Realistic Snow + Watercolor Stamping + Hop
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Hi friends!!! I am excited that you have stopped by today for the Pretty Pink Posh and Altenew collaboration blog hop!
This hop is comprised of a group of designers from both the Altenew & Pretty Pink Posh design teams and includes lots of fabulous inspiration, fun prizes and more! If you’ve already been hopping along with us, you should have arrived from the Altenew blog. The rest of the blog hop order is listed at the bottom of this post.
So let’s get to the card!
The premises of the hop is to use both Pretty Pink Posh and Altenew products together in one project. I was really excited to use the new Sketched Evergreen stamp set from Altenew with the Pretty Pink Posh Holiday Greetings stamp set. Note: the Holiday Greetings set from Pretty Pink Posh is not available for individual purchase. It is being given as a free gift in all orders over $100 (placed at the Pretty Pink Posh store). This free gift offer expires 10/31/16 or while supplies last.
These two sets worked so well together and I love the bright, vintage feel this card seems to evoke. I have created a video for you showing how I created this card from start to finish, which I hope you will be checking out below!
In the video, I will be sharing details on how I created the pretty, dimensional snow effect that I have on the evergreen tree. Isn’t it so cool???? This was REALLY easy to do and I will show you how I used two very simple products to achieve this effect. The Sketched Evergreen stamp set is one of Altenew’s newest stamp sets and I know I am going to need to break this set out again because it was so fun to use!
Did you see the new sequins that Pretty Pink Posh just released this month?? This card features some of them (Holiday Shimmer & Snowflake Mix! I used the 4mm & 6mm sequins to make ornaments for the tree, and then the snowflake and star combo at the top is the perfect finishing piece for the tree.
So I hope you’ll check out the video to see this card come together! Keep on reading to find out more details on the hop and GIVEAWAYS!
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KEEP HOPPING & GIVEAWAYS!
There is SO MUCH MORE to see along this hop, so make sure you visit the rest of the designer’s blogs to get lots more Pretty Pink Posh and Altenew inspiration! Your next stop is the talented and wonderful Carissa Wiley!
Altenew
Nina-Marie Trapani
Carissa Wiley
Lydia Evans
Lisa Elton
Nicole Picadura
Liz Sarkisyan
Isha Gupta
Melody Rupple
Sveta Fotinia
Amy Lee
Julia Altermann
Therese Calvird
Jeanne Jachna
Yoousun Hur
Keeway Tsao
Svitlana Shayevich
Amy Kolling
Agnieszka Malyszek
Heather Hoffman
Amy Wanford
Shannon McComb
May Sukyong Park
Pretty Pink Posh Blog
And of course, whenever there is a blog hop, there is almost always prizes involved, right?? Well we have TWO $100 prize packs from Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh up for grabs! Winners will be picked randomly from the comments left on any of the blogs listed above. Please leave your comments by Wednesday, November 2, 2016, at midnight (Eastern time) to be eligible to win. Winners will be announced on the Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh blogs on Thursday, November 3rd.
SPECIAL OFFER
Also! As a special addition to the hop, both Pretty Pink Posh and Altenew are offering 10% off your entire order using the corresponding coupon codes above! Make sure you take advantage of these discounts ASAP, because they expire on 10/30/16!
PRODUCTS
If you are interested in any of the products used in this post, I have them all linked below to Simon Says Stamp. Affiliate links used when possible.
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our tree with 3 shades of green is just beautiful and EASY!
Lovely card…love the gold embossing…
Love those bright colors and the snow is such a great addition to the card!
Love your design and the gold embossing – GORGEOUS.
I have 3 altenew sets they are my favorites
Lovely card. Awesome color combination.
gorgeous!
Thanks for the lesson n snow!,,,
Beautiful card! Love the colors and the shine! The realistic snow is the perfect touch!
Lovely! Thanks for the inspiration!
Woow, love the colours! So bright! And thank you for the video! :)
Fantastic card! Thanks for the video & tips!
Lovely card
WOW… Nina-Marie, your card is gorgeous with the watercoloring and that puffy snow! Thanks for the video, too!
I could never have too many Altenew stamps or Pretty Pink Posh sequins. Such a great card. Thanks for sharing.
I love the beautiful, ethereal look of this Christmas card. So pretty.
Such a fun card.
It is always fun to learn new techniques. Thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous card! I love the watercolor techniques and scoring the border – genius! I am definitely using the faux snow technique on something this season as well. Thanks!!!
Wow!! Love the snow effect on the tree, gorgeous card!
Beautiful card! Love the snow effect.
Fabulous festive card. I love the snow – such a great effect. And the little sequins as ornaments are a lovely touch.
What a festive card that would certainly brighten any mailbox!
So beautiful!
Absolutely gorgeous!
This is something special~
The card is beautiful. Love the snow effects on the tree.
Beautiful Christmas card!
Stunning festive card!!
What a beautiful tree! Love the colors! Thanks for the inspiration!
I always love your creations & this is no exception!
This card I amazing ! I’m loving the Christmas tree stamp and the size!
Gorgeous card! And loved the video :)
Love the watercolored tree – thanks for sharing that technique!
What a stunning creation!!! Absolute perfection!! TFS!
Beautiful card! Loving the blog hop! 🙂
Super gorgeous card Nina-Marie – LOVE the snow!
Really enjoy watching your work on YouTube excellent ideas every time I watch I get taken in yet another direction of creativity! Really love the new stamps from Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh always beautifully crafted stamps :-)
wow, I love the look of the sunrise, lovey detail
My new favorite company. Great products.
Love the watercolor look of the tree. Such a simple & beautiful card.
I love the Christmas tree. You got so much movement
with the watercoloring. The background does not
over-power the rest of the card. The “ornaments”
are great – the sequins are so pretty.
thank for sharing.
The tree stamp us beautiful! And I really need to try that embossing powder.
I love this card!
Oh my goodness, what a PRETTY card, Thanks for the great video!
Love this cards, beutiful!
Love this tree card.
Love watching your video’s
Jenny
Very nice and bright card…love new technique ideas…thank you
Love the dimension/texture from that snow!
Love the snow effect! Thanks for sharing and inspiring!!!
So cute. Love the tree.
love this cards !!
Embossing powders are so fun to use!
Love love ❤️ your card
Beautiful card!! Love the snow effect!! Thanks for sharing the video!
-Berina
Moxie Craftie
Loved this video! Can’t wait to try the snow technique. Thanks!
Very pretty colors used on your tree, just love them, love the snow effect, thanks for sharing I learned several new techniques.
This card is gorgeous!! I LOVE that snow technique and the bright green you colored that tree. Beautiful design!
Awesome card! Thanks for the video tutorial, too!
So pretty, love the puffy snow!
What a gorgeous and fun card Nina-Marie! Love your snow and the beautiful colours you worked into your card. A fabulous collaborative blog hop Altenew and PPP! Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win.
That Christmas tree is just gorgeous, great job!
Love the fresh ideas! Beautiful!
Love the bright colors on this card!!
Great technique! x
Thanks for the video tutorial loved it!!
I love this card! Thanks for the video tutorial! The snow effect is awesome!
Great cards.
How pretty! Love the snow on the tree!
Love the snow! The new sequins look like ornaments!
Cool dimensional card.
Great card, loved your use of embossing powder.
I really like getting interesting tips to try. Thanks
Love your card. Thanks for the idea with the embossing powder it made beautiful snow.
Great card! Love the snow technique! Looking forward to trying it! Great blog hop from two amazing companies! Thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous card! I love the snow on the tree and your use of both company’s products is fabulous.
Beautiful card!
Great card. Really like the water color technique.
Beautiful card! I love the trick with the snow.
Love your watercoloring and thank you for the video! So beautiful!
Stunning card, Nina!! The watercoloring is soft and vivid at the same time. Love this! Thanks for your great video.
Excited to see your lovely card! The watercolor look is amazing! Thank you for sharing. I love blog hops!
Gorgeous card!!!
Pretty watercoloring!
Beautiful card :) Love the snow effect on the tree, so creative :)
Gorgeous card! Thanks for providing the video tutorial. Your videos are always helpful!
I love your tutorials!
Great snow on your card :o)
I love this tree and I love what you did with it. The colors are beautiful!
Love the Sketched Evergreen and all your beautiful details! Gorgeous card!
I love this beautiful blended color look! Just gorgeous!
Take care!
Michele, crimsonowl@charter.net
Lovely card! The “snow” is perfection!
Lovely card!
Such a beautiful tree :-)
Such a clever use of products and beautiful cards!
Such a beautiful card. I love the coloring.
Very pretty!! Thanks for sharing ~
This is a very pretty card. Thanks for the tip of using a score board with a stencil to add likes to the card.
There is my “little magician”. This is so awesome. Love your color choices and the snow is truly magic. Thanks for sharing and for a chance at an awesome prize. I am trying to incorporate some of your organizing tips into my craft supplies. Thanks again.
This is a stunning cards. Thanks for the inspiration
I love the snow. Great card.
love the tree card but what i really like most of all is the snow that was a nice touch.
So beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration.
I love this card! I am going to try this myself, thank you so much for sharing!
I loved your tutorial on YouTube.com. I really enjoy the inspiration I get . The technique you show using the glue and embossing powder, well that’s the first time I ever saw that! Thank you!
Wonderful card full of some many pretty details – puffy snow, glitter, sequins, watercolor… Love your videos to make the process understandable as well.
Beautiful card! Love the colors!
Beautiful card!
I just love love love this card! I love the way you used the Clean Color markers for stamping.
Terrific card!
Wow! My two favorite companies, PPP & Altenew, A Hop, a Coupon and a Giveaway! Yeah FRIDAY!!!
Such a magical Christmas tree and card!! Love all the sequins and loving touches!
Absolutely loving your style!
I love so much your stunning card!!!
I am totally living your style! I’m so long forward to seeing more from you😍
Gorgeous card. Your artistic talent made it so wonderful. Thanks for sharing your talent and artistic abilities with all of us. You provided so many tips and ideas throughout the video.
Love the look of this card. Thanks for the video
Beautiful card these two just go together
Fabulous card! Love the puffy snow and the embossing!
Great card! I love the watercolour and the embossed snow. Very lovely.
Loved the watercolor with the puffed snow. Beautiful!!!
Beautiful card! Love those new snowflakes!!
What a very pretty and dreamy card you created…love the soft look.
Great card!
What fun techniques! I really like the simplicity of the embossed border. It makes a big, but subtle impact. Thank you.
Great card! Love the snow technique.
Such a gorgeous design Nina, love the added dimension!
Thanks for such a detailed instructional video Nina! Love seeing how you used the Tree stamp with the Zig markers. What an amazing effect!
So much inspiration, thanks for sharing!
Wow, that tree looks just amazing, great job! Thanks for this amazing hop and the chance to win! :)
Lovely card, Nina-Marie! Lots of fantastic texture! :-)
Super card!
Really love your inspiration Nina Marie!
I love how you’ve created such a soft, inky tree! Just gorgeous!
Love the dimensional snow on your fabulous card!
Beautiful card.
Nice card, the tree is fabulous with the puffy snow. Thanks for sharing!
Such a lovely card…
Definitely makes one happy with your fun card design!!!
Such an adorable card, I like it vey much!
Merry Christmas! Your card put me in the mood!
Thank you so much for adding the video to your post! I loved seeing how you used the Puffy Embossing Powder. It really does look like snow. Loved seeing how you used different inks to watercolor the tree. Lovely card!
Beautiful
What a fun and playful card. Beautiful.
Very pretty card. Love the bright colors too.
Love your beautiful card and your tips/tricks are awesome.
Beautiful card. Thanks for sharing wonderful tips in your video.
What a gorgeous card!
Love the snow effect
So pretty! love that gorgeous tree!!
Nina I love your card. The tree stamp set is right on top of my wish list. Thanks for showing us how to water colour it, it’s so pretty. Of course adding the blingy sequins is a fabulous bonus, love them! Have a fantastic weekend. Cheers Donna Z :)
Great card!
Did not kow you could use embossing powder over glue for snow. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful card!
Very pretty. I like the colors and dimension.
Thank you for a great video. So many new ideas and a beautiful card. I want to learn to watercolor and you made it look fun and easy! I need those markers!!!
Simply beautiful! I like the dimensional snowy accents.
Thanks for always teaching us something new. Love the card
What a great card! Thanks for sharing!
Love your beautiful card.
Thanks so much for sharing! What a great card and great way to use your Zig markers! :)
Very Joyful Nina!
What a fabulous card, Nina!
Love the vibrant colors used in this card…and I ALWAY love tutorial videos
I love the water color technique as well as the snow. Thanks for sharing.
Love your clever snow technique
Love the gold embossing.
The water color tree is so beautiful, thanks for the look!
Very pretty design! I love ideas for making snow seem more realistic! Thanks for showing us how it is done in the video. It is always great to learn fun tips like this from you!
Your card uses so many great techniques from the puffy popcorn and snowflake star to the yellow glow. Beautiful.
WOW such a beautiful card!!!
This holiday card is so awesome! I love the added snow on the tree and the sparkle of the sequins! Thanks for sharing a video, also.
It’s looking like christmas
I love the vibrant colors! A very merry card!
Gorgeous card!
I love that you always put so much detail in explaining what you are doing 😊
Gorgeous card! I’m always learn something new.
Super fun card! Thanks for sharing!
I always find your video so inspiring, thank you for sharing your creativity with us ! Once again, a stunning card !
I love what you have done with this evergreen! It has completely inspired me. Thank you
Your videos are always so inspiring, you do something a little different with a stamp, or use a different technique to expand the possibilities… thank you
wow! awesome card and loved your tutorial
What a bright, fantastic card! Your “snow” is awesome! Love that you shared a video, so we can see how you did it.
This is such a beautiful card Nina!! I love the watercoloring you did on the tree. And the technique you used for the dimensional snow is amazing!! Thanks for another lovely video.
Your card is beautiful! Very festive!
Beautiful and festive!
Beautiful card Nina. You always have such great creations.
Love your card!
Love your card ideas!
Lovely card and great video – I always learn so much from you.Thank you:)
Love the snow on the tree really pretty card
Great card! I love the watercolored tree but the added snow with embossing powder and glue- wow! I also love to use the scoring board to add to my one layer cards. Awesome tips.
You are so talented. Beautiful card
Great colors and textures on your card!
Beautiful card! I love how you used the watercolor to make the tree. Makes it look very real.
Such a cute Christmas. Love the snow effect. Thanks.
Pretty tree and what a fun looking technique!
Your colors and technique are super!
You are so talented. Beautiful card
Love the watercolor technique on this tree stamp.
Stunning card Nina, I love the technique you used to watercolour the christmas tree, it turned out beautiful! It was a great video tutorial too, thank you.
Thanks for creating this post. I love the watercolor technique. I’ll definitely be using it as soon as my stamps arrive.
The tree stamp is awesome. Nice use of color.
I love the background colors of this card!
Absolutely amazing! I love the watercolor stamping — how easy is that. Your card is to pretty. Thanks for sharing this technique.
Great technique and card. tfs
Cool Card need to watch your video.
Beautiful card
Pretty, pretty and I love y0ur video, always do, but I can’t comment. somehow they don’t like my IPad. TFS
great snow technique! thanks!!
Such a pretty card. Will be making sure I check out the videos too!!
Very pretty card–thanks for sharing!!! Love the snow effect!!!
What a beautiful holiday
tree! I will go watch the video
to see how you made the
Dimensional snow.
Absolutely gorgeous! Stunning colors and design layout, and the puff snow is fantastic. Off to watch the video and see your how-to’s. TFS!
Love youe beautiful card! Altenew is my favourite stamp company – especially their stamp layering sets and I love what I’ve seen ladies do with PPP sequins and sparkles all over the internet. What a great chance to win amazing prizes!
Very beautiful!!!
love your video – the card looks so cool and the technique for the snow is so cool!
Such a darling, nostalgic card, Nina Marie! Your snow makes me think of popcorn that I used to string for our Christmas tree!
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I love the Altenew Christmas tree stamp. Such a pretty card!
I really like the clear stamping technique in the background on the card base. You share so right…it adds so much but is not distracting. Thanks for sharing!
Gorgeous card, I love getting Christmas inspiration!
Thank you for sharing such fun techniques and inspiration ideas for the holidays! I cannot wait to get started!!
Gorgeous work on this
card. Loving the colors.
Carla from Utah
Fun addition of the puffy embossing powder. Love your tutorials!
Beautiful card. My Christmas wish list is growing. Thank you for making the video, sharing your great ideas and being part of this awesome giveaway
I love the snow effect! Thank you for sharing this design, and I agree that it reminds me of the beautiful watercolor images on Christmas card during my childhood!
Great inspiration!!
How awesome is the snow!!!! TY for the video showing this great step.
Looks great! So sparkly!
Love what you did with the card! Great dimension with the snow!
Love all the dimension
Wonderful inspiration, thanks for the chance to win!
I love this card
IT is soooo beautiful
The colors and this nice tree
And the snow looks very real =)
Greetings Stefanie
Gorgeous card, love the snow technique! This Beautiful Altenew sketched tree is a perfect match for the PPP sentiment and sequins, making this holiday card stunning (and mailable!)
Beautiful! Thanks for the wonderful video and instructions.
Your card is beautiful and thank you for taking so much time to explain in detail how you completed it. I love learning the techniques of the professionals.
Oh Nina, I am SUCH a BIG fan of yours! (But not in a creepy, stalker way, lol!) I ALWAYS learn something new from you! This card is absolutely gorgeous, and I love the colors you chose. I recently ordered my Zig Real Clean Color markers, and I’m impatiently awaiting their arrival from Japan! This video validates that my purchase was a good one! Thank you SO much for sharing this awesome tutorial with us!
Gorgeous card. I love the colors
I really like the watercoloring on your card. Thanks for the video, very helpful!
Love the colors of sequins you chose to go with the bright green! fun!
gorgeous card!! Thanks for the video too.
This is simply gorgeous, Nina! Just breathtaking colors too!
What a beautiful card – I am such a fan of watercolor stamping!
The added dimensional snow takes your card to a new level!
Great technique, and thanks for the video.
Great technique and thanks for the video.
I love this water color idea! I’m going to try it.
Thanks for the inspiration!
What a beautiful card!!!!
What a beautiful card
Fabulous vibrant colors!!
Thanks for the video. Great card. Would be wonderful to win a prize package!
Love the card and all the wonderful textures that you’ve shared. Fun techniques!!
Beautiful card. I love to snow embossing effect. I just have one question….can you do that with any embossing powder or does it have to be the one you used to get it to puff?
So cute! Two of my favorite brands together! I love the PPP sequin mixes, and Altenew is one of my all time favorite stamp and die brands.
This is beautiful!!
Loved the card, will have to order some of these stamps/dies. The puffy embossing powder will absolutely be on my list of things to get and use this season.
Such a neat technique to create snow by using glue and embossing powders. I love how you colored your stamps with zigs to create the watercolor tree.
Beautiful card. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
I am so excited about this release. It’s so hard to choose a favorite. Your card is gorgeous!
Lovely!
Love the color combo; very striking and fresh looking.
What a beautiful card! I love getting new ideas on how to use the Zig markers. Thank you for sharing.
Elaine
Great match, Altenew and PPP! Your card is gorgeous, love the colors and sparkle.
Fabulous Sketched Evergreen card – love the snow capped boughs!
I love this card! The color of the zig markers is bright
Love how you used the zig markers, the tree looks amazing! Awesome blog hop! Thanks!
Love your card and this great blog hop! Two of my favorite companies. Thanks for sharing!!
Lovely card, Nina! Thank you for the inspiration.
Such great inspirational methods and choices of stamp and die sets!
Another stunning card,Nina. I just watched your video, loved how you used your score board to make the edge details. I have limited supplies meaning no nesting dies yet. It’s another way to use what you do have. Thanks for that. Mary Lou
What a pretty card, I love the bright colors, thanks for sharing.
Such a beautiful card. And I love getting the “how to”~ It makes it easy for me to re-create :o). Thanks so so much for the coupons!
Beautiful card, Nina!