Cards

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One Stamp Set // Three Animal Cards + Video

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have another 3 cards 1 stamp set video for you all. It was a big hit last time and people seemed to really enjoy it so I thought I would do another one using the Woodland Critters stamp set which definitely seemed to be a favourite from the May release!

To begin my cards today I first stamped and coloured in all my images in with Copic Markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

To begin my first card I pulled out the Stitched Borders 1 dies and used the curved stitched border to cut out two sections of my white cardstock panel. I only needed the top and bottom of my panel left so the middle section could be open for colour and my scene. I then took another piece of cardstock and blended some Broken China and Peeled Paint Distress Oxide Inks onto the background, to make sky and land. Once I blended on my colour I sprinkled over some water and heat set it with my heat tool.

I then added adhesive to the back of the inked panel and adhered it down to a scrap piece of paper cut to the same size as my final panel. I then added foam tape onto the back of my white panel piece and adhered it to the same scrap paper piece leaving the opening for the colour to show through. I then added adhesive onto the back of my critters that I was using and added them into the scene. I stamped the ‘Friends Forever’ sentiment from the set with some black ink onto the top right hand side of my panel and finally adhered my panel to a kraft card base.

For my second card I pulled the Storybook 1 die to use as the focal point on my card. I then took the same Stitched Borders 1 dies and used the same curved die to cut a piece of green cardstock. Once my piece was cut I also grabbed some blue cardstock and cut it down to size. I used some Mowed Lawn Distress Ink and ink blended a little on the top of the green cardstock piece to give it some shading and used Broken China Distress Ink to ink the blue piece the same way. This is a way to give a little extra to your flat colours of cardstock. I then die cut the Storybook die from some white cardstock.

I then adhered together my background and hill piece and then adhered down the Storybook frame onto my panel. I used foam tape and flat adhesive to adhere down all the critters I chose to use also. I then stamped the ‘You Are Wonderful’ sentiment onto the bottom of the panel and finally adhered the piece to a white card base.

For my final card I used the Scallop Circle Tags dies to cut a white tag. I then used a circle die to also cut out an additional two circles to fit inside my tag. I cut one circle down to a small hill and coloured that using Mowed Lawn and then used Broken China for the full circle. I adhered the two together and then used foam tape to adhered the coloured circles to my tag. I arranged a small scene using a few of the critters that were left onto the circle and adhered them down into place. For my background of my card I used some plaid paper from Lawn Fawn and adhered it down to a white card base. Then to make the tag feel like it fit with the card I poked a hole through the top centre of the card and also cut a slit in the fold of the card so I could thread some hemp cord through and tie it in a bow, anchoring the tag to the card.

I added some adhesive to the back of the tag so it would sit in place instead of moving around and then for the sentiment I white heat embossed the ‘Friends Forever’ sentiment onto some black cardstock, heat set it, trimmed it down and foam mounted it onto the bottom right hand side of the card.

To completely finish off all the cards, I pulled some Sparkling Clear Sequins out of my stash and scattered them around each of my cards to pull them altogether.

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Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed the three cards I made today. I always have a lot of fun making these videos as I love to create multiple cards especially when you have most of the supplies out already. They’re all quite simple cards, but have a similar vibe I feel.

Anyway, thanks again, I hope you got inspired and I’ll catch you all next time!

Eloise

 

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Tutorial: Batik Background Stamping

Good morning! Heather here to share a tutorial on these two cards on which I attempted to create a background for my card similar to a Batik fabric (if you have no idea what that is, click HERE or HERE to see a couple examples, or do a quick search on Pinterest!) The two different methods I tried gave me two slightly different results – one a bolder look, and one a softer effect. I can’t decide which one I like better!

I started off by picking two shades of distress ink, and applying it to my backgrounds – first the lighter shade, then the darker. I purposely went fairly random in my patterns going for an “imperfect” look intentionally.

Next, I added some flicks of water to react with the distress ink for more texture. At this point I heat set the entire panel. IMPORTANT: You want it to be NICE and dry after this step – so either give it lots of time to dry or zap it good with a heat gun!

Now to add the leaf images to the background. I picked several of the solid images from the new Build a Bloom stamp set – including some of the single little leaves to fill in the holes. The softer one on the right I stamped with Clear Embossing ink and heat embossed with Clear Embossing Powder. The bolder one on the left I stamped with both shades of the same distress ink I used on the background, deliberately layering and overlapping the leaves on that one. I then quickly sprinkled on some embossing powder on that one so it stuck to the newly stamped leaves. The distress ink stays wet long enough to do that if you work quickly. THIS is why you wanted those backgrounds thoroughly dry so that the embossing powder doesn’t stick anywhere that you don’t want it too!

Finally, I applied some more distress ink to the softer colored one – the way the colors overlap it gives two tones of color the the card exactly like I was hoping! On the darker bolder card, I applied a little white pigment ink on some spots to add some more texture and color variation.

Next I built the sentiment portion using the gorgeous new sentiment kit, Thoughtful Greetings, and the fun new addition to the scallop dies, Scallop Hexagons! The sentiments I heat embossed in white on some soft gray cardstock, and framed them with the white scallop frames.

Finished off by mounting those sentiment panels with foam adhesive, then added some Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix. Here is a closer look at the softer one – can you see the shine from the embossing powder?

And then here is the bolder one:

This was so much fun to create – and I can imagine so many different color combinations that would be fun too!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!
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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing my take on the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop using the new Summer Friends stamp set and Summer Friends coordinating dies (releasing on July 10th).

To begin, I drew pencil lines to create sand and sea as a background.

Next, I colored the pencil lines with Copic markers.

Next, I drew a half circle with a pencil mark and Colored it with Copic. Then, I added both sun ray images from Rainy Days Additions stamp set to create the sun for the background.

Next, I colored and die-cut the images from the new Summer Friends. I colored the frapp images to fit the challenge.

Then, I die-cut the whole background with Stitched Notes die set. I used the frame and adhere it with foam tape for dimensions

Then, I stamped the sentiment “happy summer” also from Summer Friends stamp. Next, I added some of the new Mermaid Sequins Mix. I put all my die-cut images on a foam square for dimension.

I hope you enjoyed this cute new Summer Friends stamp set coming soon! Until next time, have a great day!!!

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Day & Night Woodland Cards

Good morning! I’m dropping by today to share a card using some the same stamp and die sets, and similar layout, but creating a scene that is both a day and night version!

For both cards I stamped several images from the adorable Woodland Critters, colored them with Zig markers, and die cut with the coordinating Woodland Critters Dies.

For the daytime version, after die cutting the bottom edges with the beautiful Scallop Borders 2 Dies, I added a pile of the cute new Sparkling Clear Flowers attached with Glossy Accents. I attached this one to a kraft cardbase.

The nighttime version I used some deep gray cardstock, and heat embossed my sentiment from the darling Thoughtful Greetings Stamp set. I also heat embossed some of the stars from that set in gold on there as well as a perfect fit for the sweet sentiment.

For this one, I also added some pretty Gold Mini Star Confetti to carry through the nighttime theme. I mounted this one on a nice soft blue cardbase, and then tied some jute twine around the top of them both to finish off!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you are having a wonderful day!

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Tutorial: Fox Pop-Up Card

Hi Pretty Pink Posh friends! Shannon here today to share a pop up card with you! I kept the outside of the card clean and simple and put a cute pop up scene on the inside. I often focus my attention on the outside of the card and neglect the inside so this is a way to change that for me.

I started by creating a card base like usual with light blue card stock but cut it slightly smaller than an A2 sized card. I then put my card into my paper trimmer at 1 and 1/2 inches and cut a slit up to the 1 ” mark. I moved my card into the trimmer touching the 2” mark and again cut a slit down to 1”, this is how I created the slit in my card to allow the pop up piece.

I used the Picket Fence die and and adhered into my background under the pop up piece and also added some blades of grass from the Camping Friends stamp set. I then stamped my fox and flag from the Fox Friends stamp set, colored in with Copic markers and cut out using the coordinating dies. I adhered my flag behind my fox and cut an additional fox die cut out from white card stock to adhere onto my stamped fax just to make that piece a little more sturdy for my pop up. I then Adhered my fox onto my pop up piece and adhered my blue card base inside a white card piece creating my pop up when you open the card.


For the outside of card I kept it very simple stamping my images from the Camping Friends stamp set and coloring in with Copic markers. I then cut some blue clouds using the Rainy Day Coordinating dies and added some 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins on them.

Decorating the inside of the card was fun and I must do it more often.

Thanks for stopping in! We hope you enjoyed today’s fun card.

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Creating A Floral Arrangement + Video

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I want to share a floral card using the Build A Bloom stamp set.

This set features a number of parts and pieces to create your own unique flowers, leaves and floral arrangements. There are outline and corresponding solid images and also just outline and just solid images that don’t necessarily go together. So with this set you can chose to stamp your flowers and leaves outlines and color them using your favorite coloring mediums or stamp solid images using colored ink and have instant flowers and leaves. You can also combine a lot of these to have an outline and solid stamped color.

So quite a lot you can do and many different looks you can have. There is a set of coordinating dies available and these cut pretty much each and every shape out.


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

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I started working on my card by die cutting the shapes out first. With tiny dies like these I prefer to keep them connected and cut them all at once first and do my stamping later. I feel this way I am saving a lot of time as for me it is easier to align a stamp over a small die cut shape versus align a die over a small stamped image.

I die cut a number of shapes out, I think I cut all of them 2 or 3 times and later had additional florals cut to have more flowers for my card.

Next I used various colors of ink and stamped my images. I picked 2 shades of green, 2 shades of yellow and 3 shades of pink for my stamping. I first stamped layers using lighter color of ink and later came in added a detail layer onto some of my images using a darker shade. So in a way this stamp set can be used as a color layering one where you build your flower using individual layers and different colors of ink.

To create a vase for my floral arrangement I used a Christmas ornament from the Winter Friends stamp set. I turned it upside down and colored using C3, C1 and colorless blender Copic markers.

I made my floral arrangement heavy on one side as I wanted to add a sentiment to the other side. I went with “Thinking Of You Today and Every Day”from the Thoughtful Greetings stamp set, but of course you can go with any other message you like.

Next I foam mounted my panel onto an A2 top folding card base and since I had some additional die cuts left I used them to add some flowers and leaves around the message. I also used small clear droplets and adhered those onto some of the flower centers for additional interest.

Happy cardmaking!

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Tutorial: Tri-Fold Scenery Card

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing a three folded card scene with you. Today I am using the Woodland Critters, Friends Forever, Rainy Days and Stitched Borders 3 dies.

To begin, I first cut the 8 ½ x 11 cardstock to 5 ½ x 11.  Then, score it 2 times using the Martha Stewart large score board. I scored it from 3 ½ and 7 ¼. Then distressed the inside using Tim Holtz Peacock Feather Distress Ink Pad. I also used the scallop from Stitched Borders 3 dies to cut the distressed strip of paper for the ground. I bottom was distressed with Tim Holtz Crushed Olive.

Next, I colored the imaged from Woodland Critters stamp set with Copics and die cut with Woodland Critters Coordinating die set.

Next, I also stamped both cloud images from Rainy Days stamp set.

Here’s the look of having them placed all together on the scene. I stamped the sentiment using Everyday Greetings stamp set. Then, splattered it with Gansai Tambi Pearl Colors from the set I used the White Gold and Pearl Cobalt Blue.

For the front of the card here’s the look. Its the same concept as above except I added two strip of the scallop instead of one. For the front I also used the girl from Friends Forever stamp set and Friends Forever Coordinating die set. I also added some Sparkling Clear only on the front to finish the card. I did not add any sequins on the inside to avoid bulkiness when folded.

I hope you guys enjoyed! Thank you so much for stopping by!

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Creating with Nuvo Mousse + Video

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I’m going to be using the Bold Blooms and Thoughtful Greetings stamp sets along with Nuvo Mousses to do a fun background along with some water colouring.

To begin my card today I first decided to do my background. I took four colours of my Nuvo Mousses – Aquamarine, Peony Pink, Pink Flambe and Citrus Green and then some sponges. I just used the foam ink blender sponges, but make-up sponges or anything like that would work. I dipped in my sponge into the mousse and then spread it across the top of my cardstock panel. I then repeated the steps with the other three colours to create my swiped coloured background. A little bit of a different background for me, but I love the swiped painted look it gives and these mousses have the best shimmer to them!

Next up I stamped out my images from the Bold Blooms stamp set onto some more watercolour cardstock. I used Versafine Onyx Black Ink and then clear heat embossed the images so it would be easier to watercolour them. To mix up my paint, I used a palette knife to take out a little colour out of each of the jars, popped it into a palette and sprayed the colour with water and mixed it around with a paint brush. This mixed up the colour nicely and it keeps that shimmer which is amazing.

I water coloured in my images like normal with each of the colours of mousse. I also pulled the Antique Gold colour to colour in the centre of the flowers. I loved water-colouring with these as it was so super easy, they moved just like regular watercolours and really the only thing you don’t get is the shading but, like I mentioned before – the shimmer is amazing, so it makes up for it! It’s like using metallic watercolours. I could have done that, but I like getting many uses out of my products. Once all my images were coloured and dried I die cut them out using the coordinating dies.

Next up I white heat embossed a sentiment from the Thoughtful Greetings stamp set onto some black cardstock and trimmed it out into a rectangle. I also used the Scallop Hexagon Dies to cut a banner edge into a piece of vellum. I first adhered down the sentiment strip onto the banner, overhanging the edge a little and then arranged my flowers around it, popping some of them up and leaving some flat. I then adhered my banner down to the coloured panel I created earlier.

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To completely finish up the card I adhered my panel onto a grey card base with some fun foam and then scattered some 4mm Clear Droplets and 6mm Clear Droplets to finish it up.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you got inspired.

Eloise

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Hexagon Flower Blooms

Today I am showcasing the two new floral stamp sets called Bold Blooms and Build A Bloom. They coordinate so perfectly together to form floral wreaths. I’ve tried a circular and oval wreaths, but this time I used the new Scallop Hexagon Dies as my shape.

I die-cut the Scallop Hexagon Die from the top center of a white card front. I used a transparency on the inside of the hexagon shape so you can see the sentiment on the inside of the card. I stamped all of the flowers and leaves with colored inks. For the stamps that have base stamps, I used two-step stamping. Whenever I use this technique, I stamp the outline stamp with the ink first and then I stamp the inside piece with the same ink color, but stamp it on scrap paper first (called second generation stamping). That way it is lighter than the outline, but still matches perfectly.

Next, I arranged all of the flowers and leaves around the hexagon shape leaving the scallops visible around the edge. I overlapped them and tucked leaves under some of the flowers. I also added some 4mm Aquamarine, Lemon Meringue, Pink Peonies and the Fresh Garden sequins around the wreath to fill in any open spaces. I stamped the sentiment on the inside of the card using the new Thoughtful Greetings Stamp Set. The sentiment fit perfectly inside the window. I used some teal twine on the bottom of the card to give it more dimension.

I hope you enjoyed this card today and find many wreath shapes to make with your flower stamp sets. Have a great day and thanks for visiting the Pretty Pink Posh blog today!

–Suzy Plantamura

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Bright Summer Blooms

Hi Jeanne here today!  Have you noticed all the flowers everywhere? Yes! Summer is on it’s way! I’m so excited about the Pretty Pink Posh Bold Blooms clear stamp set with coordinating dies.

The very first thing I did when I got this set was to cut lots of the dies and stamp them in different floral shades. The images are easy to align on the die cut shape without any stamping tool. I recommend stamping the outline image and then the solid image.

Next I arrange the flowers into different patterns that appeal to me. The combinations and colors are endless!
I adhered this floral arrangement over a Stitched Duo 1 die. I wanted to mimic the appearance of a flower box. The frame on the die cut reminded me of a window.

To draw your eye along the length of the card I added a Stitched Border. Maybe it is a curtain inside the window?

The beautiful script sentiment is from the Everyday Greetings stamp set! It fits perfectly on the top of the tag! Who doesn’t love flowers? I just know you’re going to love this stamp set!

I hope you enjoyed today’s post. Thanks for stopping by the Pretty Pink Posh blog!