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Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have a card and video using quite a few new items from the May release. I’m going to be using the Bold Blooms, Build A Bloom and also the Thoughtful Greetings stamp set, as well as the coordinating dies and the Scallop Borders 2 set.
For my card today I’m going to be using the watercolour stamping technique with Distress Inks to create a fun wreath using the flowers in both of the new stamp sets.
To begin my card today I first stamped out all my outline images with Versafine Onyx Black Ink onto some watercolour paper. I stamped out a ton of images since my wreath that I’m going to be making is going to be super full. I then pulled some colours of Distress Inks out and began my watercolour stamping. I first found the coordinating solid stamp, pressed it down into the ink pad and then spritzed it with a little water to reactivate that ink and then stamped it down onto the coordinating image. I repeated this step until I had coloured all my images. I love this technique, it’s super fast and I love how it never looks the same. You get dark and light spots, spots that aren’t always covered completely, it’s really fun!
Now that all my images had been stamped and dried completely, I cut them out using both sets of coordinating dies and set them to the side for later. I then took a piece of watercolour cardstock, and die cut the edge of it using the rounded die in the Scallop Border 2 die set. The mini scallops are so cute!
Now my panel was ready to assemble. I first traced around a circle (I used a bowl) with a pencil so it was easier to make my wreath circular. I then laid down all my images around the circle to make my wreath. When arranging all the images I worked in odd numbers and a triangle pattern, to make it appealing to the eye. It’s rule of thumb that things looks better in odd numbers and threes, so that’s what I went for. Once all my images were laid out around my wreath with all the colours spread out evenly, I could stamp my sentiment. I needed to lay down all my images first to see how much space I had left. I used the Thoughtful Greetings stamp set and used the sentiment ‘Thank You For Everything You Do’ and stamped it in the center of my wreath with Versafine Onyx Black Ink. Now my sentiment had been stamps, I could adhere down my images. For all my leaves I used liquid adhesive and then used the foam tape for the flowers.
Once everything was adhered down I took a piece of yellow patterned paper and adhered it to the bottom of my card base. I then took a piece of fun foam and adhered it down to my panel and then to my card base so it could have some dimension. To finish up my card completely I used some Wink of Stella in the clear and also some Clear Droplets in the 4mm and 6mm size.
Hello everyone, Joni here sharing a tutorial using your Build a Bloom dies without using the stamp set.
To begin, I first die-cut all the pieces I want to use from the Build a Bloom coordinating dies.
Next, I used different colored Distress inks to color my die-cut pieces.
Here is the finish die-cut pieces that’s been colored.
Next, distressed my background with Distress inks.
Next, I splatted it with the new Gansai Tambi Pearl Colors in Pearl Lemon Yellow and Pearl May Green. Then, I die-cut the large Scallop Hexagons die for my frame.
Next, I added the cute owls from the Happy Owls set. Then added some Champagne sequins, Hydrangea Flower sequins, and some Sparkling Clear sequins to finish off the card. The sentiment congrats was from the Everyday Greeting stamp set.
I hope you enjoyed! Thank you so much for stopping by!
I have a quick post announcing the winners from the Product Release Blog Hop Day 1 and Day 2. Here are the four winners of the $25 gift certificates!
Ladies, email me within 7 days and I’ll send over the gift certificates so you can shop!
Again, thank you to everyone who left comments on the blog hop and for the special guests and designers who shared their beautiful inspiration.
We’ll be back on Monday with new inspiration. Have a super weekend!
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I wanted to share a quick technique video to show you how easy it is to add details to colored images.
I started working on my card by stamping and coloring 3 images from the Friends Forever stamp set. I used Simon Says Stamp Intense Black ink for stamping and double stamped images using MISTI stamp positioner to have the blackest black outline possible.
There are coordinating dies available for this set so I cut my images out and quickly colored them using Copics. I used E79, E37 and E33 to color hair; E00 and E000 to color skin; R20 to add blush. To color outfits I used RV14, RV13 and RV10 for pinks; B05, B02 and B000 for blues; YG67, YG17 and YG03 for greens.
While my images looked great as is I decided to add little details to make them unique and a bit more personal. Think about it this way – in real life we all wear fabrics with different patterns. So I wanted to translate some of those patterns onto these images. There are a number of ways this can be done, some are simple, some not so much, I used the most simple and easy way – a white gel pen.
If you don’t have a white gel pen – you can also use a black pen or you can even use a Copic colorless blender to add detail. If you have a colorless blender in a bottle you can look for a piece of fabric with some texture, say burlap, wet that fabric with colorless blender and use it to stamp over the outfits of these images – that will transfer the texture of the fabric onto the image and will create same looking texture on your images.
I used a white gel pen and added little dots, vertical and horizontal stripes. You want to make sure to wait for your Copic coloring to dry, especially if you have really saturated paper with the marker as it (the marker) might eat up your white pen, I’ve had that happen in the past, so before adding the white detail – make sure image is dry.
I ink blended a hill to create a scene and foam mounted my friends on top. I also added little bees from the Bee Friends stamp set I adhered several sequins from the Sparkling Clear Mix and I also added clear droplets on top. I love to combine the two together as this way I feel my droplets look even more dimensional.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh sweet friends!
It’s time to start our two day Product Release Blog Hop for the May 2017 release. Many of you have already placed orders, but for those who were waiting for more inspiration, today and tomorrow the design team and special guests have all sorts of inspiration to share. Today we have Vera sharing two sweet cards, along with a video!
For today’s post I have projects to share with you featuring the Build A Bloom stamp set along with the coordinating dies. This beautiful stamp set caught my eye and I really want to create a post with it.
There are so many ways you can use with this flowers stamp set. Here, I combined it with the bear from Woodland Critters and the sentiment from the Thoughtful Greetings set. I colored with soft pastel colors with alcohol markers.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made my cards.
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 May 17, 2017 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!
I truly hope you enjoyed today’s blog hop. Stop by tomorrow for a whole new batch of inspiration and designers!
Hello! Shannon here today! I have a fun card to share with you today featuring the new Build a Bloom stamp set and coordinating dies.
I started off with an A2 size of watercolor card stock and used a light blue Zig real brush water color marker and a water brush to make my sky background. I stamped my images from the Build a Bloom stamp set on a separate piece of white card stock , colored in with Copic markers and cut out using the coordinating dies.
I decided I wanted to create a little scene with these pretty flowers so I thought the Picket Fence die was the perfect set up for that. I cut the fence out of Neenah desert storm card stock and adhered to the bottom of my card panel. I didn’t put any adhesive closer to the top of the fence so that I could slide my flowers under.
I adhered my flowers on my scene sliding the stems under the fence. I added some interest on the flowers with a white gel pen and to finish off my card I stamped my sentiment from the new Thoughtful Greetings stamp set.
That’s it for me today! Hope you enjoyed and are enjoying the new release as much as I am. Have a lovely day!!
Hi there! Laura Bassen here and today I have a couple of fun projects to share using the Distress Oxide Inks along with some Pretty Pink Posh products.
I had so much fun experimenting with the Distress Oxide inks using some of my favorite techniques. Below is a few backgrounds comparing the regular Distress Inks to the Oxide Inks. The top two were simple ink blended backgrounds with flicks of water using Wilted Violet, Broken China, Cracked Pistachio & Fossilized Amber. The Oxide Ink panels are on the right and the regular Distress Inked panels are on the left. The bottom two panels were created using one of my favorite techniques “ink smooshing”. I used Worn Lipstick, Spiced Marmalade & Fossilized Amber. You can see that the results are slightly different. Not a huge difference, but there is a difference.
Then I used the Oxide Ink backgrounds to create a couple of projects. This first card features the Bee Friends stamp set along with the coordinating dies.
I used the arch die from the Stitched Duo 3 dies & the rectangle die from the Stitched Notes dies to create a shaker card. I filled the shaker with Sparkling Clear, Bermuda Blue, Peridot Mist, Blue Lagoon, and Ocean Spray sequins.
This next card features the adorable Friends Forever stamp set with coordinating dies.
I simply colored the images with Copics and popped them up over the “ink smooshed” background and added a few Sparkling Clear sequins to finish it off.
GIVEAWAY: Want to win your own set of 12 Distress Oxide Inks? Paulina is giving one away to one lucky person! Leave a comment on this post sharing your top 3 current favorite crafting products. Comments must be left by May 9th at 11:59pm, PST. Winner will be announced later that week.
Thank you so much to Pretty Pink Posh for having me. I always enjoy playing with their adorable images. Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hello Pretty Pink Posh friends! Shannon here, so happy to join you today!
I have a fun shaker card to share with you today featuring some lovely sequins, confetti and seed beads along with the Bee Friends stamp set and coordinating dies.
Okay, so I promise creating the card was not nearly as complicated as I make it sound with my explanation! I started with an A2 size piece of white card stock and die cut the panel with the wavy scallop die from the Scallop Border Dies and die cut a thin piece of white card stock with the straight scallop border from the same die set.
Now I want to adhere these pieces together to make it my shaker window. I did this by laying both pieces over an A2 card base so that I knew exactly the spacing needed before I added strips of card stock to connect the 2 pieces together. I cut two thin strips of paper and adhered one on the top and one on the bottom to create my shaker window area.
I then added acetate and fun foam to the back and filled it up with all my shaker pieces. I used Daffodil seed beads, Hydrangea seed beads, Lilac seed beads, Petunia seed beads, Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix and Gold Mini Circle Confetti.
Onto creating my scene, I die cut some green card stock with the Scallop Border die to create my grass. I then stamped all my images on a separate piece of white cardstock, colored with Copic markers and cut out with the coordinating dies.
I hope you enjoyed, I had fun creating it and love those bees flying over those pretty flowers. Thank you so much for joining me today!
Hi Pretty Pink Posh friends!
Our May 2017 Release is now available in the Pretty Pink Posh Shop and select retailers that carry our products. If you missed our post yesterday, we revealed all of the products in picture form, but if you would like to see them also in a video, we have you covered!
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