Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather Hoffman here today to share a one layer card with some very simple masking, basic Copic coloring, and a touch of sparkle!
Here is a video showing how I created this card so you can see all the details.
I love using Post it Notes for simple masking like this card – they are readily available, and also inexpensive, so the perfect option! I used the beautiful Sunflower stamp set(which also has coordinating dies if you prefer to create a card with die cut layers instead).
Copic coloring doesn’t have to be super complicated – I shared some simple ways to mix 3 shades of color for each area on this card. I also added a shadow around the image in a simple fun way to make it pop off the background a bit – a great way to add depth and dimension to a one layer card.
Hello friends! It’s Channin here and I’m so thrilled to be guesting here at Pretty Pink Posh! Today I have a video and a watercolored card to share! I used the adorableJungle Friends and Jungle Additions stamp sets to create a patterned panel and then colored the images in with my favorite coloring technique.
Take a look at the start to finish video tutorial below!
To create this card I first stamped several critters from theJungle Friends and Jungle Additions stamp sets as well as a sentiment from the Simple Sayings: Brave stamp set in Versafine Onyx Black Ink onto an A2 panel of Bristol paper. After I stamped the critters and sentiment I then filled in most of the negative spaces by stamping leaves and flowers from the two sets. Next, I watercolored the images in with Tombow Dual Brush Pens. When I had finished coloring the images I then added a shadow with a light gray pen. Next, I trimmed the panel down 1/16” on all sides and then adhered the panel down onto an A2 top-folding black card base.
I hope you enjoyed my card and video! Thank you so much for stopping by! ~Channin
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, 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!
Hello! It’s Ardyth here with a post about rescuing your card fails! I had grand plans for some beautiful watercolor backgrounds that did not actually happen. Despite repeated attempts, I ended up with 3 unattractive panels that I really didn’t want to use. It’s so frustrating when that happens, isn’t it?
I slept on it and the next day, I decided to die cut the panels. Doing this often results in something much more usable and luckily, that’s what happened here!
I ended up with 6 beautiful cards from my 3 ugly panels. Here’s a video to show you that perseverance can really pay off!
To start, I stamped and colored my images with Copic markers. I stamped lots of vines from the Jungle Friends set. The images were quick to color and you can see my blending and shading process in the video.
Copic colors used:
Greens: G12, G14, G17
Monkeys: [E50, E53], [E30, E34, E37]
Blush: R201, R20
After die-cutting my images, I set them aside to work on my scene. I die-cut the Nature Essentialsdie twice to get to birch trunks. Since I had two frames from the two cuts, I adhered them together to create a more sturdy and thicker frame. The two birch trunks are then colored with the E50 and E53 only at the side cuts.
My background is first ink-blended with Bundled Sage Distress Oxide Ink. I blended the color from top down with more saturated color at the top and faded to white towards the bottom. Then I used the Jungle Background Stencil to ink-blend Lucky Clover Distress Oxide Ink only towards the top of my panel. This will create a heavy tree canopy for the monkeys to swing from.
I adhered my frame and birch trunks to the ink-blended panel, then I stamped my sentiment. Then I began adhering the colored vines to my card to create the tree canopy for my monkeys. Finally, the monkeys are adhered to my card using foam adhesive to give the card some dimension.
I hope you enjoyed today’s card using the new release products from Pretty Pink Posh! Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hi everyone! It’s Rina here and I have a fun shaker card for you today using the Tropical Frame Die. A2 sized dies are a staple in my craft room, it makes card making so easy! I love making these quick card fronts using these dies.
Watch the video for a step by step tutorial on how to make this card.
The Summer Surfboard stamp set has my heart. The images are so fun to color with their graphic designs and patterns. I also added an extra toucan image from the Tropical Toucans set to finish off this card.
For my shaker mix, I used theCitrus Jewels along with the mini gold stars and sparkling clear stars. I love the shine and sounds a shaker card makes. It is always so fun to give someone a shaker card because it always brings a smile!
I hope you try making this fun beachy card! Thanks for stopping by!
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I started by stamping, colouring and die cutting a whole bunch of tulips. I didn’t know how many I would need, so I did a lot, and kept the extras for a future project.
Once I had my arrangement exactly the way I liked it, I used a piece of Press’n’Seal to pick it up and then put glue on the back and put it onto my card front. (if you don’t have Press’n’Seal, masking paper works too!).
I finished the arrangement with a kraft tag and some tiny jewels in coordinating colours!
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You can create sentiment strips by using a border die on each side of a strip, customizing the width to fit your sentiment or stamped images!
By making the strips narrow, you can create paper ‘ribbons’ or ‘lace’ to embellish your card fronts.
You can also customize the width of your Stacked Edges dies, which are not exactly border dies, but have some similar features.
You can even use the off cuts to get a different look!
You can cut them so that they an even width, by using a grid or ruler, or you could deliberately make them wider on one end for a completely different look!
I hope you’re inspired to get your border dies out and give this technique a try!
Hi, Friends! This is Caly with you sharing a shaker card made using the Tulipsstampset. My arrangement today requires a larger card, so I’ve created a card that is 5”x7”. Please check out the video on the Pretty Pink Posh YouTube channel to see the process!
I stamped and colored the tops of each tulip stem and stamped each of the leaves 4 times to get enough to frame my shaker for the center of my card.
Copics Used: RV10, RV32, RV34, R56, G40, G43, G46
After die-cutting my images, I set them aside to work on my card panel. I ink-blended my 5”x7” panel using Lucky Clover and Bundled Sage Distress Oxide Inks. I also ink-blended a separate panel with Lucky Clover for the Scallop Circleand then another panel using Bundled Sage for the shaker background.
After attaching a window to the back of the Scallop Circle, I sprayed the background panel with some water droplets for texture. Then I added confetti from the Berry Bright and Sparkling ClearConfetti mixes before sealing my shaker.
To finish today’s card, I arranged my tulips around the shaker and adhered it in place. I added some white gel highlights to the images and embellished with more Sparkling Clear Confetti.
I hope you enjoyed this project! Thanks so much for stopping by today!
