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Sneak Peek: Cupid Friends + Love Sentiments

Hello Pretty Pink Posh Friends! I was recently visiting my mother and she gave me her wonderful collection of Valentine ephemera. I love vintage cupids and this little Cupid Friends stamp set reminds me of the vintage ones. Today I’ll be showing you two new stamp sets to make Valentines – both the Cupid Friends and the Love Sentiments set that releases on January 10th.

I have two cards to share with you today. The first card is a shaker card that uses Cupid Friends and Fly a Kite stamps and dies. I started with the largest Window Frames die to create my card base and shaker window.

I stamped the sentiment on the inside of the opening with red embossing powder. I then used some of the new heart confetti, Iridescent Heart Confetti Mix and Red Mini Heart Confetti, inside the shaker window.

Next, I stamped the two clouds from Fly a Kite and the two cupids from Cupid Friends with light colored ink for a no-line look. I colored them in with Copic markers, added shading with colored pencils, added fine black lines around them to outline, and then die-cut them out with the matching Cupid Friends Dies and Fly A Kite Dies.  I layered the cupids over the clouds on the top and bottom of the card.

To finish the card, I glued some of the same heart sequins over the background and on the clouds.

My next card uses the new Storybook 6 die for the background. I am so in love with all of the Storybook dies as they create the perfect windows for stamped images or shakers AND I always use the inside pieces for my sentiments on cards.

I die-cut the Storybook 6 die from the center of a pink card base. I die-cut a second one from white cardstock to use for the inside pieces.  I then used the new Love Sentiments stamp set for the stamped hearts and the sentiment. I embossed them with pink embossing powder on the two rectangular inside pieces of the die.

I attached a piece of white cardstock underneath the front of the card and then glued the four pieces to the white cardstock. I then embossed the little hearts in the Cupid Friends stamp set over the pink cardstock.

I stamped the two cupids with black ink and colored them in with Copic Markers and shaded with colored pencils. One of my Christmas gifts was a new set of Prismacolors, so I wanted to try them out and they work well over Copics! I finished the card with some of the new sequin mix called Spring Blooms.

Ever since I was a child I have loved making homemade Valentines and these two sets are so perfect for my cards. Thanks so much for visiting today and I hope you are enjoying your new year!

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Sneak Peek: Hummingbird Thanks + Pretty Petunias

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing some sneak peaks of upcoming products from our upcoming January 10th release! For these projects I used the new Pretty Petunias stamp set, Pretty Petunias Coordinating Dies. The new Hummingbird Thanks stamp set and Hummingbird Thanks Coordinating Die set.

To begin my card, I first stamped the images from Pretty Petunias Stamp set and Hummingbird Thanks Stamp set on a watercolor paper. Then watercolor each image then die-cut each image with its coordinating die set.

For the background, I simply distressed a white cardstock with Distress Ink in Evergreen Bough and Peeled Paint. Then, splattered with some water and added some of gold paint from Gansai Tambi Starry Colors.

I also added some Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix and new Iridescent Heart Confetti Mix.

This is just another look of the card.

For my next project, I simply just used the Pretty Petunias Stamp set, and Coordinating Die set.

To begin, I first stamped my images on a white cardstock and color them with Copic Markers and die-cut with Pretty Petunias Coordinating Die set. The “friend” die-cut is new. It’s from the Hello Friend Script Die Set. The “friend” was die-cut three times and colored with Copic Markers.

For the background, I distressed it with Distress Ink in Barn Door and Papertrey Ink Melon Berry.

These flowers have lots of possibilities, I added some white dots to give it more interest. I also die-cut a strip of melon berry cardstock using the Scallop Borders 1 to complete the look.

I hope you enjoyed my take on these goodies. Remember the Pretty Pink Posh will be opening up again on January 4th and we’ll continue to have sneak peeks leading up to our release on January 10th!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Until next time…

Design Team Announcement + Giveaway

Hello and Happy New Year!

I wanted to announce the new team for this upcoming design term. We are saying a very fond farewell to Amy K, Lisa (who has been with from the very beginning), Joy, Gladys and Maria. 

We are welcoming three new Pretty Pink Posh designers to the team. Each of these gals are extremely talented and have a unique style that I know you will love. Please join me in welcoming Mindy, Gemma and Liz (who is rejoining our team!) to the Pretty Pink Posh team!

   
 Jeanne 
  Melody
 Shannon 
Yana Yoonsun
 
 
 
  Yana
In honor of the new team, let’s have a big $100 gift certificate giveaway! Leave a comment on THIS post sharing your requests for future Pretty Pink Posh stamps and dies! One lucky comment left by January 7th will win a shopping spree. Congratulations to Kris in Alaska on being the lucky winner! 

Thanks for joining us today. Be sure to give lots of love to the designers!

Christmas Theme & Giveaway Week Winners

I’m checking in with the SEVEN winners from our Christmas Theme & Giveaway Week! I hope you all enjoyed the week of inspiration and giveaways. Thank you all for joining in the festivities and leaving such fun comments!

Below are the winners of the giveaways. I have contacted each winner directly (if you’re a winner and didn’t get an email, please contact me) and I look forward to purchasing and shipping these items to each lucky person.

 

I know I’m technically on a “break”, but I’m actually working behind the scenes on lots of things with the new release and birthday celebration that is happening in January. I can’t wait to share what is coming- it’s going to be fun!

I hope you all had a great holiday season. Until next time…

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Christmas Theme & Giveaway Week- Day 7

Hello, everyone ! Marge here today. Christmas is coming around, and I hope you are enjoying cardmaking for Christmas & Holiday. Today, I’m sharing clean and simple window cards with you. To make these, I used some of the brand new November Release products at Pretty Pink Posh.
 

First, I die cut small stitched holly leaves and berries from watercolor paper using Festive Holly Dies, and watercolored them ​with Distress ink reinkers (Peeled Paint, Gathered Twigs, and Fired Brick). I found that coloring using reinkers give more bright and rich colors than blending with the same colored inks.

Then, I made an A2-sized top-folded card base, picked out a smaller frame die from Window Frames Dies set,  and make a semi-round window on the front panel of the cardbase. To make patterned background, I stamped two snowflakes images from Holiday Greetings Stamp Set on the front panel using Arctic dye ink cube. Next, I stamped sentiments and mini images from Holiday Greetings Stamp Set on the inside panel , so that the sentiments could be seen through the die cut window.
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Next, I decorated the front panel using Winter Woodland Stamp Set and Woodland Critters Coorrdinating Dies, then I adhered holly leaves and berries on the top of the round frame using foam tapes. I also rounded a string on the top of the card, then finished it off with adding some sequins. To give it a clean look, I only wanted to use clear sequins for embellishment, so  Sparkling Clear Snowflakes Sequins Mix and 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins were used.

In the first card, I made a one layer copic colored scene.

In the second card, I gave some dimension by adding diecut images on the front panel using foam tapes. I also gave it some color accent by using red-white twine as shown below.

In the third card, I used brown  leaves, and I colored critters in gray tones to maintain overall neutral look.

So I could make three cards very quickly at one sitting. I really loved how the bright colored leaves and berries pop off the white background and I also loved shadowing of window frame on the sentiments that are shown through.
Tips:
1. Would be better if you use heavy-weight card stock (e.g. 110lb or more) to make these cards
2. For the one layer copic colored card, be sure to use heavy-weight copic friendly card stock .
3. Putting a 3mm sparkling sequin onto the sparkling snowflake sequin make the snowflake look really sparkling.
 
Now it’s time for our last giveaway of the week. Today we are giving away a MISTI stamping tool (or you can choose the Mini)!

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That’s it for today. Thank you so much for reading this post. We hope you have enjoyed our week of Christmas holiday projects. If you haven’t already, be sure to leave comments on each point for your chance at the giveaway for that day!
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Christmas Theme & Giveaway Week- Day 6

Hello everyone! Lexa here today with a winter theme card, featuring some holiday stamp sets, Winter Woodland and Christmas Friends. Today I will play with watercolor for the background using Caran D’Ache Neocolor II.

Holiday stamp sets also can be used for everyday cards as well. I stamped all the images with Versafine black ink that works the best for watercoloring. My style of watercolor is always a little bit loose, I always use Distress Markers and damp brush for coloring. I mix blue and purple for the sky, blend the colors with lots of wate and left some white borders on the edges. I love to create a little scene, it just make me happy everytime I make up stories behind it.

After I finished with the background, I make a snow hill as the ground for the little boy and winter animals to stand. Aren’t they the cutest? It probably one of my most favorite stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh ever.

Here are some closer looks of my card. Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix is a perfect companion for this card, it creates snow drops from the sky as well as create dimensions. Somehow it makes the scene look so dreamy together with the pastel color sky.

Ready for our next giveaway? Today we’re giving away a $25 Simon Says Stamp gift certificate! All you have to do is leave a comment on this post sharing your favorite crafty blog(s) to follow!

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Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you guys like my card as much as I do. Have a wonderful day!

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Christmas Theme & Giveaway Week- Day 5

Hi, everyone! Rina here with a video tutorial on how I made these simple gift card holders only using dies! Since the holidays are fast approaching, I wanted to make this project super easy and super-fast!

Watch our video tutorial below to see how to create these cards.

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For this project I used the Merry Christmas Script die, the Festive Holly dies, Stitched Notes dies (for the gift card opening), and Silver Mini Star Confetti.

First, I cut the Merry Christmas Script die.  The font on this die is one of my favorites!  I wanted to use silver foil paper to make this die stand out even more.  Since this is a very intricate die, I like to use wax paper in between the die and the paper I am die cutting.  This will make the die cut pop out easily!

I love the look of die cut inlay and thought the Festive Holly dies would be perfect to pair with the script die.  I cut the “Festive Holly” on different colors of paper (use scraps!) which I will use to inlay into my card base.

I cut out several 4¼ x 5½ card bases and placed the Festive Holly dies arranged around the “Merry Christmas” sentiment, I cut this sentiment out with scratch paper to use for the placement of the dies.

Once that is complete, I inlay the Festive Holly die cuts into my card base.  I used post it note to ensure the die cuts will stay in place, flip over the paper and tape the die cuts in place.  I just love how it comes together like puzzle pieces.  My design had excess hanging over the edge which I trimmed with scissors.

For added sparkle, I used the Silver Mini Star Confetti adhered with the Ranger Multi Matte Medium randomly toward the center of the card.

Tip: I recommend using a Jewel Picker to adhere small embellishments. It makes things so much easier!

For the inside, I placed the gift card opening dies from the “Stitched Note” die set and cut out the openings.  The die set comes with two sizes, you will see one is longer than the other, just use the one that fits your design the best.  To ensure the gift card does not fall, I added a card base to the back of the card.  Make sure you do not put adhesive near the opening, just at the bottom so the card can slip in and out easily.  Alternatively, you can take a card base (a tad bit smaller than 4¼ x 5½ so the card closes nicely) cut the gift card opening and adhere it to the inside of the card.

Today our giveaway is the popular Embellishment storage system that we recommend, along with a $50 Pretty Pink Posh gift certificate!

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Hope you enjoy this simple and easy project!

Rina

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Christmas Theme & Giveaway Week- Day 4

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have some Stitched Christmas Tags to share with you all. I’ll be using the Sparkle Dot Patterns 1 stamp set to create my own shape that I can stitch. I’ll also be pulling in the Stitched Duo 1 Dies and Angel Friends stamp set to help create my tags as well.

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To begin, I cut out 6 tags from the Stitched Duo 1 die set, 3 from white cardstock and 3 from watercolour cardstock. I then ink blended some Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Ink on the bottom of the three watercolour tags. Next, I used the line of dots stamp from the Sparkle Dot Patterns and stamped it in a Christmas Tree pattern. The line of dots has ten dots, so I masked off all but 1, stamped it down on the top of the tag in the centre with white ink on each tag. Then, I left two dots unmasked, and stamped them down with more white ink underneath the first dot and repeated the steps until all of the dots were stamped. I just stamping, adding one more dot at a time to create a triangle, for it to look like a Christmas Tree. Once I finished stamping all the layers of the tree, I clear heat embossed them all so the ink wouldn’t smudge while I was stitching.

Next, it was time to stitch. I poked through all the dots with a paper piercer so that I would have a guide for stitching. I’m using three shades of green thread, to have an ombre tree, to give a little extra to my tags. I did a simple back stitch through all lines of trees and also joined each line to make small triangles to give more interest to the stitching. I did three lines of each shade of green on each tag. Once all my stitching was done I adhered the normal white tag onto the back of each stitched tag to cover all the threads. Next, I used some Large Gold Star Sequins for the star on the top of the tree, then used some Berry Bright Sequins to adhere onto my tree, since I felt the colour scheme was fitting.

To finish up my tags, I used the Angel Friends stamp set and used the sentiment ‘Merry Christmas’ to stamp onto some black strips of cardstock. I white heat embossed them, trimmed them down and adhered them with foam tape onto the bottom of my tags. Then, I punched small holes at the top of my tags, threaded through some brown and white twine and my tags were complete.

I hope you were inspired to try to use the Sparkle Dot Patterns 1 stamp set to created stitched projects. I used the line stamp to create a Christmas Tree shape, but you could use the star or heart from the stamp set to create the same effect for a different theme of card or tag.

Now it’s time for another giveaway and today we’re giving away a 12 pack of the popular Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink pads!

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Thanks so much for stopping by and celebrating Christmas Theme Week here on the blog!

Eloise

 

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Christmas Theme & Giveaway Week- Day 3

Hi there! Marge here today. I’m so glad to share two cards featuring Angel Friends stamp set and Stacked Edges 1 Dies. Enjoying crafting for 3 years till now, I’ve never seen such unique and pretty stamps and dies like those I’m using today. I really had fun playing with them!

I used deep red and gold to express holiday color scheme. For this, you can use your own gold or glitter card stock, but I used gold glitter tapes to make a glitter card stock as shown in the picture.

To make zigzag patterned background, I used a chevron shape die included in Stacked Edges 1 Dies set. I first die cut a piece, and then cut again side by side, with some space between those two cuts to make negative diecut pieces in chevron shape.

You can control the width of negative diecuts simply by moving a die a little from side to side before cutting through on the paper. I made a little bit thicker negative cut with gold glitter one, and thinner cut with red one. Then I trimmed all the positive and negative cuts into 5.5 inch length to fit them into A2 sized card base.

I stamped cute Angel Friends stamp set on a copic friendly white cardstock using Memento black ink, then colored them with copic markers. You don’t have to choose specific colors for coloring these angels, just use any copic colors that you have in your stash.

I thought coloring is not a matter in these cards, you can also choose any types of coloring media that you like, including pencils, watercolors, other markers etc. I mostly used light colored copic markers here. For your interest, I used E21/E23/E25/E27, or E51/E53/E55/E57, or E11/E13/E15/E18 or YR7/YR4/Y17 in coloring hair of angels. Then, I cut them out using the Angel Friends Coordinating Dies.

For the first card, I adhered red and gold chevron cuts onto white cardbase, then foam mounted angels. To give more interest, I added some left-over pieces of Autumn Blossoms Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies, which I used in my other card featuring Autumn Blossoms Set. I chose sentiment “Merry and Bright” from Reindeer Friends Stamp Set. Final touch was adding Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix  here and there.

Then I made the second card in horizontal layout using the similar way as in the first, vertical one. But, this time, I used Metallic Gold Confetti Mix as embellishment.

We’re continuing on with our week of giveaways and today we are giving away a $30 Ellen Hutson gift certificate. It’s super easy all you have to do is leave a comment sharing which craft item(s) are on your wish list!

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​Thanks for stopping by. We have another great giveaway tomorrow, along with a post!

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Christmas Theme & Giveaway Week- Day 2

Hi Everyone! It’s Melody here on the blog today. I have a soft, elegant Christmas card to share with you created with the Joy Shaker Die and the Winter Woodland Stamp Set.

When I saw the holly branch in the Winter Woodland Stamp Set I just thought it was so beautiful. For me, it allows me to take a cute animal stamp set and give my card a more elegant feel. And the Joy Shaker Die is one of my favorite dies from the newest release.

To create the background I cut a piece of watercolor paper for the card front. I used the solid snow stamp and stamped snow several times in a white pigment ink and then embossed with white embossing powder. Then I used a blending tool to add Oxide Ink to the paper. I misted the paper with water and splattered on white paint with a paint brush.

I colored the stamped images from the Winter Woodland Stamp Set with Copic Markers and die cut with the Winter Woodland Coordinating Dies. I splattered a little white paint on the branches too. I cut the Joy Shaker Die twice, once from a glittered cardstock and again from a light weight chipboard, and then glued the two layers together. This gives the die cut a little more dimension. Behind the die cut I add a circle of vellum.

The stamped sentiment and evergreen branches are from the Holiday Greetings Stamp Set and I die cut the edge with the Stitched Borders 2 Dies. My card is finished off with a confetti pieces from the Marshmallow Confetti Mix.

Today we have another fun giveaway as part of our giveaway week. We are giving away a 36 pack of Zig Clean Color markers! Leave a comment below sharing your favorite holiday song.

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Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to join us tomorrow for another day of inspiration and giveaways!