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Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new video today. I’m sharing a Halloween card I made inspired by some patterned paper that I have had sitting in my collection for too long!

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I started with making a custom background by stenciling the Halloween Words Stencil with Distress Oxides in Ripe Persimmon, Mustard Seed, Pumice Stone and Peacock Feathers on white cardstock. Using the largest die from the Stitched Torn Rectangles Dies, I cut it and splattered some black ink before setting it aside to dry.

Next I did a lot of die cutting from patterned paper using the Build A Monster Dies and assembled them all together. You can see the steps I did to build them by watching my video today! I also added some pink cheeks with a marker and some white highlights with a gel pen.

My sentiment is embossed in white on black cardstock using “Happy Halloween” from the Halloween Corners Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies. I also cut the second largest die from the Stitched Torn Rectangles Dies out of vellum. I layered the stenciled background onto a card base, then the vellum, followed by the monsters and sentiment with foam adhesive to give them some dimension on top of the Stitched Torn Rectangles.

I love these unique colors for Halloween and that you can personalize the monsters in such a fun way with patterned paper! What color combination would you use with the Build A Monster Dies for Halloween?

Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new video on the Pretty Pink Posh YouTube channel today. I wanted to share a simple but cute card for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday using the Fall Icons Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies!

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I started with stenciling my background using the Layered Leaf Lattice Stencils with brown ink with the (A) stencil and red ink with the (B) stencil on white cardstock that measures 3.5 x 4.75”. This panel was adhered to a piece of kraft cardstock trimmed to 4 x 5.25”, then onto an A2 card base.

The six Fall Icons were stamped with my stamping platform first in a brown alcohol marker friendly ink and I colored them with alcohol markers. You can watch the YouTube video on the Pretty Pink Posh Channel if you want to see a close up of the coloring and the complete process of making the card. After I was done coloring, I put the paper back into the stamping platform and stamped the images again with a darker brown ink that is not alcohol marker friendly to create darker lines around the images.

I cut all of the images with the smaller circle in the Fall Icons Coordinating Die Set as well as six scalloped circles out of kraft cardstock. I layered the circles with adhesive and added foam adhesive to the back. I then added them to the card!

You can step up this card by adding a sentiment or minimizing the spacing to add more icons. I hope this brings you some inspiration today and you’re excited to head into Fall like I am!

Hi Crafty Friends! Carly here and I’m so excited to share my latest PPP creation with you! 

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Have you ever made a pull-tab card? This pull-tab design is so easy to make and you don’t even need a special die set! Look through your stash for a big circle to make a notch and something to make a channel. I found everything I needed in the Big Excavator set but a birthday candle or sentiment strip would be amazing too!

I can’t wait to make another pull-tab card with the Ghost Friends and a pile of pumpkins! And a pile of leaves with any (or all) the critters!

Supplies:
–Fall Harvest stamps & coordinating dies
–Cozy Fall Critters stamps & coordinating dies
–Fall Bouquets stamps
–Big Excavator dies

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed this card and video!

Hi Crafty Friends! Carly here and I’ve been having so much fun with all the PPP Halloween goodies, especially the Build A Monster set!

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The Build A Monster set is so versatile with all the different possible combinations of eyes, arms, horns…and more to make a monster! But there is also the versatility in using the positive and negative die cuts!

The positive cuts build a fun monster, especially when you add a little glossy and glitter! And the negative space makes a fabulous shaker window (if I do say so myself)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you were inspired by these cards!

Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new video today. I am continuing my box card series for the year and thank you for your feedback on creating a card for “Back to School!” August and September are kind of weird months with no major holidays, but I think this is a fun “holiday” for kids and teachers who are ready to get back to school.

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I started with creating my own school supplies by making a pencil and lined paper using the Get Well Mug Additions Dies and Graduation Mug Additions Dies. I created a pencil using the thermometer, pill and heart dies and a “yay!” paper from the prescription pad and sentiment dies. You can follow along in my video today if you need to see a step by step of how I glued them all together.

Next I stamped and colored in my cute little school children with alcohol markers from the Friends Forever Stamp Set and used the Coordinating Dies to cut them out. I also colored two blocks from the Baby Basics Stamp Set and used their Coordinating Die to cut them out as well.

Moving on to using the Layered Apples Stencils to create my background, I used Distress Oxides in Candied Apple and Scorched Timber for my apples (A) stencil and stems (C) stencil. Lastly, I used the leaves (B) stencil with Fake Plant Lunar Paste to create some texture and shine.

For my sentiment, I cut Sentiment Strips Dies in the medium sized rectangles and stamped “Thankful for You” from the Sentiment Strips: Fall Stamp Set. When the stenciled background was dry, I cut the Scallop Box Card Dies base from red cardstock and the scallop pieces from the Layered Apples background.

I assembled the box card together with my sentiment on the front of the box card, my school children on the middle “shelf” of the box, and attached the school supplies to the back arch piece of the box card.

I hope you like my take on back to school and let me know what you would like to see for next month!

Hello friends. It’s Lisa Mears on the blog today. I’m sharing a fun bat shaker card featuring products from Pretty Pink Posh’s new Halloween release! 

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My card features the Bat Shaker dies along with a vibrant stenciled background created with Distress Oxide inks and the Halloween Words stencil.

For the stenciled background, I added Distress Oxide inks to an A2 size (4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″) card panel. I added the inks randomly on the card panel. The inks I used were: Carved Pumpkin, Fossilized Amber, Twisted Citron, and Wilted Violet. After inking the background, I placed the Halloween Words Stencil on top and used Black Soot ink for the words.

Next, I used the Ranger Distress Sprayer to spritz the background with water and I used a paper towel to pull up some of the ink which leaves a fun, textured effect to the background. I used a Scrapbook.com White Lustre brush to flick white ink onto the background.

For the bat, I used the Bat Shaker die set. To add some sparkle to the bat, I used the Scrapbook.com Rainbow Glitter paper. I also used the Spooktacular Mix for the clay confetti inside of the bat.

I used the Sentiment Strips: Halloween stamp set for the sentiment and used the coordinating dies to cut out the sentiment.

I die cut the largest Eyelet Rectangle die with glitter paper and layered it behind the stenciled background. I cut the stenciled cardstock down to fit inside of the rectangle. 

Have a spooktacular day!
Lisa Mears

Hi Everyone! Rebecca here with the easiest fun fold birthday card that you will ever make! You start with the Fancy Card Dies. I used each flap die to cut a different color of cardstock, but you can use the same color if you prefer. Each of the die cuts will have a small scored flap where you can adhere it with some strong double sided tape to the back of an A2 piece of cardstock.

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Once all the flaps are adhered it’s time to have fun decorating! For the first smallest flap, I used the Party Hats Dies to cut out three colorful hats. On the next flap I used the Birthday Candles Dies and on the largest flap I used the Stitched Stars Dies.

I even decorated the A2 piece of cardstock with the Party Balloons Dies. Next I stamped a sentiment with the Sentiment Strips: Birthday Stamp Set and cut that out with the Sentiment Strips Dies. I added some white gel pen details to the different cardstock elements and THAT IS IT!

I love the interactive fun fold of this card and how EASY it is to create with the Fancy Card Dies.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Rebecca

Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new post and video today. I have been really enjoying the Christmas in July inspiration this month and I wanted to share some non-traditional colors for the holiday with you, too! I’m going to be using a mix of different products but this technique can be easily adapted with a different color scheme, shaker die or theme!

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I started with doing some die cutting with the Pierced Snowflakes Die with some light teal cardstock. I then cut it down with the largest Stitched Torn Rectangle Die and the Mitten Shaker Die from the center. This will be the front of our shaker panel. I added some white paint splatter and set it aside to dry.

Using the Mitten Shaker Die, I cut out the mitten and snowflake out of sparkly white cardstock and the Merry Script Die out of green and purple cardstock for the sentiment of the card. When the splatter was dry, I added acetate to the back side of the light teal panel and a piece of purple cardstock to the card base to be the “back” of the shaker.

You can follow along in my video today to see how my shaker is put together, but I added foam adhesive around the back side of the light teal shaker panel to outline around the mitten shaker opening and the shaker bits on the purple cardstock, then sandwiched them inside by adhering the light teal shaker panel to the front of the card base. My shaker bits were made of Aqua Shimmer Confetti Mix, Purple Shimmer Confetti Mix, and Pastel Party Shaker Beads.

I adhered the white mitten die cuts to the front of the card to finish off the shaker opening. My sentiment was layered together so the purple “merry” creates a drop shadow look behind the green and adhered the sentiment to the card.

I hope you had some fun with me today and you’re inspired to get a head start on your holiday card making!

Hi, friends! It’s Lauren and I am back with a new video today. I’m not sure why the Barbie movie was on the brain, but I wanted to take a fun approach to the latest release with lots of PINK! Now, I know girls can play with yellow dump trucks – toys don’t have to be pink. But if Barbie had a construction company, you know they would be all kinds of pink!

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I started with cutting the Big Dump Truck Dies and Big Excavator Dies out of different shades of pink and holographic cardstock – the windows were blue and dirt pieces were shades of brown. You can follow along in today’s video if you want to see how I assembled them together.

Next I began stenciling with the Brick Background Stencil on a sheet of A2 white cardstock with Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry Distress Oxides. I also stenciled the design on the smallest of the Fancy Card Dies. I stamped my sentiment from the Utility Vehicles stamp set with black ink on the A2 piece so it would be covered by the Fancy Card Die piece as this would be the front of my card.

I cut another piece of A2 white cardstock, adhered the small flap of the Fancy Card Die piece to the lower left corner, then adhered my stenciled and stamped piece on top to sandwich the flap in between the layers. I attached the Big Excavator to the “inside” of the card so that you could see it above the Fancy Card Die piece with 1mm foam adhesive. My Big Dump Truck is adhered to the Fancy Card Die piece with 2mm foam adhesive.

For my die cut sentiment, I cut the Large Hugs Shadow Die – the sentiment in white and the shadow in pink – and trimmed the “u” to make the word “Hi”. I started with trimming the white sentiment, adhered it to the pink shadow, and then trimmed the pink shadow to match. I adhered this to my card as well as some Strawberry Shimmer Confetti Mix around the card for some final shine!

I hope you had fun with this card and can picture Construction Barbie on the job with her personalized trucks!