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Pink & Main December Challenge | Purple Blue Winter Card Inspiration

December 16, 2025 No Comments

If you love creating a Purple Blue Winter Card, the Pink & Main December Challenge is calling your name. This month’s theme is a Color Challenge, encouraging you to use wintery shades of purple and blue on your card project. The theme of your card does not have to be winter, just the colors, making this challenge fun, flexible, and wide open to interpretation. The beautiful card featured here was created by Jennifer Ingle for the Pink & Main Challenge Team. Her design showcases a magical winter scene paired with soft purple and blue tones, proving how impactful a Purple Blue Winter Card can be when color takes center stage. The shaker element adds movement and sparkle, while the layered die cuts and adorable character bring the card to life. How to Join the Pink & Main December Challenge Getting involved is easy, and you can enter as many times…

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🎅 Christmas Cardmaking Challenge Inspiration with Pink & Main

November 22, 2025 No Comments

If you love holiday crafting, the Christmas Cardmaking Challenge at Pink & Main is calling your name! This month’s theme is all things Christmas, and Jennifer Ingle’s adorable nutcracker card is the perfect inspiration to get your creativity flowing. Jennifer created her project using the Pink & Main Nutcracker Kisses stamp set, colouring the charming characters with beautiful OLO Marker blends and choosing a more traditional holiday palette. The result? A festive card full of personality, sweetness, and old-world Christmas charm! 🎄 About This Month’s Challenge Pink & Main’s November theme is simply: Christmas!Nutcrackers, elves, candy canes, wreaths, nativity scenes, snowy landscapes — if it celebrates the holiday season, it’s perfect for this challenge. Here’s what you need to know: Updated Challenge Rules Must feature Pink & Main products NEW cards only — created specifically for this challenge Enter as many times as you want Two ways to submit:✔️ Add…

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Pink & Main Holiday Magic Giveaway

October 22, 2025 2 Comments

Congratulation to this week’s lucky winner – Christy Stubbs The Pink & Main giveaway is here — and it’s overflowing with festive fun! This week, Creative Scrapbooker Magazine is teaming up with Pink & Main to celebrate their Holiday 2025 Release with an exciting prize bundle that will fill your craft room with creative cheer. From whimsical holiday stamps to playful dies and sparkling gems, this bundle has everything you need to create joyful handmade cards, tags, and scrapbook pages this season. Whether you’re a seasoned papercrafter or just starting your creative journey, you’ll love adding these Pink & Main treasures to your collection. CLICK HERE to enter your name into the draw! Don’t wait — contest closes Friday, October 24th at MIDNIGHT MDT!. Good luck my friends! Is your Creative Scrapbooker Magazine collection missing a gem? Don’t let that gap stare at you from the shelf. Back issues are…

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Winter Cardmaking Inspiration with Pink & Main and Justin Adkins

November 26, 2024 No Comments

Winter crafting is in full swing, and the Pink & Main Stamps are here to bring your holiday cardmaking to life! Justin Adkins’ latest creation, featured in the Winter issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine, perfectly captures the charm of the season. Using adorable critters, sparkling embellishments, and vibrant colors, this card is a wonderful way to celebrate winter. A Closer Look at the Card Justin’s card design features a cheerful seal, fox, and polar bear, all stamped and colored with Copic Markers for bold, eye-catching details. The soft pink background, created using Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ink, provides a dreamy, snowy atmosphere. Glitter accents, enamel dots, and touches of foil add extra sparkle, while the sentiment “Warm Winter Wishes” ties the theme together. The use of Pink & Main’s Let it Snow Foilable Kit bring a professional-quality shine to the card. Featured Supplies Here’s what you’ll need to create this…

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Step-by-Step Guide to Stamping Backgrounds with Pink & Main: Create a Stunning Birthday Card

August 12, 2024 No Comments

Step-by-Step Guide to Stamping Backgrounds with Pink & Main and Cathie Allan Creating unique and eye-catching stamping backgrounds is a fantastic way to add depth and interest to your handmade cards. In this step-by-step guide, designer Cathie Allan demonstrates how to use Pink & Main products to craft a stunning birthday card. The keyphrase for this tutorial is Stamping Backgrounds—a technique that can transform your projects into extraordinary works of art. Follow along to create your own masterpiece, and be sure to watch the accompanying YouTube video for a complete walkthrough. Here is a side view of Cathie’s card. Step 1: Creating the Stenciled Background Start by die-cutting the Pink & Main leaf die from heavy cardstock to create a stencil. Place the stencil on a white piece of cardstock. Using a blending foam, pounce umber ink through the stencil. After removing the stencil, gently blend the color around the…

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Celebrate with Pink & Main Special Day Kit: Colorful and Creative Card Ideas | Heather Fischer

July 25, 2024 No Comments

Happy Summer, crafty friends! Heather Fischer here today on the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine blog. Thank you for stopping by to get a closer look at these cards I created using the Pink & Main Special Day kit. This kit is part of their monthly subscriptions, and you won’t want to miss it! This kit is FULL of bright and cheerful elements—the Colourful Ink Spots 6×6 paper pad is amazing!! Loving all the fun colours and patterns in it, and it really got my creative juices flowing! I based the card designs on these patterned papers and incorporated many of the other items in the kit. Card 1 – Happy Birthday to You Circles…who doesn’t love circles?! I used my Prism Studio Stitched Circle Die Set to cut out five different sized circles of the Colourful Ink Spots papers. I love circles too, and this card was quick to make! Instead…

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Pink & Main Cheerfoil with Annette Allen

December 8, 2023 No Comments

Happy Hello Creative Scrapbook Magazine friends, Annette Allen here with you today and I am so excited to be here sharing a little or a lot of Pink & Main. I have created a fun foiling card using Pink & Main Cheerfoil and the Mini MINC Foiling Machine. Such an easy way to create an easy background with lots of sparkle and shine, so let’s get started. Here is a list of products that I will be using Pink & Main: Oh Craft Foilables Pink & Main and Mommy Lhey Designs: Oh Craft Stamp and Coordinating Dies Pink & Main: Fun Pastels 6×6 Paper Pad Pink & Main: Crafty Friends Glitter Enamel Dots Pink & Main: Dotted Cover Dies Pink & Main: Layered Scallops Circle Dies Pink & Main: Salon and River Walk Solid Color Cardstock Pink & Main: Mini MINC Foiling Machine Pink & Main Cheerfoil: Shattered Blue Pink…

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Pink & Main Oh My Garland Stamp Set and Annette Allen

October 5, 2023 No Comments

Happy Hello Creative Scrapbooker friends, Annette Allen from MyCleverCreations.com here with you today as a guest designer. I am so excited to be sharing with you the NEW Pink & Main Oh My Garland Stamp Set along with other NEWLY released Pink &Main products. I know we are all gearing up for Christmas and what fun the holidays bring. I just love creating Christmas cards, they just make me happy and everyone always loves a homemade card. Pink & Main has just released so many fun stamps, Foilables, Foil, Dies, Stencils… and much more. Make sure to check out the releases every third Friday of each month. Today I am featuring the Pink & Main newly released: Oh My Garland stamp/dies (designed by: Mommy Lhey Designs) Oh Christmas Tree stamp/dies Layered Candy Cane Stencil Fancy Frame Dies EZ Squeeze Craft Glue Foam Tape Create card from white cardstock A2 size…

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Pink & Main is a Carnival Sponsor

April 9, 2023 No Comments

Happy Easter Sunday to all our friends! Celebrate by popping over to the Pink & Main blog and checking out this fabulous “Happy Easter” card designed by Justin Adkins. Justin used a variety of products by Pink & Main to create this festive little slimline card. CLICK HERE for all the product details. We are super duper excited to announce that Pink & Main will be sponsoring The Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnivals! There is still CROP space available in Edmonton! TELL YOUR FRIENDS! And of course you can ALWAYS pop in for the day to join us in the marketplace for tons of shopping and make and takes! CLICK HERE for all the details Have a wonderful Easter Sunday!

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Peace & Joy with Pink & Main

December 9, 2022 1 Comment

Check out this gorgeous card designed by Katie Brooks featuring products by Pink & Main. Katie designed this card using the Pink & Main Stamp Sets – Winter Birdhouse and Winter Cardinals. She used the coordinating dies to cut out the stamped images to perfection. The background patterned paper is from the Pink & Main 6X6 Paper Pad – Black Tie Party. Katie die cut out the patterned paper using the Pink & Main Notched Corners Die set. An absolutely gorgeous little card that was featuring in the Winter issue of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine in our Sealed With a Kiss regular feature. Big sure to pick up your copy of Creative Scrapbooker Magazine for TONS of card inspirations!