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April Product Release Blog Hop- Day 2

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Hello, Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula. In this video, I’m sharing a very easy method to create money holder greeting cards. You won’t need any specialty dies or supplies for this type of card and you should be able to create a card design like this using most of your Pretty Pink posh stamps and coordinating dies.

I started by stamping some images in black Copic marker friendly ink onto white paper. The size of the images you pick is the only thing that matters as you’ll want to use something that’s big enough to hide a folded bill behind it. So a small critter stamp, for example, is not going to work. But a cute giraffe, like the one I’m using here and also a gorgeous floral arrangement will. Both of these images are from Pretty Pink Posh and come from the Animal Signs and Mother’s Day stamp sets respectively.

Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.

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Next, I quickly colored these using Copic markers. Nothing fancy, just some quick strokes of color to bring these images to life. I used YG03, YG17, RV34, RV11, RV10, Y11, Y35, Y17, BV11, BV00, and BV000 markers. To color the giraffe I used E37, E33, E31, R0, and E51.

I wanted to combine these two images and have my critter holding a floral bouquet and not the frame. I did some fussy cutting to eliminate the image parts I didn’t need and using foam adhesive squares I foam mounted the flowers onto my critter, added front legs and the tail.  Super cute! and it wasn’t hard to do at all.

Next, I’ve done some partial die cutting using a coordinating die. To make the partial cut I only covered the part of the die that I wanted to cut into the paper and left the other part of the die free. This allowed me to do partial die cutting and only die cut the top part of my giraffe.

I also wanted to add some dry embossing to the background. I used a new Wide Stripes stencil and dry embossed on the background. I love the result! It looks very clear and simple, yet there’s pretty linear texture in the background!

I trimmed this panel down to 4” x 5 1/4”, I also made an A2 card base using hot pink cardstock. I folded the money bill and inserted it into the partially die cut panel. Next, I added foam adhesive around it making sure not to touch it. I wanted to block the bottom part of the panel so that I didn’t have stuff falling down into the card and making it impossible to get it out.

I also used my anti-static powder tool to eliminate any of the residual stickiness on the foam tape so that nothing would stick to it. Once done, I adhered the panel onto a card base, foam mounted the critter, added the bill and dressed up this card using pink stamped stars and Pearl white jewels.

I also made one more card to share, this one is for Graduation and it uses the same concept and almost same supplies.

I used a different stencil for the background, Graduation, and blended some pastels over it to give it some color and help highlight the embossed areas.

Next, I stamped, colored and cut out an adorable elephant from the Animal Signs stamp set. I used W5, W3, W1 and R20 markers. I also stamped a graduation cap and a scroll from the Congrats Grad stamp set and colored those images using Copic markers as well. I used RV34, RV11 and RV10 colors along with C9, C7, and C5 markers.

I foam mounted this darling baby elephant onto the background matching him with the partial cut already made. Next, I added his graduation cap and a scroll using foam adhesive. I foam mounted the entire panel onto a light pink card base and also embellished it with a few stamped & die cut stars and pretty white jewels.

While the slits in these cards are relatively small you should be able to tuck any folded currency bill inside or tuck a little handwritten note if you like.

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55 Comments

  1. I love this idea! The stamp/dies are so cute! Thanks for the ideas.

  2. Such cute cards!! I love the giraffe peeking through the flowers!! Adorable!!

  3. Awesome idea!! I love that you included a video to show us exactly how to do it.

  4. Love, love, love it! Always needing fresh ideas for money cards!

  5. The elephant stamps and dies are absolutely adorable! Great cards using the giraffe and elephant. Long time fan!

  6. Just darling! I love the little giraffe peeking over the flowers and the elephant grad is sooooo cute!

  10. Another fabulous hop! Love of all of the cards and projects. The striped stencil is my new obsession! Gorgeous!

  11. These cards are so cute. Absolutely adorable and cuddly critters. Great release.

  13. Really cute cards! Love the animals in this stamp set! Very clever money holder idea! Thanks for the inspiration.

  15. The elephants are SO CUTE!! And the giraffe–I like how he’s so tall that his head and legs still show over all of the things he’s holding. Very nice coloring, too.

  17. They are so adorable. I love the flower vase in front of the giraffe. The elephant for a K graduation is the MOST.

  19. What a creative fun idea! Love these new stamps and all the inspiration. So beautiful!

  20. Great ideas for money holders. Sure go through those during the summer months. Wonderful coloring Yana.

  21. Oh my GAWSH! I love this idea, and I love these cards! They are absolutely THE cutest! Yana, I love all your tutorials. They are all so well done, and I’m actually able to replicate your ideas! Plus they’re simple to make and always beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing such a great idea!

  24. Love those adorable animals, especially that elephant. I’m always looking for money holder cards and these are wonderful. I’ll be trying this soon.

  25. Such adorable cards! Love the cute elephant.
    Thanks for sharing…

  33. Fabulous Congrats card! Love the little pocket for a little $$!!

  34. Sweet cards! Love the cute animals! Great idea for a way to add money to the cards!

  36. Your graduation card is the cutest and love the idea for the tucked away gift $$!

  37. Darling cards and love the combining of the stamp sets. Soooooo creative and inspiring.

  38. These cards are just deighful. Awesome release. Thanks for the video tutorial.

  39. LOVE LOVE all your new releases. Great inspiration from your designers.

  40. Love how you can tuck the money or a note
    behind the little critters. Fun embellishment.
    The cards are darling. thanks for
    sharing. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com

  46. I know I’ve already commented on today’s post but after seeing both days’ posts and creations and seeing all of the new products I just wanted to let the company creators know that I think this is one of my favorite releases. There are a lot of great products by a lot of different companies and it is so hard to decide what to buy because I just want so much. I am definately getting some of these even if I have to get just a couple things at a time. I am really excited about the graduation products and I love how will they work with the cute animals. I’ll be ordering soon.

  47. What adorable cards. Thank you so much for the video. Great array of new products in this new release. I thank you so much for sharing your beautiful work. Off to hop now…

  49. Your cards are super cute! This partial die cutting technique is perfect for holding money- awesome idea! What a great release and I definitely do need some more graduation stamps!

  54. What a great idea! I can always use fun ways to give money/gift cards since it’s what so many people want, but it’s so boring to wrap. I also really like the dry embossed look with the stencils. In fact, the light inking on the graduation caps might be my favorite way I’ve seen this stencil used so far. Thanks for sharing these great ideas with us!

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