Hello friends – Suzy here and I’m so happy to be guest blogging for Pretty Pink Posh today. I absolutely LOVED the June release and I went “monkey’s” over the Monkey Friends stamp set. I have a card to share with you today using this set as well as some of the foliage from the Jungle Additions and Jungle Friends stamp sets.
My favorite part of this card is the background. I used some Tonic Shimmer Powder in Catherine Wheel on watercolor paper to get that cool multicolored swirled look. I then used the Medium Polka Dot Stencil with some Texture Paste colored with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink. I just rubbed some over different parts of the stencil to give the background a messy textured look. I used a frame over the background using the Nature Essentials Dies(and they are essential as I will be using that frame on every card here forward!).
Next, I stamped the monkey and all of the foliage from the Monkey Friends stamp set and the Jungle Additions and Jungle Friends stamp sets. They all 3 work so well together to create cute jungle scenes! I used a light color of ink for a no-line coloring look with colored pencils. I die-cut all of the pieces out and arranged them inside the frame over the background. I added a greeting on one of the Stitched Label 1 Dies and tucked it under the baby monkey.
I hope you enjoyed this card today and thank you so much for visiting! Happy creating to all and stay well friends!
Hello, Jeanne here. We all need a sweet escape right about now. That’s what I love about papercrafting… my mind can travel anywhere!
Today I’m in a magical place where the sun is shining and a family of hedgehogs are enjoying the day!
My scene starts with a background of rolling grassy hills made by die cutting shades of green card stock with the Stitched Borders 4 triple curve die and Stitched Borders 1 large curve die.
Now for the fun part .. adding the Hedgehog Friends, butterflies and foliage. I use a clear plastic sheet the size of my card front to arrange them before I adhere them in place.
Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather Hoffman here today to share this bright, happy, and tropical theme card with a fun stenciling technique, some simple Copic coloring, and of course, a bit of bling!
Here is a video showing how I created this card so you can see all the details.
I used two different colors of distress inks to blend my background – Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean – over the fun Jungle Background Stencil. I masked off the bottom with Purple Tape, and blended on watercolor paper before lightly misting with water to slightly blend the colors. If you watch the video, you will see that it is best to go easy on the water – too much will wipe out your design, but a little gives it a nice soft watercolor effect!
Next, I stamped the fun palm tree and flamingo from Tropical Birds stamp set and die cut with the coordinating dies. I did some simple coloring with Copic markers – using just two shades for each color for blending. I also used some simple warm gray Copics under the bird and palm tree to add some grounding to the images for a touch of realism. I then adhered them over the top with foam adhesive for a touch of dimension.
Finally, I added the sentiment at the bottom using both Tropical Birds and Simple Sentiments to create a custom sentiment, then finished off with a sprinkling of Luau Jewels Mix placed with my Crystal Katana and mounted on a coordinating blue card base.
Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!
Anemones come is several colors, white anemones are probably the most beautiful of all. While white seems a very easy color to work with, it’s actually the hardest one to color on paper, especially if everything else you have happening on your project is white. In this video I’ll show you how use can use a dark background to help these white flowers come to life with minimum effort and very quick coloring.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.
I have 2 cards and 2 similar, yet different techniques – first one featuring a one layer layer card with masking and another one, in case you are not into masking, featuring die cutting and layering.
One Layer Card – Coloring The Background with Copics
To create my first project, Sending Happy Mail, I stamped anemones around the edges of a 4 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄2” white cardstock panel. Next, I created masks for flowers, masked them and stamped leaves in between the open spaces. I removed masks and ended up having a beautiful floral frame for my card.
To color these, I used the following Copic Markers:
● G94, YG63 and G21 to color leaves;
● B99 and B21 to color flower centers;
● W1 and B000 to add hints of shadows where the petals overlap and meet.
Coloring white is very hard to do, this is something I am yet to master. Here you don’t have to be a pro at coloring white objects as we’ll add a blue background and our white images will come to life with very little effort and just minimal shading.
Once my coloring was done I used B99 marker and colored the entire background. Think of this as coloring the negative space. It does take time to apply all of the color, especially next to the stamped images as you need to go slow and be patient, but it really does look phenomenal in the end.
Once my background coloring was finished I left my panel to dry for about 10 minutes. Next, I white heat embossed a sentiment – Sending You Happy Mail from the Happy Mail stamp set.
I adhered my background on to an A2 white top folding card base; to dress this card up I used metallic gold confetti and sparkling clear jewels. I couldn’t decide which of those embellishments I wanted to use, so I used both by first adhering the confetti piece and topping it with a jewel of the same size.
Layered Card – Using Colored Cardstock
Not everyone wants to use their Copic markers to color background around the images as that takes a ton of ink and that is also time consuming. Another way to go about this is to add your die cut images onto a background made out of colored cardstock.
I stamped several images I wanted to use for my 2nd card and once again colored using same marker colors as before. Using the Anemones coordinating dies I cut these out in my die cutting machine. This gave me beautiful stamped, colored and die cuts pieces for my card. This also gave a white outline to each of my die cuts. Having a white outline can be very discarding for this project, so to eliminate it, I used a Copic marker once again and color matched white outline to my background color.
So here instead of coloring the entire background, I’m replacing the marker colored background with colored cardstock and only coloring the white die cut outlines on my stamped images.
This way your images and the background become one, they look as if they were done on the background directly and don’t have that white border that separates them from the base. This is not a trick that will work for every card design, or every image, but this is very fitting for these gorgeous white anemones.
Hello, friends! Leica here and today I am sharing a slimline card, featuring some adorable PPP lions from the Party Friends set and the new Jungle Friends set.
Let’s start with the panel, which is 3.5 x 8.5 inches. From top to bottom, I ink blended with Dried Marigold, Ripe Persimmon, Crushed Olive, and Peeled Paint distress oxides. I’ve been enjoying the paint splatters look lately, so I used white and gold acrylic paint for that. I then stitched around the card with linen thread.
Next, I stamped the lion, leaves, and vine from the new Jungle Friends Stamp Set and the lion, party hats, and cake from the Party Friends Stamp Set. I cut the koala behind the cake and replaced it with a lion image. It is just so fun and easy to mix and match Pretty Pink Posh stamps and dies, old and new.
I colored with Copic markers and cut with their coordinating die cuts.
I really love the new Simple Sentiments Stamp Set as it covers any occasion and fits perfectly onto one of the Simple Strips Dies. I chose 3 birthday-related sentiments for this card.
To assemble, I first glued down the vines and the leaves onto the panel. For dimension, I foam mounted the lions on top of the greenery. Lastly, I adhered the sentiments to complete this adorable lion birthday card.
I hope you enjoyed today’s slimline card share and you are inspired to mix and match your PPP stamps and dies. Happy crafting, friends!
For the background, I used theJungle BackgroundStencil and blended several shades of green ink onto my white card stock.
All of the images are from theJungle Friends and Jungle Additions stamp sets. I colored them all with Copic markers, cut them out with the coordinating dies and added them to my background with foam tape. The sentiment is from the Simple Sayings: Brave stamp set and it was stamped with black ink.
So after I made this card, I wondered if it looked weird with the brave sentiment and a giraffe, because I wasn’t sure if giraffes were brave, and that maybe I should have used the lion instead? Well, after a bit of thought, I decided that this was indeed a very brave giraffe because there was a lion lurking right behind some of those leafy plants! ;)
I hope you have enjoyed my card today! Thanks so much for stopping by! Hugs, Kay :)
Hello! Today it’s time to announce the team for this upcoming design term. It’s always sad for me to say farewell to any designer, especially those who have been with me for years! We are saying a very sad farewell to Adelle, Angelica, Ardyth andCaly. Each of these gals will be greatly missed on the team!
We do have some new faces on the team, along with a familiar one. Please welcome Lindsey and Tammy to the Pretty Pink Posh team! We are also welcoming back Mayra!
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, dies and stencils! One lucky comment left by July 27th will win a shopping spree.Congratulations to Sol Enriquez!You’re the lucky winner. I will email you with the prize information!
Thanks for joining us today. Be sure to give lots of love to the designers!
To start, I cut a white card panel to 3.25 x 8.5 inches. I then used the Medium Polka Dot Stencil to create a background. I wanted to make a mixed media background, which is not my usual style. However, the new Simple Sayings: Brave stamp set inspired me to be brave and try something new. With a sponge, I used distress oxides in Chipped Sapphire, Tumbled Glass, and Iced Spruce. For an effortless look, I intentionally did not line up the stencil perfectly and then splattered with black and gold acrylic paint.
I chose to feature the adorable hippo and the leaves from Jungle Additions stamp set for this card. The stitched square that I used to stamp the sentiment onto is from Storybook 5 Dies.
Dots and lines go together in design, so I added black strips using the new Simple Strips Dies. The strips are not long enough for a slimline, so I hid the edges behind the white square and other elements.
Next, I arranged the stamped images and adhered onto the card. Some are foam mounted for dimension. I wanted to create a scene to show a little hippo hiding behind the bushes, afraid to come out because of a powerful wind gust, blowing the leaves in different directions. I just love the sentiments from the Simple Sayings: Brave. They are great to use for encouragement cards.
For added texture, I stitched around the card with linen quilt thread. I realized that my panel was a quarter inch shorter than it’s supposed to be, so I adhered it onto a black cardstock before gluing it onto the card base.
I hope you enjoyed today’s card share. Happy crafting!
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula. Today’s video shares a different way to color with alcohol markers, a fun way to use a whole lot of jewels, and 3 ways to use the new Jungle Friends and Jungle Additions stamp sets! Let’s jump right in!
I started working on my cards by stamping all of the images I needed. I used darling critter images from the Jungle Friendsand Jungle Additionsstamp sets and also stamped leaves, branches, and flowers. Because I had planned to color all of these using alcohol markers I picked a suitable type of ink, Intense Black by Simon Says Stamp.
Lately, I’ve been enjoying the blending free coloring technique. This method requires absolutely no blending when coloring with alcohol markers and it works with all alcohol markers out there. The idea is to have harsh, defined lines that separate the different shades of one color. It is best to use the shades of markers that aren’t too similar and have a clear difference to the naked eye.
So if we are talking Copic markers, for example, I wouldn’t use a Y00 and Y02 makers, as there won’t be that much of a difference between these two shades of yellow.
This type of coloring looks a lot like cartoon coloring to me. The images have a simple colored look to them, sometimes even too simple.
You can apply the same coloring technique to color any other image. This is a very simple coloring method and one, I think, that is suitable especially for beginners. You don’t need to worry about blending your colors.
I have 3 cards to share today. I decided to stamp a leafy frame for my first card. I stamped 2 types of images around the perimeter of my panel. I used the same coloring method and the same colors of markers to color these images green. Next, I stamped, colored, and cut out the monstera leaves and adhered them to the frame using foam adhesive squares to create dimension. I cut the excess leaves off using my scissors.
I also stamped, colored, and cut out flowers and used those to embellish my frame. I foam mounted a baby elephant in the center of the panel – I love how cute she turned out! I stamped a sentiment that reads Congratulations. All of the sentiments you see on my cards today come from the Simple Sentiments stamp set.
Now, I mentioned I’ll show you a fun way to use your jewels! I love jewels from Pretty Pink Posh and I think I have them in every color imaginable! I typically like to use them as accents on my cards, as dimensional flower centers, or to cover any mistakes I have on my projects. For today’s cards, I used them to create colorful backgrounds! Here I added lots of Sea Glass jewels all around my baby elephant adding hints of blue as if mimicking the sky! I used jewels of various sizes and adhered them using glue.
For my next card, I started by foam mounting the two vines in the top part of my background panel. I also added additional leaves and flowers. With that adhered, I added my party of critters! First, I added my zebra, another darling baby elephant, and also a baby hippo! They look so adorable together! I dressed them up using the die-cut flowers – I added flowers in pink and yellow and also added a bunch of smaller leaves.
I stamped a sentiment that reads Celebrate Your Day and to spice this card up I once again added a bunch of jewels in the background behind my critter party! Doesn’t this look fun? It adds texture, it adds sparkle and it adds a ton of wow!
My last card features the rest of my jungle critters. I have 4 of them of the card – a hippo, a tiger, a zebra, and once again that darling baby elephant. I added some leaves and flowers to dress this card up and also to embellish my critters and of course, I had to add my jewels! This time I used Jewels in Caribbean Blue and added loads to fill my background and add some color and sparkle!
Next, I cut an A2 sized piece of Bristol cardstock and ink blended the background with Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide inks. I added some water splatters and thinned down Picked Raspberry to the background for interest, and attached it to an A2 white card base. I then cut a 4 X 5 1/4″ piece of white cardstock and cut a window using the Storybook 5 Dies and attached to my inked background with foam tape. I arranged the jungle friends inside the frame and attached with foam tape for dimension, tucking in the leaves behind the critters. To complete my card, I stamped a sentiment from the Encouraging Greetings Stamp Set in black ink.
For my next card, I created a fun, striped ombre background by cutting strips of colored cardstock using the Simple Strips Die. Using the Nature Essential Dies, I die cut a white frame and placed over my striped background, highlighting the stripes. Next, using the Hi Shaker Die, I cut it twice from white cardstock. I carefully snipped off the “hi” sentiment, layered them together, and placed on top of an inked background, using the same color inks as my previous card. I stamped the hippo and leaves from the Jungle Additions Stamp Set, colored with Copic markers, and cut them out with the Jungle Additions Coordinating Dies. To finish off my card, I heat embossed a sentiment from the Simple Sentiments Stamp Set with white embossing powder onto a black cardstock strip.
For my last card, I created a fun slimline card, so I could fit all the jungle cuties! To begin, I cut a piece of Bristol cardstock to 3 1/4 X 8 1/4″, and ink blended the background with Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxide inks. I then die cut a grassy border, using the Nature Essentials Die(cut 2 borders), and ink blended it with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide inks. I then attached both borders to my inked background, cutting off the excess border and adhered to a 3 1/2 X 8 1/2″ white card base. Next, I stamped, colored with Copic markers, and cut out the images from the following sets:
I stamped the sentiment from the Encouraging Greeting Stamp Set with black ink, and then arranged the images onto my card, attaching some with foam tape to complete my card.
I hope you enjoyed my cards using the new release products! Thanks so much for stopping by today!
