Hi everyone, Rina here with a fun floral shaker card. I have made this card a Mother’s Day theme, but you can make it for any occasion you want using a sentiment stamped on the inside of the card.
I used Bristol Smooth Surface cardstock stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink to watercolor the images. I used the Peonies stamp set along with the Mother’s Day stamp set (for the inside of the card). I used two Zig Real Clean Color Brush Markers in Turquoise Green and Light Green. I adore these colors together.
I created the card front using the new A2 sized Lattice Background Die and lightly ink blended it with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.
I created my shaker card by adhering the acetate to the back of the Lattice Background die cut. And then applying double sided foam tape around the edges. I created a custom shaker mix to match with the images:
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula. In this video, I’m sharing a very easy method to create money holder greeting cards. You won’t need any specialty dies or supplies for this type of card and you should be able to create a card design like this using most of your Pretty Pink posh stamps and coordinating dies.
I started by stamping some images in black Copic marker friendly ink onto white paper. The size of the images you pick is the only thing that matters as you’ll want to use something that’s big enough to hide a folded bill behind it. So a small critter stamp, for example, is not going to work. But a cute giraffe, like the one I’m using here and also a gorgeous floral arrangement will. Both of these images are from Pretty Pink Posh and come from the Animal Signs and Mother’s Day stamp sets respectively.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.
Next, I quickly colored these using Copic markers. Nothing fancy, just some quick strokes of color to bring these images to life. I used YG03, YG17, RV34, RV11, RV10, Y11, Y35, Y17, BV11, BV00, and BV000 markers. To color the giraffe I used E37, E33, E31, R0, and E51.
I wanted to combine these two images and have my critter holding a floral bouquet and not the frame. I did some fussy cutting to eliminate the image parts I didn’t need and using foam adhesive squares I foam mounted the flowers onto my critter, added front legs and the tail. Super cute! and it wasn’t hard to do at all.
Next, I’ve done some partial die cutting using a coordinating die. To make the partial cut I only covered the part of the die that I wanted to cut into the paper and left the other part of the die free. This allowed me to do partial die cutting and only die cut the top part of my giraffe.
I also wanted to add some dry embossing to the background. I used a new Wide Stripes stencil and dry embossed on the background. I love the result! It looks very clear and simple, yet there’s pretty linear texture in the background!
I trimmed this panel down to 4” x 5 1/4”, I also made an A2 card base using hot pink cardstock. I folded the money bill and inserted it into the partially die cut panel. Next, I added foam adhesive around it making sure not to touch it. I wanted to block the bottom part of the panel so that I didn’t have stuff falling down into the card and making it impossible to get it out.
I also used my anti-static powder tool to eliminate any of the residual stickiness on the foam tape so that nothing would stick to it. Once done, I adhered the panel onto a card base, foam mounted the critter, added the bill and dressed up this card using pink stamped stars and Pearlwhite jewels.
I also made one more card to share, this one is for Graduation and it uses the same concept and almost same supplies.
I used a different stencil for the background, Graduation, and blended some pastels over it to give it some color and help highlight the embossed areas.
Next, I stamped, colored and cut out an adorable elephant from the Animal Signs stamp set. I used W5, W3, W1 and R20 markers. I also stamped a graduation cap and a scroll from the Congrats Grad stamp set and colored those images using Copic markers as well. I used RV34, RV11 and RV10 colors along with C9, C7, and C5 markers.
I foam mounted this darling baby elephant onto the background matching him with the partial cut already made. Next, I added his graduation cap and a scroll using foam adhesive. I foam mounted the entire panel onto a light pink card base and also embellished it with a few stamped & die cut stars and pretty white jewels.
While the slits in these cards are relatively small you should be able to tuck any folded currency bill inside or tuck a little handwritten note if you like.
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I started by cutting 12 stitched circles using a die from Stitched Essentials. I stamped 11 of them with the single flower stamps from Spring Wreath and the 12th with a sentiment from Everyday Greetings.
I cut masks for the flowers and blended blue ink over the circles. When I removed the masks, I coloured the flowers with Copic markers.
For the sentiment, obviously, I didn’t have a matching die, so I used a circle die that fit just inside the stitching, so that the sentiment circle would have a blue border and a similar look to the rest of them.
I popped up the 12 circles on a white panel cut with the stitched rectangle from Stitched Notes and then added some Party Mix Jewels to a couple of the flowers.
I hope you enjoyed the card and video. Have a great weekend!
Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a card featuring the Beautiful Butterflies Stamp Set along with the Bold Butterflies Dies(both are 30% off this weekend!), since they layer so nicely and then I brought in the Spring Frame Die since again, these products work so nicely together and it fit with the design of my card.
To start off I cut out the Spring Frame Die and Bold Butterflies Dies from vellum and set them off to the side for later. I then used my MISTI to stamp out my butterflies from Beautiful Butterflies. I used a smaller and larger one since they layer the best and then I coloured them in with Copic Markers. I used a colour combo from Pinterest which is two shades of Pink, a green and blue to help colour these in as well. Once they were coloured in, I cut them out using the coordinating dies.
Now that all my elements were ready to go, I added adhesive to the middle of the butterflies and adhered them on top of the vellum ones. For my background I water-coloured some stripes in coordinating colours and dried them off with a heat tool.
To finish up, I used the Stitched Notes Die Set and cut the frame from a piece of blue cardstock. I used the outer frame and added adhesive onto the back and adhered it to the vellum Spring Frame. I then added foam tape onto the back and adhered it over my water-coloured panel. I cut apart the ‘Flying By To Say Hello’ sentiment from Beautiful Butterflies and stamped that onto the background using my MISTI and black ink.
Hello everybody, Wanda here guesting on the Pretty Pink Posh blog!
I started by stamping the Spring Wreath in embossing ink and then heat embossing with white embossing powder onto Kraft cardstock. Die cut the wreath image using the matching die cut.
Color in the images with colored pencils. Wrap natural twine around the wreath and tie with a bow for a bit of dimension.
The finished card is a 4.5″ x 4.5″ square. Cut a score a piece of bright pink cardstock to make your card base. Cut a vellum layer to 4.25″ x 4.25″ and heat emboss the spring greetings sentiment onto the vellum.
Using Copic Opaque White, splatter white flecks onto the pink card base and let dry. Affix the vellum to the pink card base underneath where the wreath will be mounted.
Attach the wreath die cut to the card base using foam tape.
That’s it for today! Thanks for stopping by to see me!
I started off with stamping out my eggs onto a white piece of cardstock with black ink. I used four different styles of eggs and arranged them in my Mini MISTI stamping tool. I left a gap between the top and bottom rows for a sentiment, too. Once they were stamped, I cut apart the sentiment ‘Happy Easter’ and stamped them next to each other using my MISTI once again to stamp them between the eggs. Next, I used the Bunny Friends stamp set, stamped out a few of the images with my MISTI as well. I then coloured in everything with Copic Markers.
Now to create the ‘peek-a-boo’ element. I took the coordinating die and placed it over top of the egg, just like I normally would. I then placed the piece of cardstock into my die cut machine and covered ¾ of the bottom of the egg, leaving the top bit without a plate covering. I then ran through the piece and removed the die. This allows the egg to be folded upwards and to reveal the inside. I repeated this for the rest of my eggs and set off the piece to the side. I then cut my bunnies out with their dies as well.
I then took a white card base and covered it with a piece of blue patterned paper. I placed my peek a boo panel over top and traced around the inside of the eggs on my card base with a pencil. I adhered my bunnies and flowers on the insides of each of the eggs with foam tape and then erased the pencil lines. I added a double layer of foam to the back of my peek a boo panel and adhered it over the same spot.
That finished up my Easter card for today, I hope you enjoyed and got inspired. See you all next time!
I started by creating my background, using my Mini MISTI and the Spring Wreath set. I stamped the wreath off the edges of my square panel, and then turned the panel before stamping again. Then I filled in any empty spaces with some of the single flowers in the set. This is a quick and easy way to create an all-over flower background. I trimmed the panel using a circle die and also stamped and die cut one of the butterflies from Beautiful Butterflies.
I coloured the butterfly with a rainbow of Copic markers and then started working on the background. Using another circle die, I lightly drew ‘trail’ lines from the butterfly, creating an area for some colouring. I coloured it in with the same Copic markers to create unity between the butterfly and the background.
I found that the contrast between the black ink and white cardstock on the rest of the circle panel was a bit distracting, so I coloured that area with a gray marker to tone it down and allow the focus to be on the colourful, magical butterfly trail!
I glued the body of the butterfly directly to the circle panel, and popped up the edge of the wings with some foam tape for dimension.
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Good morning Pretty Pink Posh fans! Heather here this morning to share a card using a couple of the beautiful new releases from PPP to make this soft and dreamy card! The gorgeous Magnolia Flowers and Beautiful Butterflies stamp sets were just made for each other – don’t you think?
I’ve combined some simple Copic coloring, ink blending, and a bit of sparkle to put this together – keep reading for a photo tutorial of how it came together!
One thing I like to do when building a scene, is lay out the stamp sets to get a visual of how I want them to all come together. Obviously you can’t stamp them like this, but when I like an idea, I often snap a quick photo with my phone so I don’t forget what I had in mind. Sometimes the plan changes a bit, but this really helps me to picture the finished card a bit!
Next, I stamped all the images out, and colored them with Copic markers. I wanted the colors to be nice and soft for this card, so I used my colorless blender a lot! I lot of the areas I added a bit of color, starting with the darkest, blending out with a lighter shade of the same color, then blending that edge out with the colorless blender. This next photo shows the colors I used for these:
Next, I die cut the images with their coordinating dies- Beautiful Butterflies and Magnolia Flowers – and arranged them on a white card base. I ended up sticking pretty close to my planned layout and was really happy with it! I used a piece of Press-and-Seal (a Jennifer McGuire trick!) and picked up all the images to set aside while I did some ink blending on my card base.
I added the ink in diagonal corners so it would add depth behind each side of the images when I put them back in place. I’ve been enjoying using make-up brushes as ink blenders – they work SOOO easily and fun! And they are fairly inexpensive as well!
Next, I just had to add a touch more sparkle – so I added some gold splatters using my Starry Colors Palette, and gave it a bit of time to dry.
I added foam adhesive to the back of all my images, pressed them into place on my card front, and then peeled away the Press-and-Seal. Perfect placement! Now to add some more sparkle, I pulled out my Sparkling Clear Jewels. Kind of on accident, I discovered that I liked them even better if I glued them in place upside down! Instead of adhering the flat back, adhere the smaller flat portion of the front of them – I felt like it showed off the design of the jewel even better, and made it more sparkly! I like to use Glossy Accents to adhere them on, and my Crystal Katana is also super helpful.
Here on the finished card you can see how those jewels are set in place upside down a little better – do you notice how they are more sparkly that way?
I used my MISTI to stamp a sentiment from Encouraging Greetings– a previously released stamp set, and pretty much a must have! It was the perfect size to fit in the little space I had on the bottom corner there.
And, because you can never have too much sparkle, I added some sparkly clear Blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops on the butterflies, blending it out from the centers and adding it around the outer edges.
Here is what it looked like when it finished drying.
I love the soft and subtle colors on this – so fun to play with different color combinations!
What is your favorite style of color combination? Soft and subtle, or bold and bright? Or are you like me and love to do both?
Thanks so much for stopping by today – hope you have a wonderful day!
Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a video sharing how to make the peacocks feathers from the Peacock Friends into a mini shaker. This is quite a long process, but the end look is super fun!
To begin, I stamped out my images from Peacock Friends and coloured them all in with Copic Markers. I then die cut them all out using the coordinating dies.
Once they’re all die cut out, I took the peacock image and used an exacto knife plus some detail cutting scissors to cut around each of the feathers. I made sure to leave the white border intact as well. Once I’ve cut around all the feathers, I made sure to keep the detail areas in case I needed them later.
Next, I took my Mini MISTI stamping tool, Staz On Ink and some acetate and stamped another of the same peacock image on it. I didn’t die cut this out, I left it on a larger piece of acetate until I needed to cut it down later. I added adhesive to the coloured peacock and adhered it over the acetate stamped one.
I then took another piece of white cardstock and cut the coordinating peacock die in the middle. I then added adhesive to the backs of the single feathers and adhered them at the top left and bottom right of my panel. I also stamped the ‘You Are Special’ sentiment onto the bottom of the card with black ink as well. I flipped over the panel, added adhesive around the die cut peacock and adhered the acetate piece into place. I cut off the excess and added foam tape all along the back.
I then pulled out some Navy Cardstock and cut it down to a card base. I then pulled some Mermaid Mix and Spring Meadow Mix Sequins since they matched the colours I used well and added them into the centre of the card base, took of the backers from the foam tape and adhered the panel into place.
That finished up my card for today, I hope you enjoyed, and I’ll see you next time
