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Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have an Easter project to share with you all. I used the Easter Eggs stamp set along with the Bunny Friends stamp set to create a peek-a-boo card.

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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.

Copic Markers Used: RV10, RV13, RV25, RV19 / B63, BV02, BV04, BV08 / YR00, YR02, YR12, YR18 / B21, B24, B26, B39 / Y11, Y13, Y15, Y19 / YG01, YG03, YG07, YG09 / BG10, BG11, BG13, BG49 / E41, E42, E43, E44 / W00, W0, W1, W3 / 0

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!

Eloise

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!

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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.

Copic Markers Used: YG01, YG03, YG07, YG09 / BG10, BG11, BG13, BG49 / B32, B24, B26, B39 / YR00, YR02, YR12, YR18 / Y11, Y13, Y15, Y19

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

Eloise

Hi everyone it’s Ardyth and and I’m back with a pretty, spring card today on the Pretty Pink Posh blog and YouTube channel!

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I used the Darling Dragonflies set. I love how cute these guys are with their happy smiley faces. I wanted a more elegant look, though, so after I stamped them, I filled in their heads and bodies using a Versamark marker before heat embossing them with a sparkly embossing glitter.

I added some ‘iridescent’ colour to the dragonflies’ wings with pale pink and blue Copic markers, flicked in each wing, close to the body. I created a lovely spring background with some simple ink blending – blue for the sky and spring green for the ground. And then I added some ‘grass’ by using the leaves from Crocus Flowers, pale grey ink and a green Copic marker.

I trimmed the panel with the stitched rectangle die from Stitched Notes and then I stamped the sentiment from Simple Sayings: Courage, using a grey ink, rather than black. I felt that black would be too harsh against my soft spring scene. I popped the panel up on a plain white card base.

As a finishing touch, I added a few Sparkling Clear Jewels.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed the card and video.

Hello! Rina here with you today. I loved working with the Piñata Party set and knew instantly that I wanted to pair it with the Celebrate Shaker Die.  I am doing a rainbow theme and the Party Mix Jewels were perfect for this design.

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I made a simple striped watercolor background using Dr. Ph Martins Hydrus watercolor, but any watercolor would do.  I made a skinny striped background along with a wider striped background in rainbow color order.

While my backgrounds dried, I colored the images using Copic markers.

Copic Markers Used:  R20, R22, R25 / YR01, YR02 / Y000, Y11 / G00, G02 / B00, B02 / V01, V05 / C1, C3

To make the shaker I cut my panels to standard card size and used the Celebrate Shaker die to cut out the shape in the middle of the panel.  I used the Celebrate Shaker die to cut out glitter paper.  I used the die cuts from the glitter paper to inset into the panel and adhered with tape.  I adhered acetate to the back of the panel and created the shaker well using 2 layers of double sided foam tape.  I added the shaker bits into the well and used a ton of Pretty Pink Posh sequins and confetti.  Here is what I used for the shaker bits:

Party Mix Jewels

Silver Mini Star Confetti

Blush Seed Beads

3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins

Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix

10mm Sparkling Clear Sequins

I adhered a backer sheet to cover the sequins.  I stamped a sentiment to the front of the card and then placed the images.  Finally I adhered the card front to a top folding card base.

I hope you enjoy and try out this colorful card!

Rina

Hi Everyone! Rina here with a fun rose gold double shaker card!  I just adore rose gold and thought it would be the perfect color to use for an encouragement card.  I used the Simple Sayings: Courage Stamp set using the sentiment “Have Courage I believe in you” paired with the Scallop Hearts Dies.  The Scallop Hearts Dies are not only perfect for Valentine’s Day, but also to show a friend your support!  I also used the Friends Forever Stamp set for the girl image and balloon.

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I first colored my images using copic markers using a monochromatic peach theme to pair with the rose gold accents.

Copic Markers Used:

• E02, E21, E50
• YR01, YR20
• R14, R24,R32

I then blended the background using Bristol Smooth Cardstock and the Distress Oxides in Antique Linen, Tattered Rose, and Abandoned Coral.

I cut out Scallop Hearts Dies onto the blended background and also cut out the dies using a Rose Gold Metallic paper to create a fun contrast.  I applied the acetate to the back of the blended background and then applied the rose gold heart cutouts to the front.  I used double sided foam tape behind the acetate to create the shaker wells.  I filled the shaker with my favorite 4mm Metallic Rose Gold Sequins and 6mm Metallic Rose Gold Sequins, and Sparkling Clear Stars Sequins, then applied the shaker back.  Finally, I applied the shaker to a side folding card base.  I hope you give this a try, the shaker dies make it so easy to make!

Thanks for stopping by!

Rina

Hello Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana Smakula. I love the look of heat embossing on my cards, it instantly adds a ton of elegance to my projects and wow!

Recently I’ve also became fond of foiling. I’m able to easily take my handmade projects to a new level with the help of foil. In this blog post & video I’ll show you how to combine these 2 technique to create easy to make Valentine’s Day cards. Of course you can apply this to any other occasion cards or even other projects, not only card making.

Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.

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I started working on my cards by doing hot foiling first. This is very easy to do with the Glimmer Hot Foil System. It’s a new tool that basically is an add on to your die cutting machine, it doesn’t work with every die cutting machine, but it is compatible with many machines that accept Steel Rule Dies. What this tool does is it allows you to add foiled effects to your handmade cards with the the help of dies. Pretty cool, right?

I foiled the heart outline using the coordinating die from my Floral Hearts stamp set on several pieces of colored cardstock using with gold foil. My plan for these cards was heat emboss the heart image inside the foiled outline for some extra wow.

I used gold & white detail embossing powder as well as heart outline image & the inner smaller heart stamp along with the outline for my cards today. To help me position everything and heat emboss perfectly inside the foiled outline I used my Mini MISTI stamping tool.

If you want to recreate these cards be sure to do your foiling first and heat embossing later. First of all, you won’t be able to align the foiled outline around the heat embossed stamped image, it’s much easier to align the stamping inside the foiling; and second, the Glimmer machine applies heat and that heat can potentially mess up all of your heat embossing.

I used a combination of colored pencils (Polychromos by Faber Castell) and white white pen to color the hearts.

To add interest to some of my cards & panels I added some selective manual scoring to the background. It’s a very simple technique that allows you to add some nice texture to the background of the card. It’s not the easiest thing to do, as it can be hard and tiring on the wrist to add all of these score lines, but it does look really nice on the finished card.

I used jewels from the Valentine Mix to embellish my cards and also added some die-cut branches using just the coordinating dies from the Autumn Blooms die set.

I think these cards turned out really beautiful. I hope you like them! Have fun stamping!

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have some Valentine’s tags to share with you all using the brand-new Floral Hearts stamp set. I honestly love this small set so much. There are endless possibilities with these hearts and along with the coordinating dies there are multiple ways to cut them as well. I’ll be using them to create styles of tags today for all different sizes of gifts.

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To start off I stamped these hearts out using my MISTI. I stamped the wreath + inside heart first, creating a full heart. I then stamped the wreath and inside heart piece separately as well. I then used my Copic Markers to colour them all in the same way.

Copic Markers Used: R81, R83, R85 / RV13, RV25, RV19 / R14, R24, R29 / YG01, YG23, YG17 / 0

Once they were all coloured, I die cut them out using the coordinating dies. The dies can create all three styles of hearts – a wreath, a large full heart and a small full heart creating lots of possibilities. I decided to take advantage of that and create three styles of tags. I then die cut plain white die cuts and adhered them on the back so you would have a clean place to write your message.

I then punched a small hole in the tops of each of the tags for a place to thread through the ribbon. I pulled in the Stitched Notes Dies and cut the small banner from light pink cardstock. I took three of the sentiment stamps from the same Floral Hearts stamp set and stamped them onto each of the banners. I punched a hole through those as well and threaded them onto my tags with ribbon. Lastly, I tied a bow with hemp cord at the top of each of the banners and my tags were complete.

Thank you so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed my simple Valentine’s tags.

Eloise