Good morning! Heather here today to share a couple cards using a couple of different Background Stencils from Pretty Pink Posh with Gina K Glitz Glitter Gel. I’m sharing two different ways to use these products together – both with lots of shimmer and sparkle!
For this first card, I paired up the Birthday Background Stencil with Turquoise Glitz Glitter Gel, holding it in place with a bit of Purple Tape. SO fun and sparkly! Then I added the Balloon Shaker die cut from white cardstock with a bit of vellum tucked behind to help those words pop. I also added a secondary sentiment using Party Friends stamp set, heat embossed on a bit of black cardstock. Final finishing touch was a bit of jute string tied around the bottom of the balloon.
I love the background stencils from Pretty Pink Posh – how they add such a fun look to your backgrounds! And pairing them up with Glitter Gels makes them even more fun – especially when you can think of more ways to use them! Which version is your favorite?
Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!
Hi, Friends! This is Caly! My project for Pretty Pink Posh this month features the Crocus Flowers. These are one of my favorite early spring blooms and are a sure sign that winter is nearly over. I’ve decided to do a watercolor card and I hope you’ll watch the YouTube video that’s up on the Pretty Pink Posh YouTube Channel!
I did no-line watercoloring using Daniel Smith watercolors. Traditionally, I would color with the darkest shades at the base of the bloom, but crocuses are special and their darkest colors are usually at the tip of the flower so I applied my color at the tips and blended the color towards the center.
No-line coloring is easy for these images because the lines are simple and the petals are big so it gives you a lot of room to work. The leaves are also simple even though they are longer to add color and blend from dark to light.
My background is also created with watercolor. I wanted to do a soft ground covering of soil so I used a gray ink to dab color where I wanted my flowers to bloom from and added yellow just above it to add a soft glow behind the flowers.
My sentiment is from the Pond Friends set and I embossed it in white over black cardstock. To embellish my card, I added Sparkling Clear Confetti in various places to add sparkle to my card. I hope you enjoyed this! Thanks for stopping by today!
The January 2020 Release is now available in the Pretty Pink Posh Shop and select retailers that carry our products. If you missed our post yesterday, we revealed all of the products in picture form, but if you would like to see them in a video, Ardyth has that for you today!
It’s release day at Pretty Pink
Posh today and I have two cards to share with you using the new free with
purchase stamp set called Ladybug Friends. I love this cute little cheerful
stamp set that has the perfect sentiment for thank you cards.
During January 2020, we’ll be giving away this not-yet-released 3″ x 4″ stamp set called Ladybug Friends with qualifying orders over $80. Qualifying orders over $100 will also receive the coordinating die set! This is while supplies last and will automatically be included with orders.
My first card uses my favorite stamping technique which I call “random stamping”. I started with a card size piece of white cardstock and then I stamped all of the images in the set with a light color of ink. I then colored them in with colored pencils.
After I colored the images of the ladybugs, I decided they would look better with outlines, so I used a black colored pencil to add them. I used a gray colored pencil to add a shadow below each of the images. I used a white gel pen to add dots inside each of the circles on their wings and lines on their bodies.
I stamped the sentiment in the set on a stitched rectangle from the Mini Storybook 1 Die using white embossing powder. I added a black cardstock rectangle behind it so it stood out more from the card. I also used a black and white frame around the card to frame it. I added some 4mm Raspberry sequins and some 6mm Raspberry sequins around the card to finish it.
For this card, I started by die-cutting an oval frame from a rectangle of white cardstock using the Scallop Oval Dies. I watercolored a piece of white paper with Nuvo Shimmer Powder to place underneath the frame. I attached the white piece to a black card base.
I stamped 3 ladybugs from the stamp set on white cardstock with a light color of ink and colored them with colored pencils. I outlined them again with a black pencil and then added white details with a gel pen. I cut my greeting in half so I could use just the word “thanks” which fit perfectly on a stitched rectangle from the Storybook 5 die. I used gray cardstock and white embossing powder. I finished the card with some Sparkling Clear Sequins.
Isn’t this just the cutest stamp set for thank you cards? Have fun shopping and thank you so much for joining us today to celebrate the new release!
Hi everyone! It’s Ardyth here today and I’m making the same card twice, so that I can compare two methods of adding shine to a card using a stencil.
I started by blending two panels with blue and black inks to create a night sky. I trimmed the panels with the stitched rectangle die from Stitched Notes.
Here’s a video with lots of tips for inlaying die cuts and a comparison of the two ‘foiling’ methods!
I used the Happy New Year Script die and cut it out from the 2 blue panels, as well as twice from white cardstock, so I could inlay the white die cuts into the blue panels.
The results of both cards were really pretty, but you may prefer one or the other. Glacier paste gives a beautiful shine in one step, with no machine involved. The foil leaves more of a mirror shine and it’s a slightly warmer tone of gold.
I hope you have a great 2020. Thanks for stopping by!
To add the frosted edges to the petals, I swiped embossing ink along the edges and then used sparkly platinum embossing powder. The flower centres are completely covered in the same embossing powder.
My background is two colours of aqua/teal ink blended onto a white panel of cardstock, fading out toward the centre to create a bit of a glow around the poinsettia. I trimmed it with the stitched rectangle from Stitched Notes.
I created a slightly larger mat to back the focal panel and embossed the edges with the same powder to create a sparkly frame that matches perfectly.
My sentiment from the Decorative Ornaments stamp set was embossed in white powder to keep the letters really crisp and easy to read.
I hope you enjoyed the card and video. Have a great weekend!
I started off with stamping out all my images from both Angel Friends and Joy and coloured them in with Copic Markers. I added white gel pen details to them all and cut them out using the Angel Friends coordinating dies and Joy coordinating dies.
I took a piece of watercolour cardstock and
ink blended some aqua Distress Inks onto the bottom portion fading up to white.
I flicked on some water and dried it off with a heat tool. I then die cut them
large ‘Joy’ from the coordinating die set at an angle across the panel. I added
foam tape onto the back and adhered it onto a grey card base.
I then added foam tape and liquid adhesive
onto the backs of the images and adhered them into place. I white heat embossed
the ‘To The World’ sentiment onto a thin black strip of cardstock and adhered
it down with foam tape at the same angle as the Joy Sentiment.
Let’s jump right in! I have several cards to share in today’s video and the first 2 use a Fireworks stencilto create a background. I love to use stencils for quick yet impressive backgrounds for my cards.
I’ve started with a piece of black cardstock cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2”. I taped the panel to the stencil using low tack tape to make sure it is going to stay in place. Next, I used Tonic Studios Nuvo Glimmer Paste in color Plum. It is a beautiful purple and makes a great background for a New Year Card. I’ve applied it evenly onto the paper using a palette knife. Once the paste is applied I removed the stencil. The paste is going to take it some time to dry, so I set it aside. Be sure to wash your stencil and palette knife as once the paste dries it will turn hard and it will ruin your tools.
For my next background, I didn’t have the color paste I wanted, so I made it using supplies I had from my stash. I used white texture paste and gold glitter embossing powder.
Next, I did some stamping. I used several images from the Happy New Year stamp setand stamped them in Copic-marker friendly ink on white cardstock. I stamped a champagne bottle, wine glasses as well as 2 party hats – a smaller and a bigger one.
I did very simple coloring to bring these images to life. I used G99, G94 and G21 markers to color the wine bottle. I was having trouble picking the right colors to have that true bottle green color, but I figured these colors will do. I also used E33 and E31 to color the labels and the cork. I also used the Y15 marker to color the splashes.
For the wine glasses, I used V12 marker. I knew I’d be placing these on the purple background so I wanted the glasses to match in color. I wasn’t too careful coloring them as I’d add a gold mirror piece on the inside to look like liquid and also color outside the lines black, but we will get to that in a minute.
As for the hats I used C10, C9, C7 and C5 markers to color the hats black. I also used R39, R27, and R24 to color the ribbon on the hats. Pretty easy and simple coloring, nothing fancy.
Next came the most fun part! I knew I’d be adding these images to pretty dark backgrounds, black backgrounds really, so I wanted to color the image outlines in black to match. It is a simple trick, yet it makes all the difference in the world. I do encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t already. You can use a black Copic marker or a black pen – anything black really to color the outline black.
Next, I stamped the same image of champagne glasses onto gold mirror cardstock. It doesn’t matter what ink you use unless it is StazOn ink it will not stay on the paper, it will smear or wipe off and that is exactly what we want. I used my detail scissors to cut the liquid part out, wiped the ink off and that created the liquid part for the glasses. There are coordinating dies available and I used mine to cut these images out.
Next, I created sentiments for the cards. I gold heat embossed “Pop Fizz Clink”, cut them out and mounted on mirror gold cardstock.
With the sentiments created, the embellishments made and the backgrounds dry it was time to assemble the cards. I used foam tape to foam mount the sentiment panel onto the background and then used the same foam adhesive to adhere the glasses to the card. I trimmed off the baubles that were stamped with the glasses. I adhered the liquid pieces made from that gold mirror cardstock and added the little bubbles using gems. I used Metallic Gold jewels for this card, they blended perfectly well with the background.
For the next card, a bit more work was needed to complete the background – I used my heat tool to melt that powder that was covering the texture paste. Next, I brushed away any stay glitter particles from the background using a dry paintbrush.
With that done, I foam mounted the sentiment, that same one – Pop Fizz, Clink and also added a champagne bottle on top. I also added a little gem on top of the label of the bottle. And this card is done!
I also have another card to share – also created with the same stamp set. Here I stamped several glasses in a row, colored them using Gold Glitter pen, added Happy New Year sentiment and foam mounted the two black party hats on top. I also used my white Sakura pen to add some white shading to the sentiment and to color the baubles above the glasses.
I started by creating two colourful panels of watercolour cardstock, using Ken Oliver Colorburst powders. I used a mix for each one, to add variation and interest to them. I also spritzed shimmer sprays on them, to create some festive sparkle.
When they were dry, I cut the largest Stitched Poinsettia from the red panel and I cut the Winter Scenefrom the green panel. I used only the stitched circular frame on my card, but I kept the rest of the pieces for another card.
I arranged the ‘wreath’ on my card, and I created some fun contrast by tucking one of the flower petals underneath the green frame, and then popping up the rest of them with foam tape.
I used a tiny Merry Christmas sentiment from Holiday Signs, and I placed it where the slope of the sentiment would fit right underneath one of the petals. It’s just a tiny detail, but it definitely shows that thought was put into the placement of the sentiment.
To finish off the card, I used 3 of the smallest gold confetti from the new Celebration Confetti mix for some shine.
I hope you enjoyed this video. Thanks for stopping by!
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula. In this video, I’ll show you 2 modern and easy to make Christmas cards ideas using the same stamp, the Winter Wreath stamp set. As a bonus, I’ll also show you how you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled outlines to your stamped images.
I like modern designs in my cards so I decided to go for a slightly more modern color palette and a modern design. The design, however, can be done in more traditional colors, red, green and white. I use a lot of dark blues, some gold and just hints of red to make my cards look festive.
For my first card, I started with a panel of dark blue cardstock cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2”. I didn’t want the design to cover the entire front, I wanted there to be a small border, so I masked a ¼” border using low tack tape.
Next, I used a sentiment from the Joy stamp set, it reads “Wishing You a Blessed Holiday Season” and positioned it along the bottom edge of the card. I added single stamp images from the Winter Wreath stamp set and stamped them repeatedly to fill the entire background in. Don’t stamp your images all around the panel, stamp them one next to the other to make sure you build a nice solid background.
If you feel your embossing ink pad isn’t juicy enough you might want to pause and cover the already stamped images with embossing powder and then continue stamping additional images. You don’t have to stamp them all and then cover all. You can work in small sections.
Also, save the smallest images for last. There’s an image of berries and it’s rather small so you can use it to carefully fill any odd gaps you might have on your background.
To add some definition to the heat embossed images I used a darkest blue Copic marker I have in my stash, the B99 marker, and added subtle shading. This made a world of a difference and helped the images stand out from the background. I also added a bit of color to the berries. For this, I used Nuvo Drops in Red Berry.
My second card is very similar. I heat embossed the image of a wreath and a sentiment placed inside of it on the same dark blue cardstock. Next, I heat embossed and cut out additional, single images to adorn the wreath. I colored all, or rather added shading to all, using a dark blue marker.
I also heat embossed and colored a poinsettia. This time, however, I used white cardstock and colored not only the image of the flower, but also the white space around it to make it look like it was heat embossed on dark blue. I used R39, R27, R24 and R22 markers along with the B99.
Images were adhered using glue and foam adhesive at the top of the wreath. I also used the same Nuvo Drops. Finally, I love to use jewels by PPP so I added a good amount ofMidnight Black Jewels all around the wreath to spice the design up. It’s a simple card, but small finishing touches such as these jewels make it that much more special.
Finally, here’s the bonus idea I mentioned showing how you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled outlines to your stamped images. If you own a hot foil machine such as Glimmer by Spellbinders or another machine of the same kind you can use your coordinating dies to add foiled halo-like outlines to your stamped images.
To create this card I first foiled the image outlines (using coordinating dies) on the background. It took me 4 times to foil a full A2 card background. I used Winter Wreath coordinating dies (just the single image dies) and gold foil.
Having done that I placed the panel into my MISTI tool and positioned the coordinating stamps one by one placing them each into their own coordinating foiled spot. From there I heat embossed the images using Antique Gold embossing powder. This is very similar to what I did for the first project, but instead of just heat embossing the images, I also added foiled image outlines making this card design extra special. It wasn’t hard to do, but it surely added a nice foiled touch to the card.
Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a card that you can mass produce easily for after holiday thank you cards. I think these are a really sweet and fun idea to either thank someone for their gift, or for coming over on Christmas etc. It’s just a nice way to show your appreciation if you’re that person who loves to send any sort of card. I used the popular Hummingbird Thanks stamp set, just because I love it so much and the sentiment is perfect and then I also pulled in the Penguin Pals stamp setfor the little Christmas hats, just to make it more festive!
To start off my project today I stamped out a ton of the Hummingbirds onto some watercolour paper. I then clear heat embossed over them so it would be easier to contain my watercolour. I then used a mix of colours of Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers to colour these in. I went for an aqua, blue and purple colour combo to give that wintery feel. I then used red for the hats as well. Once they were coloured, I dried them off with a heat tool and cut them out using the coordinating dies.
Now that all my pieces were ready, I started on the backgrounds. I used my Mini MISTI to stamp my sentiment into the middle of the watercolour paper pieces and gold heat embossed them. I then ink blended in the centre of each of the panels with Peacock Feathers and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks. I flicked each of them with water and dried them again with a heat tool.
I then adhered my hummingbirds into place
with foam tape onto each of my panels as well as their Santa hats on top. I did
this to make them appear more festive since I plan to use these for holiday
thank you cards, but you could leave them off if they’re for everyday use.
Lastly, I took a piece of 12×12 patterned paper, cut it down into four panels
and adhered all my panels together to complete my cards.
So that finished up my cards for today, I
hope you all enjoyed. I love creating simple cards like this that are easy to
mass produce and used for different seasons.
Thanks for stopping by today and I’ll see you next time.
