Cards

Hi crafty friends! It’s Christina, and I’m back to share a vibrant autumn-themed thank you card featuring many of the die sets in the Pretty Pink Posh fall shop. Follow along as I take you through the steps to create this card perfect for the fall season. 

I started with creating the background panel for my card by die cutting the largest Stitched Torn Rectangle from light blue cardstock. Then I embossed the panel using the Deco Leaves Stencil. I love the subtle texture the embossing gives to the cardstock. To emboss using a stencil, I use the following sandwich in my die cutting machine:

1. bottom cutting plate
2. embossing mat
3. my die cut cardstock panel
4. the stencil
5. some shims
Every machine is different, so your sandwich may be different from mine.

Next, I distressed the background panel with brown Distress Ink and white gouache paint splatter before mounting it on an ivory cardstock panel with foam tape.

My next step was to die cut all the autumn-themed elements for my card. I chose pumpkins, sunflowers, mushrooms, and greenery from the Big Fall Cupcake, the Fall Basket, and the Fall Mug Additions sets. I die cut everything from colored cardstock and added some shading using Distress Inks and small blending brushes. Then, I assembled the die cuts before arranging them on the background panel. I tucked the die cuts in and around each other, using a combination of liquid adhesive and foam squares.

To finish up my card design, I die cut and assembled the Many Thanks Shadow Die from orange and ivory cardstock before attaching it with foam squares. For the final details, I added a couple of white gel pen highlights and a few gems from the Autumn Days Clay Confetti.

That completes this vibrant card featuring many of the beautiful fall-themed sets in the shop. Thanks for following along, and I’ll see you next time!

Hello, Gemma here today, sharing a card with the new Stitched Snowflakes die set and Winter Greetings stamp set.

I began by die cutting the largest Stitched Snowflake from gold and white glitter card. I then cut them both in half, using the stitched lines as a guide.

Next, I cut two panels of sparkle card, blue and white, each half A2 size.  On the white sparkle card, I stamped a sentiment from the Winter Greetings stamp set. As the sparkle card is slightly glossy, I embossed it with clear gloss embossing powder so the ink wouldn’t smudge.

I adhered these panels to an A2 card base, then half of each of the snowflakes above to finish.

I hope you were inspired by. There are so many great color combinations you could try with this card design.

Hi crafty friends, Debbie here on the blog today. Who doesn’t love a beautiful winter release packed with fun ornaments, snowflakes, and shaker dies! I am sharing the new Holiday Ornaments stamp set from the Winter Release. 

I always like to start off with my background, making it a slimline. First I cut a panel 4 X 8.5 inches to then later trim down. Placing the Cascading Snowflakes Stencil over the panel vertical. Ink blended on a light pink ink, slide it down and blended on the lower portion of the panel. Mask off if need to have a clean snowflake panel. I then layered back over the pink snowflakes and add a clear glitter paste, let dry. Then go over the bottom snowflakes. Make sure to clean the stencil right after removing it, the paste will dry on it. 

While the panel is drying, stamp out the images from the Holiday Ornaments with a no line ink or a very light ink that is Copic friendly. Leaving the stamps in the Misti, I Copic colored them in with red, pinks, teals and a yellow gold. Then placed the images back into my Misti, added anti-static powder,stamped with VeraMark Ink. Heat embossed with gold embossing powder. Then with the Holiday Ornaments coordinating Dies cut them out.

Knowing I was going to have them hanging I needed a string and bows. So from gold card stock I used the Beautiful Bows Dies and Simple Strips Dies. With liquid glue adhere to the ornaments and add foam to the back of the ornaments. The last thing I need was a sentiment, I then white heat embossed Merry and Bright from Winter Greetings. Die cut the sentiment out with the Coordinating Dies. Attaching it with foam squares and adding the panel to a card base.

Thanks for stopping by and stay crafty my friends!

Hi there! Leanne here and I’m excited to be back on the Pretty Pink Posh blog. I’m sharing an ornament filled mini slimline card. I used the Build An Ornament die set to create my ornaments in four different styles. I’ll share a fun way to color and add lots of interest to them. 

For this card I started with a mini slimline card base (6.25″ long x 3.5″ wide). I blended on minty green ink to the card front. I applied it heavier towards the top and lighter towards the bottom to where it fades to white. I then splatted with gold water color paint. I created a pine garland to add to the top of the card. I used a pine sprig die included in the Winter Foliage die set. I die cut 5 pine sprigs to cover the length of the card. Before I adhered them, I splattered with white paint. 

I used all four ornament shapes included in the Build An Ornament set and die cut them from heavy weight white card stock. To color I sprayed them with Distress Mica Stains in the following colors: Cocktail Party, Wicked Elixir, Sugary Gumdrop, and Frosty Mint. The Mica Stain gives them a speckled look and lots of shimmer. Unfortunately the photo does not do justice to the shimmer from the Mica Stain application. It’s so pretty in person. After the Mica Stain was dry, I splattered the ornaments with white paint to add to their speckled look. 

There are dies included with the Build An Ornament set to embellish the ornaments even further. I die cut these pieces from silver glitter card stock. I also added ornament toppers, die cut from metallic silver card stock. I tied on some bows and then arranged the ornaments to cover the length of the card. 

To complete this card design, I added a greeting with a stamp included in the Winter Greetings set which also has coordinating dies. Lastly I added my go to embellishment, Sparkling Clear Sequins. 

I hope you enjoyed today’s card and it inspired you. Thanks for stopping by!

Hi friends! It’s Christina, and today I’m sharing a sparkling, winter papercrafting duo with you featuring some of the beautiful new products from the holiday release. I made a shaker card and a matching shaker tag that are perfect for the snowy season ahead. Let’s get started!

For the shaker card, my first step was to create the background panel. I die cut the Largest Wonky Stitched Rectangle from aqua cardstock and then used the smaller Snowflake Shaker dies to die cut the shaker window from the lower right corner. Next, I stenciled the Cascading Snowflake Stencil with a white glittery stencil paste and let it dry. 

Next, I die cut the Snowflake Shaker Dies from glitter cardstock and attached the frame piece to the front of the background panel and the inside shaker piece to a teal cardstock panel measuring 4 x 5 ¼”. I attached thin foam strips around the inside shaker piece, creating a well for the Snow Days Shaker Beads, and foam tape across the rest of the panel. Then, I attached a piece of acetate over the shaker window on the reverse side of the background panel with double-sided tape before placing the panel onto the teal cardstock panel. Finally, I mounted the shaker panel onto an A2 aqua cardstock panel. 

To finish things up, I die cut additional Stitched Snowflakes from glitter cardstock and attached them to my card front. For the sentiment, I die cut the Winter Script Die from matte silver cardstock and stacked it with a plain white die cut before attaching it along with a couple of white heat embossed words from the Holiday Scripts Stamp Set that I die cut with the Sentiment Strips Dies.

To make the matching shaker tag, I die cut the Snowflake Shaker two times, once from glitter cardstock with the center die cut for the window and once from plain white cardstock without the center portion die cut to be the base. I attached thin foam strips to the base snowflake and created a well in the center for more of the Snow Days Shaker Beads. Then I attached a piece of acetate to the reverse side of the glitter die cut before placing it on the snowflake base. I added a tag topper die cut from glitter cardstock so I could attach some twine and a sentiment from the Upright Greetings: Christmas Stamp Set that I finished with a Metallic Silver Pearl.

And that completes this sparkling winter duo featuring many of the new Christmas and winter-themed products from the Holiday Release. Thanks for following along, and happy holiday crafting, friends!

Hello crafty friends, it’s June here. Now Halloween is over, it’s finally officially time for Christmas cards! As if I haven’t been making them since July… Anyway, let’s talk about how this fun shaker card came together!

I used a lot of new products for this card, like the Winter Hat Shaker Dies. I made a two-toned hat by cutting apart the die cut and piecing it back together after blending. I went with a soft pink for the hat and left the pompom and ribbing white with a soft touch of grey. I love how you can decide to keep the pompom solid or make another shaker depending on if you use the inside die or not. I wanted to make 2 separate shaker compartments that have their own shaker bits inside because I thought it would look fun! I added the Berry Bright Shaker Beads inside of the hat and Snow Days Shaker Beads inside of the pompom. I finished off the hat by putting one of the Stitched Snowflakes on it. 

I couldn’t quite find a color that I wanted to use for the background, so I decided to do something I don’t usually do, which is using kraft paper as my background. I cut out an Eyelet Rectangle and masked off the decorative border so I could add a stenciled pattern on just the inside part.

I wanted to go for a brown tone-on-tone look, so I used the Cascading Snowflakes Stencil and brown Distress Oxide to get that effect. I also splattered the same brown ink and some thinned out white acrylic paint onto my panel. 

I heat embossed some of the new Snowflakes onto vellum so I could tuck them behind the hat. There’s never enough snowflakes on a Christmas card right? I still felt like they didn’t fill up the space enough, so I stamped 2 of the sentiments from Upright Greetings: Christmas in the right top cornerusing brown ink. I also wanted a normal sentiment on there, so I cut the new Winter Script out of brown cardstock to finish off my card. 

I feel like this was quite a short blog post, but I hope you still enjoyed reading it. See you again soon!