card made with the butterflies and Mother's day friendly sentiment from from Another Name for Love.
If you have not seen this set yet, you should definitely check it out; I absolutely adore this stamp set..


Before I tell you more about how I made this card, I wanted to tell ya, that I had asked on the Unity Show N Tell Facebook group what you would like to see. I especially like asking for feedback on your thoughts! For this card series I wanted to make several different cards using one similar component that most would have in their crafty stash. This being kraft cardstock!

In my project for this post, the color stamping on kraft cardstock creates a mesmerizing effect! I specially love the idea of "no coloring", so it would be easy to re-create and mass produce this to keep in your card stash. Just switch the sentiments if need be!

The look of 4 ink colors and kraft together is gorgeous. The ink colors are Catherine Pooler's in -It's A Girl (light pink), Party Dress (dark pink), Aquatinni (mint) & Daydream (dark teal). You can use any of your ink pads in your stash!

To make this card, I trimmed the kraft cardstock to be matted over the white card base. Stamped the sentiment in black ink on the center of the kraft cardstock. Using the butterfly from the Another Name for Love, I stamped it repetitively switching ink colors. On several of the butterflies using a 2 color ombre effect.
Finally, I finished off this card by adding some pretty gold watercolor flicks and gold embroidery thread from my local arts & crafts store.
The combination of soft and bright colors in this sweet card really turned out fun and I hope you are inspired by what I’ve created!

If you would like to see how i created this card, be sure to press play on the video below this post!

I'd totally love you FOREVER, if you would give this video a thumbs up, and subscribe to the Unity YouTube channel!

Thanks for visiting with me today; I’’ll be back soon with a brand new video for you!

Crystal

Layton's Legacy Blog Hop and Fundraiser

Hi there! Welcome to my stop of Layton's Legacy Blog Hop & Fundraiser! What a beautiful way to commemorate this sweet little guy, don't you think?! 

There is an entire group of papercrafters and generous sponsor's who are making a difference! 

We have a huge Card Drive blog hop going on in Layton's honor, with tons of amazing inspiration! We also have a fundraising effort, where every $5 donated gets you an entry into the prize drawing. There are over $2000 in prizes, sponsored by some of the most amazing stamping & papercrafting companies in the industry! {You can also see all the prizes HERE.}

My card was inspired by Layton's Nursery Mood Board:

I chose my color's from those cute forest critters, and because this card is being sent to the card drive to be included in the gift card to be handed to a NICU  parent. 

The sentiment is from Hero Arts in collaboration with Simon Says Stamp.

The sweet balloons, clouds and sun are from Catherine Pooler's Box from February.

Now on to the blog hop info - here is a link list with all of the stops along the hop! Please be sure to leave some love for the thoughtfulness & generosity that these companies, stores & designers have shown for this Card Drive & Fundraising effort.

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WAYS YOU CAN HELP:

1. DONATE! - directly to Layton's Legacy YouCaring Fundraiser. For every $5 donated, you will be entered into the drawing for one of the prizes above!! All winners will be drawn from donations made thru the YouCaring Site. **Prizes will be drawn and announced here on my blog on Saturday, May 19th.**

2. SHARE! - I know that not everyone is able to donate, but sharing about the fundraiser gives it more visibility! Please feel free to share the YouCaring Link or this post on all your social media outlets!

3. SHOP!

-Pinkfresh Studio will be donating 10% of TODAY'S sales, and offering a 15% off discount to you for shopping!

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-CAS-ual Fridays Stamps will be donating 15% of their sales thru May 19th.

-My affiliate linking dollars will be donated thru May 19th.

4. CREATE! - this is also a card drive, and if you'd like to create a card using the theme/moodboard below, I would love that! I will be including these handmade treasures with the giftcards when I hand them over to the NICU social worker, and my dream is that the NICU will be covered in beautiful creations inspired by Layton!! Link them up HERE, and then please email (lea@lealawsoncreates.com) to get the address for sending - and note that she will need them to arrive by May 31st.

Thanks so much for joining us on this special blog hop!

Hugs,
Crystal