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Tutorial: Multi Window Shaker Card

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have a card for you all using the brand new Happy Turkey coordinating die set. I love using coordinating die sets without the stamp, since it stretches your supplies and opens whole new doors for using coordinating dies. I’ll be making mini shaker pockets with this die set today using a bunch of different colours of sequins!

To begin my card today I went ahead and cut down a piece of white cardstock and started cutting my leaves out. The leaves in this coordinating die set work well on their own and you can tell that they are leaves, they don’t loose much detail. I cut out the three in the centre of the cardstock and then I went ahead and die cut them from the top and bottom, so I had nine cut altogether in a grid pattern. Once they were all cut, I flipped over my panel, added a sheet of acetate and then added two foam layers around all my leaves to make them have individual sections.

Embellishments used: 4mm Lime Sorbet, 4mm Lemon Meringue, 4mm Tangerine, 6mm Champagne, 6mm Marigold, 6mm Lemon Drop, 6mm Sand, 6mm Raspberry, 6mm Pumpkin and Metallic Gold Confetti Mix

I then filled each section with a different colour of sequin using various sizes also. I tried to use as many fall themed colours as possible too. Once I filled all my leaves with sequins I used another piece of white cardstock, removed the backers of the foam tape and adhered it down. Now for the sentiment, I used the Angel Friends stamp set and stamped out the banner and then used the Birdie Friends stamp set to stamp out the ‘You’re the Best’ sentiment.

To finish up my card I adhered a piece of patterned paper from Lawn Fawn to my card base and then adhered my sequin shaker panel on top. I used foam tape to adhere the sentiment and also sprinkled some of the new gold confetti mix around my card and adhered it down also.

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Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed my card and are loving all the new products for this release!

Eloise

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Tutorial: Watercolors on Die Cuts

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing the new Stitched Foliage Dies. These dies set are not only perfect for fall but it can work for everyday use as well.

To begin, I first die-cut the pieces on a watercolor paper.

Then, I watercolored some of the pieces with Prima Marketing Metallic Semi-Watercolor Cake.

Next, I cut an A2 watercolor panel and watercolored using golden yellow and black as my background. Let it dry, then I added some watercolor splatter using the same golden yellow color and let it dry.

I also watercolor another A2 card with a light aqua color, let it dry and then die-cut using the Scallop Oval Dies (large oval). I then die-cut 3 more oval so I can adhere one on top of the other to make a sturdy die-cut piece. I also used the leaf from Happy Turkey Stamp set, watercolored and die-cut using the Happy Turkey Coordinating Dies.

Next, I stamped the sentiment from Thoughtful Greetings on a center of my panel. Then die-cut a gold star from the new Angel Friends Coordinating Dies and adhered on the card. I also added the new Marshmallow Confetti Mix to finish the card.

Be sure to mark your calendar for later this week. We are having our two day blog hop with lots of special guests using our new release.

I hope you guys enjoyed today’s tutorial! Until next time. Have an amazing day!

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Tutorial: Maximizing Tiny Stamps

Hello Everyone, Joni here sharing another tutorial on maximizing your tiny stamps.

To begin I used the small stamp star cluster and an individual small star image from the Fly Away Friends for the background. I also stamped the plane and hedgehog colored them with watercolor, let it dry. Then used the Fly Away Friends Coordinating Dies to die-cut the images.

Then die-cut the background panel with Stitched Notes Dies. I also used the Scallop Diamond Tags Dies to create a tag for the card.

After cutting the background panel I then die-cut the center with Stitched Border Die 1, this will help show the distressed white cardstock panel I created.

I then die-cut the bow from the Fly a Kite coordinating dies using gold cardstock.

I put everything on a foam tape for dimension.

I hope I have inspired you to use your tiny stamps in new, creative ways. Thank you so much for stopping by.

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Creating Sentiment Backgrounds + Video

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I am sharing a video tutorial showing how to stamp a background using sentiment stamps.

Colored inks used:  Sunshine // Doll Pink // Green Apple // Twirling Tutu

The Thoughtful Greetings stamp set I am using for my card today contains messages for a variety of different occasions. I picked just one of them, Sending Happy Thoughts Your Way, to stamp a background pattern for my card.

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

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I used a light pink ink color for my stamping, but you can go with any color you like. I was going for a soft and feminine card. I started stamping in the center of my panel, first stamped the middle row and later added rows on the left and right hand side to make sure my stamping was centered.

You can combine multiple messages to create a background like this, but I always like to use just one. If you feel your pattern is lacking you can always add additional elements such as hearts or stars. I used a large and small heart images and stamped them in between my messages. You can also take your background even further – use several colors of ink for stamping and/or incorporate heat embossing. After stamping large hearts I heat embossed them in Antique Gold embossing powder.

To highlight one of the messages and create the main sentiment for this card I stamped same message over the already stamped area in black ink. Here’s a close up of that – I love the pop of pink behind black.

Finally I embellished my card with a number of Sparkling Clear sequins and later used a black pigment pen and added tiny black dots here and there to ground the black stamped sentiment

Happy cardmaking!

 

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Tutorial: Stretching Your Dies

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing another tip of looking at your dies on a different way.

For the main focal of this project are the clouds from the new July released Fly a Kite Coordinating dies.

To begin, I first die-cut the clouds on a white cardstock using the Neenah white 80lb. Then distressed each one, using Tim Holtz Tattered Rose Distress Ink pad. I also scored each cloud for dimension.

Next, I cut a 1 ½   circle for the center where I adhered the petals on top. For the first layer, I did 9 clouds and for the top I adhered 5. To adhered each petals, I used Multi Medium Matte.

Next, I needed a stem and leaves for my flower. The scallop die from Stitched Borders 2 Dies is perfect for making the leaves, the leaves were also scored. For the stem, the stitched curved die from Stitched Borders 1 Dies worked perfectly.

For the card base the measurement I used 121/2   X 14 centimeters, almost a square card. But, for the top panel is just regular A2 size. I also distressed splattered it with gold watercolor paint from Gansai Tambi Starry Colors. The sentiment I used was from Thoughtful Greetings stamp set.

For this project I adhered every piece of for the flower (petals, leaves, stem) using Multi Medium Matte. For the sequins I used the Metallic Rose Gold in all 3 sizes.

I hope I have inspired you. Until next time. Have a wonderful day!

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Creating A Watercolor Kite Card + Video

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I am sharing a video tutorial showing how create a dreamy watercolor scene using stamps from the new Fly A Kite set.

I started working on my card by stamping 2 clouds and a sentiment from the Fly A Kite stamp set in Versafine Onyx Black Ink onto Distress Watercolor Paper (in my video I am using Arches Hot Pressed Paper). Next, I stamped 3 kites and kite strings as well as a number of tiny florals and leaves from the Bold Blooms stamp set onto a separate panel.

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

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I’ve been slowly growing my Daniel Smith watercolor collection and I was anxious to play with new colors so I used them to color this card. I went with Cobalt Teal Blue to watercolor the sky as well as one of the kites and some flowers. I also used Quinacridone Rose and Magenta colors to color the two other kites and the rest of the flowers and finally Sap Green to color the leaves. For this card I used the Silver Black Velvet Brush Size 8.

I did my coloring a several layers – after I had applied the first, light, wash of color I intensified the areas I wanted to appear darker. After my coloring was done I used coordinating dies and cut these images out in my Platinum 6 die cutting machine.

I used a lot of foam adhesive and also a bit of glue to adhere my die cuts onto the card. I foam mounted the kites and flowers and used glue to adhere the leaves.

To add a bit of sparkle and shine I used sequins from the Mermaid Sequin Mix and adhered them onto my card. Lastly, I coated several flowers with Wink Of Stella glitter pen and Nuvo Crystal Glaze to make them dimensional and shiny.

Happy cardmaking! I hope you enjoyed today’s video and post.

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One Stamp Set // Three Animal Cards + Video

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have another 3 cards 1 stamp set video for you all. It was a big hit last time and people seemed to really enjoy it so I thought I would do another one using the Woodland Critters stamp set which definitely seemed to be a favourite from the May release!

To begin my cards today I first stamped and coloured in all my images in with Copic Markers and used the coordinating dies to cut them out.

To begin my first card I pulled out the Stitched Borders 1 dies and used the curved stitched border to cut out two sections of my white cardstock panel. I only needed the top and bottom of my panel left so the middle section could be open for colour and my scene. I then took another piece of cardstock and blended some Broken China and Peeled Paint Distress Oxide Inks onto the background, to make sky and land. Once I blended on my colour I sprinkled over some water and heat set it with my heat tool.

I then added adhesive to the back of the inked panel and adhered it down to a scrap piece of paper cut to the same size as my final panel. I then added foam tape onto the back of my white panel piece and adhered it to the same scrap paper piece leaving the opening for the colour to show through. I then added adhesive onto the back of my critters that I was using and added them into the scene. I stamped the ‘Friends Forever’ sentiment from the set with some black ink onto the top right hand side of my panel and finally adhered my panel to a kraft card base.

For my second card I pulled the Storybook 1 die to use as the focal point on my card. I then took the same Stitched Borders 1 dies and used the same curved die to cut a piece of green cardstock. Once my piece was cut I also grabbed some blue cardstock and cut it down to size. I used some Mowed Lawn Distress Ink and ink blended a little on the top of the green cardstock piece to give it some shading and used Broken China Distress Ink to ink the blue piece the same way. This is a way to give a little extra to your flat colours of cardstock. I then die cut the Storybook die from some white cardstock.

I then adhered together my background and hill piece and then adhered down the Storybook frame onto my panel. I used foam tape and flat adhesive to adhere down all the critters I chose to use also. I then stamped the ‘You Are Wonderful’ sentiment onto the bottom of the panel and finally adhered the piece to a white card base.

For my final card I used the Scallop Circle Tags dies to cut a white tag. I then used a circle die to also cut out an additional two circles to fit inside my tag. I cut one circle down to a small hill and coloured that using Mowed Lawn and then used Broken China for the full circle. I adhered the two together and then used foam tape to adhered the coloured circles to my tag. I arranged a small scene using a few of the critters that were left onto the circle and adhered them down into place. For my background of my card I used some plaid paper from Lawn Fawn and adhered it down to a white card base. Then to make the tag feel like it fit with the card I poked a hole through the top centre of the card and also cut a slit in the fold of the card so I could thread some hemp cord through and tie it in a bow, anchoring the tag to the card.

I added some adhesive to the back of the tag so it would sit in place instead of moving around and then for the sentiment I white heat embossed the ‘Friends Forever’ sentiment onto some black cardstock, heat set it, trimmed it down and foam mounted it onto the bottom right hand side of the card.

To completely finish off all the cards, I pulled some Sparkling Clear Sequins out of my stash and scattered them around each of my cards to pull them altogether.

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Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed the three cards I made today. I always have a lot of fun making these videos as I love to create multiple cards especially when you have most of the supplies out already. They’re all quite simple cards, but have a similar vibe I feel.

Anyway, thanks again, I hope you got inspired and I’ll catch you all next time!

Eloise

 

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Tutorial: Batik Background Stamping

Good morning! Heather here to share a tutorial on these two cards on which I attempted to create a background for my card similar to a Batik fabric (if you have no idea what that is, click HERE or HERE to see a couple examples, or do a quick search on Pinterest!) The two different methods I tried gave me two slightly different results – one a bolder look, and one a softer effect. I can’t decide which one I like better!

I started off by picking two shades of distress ink, and applying it to my backgrounds – first the lighter shade, then the darker. I purposely went fairly random in my patterns going for an “imperfect” look intentionally.

Next, I added some flicks of water to react with the distress ink for more texture. At this point I heat set the entire panel. IMPORTANT: You want it to be NICE and dry after this step – so either give it lots of time to dry or zap it good with a heat gun!

Now to add the leaf images to the background. I picked several of the solid images from the new Build a Bloom stamp set – including some of the single little leaves to fill in the holes. The softer one on the right I stamped with Clear Embossing ink and heat embossed with Clear Embossing Powder. The bolder one on the left I stamped with both shades of the same distress ink I used on the background, deliberately layering and overlapping the leaves on that one. I then quickly sprinkled on some embossing powder on that one so it stuck to the newly stamped leaves. The distress ink stays wet long enough to do that if you work quickly. THIS is why you wanted those backgrounds thoroughly dry so that the embossing powder doesn’t stick anywhere that you don’t want it too!

Finally, I applied some more distress ink to the softer colored one – the way the colors overlap it gives two tones of color the the card exactly like I was hoping! On the darker bolder card, I applied a little white pigment ink on some spots to add some more texture and color variation.

Next I built the sentiment portion using the gorgeous new sentiment kit, Thoughtful Greetings, and the fun new addition to the scallop dies, Scallop Hexagons! The sentiments I heat embossed in white on some soft gray cardstock, and framed them with the white scallop frames.

Finished off by mounting those sentiment panels with foam adhesive, then added some Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix. Here is a closer look at the softer one – can you see the shine from the embossing powder?

And then here is the bolder one:

This was so much fun to create – and I can imagine so many different color combinations that would be fun too!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!
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Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing my take on the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop using the new Summer Friends stamp set and Summer Friends coordinating dies (releasing on July 10th).

To begin, I drew pencil lines to create sand and sea as a background.

Next, I colored the pencil lines with Copic markers.

Next, I drew a half circle with a pencil mark and Colored it with Copic. Then, I added both sun ray images from Rainy Days Additions stamp set to create the sun for the background.

Next, I colored and die-cut the images from the new Summer Friends. I colored the frapp images to fit the challenge.

Then, I die-cut the whole background with Stitched Notes die set. I used the frame and adhere it with foam tape for dimensions

Then, I stamped the sentiment “happy summer” also from Summer Friends stamp. Next, I added some of the new Mermaid Sequins Mix. I put all my die-cut images on a foam square for dimension.

I hope you enjoyed this cute new Summer Friends stamp set coming soon! Until next time, have a great day!!!

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Tutorial: Fox Pop-Up Card

Hi Pretty Pink Posh friends! Shannon here today to share a pop up card with you! I kept the outside of the card clean and simple and put a cute pop up scene on the inside. I often focus my attention on the outside of the card and neglect the inside so this is a way to change that for me.

I started by creating a card base like usual with light blue card stock but cut it slightly smaller than an A2 sized card. I then put my card into my paper trimmer at 1 and 1/2 inches and cut a slit up to the 1 ” mark. I moved my card into the trimmer touching the 2” mark and again cut a slit down to 1”, this is how I created the slit in my card to allow the pop up piece.

I used the Picket Fence die and and adhered into my background under the pop up piece and also added some blades of grass from the Camping Friends stamp set. I then stamped my fox and flag from the Fox Friends stamp set, colored in with Copic markers and cut out using the coordinating dies. I adhered my flag behind my fox and cut an additional fox die cut out from white card stock to adhere onto my stamped fax just to make that piece a little more sturdy for my pop up. I then Adhered my fox onto my pop up piece and adhered my blue card base inside a white card piece creating my pop up when you open the card.


For the outside of card I kept it very simple stamping my images from the Camping Friends stamp set and coloring in with Copic markers. I then cut some blue clouds using the Rainy Day Coordinating dies and added some 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins on them.

Decorating the inside of the card was fun and I must do it more often.

Thanks for stopping in! We hope you enjoyed today’s fun card.