Hello crafty friends, it’s June! Today I have a card to share using some of my favorite older products.

One of the first Pretty Pink Posh products I had my eyes on, even before joining the team as a guest designer, was the Beautiful Butterflies Stamp Set. I love butterfly-themed everything and I think these ones are like the name suggests, beautiful!

I usually make cards where these butterflies are the main focus, but this time I wanted to add one of the Fall Envelopes in the center so the butterflies could flutter around it. I’m so over the winter cards by now, so I went with a green, pink and red color palette for my images to get ready for spring. I stamped them in brown ink instead of black to make everything look a bit softer.

To add onto the butterfly theme, I stenciled a green background using the Butterfly Background stencil. I went with Shabby Shutters and Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide. I also splattered some thinned out white acrylic paint on my panel like usual. I cut it out using my favorite background die, the Stitched Torn Rectangle. 

I embossed one of the sentiments from the newly released Valentine Greetings stamp set on some brown cardstock, which compliments the brown ink I used for the stamped images. Even though it’s a Valentine’s Day themed set, I think these sentiments are very useful for occasions outside of Valentine’s Day to! Many of them are neutral enough to use on any card to give to someone you appreciate.

I really like how the card ended up looking, there’s almost a vintage look with the color scheme while still being colorful and spring-y! I hope you enjoyed reading about my card as much and I enjoyed making it :)

See you again soon, bye for now!

Hello! Christina here to share a sweet Valentine’s Day card featuring some of the newest goodies over in the PPP Shop. For this project, I used the popular Ghost Holder Die and the new coordinating Valentine Holder Additions to create the most darling Boo, perfectly accessorized for Valentine’s Day. Let’s get started on this easy but boo-tiful card! 

Here are the PPP products I used:

Scattered Hearts Frame Stencil
Ghost Holder Dies
Valentine Holder Additions Dies
Sentiment Strips Dies
Sentiment Strips: Valentine Stamp Set – small sentiment
Upright Greetings: Valentine Stamp Set

Valentine Ghost Friends Stamp Set – small sentiment
Valentine Cake Pops – large heart
Valentine Bucket Additions – medium hearts
Metallic Gold Pearls

I started by stenciling the background with Saltwater Taffy Distress Ink on a 4 x 5 ¼ inch white cardstock panel and then spattering it with Sugary Gumdrop Mica Stain for a little sparkle. I mounted this on an A2 cardstock panel in a coordinating color to finish the background.

Next I die cut all the elements for my design. For the ghost, I used white and grey cardstocks and added pink cheeks with Copic marker R00. The other cardstocks I used were matte gold, a soft pink, and a salmon color.

With everything die cut, I assembled the ghost and the heartstrings and then attached it to my background with foam squares. I used liquid adhesive to attach the hearts and the large text die cuts.

My final steps were to heat emboss sentiments with gold embossing powder on pink cardstock, die cut them with sentiment strips, and then attach them to my card front. The finishing details were to add the metallic gold pearls for a little something shiny. 

And that’s all there is to creating this Valentine’s Day card featuring everyone’s favorite ghost friend! Thanks so much for following along and I’ll see you next time!

Hi crafty friends! Sophie here to share a fun Valentine’s card that is super cute with a dash of spooky.

For my card I featured the Valentine Ghost Friends stamps and coordinating dies! When I saw this set I gasped – I mean look at how cute that little ghost with the heart sunglasses is! I love the play on “boo” with all of the different sentiments included in this set as well.

I first stamped and colored my ghosts with Copic markers. I kept the coloring simple, you can
find the markers listed below:

Reds: R27, R24, R22, R20, R00
Ghost Bodies: W3, W1, W00
Sunglasses: W8

I used the new XOXO pierced cover plate to add some subtle texture to my background and the
Eyelet Rectangle dies to cut a pink panel to frame my ghosts. The sentiment is from the stamp
set and was cut out with the Sentiment Strips dies. I LOVE this set – it is so versatile and offers
so many fun options for layering. There are scalloped banners, fishtail, and plain rectangles with
or without stitching! It really is a valuable set and so handy to have.

As a final finishing touch I used 3 red hearts from the Strawberry Valentine clay confetti to frame out this
little scene. I already have a few more cards planned with these cute little ghosts and this project came together so quickly because ghosts really don’t need much coloring.

I hope this inspired you! See you soon! :)

Hi friends Debbie here today! Sharing the Build-a-Heart Die! For Christmas I bought myself a new Anna Griffin Empress with large plates, and it is wonderful!  Also using my color cube and grabbed colors that I loved for Valentines- threes shades of pink, lavender and glossy white card stocks. Once they were cut I put the into a Craft Stax for storage. That way when I needed more I was all set.

I started off with the XOXO Pierced Plate Die, and ran it through my P6 with the rubber mat to make a more pillow look rather than a pierce. Trim it down on all sides by 1/8th inch. and mat with the brighter pink.

Building the hearts I wanted and popped them up with 3D foam.

Stamp and White heat embossed the sentiment from the Upright: Valentine Greetings. Die cut it out with the Sentiment Strips Die.

Next was the bow from Valentine Bucket Addition Die Set that I needed to cover the two die cuts of the sentiment when they are overlapped. Place in the center the white heart from the Strawberry Valentine Clay Confetti, popped up with foam tape.

From my stash I have a light pink and white twine I wrapped around the panel three times and tied in a bow. Attach the hearts on and adhere to a portrait top fold card base.

Thanks for stopping by and stay crafty my friends!

Hello crafty friends, it’s Christina! If you follow me, you know I love shaker cards, so I couldn’t help but make one more Valentine shaker this season. I chose the new Double Heart Shaker and filled it with the super cute XOXO Clay Confetti pieces. I used the confetti pieces as the pastel color inspiration for my card design, including the Layered XOXO stenciled background. So grab your foam tape and let’s get started!

Here are the PPP products I used:
Double Heart Shaker
Valentine Greetings Stamp Set
Valentine Greetings Coordinating Dies
XOXO Clay Confetti
Layered XOXO Stencil
Valentine Holder Additions – smaller hearts
Valentine Bucket Additions – more smaller hearts!
Stitched Torn Rectangles
Sentiment Strips: Valentine Stamp Set – background and smaller heart sentiments

My first step was to create the background. I stenciled the X layer and the heart layer on a white cardstock panel with Rhubarb and Tidepool Pawsitively Saturated Inks. Then I stamped Hugs & Kisses across the panel with white pigment ink. I just used a small stamp block for this step. Lastly, I die cut the panel using the largest Stitched Torn Rectangle die.

My next step was to create the shaker component. First I die cut another Stitched Torn Rectangle from white cardstock to be the base, and then, for the shaker window, I die cut the Double Heart from the stenciled background panel. I used this shaker window opening as a template to attach a Double Heart, inked with Apple Pawsitively Saturated Ink, to the shaker base. This is what we will see through the shaker window. Now, I attached a piece of acetate, trimmed to size, over the shaker window on the reverse side of the background panel with double-sided tape. Then on the base panel, I attached foam tape around the Double Heart, creating wells, and then across the rest of the panel. I used a thin foam strip to divide the hearts into two separate shakers, but that step is optional. I filled the wells with the XOXO Confetti and used the corner of my Misti to perfectly align the top background panel to the base panel. 

With the shaker component completed, I got started on the remaining elements. First I die cut a Double Heart frame, inked it with the Apple ink color, and attached it to the outside of the shaker window. Next I die cut multiple hearts from colored cardstock and lightly inked the edges with a darker ink color for some shading before heat embossing a few of them with small sentiments. I also heat embossed Happy Valentine’s Day on teal cardstock with white embossing powder and die cut it with the coordinating die. I attached most of these elements with foam squares, otherwise with liquid adhesive. And lastly, I attached the shaker panel to an A2 teal cardstock base. 

Thanks so much for following along with my pastel Double Heart shaker! I’ll see you again soon!

Hello, Gemma here today, sharing a fun Valentine ghost card.

I began by die cutting the previously released Ghost Holder die set ghost from white pearl sparkle card, and adding the face features from black card.

Next, I die cut the strings and lots of hearts from the Valentine Holder Additions die set. I used some different textures of card for the hearts – pearl, pearl sparkle, and glitter.

I adhered the strings to the ghost, then added hearts along the string. Each heart is layered with a couple of white die cuts, for extra dimension.

On an A2 card base, I added some subtle heart details, using the new Layered Heart Sprinkles stencil set. I used just one layer of the stencil, with the light pink Spun Sugar distress oxide.

I stamped a sentiment from the new Valentine Ghost Friends stamp set, then adhered the heart adorned ghost to finish.

I hope you were inspired by this Valentine card. Thanks for stopping by!