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Hi crafty friends, Eloise here today to share a card using the new Penguin Pals Stamp Set and Layered Tree Dies to create a fun Christmas scene. Plus, we are kicking off 5 Days of Christmas, which is where we’ll have a new giveaway each day, along with some holiday inspiration!

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To start off my card today I stamped out the penguins from Penguin Pals as well as the branch and log from Winter Woodland. I coloured them in with Copic Markers and then cut them out using the coordinating dies.

While I had my die cutting machine out, I also die cut out the Layered Tree Die from white cardstock along with a snowy hill using the Stitched Borders 1 Die Set.

Copic Markers Used: W3, W5, W7 / R17, R29, R89 / YG03, YG25, YG17 / YG67 / E55, E57, E59 / Y13, Y15, Y19 / Y35, YR12, YR18 / W00, W0, 0

Next up I coloured the Layered Tree using the same green Copics as before, except I added In YG67 to darken it up a little. After I coloured in all the elements, I dried them off and started on my background. I took a piece of watercolour paper and ink blended some Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean and Blueprint Sketch Distress Inks. I flicked on some water and dried it with a heat tool.

I then adhered on my snowy hill and then my branches and the tree in the middle. I then adhered the rest of my penguins onto my scene as well. To finish up, I cut apart my ‘Merry Wishes’ stamp so I could have a side-by-side sentiment instead of on top of each other and stamped it on the top of my panel and white heat embossed it.

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Thanks so much for stopping by today and am loving this new release as much as I am. This penguin set is super cute, and I had a blast creating this card today.

Eloise

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a Christmas card to share with you all using the Poinsettias stamp set. I decided to also do a little dry embossing on the background for some added interest.

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I started off with dry embossing my leaves. I took a piece of watercolour cardstock and ran through the coordinating leaves dies of the Poinsettias set. I used a thin tan embossing mat between two plates in my Big Shot Machine to get the effect. I then die cut the same leaves from some masking paper and adhered them over top. I then use Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Inks for the background, I flicked on some water and dried it with a heat tool.

Next, I could colour my images in. I stamped out all the poinsettias and leaves and used Copic Markers to colour them in. I then cut them out using the coordinating dies and added foam tapes to the backs.

Copic Markers Used: R24, R29, R39, R89 / G03, G05, G16, G29 / Y35, YR12, YR24)

I then arranged all my images onto my background and adhered them down into place. I added Wink of Stella in clear for added interest as well. I also arranged the leaves around the dry embossed ones. I then stamped the ‘Merry Wishes’ sentiment from Penguin Pals onto the right-hand side of my panel as well as a piece of red and white striped patterned paper.

For a last finishing touch, I used some Holiday Jewel Mix and scattered them around my card and adhered them into place.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I’ll see you all next time.

Eloise

It’s Justine again with a new video process tutorial. Today I’m using my prismacolor pencils to colour on a dark background in order to make an elegant Christmas card. These coloured pencils are so highly pigmented that they showed up on black cardstock. If you would like a true colour from your pencil, colour in white first, then colour overtop with the colour of your choice.

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I used the Decorative Ornaments stamp all over the background and I embossed it using gold embossing powder. I coloured in all of the little elements. I tried my best to switch up the five colours on the background and I think leaving some in black really made the colours pop.

Lastly, I die cut the Happy Holidays Script die and embossed it three times in gold embossing powder to make it more like chipboard rather than a paper die. In such a busy background, I wanted to make sure the sentiment didn’t get lost nor take away from the background so this was a perfect choice.

I hope you enjoyed today’s video and technique. Thanks for stopping by and joining us today!

Hello Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula and I’m thrilled to be sharing a set of easy to make Fall cards featuring Pumpkin Patch Critters stamps.

The Pumpkin Patch Critters stamp set features adorable critter peeking from behind various size pumpkins. I thought they would make a great focal point for simple, easy to make Fall greeting cards for family & friends.

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

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I made 4 cards to create a set, all feature the same layout and supplies and are very easy to make – you just need a handful of things. I started working on these by stamping the sentiment “Autumn Greetings” in the center of 4 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄2” panels. Next, I stamped a pumpkin and critter above the sentiment in Copic-marker friendly ink.

Once my stamping was done I used Copic markers (as I consider them to be a quick and efficient way to color) to color. I used:

• YR07, YR04, Y17 and Y15 for the pumpkins;
• YG95 and YG99 to color stem of the pumpkins;
• W3 and W 1 to color bunny and cat;
• E79, E37, E33 and YR04 to color the fox and squirrel.

I wanted to add something else to my projects, so I decided I’d stamp tiny florals. I used the Bold Blooms stamp set for this. This is a smaller set with a bunch of beautiful flowers that work really great as little accents on cards. In my recent video, featuring the Happy Mail stamp set and seasonal Happy Mail cards, I used the same flowers to dress up a mail box and they made my cards that much more beautiful and complete.

I used the same marker colors here as before plus a few yellow makers – Y35 and Y13 and once I had all of these colored I used my coordinating dies and cut these out in my die cutting machine. I did keep some of the flowers almost white by coloring them using a W1 marker for a little bit of shading.

Next, I tied gold thread into a messy bow and adhered under the stamped pumpkins. My idea was to have gold thread sticking from behind the tiny floral cluster that I foam mounted on top.

Once everything was done I trimmed my panels down to 4” wide as the stamping seemed a bit off to me, so by trimming the panel I made sure the stamping was centered. I adhered my panels onto A2 light brown woodgrain card bases and used Metallic Gold Jewels to dress these cards up. Gold seems like the perfect option for Fall, it complements the warm Autumn colors beautifully.

I also added some subtle stamping onto some of the panels using yellow ink and images from the Holiday Greetings stamp set.

Have fun stamping!

Hi friends, it’s Rina here today. I am loving the new holiday release from Pretty Pink Posh.  I have been obsessed with ink blending from light to dark so I thought I would play with the new release and try this technique out.

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Today I am using the Penguin Pals and the oldie but goodie Happy Snowman stamp sets.  I am also using the latest script dies which are so beautiful.  I absolutely loved how they looked on my finished cards.  I used the Season’s Greetings Script and Happy Holidays Script dies.  I also had to try out the Pine Sprigs dies and they are so elegant and delicate.

Here are the copic marker colors I used:

Grays – N0, N1, N3, N5

Blues – B02, B04, B16

Reds – R20, R22, R24

Orange – YR02

I am also featuring the latest jewel releases in the Holiday Mix and Starry Sky Mix. The different sizes, shine and color added extra bling to my card along with the Spectrum Noir clear glitter brush pen.

The distress oxide ink colors I used to blend the blue card were Tumbled Glass, Broken China, and Mermaid Lagoon.  The red card was blended with Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Candied Apple.  I colored the Pine Sprigs die cuts with Peacock Feathers on both cards.

I cut a 4 ¼ by 5 ½ inch panel and cut it twice using the Scallop Borders 2 dies to create hills.  I adhered them to my card base and arranged the images, pine springs and script die cuts.

Hope you try this out and thanks for stopping by!

Rina

Welcome to a super special event that Pretty Pink Posh is participating in! Save the Crafty YouTuber, created by our own video member, Justine Hovey, is an event where many videomakers come together to help support, promote and introduce new craft channels to the crafting community. In addition, this is Day 2 of our Thanksgiving Theme Week!

Pretty Pink Posh has 15% off items in the Thanksgiving section!

Don’t forget to comment for a chance to win over 100 prizes, subscribe to show your support and come back and visit these channels in the future. Pretty Pink Posh is sponsoring 8x $25 gift certificates to help support the event, so be sure to go to YouTube to watch the video and comment (comments left on the blog will not qualify). You have until November 7th to leave a comment and winners will be announced on November 10th on Justine’s Blog!

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The theme today is quick cards and videos so Justine created a quick card and showed off how she embosses die cuts to make fun backgrounds! The background uses the Fall Tags dies randomly all over. The card is then topped off with the Thanks Leaf Shaker die in a stunning gold to make it pop!

Sometimes white gets a little bit washed out so by switching up the colours and filling in the negative space of the dies with some red cardstock, truly makes an entirely new and fresh looking card. Thanks for watching and supporting the Save the YouTuber event!

Hi crafty friends, Eloise here and today I have a simple window card to share with you all using the Small Stitched Foliage Die Set as well as some jewels.

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To begin I die cut the Small Stitched Foliage from a square piece of white cardstock. I then used that piece as a mask to trace out the leaves on a card base, so I knew where to adhere the jewels. I picked four colours of jewels that I thought were the most fall like and used those to “colour” my leaves.

I laid down strips of thin adhesive and adhered down my jewels over each of the leaf shapes. I used all random sizes to get them to fit the best. I then added foam tape around the jewels and onto the back of my window die cut and adhered them down onto the card base.

Jewels Used: Shamrock, Marigold, Raspberry and Espresso

Lastly, I die cut the ‘Thankful For You’ die from black cardstock and adhered the ‘Thankful’ word over the centre of my panel.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you were inspired and I’ll see you soon.

Eloise

Today I am excited to announce we have Mindy Eggen joining us as a designer! Here is her first post + she has a video to go along with it!

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My card today is doing a little ink blending to color in the beautiful Anemones stamp set. I start my card by stamping out the entire Anemones stamp set onto Bristol Smooth cardstock and heat embossing with Rose Gold Embossing Powder.

Using Tumbled Glass, Mermaid Lagoon and Blueprint Sketch Distress Oxide inks, I ink blend my flowers to give them color. Then sprinkle on some Perfect Pearls to add a little shimmer. Using the coordinating dies, I die cut my flowers.

For my background, I also use a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock and lightly ink blend Twisted Citron Distress Oxide in the middle making my way out towards the outer edges of the card panel.

My sentiment is from the Woodland Critters stamp set and stamped in Versafine ink. Then I can add my floral images, trim off any that overhang and add to an A2 size card panel. I finish off by adding some Sea Glass Jewels.

This is such a fun and easy way to color in your images! Thank you for joining me today!