Hi friends, Carly here with you today. Are you looking for a technique to level up your card designs or an idea to jumpstart your creativity? Have you thought about using repetition?
Repetition is one of my favorite techniques for card design! It’s all about repeating elements like shape and color to create a cohesive design. For example you can see how I’ve repeated the tree shape with a limited color palette in these cards…
Hi Friends, it’s Carly and it is that time of year when I see how many cards I can turn into little holiday treats because you never know when you need to give a gift card, cash or even candy!
The adorable Gingerbread Mugs turns into a treat holder so easily! All I needed was just a little foam tape and then the mug was able to hold paper candy canes (but real ones would be so cute too), a banner and cash to treat a friend to coffee!
For today’s giveaway, we are giving away a $25 Scrapbook.com gift card. All you have to do is leave a comment sharing what your favorite holiday icon is (gingerbread, penguin, Santa, nutrackers, etc….)
All giveaways for Christmas Theme Week will end on December 10th. We’ll share a post with all the winners on the PPP blog later that week.
Hey crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel and I’m here today to share a quick and easy way to create background scenes with dies. When a lot of cardmakers (myself included) hear scene building, they think of lots of complex coloring, but Pretty Pink Posh has some wonderful winter dies that make it so easy to create a frosty winter scene.
To use a bunch of dies on one card and make a multi layered scene, I recommend checking out the Fancy Card Dies. This set makes it easy to create a lift the flap card with three different flaps.
Hi Crafty Friends, it’s Carly! Question for you…can a card still be clean & simple when it has stamping, die cutting, coloring, ink blending and glitter paste? I might have answered my own question with that list, LOL! So maybe it’s just clean and not quite simple but these PPP goodies are just so fun together!
I love all of the Pretty Posh Shaker dies for making shakers but they are also awesome just for the negative die cut space! They make some of the best windows!
I used the base layers from the Candy Cane Shakers to create windows and then created an acetate pocket to fit behind it that can hold gift cards and money. I love the result! It feels like such a fun way to customize a gift that could feel impersonal. Just think of the possibilities for holiday shapes like this or this or this!
I hope these projects and video inspired you this holiday season.
Hi Crafty Friends! Carly here and you might already know how much I adore all the Pretty Pink Posh holder dies (and if you don’t know, the answer is SO MUCH). Last Halloween I turned the Ghost Holder into a ballerina and it was one of my favorite cards of the year!
And my favorite of the bunch is the combo of the Ghost Holder and the Cat Holder. It looks like the kitty borrowed a floral bed sheet to make a costume!
Welcome, friends! It’s Mindy Eggen, and today I’m sharing a tutorial for making potion bottle shaker cards that are full of Halloween fun and a touch of spooky charm.
I started by creating a moody, textured background using the Crackle Stencil on Fog cardstock, layering in Hippo ink for depth. To give it a little extra eerie flair, I flicked Black Soot Distress Spray Stain across the panel with a paintbrush, creating splatters.
For the potion bottles, I die cut shapes from Sea Glass and Jelly Bean Green cardstock using the Potion Bottle Shakers die set. Then lightly ink blended the base pieces to add dimension and visual interest.
The real magic comes from the shaker elements: the blue potion bottle is filled with the Spellbound shaker mix, while the green potion bottle holds the spooky Halloween Night shaker beads—both adding movement and color to the card.
To bring everything together, I added a sentiment from the Halloween Greetings stamp set. The result? A fun, interactive card that’s perfect for Halloween or anytime you want to add a little potion-inspired enchantment to your creations.
Hi Crafty Friends! Carly here and I’m excited (and a little nervous) to share my first coloring tutorial with you! When I saw the PPP Christmas Bells, I immediately heard Silver Bells in my head and I wanted to try coloring them a little more realistically than I would usually attempt.
As an “additions” die set it is meant to pair with the original Candy Bucket Dies. From the original die set you can cut out the buckets and handles. Then the Christmas Bucket Additions Dies has elements to add to the buckets to make them look like Santa, a reindeer or a snowman. The original Candy Bucket Dies also has a inner bucket shape that can be used to cut a window out of the bucket, making it into an adorable shaker.
For my Santa bucket I filled the bucket with presents. The Christmas Bucket Additions Dies comes with two presents dies and 2 ribbon/bow dies.
For the reindeer bucket, I filled it with peppermint candies. The Christmas Bucket Additions Dies comes with a layering die that creates a striped round candy and a wrapper.
With the snowman bucket I used the two snowflake dies to fill the bucket. And for the shaker I filled it with candy canes and gum drops from the die set and then added Candy Cane Shaker Beads to the shaker element.
Hi friends, it’s Carly! I’m excited to share a project using the brand new holiday release.
This project is part of our September Video Hop! Check the description in the video for links to the next stop so you can keep hopping along for tons of holiday inspiration.
Do you have a favorite stamping technique? Simple masking is one of my favorites and it is so easy! It’s one of the first stamping techniques I learned and I still love it for creating clean & simple one layer cards!
If you haven’t tried masking yet, basically it is a technique that allows you to layer images by stamping one and then covering it with a temporary mask before you stamp the next image.
For this sweet Gingerbread Friendscard I did a little simple masking so that the gingeys could be standing together.
Here are my top masking tips…
make a plan before stamping…which images should look like they are “in front” because they will need to be stamped first. A sketch can help in the planning or even stamping it all first without masking.
start with post-its…there are lots of options for low-tack, stamp-able masking paper but try it with a Post-It first. Then if you love the technique of masking you can invest in more supplies.
stamp masks in permanent ink…using a waterproof/permanent ink for stamping the masks will keep ink from transferring from the masks to your project while you are using them.
to make the mask…just stamp on the Post-It, fussy cut the image out aiming for the middle of the stamped line and then it’s a little temporary masking sticker! And make masks last longer by putting a piece of clear packing tape on top before cutting out.
have a black pen handy…a black pen can help “fix” any of the stamped lines that might have been missed because of a mask. I’m not great with fussy cutting so often my masks aren’t perfect but I can fix it with a pen. I like to use Copic Multiliners when I know I’m going to color with alcohol markers
have a white gel pen handy…it makes a great “eraser” for any little bits you didn’t mean to stamp or any coloring that went outside of the lines.
