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Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here to share a couple cards using the Clarity Stencil Brushes – along with a video review of them. I was super excited to recently get my hands on a set of them – I have been seeing them used so much, that I was really curious how they worked.

If you aren’t familiar with them, they are brushes that can be used as an alternative to foam ink blenders with beautiful results! I paired them up with the adorable Fox Friends Stamp Set and coordinating Fox Friends Dies to create one layer stenciled panels. I was originally going to just make one layer cards, but they kind of grew into this by the time I finished!

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Here is the video sharing how I used the stencils – and with my first voice over of my video (I was a bit nervous – please forgive the soft voice and occasional humming or losing my place!)

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After the video I colored all the foxes in with some Copic Markers – I used Warm Grays – W00, W1, W3, and W5, and Blush R20, added my frames, and stitched with my sewing machine around the outside edges to finish them off a little. Added some jute twine, then attached with foam adhesive to colored card bases to finish off.

Here is a close up look at each one – on this first one I also used the Scallop Circles Dies to frame my fox.

For this next one, I used the two largest Stitched Hexagon Dies to create a frame.

And on this last one, after my stenciling, I cut a fresh Scallop Ovals die to frame the fox.

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And here they are all together – aren’t those colors so pretty together? They remind me of a rainbow of sherbet!

Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!!!

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Christmas Tag Inspiration

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing an idea of incorporating your non-tag die and make it into a tag as part of the 25 Days of Christmas Tags event!

For this project, I used the Stitched Pieces die and for the image and sentiments, I used the Winter Wonderland Stamp set.

To begin, I first distressed an A2 white card panel with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Peacock Feather and Shabby Shutters, then die-cut the panel with Stitched Pieces die. The images from Winter Wonderland Stamp set were colored with Copic markers.

Next, I die cut another on a white panel. This will serve as the backing of the tag. I simply secure the back side with a sticker sheet and cut to size, this will help hide the die-cut at the back as well.

Next, I cut the tag to size and rounded the corners.

Then, I adhered some foam tape the front panel and adhered the stitched piece on the white die-cut panel and stamped the sentiment.

For Final touches, I added some white dots using my Uni-ball white gel pen and added some Crystal Stickles on the images.

Here’s another look.

Plus, more inspiration from these designers! Click photos to visit their blog posts.

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Be sure to hop along and leave comments on the other designer’s blog. Each of them did such a great job with their holiday tags!

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Tutorial: Easy Holiday Cards

Hello Everyone, Joni here sharing easy to make holiday cards.

To begin, I cut the black cardstock to size 4 ¼ X 5 ½. I stamped the “season’s greetings” sentiment from Christmas Friends stamp set using a Citron embossing powder by Recollections. The cute snowman is from the Happy Snowman stamp set, the bird and gift are from the Christmas Friends stamp set. I also used the Happy Snowman Coordinating dies to cute this cutie.

For the snow background of the card I used the Uniball white broad pen and drew some different sizes of dots to make some snowy background, this part is relaxing.

Next I die-cut the black panel using an all time favorite, the Scallop Frame Dies (large one). I did this to get the size of the card. This card is originally the size of the large scallop die.

I then, I die-cut it again with antique gold cardstock from Paper Source.

I colored the images with copic markers. The beanie hat for the snowman is the same from the boy, I just fussy cut it and colored it red. The boy images are also from the Christmas Friends stamp set.

I couldn’t help but add some Diamond Stickles to the beanie, gift, scarf, and bird.

On this card, I used the boy image. I also added some Sparkling Clear sequins to finish off both cards.

I hope you enjoyed these easy to make cards for the holidays. Until next time, have a fantastic day!

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Layered Fall Card + Video

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have a video tutorial to share today showing you how to create one of my favorite type of cards – layered & dimensional!

My “secret ingredient” for these kind of projects is the use of special patterned paper and also stitching and I talk about both of these in detail on my video.

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Often when I start working on cards that involve a lot of layers I like to build my future card design on my desk by using dies and stamps themselves, I find this to be very helpful especially when I want to visualize my card design and check if the size and shape of the dies I selected work well together.

From there I move onto picking out the right patterned paper. I have a favorite brand that I love to use whenever I use dies. The brand is called Trimcraft First Edition and they are from UK, but their papers are available on Amazon. The reason I adore them is for their “special effects” as I like to call them, their papers often have special coatings and finishes are are fantastic for such projects.

If you don’t have this type of paper you can always use other patterned paper or even stamp your own using paper design using stamps.

To create this card I selected several die sets including Scallop Borders Dies, Scallop Circles Dies and Stitched Essentials 1 Dies.

Each layer was cut out of patterned paper, the background layer pieces were all adhered together so that I could add machine zig zag stitching around the edges. I love adding stitching to my cards as it adds a lot to the handmade look and feel of my projects.

The scalloped circle layer and also the tag were both foam mounted for a pop of dimension and so was the little watercolored Fox Friend.

To embellish this card I used Metallic Rose Gold sequins in 4 mm and 10 mm sized and brown sequins from the 6mm Wildflower sequin mix, along with some 4mm Clear Droplets.

I hope this post & video will inspire you to pull out your Pretty Pink Posh stamps and dies and try your hand at creating layered dimensional cards!

Happy cardmaking!

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Thanksgiving Theme Week- Day 7 (Plus Giveaway!)

Hi there, Jeanne here. Have you noticed? The leaves are changing colors and there’s a crispness in the air! Fall is officially here! It’s that special time of year when we take the festivities indoors and welcome family and friends into our homes and hearts.

Thanksgiving is always at our house – we have as many people as we can fit around the table and there’s always great food and conversation! I like to send out personal invitations, and special notes to those who can’t make it this time… just to let them know we’re thinking about them as we’re separated by the miles.

I’m smitten with these adorable pilgrims from the Giving Thanks Stamp Set. The set has lots of extras – pumpkins, leaves, and sentiments in the prettiest script font. There’s even a Giving Thanks coordinating die set that has a stamp for each of the images in the set making crafting a breeze!

I created a scene inside a Scallop Circles die – this is the larger of the two circles in the set. It’s perfect for an A2 size card (4.25 x 5.5”). Scalloped on the inside and beautiful stitching on the outer edges, these Scallop Circles make everything just a little more elegant! Landscapes couldn’t be easier using the border dies from Pretty Pink Posh. There’s lots of different style borders to choose from. I chose the Scallop Borders Die Set. They coordinate perfectly with the Scallop Circles!

The finishing touch was a sprinkle of Sparkling Clear Sequins – who doesn’t love a little shimmer?

To close out our Thanksgiving theme week, we’re hosting a giveaway for a $50 Pretty Pink Posh gift certificate. Leave a comment sharing what theme week, or collaboration, you’d like to see in the future and you could win this prize!

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Wishing you and yours a blessed Thanksgiving! We hope you were inspired by our posts this week.

If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards and projects, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

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Thanksgiving Theme Week- Day 6

Hi there, Joy here today, sharing my creation for the Thanksgiving Theme Week…

Being that I live in Australia, we don’t actually celebrate Thanksgiving, however, that being said I could not possibly go past making a card for someone that needs a little thanks, and what is better then using the Giving Thanks stamp and coordinating die set. Let’s jump in and I will tell you how I created this cutie…

I started out by die cutting a piece of white card stock using the Stitched Hexagons, on the centre hexagon that die cut out I stamped out a sentiment from the stamp set in some red ink, setting aside to work on the images…

The images I stamped out and coloured in with my Copics and went about die cutting them all out, I die cut quite a few out so as to have as many images as I need for my design…

Next was, to put the card together, I trimmed a piece of Kraft card stock to form the card base, with the trimmed white piece I foam mounted that to the card base and with the other die cut hexagon that had the sentiment stamped I adhered it straight to the card front…along the base of the card I added my images to form a very festive bounty look and completed the card by adding a scattering of Metallic Gold Sequins.

So even if you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving there are still ways of giving thanks and with this Pretty Pink Posh set there are so many options to give thanks in the form of a card…

If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards and projects, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope we have inspired you to create a fall project or card of your own!

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Thanksgiving Theme Week- Day 5

Hello Pretty Pink Posh friends! Shannon here today!

I have a Thanksgiving themed card for you today featuring the adorable new Giving Thanks stamp set to continue with Thanksgiving theme week!

I started off by stamping the bottom portion of my card on a white heavy weight card case with the leaves and smaller images in the stamp set. I colored in with Copic markers and did some Copic dot coloring with some shades of blue around my images.

I then stamped my adorable animals on a separate piece of white card stock and then masked them off before stamping my pumpkins, to make them look as they were in the background. I again used my Copic markers to color it all in. I then ran this panel through my die cutting machine with the Stitched Borders 2 die. I wanted this panel to stand out a little on the card so I added a piece of kraft card stock that I also ran through my Cuttlebug with the Stitched Border die and layered it underneath.

Once I had this panel onto my card base I simply stamped my sentiment to finish off my card!

If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards and projects, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Hope you will stop by again tomorrow for another day of our Thanksgiving theme week!!

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Thanksgiving Theme Week- Day 4

Hi! It’s Melody here on the blog today sharing my project for the Thanksgiving Theme Week! I am going to my sister’s house for Thanksgiving and wanted to bring her a little gift for hosting us all. I am using the Giving Thanks Stamp Set and the Giving Thanks Coordinating Dies for my project.

I started with a kraft gift bag and randomly stamped leaves from the Giving Thanks Stamp Set. This a quick and easy way to dress up a simple bag.

Next I covered a tag with watercolor paper. I stamped the sentiment in gold ink and embossed with gold embossing powder and then used distress inks to create the background. I colored a variety of pumpkins, acorns and leaves with Copic Markers and die cut with the Giving Thanks Coordinating Dies and attached them to the tag. I used 6mm Metallic Gold Sequins and 4mm Metallic Gold Sequins to finish off the tag.

I used the smaller die in the Scallop Frames Dies to create the shaker. I cut the frame four times from kraft card stock to get the depth I needed. I added acetate behind the top layer. I added leaves to the background and dropped in 6mm Metallic Gold Sequins, 4mm Metallic Gold Sequins, and sequins from the 4mm Autumn Harvest Sequins Mix. I used foam tape to attached the adorable pilgrims.

I used one of the dies in the Mini Tags Dies, ribbon, and twine to dress up the candle.

If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards and projects, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope I have inspired you to create a fall project of your own!

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Thanksgiving Theme Week- Day 3

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather dropping by with a couple cards and a tutorial for Thanksgiving Theme Week here on the Pretty Pink Posh blog!

For my cards today, I used some of the smaller elements in the Giving Thanks stamp set, and one of the larger sentiments paired up with a heat embossing and distress inking technique to get a unique one layer effect on my cards!

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I started off by using an embossing powder tool over my white cardstock to keep the embossing powder confined to only where I stamped. I then stamped my small images in a random pattern in Clear Embossing Ink, then stamped my sentiment over the top with black Versafine ink – THEN, all at once, I sprinkled on Clear Embossing Powder and heat set it all at once. This way you have one layer of heat embossing.

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Here you can see the effect – the small images are nearly invisible at this point.

Pretty Pink Posh: Thanksgiving Theme Week Day 3

Then the magic – using foam blending tools, add your distress inks over the top – the heat embossed areas will resist the distress ink, and almost magically appear!

Pretty Pink Posh: Thanksgiving Theme Week Day 3

Finally, I added some splatters of water and Gold Color Shine for some additional texture, then attached some Sparkling Clear Sequins before mounting on a kraft card base.

Pretty Pink Posh: Thanksgiving Theme Week Day 3

Such a fun way to add texture and interest to a flat card!

Pretty Pink Posh: Thanksgiving Theme Week Day 3

Here is a closer look at both cards.

What do you think – do you have a favorite? Do you like to give cards for Thanksgiving?

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you are having a wonderful day!!!

If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards and projects, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

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Thanksgiving Theme Week- Day 2

Liz here and today I’m sharing a card for Day 2 of our Thanksgiving Theme Week.

I’ve been having lots of fun playing with this adorable Giving Thanks set as it has a lot of fun critters and images to color and a variety of fall leaves. Also, I love using the Coordinating Dies to help me cut them out, especially the tiny ones.

Since I love shakers, I thought to create another one and use the Mini Storybook 1 as I love the dual stitching feature which means that after you run the die through the cutting machine, the negative piece is left with stitching. Here you can see the stitching around the window frame.

Here, I placed the window die on the upper part of the card and ran it through the die cutting machine. Than I thought it would be nice to add a border 3/4 down, so I pulled out these cute Scallop Border and placed it down on the same piece I just die cut before running it again through cutting machine.

I wanted a contrasting color between the white cardstock and the plaid paper, so I die cut another Scallop Border and used some chocolate card stock which I glued onto the white piece by lining it up.

For the inside of the shaker, I created some clouds and grass by doing some ink blending and glued down some new 1/4″ Gold Star Confetti so they don’t fall down when shaking and added these wonderful 4mm Autumn Harvest Mix sequins perfect for fall.

I hope you liked today’s post. Be sure to join us tomorrow for another day of Thanksgiving inspiration!

If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards and projects, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.