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Sneak Peek: Winter Woodland

Hello Pretty Pink Posh Friends! Suzy here and I’m so excited that the newest PPP release is being debuted this week and I’m especially excited that I get to show you the new Winter Woodland Stamp Set. It is such a cute winter set that is perfect for the holidays!

I have two cards to share with you today using this set combining it with some of the other new produts from this release. The stamp set has a matching Winter Woodland Coordinating Die set as well.

I started this card using the Stacked Edges 1 Dies to create snowbanks with white watercolor paper as the card base. I painted the top piece with a wash of light blue paint as a sky.

I stamped all of the cute animal images and branch with holly leaves with black ink on white cardstock and colored them in with Copic markers. I added some shading and details with a white gel pen and glitter pens. I attached them over the sky and on the snow bank.

Next, I used a salutation from the new Holiday Greetings Stamp Set. I stamped it on the left top corner of the card front using Versmark Ink and embossed it with red embossing powder. I finished the card with some of the new Sparkling Clear Snowflakes. I used white Tonic Nuvo Drops to attach them so they each have a white drop in the center.

I started this card with a stitched rectangle die-cut from watercolor paper. I wanted to do a single layer card, so I stamped the images directly on the front of the watercolor paper with black ink with a light tan ink. I painted the background in first with a gray blue watercolor for the sky and a green watercolor for the grass.

I painted the cute little woodland animals in with watercolors as well adding details with glitter pens. I painted the branch and extended it on the left side by about an inch. After they were all painted, I wanted them to have light outlines, so I drew around them with a fine tip black marker. This allowed me to outline that extra part of the branch and add borders around the grass.

I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set on the top of the card with brown ink. I added some white Tonic Nuvo Drops over the snow on the log and red over the berries to make them dimensional. I also used a white gel pen on the center of each berry. Last, I added some more of the Sparkling Clear Snowflake Sequins around the background using white Nuvo Drops in the center of each.

I enjoyed using this stamp set so much that I made five cards with it! I’ll be blogging a “one stamp, five ways” showing the three additional cards later this week so come visit! Thanks so much for visiting the PPP blog today and have a great week friends!

Suzy

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Sneak Peek: Sparkle Dot Patterns 1

Good morning! Heather here to share a sneak peek at a few of the FABULOUS new stamps and dies that will be releasing at Pretty Pink Posh very soon! In particular, I’m spotlighting the creative new Sparkle Dot Patterns 1 Stamp Set – you are going to love what you can do with this stamp set! I used it to create that fabulous heart element on my card here.

First of all, I created a simple watercolor wash in a soft blue, then once that dried, I stamped the heart from Sparkle Dot Patterns 1 Stamp Set in Versamark Ink. I used black, but if you are planning on using smaller sequins or Nuvo drops or something along those lines, I suggest using a soft colored ink that won’t show as much. I wanted it nice and crisp and visible for my card today.

Next up I used some Metallic Gold Confetti Mix to fill in my heart. I added tiny dots of Ranger Multi Medium Matte glue with a fine tip, then used a Jewel Picker to add the confetti. I chose to use the medium size of the confetti – it was the perfect size! Now – it is absolutely fun just like that, but I have been loving adding Nuvo drops to the center of confetti lately, so I filled in the centers of each with some Ripened Pumpkin Gloss Nuvo Drops. It ends up looking like enamel drops with a pretty gold ridge around the outside edges! So fun!

While all that dried, I stamped, colored, and die cut the cute little foxes from another new set, Winter Woodland. (sorry for the one upside down Copic marker – didn’t notice it until now!)

I also used the gorgeous new Thank You Script Die and cut out both a black and white version. I then adhered them together with a glue pen slightly offset, so that the black shadow peeks from behind and helps it pop a little more on my finished card.

Once the heart dried, I adhered the large Thank You, added the foxes with foam adhesive, and added the little tag to the sentiment using the Thoughtful Greetings Stamp Set and masking off part of the sentiment. I also added a few hearts from that set randomly stamped on the card front, and finished off by matting with orange cardstock and mounting on a blue cardbase.

Do you see the fun dimension you get on this? And everyone will wonder how you got your sequins or drops so evenly spaced on your heart! Can’t wait to share more projects I’ve made with this fun stamp set!

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

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Sneak Peek: Wild Rose

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing products from the new upcoming November 2017 release from Pretty Pink Posh. Today I’m highlighting the Wild Rose stamp set and Wild Rose coordinating dies.

For this first card, I stamped the images with Lawn Fawn Doe dye ink and colored it with Copic markers, then die-cut with Wild Rose Coordinating Die.

Next, I created my background using strips of double sided tape and cover it with glitters for accent. Then adhered the die-cuts with foam tape for dimensions.

Then, I stamped the sentiment “you are amazing” from Everyday Greetings stamp set on gray cardstock using versamark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder. I added some Sparkling Clear sequins to finish it off.

For my next card I created more on a bright side.

To begin, I colored the images with reds and pinks Copic markers then die-cut.

For this card I also used the new Thank You Script Die. After die-cutting from white cardstock I then colored the die-cut thank you with Copics and the rest adhered at the back of the colored one.

Next, I distressed the card base and added some dots using Copic markers. Then adhered the pieces together and added some new Berry Bright Mix to finish of this card.

I hope you enjoyed my projects, thank you for stopping by. Join us tomorrow for another sneak peek!

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Christmas Angel Action Wobble + Video

Hello Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I am sharing a video tutorial showing how to create a Clean & Simple interactive Christmas card with the Angel Friends stamp set.

I started working on my project by stamping two angels, two halos and a banner onto white cardstock using alcohol marker friendly ink. Just to be safe I stamped images twice and also used my mini MISTI and double stamped them to have the blackest black outline possible.

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

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Using a few Copics I did some rather quick and basic coloring. I went with reds, yellows and blues for my color combo and used the following markers: R20, R22, R24, R27, R39 and R89 (to color angel’s dresses, banner and to add blush); Y17, Y15 and Y11 (to color angel’s hair), E00 and E000 (to color skin) and finally B000 to color wings and collars on dresses.

I cut images out using coordinating dies and heat embossed “Joy To The World” sentiment in white embossing powder onto my red colored banner. I made sure the ink from my Copics was dry on the banner die cut before I heat embossed anything as I didn’t want to mess up the coloring. I also curver my sentiment slightly to follow the curve of the banner (be sure to watch my video to learn how to do this).

The design of this card is very simple and whenever I make simple cards like this I use a few tricks to make my cards stand out. First, I like to use woodgrain cardstock for the front on my card. When there’s a lot of white space on the card this cardstock looks like a star and adds a lot to the card designs. Second, I added a bit of interactivity to this project by using wobble springs to attach the angels. You can use foam adhesive, but using mini wobblers allowed them to move on my card and added a bit of “wow” to the overall card design.

Finally, I embellished my project using the metallic gold confetti mix the Crystal Katana tool. Happy cardmaking!

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Creating A Pop-Up Card

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have a Pop-Up card for you guys, but this time it’s on the inside of the card. So it’s a little fun and unique for a Halloween Card! I’ll also be using the Storybook 1 Die along with a few other die sets and the new Trick or Treat Friends set for my card.

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To begin, I stamped out my images, coloured them in with Copic Markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I then pulled the Storybook 1 Dies out and cut them out of a piece of white Cardstock. I then used the Stitched Notes Dies to die cut around the Storybook dies. While I was die cutting, I also cut the Picket Fence die from Black Cardstock. I then added foam tape onto the back of my Storybook frame and adhered it to the middle of a piece of purple plaid cardstock from Lawn Fawn.

Next up I used Twisted Citron, Wilted Violet and Carved Pumpkin to ink blend each of the three pieces that came from inside the Storybook die. I then splattered them with some water, picked up the excess and dried it with a heat tool. I then stamped ‘Hi!’ from the Everyday Greetings stamp set onto the orange piece and then adhered down all three pieces inside the Storybook die. I then used some of the images I has previously cut and coloured and adhered them onto the front of my card. Then the front panel was complete. Now it was time to work on the pop-up feature on the inside.

For the pop up panel on the inside I first cut a piece of watercolour paper down to 3″ by 5 1/2″. I used the Stitched Borders 1 dies to cut the top at a curved edge. I used Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress Ink to colour the piece and then I scored it. On the long edge, I scored the piece at 2 3/4″ and on the short side I scored it at 2 3/4″ also. Then I folded the piece directly in half and cut a small triangle from the bottom to the centre score line, just so when I adhere and fold it into my card – it sits nice and flat.

I next added pieces of scor tape onto the flaps then pulled off the backers, lined up the score line on the pop up piece with the score line of the side folding card base, adhered down one side first, then folded the other side down with the flap facing up, then pressed the front of the card base down onto the flap. This ensures that everything will lay flat and work perfectly. Then I needed to work on my sentiment. I cut apart the ‘Happy Halloween’ sentiment from the Trick or Treat Friends set so it was in a line. I white heat embossed it on a strip of black cardstock that I cut each end at an angle on. Then I lined it up in my scoring tool and scored at the half way mark, which was 2 1/4″ for me. Then I flipped it over, added two small strips of acetate onto the back and then adhered it down onto my pop up grassy piece. This made the sentiment pop up as well as the hill piece.

To finish up, I adhered the rest of my images onto the inside of the card, then added coordinating colours of sequins to the front of my card.

Sequins used: 4mm Lavender Moon, 4mm Lime Sorbet, 4mm Tangerine, 6mm Amethyst, 6mm Shamrock, 6mm Pumpkin

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you were inspired to make a pop up card on the inside.

Eloise

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Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop + Giveaway

Hi and welcome to Day 2 of the Altenew Crafty Friends Blog Hop! Pretty Pink Posh is a proud sponsor of this event! We’re celebrating our love of crafting and how it’s drawn us closer together. Crafty friends are the BEST!!! If you’re hopping along you should have reached us through Sandra Dietrich’s blog. If you’d like to start from the beginning you can get all the details and start here at Altenew’s Scrapbook Blog!

I love to give flowers to friends and family.. lots of times they are from my garden, and more often they are on cards that I send so they know I’m thinking of them. My crafty friends are like family, they are so dear to my heart. We have the same things in common – we always want to make each other smile.

Altenew is my favorite place for flowers! They’re well known for their multi stamp floral images, but more recently they have been releasing innovative stackable dies like these Fantasy Floral 3-d dies. The flowers are three separate dies that you cut from colored paper and stack. They look great light to dark or dark to light. Flowers on my design today are arranged both ways.

The Altenew Crafty Friends stamp set is a must have for cards for your crafty friends. The sentiments are a perfect way to celebrate your mutual love of friendship and crafting!

The perfect background for these gorgeous floral blooms is an ombre zig zag border from the Pretty Pink Posh Stacked Edges 1 die set. The individual strips make a lovely accent when a single strip is added, but when you cut several and stack them together the result is breath taking. The stitched detail adds a crisp, rich detail to your design that looks expensive but is so easy to achieve.

My second card features the Altenew Floral Fantasy stamp set. It’s got two gorgeous multi stamped roses and assorted greenery. The flowers look amazing in any of the Altenew Die Ink colors that come in several shades and are designed to be layered.

The background was created with the Pretty Pink Posh Stacked Edges 1 die set. This set is a real value because the set includes three dies that you can use individually or to create three background patterns.

Pink and yellow is my favorite floral combination. I stamped the leaves in different shades of greens to give a more natural look.

This sentiment is also from the Altenew Crafty Friends stamp set. I know we can all relate to this sentiment!

A few Pretty Pink Posh Clear Droplets give the flowers a fresh picked look.

Ready for the next stop? It’s Kymona Tracey! But before you go make sure you leave a comment! There’s lots of prizes up for grabs!

Altenew is giving away a $100 Altenew prize pack to FIVE lucky winners. There are also 13 awesome companies/magazines who are offering the following prizes:

Jennifer McGuire Ink: 1 prize pack of three Altenew stamp sets

Online Card Classes: 3 class spots

Create and Craft TV: £50 gift certificate

My Sweet Petunia: Mini MISTI

Ellen Hutson LLC: $30 gift certificate

Pretty Pink Posh: $30 gift certificate

Simon Says Stamp: $30 gift certificate

Chameleon Pens: 1 pack of 5 Chameleon pens

Tombow USA: 1 pack of 10 dual brush pens

WOW! Embossing Powder: $25 gift certificate

Butterfly Reflections Ink: $25 gift certificate

Freckled Fawn: $20 gift certificate

Papercraft Magazines: One copy of each of the latest issues of four magazines

Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine: 1-year subscription

Be sure to leave comments by Friday, October 27th, 2017 at 11:59 PM EDT for a chance to win! 21 WINNERS will be chosen at random from the comments left on all of these blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew Card Blog and Altenew Scrapbook Blog on October 28th, 2017

Here’s the complete blog hop list for today!

Altenew Scrapbook Blog

Sandy Allnock

Therese Calvird

Scrapbook & Cards Today

Pretty Pink Posh << you are here

Butterfly Reflections Ink

I hope you enjoyed today’s post. Enjoy the rest of the beautiful blog hop!

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Card Making Therapy Blog Hop

Hello, friends!

I am excited to be joining you for today’s blog hop. Not only because I actually got to stamp (after a year of only testing stamps!) but also because I get to share how crafting/ blogging has been a tremendous source of therapy for me in the past.

If you are hopping along, you should have come from Yana Smakula’s blog. Goodness, I don’t know how I got put after her since she will blow me out of the water, but that’s the beauty of crafting, we all have different styles, strengths and gifts, right? If you get lost along the way, head over to Amanda’s blog for the complete listing of designers joining in the hop, along with the great prizes and the story behind this blog hop!

For today’s card I am showing off the Reindeer Friends set, along with the Stitched Photo Frames die set and Scallop Frames die set. It’s been a while since I’ve stamped, but I always love using blue on cards, especially for winter/ Christmas cards. Add in some silver glitter cardstock with a dash of Sparkling Clear Sequins and your card has a super festive look!

How crafting/ blogging has helped me….

As many of you know, I was in a car accident that has changed my life. During that time, crafting and blogging became a source of therapy for me. It was therapeutic for me to have something I COULD do, something that made me feel like I had to get up for and something that I also enjoyed. It was during that time I began to visit new blogs, become friends with bloggers and also start blogging regularly again. Between crafting and sharing my story of the accident and different life lessons/ struggles I was battling, I found blogging to be a wonderful outlet for me. Granted, it is not for everyone; especially since there’s the chance of getting negative comments or mean things being said to/ about you. For me personally, this platform was what I needed to feel a connection to the outside world when I needed one, a way to feel “normal” and I have also made so many wonderful friendships from this crazy thing we call blogging.

No blog hop is complete without some prizes and Amanda has lined up some great ones! Be sure to leave a comment on each stop since she’ll be picking comments left on all the stops to win some of these great prizes below! Comments must be left on all the posts on this blog hop by 11:59pm EST on October 17th and will be announced on Amanda’s blog on October 19th.

GIVEAWAYS

– Six $20 gift cards to the Simon Says Stamp store (one for each stop on the blog)

– A $25 gift card to Concord and 9th.

– A $30 gift card to Pretty Pink Posh.

– A $25 gift card to Waffle Flower.

– Two $20 vouchers to Kit and Clowder

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I hope you enjoyed my card and post. Your next stop is Debby Hughes’ blog!

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Creating A Paper Pieced Turkey

Good morning! Heather here to share a fun Thanksgiving Card with you featuring a paper-pieced turkey and lots of lovely fall pattern papers – as well as heat embossing and a shaker element!

I have this thing for pattern paper – and fell in love with this beauty. It has a nice mix of large and small patterns, and I love that it is double sided. That way if I don’t care for one side of the paper I usually will be able to use the other side! The only problem is when you like BOTH sides…but then, at least there are two of each design, so that helps!

Pretty Pink Posh: Creating A Paper Pieced Turkey

I also paired up some of my favorite sized shaker elements, the Gold Mini Circle Confetti (it just moves SOOO well in a shaker!) and a new favorite embellishment – the Metallic Gold Confetti Mix.

I started off by choosing some pattern papers (I used scraps from previous cards – perfect way to use them up!) and stamped the turkey from Happy Turkey on each of them, fussy cutting out the layers that I wanted. I started off by cutting the entire thing out in the red paper, then the black polka dots, only leaving off the 4 tail feathers, then the orange for the entire body, then the hello for just the head, and finally the beak and the “snood” (the little red part hanging off the beak – I had to Google what it was called!). Layering up the paper piecing this way makes it look more even and polished, and adds great dimension.

Next, I used both sizes of the Window Frames Dies to create the shaker. I taped them together and used them to die cut a panel of white cardstock. Added acetate to back the window, foam adhesive around it, and then filled it up with my Gold Mini Circle Confetti. Just before I filled and adhered it to my cardbase, I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment directly on the pattern paper in white.

Finished off by attaching the turkey on the front of the shaker, adding some Metallic Gold Confetti Mix to embellish, and tying some hemp twine around it.

Don’t you love all that sparkly gold? And isn’t that the cutest turkey you ever did see?!?!?!?

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

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Tutorial: Halloween Copic Coloring

Hi everyone! Rina here with a two Halloween cards using the Trick or Treat Friends stamp set and coordinating dies. This set is not only perfect for Halloween, but also super versatile in that you can use two images to make four different characters. The caped boy can either be Dracula or a superhero and the dressed girl can be a princess or witch depending on which accessory stamps are used. Along with these fun characters you can also make a Frankenstein as well as a bat girl. I challenged myself today to use all of these images on one card.

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

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The stamp set also includes a set of pumpkins. I thought it would be fun to use the costume accessory stamps on the pumpkins to make a completely different card!

These two cards are very image heavy so I opted for quick coloring with copic markers. I used two blending colors for the images and three colors for the hair. I also made sure to use one set of colors consistent for all images of that color. For example, I used the same green combination YGO1 and YG25 for both the pumpkin stems and Frankenstein’s face.

In order to differentiate the images that are double duty, I made sure to color the hair different colors.

Copic Markers

Orange – YR21, YR04

Green – YG01, YG25

Skin with Blush – E21, E50, R20

Pinks and Reds – R11, R20, R14, R22, R24, R08

Purple – V22, V25

Blue – B02, B04

Yellow – Y02

Brown Hair – E31, E34, E35

Blacks and Greys – N3, N5, N7, N9

I wanted to keep the background simple since the card would be filled with images. I opted for a light distressed ink background with Distress Ink and made two panels. One panel used Festive Berries/Ripe Persimmon and the other card was blended with Ripe Persimmon/Fossilized Amber. The panels needed a little something so I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolor in black to make splatters with a 6 Round brush. The splatters were fun and easy to make, I encourage you all give it a try!

To assemble the card I adhered the accessory images to the main stamps first with Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive. When this was done, I then adhered the images to the distressed ink panels in a triangle formation. To add more sparkle, I added a scattering of Pretty Pink Posh Metallic Gold Confetti Mix and accented the images with Wink of Stella Clear glitter brush pen. I stamped the “Happy Halloween” sentiment on the inside of the card.

I hope you enjoyed these two fun cards and thanks for stopping by!

Rina

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Tutorial: Reindeer Copic Coloring

It’s Mindy here today with another Copic Marker tutorial. Today I’m using this adorable stamp set called Reindeer Friends there’s also a matching die set so you don’t have to deal with any fussy cutting and create the cutest scenes on your Holiday Cards!

Today I’m sharing how to color this adorable reindeer. There are few different techniques also included, coloring the no line technique and creating animal fur textures. I stamped my images on Copic Xpress it Blending Card using Memento ink.

Copic Markers used in tutorial: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, G82, G85, G85, R24, R27, R59.