Hello Crafty Friends! Catherine here and I’m thrilled to be back on the blog today! Pretty Pink Posh’s Easter / Spring release is pure cuteness overload, filled with watering cans, flowers, Easter chicks, and so many sweet springtime elements! For my project, I created a flower shaker card featuring the Chick Holder and the Daffodil Shaker dies. 

To begin, I created a soft rainbow background by ink blending Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac and Spun Sugar Distress Oxides on an A2 panel of white cardstock. I then ran the panel through my die cut machine using the largest die from Stitched Torn Rectangle die set. 

Next, I die cut the grass border using Nature Essentials. I partial die cut the border to extend the height of the grass. I die cut the edges of the border with the bottom of the Stitched Torn Rectangle die. The grass was ink blended with Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide and splattered with water and green watercolor for added texture. I adhered the border onto the bottom of the front panel. 

I die cut two clouds using Stitched Cloud dies and softly ink blended the edges with Tumbled Glass. 

For the chick, I die cut the Chick Holder and beak, then ink blended them with Scattered Straw and Carved Pumpkin and Dried Marigold Distress Oxides. I added cheeks from the Bear Holder, ink blended with Kitsch Flamingo and die cut the eyes from black cardstock. A small flower, ink blended with Kitsch Flamingo and Scattered Straw, was added for a sweet finishing touch. 

To create the flower shaker, I die cut the frame, base, and stem with white cardstock using the Daffodil Shaker die set. I ink blended the frame edges with Spun Sugar, the daffodil base with Tumbled Glass, and the stem with Mowed Lawn. I then die cut an additional flower from acetate and adhered it to the back of the frame. A second frame was die cut from double sided foam tape and layered over the acetate. I sprinkled Springtime Bunny Clay Confetti onto the flower base and sealed everything with the acetate flower frame. 

For the sentiment, I stamped “Happy Spring” from Easter Word Scenes stamp set and die cut it using the coordinating die. I colored the sentiment with Copic markers listed below:

• Pinks- RV11, RV10, RV000
• Blues- B00, B000, 
• Greens- YG01, YG00, YG000
• Purples- BV000

I adhered the daffodil shaker, chick, clouds, and sentiment onto the front panel and finished the card with a simple white border.

Thank you so much for joining me today! I hope you enjoyed my daffodil shaker card!

Aren’t the colors of Spring refreshing and vibrant? Melissa Phillips here with you today and I can’t wait to share with you how I created my Spring Greetings card. Let’s get started!

I love Pretty Pink Posh stencils and like to start each card by creating my own stenciled background. For today’s card, I used the Tiny Bows Stencil on a block of lilac cardstock, ink blending in Seedless Preserves from Ranger. I then cut a block of diagonal striped paper and adhered it down the center of my card.  

Next came the beginning of my focal point, starting with the Fall Circles die. It was die cut from patterned paper and then I layered on a die cut Notched Rectangles die cut from aqua cardstock. This provided the perfect spot for my tiny basket full of eggs. I used the Easter Holder Additions dies, sponging color on my eggs, carrot and flowers.

To finish things off, I used the Easter Greetings stamp set and dies for my sentiment and added a butterfly from the Butterfly Border die set. Butterflies make everything better, don’t you think?

It’s been such a treat to create for you today. Happy Springtime crafting! Thanks for visiting!

Melissa

Hello crafty friends, Marine here, I’m so happy to be back with this lovely baby themed card I’ve made to celebrate the birth of the sweet Kaia. The idea here was to create a half paneling wall with a wooden board on top to put baby items and decorations on, and maybe have enough space for a cute stuffed teddy bear to sneak a peek and keep a close eye on Kaia while she sleeps. And I’m usually a fan of bright and bold colors, but here I went for a soft and lovely color palette using papers from the Our Baby Girl 6×6 paper pack by Echo Park.

I started off by cutting the letters to make the word “baby” using the matching dies from the Baby stamp set. I cut those letters three times: out of pattern papers, out of white cardstock and out of dark kraft cardstock. I set the white and dark kraft letters aside, mixed copic opaque white ink with water, added white splatters to the pattern paper letters, and then did the same with liquid stardust for sparkles. When my four pattern paper letters were dry, I attached the white letters to the kraft letters using liquid glue, shifting them a little bit to get a brown border on the edges of the white letters. Next I attached the pattern paper letters to the white letters using 1mm foam, and again, shifting the letters a bit to get a white border on the edges of the pattern paper letters.

Next I cut the baby decorations and teddy bear pieces using the same paper pack from Echo Park for some items and white cardstock for others. I added white splatters to the bear’s head and paws, to the stitched heart, bow and cubes as well, and added liquid stardust splatters to the white squares on the cubes, to the bear’s cheeks and to the yellow bow. Here is a short detailed list of the die sets I used: • Bear Holder – bear’s head, snout, nose and ears, stitched heart • Easter Mug Additions – bear’s paws, cheeks and bow • Baby Mug Additions – small bow, cubes, small heart, star and duck.

I assembled all those pieces to create the cutest teddy bear and baby items, gave the bear a pair of googly eyes, and then moved on to the background. I cut three large Eyelet Rectangle panels: out of light kraft cardstock, out of dark kraft cardstock and out of a stripe pattern paper. I placed the “baby” letters on the stripe panel to see how tall it needed to be and then trimmed that panel. Next I used the second smallest Stitched Strips die to cut a slim strip out of the dark kraft panel. And then I used the Baby Words stencil along with white pigment ink to add more interest to the upper section on the light kraft panel. I mixed copic opaque white ink with water, added white splatters to the panel and then did the same with vintage photo distress ink for a bit of contrast and to match with the brown items on the card.

Next I attached everything, starting with the vertical stripe panel and the slim dark kraft strip above it using liquid glue. On the wooden board I first put the teddy bear, her paws and the cubes using 1mm foam squares and then the stitched heart using 2mm foam squares. I stuck my “baby” letters below the board using 1mm foam squares again, and then worked on my greeting. I white heat embossed “Welcome little one” from the Sentiment Strips: Occasions stamp set on dark brown cardstock, cut it into a slim banner using a Sentiment Strips die, and then attached that banner to my card using foam squares. Finally I attached my Eyelet Rectangle panel to a 5,5 x 4,25 inches white panel and then to a matching card base, I stuck the small bow to the “Y” for more cuteness, and applied glossy accents to the bear’s nose for one more touch of shine.

And that’s it! I hope that this baby themed card has inspired you. Again, welcome to the world sweet and lovely Kaia!

Happy Spring! Debbie here with some springtime vibes! Bringing out the Paper Florist in me! I thought it would be fun to pull out the previously released Vase Shaker Die to use with the new Daffodil Shaker and the Stitched Spring Flower Dies and many more new products. 

I knew this would need to be a 5X7 card once I started to lay out the vase with all the flowers I wanted in it to be a full bouquet. 

I started off with the super fun Mini Checker Stencil on a light blue card stock and ink blended on more blue to keep it monochromatic. Once the ink was applied then with the Vase Shaker Die I die-cut out the whole vase.

Next, with the Daffodil Shaker Dies, Stitched Spring Flowers and the previously released Spring Florals Dies. I die-cut out the flowers and added some ink on each flower to give some dimension to them. I love the sweet Bell flowers from the Spring Florals to give the bouquet the roundness it needs. The Tulips I had to make them to give that spring feel we all love!

For my background panel measuring 4 6/8 X 6 6/8 inches I ink blended blue in the center, I did not bring it out far enough though!  Also I splattered on some Perfect Pearls to give a water splatter look and matted it to the same blue card stock as the vase.

Once I had my flower bouquet arranged I thought the largest Eyelet Diamonds Die was a perfect Doily for the vase. This is where if I brought the blue ink out far enough the Eyelet Diamond would have shown up more. 

I then die-cut out the Large Spring Shadow Die from gold and vellum and adhered together. To complete my sentiment I stamped and white heat embossed the “Greetings” from the Sentiment Strips: Fall set by masking off the Autumn. 

The final touches that I added was a shimmer pen to the flowers, Creamsicle Pearls to the center of the Daffodil, and making the polka dot bow to attach to the vase. 

Thanks for taking the time to read and hope you have a wonderful crafty day!

I love fresh starts and the arrival of Spring always feels like a renewal. Melissa here with you today, sharing a Springtime fresh card with you using many beautiful Pretty Pink Posh products.

My card today uses a fun stacked stencil technique for the background. I began with the Watercolor Oval Mask Stencil, which provided a beautiful washed out, aqua background.  While this stencil was still in place, I layered on top the Line Bursts Stencil, adding a shade darker color then the first stencil.

Next came a vellum layer, cut using the Pinking Rectangles dies. I love the softness vellum brings and use it on almost every card.  I die cut a second, smaller Pinking Rectangles dies from green gingham paper and layered it over my vellum rectangle. 

I paper-pieced my watering can and colored in my flowers using Copic markers. I’ve used the Spring Blooms stamp set and dies for my focal point and sentiment.  I love those tulips in this stamp set! I added die cut flowers using the Stitched Spring Flowers dies and ink blended them using coordinating colors.  

It’s been such a treat to create for you today. Happy Springtime crafting! Thanks for visiting!

Melissa

Hi friends! Christina here, and I’m so happy to be sharing some of the first signs of spring! My card pairs the new Spring Blooms and Easter Word Scenes stamp sets for a sweet scene bursting with springtime charm. Take a quick peek at the supplies I used, and then we’ll get started!

Easter Word Scenes Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies
Spring Blooms Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies
Easter Icons Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies – bird and single flowers
Spring Chicks Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies – grass and cloud
Raindrops Stencil
Eyelet Rectangle Dies

I started by stamping all my images on white cardstock with brown ink instead of the usual black ink because I didn’t want a stark black outline for my images. I wanted something softer to complement the pastel colors I was planning on using to color my images. I chose Copic markers for my coloring and then die-cut the images with the coordinating dies. Here is the simple Copic coloring chart for these sweet images:

Greens – YG25 & YG17 or YG05 & YG07
Blue-Greens – BG10 & BG11
Blues – B21 & B23
Purples – BV00 & BV01
Reds – R32 & R43
Yellows – Y02, Y32, & Y21
Neutrals – W0, W1, & E55

My next step was to create the tone-on-tone background panel. I started by die-cutting the largest Eyelet Rectangle from white cardstock and masking the edges before lightly blending Tumbled Glass Distress Ink across the center of the rectangle. Then, leaving the masking in place, I stenciled the Raindrops pattern over the blended background with the same Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. Finally, I layered the stenciled Eyelet Rectangle onto a light blue A2 cardstock panel. 

The last steps were to arrange the images on the background panel, secure them with glue or thin foam squares, and pop everything onto a side-fold card base. 

Thank you so much for checking out my sweet springtime card design featuring some of the new stamp sets in the latest spring collection. See you again soon!

Hi everyone, Sophie here. I’m so excited to be back for the Pretty Pink Posh Spring release and I am absolutely loving all the beautiful stamps and dies. 

For this card I started with the Chick Shaker dies, cutting the chick from yellow card and the broken egg from white card that is compatible with Copic markers. On the chick I added some subtle ink blending with some ‘Fossilised Amber’ Distress Oxide ink and a pink flower in its ‘hair’. On the egg I coloured in each section using Copic markers in shades of pink, orange and yellow. This is my favourite colour combination for Easter / Spring cards because it’s so bright and happy. For some sparkle I also outlined each section with glitter glue.

For the background flowers I used the Daffodil Shaker dies, once again adding some ink blending to the petals. I added glitter glue to the stamens in the middle of the flowers for a subtle hint of sparkle.

I added extra greenery from the Stitched Spring Flowers Dies in various shades of green and finished the card by stamping a sentiment from the Easter Banner Greetings stamp set into a Banner Greetings 3 die.

I love how versatile the Chick Shaker and Daffodil Shaker dies are. While you can make the most beautiful shaker cards with them, you can also make a standard card with them that looks just as pretty. Being able to use a die in a variety of ways is something I always look for, and the PPP shaker dies always fit that brief!

I hope everyone is enjoying the Spring release – I know I am! Happy crafting everyone!

Sophie