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Tutorial: Watercolor Background + Sale

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here this morning to share this soft and dreamy hot air balloon scene created with watercolors, vellum, and the fun Fly Away Friends Stamp Set!

I started off by using a panel of watercolor cardstock, a waterbrush, and watercolors to create a soft watercolor wash – I aimed for a look that would resemble the sky at sunset or sunrise.

While it was still damp, I added some splatters with the same colors of watercolor, and misted the areas that were a little dryer with water so that it would blend out.

I set that aside to dry, and stamped the fun hot air balloon from Fly Away Friends in gray ink on gray cardstock, die cut with the Coordinating Fly Away Friends Dies, and colored with Prismacolor colored pencils.

I had actually die cut my image before stamping (playing in my head with the idea of using it as a silhouette, but changed my mind halfway through), so I had lined it up in the negative in my MISTI to stamp the original image. This allowed me to stamp over in the exact same place and heat emboss in white over the original image. It definitely would have been easier though to stamp, color, restamp and emboss, THEN die cut – but I thought I would share this tip in case you got things out of order like I did this time! Haha!

By now my sky background had dried sufficiently, so I decided to add some soft dreamy clouds to the scene! I used Stitched Borders 2 to die cut some panels of vellum, and layer them together at the top and bottom of the card. I held them in place with a *tiny* bit of adhesive, then took it to my sewing machine to sew all the way around the edges, thereby attaching the vellum clouds nicely and firmly.

Finally, I couldn’t decide which sentiment to use, so I pulled out several, and built my own custom sentiment! I used my MISTI again to stamp these in black ink – thanks to the texture of the watercolor paper it can be difficult to get a clear impression, so using the MISTI helped make it super easy.

I adhered the hot air balloon, tucking the bottom under the clouds on the lower edge of the card – making it look as if it is floating up through the clouds!

Finished off by adding a good sprinkling of Pearl White Jewels for a touch of sparkle – these jewels are so fun! I can’t get enough of them!

I had originally planned on putting one of the cute critters in the hot air balloon…but ended up like the scene as it was! I loved that this set would work so well for cute and fun cards – but also something completely different like this card!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!!!

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The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hello! This is Day 2 of a two day hop to celebrate the tenth 30 Day Coloring Challenge. Have you heard of “The Daily Marker’s 30 Day Coloring Challenge” hosted by Kathy Racoosin? Right now it’s in the middle of the challenge and it’s a great time to take a leap, jump in and get your feet wet!  Don’t feel like you are jumping into the middle of the challenge I hope you will think of it as a new beginning.

The premise of “The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge” is to color something everyday even if it’s for five minutes. However feel free to  jump in or out as time permits.

Any coloring medium is welcomed. Click here for DAY 1. TO UPLOAD YOUR COLORING  or here on Instagram or here on Facebook (FB is a closed group). Please remember to use the hashtag #thedailymarker30day  and tag @kathyrac . For kids & young adults #thedailymarker30daykids

Ready to get started on today’s card? Let go!

This Koala Friends from Pretty Pink Posh is so darn cute with the different size Koalas so I decided to create this fun upright card. Also, reached for the Birdie Friends set to add a branch, leaves, and sentiment to add to the scene.

For this card, I started out by die cutting a couple of Scallop Circles, one for the inside of the card and the other for the top of the card and shaker.

To color these Koala’s, I used the following copic colors: CO, C1, C3, C5, R11 for the belly and ears. For the branch, E37, E33, E31 and for the sentiments, I used the Zig Clean Color Brush.

Next, I die cut a large basic circle almost the same size of the Scallop Circles to create the background and use for closing the shaker from behind.  Added some clouds using Salty Ocean distress ink and began to piece together the shaker by adding several sequins using the Berry Bright Mix and glued down some Silver Mini Star Confetti on top.

From there, I created the circle card base by placing the same circle onto a folded card stock and ran it through the die cutting machine leaving a little portion of the circle die not hitting the top of the card stock.  This way it leaves a fold on top.

Once the card base was done, I scored the front cover halfway and glued the bottom half only to add the circle shaker on top.

To decorate the inside of the card, I used patterned paper for the center along with the second Scallop Circles. From there, I added a sentiment from the Birdie Friends set where I colored using my zig clean color brush. Also, added some foam mount under the sentiment to pop it up which helps to hold the card upright so one can place anywhere.

From there, I created another white circle card base, but used a larger circle die since I was trying to create a double card put together. Plus, I wanted to give this upright card a white border around it and add an extra area to write a message.

When it lays flat, it shows the white border around the card, but when upright, only shows the top original card.

GIVEAWAY: leave a comment on this post and one person will win all five of our brand new stamp sets!

Congratulations to Katie Baird! 

If you have any questions about “The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge” you can refer to this post.

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June Product Release Blog Hop- Day 2

Check out Day 1 of the blog hop HERE

Hello, Gemma here today to share a card featuring some fabulous June release products.

The new Geraniums stamp set has a lovely selection of different images, perfect for building floral clusters and scenes. I especially love the textured look of the leaves. For my card today, I coloured some images with copic markers, then die cut them with the coordinating dies.

Next, I die cut the new Hello Shaker die from gold glitter paper. I adhered this square die cut at an angle on my card base.

I placed the geranium leaves around the frame, adhering with liquid glue. I then used foam squares to add the flowers over the top. I love the look of gold and pink together. To finish my card, I added some of my favourite Pearl White jewels.

BONUS: we’re giving away a free not-yet-released die in each order over $60 this month, while supplies last!

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 June 19, 2018 at 11:59 PM PDT. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

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Yana Smakula
Suzy Plantamura
Alix Davis
Jeanne Jachna
Crystal Thompson
Anna Kossakovskaya
Joni Andaya
Shannon McComb
Melody Rupple
Amy Kolling
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Justine Hovey

We hope that you enjoyed the blog hop these last two days. Be sure to leave comments on all the stops- we’ll be randomly picking comments to win gift certificates.

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June Product Release Blog Hop- Day 1

Hi, there! It’s Marge today and I’m sharing a shaker card featuring some of our new June 2018 Release for the blog hop.

To begin my card, I stamped the Koala Friends Stamp Set on a copic friendly paper and colored them using copic makers, then I cut them all using Koala Friends Coordinating Dies.

Copic Markers Used: 

Koalas : E29-E18-E15-E13-E11-E01

Tree branch : E49-E47-E44-E43-E42

Leaves : BG09-G29-G07-YG03-YG01

I prepared two pieces of A2 sized Bristol Paper, and ink blended them using Distress Oxide Inks: Antique Linen, Tattered Rose, Cracked Pistachio, Bundled Sage, and Evergreen Bough.  I added splatters of water and wiped out excess water using dry tissue. These two pieces will be used for front and background panel for shaker.

To make a shaker window, I diecut one of the inked panel using Mini Storybook 1 Dies, and simply cut out the inside bars to make a large rectangle window.  I found that the cut out square from Mini Storybook 1 Dies perfectly matches with the Hello Shaker Die in size. (You could just use Hello Shaker Die only to make a window.)  I adhered a piece of acetate film behind the window panel. I cut Hello Shaker DIe out of 110 Neenah White paper three times  then glued them top on top to make a dimensional frame. Then I put the frame onto rectangle window I had created previously.

I heat embossed a sentiment from Everyday Greetings on black cardstock in white, then I cut it using Stitched Pieces Die. I rounded natural twine 3-4 times beneath the window, fixed it with adhesive, and then foam mounted the sentiment label onto it. Next I turned the panel upside down to fill the shaker.

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I adhered foam tapes around the window at the back side of the panel, then I filled the shaker with lots of sequins and seed beads including Aquamarine, Blush, Cotton Candy, and Pewter which are part of brand new seed beads from Pretty Pink Posh. In addition, I put 4mm Lime Sorbet, 6mm Lime Sorbet, 6mm Peridot Mist, 4mm Peacock Feathers, 6mm Peacock Feathers, 4mm Champagne, 6mm Champagne, 4mm Lemon Meringue, 6mm Lemon Meringue, 3mm Sparkling Clear, and Iridescent Mini Circle Confetti.

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Look at the beautiful mixture of sequins and seed beads just before I covered the shaker. I really love how they look together. Above all, I would strongly recommend to mix Pewter seed beads to your shaker since the neutral gray color of them balances the colors in the shaker beautifully. Finally, I covered the shaker with another inked panel then I adhered the shaker onto white card base.

I then adhered Koala images around the shaker and label as shown in the picture. As a final embellishment, I added Buttercream Jewels and Spring Green Jewels.

BONUS: we’re giving away a free not-yet-released die in each order over $60 this month, while supplies last!

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 June 19, 2018 at 11:59 PM PDT. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

 

There is so much amazing inspiration today, I hope you enjoy it all! Be sure to leave comments on all the stops- we’ll be randomly picking comments to win gift certificates. See you tomorrow!

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Puppy Shaker Cards + Video

Hi everyone, Rina here today. I have three PUPPY shaker cards using the Playful Puppies, Happy Mail and Simple Sayings: Life stamp sets.

I am a huge dog lover and have three beagles of my own.  I did some simple copic coloring today and my goal was to color the images like my beagles.  After I colored the images, I cut them with the coordinating dies.

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The card front was created by ink blending distress oxide inks about ¾ of the way down, leaving the top white for contrast.  I used Picked Raspberry , Cracked Pistachio, and Fossilized Amber.  I finished off the blending with a microfiber towel, then used a Distress Sprayer to create splotches for added depth.  I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors to create black paint splatters.  Wait for your card front to dry before die cutting the shaker frame.

I used post it notes to hold the dies in place on the shaker fronts and then adhered acetate.  I used one layer of foam tape to create the shaker well and filled the shaker well with my favorite shaker bits from Pretty Pink Posh:

After filling the shaker well, remove the backers on the foam tape and adhere a card front. Make sure to press down firmly so no shaker bits escape!

I stamped out sentiments from Happy Mail and Playful Puppies in Versafine.  I used the Hugs Shaker die cut in white and adhered it to the acetate frame with glossy accents.

I had the inside pieces of the Window Frames die and Stitched Stars left over.  I thought it would be cute to stamp “You make life fun” from the Simple Sayings: Life stamp set and use the die cut to decorate the inside of the card.  I used a little red heart to embellish the remaining card.

Copic Markers Used: B00, B000 // W00, W1, W3, W5, W7 // R11, R14, R20, R24 // YG02, YG25, YG41, YR21 // C3, C5, C9 // Y21

I adhered the completed card front to the card bases and finished the card off by adding Sparkling Clear Confetti to the front of the card.

Hope you enjoy these fun shakers! Thanks for stopping by!

Rina

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One Stamp Set // Three Cards + Video

Hello everyone, Eloise here and for today’s video I’ll be sharing another 3 Cards 1 Stamp set video, using the brand new School Friends stamp set. This set was perfect because it had a ton of images and also included 3 sentiments. I also tried to keep these cards quite simple, so I just used three small die sets; Scallop Frames, Stitched Duo 1 and Stitched Film Strip and then I also just pulled in a few colours of Distress Inks to make my backgrounds as well.

To begin my cards today, I first started off with stamping, colouring and die cutting all my images. I stamped pretty much two of everything and used a colour combo I found on Pinterest for my colour inspiration. Once they were all coloured and die cut, I could assemble my cards together.

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Copic Markers Used: E000, E00, E21 / E53, E55, E57 / Y32, YR21, Y26 / C00, C1, C3 / W00, W2, W5 / Y35, YR15, YR09 / G12, BG32, BG15 / BG72, BG18, BG72 / BV02, BV04, BV08 / YG03, YG13, YG17 / R14, R24, R35 / RV42, RV25, RV29

For my first card today, I die cut two of the Stitched Film Strip from some white cardstock. Then I added foam tape to the backs and set them off to the side. For my background, I used Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio and ink blended a gradient onto some watercolour cardstock. I then flicked some water onto my background, picked it up with a paper towel and dried it off with a heat tool.

Next, I arranged all my images onto the base, figured out where I wanted the sentiment and stamped the ‘Hey There Smarty Pants’ into one of the gaps with black ink. I then adhered down my frames over top and adhered the images inside with foam tape as well and that finished off my first card.

For my second card, I pulled out the Scallop Frames and cut them twice out of some white cardstock. I then adhered some foam tape onto the backs of the frames. For my background I again went for a simple ink blended look. This time I used Lucky Clover, Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron and repeated the same steps as before. I dried it off with a heat tool and adhered my frames at an angle into place.

I then took out a few images and arranged them into place as well. I adhered them down with flat adhesive. For my sentiment I used the ‘You’re An A+ In My Book’ sentiment with more black ink onto the background as well and that finished up my second card.

For my final card, I wanted to make a mini card; something that would be perfect to put into your kids lunchbox with a little note for their day, or what have you. So I took the Stitched Duo 1 and cut out two tag shapes; one from watercolour cardstock and one from plain white cardstock. I ink blended some Carved Pumpkin and Spiced Marmalade ink onto the bottom of the watercolour tag and then ran it through my Big Shot Machine with the geometric embossing folder from We R Memory Keepers. I then took the second tag, and scored the top edge with my scoring tool. I added adhesive onto the flap and adhered it to my coloured tag and that created my mini card base.

To finish up, I adhered down the remaining images with some foam tape onto the bottom and then for the sentiment, I white heat embossed the ‘Just A Note’ sentiment onto some black cardstock. I cut it down to a strip and adhered it on the right hand side of my card and that finished off the last card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed and got inspired. I’ll catch you all next time.

Eloise

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Tutorial: Creating A Multi Embossed Card + Video

Hi Crafters, Justine here and I’m back with you for another video tutorial this month! I hope you are loving the new release as much as I am! Today I wanted to create an elegant, yet easy card tutorial. You can use stamps and dies from this release or any of the fabulous Pretty Pink Posh stamps in your stash to try this out.

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I started off by die cutting the Hello Shaker Die out in white cardstock. I grabbed some Himalayan Musk Embossing Powder by Wow and embossed the die cut three times. This creates a very thick, almost chipboard like embellishment. It’s a favourite technique of mine because you get a really smooth impression on the embossing powder.

I then stamped out a background using the Geraniums stamp set in black on a white card panel. To fill in the gaps, I used a little image from the School Friends set– it was the perfect filler stamp!

I glued the die cut to another die cut (off-center) in black cardstock to make it pop off the card. You could also challenge yourself to a more complex card by turning this die into a shaker card! If you enjoyed my video, be sure to check out my personal channel for weekly videos.

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June 2018 Release Now Available

The June 2018 Release is now available in the Pretty Pink Posh Shop and select retailers that carry our products. If you missed our post yesterday, we revealed all of the products in picture form, but if you would like to see them in a video, Eloise has you covered!

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Hello, Gemma here today to share a card featuring the adorable new Koala Friends set. On this card, I’ve teamed this new release set with some previously released PPP products.

I began by die cutting the Storybook 1 die from white card. I adhered the frame onto a kraft card base. On the frame pieces, I added a blend of distress oxide inks in the colours Squeezed Lemonade,  Wild Honey, and Candied Apple. I love the warm sunset look this gives to the card.


Next, I stamped the image of the koala and baby in the tree from the Koala Friends stamp set, along with some leaves from the Wild Rose stamp set. I coloured the images with copic markers, then die cut them with the coordinating dies.

I found the perfect sentiment for my card in the Encouraging Greetings set, stamping it with versafine onyx black ink onto one of the frame pieces. Then I added the koala and the leaves to the card, using foam tape to pop some of the images up for dimension.

To finish my card, I chose some of the gorgeous Metallic Rose Gold jewels, which look beautiful on the sunset background.

Enjoy browsing the Pretty Pink Posh Shop full of the new products. There will be more inspiration with the new release and next week, we’ll have a two day blog hop filled with even more inspiration!

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Sneak Peek: June Die Cuts + Free Gift

Hello, Gemma here sharing about the fabulous new release arriving on June 7th. I paired the fun Love You Script with the Darling Dragonflies. This has to be one of my favourite sets and an absolute must have!

For my card today, I began by die cutting a stitched rectangle from light blue card, using the Stitched Notes die set. I stamped the reed images in a light blue ink at the bottom of the panel. I then added a slight blend of the same colour to add some constrast to the panel, before adhering it to a white card base.

I die cut the new Love You Script die from blue glitter paper, adding it to the panel in the center.

Next, I stamped some dragonflies, then coloured them with copic markers. I die cut the, with the Darling Dragonflies coordinating dies, and added some Wink of Stella clear glitter to the wings. I then adhered them to the card with foam tape for the larger ones, and the smaller one with liquid glue.

Lastly, here’s a look at the free gift that will be available once the new release goes live. These are while supplies last.

Be sure to join us tomorrow as we reveal all the new products and our June 2018 Release Bundle goes live.

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Sneak Peek: Geraniums

Hi crafty friend, Crystal here today sharing a sneak peeks of the June Release! I have the honor of creating with the stamp set called Geraniums. You will absolutely fall in love with this newest floral stamp set from PPP.

For today’s post I have created a sweet and delicate floral card that is perfect for any occasion.

To make this card, I stamped and heat embossed the Geraniums and leaves with gold embossing powder. I did not mask any of it, just stamped the flowers in a round pattern.

Next, I colored each petal of the Geraniums with Copic numbers. I used RV17 for my darkest shade and RV10 for my lightest shade. The leaves were colored with YG13 (lightest) and YG17 darkest shade. You will notice, I am only using two markers, for that medium shade I do a “kissing” technique where the lightest marker tip kisses the darkest. Then feathering up from the dark to light on the actual petal or leaf.

Once my Geranium was colored, I moved on to shade the edges of the entire floral bundle. Using Distress Ink in Antique Linen, I blended starting at the edge of the petal and moving down careful not to color the interior of the petal.

Then with Gansai Tambi Starry Colors, I flickered yellow gold watercolor over the entire card panel.

Now onto that gorgeous sentiment! For this I used the Lovely Script die released in May! Ran that die through my gemini on a piece of gold foil cardstock. I then trimmed tiny pieces of foam adhesive and added those to the die.

To finish, I added a variety of Metallic Gold Confetti Mix to card.

These Geraniums are absolutely super fun to color! Hope you enjoyed today’s sneak peek! Thanks so much for stopping by today!