Today I have a fun birthday scene card to share. I made this colourful card for my niece, who celebrated her 7th birthday this month.
One of my tips when creating scenes is to choose a limited colour palette.
For this card, I chose purple, yellow, blue and orange. These pairs are opposite on the colour wheel so work well together. Neutrals can also be added too.
I wanted to use the same colours on the background and also add some sparkle. I layered the Medium Polka Dots stencilover a panel of white card, then inked through the stencil with an embossing ink. I used some colourful embossing glitters to add diagonal stripes, then melted the embossing powders with my heat tool.
The Storybook dies are great for creating scene cards. The different squares and rectangles can be used as areas for images or sentiments. I die cut the Storybook 4 die from white card, trimming down the panel to get a frame for my card. I layered the Polk dots embossed panel, then the Storybook 4 frame on my card base.
I blended distress oxides in similar colours on the smaller pieces from the Storybook 4 die, then adhered them on my card. On the larger rectangle piece, I stamped a greeting from the Birthday Friends stamp set before adhering it on the card too.
I used foam tape and liquid adhesive to add my images. I finished with some extra sparkle, using a clear glitter pen on some of the images, along with white gel pen highlights.
I hope you were inspired by this birthday card. Thanks for visiting!
Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather Hoffman here today to share a one layer card with some very simple masking, basic Copic coloring, and a touch of sparkle!
Here is a video showing how I created this card so you can see all the details.
I love using Post it Notes for simple masking like this card – they are readily available, and also inexpensive, so the perfect option! I used the beautiful Sunflower stamp set(which also has coordinating dies if you prefer to create a card with die cut layers instead).
Copic coloring doesn’t have to be super complicated – I shared some simple ways to mix 3 shades of color for each area on this card. I also added a shadow around the image in a simple fun way to make it pop off the background a bit – a great way to add depth and dimension to a one layer card.
Hello, Gemma here with a clean and simple card to share today. I think this would work well for a masculine birthday card, with the nature inspired colours and theme.
I began with the background. On an A2 notecard, I used the new Woodgrain Circle stencil with Pumice Stone distress oxide ink to add a subtle pattern. I love the texture and interest this gives to the card.
Next, I took the two smaller sizes of die from the new Stitched Strips die set. I die cut some pearlescent card with these dies, in green and gold shades. These pearlescent card strips have the look of ribbon but are much easier to use, I think.
I die cut the Nature Essentials dietwice from white card. I’m using the fabulous rectangle frame on this card, but I’ll keep the other die cut pieces to use on other cards. I layered the two frames together for dimension, then adhered the stitched strip pieces behind – 3 vertically and 3 horizontally.
I adhered the frame and stitch strips to my card base, then stamped a sentiment from the newSimple Sentiments on to the card base. I love the variety of sentiments in this stamp set.
I just had to add a cute critter to the card. I stamped a hippo and lots of leaves from the new Jungle Additions stamp set, colouring them with copics and cutting out with the coordinating dies.
I adhered the leaves in a cluster on the card, using liquid adhesive, then added the hippo on top with foam tape to finish my card.
I hope this card inspired you to use the Stitched Strips in this fun way!
Hello friends! It’s Channin here and I’m so thrilled to be guesting here at Pretty Pink Posh! Today I have a video and a watercolored card to share! I used the adorableJungle Friends and Jungle Additions stamp sets to create a patterned panel and then colored the images in with my favorite coloring technique.
Take a look at the start to finish video tutorial below!
To create this card I first stamped several critters from theJungle Friends and Jungle Additions stamp sets as well as a sentiment from the Simple Sayings: Brave stamp set in Versafine Onyx Black Ink onto an A2 panel of Bristol paper. After I stamped the critters and sentiment I then filled in most of the negative spaces by stamping leaves and flowers from the two sets. Next, I watercolored the images in with Tombow Dual Brush Pens. When I had finished coloring the images I then added a shadow with a light gray pen. Next, I trimmed the panel down 1/16” on all sides and then adhered the panel down onto an A2 top-folding black card base.
I hope you enjoyed my card and video! Thank you so much for stopping by! ~Channin
Hello, Gemma here. Today I’m excited to share the first card in a new series here on the Pretty Pink Posh blog called “Create A Scene”. I’ll be sharing how to create different scenes using a mix of older and newer sets from Pretty Pink Posh. For my first scene card, I’m heading to the beach!
I began by stamping images from Summer Friends,Summer Surfboards andTropical Birds stamp sets. I coloured the images with copic markers, choosing a colour palette of pink, blue, orange and turquoise. Having a limited colour palette to work with really helps me when creating scenes as I know all the images will look great together.
Once all the images were die cut with the coordinating dies, I started working on my background.
On a slimline card base, I added some tumbled glass and speckled egg distress oxide inks to the top portion. I also stamped a sentiment from the Tropical Birds stamp set. The slimline card format gives me lots of room to build my scene.
For the sand, I blended antique linen and frayed burlap distress oxide inks onto white card. I flicked the panel with water and some of the frayed burlap ink to add lots of sandy looking texture. Once the panel was dry, I used a die from the Stacked Edges 1 die set to cut 6 borders, layering them on my card for the sand dunes.
I used a similar method to create the waves. I used distress oxide inks in blueprint sketch, peacock feathers and mermaid lagoon. I added lots of water droplets too. Using another die from the Stacked Edges 1 die set, I cut out 3 waves and adhered them to my card with liquid glue. I made sure to leave space to tuck in some images between the waves.
I added my images to the card, some flat on the card base with liquid glue, and others with foam tape for dimension. As a finishing touch, I added some white and black gel pen details.
I hope that you enjoyed this card and are excited for this series. Thanks for stopping by!
Hello friends – Suzy here and I’m so happy to be guest blogging for Pretty Pink Posh today. I absolutely LOVED the June release and I went “monkey’s” over the Monkey Friends stamp set. I have a card to share with you today using this set as well as some of the foliage from the Jungle Additions and Jungle Friends stamp sets.
My favorite part of this card is the background. I used some Tonic Shimmer Powder in Catherine Wheel on watercolor paper to get that cool multicolored swirled look. I then used the Medium Polka Dot Stencil with some Texture Paste colored with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink. I just rubbed some over different parts of the stencil to give the background a messy textured look. I used a frame over the background using the Nature Essentials Dies(and they are essential as I will be using that frame on every card here forward!).
Next, I stamped the monkey and all of the foliage from the Monkey Friends stamp set and the Jungle Additions and Jungle Friends stamp sets. They all 3 work so well together to create cute jungle scenes! I used a light color of ink for a no-line coloring look with colored pencils. I die-cut all of the pieces out and arranged them inside the frame over the background. I added a greeting on one of the Stitched Label 1 Dies and tucked it under the baby monkey.
I hope you enjoyed this card today and thank you so much for visiting! Happy creating to all and stay well friends!
Hello, Jeanne here. We all need a sweet escape right about now. That’s what I love about papercrafting… my mind can travel anywhere!
Today I’m in a magical place where the sun is shining and a family of hedgehogs are enjoying the day!
My scene starts with a background of rolling grassy hills made by die cutting shades of green card stock with the Stitched Borders 4 triple curve die and Stitched Borders 1 large curve die.
Now for the fun part .. adding the Hedgehog Friends, butterflies and foliage. I use a clear plastic sheet the size of my card front to arrange them before I adhere them in place.
Anemones come is several colors, white anemones are probably the most beautiful of all. While white seems a very easy color to work with, it’s actually the hardest one to color on paper, especially if everything else you have happening on your project is white. In this video I’ll show you how use can use a dark background to help these white flowers come to life with minimum effort and very quick coloring.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.
I have 2 cards and 2 similar, yet different techniques – first one featuring a one layer layer card with masking and another one, in case you are not into masking, featuring die cutting and layering.
One Layer Card – Coloring The Background with Copics
To create my first project, Sending Happy Mail, I stamped anemones around the edges of a 4 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄2” white cardstock panel. Next, I created masks for flowers, masked them and stamped leaves in between the open spaces. I removed masks and ended up having a beautiful floral frame for my card.
To color these, I used the following Copic Markers:
● G94, YG63 and G21 to color leaves;
● B99 and B21 to color flower centers;
● W1 and B000 to add hints of shadows where the petals overlap and meet.
Coloring white is very hard to do, this is something I am yet to master. Here you don’t have to be a pro at coloring white objects as we’ll add a blue background and our white images will come to life with very little effort and just minimal shading.
Once my coloring was done I used B99 marker and colored the entire background. Think of this as coloring the negative space. It does take time to apply all of the color, especially next to the stamped images as you need to go slow and be patient, but it really does look phenomenal in the end.
Once my background coloring was finished I left my panel to dry for about 10 minutes. Next, I white heat embossed a sentiment – Sending You Happy Mail from the Happy Mail stamp set.
I adhered my background on to an A2 white top folding card base; to dress this card up I used metallic gold confetti and sparkling clear jewels. I couldn’t decide which of those embellishments I wanted to use, so I used both by first adhering the confetti piece and topping it with a jewel of the same size.
Layered Card – Using Colored Cardstock
Not everyone wants to use their Copic markers to color background around the images as that takes a ton of ink and that is also time consuming. Another way to go about this is to add your die cut images onto a background made out of colored cardstock.
I stamped several images I wanted to use for my 2nd card and once again colored using same marker colors as before. Using the Anemones coordinating dies I cut these out in my die cutting machine. This gave me beautiful stamped, colored and die cuts pieces for my card. This also gave a white outline to each of my die cuts. Having a white outline can be very discarding for this project, so to eliminate it, I used a Copic marker once again and color matched white outline to my background color.
So here instead of coloring the entire background, I’m replacing the marker colored background with colored cardstock and only coloring the white die cut outlines on my stamped images.
This way your images and the background become one, they look as if they were done on the background directly and don’t have that white border that separates them from the base. This is not a trick that will work for every card design, or every image, but this is very fitting for these gorgeous white anemones.
Hello, friends! Leica here and today I am sharing a slimline card, featuring some adorable PPP lions from the Party Friends set and the new Jungle Friends set.
Let’s start with the panel, which is 3.5 x 8.5 inches. From top to bottom, I ink blended with Dried Marigold, Ripe Persimmon, Crushed Olive, and Peeled Paint distress oxides. I’ve been enjoying the paint splatters look lately, so I used white and gold acrylic paint for that. I then stitched around the card with linen thread.
Next, I stamped the lion, leaves, and vine from the new Jungle Friends Stamp Set and the lion, party hats, and cake from the Party Friends Stamp Set. I cut the koala behind the cake and replaced it with a lion image. It is just so fun and easy to mix and match Pretty Pink Posh stamps and dies, old and new.
I colored with Copic markers and cut with their coordinating die cuts.
I really love the new Simple Sentiments Stamp Set as it covers any occasion and fits perfectly onto one of the Simple Strips Dies. I chose 3 birthday-related sentiments for this card.
To assemble, I first glued down the vines and the leaves onto the panel. For dimension, I foam mounted the lions on top of the greenery. Lastly, I adhered the sentiments to complete this adorable lion birthday card.
I hope you enjoyed today’s slimline card share and you are inspired to mix and match your PPP stamps and dies. Happy crafting, friends!
For the background, I used theJungle BackgroundStencil and blended several shades of green ink onto my white card stock.
All of the images are from theJungle Friends and Jungle Additions stamp sets. I colored them all with Copic markers, cut them out with the coordinating dies and added them to my background with foam tape. The sentiment is from the Simple Sayings: Brave stamp set and it was stamped with black ink.
So after I made this card, I wondered if it looked weird with the brave sentiment and a giraffe, because I wasn’t sure if giraffes were brave, and that maybe I should have used the lion instead? Well, after a bit of thought, I decided that this was indeed a very brave giraffe because there was a lion lurking right behind some of those leafy plants! ;)
I hope you have enjoyed my card today! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs, Kay :)
