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Thanks For All You Do

Hey craft friends, Elaine on the Pretty Pink Posh blog today sharing a sweet colorful appreciation card featuring the new Spring Circles stamps.

Pretty Pink Posh: Thanks For All You Do

To start I cut a piece of pink card stock to 6”x 6.5” and scored at 3.25” on the longest edge.  Using a bone folder, I burnished along the fold line to create a card base that measured 6”x3.25”.  

To add some detail on the front panel I used the Mini Polka Dots stencil and lightly blended on some Distress Ink in Wilted Violet.  Due to the size of the card base I had to stencil in two sections.  This was easily done by lining up the dots to create a seamless pattern.

Pretty Pink Posh: Thanks For All You Do

Setting the card base aside, I began to work on the base for the circle images.  I cut a piece of white card stock to 6”x2.75” and used one of the Scallop Border dies to create a scalloped edge on both long sides.  Again, I used the Wilted Violet Distress Ink to lightly blend on some colour to the edges on the panel.  I then adhered this panel to the card base, ensuring it was placed so that there was room for a sentiment below.

I stamped the circle images on to copic friendly cardstock and used a variety of markers to color each of them.  The markers I used were:

  • Pink 1: RV66, RV63, RV10
  • Pink 2: RV14, RV13, RV11
  • Blue: B66, B63, B60
  • Purple: V15, V12, V01
  • Green 1: G07, G05, G02
  • Teal: BG15. BG13, BG11 
  • Yellow: Y15, Y13, Y11
  • Black: C7, C5, C3
  • Blue: B01, B000

I cut out masks for all the images and used them to cover the images before applying a light layer of Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass.  I used small blending brush to help my concentrate the color in the centre of the circle and gently pulled the color out to give a soft blend from blue in the centre slowly fading out to white.  I used the Spring Circles coordinating die to cut out the images and then adhered them to the card.  

Pretty Pink Posh: Thanks For All You Do

The sentiment was taken from Mom stamp set, and white heat embossed on to black card stock.  I trimmed this out using a guillotine trimmer and adhered to the front of the card.  

To add some sparkle, I used liquid adhesive to secure some Sparkling Clear Confetti around the card front and added some Lemon Jewels to the centres of the flowers.

For the last touch I added some Wink of Stella on all the coloured images and coated some of the elements with Glossy Accents; I love the raised shiny look.

Thank you for joining me today, I cannot wait to see what everyone else creates with this beautiful stamp set!