Cards

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Watercolor Mother’s Day

Hi, friends! It’s Marge here for you today. Mother’s day is soon and I’m going to share a card inspiration for Mother’s Day using the new products from Pretty Pink Posh.

To begin my card, I stamped Peonies stamp set on watercolor paper using Distress Ink Antique Linen, then I colored the blossoms and leaves using my Daniel Smith Watercolor paints and some watercolor brush markers. I added more details using my polychromo pencils and then I die cut all the images using Peonies Coordinating Dies.

I thought the new stencil would be a great background for the peonies, so I chose Wide Stripes Stencil from the new release, and I decided to go with earth-tone colors for stenciling to make a natural mood on my card.

I placed Wide Stripes Stencil onto A2 sized ivory card stock and then sponged warm-brown colored dye ink through the stencil, I didn’t fill all the space, instead, I left some part of the area to give the stenciled pattern some tapering effect and more depth to the shades. I then splattered with white, black and gold inks onto my panel and colored flowers.

I stamped a sentiment from Mother’s Day Stamp set on the top corner of the panel, then I adhered Peonies using Glue Dots and Foam Adhesives. As a final embellishment, I adhered 6mm Metallic Gold Sequins4mm Metallic Gold Sequins, and 3mm Sparkling Clear sequinns and finished off my card.

I hope this card inspired you. These products work together so well and you can make them work for all sorts of occasions.

Thanks for reading this post. Have a great day!

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Bouquet and Stenciled Stripes

Hello there everybody, Wanda here guesting on the Pretty Pink Posh blog! I’m sharing a card today using products from the April release.

Begin by stenciling the Wide Stripes Stencil using a small sponge dauber and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink. Tape the stencil down over your paper using Purple Tape or some other temporary tape. Tamp the ink down with the dauber placing more color towards the outer edges and less color towards middle of the cardstock . Use a water sprayer to lightly mist the inked paper and let it dry. Splatter Copic Opaque White using a small paint brush.

Stamp and die cut the bouquet and small flower from the Mother’s Day stamp set and bee from Bee Friends. Color the images with bright shades of Copic Markers. Add white accents with a gel pen.

Die cut the Hello Friend Script Die out of black cardstock. Die cut two of the tag shape from the Stitched Banner Duo 2 set– one in white cardstock and one in yellow cardstock to layer.

To assemble the card, use a kraft A2 sized card base. Wrap a strip of vellum around the striped panel and affix it on the back side. Attach this layer to the card base using foam tape. Adhere the two tag shapes together with adhesive and then attach them to the card using foam tape.

Stamp the bee trail and the two tiny hearts onto the tag. Mount the bee, bouquet and flower to the tag. Using clear glue, glue the word die at an angle across the bottom of the card.

These products work together so beautifully and you can really customize the card to fit the recipient.

That’s it for today….Hope you have a beautiful, happy day!

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You Did It! Graduation Card

Hello, Gemma here today to share a graduation card featuring the latest release from Pretty Pink Posh. The release includes stencils for the first time and they are fabulous!

I love stencils for several reasons – how easy they are to use, the possibility to get many different looks, the price point is low, and they are easy to store if you have limited craft space like me. I’ve used the Graduation Stencil for my card today. I inked onto dark blue cardstock with Faded Jeans distress oxide ink. I love the luminous quality of distress oxides on dark cardstock.

Next, I stamped some images from the Congrats Grad stamp set, plus the stack of books from previously released School Friends stamp set, and coloured them with copic markers. I die cut the Decorative Tag 2 from white card. I stamped a sentiment from the Congrats Grad stamp set at the top, then adhered it to the card with foam tape.

I then added my die cut images to the card, using liquid glue for the books and foam tape for the hat and scroll.

This card can be customized to fit the favorite colors of the recipient, or even their school colors. So many fun possibilities!

Enjoy browsing the Pretty Pink Posh Shop full of the new products!

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Mother’s Day Peonies

Hi, everyone! It’s Marge here for you today and I’m so happy to be sharing a floral card featuring some of the New Release from Pretty Pink Posh.

I started by stamping the Peonies stamp set on Watercolor Paper using Versafine Black ink then I watercolored the images and cut them all using Peonies Coordinating Dies. I usually mix various watercolor paints in my stash and the main colors for today’s card were Quinacridone CoralQuinacridone MagentaRose of Ultramarine and etc.

After coloring and die cutting, I added more shades with my colored pencils.

Next, I die cut the Mother’s Day Script Die out of white card stock, then I colored the die-cuts with Copic Markers: E49-E47-E44. I diecut the same letters again and glued them together using Multi Medium Matte. The small ‘Happy’ was from Fox Friends stamp set and was heat embossed in white on brown card stock.

In order to make a background for my flowers and scripts, I diecut the same watercolor paper using Lattice Background Die and adhered it on a white card base using with the use of Multi Medium Matte. Now it’s time for adding all the colored pieces and create a scene on our A2 panel.

I used various adhesives like Multi Medium Matte, Large Glue Dots, Square Foam Adhesives, and Strips Adhesives to give dimensions to the flowers. To finish off my card, I added white details to the petals and leaves using a white gel pen and I adhered 10mm Metallic Rose Gold Sequins, 6mm Metallic Rose Gold, 4mm Metallic Rose Gold and 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you will enjoy the new April Release!
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April Product Release Blog Hop- Day 2

Check out Day 1 of the blog hop HERE

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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April Product Release Blog Hop- Day 1

Check out Day 2 of the blog hop HERE

Hi, everyone! Marge here sharing a graduation card with the cute critters featuring the brand new April Release from Pretty Pink Posh.

I started by stamping Congrats Grad Stamp set and Animal Signs Stamp set on Copic friendly paper using Memento Black Ink, then I colored the images using my Copic markers. Then I cut them all using Congrats Grad Coordinating Dies and Animal Signs Coordinating Dies, added white details using a gel pen, and set them aside.

To make a background, I ink blended a piece of Bristol paper with Distress Oxide Spiced Marmalade, and Crushed Olive. Then, I placed the brand new Graduation Stencil onto my panel and applied moonstone glimmer paste through the stencil on the top part of the panel and let them dry.

I diecut Congrats Script Die out of white card stock twice, colored the top surface with Copic Markers and glued them together using Multi Medium Matte.

I used colors of E49-E47-E44 for script die-cuts. Before assembling a card, I chose cheerful sentiments to be inserted on the blackboard from Animal Signs Stamp set, School Friends Stamp set, and Bear Hug Stamp set and then I heat embossed them in white on each blackboard the critters are holding in their hands.

Now it’s time to assemble all the pieces together into a card! I adhered the background panel onto a card base, then I glued Congrats Script die cut on the top, and then I added cute critters with hats using Glue Dots and Foam Adhesives,  I also put eyeglasses from School Friends stamp set on the koala, which made the whole scene look so fun! As a final embellishment, I adhered Shamrock Jewels and Lemon Drop Jewels around the scene and finished off my card.

Main colors of Copic Markers I used are warm gray for the koala, cool gray for elephant, neutral gray for a black hat, BV08-V09-V06-V04 for purple hats, G29-G28 for blackboards, Y38-Y35 for yellow points, and R29-R22-R14 for red points.

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before May 8, 2019 at 11:59 PM PST. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

I hope you enjoyed today’s post. Join us tomorrow for another day of inspiration from the team and guests! Thanks for stopping by!
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April 2019 Release Now Available!

The April 2019 Release is now available in the Pretty Pink Posh Shop and select retailers that carry our products. If you missed our post earlier, we revealed all of the products in picture form, but if you would like to see them in a video, Ardyth has that for you today!

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Hello, Gemma here today with a card to share using some fabulous products from the Pretty Pink Posh April release.

I was so excited to use the new Lattice Background die. I am a huge fan of cover dies. I think they are fantastic for adding interest to clean and simple cards. The Lattice Background die is so gorgeous, it’s definitely a must have.

I began by cutting a piece of blue pattered paper to fit my A2 card base, adhering it with liquid glue. I then die cut the Lattice Background die from white card and layered it over the top.

To create an area in the centre of the card, I die cut the Storybook 1 die from white card, trimming it down to give a small border and adhering to my card.

Before adding the panels within the Storybook 1 frame, I blended on a light ombré of Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink.

I chose two elephants to feature on my card. The elephant holding the sign is from the new Animal Signs stamp set. The elephant and the star balloon are from the new Elephant Friends stamp set. I love that the greeting from the Elephant Friends set fits perfectly on the sign.

I coloured the images with copic markers, then die cut them with the coordinating dies.

I used foam tape to adhere them to my card, then added some glossy accents to the balloon and a few Sea Glass jewels around the images as a finishing touch.

Thank you for joining us today. I hope you enjoyed today’s card and were inspired.

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Sneak Peek: April Die Cuts

Hi friends! Angelica here, and I am so excited to be part of this week’s sneak peeks of the new April/May Release. Today I have made a few cards with some of the dies that will be available on April 29th.

This first card I used the new Lattice Background Die and the new Mother’s Day Script Die. I ink blended Festive Berries, Picked Raspberries, and Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Inks onto a white card stock panel, then added the lattice die cut panel on top. I die-cut Happy Mother’s Day several times out of white card stock to stack and glue together for dimension. I die-cut one more time with gold foil paper, and glued it to the top of the stacked words.  Next I stamped and Copic-colored the vase and flowers from the new Mother’s Day stamp set, and used the Mother’s Day coordinating die to cut it out. To complete the card, I used foam squares to add the vase, and Multi Media Matte to add the words.

I made a second Mother’s Day Card using the same dies, using an Alcohol Pearl ink panel to die-cut the words and make a frame from.

I used the rectangle die from the Stitched Notes die set to cut the frame. I kept the background white-on-white for a clean look.

My last card showcases the new Congrats Script Die. I couldn’t help but use a few other new products to make this adorable graduation card.

On gray card stock, I blended matching ink over the new Graduation Stencil to make the background. I trimmed the panel down and die-cut a window using the middle size die from the Stitched Hexagons Dies. I stamped and Copic-colored the adorable elephant from the new Elephant Friends stamp set, and a graduation cap from Congrats Grad stamp set. I die-cut the elephant and cap with the coordinating dies, then added the panel and elephant to an A2 size card base with foam adhesive. I die-cut Congrats three times from white card stock, and one time out of gold foil card stock. I stacked and glued the words together, then glued the word to the card front.

I hope I have given you ideas on how to use these new dies. Thanks for stopping by!

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Sneak Peek: Congrats Grad + Stencils

Good Morning Friends! It is Dana here today sharing a graduation card sharing a sneak peek of the new Congrats Grad stamp set, along with one of the new stencils, Graduation!

I started my card by creating my background with the Graduation Stencil and Transparent Gloss Texture Paste from Ranger.  I used a palette knife to apply the paste all over my card panel. When you first apply the paste it is white.

Once it dries it is clear and shiny.

While my background was drying and I began working on my card images. I stamped the darling elephant from the Elephant Friends stamp set and the graduation cap and diploma from the Congrats Grad stamp set. Next, I watercolored my images with Zig Clean Color Pens and used the coordinating dies, Elephant Friends coordinating dies and Congrats Grad coordinating dies, to cut them out. I love how both of these sets can work together.

For my card layout, I used the Scallop Frame die. I stamped my sentiment onto the inside piece and inlaid it back into the frame. Next, I attached my images with foam adhesive and attached everything to my A2 card base.

I hope you have been enjoying the sneak peeks so far. We still have one more sneak peek of the April 29th release, join us again tomorrow!

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Sneak Peek: Animal Signs

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! It’s Heather here and I’m super excited today to be sharing some cards using some of the brand new release coming soon from Pretty Pink Posh- and it’s a FAB release I can tell you for sure!

I got the chance to use the SUPER adorable new Animal Signs stamp set, and paired it up with 3 out of 4 of the very first Pretty Pink Posh stencils!

I couldn’t possibly choose which images I wanted to use, so I stamped and colored all of them – then die cut them with the Animal Signs coordinating dies.

I did some dual layer ink blending on the backgrounds of my card bases – basically blending one color of ink softly in the background, then layering the stencil over the top and blending the SAME color but darker for a tone on tone effect.

Here is a closer look at each card. For this first one I used the new Wide Stripes stencil on a diagonal and paired it with Scattered Straw Distress Oxide Ink.

For this one I paired the adorable new Bow Ties stencil with Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide Ink.

Next up we have the new Leaves Stencil paired with Cracked Pistachio Distress Oxide Ink.

And finally, I used the Wide Stripes Stencil again- reversing the diagonal- and paired it with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink.

To each card I added a heart die cut with Scallop Hearts Dies and mounted with Double Sided Foam Sticky strips. Over that I mounted the images- also with foam adhesive- and then added some Pearl White Jewels (with the help of my handy Crystal Katana) for a bit of sparkle!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Stop by tomorrow for more sneak peeks!