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Christmas Tag Inspiration

Hello friends… Angelica here, and I’m so excited to be part of the 25 Days Of Christmas Tags with Pretty Pink Posh. I made two shaker tags with products from the new release for this fun event.

To construct the shaker tags, I used coordinating heavyweight cardstock and acetate, as well as double-sided adhesive. I added the adhesive to the cardstock before die-cutting with the Ornament Shaker Die. I die-cut once with the adhesive on the backside, and once with the adhesive on the front side.

I snipped the word out of the ornament with adhesive on the front side, since this was going to be the backside of my see-through tag. I trimmed two pieces of acetate the same size as the ornaments. I attached the acetate to each cardstock side with adhesive. On the ornament for the front, I wrapped Darice Double-sided Foam Sticky Strips around the edge. I filled the window with Berry Bright Confetti Mix.

I carefully used my finger to make the confetti even height, then closed the window with the back ornament. I die cut a gold topper, and used liquid glue to attach it to the ornament.

For the blue ornament, I did the same steps, using Winter Days Confetti Mix in the window, and silver glitter paper for the topper.

These ornaments were quick to make. If you like making shaker cards, I definitely recommend giving this project a try. They’re a perfect touch for wrapped presents.

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Thanks for stopping by! I hope you were inspired by these pretty tags.

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Halloween Theme Week- Day 7

Hi everyone, Rina here! I wanted to create some treats for friends. I decided to do make some Halloween and Fall tags to add to some delicious chocolate goodies.

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Since I was making more than one, I decided to use my Zig Real Clean Color Brush markers to color with a water brush. I used Versafine Onyx Black ink on Bristol smooth cardstock. I like the easy watercolor feel these markers leave behind. I used traditional fall colors:

Yellow
Bright Yellow
Light Carmine
Orange
Black
Violet
Light Gray

I used Distress Oxide inks to create orange paper where I can cut out some of the Fall Tags, I used the pumpkin and one of the leaf dies. I will use these to embellish my project. For the orange blend, I used Antique Linen, Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber. I used the Stitched Banner Duo 2 Dies to create the base for the tag and used Wilted Violet and Dusty Concord. After blending the ink, I spray with water using the Distress Sprayer and create speckles with the Kuretake Gansai Tambi black watercolor.

I cut out all my images and put my tags together. To create the treat bags, I used clear bags that you can get anywhere, I get mine at Target and Walmart. I also like to add paper shred, I get mine from the dollar store. I really like being super themed during the fall and holiday season so I had a lot of fun coordinating everything.

Hope you give these a try people love receiving them!

Rina

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Sneak Peek: September Die Cuts

Jeanne here today and I can’t tell you how excited I am to share the Pretty Pink Posh new release dies with you! You’re going to FALL in love them all! Paulina’s got a little something for everyone! Do you love bling and sequins? Then the Thanks Leaf Shaker die is for you. Of course it’s ideal for shakers full of shiny sequins but you’ll find lots of great ways to use this pretty maple leaf die.

If you say “fall” I say “color”! And color blocking is one of my favorite techniques. No one makes this technique easier than Pretty Pink Posh. The unique Stacked Edges stitched border dies fit together perfectly so you can add lots of layers without a lot of thickness. To save time I cut three different borders at a time so I have several to use on other projects. I adhere the borders together on their reverse side and then cut them into a panel for the cover of my card.

The new Thankful For You Script die is a great way to add a sentiment to any project. I love the loopy letters of the hand written font. This color block panel was created with die cut squares from the Storybook 3 and stitched strips from Stitched Borders 3.

The squares are topped with die cut leaves and pumpkin from the new Small Stitched Foliage.

As the weather turns cooler baking season will begin again for me. I can always use a pretty tag to dress up a loaf up pumpkin bread or a bag of cookies. I created panels of colorful chevrons using the Stacked Edges 2 and die cut them with the Stitched Duo 1 Tag.

I embellished the tags with die cut Fall Tags and Small Stitched Foliage (in case you’re wondering yes.. they can be stacked on top of each other) cut from white card stock.

The “thanks” sentiment is cut from the Thanks Leaf Shaker and yes, there are new colorful jewels this release too! I used the new Midnight Black, Raspberry, Blue Lagoon Jewels to add the perfect finishing touch to these tags today.

A big thank you to YOU for joining me today! Be sure to join us tomorrow for the reveal of the release and a chance to buy the bundle of all the new release items a day early at a discount!

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Tutorial: DIY Candy Treat Boxes

Hi friends, Eloise here and today I have some St Patrick’s Day little gift boxes to share with you all. These would be perfect for little gifts for co-workers or even children, just a little gift to give someone to give them a little luck and a sweet treat, or whatever you decide to put in them. I’ll be using the Best of Luck stamp set to help theme these DIY gift boxes.

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To begin my boxes today, I first cut down two pieces of green cardstock to 5 ½” wide by 8 ½” tall. This means you can get two boxes from one sheet of 8 ½” x 11 cardstock, which is great. Once they were cut down in half, it’s time to score. I pulled my large scoring board out, you can use a small one but you’ll need to turn the cardstock around every time to get the full length. My first score line is going to be on the short side at ¼”, then at 1 ¼”, then at 4 ¼” and lastly at 5 ¼”, then turn your cardstock 90 degrees and then on the long side, you’re going to score at 3”, then at 4”, again at 7” and again at 8”. This will be the base for your box.

Next take your box base over to your trimmer and you’re going to cut out a few rectangles. On the short side, you’re going to cut down vertically the 1 ¼” score line, all the way down to the 3” horizontal score line. Then, do the same for the 4 ¼” score line. At the bottom of your box, still on the short side. Cut up from the 1 ¼” score line again, to the 8” score line and repeat for the 4 ¼” score line. Then rotate your box 90 degrees, making sure you have the longer cut lines to the left of your trimmer and at the 3” score line, cut down to the cut you made earlier. Then, move your cardstock down, and do the same at the 8” score line. Then, flip your cardstock 180 degrees, and repeat. For the last cut, move your cardstock long ways and cut at the 4” score line, to the score line of the long cut you made earlier, flip the cardstock around 180 degrees again and repeat. This will be the base for your box all ready to go. If it’s easier for you, you can use scissors – but I personally liked using the trimmer, especially with a wire guide. Also – this will be explained and shown in the video so if you’re a visual learner, check that out above!

Now that my boxes were all ready before I moved onto anything else, I flipped it over to the front of the box, and ink blended some Lucky Clover Distress Ink at the bottom of which will be the top of the box, just to give my box a little gradient of colour. I repeated this for all four boxes, then turned over my box so it’s the inside and then stamped ‘Happy St. Patricks Day’ on the inside at the top with black ink on all four boxes as well. Then, I used my bone folder and scored along all the edges. I then set my boxes off to the side and worked on the decorations. I stamped out all my images from Best of Luck onto some white cardstock and used my Copic Markers to colour them all in. I then used the coordinating dies and cut them all out. While I was die cutting, I used the Smile Shaker Die and cut that out four times of white cardstock also. Since I just wanted the frames I used an exacto knife and cut away the ‘Smile’ word. Now I have all my frames, I can decorate my boxes.

Copic Colours Used: R14, R24, R29 / Y21, YR12, YR18 / Y11, Y15, Y38 / YG21, YG23, YG17 / B000, B41, B34 / Y21, YR21, YR24 / YR24, E99, E07 / RV10 / C3, C5, C7 / E000, E00, E21

To finish up my boxes, I first punched a hole at the top flap, and punched two smaller holes on the ½” flap. This will be for the string. Then, I used foam squares around the circle frames and adhered them to the front flaps of my boxes. I also added foam tape to my images and adhered them in place also. I then opened the box and adhered the four leaf lover images around the sentiment. For the little gift inside the boxes, I adhered four green foiled heart chocolates on the inside to create a four leaf clover, it’s super cute! To finish up the boxes, I folded in all the sides, added green twine into the punched holes and tied a bow to hold the top and bottom of the box together. Then for the sides, I added small strips of adhesive on each of the ¼” flaps and adhered them to the top of the box.

So that finished up my DIY gift boxes project today. I hope you enjoyed! These little boxes are super cute and easy to make with a half sheet of cardstock and can be decorated with any occasioned stamps. These would be perfect for small gifts as well.

Thank you so much for stopping by today and I’ll catch you all next time.

Eloise

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Valentine Tags Inspiration

Hi everyone! It’s Melody here today and I have some ideas for Valentine’s Day Tags to share with you for everyone on your list. I create a masculine tag for my husband, a tag for a special little girl, and a tag for one of my daughters.

I like having tags ready to go in my stash. A handmade tag dresses up the simplest package!

My first tag is for one of my daughters who is a young adult. For the base of the tag I used the largest die in the Scallop Square Tags Dies. Next I die cut the Love Shaker Die twice, once from pink cardstock and once from patterned paper. I inlayed the pattern paper into the pink heart and used double sided tape to hold the pieces in the heart and then attached the heart to the tag. The flower is created with the Pretty Petunias Stamp Set and the Pretty Petunias Coordinating Dies. The last step is to attached a few sequins from the Metallic Gold Confetti Mix.

My next tag was created with my husband in mind. Valentine’s Day always includes a box of his favorite Sees Candies and this tags will be perfect attached to the box. I used the Scallop Diamond Tags Dies as the base for the tag. I stamped the sentiment and the hearts with the Love Sentiments Stamp Set in gold ink and embossed with gold embossing powder. The final touch is a few red heart sequins from the Assorted Heart Confetti Mix.

The last tag was created with a little girl in mind. I used the Scallop Circle Tags Dies for the base of the tag. I cut the tag from watercolor paper and sponged on distress ink and misted the paper with water. The girl is stamped with the the Birthday Friends Stamp Set and die cut with the Birthday Friends Coordinating Dies. I colored the image with Copic Markers and used a white gel pen to add the polka dots to her dress. The heart shaped balloons is included in the Friends Forever Stamp Set and die cut with the Friends Forever Coordinating Dies. The sequins are from the Assorted Heart Confetti Mix.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Christmas Tags Inspiration

Good morning! Heather here this morning, excited to share with you a little trio of tags I put together for the 25 Days of Christmas Tags that Pretty Pink Posh is sponsoring! I used the adorable new Winter Woodland stamp set and Coordinating dies, paired up with the new Merry Christmas Scrip Die, the new Sparkling Clear Snowflake Sequins, Holiday Greetings stamp set and a few scallop tags from previous releases!

I started off by stamping some of the various adorable critters from Winter Woodlands. For the foxes, I used Scallop Diamond Tags Dies.

The add on sentiments were stamped with Holiday Greetings – and for the moose tag I used Scallop Square Tags Die.

And finally, I die cut just the word “merry” from Merry Christmas Script Die from black cardstock – for the bunny tag I used Scallop Circle Tags Die.

I colored in the critters using these Copic markers:

I cut all the tags from watercolor cardstock, then blended two colors of distress inks onto them.

I added some splatters of water that I mopped up with a clean dry paper towel, then I also added some white paint splatters for an even more snowy effect.

I used my sewing machine to attach the “merry” to the top, stamped my additional sentiments, then adhered my colored critters to the tags.

I added a few sparkly Sparkling Clear Snowflake Sequins, and then added more sparkle with some Nuvo drops in various places.

Punched a hole at the top of each tag and threaded through some jute twine, then used my fingers to curl up some of the edges of the animals – the antlers on the moose, the ears and tails on the foxes, and the ears on the bunny. Just a little thing to add a touch more dimension to these!

So fun to make three at once! Which one is your favorite?

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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! We hope you were inspired by our Christmas tags!

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Thanksgiving Place Cards

Hello everyone, Rina here sharing a Thanksgiving Place Card project.

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I am addicted to stamps and dies! First and foremost, I love card making and I love mixing and matching stamps and dies to create the perfect card for that special occasion. I also really like to stretch my creativity and use my stamps and dies for projects other than card making.

When I first saw the Happy Turkey stamp set I knew I wanted to create place cards for Thanksgiving dinner. These would also be a great keepsake as a message could be written to that special someone inside the fold.

When creating multiples of the same project I like to create “assembly” line style. I also like to save more time consuming tasks like coloring for “single” projects. I used pattern paper in this project to add that punch of color.

The base of the place card was created using the Stitched Notes frame. I scored the frame at 2 3/8 inches and then folded in half. For the fun design element in front to anchor the turkey and leaf images I die cut the largest Window Frames Dies. I adhered the window frame with foam tape only in the middle, so images could be easily adhered between these two pieces. This combination makes the perfect size place card. The width of the Stitched Notes frame and largest Window Frame are exactly the same width, which was a happy surprise!

One of my favorite things to do is paper piecing. I wanted the turkey feathers to have the fun plaid print, but wanted the body of the turkey to be brown. I colored the turkey body with copic markers, cut it to the edge and adhered it to the die cut turkey. I then layered this piece to foam sheet die cut with the coordinating die. It makes the perfect centerpiece.

I adhered the Stitched Notes Dies largest note die cut (this is where the persons name is written) behind the Window Frames die cut along with the colorful leaves. I love how this mimics the shape of the turkey feathers! Finally, I stamped the “Happy Turkey Day” sentiment behind the place card as an added design element.

I hope you enjoy this fun, easy project. I think it will look perfect on any Thanksgiving dinner table. Thanks for stopping by!

Rina

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Halloween Treat Bags

Hello everybody, Thi here! I have the honor of being one of the newer members of the Pretty Pink Posh team. Today I am sharing some Halloween tic tac toe treat bags I made. I thought these would be fun for the kids to give out to their friends. Because I was making these for kids, I tried to keep it as simple as possible.

To begin, I first cut out out the tic tac toe in glittery black cardstock using the Tic Tac Toe die. I then cut three pieces of white cardstock and blended them with Distress Inks in fun Halloween colors.

I colored Trick or Treat Friends with Copic markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

For the sentiment, I took the Happy Halloween sentiment also from Trick or Treat Friends and stamped it on with Versamark ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder. I love the way the white pops off the bright Hallween background colors.

I then adhered everything with my tape runner because I wanted this to be a flat card. Since I was making it for kids, I thought keeping it simple and flat would give it a better chance of reaching my children’s friends in one piece.

I put each flat card in a 5×5 clear plastic bag with chocolate kisses candy in two different colors so they can play tic tac toe with it before eating their sweet treats.

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

That’s it from me today. I had so much fun making these for Halloween theme week. I hope you liked my project today. Thank you for stopping by!

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Simple Candy Treat Tent

Hi there, Jeanne here today with a fun project!

I love spreading a little cheer around the holidays! It doesn’t matter the season or the occasion, I know everyone loves a little surprise, and some chocolate always makes you feel a little better.
Today I’m sharing how to make some simple treat wraps. I inserted four foil wrapped chocolates in a cello bag that’s 3.25 x 4.25”. You want a small treat that’s not too thick.

The friend in the bunny costume, along with the eggs, comes from the Easter Friends set. The fun sign in the background is from the Camping Friends set.

I cut two of the Stitched Duo 3 Tags (the Stitched Duo 2 works really well for this also). Next I scored a line across the bottom at 3/8”. If your treat is a little thicker you can adjust this measurement to make the bottom a little wider.

Attach the two dies together with strong tape to create a U shaped base to hold your treats. While holding the two ends together punch a hole to keep things together. You can insert a candy pack with some double sided tape. Now for the fun part… decorating!

Decorating is fun and easy using products from Pretty Pink Posh. The stitched design throughout the collection coordinates the dies so they go together seamlessly. I used the scallop oval from the Decorative Tag One to frame my sentiment from the Everyday Greetings Stamp Set.

The bees are from the Bee Friends Stamp Set that has matching dies. For those who didn’t get a chance to get them while they were a free gift, it’ll be releasing in May!

Pretty Pink Posh has lots of border stamps to choose from that make wonderful trims for these packages. This one is from the Scallop Borders set.

The Easter Friends set will make all your Spring treats look amazing! I know they’ll be adored and appreciated!

I hope you enjoyed today’s post. Thanks for stopping by the Pretty Pink Posh blog!

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Stretching Your Die Cuts+ Video

Hello everyone, Vera here sharing another way to use Easter Friends coordinating dies as a non–Easter project. With a little imagination, you can create all sorts of characters with some of the dies you may already have in your stash!

For this project, I also used Friends Forever Coordinating Dies, Friends Forever Stamp Set and Everyday Greetings Stamp Set.

This is super fun project and I encourage you to try it!

First, I die cut the bunny from Easter Friends coordinating dies on bristol paper, and die cut the heart and the flowers from Friends Forever Coordinating Dies and Scallop Square Tags on white card stock. I used Copic Markers for coloring all the die cuts.