Tutorials

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!

It’s Justine here again with a monthly video tutorial for you. Today I explored the world of no-line colouring which I have only done a few times and thought I would try it out using some fall colours on kraft cardstock. Kraft cardstock is a staple in my craftroom in the fall because I think it coordinates perfectly with red, yellow, orange and brown.

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Pencil Colours: Scarlet Lake, Crimson Red, Chestnut, Dark Chocolate, Chocolate, Light Umber, Goldenrod, Yellowed Orange, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Orange Hue, Orange, Spanish Orange, Metallic Gold, Beige Sienna, Clay Rose

I used the Autumn Wreath stamp set from the latest release since I wanted small, manageable images to colour. Each time I saw a small dot where I was to colour, I embellished it instead with Espresso and Marigold jewels to add more interest and to save on some of the colouring. I used my Prismacolor pencils to colour this image.

I finally embossed the sentiment using Penny embossing powder and the Simple Sayings: Kind stamp set. I mounted my card panel onto some white cardstock to add a frame around my card and add some brightness for a finished look.

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

Hi friends, Eloise here today with another video over on the YouTube channel. I’ll be using three of the brand new stamp sets; Halloween Pals, Pumpkin Patch Critters and Cuddly Cats to create three grid design cards. I love using this layout to use many images at once, and to also create quick and easy cards that you can mass produce easily. I’ll be using the same supplies and the same concept for each card as well to make them quicker to make, as well.

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To begin my cards today I started off with stamping out all my images. I used Copic Friendly black ink and Neenah Solar White cardstock. I stamped out a ton of the images, enough to make a grid on each of my cards and then coloured them in with Copic Markers.

Copic Markers Used: E74, E77, E79 / E42, E44, E47 / W0, W1, W3, 0 / YR31, YR24, YR27 / E53, E55, E57 / R00, R20, R22 / R17, R29, R89 / E70, E71 / Y17, YR24, YR27, E37 / E95, E97, E99, E07 / Y17, YR04, YR18, E37 / Y13, Y15, YR23 / YG61, YG63, YG67 / BV02, BV04, BV08 / W5, W7, W9

Now that all my images are coloured, I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. I then set them off to the side in their groups and worked on my card bases. I used some green cardstock to create two regular sized card bases and one square card base for all three of my projects,

I then used the Dotted We R Memory Keepers Embossing Folder to emboss on all three of the card fronts, to just give them a little extra detail. I then added foam tape onto the backs of all my images and arranged them onto my card bases.

Now that all my images were adhered to my card bases in their grid design, my last finishing touch was to add the sentiments. I used the sentiments from each stamp set and white heat embossed them onto strips of black cardstock. I then added more foam tape behind the sentiments and adhered them into place onto my cards.

So that finished up my projects today, super simple and easy to create. Of course, you could go more elaborate on the backgrounds and make them all look more different, but this is just a super simple way to create these simple cards.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed, and I’ll catch you all next time.

Eloise

Hi everyone, Rina here!

I am loving the transition to fall crafting and wanted to make a super fun fall card with the latest Pretty Pink Posh release. The new Autumn Wreath stamp set pairs up so well with the Pumpkin Patch Critters set so I decided to combine these stamp sets for my ‘Thankful for You” card using the latest script die.  I also wanted to use the new Espresso jewels, which are a new favorite of mine.

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I colored the images with copic markers in the following colors and cut them with the coordinating dies.

• Brick Reds – E07, E08, E09
• Warm Grey – W1, W3, W5, W7
• Warm Browns – E53, E50, E30, E34, E37, E33, E51, E35
• Olive Greens – BG93, BG96, BG99
• Oranges – Y17, YR21, YR04

Creating the expanded easel card:

• Cut a 8 ½ x 11 inch piece of white cardstock in half, you will have two pieces of 4 ¼ x 11 paper
• Take one piece and score and fold at 2 ¾ inches and 5 ½ inches, fold to create the easel stand
• Take the other piece and score and fold at 1 3/8, 2 ¾, 4 1/16, and 5 ½ inches, fold to create the easel card front
• Add adhesive to the easel stand and adhere the easel card front
• Decorate your card front, I used mats but you can ink blend, watercolor, or choose whatever way you want to create the background
• If you are going to mat your images the dimensions are 4 1/8 x 5 3/8 for the big panel and 4 1/8 x 1 ¼ for the 3 smaller mats for the “mountains”

Once you have created your card base, adhere the images to the mats and decorate your wreath with the new jewels!  For the sentiment I used the new Thankful for You Script die, it is perfect for the season!

Rina