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Hello, Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula. In this video, I’ll show you 2 modern and easy to make Christmas cards ideas using the same stamp, the Winter Wreath stamp set. As a bonus, I’ll also show you how you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled outlines to your stamped images.
I like modern designs in my cards so I decided to go for a slightly more modern color palette and a modern design. The design, however, can be done in more traditional colors, red, green and white. I use a lot of dark blues, some gold and just hints of red to make my cards look festive.
For my first card, I started with a panel of dark blue cardstock cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2”. I didn’t want the design to cover the entire front, I wanted there to be a small border, so I masked a ¼” border using low tack tape.
Next, I used a sentiment from the Joy stamp set, it reads “Wishing You a Blessed Holiday Season” and positioned it along the bottom edge of the card. I added single stamp images from the Winter Wreath stamp set and stamped them repeatedly to fill the entire background in. Don’t stamp your images all around the panel, stamp them one next to the other to make sure you build a nice solid background.
If you feel your embossing ink pad isn’t juicy enough you might want to pause and cover the already stamped images with embossing powder and then continue stamping additional images. You don’t have to stamp them all and then cover all. You can work in small sections.
Also, save the smallest images for last. There’s an image of berries and it’s rather small so you can use it to carefully fill any odd gaps you might have on your background.
To add some definition to the heat embossed images I used a darkest blue Copic marker I have in my stash, the B99 marker, and added subtle shading. This made a world of a difference and helped the images stand out from the background. I also added a bit of color to the berries. For this, I used Nuvo Drops in Red Berry.
My second card is very similar. I heat embossed the image of a wreath and a sentiment placed inside of it on the same dark blue cardstock. Next, I heat embossed and cut out additional, single images to adorn the wreath. I colored all, or rather added shading to all, using a dark blue marker.
I also heat embossed and colored a poinsettia. This time, however, I used white cardstock and colored not only the image of the flower, but also the white space around it to make it look like it was heat embossed on dark blue. I used R39, R27, R24 and R22 markers along with the B99.
Images were adhered using glue and foam adhesive at the top of the wreath. I also used the same Nuvo Drops. Finally, I love to use jewels by PPP so I added a good amount ofMidnight Black Jewels all around the wreath to spice the design up. It’s a simple card, but small finishing touches such as these jewels make it that much more special.
Finally, here’s the bonus idea I mentioned showing how you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled outlines to your stamped images. If you own a hot foil machine such as Glimmer by Spellbinders or another machine of the same kind you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled halo-like outlines to your stamped images.
To create this card I first foiled the image outlines (using coordinating dies) on the background. It took me 4 times to foil a full A2 card background. I used Winter Wreath coordinating dies (just the single image dies) and gold foil.
Having done that I placed the panel into my MISTI tool and positioned the coordinating stamps one by one placing them each into their own coordinating foiled spot. From there I heat embossed the images using Antique Gold embossing powder. This is very similar to what I did for the first project, but instead of just heat embossing the images, I also added foiled image outlines making this card design extra special. It wasn’t hard to do, but it surely added a nice foiled touch to the card.
Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a card that you can mass produce easily for after holiday thank you cards. I think these are a really sweet and fun idea to either thank someone for their gift, or for coming over on Christmas etc. It’s just a nice way to show your appreciation if you’re that person who loves to send any sort of card. I used the popular Hummingbird Thanks stamp set, just because I love it so much and the sentiment is perfect and then I also pulled in the Penguin Pals stamp setfor the little Christmas hats, just to make it more festive!
To start off my project today I stamped out a ton of the Hummingbirds onto some watercolour paper. I then clear heat embossed over them so it would be easier to contain my watercolour. I then used a mix of colours of Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers to colour these in. I went for an aqua, blue and purple colour combo to give that wintery feel. I then used red for the hats as well. Once they were coloured, I dried them off with a heat tool and cut them out using the coordinating dies.
Now that all my pieces were ready, I started on the backgrounds. I used my Mini MISTI to stamp my sentiment into the middle of the watercolour paper pieces and gold heat embossed them. I then ink blended in the centre of each of the panels with Peacock Feathers and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks. I flicked each of them with water and dried them again with a heat tool.
I then adhered my hummingbirds into place
with foam tape onto each of my panels as well as their Santa hats on top. I did
this to make them appear more festive since I plan to use these for holiday
thank you cards, but you could leave them off if they’re for everyday use.
Lastly, I took a piece of 12×12 patterned paper, cut it down into four panels
and adhered all my panels together to complete my cards.
So that finished up my cards for today, I
hope you all enjoyed. I love creating simple cards like this that are easy to
mass produce and used for different seasons.
Thanks for stopping by today and I’ll see you next time.
We are excited to be a sponsor for the 25 Days of Christmas Tags again this year. Tracey always does a great job with this fun event and it will definitely inspire you for your upcoming Christmas tags!
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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you were inspired by these pretty tags.
Angelica here with a pair of clean and simple Christmas cards that will surely make a loved one smile. I have used a couple of my favorite techniques with PPP stencils to enhance them.
I started my project with the Wide Stripes stencil. This stencil is my favorite in PPP’s stencil collection. It’s such a simple design, with endless possibilities. For this project, I made a plaid design, using the grid on my Make Art Stay-Tion for perfect alignment. I blended Passion Fruit ink with a blender brush over the stencil until I was happy with the blend. I removed the stencil, turned my Make Art Stay-tion 90 degrees, re-attached the stencil, and repeated the ink blending process. Once finished, I used a T-ruler and a red Fineliner pen to add red grid lines. I die-cut the panel with the Stitched Notes rectangle, then moved on to assembling the cards.
I used the Joy die to die-cut Joy from the middle of the plaid panel, and to die-cut white card stock 3 times. I attached the plaid panel to a card base at an angle before adding the white letters I had stacked and glued together for dimension. I stamped and gold heat embossed a sentiment from the Joy stamp set, trimmed it, and attached to the card with thin foam squares. I finished the card with a die-cut Stitched Poinsettia, spraying it heavily with glitter spray before attaching it to the card with Glue Dots.
I die-cut Sea Salt card stock with the Stitched Notes rectangle. I dry-embossed the panel in my die-cut machine, using the stencil and thick rubber mats. I attached the panel to a card base, trimming off the sides with my paper trimmer. I die-cut Joy 2 times from white card stock, glued them together, and added the plaid letters to the top. I replaced the O with a Stitched Ornament, using the heart die included in the Stitched Ornament die set to decorate the ornament. I added a stamped and gold-embossed sentiment from the Winter Friends stamp set. I used my Make Art Stay-Tion grid lines and magnetic ruler to align my letters straight and evenly to the the card base. I glued the letters first, then used foam squares to add the ornament. I added a small twine bow to the ornament to finish the card.
I hope you were inspired by this week of new stencil inspiration. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the stencil collection and get yours while they are 15% off through November 18, 2019!
Good morning! Heather here and I have two fun cards to share with you today for Stencil Theme Week using a fun summery stencils from Pretty Pink Posh!
For both of these cards I used the beautiful Tropical Background stencil, and a fun technique combining white embossing paste with watercolors!
For both of these cards, I added embossing paste over watercolor paper in a bit of a random pattern – not going entirely to the edges, then set them aside to dry thoroughly.
Once those panels had dried, I colored over the top of each one with 3 different shades of watercolors for an ombre color effect!
The embossing paste absorbs the watercolor a bit differently, so it gives a great variation of colors – I love the texture it adds to these!
I set those aside to dry, and die cut the fun Aloha Shaker Die from white cardstock, then coated it with embossing ink, sprinkled on sparkly white embossing powder, and heat set. This gives them a fun, frosty, and glittery look!
Finished off by mounting those Aloha sentiments over the top of the now-dry backgrounds with foam adhesive. Once I added the foam adhesive to the back of the Aloha sentiments, I added a bit of liquid glue before adhering to the backgrounds to make certain they would adhere firmly over the embossing paste. Finished off with coordinating card bases and a few sequins from the Sparkling Clear Sequin Mix!
Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!
I’ll be dry embossing and colour blocking for my technique with these stencils today.
I started off with two pieces of
watercolour cardstock, laid down my stencils over the top and masked off
sections to create my stripes and rectangles. I then used various Distress Ink
colours to ink blend inside each of them.
Once all the stripes were ink blended as
well as the rectangles, I cleaned off the stencils and dry embossed with them.
I used some rubber mats to make this happen. Now on the white areas you have
this raised look and it gives so much more detail to the simple design.
I then white heat embossed the ‘Wishing You A Blessed Holiday Season’ onto some thin black strips of cardstock from the Joy Stamp Set and adhered it onto my card. I added some hemp cord to add a bow to the right hand side of the strips. Lastly I scattered some Celebration Confetti Mix onto the background and adhered them down with glossy accents.
Thanks so much for stopping by today and
I’ll see you all next time.
Good Morning Friends! Welcome to Day 4 of Stencil Theme Week. It is Dana here today and I am sharing a festive New Year’s card that combines a few new products along with a few “old” favorites.
For my card, I started by creating my background. I used the Fireworks Stencil along with Gold Glitz Glitter Gel. I lightly sprayed Pixie Spray to the back of my stencil to help hold it in place and added the gel directly over the stenci with a palette knife.
*Make sure you wash your stencil with warm soapy water as soon as possbile, you do not want the gel to dry onto the stencil.
When you remove the stencil, you are left with a beautiful background. Look at the details and all of the sparkle!
I set my background aside to dry and began working on the rest of my card. I started by stamping the set of penguins from the Penguin Pals Stamp Set along with the party accessories from the Happy New Year Stamp Set with a Copic friendly black ink. I colored the images and used the coordinating dies to cut them out. These little penguins just make me smile, and they are perfect for New Year’s…all dressed and ready to celebrate!
Next, I used the Scallop Circles Die and die cut the inside piece from black cardstock and the frame from gold glitter cardstock. I stamped my sentiment from the Happy New Year Stamp Set with Versamark ink and heat set the sentiment with gold embossing powder. I inlaid the two pieces back together and attached it to my card panel along with my penguins. Lastly, I added a few sequins from the Celebration Confetti Mix to finish my card.
Thanks for joining me today! I hope I inspired you to give stencils a try. There are so many techniques and mediums you can use with stencils to create amazing backgrounds and card elements. Now is a great time to purchase a few stencils and take advantage of the 15% off sale.
Hi Pretty Pink Posh Friends! It’s Jeanne here today and I’m helping celebrate Stencil Theme Week with another technique for you to try! I love gold, but honestly don’t use it very often because it’s difficult for me to photograph, but if you got this stunner in your hands you’d be hooked!
Here’s the card I made for today. It’s got lots to love.. a shiny gold foil stencil, gold foil die cuts and I can’t forget the two cute little bears from the Giving Thanks stamp set.
For this technique you’re going to need some Art Deco Transfer Gel, Deco Foil(in any color you like – I used gold), and a laminator. Laminators are very inexpensive – I did a quick check on Amazon and see three that are under $25.
I use Pixie Spray light adhesive spray whenever working with stencils. Whatever technique you use, Pixie Spray will keep your stencil in place while your working and is very easy to reposition and remove.
Use a palate knife, old plastic credit card or scraper to apply the Art Deco Transfer Gel over your stencil (I used the Autumn Leaves stencil). When you have a smooth application remove the stencil and set your cardstock to the side to dry. Immediately wash the stencil for your next application.
When the Art Deco Gel is clear it’s ready to work with. Simply place your Deco Foil over the cardstock panel, put it inside a folded piece of parchment paper and run it through your laminator. After you run it through your machine you can peel off the foil sheet and you’ll see it stuck wherever the Art Deco Gel was applied.
I wanted the little bears to be the focal point of the design so I layered them inside a small Scallop Circles die cut.
I added a bitty pumpkin and some foliage to add a little color to the design.
To “ground” the Scallop Circle I added some Stitched Borders 3 behind it. I adhered them together on their reverse side to create a panel and then attached it to the center of the design. I find that this keeps things from looking like they’re floating on the page.
The gold on this design is beautiful! I sure hope you give this technique a try! Stop by tomorrow for another day of stencil inspiration and another technique!
Hi crafters! Adelle here and I’m happy to take part in the first Stencil Theme Week where there is inspiration and all stencils are 15% off! Just visit the stencil section on the Pretty Pink Posh website. There are so many fantastic stencils to choose from and no shortage of techniques to use with stencils.
The technique I chose to use was embossing powder. To begin, I inked a background panel with various blue inks. After that was dry I used my anti-static tool on the panel and used the Snowflakes stencil to apply Versamark Embossing Ink with an ink blending tool. I then applied Wow Embossing Powder – Singing in the Rain and heat set it and sprayed the panel using Tsukineko Shimmer Spritz.
After the panel was complete I stamped out a Santa from the Holiday Signs stamp set and colored with Copic markers. I then used white embossing powder for the sentiment.
Next, I used the curved stitched die from the Stitched Borders 1 set to die cut a hill for Santa. Lastly, I adhered everything to a white card base and popped up Santa using thin foam squares.
Be sure to head on over to the Pretty Pink Posh website and check out the deals in their stencils section! You get so much bang for your buck with stencils.
