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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

Hi everyone it’s Ardyth and today is my very first time on the Pretty Pink Posh blog and YouTube channel! I have a video tutorial to share using the new Pinata Party set.

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I used the Pinata Party set to make a fun shaker card with a special feature! The Pinata is hanging on some twine, so he can swing inside the shaker among all the fun jewels and sequins!

I started by stamping the background – I used one the Let’s Party sentiments from the set and created a grid by stamping it, turning the stamp and then stamping again. I added some colourful stamped confetti to the background, so that when all the jewels and sequins settle, there are still bright happy colours all over the card!

I built my shaker frame with 6 layers of the large Scallop Square die cut. This seemed to work fine, but I still think that next time, I’ll use 7 to give my shaker fillers a bit more room. I put acetate behind the top layer of the shaker frame, and I glued the silver twine to the second layer of the frame, so that the pinata could swing from that. I used some anti-static powder on the acetate so he could swing freely without getting stuck on the acetate.

Then I used some of the new Party Mix jewels and Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix as my shaker filler. I stamped another sentiment and some confetti on the inside of the card as well. I love how it looks like the pinata has already exploded, and the party is ready to start!

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

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have another Christmas card to share with you all. I will be creating a scene with the Caroling Critters stamp set along with the Happy Holidays Script Die and Pine Sprig Die and they will be fitting into the scene with little added accents to them.

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To start off my project, I stamped my image onto a piece of 4” x 5 ½” white cardstock. I then took some small detail scissors and cut around the top half of the image to make it into a little snow bank. I then coloured in my scene with Copic Markers.

Copic Markers Used: E95, E97, E99, E07 / E42, E43, E44, E47 / W00, W1, W3 / C0, C1, C3 / B41, B12, B16 / R24, R29, R89 / YG61, YG63, YG67 / Y11, Y15, Y38 / R81

Next, I die cut the Pine Sprigs out of some white cardstock and the Happy Holidays Script from black cardstock. I then adhered down my pine sprigs onto some scrap cardstock and coloured them in with the same green Copics I used earlier. Now that all my elements are ready, I took a Versamarker Pen and scribbled over the tops of my words and pine sprigs. I then added white embossing powder to each of the pieces and white heat embossed them. Now it looks like the snow is sitting of each of the pieces which is super cool.

Lastly, I used some Distress Inks to create a simple sky background, flicked on some water and dried it with my heat tool. I then added some white dots with a white gel pen as well for added interest. I adhered all my elements down with foam and flat adhesive and then for a last finishing touch I added on some Winter Days Confetti Mix around the background as well.

Distress Inks Used: Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers, Evergreen Bough, Blueprint Sketch, Black Soot

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

Eloise

Hello Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula and I’m thrilled to be sharing a set of easy to make Holiday cards featuring Decorative Ornaments stamp set.

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For my card idea #1 I stamped the round ornament in red Copic marker friendly ink. My idea was to color this image using my markers and next re-stamp the same image over the colored one in gold embossing powder. I used R39, R27, R24, R22, R20 as well as C7, C5, C3 and C1 markers to color the ornament and topper. These are my go-to colors for anything red and cool gray.

After gold heat embossing this image over the colored one I cut it out using a coordinating die. To pop this ornament up on my card I die cut identical ornament shape out of thin self adhesive fun foam. I decided to use this thin fun foam instead of foam squares as I wanted to pop the ornament up just a bit and also wanted to have a solid layer of foam under the ornament to prevent it from sagging.

Next, I pieced an opening in the ornament and my panel and threaded gold sting through to tie into a small beautiful bow. To create a background for my card I drew horizontal stripes first using a red marker and next using a 1⁄2” paint brush and embossing ink. This gave me a beautiful red & gold stripe background. You can stamp a background like this if you prefer, but I wanted mine to have a more hand drawn look to it, so I opted to freehand one myself. I adhered my background on an A2 white side folding card base and added my ornament panel on top. I also embellished my ornament using gold jewels.

The rest of my projects feature much simpler ways to color or skip coloring altogether. For my card idea #2 I gold heat embossed one of the ornament images in the center of a blue panel. I also die cut ornament opening in a white panel and made sure to heat emboss the ornament so that it was centered in regards to both panels. I foam mounted the white panel with the sentiment over the blue one and to color the ornament, or rather to add some sparkle to the ornament, I used my shimmer pen and added a touch of shimmer. I find this to be a much simpler and easier way to color and also one that looks absolutely gorgeous, especially on dark cardstock. I also used clear jewels and adhered a few where the ornament design allowed. Lastly, I embellished this card using a few larger jewels in gold.

Here’s another variation of this idea – I gold heat embossed a number of ornament on a panel of blue cardstock and once again colored them using a shimmer pen for a touch of sparkle. This ended up being a flat one layer card that is easy to mail. I embellished it using sparkling clear jewels in the smallest size, and added larger gold jewels scattered around the card.

For my last idea featuring this stamp set I used ink and ink blending technique to add color to my gold heat embossed ornaments. I used just one ink pad color for each ornament and simply blended it heavier on one side and lighter on the other to imitate shadows and highlights.

To create a background for this card I used wide double sided tape and white glitter and added wide glitter stripes on my card front. I also gold heat embossed a sentiment and foam mounted the ornaments on top for a touch of dimension. Lastly, I used a white pen to add some white details to the card and embellished it using Pearl White jewels.

Thanks for joining us today! Happy crafting!

Hi Everyone, it’s Rina. I wanted to get into the holiday spirit by creating two holiday shaker cards using the new Tree Shaker Die and the Ornament Shaker Die.  I thought these would be perfect to showcase the new confetti mixes in Berry Bright and Winter Days.

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First I colored my images in copic markers, I am using the Decorative Ornaments and Reindeer Friends stamp sets today.  Here are the Copic Markers used:

Brown – E70, E71, E74, E77, E79

Red/Pink – RV13, RV14, RV29, R27

Blue – BG000, BG02, B04

Gray – C3, C5

First I used colored cardstock in 4 ¼ x 5 ½ inches to create my card front, I placed the shaker die in the middle to create the opening.  I am not using the die cuts made from the colored cardstock for this project because I will be cutting out the dies again but in silver and gold foil cardstock to create contrast.

I added the acetate (4 x 5 ¼ inches) to the back of the colored cardstock card fronts and adhered the acetate.  From there, I will use foam tape to create the shaker well.  I used the following sequins for the shaker bits:

Pink Card: Berry Bright Confetti Mix, Rose Pink Sead Beads, Mini Gold Star Confetti, Sparkling Clear Stars Sequins, Sparkling Clear Snowflake Sequins Mix

Blue Card: Winter Days Confetti Mix, Silver Shimmer Sead Beads, Mini Silver Star Confetti, Sparkling Clear Stars Sequins, Sparkling Clear Snowflake Sequins Mix

Once the sequins are in, I will seal the shaker with a 4 x 5 ¼ piece of cardstock.  I will adhere my gold and silver shaker die cuts to the front of the card on the acetate to finish off the shaker front. I adhered the images and embellished my card using more of the Sparkling Clear Snowflake Sequins and Mini Gold Star Confetti or Mini Silver Star Confetti. Adhere the shaker mechanism to your card base and finish off with a glitter brush pen.

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Hope you give this a try, thank you for stopping by!

Rina