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Hi crafty friends! It’s Mona here, today I am sharing with you a fun, ombre color blocking technique. If you need lots of cards at once, then this bulk cardmaking tutorial is for you!

For these cards I have used these beautiful Spring Florals Stencils, the Spring Eggs stamp and coordinating die set as well as the Fancy Easter Script die. I prepared heavyweight cardstocks in different colors and shades for the ombre monochromatic look. Once it was done, I made dry embossing with one of the stencils from the set. You can find this process in the video.

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Next, wanted to add an elegant touch to the dry embossed base with the gold glitz glitter gel. First, I am spraying pixie spray on the stencil. This will keep the stencil on its right place, and I can reuse the stencil many times.

When the last cardstock is done, I am letting them air dry for one hour. I am washing the stencil and the tools with soapy water immediately and the stencil looks like a new again.

While the glitter gel background dries, I created the Happy Easter Sentiment from a white heavy weight cardstock and adhered 3 pieces together to have a heavy chipboard looking sentiment.

Because this is going to be an easter card, for me eggs are a mandatory part. I am going to use this beautiful Spring Eggs Stamp set with its coordinating dies. I am going to stamp these eggs with VersaMark watermark ink to a piece of vellum with the help of my MISTI. Next, I am heat embossing it with gold fine embossing powder and a heat gun. I am in love with them and they look so amazing without coloring too.

Now I have everything to put together my cards. In the end I embellished my cards with Pearl White Jewels as well as Sparkling Clear Sequin Mix too. With the leftover cardstock I have created a slimline card as well.

Thank you so much for stopping by. See you next time.

Hugs, Mona

Hi crafty friends! It’s Mona here, today I am sharing with you a fun technique video where you will learn how to create amazing water-colored flowers using only stencils and watercolor mediums.

The key for this project is to have a floral stencil like the beautiful Peonies Stencil from the latest release.

For this project you will also need watercolor paper, a low tack tape, brushes, paper towel, mixing palette, water-based mediums and water. You can use either your brush markers or your watercolor palette. Just use what you like more, but I will show you both options in my video tutorial.

For the entire coloring process with tips and tricks watch my video tutorial below and learn how to create amazing water-colored flowers like a pro, without stamping.

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When the coloring was done, I continued with fussycutting and die-cutting all the colored images. Then I picked a light turquoise cardstock in size 5.5 by 4.25”.

The following process was the ink blending. I have used Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink and blended the edges of the card front from outside to inside.

Next, I stamped the You Are Amazing and the Missing You So Much sentiments with watermark ink from the Everyday Greetings stamp set. Next, I heat embossed it with white fine embossing powder. When it was done, I splattered on it with white, and blue watercolors and let them air dry.

Because I wanted to break the background, I decided to create a white die-cut with the Scallop Frames Dies. I adhered the flowers to the frames with liquid adhesive, then I adhered the floral frame to the card with 3D foam squares.

In the end I embellished my cards with Sparkling Clear sequins. If you feel like it, give it a try, it’s so relaxing  and I know the result will be amazing. Thank you so much for stopping by, see you next time.

Hugs, Mona.

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here today with a clean and simple Valentine’s or love theme card using some of the newest Pretty Pink Posh release! I also have a video to share showing how this card came together!

Here is a video for this card, so you can see how it all came together.

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I used the All My Love stamp set, along with the coordinating dies in a bit of a unique way for this card. I started off by stamping the center portion of the heart from All My Love on white cardstock, and heat embossing with clear embossing powder. I then created a stencil with the smaller size heart die from the coordinating Die set, and blended Tattered Rose and Aged Mahogany distress inks over the heart. Next, I stamped the dotted hearts around that image, and die cut the entire thing out with the larger heart die in the set.

The sentiment was created using both the All My Love stamp set (for the smaller supporting sentiment), and Valentine Hearts stamp set. I love that the word “Love” has a coordinating die! I stamped and heat embossed it in gold on white cardstock, die cut it out, and then die cut two more times to layer together for a bit of dimension.

Finally, the background was created using the Lattice Stencil and Speckled Egg distress ink. I blended the pattern softly over my white cardbase. I added some gold splatters with my Gansai Tambai Starry Colors palette to pull coordinate with the gold embossing on the word “Love”, then adhered everything down, using foam adhesive for the heart. Finishing touch was to round the top right and lower left corner. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here today with a fun slimline shaker card using some of the newest Pretty Pink Posh release – including a Clay Confetti Wheel that is exclusive to the Pretty Pink Posh site!

Here is a video for this card, so you can see how it all came together:

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I used several of the layers of Slimline: Peekaboo Window Dies – and I love how perfectly the fun square images from Party Days stamp set fit inside those windows! I used all 3 images in that stamp set, and then used the fun new Clay Confetti Wheel #1 to custom fill each section of my shaker with a different color of confetti, coloring up the images to coordinate with my color palette.

The sentiments were stamped on the outer layer of the shaker using Let’s Party stamp set – love how perfectly sized those sentiments were for that purpose. Finished off by mounting everything on a coordinating mint colored slimline cardbase sized 3 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ – love how perfectly that largest rectangle mats onto that size of card!

Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!

Hi crafty friends! It’s Mona here, today I am sharing these cute and elegant cards featuring the beautiful Valentine Circles, All My Love and Valentine Hearts stamp sets. The star of this project is the amazing Heart Vines cover plate.

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I really love the versatility of this beautiful Valentine Circles stamp set. First of all, the coordinating dies for this set are amazing. You have a circle shape to die-cut the image as well as this cute scalloped one. It’s really versatile and not only with the circle stamps. I love it, it’s perfect for creating circle tags too. If you are like me and you like to decorate your envelopes, then don’t forget to use this set on them, it will make them super cute! But what I like the most about this set, is that you can fussy cut the image, and you get a totally unique look from one stamp set

Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I created these cute, but also elegant cards including the coloring with alcohol markers.

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I started the cardmaking with stamping the images with alcohol marker friendly black inkpad. When it was done, I made a quick heat set for my images and I continued the coloring process.

For the coloring I have used the following colors from Spectrum Noir Illustrators:

Monkeys: EB7, EB4, EB1, TN2, TN1, FS7, FS6.

Cheeks: FS8, FS6.

Envelopes, chocolate box, ears: PP5, PP4, PP3, PP1, FS8, FS6, Blender.

When the coloring was done, I continued with fussy cutting and die-cutting all the colored images. I have also created one soft pink and one gold glittery die-cut with the beautiful Heart Vines cover plate.

Before I have adhered the die-cuts and the images to its right place, I heat embossed the Love sentiment from the Valentine Hearts stamp set. Once to a pink cardstock, once to a gold glitter cardstock, which I run through my die-cut machine with its coordinating dies. Then I adhered all the parts together with liquid adhesive and 3d foam squares.

In the end I embellished my card with glittery heart die-cuts from the Heart Vines die set, and for the other one I adhered Sparkling Clear sequins as well as soft pink rhinestones from the newly released Sweetheart Rhinestones.

These monkeys and envelopes are so adorable, they just make me smile, and the cover plate is currently one of my favorites!

Thank you so much for stopping by, see you next time.

Hugs, Mona

Hello everyone, Elaine here today on the Pretty Pink Posh blog to share a card for Valentine’s theme week.  For my project I created a collection of cards using both older and newer Pretty Pink Posh products.

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To start with I cut 4 different shades of pink and red card stock down to 5 ½” x 2 ¾“ pieces.  Using my stamp positioner, I stamped the LOVE stamp from the ‘Love’ stamp set on to each of the coloured card panels with Versamark Ink, not forgetting to treat each piece with an antistatic powder tool before inking.  I coated each of the panels with white embossing powder and heat set until glossy.

To cut out the LOVE embossed letters I used the LOVE coordinating die.  Setting the die cut letters aside, I started creating the background of the cards using white card stock cut to 4 ½” x 4 ½” (the finished cards are 5” x 5”).  Using stencil ‘A’ from the ‘Layered Hearts’ stencil set I slowly ink blended on Spun Sugar Distress Ink.  Through stencil ‘B’ from the stencil set I blended on Worn Lipstick Distress Ink.  To add some extra interest to the panel I flicked on some ink splatters using a small paint brush and watered-down Worn Lipstick Distress Ink.  I set aside to dry.

Small strips of foam tape were applied to the back of the letters and secured to the heart stencilled panels.  I used one letter of each of the cardstock colours.

For the sentiment running through the centre of the card I white heat embossed ‘Hugs & Kisses’ multiple times from the new ‘All My Love’ stamp set on to black card stock and trimmed each one into a small strip.  More thin strips of foam tape were added to the back of each strip and secured to the card.  The whole card panel was adhered to a white 5” x 5” card base.

For some extra sparkle I used the Valentine Jewel Mix to adhere a few jewels in various sizes with tiny dots of liquid adhesive.

Thank you for joining me here today, I hope this collection of cards gives you some inspiration for your own creations. 

Big Valentine’s hugs, Elaine

Hi friends, Eloise here and today I’ll be creating a Christmas Card using the Amaryllis Stamp Set.

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I started off with stamping out the images from Amaryllis Stamp Set onto some vellum and I white heat embossed them. I then cut them out. Next I took some coloured cardstock and cut down strips at different widths and lengths. I adhered them directly onto a white card base and then adhered the vellum pieces over the top with foam tape.

Tips for Mass Producing:

1. Use scrap cardstock for strips. The Simple Strips or Stitched Strips dies make it even easier!

2. Can do stripes instead using different mediums.

3. Use a stamping tool to easily stamp multiples of the images.

Next I white heat embossed the sentiment from Winter Wreath onto a thin strip of black cardstock, cut one side at an angle and adhered it into place. I finish off the card with a hemp cord bow and some clear droplets scattered around.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you were inspired to use some of your scraps to create fun backgrounds!

– Eloise

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather Hoffman here today to share a fun sparkly Thanksgiving Shaker card with you using a mix of fun sparkly Pretty Pink Posh embellishments for shaker fillings!

I have a video for this card as well, so you can see how it all came together.

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I love how this kind of feels like a snowglobe – but a fall theme one! The adorable Thanksgiving Scene stamp set is such a fun mini stamp set – I love that the scene building is already done for you! And the largest Window Frame die set is perfect to create a look in the window.

I filled the shaker with a mix of Gold Shimmer Seed Beads, Gold Mini Star Confetti, and Sparkling Clear 3mm Sequins. A final finishing touch is the bow at the top from Twine and Bows die set – love those bows for little touches like this!

Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather Hoffman here to share a sparkly layered fall theme card – perfect for this time of year!

Here is a video showing how I created this card so you can see all the details.

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I used the beautiful Autumn Leaves Stencil and 3 colors of distress ink – Crackling Campfire, Mustard Seed, and Aged Mahogany – to stencil the leaves. I then used a simple fine line Sharpie to add some detail to the leaves before replacing the stencil and adding some Gina K Glitz Glitter Gel in White over the top.

I set that aside to dry, and once it was dry to the touch, I blended some of those same 3 colors of distress ink over the top – keeping the colors softer and lighter so as not to drown out the leaves underneath. I also added some splatters with white acrylic paint thinned down with a bit of water.

Next up, it was time to add the sentiment! I used the Stitched Hexagons die cut from black cardstock, then layered Thank You Script in white over the top, and popped that up with foam adhesive on the background. The additional little sentiment was from Simple Sentiments, heat embossed in gold, trimmed to a thin strip, then mounted with foam over the top of the larger sentiment. A few Graphite Jewels adhered with my handy Crystal Katana, and then mounted  the entire thing on a white cardbase to finish this card off!

Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!