Author: PPP Designer

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I’m excited to share a simple see-through shaker card tutorial today. I’m usually not a big fan of shakers, but with the right tools (and by tools I mean dies designed specifically for shakers) I’m starting to enjoy this type of cards more and more.

My today’s shaker is a see-through one, I’m using a card base with some printed texture/design and you can actually see that print through the window and through the sequins. Typically I close my shakers with white cardstock, but for this card I used clear acetate on both front and back of the shaker piece.

To create this card you’ll first need to create a few elements, I’m using the Rainy Days stamp set and matching dies along with Versafine Onyx Black ink, watercolor paper and watercolors to create mine. I stamped the umbrella and a cloud in black ink, heat set with my heat tool, did some very quick watercolor in blue and cut the shapes out using matching dies.

For my watercolors I used Daniel Smith watercolor sampler sheet (simply because there’s a huge number of blues to choose from), but these can be colored using any colors or any mediums really.

After you’ve stamped, colored and die cut the umbrella use glue and adhere the pieces together. I used Multi Medium adhesive in Matte.

While glue on the umbrella is drying go ahead and die cut the shaker front panel – I’m using Stitched Duo 2 dies and white cardstock. I’ve cut my dies apart as I recently used the inner die to create a continuous pattern for my card, you can see it here so I used washi tape to hold them together and I also used the connector pieces (what’s left of them) to alight the two dies perfectly. I also used a die from the Stitched Essentials 1 set and die cut just a little tail to go under my shaker. I didn’t need to cut the entire shape out as it would have been hidden anyways and I was making a see-through shaker so I needed it to actually not be there to look pretty.

Next go ahead and slide the umbrella through the Stitched Duo 2 dies and secure in place. You can skip this and just adhere the umbrella on top, but I thought it looked extra fun this way. I also die cut two rectangles out of clear acetate using the outer die from the Stitched Duo 2 set. This can be done using scissors, but if there is a die for that, why not use it, right? I adhered one from the back of my die cut cardstock piece.

Use foam adhesive to build the walls of your shaker. I usually use various types and brands of foam adhesive for that, but recently I came across this super thick foam dot adhesive from Studio G (you can find it at Michaels and similar stores). I rarely use adhesive that is this thick for my usual cardmaking as I find it to be just too dimensional, but it works perfectly for shakers and it’s very inexpensive too.

So build your shaker walls, use an anti static powder tool to eliminate the stick on the sides of the foam adhesive and add the sequins of your choice. For this project I went with the Gold Mini Star Confetti. I love these tiny confetti sequins and I’ve actually used a few packs to make an oversized layout shaker, you can see it here. Close up the shaker with another piece of clear acetate and continue making your card.

To finish this project I adhered my shaker onto an A2 top folding card base, foam mounted the watercolor cloud and added a sentiment. I stamped Get Well Soon onto the shaker itself and also heat embossed Sorry You’re Under The Weather in white onto black cardstock.

I couldn’t resist adding a few more sequins, so I adhered several 4mm Metallic Gold sequins to complete this card.

• Stitched Duo 2
• Rainy Days stamp set
• Gold Mini Star confetti
• Foam Squares: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
• Daniel Smith Watercolors: Amazon // Ellen Hutson

Happy cardmaking! Thanks for joining us today!

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here to share a couple of fun cards I made by dressing up some papers from a 6×6 paper pad with PPP dies and sequins – these cards are amazingly simple to make, and yet with a few simple steps they look like you spent lots of time on them!

Am I the only one who hoards (I mean, COLLECTS!) pattern papers? I’ve gotten pretty good at using them, since I’ve learned that I will definitely be adding more all the time, and will constantly have a new favorite, so I may as well enjoy the current favorite by actually using it! However, some of those pattern paper pads have the extra pre-decorated patterns that are almost a stand alone on as a card, but when I use them, I like to dress them up a little to make them a bit more unique! PPP sequins and border dies are the perfect way to do that!

Here is the paper pad I used, as well as the pattern papers I chose. The top right pattern papers I trimmed to fit an A2 card front, 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, and the bottom images are from two sides of one piece of paper that I cut apart.

I selected two different borders from Stitched Borders 1 Dies, starting with the scallop, and cut it to fit on each side of my pre-designed portion of the paper.

On this photo you can see how I first trimmed one side with the zig-zag, layed the pre-designed portion over the top, then used Post-it tape to attach the die on the other side for perfect placement before running through my Big Shot die cut machine.

Here they are die cut and layered together:

Next, I used kids fun foam and my tape runner to attach them to the card front for some sturdy dimension.

Finally, I added a sprinkling of 4 mm iridescent sequins in Sunshine Glow, Peridot Mist, and Strawberry Burst – attaching them with a dot of Glossy Accents.

Here are close ups of the two finished cards – I absolutely adore the bright happy colors of this paper pad!!!

• Simple Stories paper pad: Amazon // Simon Says Stamp
• Stitched Borders 1
• Post-It tape: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
• Glossy Accents Mini: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
• ATG set (BEST TAPE ever!): Amazon

Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!!!

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here to share a couple of fun cards – something fun that I recently tried on a whim – sort of an optical illusion that makes it look like the shaker cards are overflowing with gold and silver Mini Star Confetti!

 

I used some simple Scotch single sided tape to tape the white scallop to the outer frame from the back, then some sturdy Score Tape to attach the acetate for the shaker window.

 

Before attaching the acetate, I used the outer portion to position and center the inner part by applying adhesive tape, setting the outer frame where I wanted it placed, then fitting the center oval in place…

…then lifting the outer frame to be able to add the acetate and foam for the shaker.

I added a cute sentiment to each one using Birdie Friends Stamp Set – I actually mixed these up, and was going to stamp the sentiments in reverse! Didn’t notice until it was too late! :)

Here is a side view of them – isn’t it a fun effect?

 And finally, a close up of each one on it’s own.

I love the effect this gives – shakers are such happy cards anyway – and this feels like it just couldn’t hold in all the happy!

Thanks so much for stopping by today – hope your day is overflowing with happy too!!!

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have a Get Well card with a DIY rainbow die cut background to share today.

I love to create unique and one of a kind backgrounds for my cards and I find dies to be great tools for this task. Today I’m inviting you to use one of the Pretty Pink Posh border dies to create a rainbow background.

To minimize the use of supplies (such as watercolor paper) and time I first cut a rectangle out of watercolor paper (I knew I wanted to use distress inks and add a lot of water, so I needed my paper to be able to absort water and not warp) and using a border die from the Stitched Borders 1 set cut the panel into 8 curved sections.

The number of sections was not random, I knew I wanted to have a background that resembled a rainbow, so I needed to make sure to have 7 die cut elements, the 8th one, the one on the bottom was discarded as I planned to have a bit of white space on the base of the card. If you don’t want any white space and would rather have the rainbow cover the entire card front, go with 7 sections.

The next step is all about adding color to the die cut pieces. There are a number of ways this can be done depending on the look you’d like to get. I went with Distress inks (the colors I used are: Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon, Wild Honey, Crushed Olive, Peacock Feathers and Seedless Preserves). You can also use watercolors, alcohol markers, ink pads or even die cut individual sections out of colored cardstock.

Colors shown: Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon, Wild Honey, Seedless Preserves, Peacock Feathers, Crushed Olive

After blending each color rather heavily onto the paper, I added lots of water drops to activate Distress inks and create beautiful effects on my background. I worked in layers – added a first layer of drops, let the water sit on the paper for about a minute, soaked up extra water with a rag, dried the paper with my heat tool and repeated the process a few more times to get the look I wanted.

Tip: You can also heat emboss outline images onto the die background in white embossing powder to add some additional texture (do so before blending ink or watercoloring to save time).

Once I was happy with the result I adhered my die cut panels onto a white cardstock panel using a tape runner and that finished the background for my card. You can also adhere these directly to the card base.

To embellish this project I first stamped and die cut an umbrella from the Rainy Days stamp set, it was a perfect match to go with my rainbow. Because the rainbow background ended up being vibrant I needed to create some sort of screen to mute a part of it and to also house the umbrella and the sentiment.

I used the smaller circle die from the Scallop Circles Die set and die cut it out of white cardstock to serve as a frame, the inner section was die cut out of vellum to serve as screen. To be able to adhere these together and to adhere onto the card  (and make sure the adhesive would not be visible from under the vellum) I also die cut two clouds using dies from the Rainy Days Coordinating Die set. I did not stamp the clouds, but only used the dies on their own as I feel stamping wasn’t necessary here, these clouds have a perfect shape.

I adhered both of the clouds onto the scalloped circle and this way was able to attach the vellum to the frame. The clouds also let me hide the adhesive to adhere vellum to the background.

Lastly, I heat embossed a Get Well Soon sentiment in white embossing powder over black cardstock for a pop of contrast, adhered it onto the umbrella and foam mounted the latter over the cloud cluster. I also added a little branch from the Holiday Pals stamp set stamped in light pink ink and embellished the card with my favorite clear sequins and small Clear Droplets (I adhered those over the largest sequins).

 

• Mini Ink Blending Tools: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
• Mini Ink Foam Refills: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
• Tim Holtz Distress Cubes: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
• Versmark: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
• Wow Bright White Embossing Powder: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp

We hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial. Happy cardmaking!