Cards

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Christmas Card with Copics

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a Christmas card to share with you all using the Poinsettias stamp set. I decided to also do a little dry embossing on the background for some added interest.

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I started off with dry embossing my leaves. I took a piece of watercolour cardstock and ran through the coordinating leaves dies of the Poinsettias set. I used a thin tan embossing mat between two plates in my Big Shot Machine to get the effect. I then die cut the same leaves from some masking paper and adhered them over top. I then use Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Inks for the background, I flicked on some water and dried it with a heat tool.

Next, I could colour my images in. I stamped out all the poinsettias and leaves and used Copic Markers to colour them in. I then cut them out using the coordinating dies and added foam tapes to the backs.

Copic Markers Used: R24, R29, R39, R89 / G03, G05, G16, G29 / Y35, YR12, YR24)

I then arranged all my images onto my background and adhered them down into place. I added Wink of Stella in clear for added interest as well. I also arranged the leaves around the dry embossed ones. I then stamped the ‘Merry Wishes’ sentiment from Penguin Pals onto the right-hand side of my panel as well as a piece of red and white striped patterned paper.

For a last finishing touch, I used some Holiday Jewel Mix and scattered them around my card and adhered them into place.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I’ll see you all next time.

Eloise

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Festive Penguins

Hello! It’s Lindsay here on the Pretty Pink Posh blog. Today I’m sharing this classic red and green color themed Christmas card highlighting the new Penguin Pals Stamp and Coordinating Die Set and Pine Sprig Dies.

I started with stamping my penguin and accessory images with a copic friendly ink and then copic colored them in classic red and green colors using R24, R29, R39 and G02, G05, and G28. I die cut these out using the Penguin Pals Coordinating Dies.

I got to work on my ink blended background using Distress Oxide Inks in Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and Lucky Clover. I cut down the ink blended background piece to 3 ¼ inches by 5 ½ inches in order to leave room for a border of pine sprigs.

I die cut the Pine Sprigs using two different colors of green cardstock and used Distress Oxide Inks in Mowed Lawn to add some detail to the pine sprigs. I then adhered the sprigs to the back of the inked background to create a border on the right hand side of the card.

I thought I needed some additional red elements so I cut a frame for the critters using Scallop Hexagon Dies from red cardstock. I also added a small border of red cardstock to line the sprig border.

I then got to creating my sentiment. I used the Season’s Greetings sentiment from the Decorative Ornaments Stamp Set and white heat embossed it on to black cardstock. I cut a little flag end onto the sentiment strip.

Finally, it was time to assemble! I adhered the sentiment, frame, and penguin images with foam tape and finished off the card with some Holiday Mix Jewels.

Aloha,

Lindsay

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Colored Pencils Ornaments Card + Video

It’s Justine again with a new video process tutorial. Today I’m using my prismacolor pencils to colour on a dark background in order to make an elegant Christmas card. These coloured pencils are so highly pigmented that they showed up on black cardstock. If you would like a true colour from your pencil, colour in white first, then colour overtop with the colour of your choice.

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I used the Decorative Ornaments stamp all over the background and I embossed it using gold embossing powder. I coloured in all of the little elements. I tried my best to switch up the five colours on the background and I think leaving some in black really made the colours pop.

Lastly, I die cut the Happy Holidays Script die and embossed it three times in gold embossing powder to make it more like chipboard rather than a paper die. In such a busy background, I wanted to make sure the sentiment didn’t get lost nor take away from the background so this was a perfect choice.

I hope you enjoyed today’s video and technique. Thanks for stopping by and joining us today!

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You Make Life Fun + Video

Welcome back everyone, it’s Mindy! Today I’m sharing a card and video using some fun products from Pretty Pink Posh.

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To start my card, I’m going to color up my images. I stamp two of the Cuddly Cats from the set onto Neenah Solar White cardstock 80 lbs with copic friendly ink. Then color with copic markers and use the coordinating die to die cut them out.

For my front panel, I’m die cutting a star from a piece of White cardstock using the Stitched Stars Die. This will leave a beautiful stitching around the shape that adds a little more interest to the front of the card. I’m also going to use the Simple Sayings: Life stamp set and stamp my sentiment with black ink. Be sure to check out my video for a great tip on making sure you stamp straight.

For my background panel, I used a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock and add Aged Mahogany and Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink with the English Brick Wall Stencil. For the sky, I ink blended Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch and Black Soot Distress Oxide. My front panel is popped up with foam tape and added to the ink blended panel for some fun dimension. Then I could add my Cuddly Cats by tucking them in the Stitched Star Window.

You can’t make a card without adding some beautiful jewels! I used the Metallic Gold Jewels which reminded me of stars.

I hope you enjoyed today’s inspiration!

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For You Anemones

Hello, Gemma here today sharing a watercolour floral card featuring the Anemomes stamp set. I’ve been enjoying using my zig clean colour real brush pens recently, and the Pretty Pink Posh florals are perfect for watercolour techniques.

I began by heat embossing the images from the Anemones stamp set in pale gold onto Bristol Smooth card. I used some Zig clean colour real brush pens and a water brush to colour the images. These are the colours I used: 230 pale rose, 220 tea rose, and 44 dark green. Once dry, I die cut the images with the coordinating dies.

On a card base, I adhered a piece of black and white patterned paper. I took another piece of white card and used one of the dies from the Scallop Borders 1 die set to cut it down at an angle. I stamped a greeting from the Everyday Greetings stamp set, following the angle of the scalloped die cut edge.

I adhered this panel to my card base with liquid glue, then placed the flowers and leaves onto the card, adhering with a mix of foam tape and liquid glue. As a pretty finishing touch, I added some Ivory jewels to the center of the flowers.

I hope you enjoyed this card. There are lots of possibilities with these stamp sets!

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November Product Release Blog Hop- Day 2

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Hello, Gemma here today and I’m sharing a card featuring Decorative Ornaments– one of my favourite sets from the Pretty Pink Posh November release.

I’ve had fun trying different techniques with this set, including watercolour with zig pens, and embossing on vellum. I love to copic colour images, though, so decided to stamp some images with copic friendly black ink and colour that way. I kept to one colour family on each bauble, to keep the tones similar and let the patterns shine out. Once they were coloured in, I die cut them with the coordinating dies. Then I added some white gel pen and clear glitter pen details.

For this card, I thought it would be fun to revisit a design I made (HERE) with the Bunny Friends stamp set earlier this year. It’s still one of my favourite designs – I love the border of images with a bold colour behind. On the right side of a card base, I added a blend of Chipped Sapphire distress oxide ink, flicking it with some perfect pearls mix for shiny droplet details.

I took another piece of card, not as wide as my card base, and blended on Milled Lavender distress oxide ink. I stamped a greeting from the Penguin Pals stamp set with versafine black onyx ink. I find a pigment black ink is necessary for stamping sentiments over distress oxide ink, as dye ink seems to fade back too much.

I added foam tape behind this panel, then adhered to my card base. I arranged the baubles on to the edge of the panel, using some purple tape to temporarily adhere them together. This makes it easier to add the adhesive in one go – foam tape for the right side where they overhang, and some liquid glue for where they sit directly on the panel. To finish the card, I added some jewels around the sentiment from the new Starry Sky Jewels Mix.

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 November 20, 2018 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!

We hope that you enjoyed the blog hop these last two days. Thank you for all the sweet comments, love and support!

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November Product Release Blog Hop- Day 1

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Hi, everyone! It’s Marge here with you today and I’m going to share a watercolor poinsettia card featuring the New Release Products.

I started my card by stamping Poinsettias and Elegant Holly onto 140lb cold press watercolor paper using embossing ink, then heat embossed them in gold. I watercolored the images in red and green, then I die cut them all using Poinsettias Coordinating Dies and Elegant Holly Coordinating Dies. White acrylic ink was splattered onto the images to express snow.

To make a panel, I prepared A2 sized watercolor paper, masked four edges then I ink blended it using Distress Ink Antique Linen and Tea Dye. I splattered dark ink and metallic gold ink on the panel and let it dry. After I stamped a sentiment from Decorative Ornaments Stamp  on the lower part, I adhered my colored images using glue and foam tapes. Finally I foam mounted the panel onto red card base, then finished it off by adding some Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix and 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins.

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 November 20, 2018 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!

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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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Simple Autumn Greeting Cards + Video

Hello Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula and I’m thrilled to be sharing a set of easy to make Fall cards featuring Pumpkin Patch Critters stamps.

The Pumpkin Patch Critters stamp set features adorable critter peeking from behind various size pumpkins. I thought they would make a great focal point for simple, easy to make Fall greeting cards for family & friends.

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

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I made 4 cards to create a set, all feature the same layout and supplies and are very easy to make – you just need a handful of things. I started working on these by stamping the sentiment “Autumn Greetings” in the center of 4 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄2” panels. Next, I stamped a pumpkin and critter above the sentiment in Copic-marker friendly ink.

Once my stamping was done I used Copic markers (as I consider them to be a quick and efficient way to color) to color. I used:

  • YR07, YR04, Y17 and Y15 for the pumpkins;
  • YG95 and YG99 to color stem of the pumpkins;
  • W3 and W 1 to color bunny and cat;
  • E79, E37, E33 and YR04 to color the fox and squirrel.

I wanted to add something else to my projects, so I decided I’d stamp tiny florals. I used the Bold Blooms stamp set for this. This is a smaller set with a bunch of beautiful flowers that work really great as little accents on cards. In my recent video, featuring the Happy Mail stamp set and seasonal Happy Mail cards, I used the same flowers to dress up a mail box and they made my cards that much more beautiful and complete.

I used the same marker colors here as before plus a few yellow makers – Y35 and Y13 and once I had all of these colored I used my coordinating dies and cut these out in my die cutting machine. I did keep some of the flowers almost white by coloring them using a W1 marker for a little bit of shading.

Next, I tied gold thread into a messy bow and adhered under the stamped pumpkins. My idea was to have gold thread sticking from behind the tiny floral cluster that I foam mounted on top.

Once everything was done I trimmed my panels down to 4” wide as the stamping seemed a bit off to me, so by trimming the panel I made sure the stamping was centered. I adhered my panels onto A2 light brown woodgrain card bases and used Metallic Gold Jewels to dress these cards up. Gold seems like the perfect option for Fall, it complements the warm Autumn colors beautifully.

I also added some subtle stamping onto some of the panels using yellow ink and images from the Holiday Greetings stamp set.

Have fun stamping!

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Distress Ink Poinsettias

Hello, it’s Mindy here with a new video. This release is over-the-top amazing! Today, I’m sharing a card featuring the Poinsettias stamp set. I also have created a video showing how I created it that you can watch down below.

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I stamped all the images from this set onto Bristol Smooth cardstock and embossed with white embossing powder. Then I ink blended Festive Berries and Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Inks. For the leaves, I ink blended Cracked Pistachio and Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide which is such a gorgeous combo for leaves. Then I die cut using the coordinating dies.

I attached my flowers and leaves onto a 3 3/4″ x 5″ piece of Fog Cardstock and trimmed off the over hanging pieces. I layered my card with White cardstock an Cherry Red cardstock for a base. The banner with my sentiment is heat embossed with white embossing powder onto Black cardstock using the Angel Friends stamp set. This banner is such a perfect way to add a sentiment.

I finished off the card by adding Silver Moondust Nuvo Drops to the centers of the flowers and some Jewels around the empty spaces. Have you seen the new jewel mixes? They are so gorgeous!

I hope you enjoyed today’s inspiration!

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Merry Shaker Tree

Hi, there! It’s Marge today and I’m so happy to share with you a Christmas tree shaker card I made using the new release products. My card features  the Tree Shaker Die, Elegant Holly stamp set and Berry Bright Confetti Mix from the new release.

To begin, I cut a piece of gold mirror card stock with Tree Shaker Die and then I die cut white card stock again for front panel. I adhered an acetate film on the back of white panel and then I adhered Tree Shaker Die cut on the acetate film window using glue.

Next, I trimmed a sheet of pattern paper into 4.125 x 5.375 inches, which would be used as shaker background. I placed Berry Bright Confetti Mix and 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins on the pattern paper first, then I covered it with my shaker front panel using foam tapes.

After I assembled the shaker, I stamped solid images of  leaves and berries from Elegant Holly Stamps Set on white paper using various dye inks to give color gradient, then I used copic markers to add more shades on them. I die cut the images using Elegant Holly Coordinating Dies and  applied Multi Medium Matte on the surface, then coated with Distress Dry Glitter. When medium was dried I adhered leaves and berries on top of the shaker. Finally, I put the shaker on red card base, then I finished off the card by adding Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix.

I love that the Tree Shaker Die can be used to make quick and easy shaker cards or it could be used alone to create beautiful dimension on your cards. Have a wonderful day.