This is Amy. I am very happy to be guesting for Pretty Pink Posh this month! For my card today, I have combined the following new products (releasing on August 5th): Fox Friends, Rainy Days Additions, Camping Friends and the Scallop Borders Dies. I have made three little scenes to match the sentiment “I Love You, Rain or Shine” ☺
Here is how I made my card:
Stamp images from Fox Friends stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. Color with Copic markers. Die cut out using the Fox Friends coordinating dies.
For the three scenes, white heat emboss images from Rainy Days Additions and Camping Friends. Then, blend with distress inks. The colors I used are Blueprint Sketch, Shaded Lilac, Mustard Seed, Squeezed Lemonade, Salty Ocean and Tumbled Glass
Die cut two strips with Scallop Borders Dies and use them to frame the scene
Be sure to mark your calendars for August 11 & 12. We have a super fun blog hop that will showcase the new stamps, dies, sequins and I’m bringing along the design team and some amazing special guests. If you’re on Facebook, be sure to visit the blog hop event page HERE.
That’s it for today. Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful day!
Heather here to share a couple cards using the brand new Hero Arts August My Monthly Hero Box – featuring some Pretty Pink Posh 4mm Droplets – such a fun addition to this kit! We are really excited to be part of their kit this month and also part of their blog hop.
This is such a unique kit – I felt like it was very fresh and different than anything else I’ve been seeing around lately – I started off by putting together a shaker card filled with those Clear Droplets.
I die cut the Fancy Frame Die Set without the matching oval die, then blending on distress ink in two shades of green. I also stamped several of the little mushrooms and fern pieces in white pigment ink and the same two distress ink colors on the bottom, and added the sparkle star stamped several times in white around the rest of the outside.
The inside of the shaker card is two shades of yellow distress ink on watercolor paper, some water flicked on, and some white paint splattered over that.
I stamped and colored the fairy, die cut with the coordinating dies, and then added the included Clear Stickles on the wings, dress, and on selected areas around the frame – the leaves, and some of the stamped images on the bottom, then filled my shaker with lots of the clear droplets!
Next up I made a more flat one layer card using some of the papers that came in the kit, and using the clear droplets as embellishments on the front of the card.
This fairy was colored to match the purple papers in the pack, and also sparkled up the dress and wings.
This time I used the frame with the matching oval die, then used the oval die on it’s own to cut the translucent woodgrain paper for the back of it. Hard to see in the photos, but you can actually see through it a little to see the pattern paper underneath.
The sentiment was heat embossed on black cardstock, and the clear droplets glue on just perfectly with a drop of Glossy Accents.
Here is a look at what the complete kit looks like.
The kit contains:
A 4×6 clear stamp set
Three matching Frame Cuts dies
An oval border with frame Fancy Die set
Pretty Pink Posh Droplets
Ranger Star Dust Stickles
Three ink cubes in Bubble Gum, Orchid and Green Apple
Woodgrain Cardstock and Vellum
Other gems and cardstock
The kit value is over $50, and they are selling this one for $34.99.
Prizes: Hero Arts is giving away one kit as a prize to one blog reader – selected from the comments across all of the blogs in the hop. Be sure to hop along and leave comments on all the stops!
Here is the entire blog line up – in case you get lost along the way:
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I’m excited to share a vellum shaker card today using some of the brand new products coming on August 5th.
I recently discovered that vellum is a great screen to use for shaker cards. It mutes the background a little bit, helps to draw the eye to the focal point (not the shaker itself) and still has that “shaker” element of surprise.
Before I get to the tutorial part of this post, I want to share a bit about about my process. In the past I used to love to use sketches for my projects, I would also make sketches of cards I planned to make on paper (I had a dedicated sketch notebook) and would always use them in my craftroom.
These days my approach is a bit different. I like to create a sketch by using the products themselves. Photo below shows how I used hexagon dies and stamps to lay out my future card design on paper. I don’t always follow my initial design, but I do enjoy and do find it helpful to lay my supplies out like this. It helps me to visualize and better plan my card.
I decided to use the new Stitched Hexagons dies and create several windows in my front panel. To re-create this panel you’ll need to die cut the second largest and also third largest hexagons out of white cardstock that is cut to 4 by 5 ½”.
Next go ahead and stamp and heat emboss several images from the Blissful Butterflies set in gold embossing powder onto watercolor paper, cut the images out with the help of matching dies.
To help me decide on the colors to color my images I used a pack of sequins, Wildflowers Mix, as my inspiration and watercolored in purple and blue. This is a great trick and it really saves a lot of time when it comes to embellishing a card. Instead of trying to match the color of sequins to your project you can actually use the sequin mix as a color palette.
To watercolor these I used Daniel Smith sampler watercolor sheets and a water brush. However any other watercolor medium can be used.
The reason I decided to use vellum for the shaker on this card and not acetate, is because I wanted to add additional heat embossing and you can’t heat emboss acetate unless it’s a heat resistant one.
Prep the vellum for heat embossing as you would paper, stamp the image, cover with embossing powder and heat set it. The trick to embossing vellum is getting your heat tool nice & hot and applying heat in short bursts.
After embossing go ahead and adher vellum from the back of your die cut panel, build the shaker walls with the help of foam adhesive, add the Wildflowers Mix sequins(I used both 4mm and 6mm) and closed the shaker with another layer of vellum, you can also use acetate here.
The base panel for this project is done at this point and you can go ahead and adhered it onto a tan top folding A2 card base and add a strip of gold glitter paper to spice things up.
Foam mount the butterflies as well as the sentiments (I also heat embossed “You are the best” from the Birdie Friends stamp set and embellished this card card with a number of Rose Gold Sequins in all 3 sizes.
Be sure to mark your calendars for August 11 & 12. We have a super fun blog hop that will showcase the new stamps, dies, sequins and I’m bringing along the design team and some amazing special guests. If you’re on Facebook, be sure to visit the blog hop event page HERE.
We hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial and look at the upcoming release. Stay tuned- we’ll have new posts every day this week leading up to the release on Friday, August 5th!
Hi friends! It’s Nina-Marie here with you today sharing a fun scene card with you, as well as a look at some of the new stamps and dies that are being released by Pretty Pink Posh on August 5th!
For my card I am going to be using the new Camping Friends stamp and die set, along with the newest addition to the Storybook die collection, Storybook 5! I love this new die and how it has a larger square incorporated into the design, and then a smaller rectangle down below. I can see this being perfect for using as a scene panel like I have done today, or a shaker window!
Because I wanted to make a one layer scene using this die, I did a bit of masking during my initial stamping to achieve this. However if you wanted to skip the masking process, you could stamp all the images individually, die cut them out and then layer them together to build the scene the same way.
I’ll be doing some Zig Clean Color marker coloring in this video; for those of you who are interested in the color combinations I use, I’ll break them down for you below; they are also annotated in the video.
Raccoon: Gray Brown 094, Light Gray 091, Light Pink 026, Light Carmine 021 Tent: Turquoise Green 042, Persian Green 033 Bird: Red 020, Wine Red 024, Yellow 050 Tree Log & Wood Sign: Beige 072, Brown 060, Mid Brown 065 Sky: Light Blue 036, Persian Blue 032, Deep Violet 084, Yellow 050 Moon: Yellow 050, Lemon Yellow 051, Orche 063 Grass: Light Green 041, Mid Green 046, Olive Green 043, Green 040
I hope you’ll watch the video below to see how I created this card! I’ll be sharing tips and tricks along the way, including how I fixed a watercolor mishap (yes, it happens to ALL of us)!
Thanks so much for stopping by and spending some time with me! Stay tuned to the blog all next week as we share more looks of the new release leading up to the launch on August 5th!
Hi everyone! Amy K. here with this month’s Throwback Thursday. The idea behind today’s post is to show off some of the “older” Pretty Pink Posh dies. This month I worked with the Stitched Film Strip Die, Stitched Speech Bubble Dies, and the first stamp set…..Darling Friends(exclusively at Simon Says Stamp). I thought it would be fun to create a “comic strip” look with these dies and adorable images.
I started by diecutting 3 Stitched Film Strip Dies out of black cardstock. I spaced these across my top folding notecard as I would want them. I used them to mark where I would want to add a light blue sky for my comic strip. Using a Tumbled Glass Distress Ink Marker and my Distress Marker Spritzer, I applied the color over a post it note mask. When I was done all my color, I was able to add my Filmstrip Dies and trim off the excess. Love how there are tiny dots to my sky!
After stamping the tiny critter images from Darling Friends, each image was Copic colored and die cut with coordinating dies. A few trees and a mountain scape were also colored and cut out. To complete the scenes, I added each element to the “comic strip”. The sentiments, from Birdie Friends stamp set, were stamped onto the Stitched Speech Bubble Dies and adhered with foam adhesive!
Along with this darling card that Amy has shared with us, I have a few cards that have used the Stitched Film Stripin the past. Click on the photos below to see the original post from the designers.
Thanks for visiting the blog today! I hope you are inspired to create new cards using this older die set!
Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here with a couple shaker cards using both the positive and negative die cuts from the Window Frames Die Cuts and some ink blending to create an ombre color fade on the inside of the shaker to compliment the sequins and confetti!
Look how the soft ink blending on the inside of the shaker sets off the filling so well – and the Iridescent Mini Star and Heart Confetti pick up the color of the ink that is underneath them – helping make it more versatile than ever!
I started off by choosing my pattern paper, and trimming a piece of white cardstock to fit the front of my card, leaving the pattern paper showing at the top and bottom – in this case I did 4 1/4″ by 4″ – almost a square. Use some removable tape (washi tape or Post It tape which is what I used here) to hold the die in place and run through your die cut machine, saving both pieces.
I chose some inks that coordinated with the dominate color of my pattern paper and used a foam ink blender to add a soft color on the bottom of the inside piece. I used a light touch – I didn’t want the color too deep, and let it fade out to white at the top.
Next, I stamped my sentiments on the outer portion of the frame using Birdie Friends Stamp set, and also stamped the larger birdie, Colored with Copics, and die cut with the coordinating Birdie Friends Dies.
Add the acetate windows to the outer portion of the frame, and then a little trick I like to use to line up the inner portion perfectly – use a tiny bit of easily removable tape (again, I used Post It tape) to hold the back piece to the acetate window, apply adhesive to the back of just the inner portion of the window, place panel where you would like it on the card front, press firmly to attach adhesive, then easily pull off the outer portion that is only attached with that tiny piece of tape.
I used a mix of the Iridescent Mini Starand Heart Confetti, and some smaller 4mm Strawberry Burst and Peridot Mist sequins – I only used one layer of ordinary foam adhesive, so I didn’t want my shaker to have bulky items in it. I also spaced out the colored sequins, that way if things didn’t shake around a lot, I knew everything would be evenly spaced out to begin with with. Aren’t those sequins so pretty and sparkly together?
Add foam adhesive to the front of the shaker windows and attach over the sequins – see how perfectly they line up? To finish off, I wrapped some twine around the entire card front, tied in a bow, then mounted my little birdies with foam adhesive over the bows.
Here is a closer look at each of the finished cards!
Would love to hear what your favorite color combo of these is! I don’t think I can choose between the two – and I can’t get enough plaid paper these days! LOVE it!
Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!!!
It’s day 2 of our collaboration blog hop with our friends at Avery Elle. If you missed yesterday’s post, click here. There were so many amazing ideas from designers all across the globe and don’t forget, if you hop along and leave comments, you just might win one of the gift certificates!
Today’s card features stamps from the Woodland Wonders and Wild Birthday sets from Avery Elle. If you know me, you know I love shaker cards, so I decided to make a shaker. I thought it paired so well with the animals and the banner was the perfect size to top my card!
I honestly couldn’t stop playing with these critters- I made three cards with them! I love how they have a cute and whimsy look to them and the possibilities are endless!
My go-to mix for shaker card is my popular Sparkling Clear Mix. Since it has four sizes mixed together, it makes it super easy. To add just a bit more iridescence, I added in the Iridescent Mini Circle Confetti, also releasing in August.
Prizes: be sure to leave comments on each stop- there are 2 $25 Avery Elle gift certificates and 2 $25 Pretty Pink Posh gift certificates. Both companies will pick two random comments left before July 24, 2016. Winners will be announced on the company blogs on July 26th.
Did you have a favorite project on the hop? I’d love to hear what caught your eye!
We hope that you enjoyed our two day blog hop. A giant thank you to Avery Elle and their team for being partnering with us. It truly was a joy to work with them!
I am so excited it’s finally time to share about this special collaboration blog hop that I’ve been keeping a secret. I’ve been a long-time fan of Avery Elle(pretty much since the beginning!) and I’ve had the great privilege to work with Jamie and her team on several occasions pre- PPP days. I thought it was time to bring our two companies together for a two day blog hop filled with inspiration from both teams featuring both companies!
It’s been quite a while since I got to craft and I was beyond giddy to pull out my Avery Elle sets and create. For today’s card, I used the adorable Woodland Wonders set and paired it with the Peek-A-Boo, Stitched Duo 2 and Scallop Frames die sets.
I adore these cute critters and thought having them peek out from the Peek-A-Boodie was a cute idea. I like how this looks, especially with the stitching element on the outside. To finish the “scene” I added those little grass elements and thought the little purple flowers from theLilac Garden Flowers Mix looked cute with it.
It’s rare that I create a card without adding the Sparkling Clear Mix and for this card, I changed it up and had it be part of my background! I put down a bunch of Multi Medium Matte and then added the sequins to the background. Such a fun look and it really makes the card shine in person!
Prizes: be sure to leave comments on each stop- there are 2 $25 Avery Elle gift certificates and 2 $25 Pretty Pink Posh gift certificates. Both companies will pick two random comments left before July 24, 2016. Winners will be announced on the company blogs on July 26th.
Did you have a favorite project on the hop? I’d love to hear what caught your eye!
I hope that you loved today’s blog hop and were inspired by the variety of projects. We’ll be back tomorrow for another round of designers and inspiration!
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I’m excited to share a simple see-through shaker card tutorial today. I’m usually not a big fan of shakers, but with the right tools (and by tools I mean dies designed specifically for shakers) I’m starting to enjoy this type of cards more and more.
My today’s shaker is a see-through one, I’m using a card base with some printed texture/design and you can actually see that print through the window and through the sequins. Typically I close my shakers with white cardstock, but for this card I used clear acetate on both front and back of the shaker piece.
To create this card you’ll first need to create a few elements, I’m using the Rainy Days stamp set and matching dies along with Versafine Onyx Black ink, watercolor paper and watercolors to create mine. I stamped the umbrella and a cloud in black ink, heat set with my heat tool, did some very quick watercolor in blue and cut the shapes out using matching dies.
For my watercolors I used Daniel Smith watercolor sampler sheet (simply because there’s a huge number of blues to choose from), but these can be colored using any colors or any mediums really.
After you’ve stamped, colored and die cut the umbrella use glue and adhere the pieces together. I used Multi Medium adhesive in Matte.
While glue on the umbrella is drying go ahead and die cut the shaker front panel – I’m using Stitched Duo 2 diesand white cardstock. I’ve cut my dies apart as I recently used the inner die to create a continuous pattern for my card, you can see it here so I used washi tape to hold them together and I also used the connector pieces (what’s left of them) to alight the two dies perfectly. I also used a die from the Stitched Essentials 1 set and die cut just a little tail to go under my shaker. I didn’t need to cut the entire shape out as it would have been hidden anyways and I was making a see-through shaker so I needed it to actually not be there to look pretty.
Next go ahead and slide the umbrella through the Stitched Duo 2 dies and secure in place. You can skip this and just adhere the umbrella on top, but I thought it looked extra fun this way. I also die cut two rectangles out of clear acetate using the outer die from the Stitched Duo 2 set. This can be done using scissors, but if there is a die for that, why not use it, right? I adhered one from the back of my die cut cardstock piece.
Use foam adhesive to build the walls of your shaker. I usually use various types and brands of foam adhesive for that, but recently I came across this super thick foam dot adhesive from Studio G (you can find it at Michaels and similar stores). I rarely use adhesive that is this thick for my usual cardmaking as I find it to be just too dimensional, but it works perfectly for shakers and it’s very inexpensive too.
So build your shaker walls, use an anti static powder tool to eliminate the stick on the sides of the foam adhesive and add the sequins of your choice. For this project I went with the Gold Mini Star Confetti. I love these tiny confetti sequins and I’ve actually used a few packs to make an oversized layout shaker, you can see it here. Close up the shaker with another piece of clear acetate and continue making your card.
To finish this project I adhered my shaker onto an A2 top folding card base, foam mounted the watercolor cloud and added a sentiment. I stamped Get Well Soon onto the shaker itself and also heat embossed Sorry You’re Under The Weather in white onto black cardstock.
I couldn’t resist adding a few more sequins, so I adhered several 4mm Metallic Gold sequins to complete this card.
Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here to share a couple of fun cards I made by dressing up some papers from a 6×6 paper pad with PPP dies and sequins – these cards are amazingly simple to make, and yet with a few simple steps they look like you spent lots of time on them!
Am I the only one who hoards (I mean, COLLECTS!) pattern papers? I’ve gotten pretty good at using them, since I’ve learned that I will definitely be adding more all the time, and will constantly have a new favorite, so I may as well enjoy the current favorite by actually using it! However, some of those pattern paper pads have the extra pre-decorated patterns that are almost a stand alone on as a card, but when I use them, I like to dress them up a little to make them a bit more unique! PPP sequins and border dies are the perfect way to do that!
Here is the paper pad I used, as well as the pattern papers I chose. The top right pattern papers I trimmed to fit an A2 card front, 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, and the bottom images are from two sides of one piece of paper that I cut apart.
I selected two different borders from Stitched Borders 1 Dies, starting with the scallop, and cut it to fit on each side of my pre-designed portion of the paper.
On this photo you can see how I first trimmed one side with the zig-zag, layed the pre-designed portion over the top, then used Post-it tape to attach the die on the other side for perfect placement before running through my Big Shot die cut machine.
Here they are die cut and layered together:
Next, I used kids fun foam and my tape runner to attach them to the card front for some sturdy dimension.
Hello friends!!
Be sure to mark your calendars for August 11 & 12. We have a super fun blog hop that will showcase the new stamps, dies, sequins and I’m bringing along the design team and some amazing special guests. If you’re on Facebook, be sure to visit the blog hop event page HERE.
Hi everyone! Amy K. here with this month’s Throwback 
Here are close ups of the two finished cards – I absolutely adore the bright happy colors of this paper pad!!!
