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
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.
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.
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.
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:
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 first started with a standard size landscape card base and placed it inside my Mini MISTI stamping tool. I placed three images down and stamped them in black ink. I then lined up the coordinating dies over the top of my images and adhered them down using washi tape. Since I want these images to pop-up, I lined the card in my big shot machine and then for the top plate, I only placed it over the top half of the coordinating dies, so then it would only cut on one half. I then ran it through my big shot machine.
Now that only the top half of my images die cut, I took out a scoring tool, lined it up where the die cuts ended and scored in between each of the images. I folded along the scored lines and this then created my easel card. Now because everything worked correctly, I coloured my images in with Copic Markers.
Now all my images were coloured, I stamped out some more of the same images on some masking paper and cut them out. I placed them over the top of the coloured images and used a grassy hill stencil to ink blend some Twisted Citron Distress Ink over the top. I then used some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink for the sky as well, making sure to use tape to cover the inside of the card, so it doesn’t get colour inside.
For the inside of the card for the easel portion, so it holds in place I added a piece of teal patterned paper at the bottom along with two extra cupcakes for height. I stamped the ‘Happy Birthday’ sentiment along the bottom of the front panel of my card. I did cut it in half to fit across. It’s super simple to do with sharp small scissors.
So that finishes off my card for today, I hope you all enjoyed, and I’ll see you next time.
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.
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 Sequinsand 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!
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.
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.
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!
