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Sneak Peek: Beautiful Butterflies

Hi Friends! Angelica here, and I can’t wait to share a couple cards I made using the gorgeous new stamp set Beautiful Butterflies. Inspired by a recent YoutTube video from the Daily Marker Channel, I decided to pull out my watercolor markers and distress ink to color these scenes.

For this first card, I stamped the butterflies with Festive Berries Distress Ink onto Fabriano Artistico Extra White watercolor paper, and pulled out my purple-toned Tombow Markers to color with. I used color numbers 665, 676, 636, 679, and a red/pink 755. I colored a small line with the marker, then used a #4 round watercolor brush and clean water to move the color. I dabbed my brush on a paper towel quite often to take the color off the brush.

Once I finished coloring the butterflies, I decided to add a halo of soft color around each image for added interest. I used 515 (blue color) and 992 (light tan color) markers to draw tiny lines around the butterflies. I drew the colors out with my water brush. I stamped a sentiment from the new Spring Wreath stamp set. I trimmed the panel down to 4 x 5.25, mounted it to craft foam, then attached the panel to an A2 card base. I went over the butterflies with a white Gel pen to color in the dots, and used a black Micro pen to draw in the antennae.

For my second card, I decided to use Zig Clean Color Real brushes.

I stamped the butterflies in a little different order, and added the sentiment included in the stamp set. I used the following Zig colors: 021  Light Carmine, 202 Peach Pink, 029 Geranium Red, 027 Dark Pink, 024 Wine Red, 260 Deep Red, and 064 Oatmeal.

To finish this card, I trimmed the panel to 3.75 x 5.5 and attached it to the right side of an A2 card base. For the left side, I added a coordinating pink shimmer paper and a thin strip of gold glitter paper for some sparkle. I completed the card with a white gel pen to add dots, and a black Micro pen to draw in the antennae.

Thanks for stopping by! Visit tomorrow for another sneak peek of our March 4th release.

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Tutorial: Pinata Birthday Shaker Cards

Hello! Rina here with you today. I loved working with the Piñata Party set and knew instantly that I wanted to pair it with the Celebrate Shaker Die.  I am doing a rainbow theme and the Party Mix Jewels were perfect for this design.

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I made a simple striped watercolor background using Dr. Ph Martins Hydrus watercolor, but any watercolor would do.  I made a skinny striped background along with a wider striped background in rainbow color order.

While my backgrounds dried, I colored the images using Copic markers.

Copic Markers Used:  R20, R22, R25 / YR01, YR02 / Y000, Y11 / G00, G02 / B00, B02 / V01, V05 / C1, C3

To make the shaker I cut my panels to standard card size and used the Celebrate Shaker die to cut out the shape in the middle of the panel.  I used the Celebrate Shaker die to cut out glitter paper.  I used the die cuts from the glitter paper to inset into the panel and adhered with tape.  I adhered acetate to the back of the panel and created the shaker well using 2 layers of double sided foam tape.  I added the shaker bits into the well and used a ton of Pretty Pink Posh sequins and confetti.  Here is what I used for the shaker bits:

Party Mix Jewels

Silver Mini Star Confetti

Blush Seed Beads

3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins

Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix

10mm Sparkling Clear Sequins

I adhered a backer sheet to cover the sequins.  I stamped a sentiment to the front of the card and then placed the images.  Finally I adhered the card front to a top folding card base.

I hope you enjoy and try out this colorful card!

Rina

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Bright & Sunny Happy Mail

Good morning! Heather here this morning. Today I have this bright and sunny card, perfect for sending some happy mail to a special friend! I love the cheeky little bird in its nest on top of the mailbox!

I started off by using some distress inks in Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold, and Abandoned Coral, I used my new Distress Ink Blending Brushes – love how they worked! I added some splashes of water to react with the ink and add some texture – looks like sparkles! I also stamped my sentiment from Encouraging Greetings to fit in the window of what I was using for my shaker element.

I stamped the mailbox and large bird from the new Happy Mail stamp set, and then a little nest and tiny bird from an oldie but goodie, Birdie Friends. I cut them each out with their coordinating dies.

Here are the Copic markers I used to color the images up – I picked bright sunny colors to match my distress ink background.

I used Storybook 1 Dies – the FIRST in the fun series of Storybook Dies that Pretty Pink Posh has released- to cut my window for my shaker. I trimmed the panel slightly smaller than my card front, and backed the window with acetate.

I added foam around the window, then filled it with the beautiful new Sparkling Clear Jewels– one of my new favorites for shaker cards! They are so pretty!!!

I added another layer of acetate to the back of the shaker element, then adhered it onto my card front over the ink blended portion. Then, adhere all the colored images in place over the shaker!

I ended up with an ink smudge (oops!) on the front of my white panel – why does that ALWAYS happen on the white places?! No problem though- it was easy to cover up with a few Ivory Jewels scattered on the front. An excuse for more sparkle and bling is always a good idea, don’t you think?

Now I want to try to make this same design with different colors – I think nice cool greens and blues would be fun, don’t you think?

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

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Birthday Cupcake Critters

Hello, Gemma here today sharing a card featuring the Cupcake Critters stamp set. This sweet set was part of the January release and I think it’s a must have for birthday and celebration cards.

For the colouring of my images, I took inspiration from a piece of patterned paper I wanted to use. I coloured the images with copics, then die cut them with the coordinating dies. To give the look of frosting on the cakes, I used a glue pen to draw over the images where I wanted the frosting to be, then dipped the images in some glitter. I also added some glossy accents to the cherry and candle, and sprinkled some glitter on top before it was dry.

Next, I adhered my paterened paper to the edge of my card. I then took a piece of white card and cut it down with one of the dies in the Scallop Borders 1 set. I’m reaching for these scallop borders more and more recently – it’s a great set to have in your collection.

I stamped a sentiment from the Cupcake Critters stamp set onto the white card panel, then used foam tape to add the panel to my card. As I’d used foam tape on the panel, I decided not to add anymore dimension and instead used liquid glue for the critters. Apart from the edge of the mouse, which needed a little foam tape where it sits on the patterned paper.

To finish, I added some of my favourite Pearl White jewels around the critters and sentiment.

I hope you enjoyed this card. There are lots of fun possibilities with this stamp set!

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Organizing Your Embellishments + Giveaway

Hi, Friends! This is Caly and I’m really excited to share my new storage system for sequins, jewels, and all the tiny pretty things with you!  I know this system isn’t new for a lot of people, but it’s new to me and it’s exciting and so rewarding to complete.

Previously, I was storing my sequins and jewels in the Craftmates Lockables XL 14 compartment units.  While this is a beautiful system to store my sequins and jewels, I found adding new supplies difficult because I couldn’t easily rearrange the colors (because I love all things in rainbow order).

The Darice bead tray is sold 3 ways that are helpful for cardmakers – 82 piece (tray and lid with 78 “tiny” containers), 45 piece (tray and lid with 42 various sizes of containers), 2 piece tray and lid.  I bought an empty tray to customize my own based on need and here’s a picture of what it looks like with the different sizes side by side for you.

A lot of people like the consistency of having tiny containers throughout the unit and almost all Pretty Pink Posh sequins and jewels fit into the tiny containers for me.  If you don’t like the look of the bigger containers, you can spread the sequins/jewels/beads across more than 1 “tiny” container.

I love that with the new system, the containers are removable and you can rearrange at any time.  I couldn’t do that with my previous system. The kits come with labels, but I used my Brother label machine to make labels and instead of putting them on the top where I think they’re intended to go, I decided to put them on the back.

I can’t stress enough how being able to move things around makes me so happy.  There are always new colors and mixes to add to the ever-growing stash/collection so this system has been the best solution for that.

I sometimes use sequins or jewels as props – so this is also nice to be able to pull them out, use what I need, then put them away without disturbing a bigger storage unit full of other items.

I love my Pretty Pink Posh collection and am really pleased with this new organization set up.  I hope you found this information helpful!

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 If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. Paulina or I will be happy to answer them for you! Thank you all for stopping by today!

Caly

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Tutorial: Pop-Up Easel Card

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a pop-up easel card to share with you all using the Cupcake Critters stamp set.

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I first started with a standard size landscape card base and placed it inside my Mini MISTI stamping tool. I placed three images down and stamped them in black ink. I then lined up the coordinating dies over the top of my images and adhered them down using washi tape. Since I want these images to pop-up, I lined the card in my big shot machine and then for the top plate, I only placed it over the top half of the coordinating dies, so then it would only cut on one half. I then ran it through my big shot machine.

Now that only the top half of my images die cut, I took out a scoring tool, lined it up where the die cuts ended and scored in between each of the images. I folded along the scored lines and this then created my easel card. Now because everything worked correctly, I coloured my images in with Copic Markers.

Copic Markers Used: RV13, RV25, RV19 / Y11, Y13, Y18 / YR20, YR31, YR12 / BG11, BG13, BG49 / BV02, BV04, BV08 / E53, E55, E57, E59 / R000, R00, R30 / W00, W0, W1, W3 / N0, N2. N4 / C0

Now all my images were coloured, I stamped out some more of the same images on some masking paper and cut them out. I placed them over the top of the coloured images and used a grassy hill stencil to ink blend some Twisted Citron Distress Ink over the top. I then used some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink for the sky as well, making sure to use tape to cover the inside of the card, so it doesn’t get colour inside.

For the inside of the card for the easel portion, so it holds in place I added a piece of teal patterned paper at the bottom along with two extra cupcakes for height. I stamped the ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment along the bottom of the front panel of my card. I did cut it in half to fit across. It’s super simple to do with sharp small scissors.

So that finishes off my card for today, I hope you all enjoyed, and I’ll see you next time.

Eloise

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Watercolor Crocus Flowers

Hi, there! Marge here and today I would love to share a delightful shaker card featuring the Crocus Flowers Set.

I started by watercoloring Crocus Flowers Set using some inks then I cut them all using Crocus  Flowers Coordinating Dies. Next, I ink blended A2 sized Bristol paper using Distress Oxide inks (Seedless Preserves, Spun Sugar, Squeezed Lemonade, and Fossilized Amber).

To make a shaker frame, I diecut Scallop Frames out of white card stock, then I adhered a piece of acetate film on back of it. As shown below, I placed Sequins, Jewels, and Seed Beads on the center of my inked panel first, then I foam mounted acetate window frame on them using Thin Strips Foam Adhesives.

I mixed a little mount of Sugar Plum Confetti Mix, Valentine Confetti Mix, Valentine Jewels Mix, 6mm Ballerina Pink, 4mm Ballerina Pink, 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins, Gold Shimmer Seed Beads, Sparkling Clear Seed Beads, Purple Seed Beads, Cotton Candy Seed Beads and Midnight Black  Jewels to put them into my shaker.

Please be sure to adhere a few sequins on the panel before you assemble shaker so that all elements in the shaker won’t fall down when you hold it straight up.

Once I’m done with my shaker, I adhered the panel onto A2 card base, then I started to put my Crocus Flowers on the bottom and top right corner of the shaker using Mini Glue Dots and Square Foam Adhesives. For the sentiment, I stamped Floral Hearts onto white paper, then I simply cut it freehand to make a little tag. I added twine to the tag then I foam mounted it on flowers. I further embellished my card using twine ribbon, Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix and 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins.

Thank you so much for reading this post. Have a wonderful day !
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Tutorial: Rose Gold Double Shaker Card

Hi Everyone! Rina here with a fun rose gold double shaker card!  I just adore rose gold and thought it would be the perfect color to use for an encouragement card.  I used the Simple Sayings: Courage Stamp set using the sentiment “Have Courage I believe in you” paired with the Scallop Hearts Dies.  The Scallop Hearts Dies are not only perfect for Valentine’s Day, but also to show a friend your support!  I also used the Friends Forever Stamp set for the girl image and balloon.

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I first colored my images using copic markers using a monochromatic peach theme to pair with the rose gold accents.

Copic Markers Used:

  • E02, E21, E50
  • YR01, YR20
  • R14, R24,R32

I then blended the background using Bristol Smooth Cardstock and the Distress Oxides in Antique Linen, Tattered Rose, and Abandoned Coral.

I cut out Scallop Hearts Dies onto the blended background and also cut out the dies using a Rose Gold Metallic paper to create a fun contrast.  I applied the acetate to the back of the blended background and then applied the rose gold heart cutouts to the front.  I used double sided foam tape behind the acetate to create the shaker wells.  I filled the shaker with my favorite 4mm Metallic Rose Gold Sequins and 6mm Metallic Rose Gold Sequins, and Sparkling Clear Stars Sequins, then applied the shaker back.  Finally, I applied the shaker to a side folding card base.  I hope you give this a try, the shaker dies make it so easy to make!

Thanks for stopping by!

Rina

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Valentine’s Day Heat Embossed & Hot Foiled Cards

Hello Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana Smakula. I love the look of heat embossing on my cards, it instantly adds a ton of elegance to my projects and wow!

Recently I’ve also became fond of foiling. I’m able to easily take my handmade projects to a new level with the help of foil. In this blog post & video I’ll show you how to combine these 2 technique to create easy to make Valentine’s Day cards. Of course you can apply this to any other occasion cards or even other projects, not only card making.

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

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I started working on my cards by doing hot foiling first. This is very easy to do with the Glimmer Hot Foil System. It’s a new tool that basically is an add on to your die cutting machine, it doesn’t work with every die cutting machine, but it is compatible with many machines that accept Steel Rule Dies. What this tool does is it allows you to add foiled effects to your handmade cards with the the help of dies. Pretty cool, right?

I foiled the heart outline using the coordinating die from my Floral Hearts stamp set on several pieces of colored cardstock using with gold foil. My plan for these cards was heat emboss the heart image inside the foiled outline for some extra wow.

I used gold & white detail embossing powder as well as heart outline image & the inner smaller heart stamp along with the outline for my cards today. To help me position everything and heat emboss perfectly inside the foiled outline I used my Mini MISTI stamping tool.

If you want to recreate these cards be sure to do your foiling first and heat embossing later. First of all, you won’t be able to align the foiled outline around the heat embossed stamped image, it’s much easier to align the stamping inside the foiling; and second, the Glimmer machine applies heat and that heat can potentially mess up all of your heat embossing.

I used a combination of colored pencils (Polychromos by Faber Castell) and white white pen to color the hearts.

To add interest to some of my cards & panels I added some selective manual scoring to the background. It’s a very simple technique that allows you to add some nice texture to the background of the card. It’s not the easiest thing to do, as it can be hard and tiring on the wrist to add all of these score lines, but it does look really nice on the finished card.

I used jewels from the Valentine Mix to embellish my cards and also added some die-cut branches using just the coordinating dies from the Autumn Blooms die set.

I think these cards turned out really beautiful. I hope you like them! Have fun stamping!

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Crocus Flowers Valentine

Hi, friends! It’s Marge here and today I’m going to share a Valentine themed Crocus Flowers card.

I stamped the images using Versafine Onyx Black and I watercolored them with some watercolor paints. Then I cut them all using Crocus Flowers Coordinating Dies.

Next, I trimmed a piece of Heavy Weight Watercolor paper into A2 size, then I cut out a heart window using the Scallop Hearts Dies. I cut it on another card stock again to make double layer frame.  I further colored ground on Rt lower corner of the panel and splattered with dark inks.

To stamp a sentiment, I place an A2 card base made with 110lb Neenah Paper on Mini MISTI, then I put my heart window on it to place sentiment inside the frame, then I stamped Love Sentiments set on it. After the inks are dry, I foam mounted panel onto the card base, then I adhered Crocus Flowers on it using Glue Dots and Square Foam adhesives.

As a final embellishment, I adhered 4mm Ballerina Pink Sequins and 6mm Ballerina Pink Sequins here and there using Mini Glue Dots and Micro Glue Dots.

Thank you so much for reading this post. Hope you enjoyed it.