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.
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!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our Pretty Pink Posh friends!
With every release I am reminded how grateful I am to get to do what I love on a daily basis. The opportunity to interact with you all is my FAVORITE part of the job and seeing your beautiful creations on the internet and social media, along with meeting some of you in person, has been a dream come true. As a way of saying thank you I’m offering the BIGGEST savings of the year this weekend in the Pretty Pink Posh Shop.
Wishing everyone a very blessed Thanksgiving. So incredibly grateful for YOU, my amazing customers, readers and friends. Start filling your carts and get ready for that sale to go live- I have a feeling some items are going to go FAST!
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.
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!
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.
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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!
Hello friends… Angelica here, and I’m so excited to be part of the 25 Days Of Christmas Tags with Pretty Pink Posh. I made two shaker tags with products from the new release for this fun event.
To construct the shaker tags, I used coordinating heavyweight cardstock and acetate, as well as double-sided adhesive. I added the adhesive to the cardstock before die-cutting with the Ornament Shaker Die. I die-cut once with the adhesive on the backside, and once with the adhesive on the front side.
I snipped the word out of the ornament with adhesive on the front side, since this was going to be the backside of my see-through tag. I trimmed two pieces of acetate the same size as the ornaments. I attached the acetate to each cardstock side with adhesive. On the ornament for the front, I wrapped Darice Double-sided Foam Sticky Strips around the edge. I filled the window with Berry Bright Confetti Mix.
I carefully used my finger to make the confetti even height, then closed the window with the back ornament. I die cut a gold topper, and used liquid glue to attach it to the ornament.
For the blue ornament, I did the same steps, using Winter Days Confetti Mix in the window, and silver glitter paper for the topper.
These ornaments were quick to make. If you like making shaker cards, I definitely recommend giving this project a try. They’re a perfect touch for wrapped presents.
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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you were inspired by these pretty tags.
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.
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.
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.
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!