Good morning! It’s Ardyth, and I’m excited to be here on the Pretty Pink Posh blog today. In fact, today I’m doubly excited because Paulina agreed to be part of my video hop to celebrate 3000 subscribers on my personal channel, and so Pretty Pink Posh is not only part of the hop, but a very generous sponsor as well, and has contributed 4 $25 Gift Certificates for 4 randomly-chosen comments along the hop. Be sure to head to my personal blog for all the details!
In fact, the starry background panel on my card started as part of another card. I created this background with the inky, sparkly ‘mess’ that was left on the stencil after I blended ink and spritzed sparkle spray onto it to make the card in the video on my personal channel for today’s hop.
It was so pretty, that I just couldn’t waste it, so I pressed it down onto a clean panel of white cardstock and the result was a shimmery, peachy background!
I created my shaker window with a tag die from Stitched Essentials 1 but I altered the shape and size a bit by covering the fish-tail bottom with my sentiment panel.
The sentiment was created with the Congrats Script die. This script font means that even after I stacked 3 of them together, the die cut was still flexible enough to be made to perfectly fit the curve of the banner. I filled the shaker with Pink Blush jewels – the perfect shade of pink, plus the iridescence picked up some of the yellow and peach tones from the background.
Finally, I added the baby bear and a butterfly to the front of the card. I did some mirror stamping to create a second butterfly facing the first.
From its humble beginnings as ‘leftovers’ from another card, I would say this starry background has become a main player in this adorable baby card. I hope you agree!
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Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have a shaker card to share with you all using the Boo stamp set. I’m pairing it with the Spider Web Stencil for my background.
I started off with stamping out my images and colouring them in with Copic Markers. Once they were coloured, I cut them out with the Boo coordinating dies. I also added white detail lines to each of the images as well.
I set the images to the side and worked on the background. I adhered down a piece of watercolour paper with washi tape and laid the stencil over the top. I then mixed up my own texture paste using Distress Inks, Glitter and Translucent Embossing Paste. I mixed up three colours and spread it over the stencil. I then sprinkled more glitter, dried it a little with a heat tool, peeled off the stencil and then let the piece dry.
Once the piece was dry, I cut the ‘Boo’
Word from the centre. I adhered acetate on the back and added foam tape around
the letters. I added in my sequins and star confetti and then added a black
piece of cardstock on the back. I flipped it over and adhered the middle of the
letters back in, too.
I adhered the images around the shaker
using foam tape. I also white heat embossed the ‘Happy Halloween To You’
sentiment onto a think black strip and adhered it down over the shaker. To
finish up I added a hemp cord bow to the right-hand side of my project.
That finished up my card for today, I hope you all enjoyed, and I’ll see you next time.
Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have three Halloween cards to share with you all using the Brush Strokes Stencil. I paired it with a few of the Halloween themed stamps in the most current release.
To start off my first card, I took a piece of watercolour cardstock and masked off individual “ghosts” from the Brush Strokes Stencil to ink blend onto the background. I used Pumice Stone Distress Ink and a little white pigment ink to blend them. Once they were all done, I made masks for them all using masking paper and adhered them over the top. I then used Washi Tape and the Wide Stripes Stencil to ink blend stripes over the background diagonally. I flicked on some water and dried it off with a heat tool.
I decided that the ghosts blended into the background too much, so I re-applied the masks and laid over the stencil and used some Black Soot Distress Ink to create a drop shadow on the each of them. Lastly, I adhered Silly Eyes to each of them using some glossy accents and white heat embossed the sentiment ‘Happy Halloween To You’ from the Boo Stamp Set onto a thin strip of black cardstock and adhered it straight across the card.
For the second card, I decided to turn the Brush Strokes Stencil into stamped images. I first took a piece of white cardstock and cut it down with the rectangle inStitched Notes Dies. I then used a stamping tool to stamp the pumpkin border from Fall Borders Stamp Set. I traced around the heads of the “ghosts” and then used the hat stamp from the Boo Stamp Set to stamp on the top of each of them. I erased the pencil lines, took the stencil and traced around each of the ghosts with a black marker. I then coloured everything in with Copic Markers.
After they were coloured, I drew faces on each of the ghosts using the same black marker. I then created masks for everything, adhered them on top and ink blended some Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn onto the bottom and Blueprint Sketch for the top. I removed the masks and then white heat embossed the same ‘Happy Halloween’ sentiment from the Boo Stamp Set onto a thin strip of black cardstock. I adhered it to the card and then adhered the entire panel onto a piece of patterned paper.
For my final card I wanted to create a mini shaker card. I started off with die cutting the Decorative Tag 2 three times, once from watercolour paper and twice from normal white cardstock. I used the Brush Strokes Stencil to ink blend some Wilted Violet, Carved Pumpkin and Twisted Citron Distress Inks over the top onto the watercolour cardstock tag. I flicked on some water and dried it off with a heat tool. I took a circle die and cut it from the centre and added acetate onto the back. I then took the one of the other white tags and adhered a piece of blue cardstock onto it. I added foam tape around the entire perimeter of the piece and added the star confetti’s inside. I then adhered my ink blended tag on top.
I then ink blended one of the “ghosts” from the Brush Strokes Stencil onto some more cardstock using Pumice Stone and white pigment ink, cut around it with scissors and adhered Silly Eyeson top. I then adhered it onto the front of my tag. I white heat embossed the same sentiment from the Boo Stamp Setonto a strip of black cardstock and adhered it into place. I then adhered the last tag I cut onto the back using a little bit of tape at the top and that finished off my third card.
I started by stamping my pumpkin patch, using the row of pumpkins from Fall Borders, and my original sized MISTI, and some masking.
To quickly colour the card, I used the same mask and ink blended the sky and pumpkins. Then I added some optional, extra colouring to add more depth and shadows, but you can stop anywhere along the way, depending on how much time you’ve got.
I finished the card with a sentiment and the bat image from the Boo stamp set and then put the panel onto a black card base. I made another card, with a white base – see how different the cards feel, with that one small change?
I hope you enjoyed watching how I made these two cards!
Hi everyone, Rina here with a fun floral shaker card. I have made this card a Mother’s Day theme, but you can make it for any occasion you want using a sentiment stamped on the inside of the card.
I used Bristol Smooth Surface cardstock stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink to watercolor the images. I used the Peonies stamp set along with the Mother’s Day stamp set (for the inside of the card). I used two Zig Real Clean Color Brush Markers in Turquoise Green and Light Green. I adore these colors together.
I created the card front using the new A2 sized Lattice Background Die and lightly ink blended it with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.
I created my shaker card by adhering the acetate to the back of the Lattice Background die cut. And then applying double sided foam tape around the edges. I created a custom shaker mix to match with the images:
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula. In this video, I’m sharing a very easy method to create money holder greeting cards. You won’t need any specialty dies or supplies for this type of card and you should be able to create a card design like this using most of your Pretty Pink posh stamps and coordinating dies.
I started by stamping some images in black Copic marker friendly ink onto white paper. The size of the images you pick is the only thing that matters as you’ll want to use something that’s big enough to hide a folded bill behind it. So a small critter stamp, for example, is not going to work. But a cute giraffe, like the one I’m using here and also a gorgeous floral arrangement will. Both of these images are from Pretty Pink Posh and come from the Animal Signs and Mother’s Day stamp sets respectively.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.
Next, I quickly colored these using Copic markers. Nothing fancy, just some quick strokes of color to bring these images to life. I used YG03, YG17, RV34, RV11, RV10, Y11, Y35, Y17, BV11, BV00, and BV000 markers. To color the giraffe I used E37, E33, E31, R0, and E51.
I wanted to combine these two images and have my critter holding a floral bouquet and not the frame. I did some fussy cutting to eliminate the image parts I didn’t need and using foam adhesive squares I foam mounted the flowers onto my critter, added front legs and the tail. Super cute! and it wasn’t hard to do at all.
Next, I’ve done some partial die cutting using a coordinating die. To make the partial cut I only covered the part of the die that I wanted to cut into the paper and left the other part of the die free. This allowed me to do partial die cutting and only die cut the top part of my giraffe.
I also wanted to add some dry embossing to the background. I used a new Wide Stripes stencil and dry embossed on the background. I love the result! It looks very clear and simple, yet there’s pretty linear texture in the background!
I trimmed this panel down to 4” x 5 1/4”, I also made an A2 card base using hot pink cardstock. I folded the money bill and inserted it into the partially die cut panel. Next, I added foam adhesive around it making sure not to touch it. I wanted to block the bottom part of the panel so that I didn’t have stuff falling down into the card and making it impossible to get it out.
I also used my anti-static powder tool to eliminate any of the residual stickiness on the foam tape so that nothing would stick to it. Once done, I adhered the panel onto a card base, foam mounted the critter, added the bill and dressed up this card using pink stamped stars and Pearlwhite jewels.
I also made one more card to share, this one is for Graduation and it uses the same concept and almost same supplies.
I used a different stencil for the background, Graduation, and blended some pastels over it to give it some color and help highlight the embossed areas.
Next, I stamped, colored and cut out an adorable elephant from the Animal Signs stamp set. I used W5, W3, W1 and R20 markers. I also stamped a graduation cap and a scroll from the Congrats Grad stamp set and colored those images using Copic markers as well. I used RV34, RV11 and RV10 colors along with C9, C7, and C5 markers.
I foam mounted this darling baby elephant onto the background matching him with the partial cut already made. Next, I added his graduation cap and a scroll using foam adhesive. I foam mounted the entire panel onto a light pink card base and also embellished it with a few stamped & die cut stars and pretty white jewels.
While the slits in these cards are relatively small you should be able to tuck any folded currency bill inside or tuck a little handwritten note if you like.
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Hello, Gemma here today with a card to share using some fabulous products from the Pretty Pink Posh April release.
I was so excited to use the new Lattice Background die. I am a huge fan of cover dies. I think they are fantastic for adding interest to clean and simple cards. The Lattice Background die is so gorgeous, it’s definitely a must have.
I began by cutting a piece of blue pattered paper to fit my A2 card base, adhering it with liquid glue. I then die cut the Lattice Background die from white card and layered it over the top.
To create an area in the centre of the card, I die cut the Storybook 1 die from white card, trimming it down to give a small border and adhering to my card.
I chose two elephants to feature on my card. The elephant holding the sign is from the new Animal Signs stamp set. The elephant and the star balloon are from the new Elephant Friends stamp set. I love that the greeting from the Elephant Friends set fits perfectly on the sign.
I coloured the images with copic markers, then die cut them with the coordinating dies.
I used foam tape to adhere them to my card, then added some glossy accents to the balloon and a few Sea Glass jewels around the images as a finishing touch.
Thank you for joining us today. I hope you enjoyed today’s card and were inspired.
I started by cutting 12 stitched circles using a die from Stitched Essentials. I stamped 11 of them with the single flower stamps from Spring Wreath and the 12th with a sentiment from Everyday Greetings.
I cut masks for the flowers and blended blue ink over the circles. When I removed the masks, I coloured the flowers with Copic markers.
For the sentiment, obviously, I didn’t have a matching die, so I used a circle die that fit just inside the stitching, so that the sentiment circle would have a blue border and a similar look to the rest of them.
I popped up the 12 circles on a white panel cut with the stitched rectangle from Stitched Notes and then added some Party Mix Jewels to a couple of the flowers.
I hope you enjoyed the card and video. Have a great weekend!
Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a card featuring the Beautiful Butterflies Stamp Set along with the Bold Butterflies Dies(both are 30% off this weekend!), since they layer so nicely and then I brought in the Spring Frame Die since again, these products work so nicely together and it fit with the design of my card.
To start off I cut out the Spring Frame Die and Bold Butterflies Dies from vellum and set them off to the side for later. I then used my MISTI to stamp out my butterflies from Beautiful Butterflies. I used a smaller and larger one since they layer the best and then I coloured them in with Copic Markers. I used a colour combo from Pinterest which is two shades of Pink, a green and blue to help colour these in as well. Once they were coloured in, I cut them out using the coordinating dies.
Now that all my elements were ready to go, I added adhesive to the middle of the butterflies and adhered them on top of the vellum ones. For my background I water-coloured some stripes in coordinating colours and dried them off with a heat tool.
To finish up, I used the Stitched Notes Die Set and cut the frame from a piece of blue cardstock. I used the outer frame and added adhesive onto the back and adhered it to the vellum Spring Frame. I then added foam tape onto the back and adhered it over my water-coloured panel. I cut apart the ‘Flying By To Say Hello’ sentiment from Beautiful Butterflies and stamped that onto the background using my MISTI and black ink.
