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Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have a card to share with you all using the Fly A Kite Stamp Set along with showing you how to create your own pop-up box card.

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To begin my card I first started off with my images. I coloured these a while ago and just used them now for a card. I used Copic Markers to colour them in and then used the coordinating dies to cut them out. Once my images are ready I can begin to work on my box card.

Making these box cards are actually surprisingly easy. I first pulled a piece of blue cardstock and cut down two pieces to 5 ¼” wide and 4 ¼” tall. Out of the same blue cardstock I also cut three pieces down to 3 ½” wide and 1” tall. Once they were all cut down I could score them. For each 5 ¼” x 4 ¼” pieces I scored them at 2” and 5” on the long side, then I turned my piece 90 degrees in my scoring tool, to the short side and then scored at 2 ¼”. I repeated this step for both pieces. Then for each of the three pieces I cut, I scored each end at ¼”. So, score at ¼”, rotate 180 degrees, score at ¼” again. Once all my pieces were cut, I took them to my paper trimmer and cut down the 2” score line to the horizontal score line, and the same at the 5” score line. Then I rotated my piece 90 degrees again and cut up from the bottom to the 5” score line, cutting on the horizontal score line, just to remove the over hang. I did this to both pieces.

Now it was time to assemble the box card. I folded along all the score lines and then added a strip of adhesive on one of the flaps and adhered it to the other side of the box card. I then added strips of adhesive on each of the three long pieces and adhered one side into my card. I them removed the backers from the other side and closed the box card on top of them, this adhered both sides of the middle pieces to the inside of my box card. Then on the last flap, I added more tape and adhered that inside too. Now my box card was all ready to go.

First up I die cut down a white cardstock piece using the Stitched Borders 1 Dies and I used the little scalloped edge as a border and adhered that to the background of my box card, to make it look like white clouds. I then added strips of acetate onto the back of three of my previously stamped, coloured and die cut kites and then adhered the strings on the bottom of each too and adhered them into the middle of my card. I also adhered some clouds and a sun to the background of my card flat.

Now my images were adhered, I laid my card down flat and adhered another cloud and also stamped the sentiment ‘Let Your Dreams Soar’ in black ink onto the front of my card. At this stage my card was missing a little something so I used the same Stitched Borders 1 Dies and cut down two more small strips of white cardstock with the scalloped border and adhered those onto both side flaps of my card to finish it up completely.

I loved making this card today and I hope you enjoyed the DIY tutorial on how to make a box card without a die. Thanks so much for stopping by and I’ll catch you next time!

Eloise

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Creating A Card with Die Cuts + Video

I always look forward to adding colour to my projects and I challenged myself to use a colour I rarely use. It was so worth it! It’s Justine here again for an April video tutorial. I’m looking at using dies on your cards and I have a challenge for everyone – try to step out of your comfort zone! I did it twice – using green and no stamping!

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I used the Stacked Edges 2 die to create an interesting green background. I additionally added the Stitched Foliage leaves cut twice in both gold glitter paper and the green background I created with Distress Oxide inks. The sentiment, Hello Friend Script, has been cut with the same glitter gold paper and black cardstock. I topped off the card with a few clear droplets.

Thanks for having me again here on the blog. I look forward to bringing you more inspiration next month! If you enjoyed my video, be sure to check out my personal channel for weekly videos.

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Wild Rose Card Set + Video

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have two cards to share with you using the Wild Rose stamp set. I LOVE florals. They make for super classy cards for almost any occasion and I think everyone needs a good floral stamp set. This one is great as it contains so many images and you can create full clusters and bouquets. I’ll also be pairing in the Thank You Script word dies since I couldn’t help but use it also! These new products are amazing!

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To begin my card today I wanted to try something new. I decided to pull out some Toned Tan and Toned Gray cardstock that I had in my stash from Strathmore and since it’s a mixed media paper, it can be used with watercolours. So I really wanted to try it out with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers with it. I originally had purchased it to use with coloured pencils, but I didn’t have any yet so I thought watercolours would give an interesting look too. I first stamped three flowers and six leaves onto each colour of cardstock. Then I told heat embossed the images on tan paper with gold embossing powder and silver on the grey paper. I always prefer to have heat embossed images when I’m water colouring, it’s easier to contain it.

I coloured up my images the same way I colour on normal watercolour cardstock. I scribble some of my colour down where I want the darkest area to be and then with a water brush, I pull out the colour in stages into the rest of the area. This ensures a nice gradient between the colour so it looks perfectly blended. I repeated this process on all the petals and then on the leaves also and these markers blended so nicely on this paper, so super smooth and the colours blended out so well. I loved colouring with these markers on this paper I got great results and colouring on a different colour of cardstock gives it a really interesting look to it all. The colouring on the tan paper makes the colours appear more warm, and the colouring on the grey cardstock makes the colours appear more cool. Which is so interesting and gives a completely different look to these markers.

Once my colouring was completed I die cut the images out using coordinating dies. Next up, I used the Stitched Notes die set and cut into two pieces of white cardstock that measure 4″ wide by 5 1/2″ tall. This is because I want to use frame not the actual rectangle piece that it cuts. So when I lined up the die, I want it to be perfectly centered. So once I die cut those, I added foam tape onto the back and adhered them onto two card bases. For the inside of my cards, I die cut some green polka dot cardstock with the same rectangle die from Stitched Notes and adhered them flat into the card base. For my flowers and leaves, I arranged them onto the center of my card, picked them up with a little press n seal and adhered them down in stages. I used liquid adhesive for the leaves, then more foam tape for the flowers. I did this since I wanted these flowers to be placed perfectly, and once I got them places I didn’t want to loose where I had placed them.

For my sentiment, I used the ‘Hello’ from Birdie Friends and white heat embossed it twice onto a strip of black cardstock. Then I used the Thank You die set and just cut the ‘you’ word six times out of white cardstock and adhered three each together. I then adhered both sentiments onto my cards. To finish up I used the Berry Bright Sequin Mix and scattered them around the flowers.

That finishes up my cards for today, I hope you enjoyed and are inspired to try different papers to see how different mediums look on them. Thanks so much for stopping by and I’ll catch you next time.

Eloise

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Happy Birthday Mini Shaker + Video

Hi everyone, Rina here. I am a BIG fan of shaker cards, so today I thought I would make a mini shaker birthday card.  I love this smaller size; you do not have to use too many sequins to make a huge impact.

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I am using the Bunny Friends, Birthday Friends and Fly Away Friends stamp sets for today’s card.  I am also using the larger Scallop Square die to create the shaker frame. I am coloring the bunny and balloon images with 4 copic markers: RV0000, RV21, RV25, RV29.

 
To create the shaker frame I cut out:

  • 1 scallop square pink frame
  • 1 solid square in acetate
  • 3 scallop30 square white frames
  • 1 solid square in pink

I adhered all these layers with Tim Holtz collage medium.  Before you adhere the solid square in pink, fill the shaker well with sequins.  I used the Friendship Mix, Mini Gold Star Confetti, Sparkling Clear Stars and 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins.

To create the sentiment I cut out a thin piece of black paper and white heat embossed the Happy Birthday sentiment from Fly Away Friends.  I wrapped the piece around the shaker frame. Once the sentiment is in place, adhere the bunny and balloon images to the middle of the card.  To finish off the card, I accented the stamped images with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen in Clear and adhered the new Watermelon Jewels to the outside of the shaker.

Once the card front is all complete, adhere the shaker to a 4 ¼ x 4 ¼ inch card base!

I hope you try this mini shaker out! Thanks for stopping by!

Rina

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Tutorial: Creating A Cute Birthday Card

Hello Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I am sharing video tutorial showing how to create a colorful birthday card for a girl using the Birthday Friend stamps.

Pretty Pink Posh has many other stamp sets from the Friends series and many of them can be used to create a card like this. The characters within these sets maintain their size so you can easily combine friends from different sets to tell a story on your cards.

I picked pinks and yellows for this project as primary colors and made it into a birthday card for a girl, by using greens and blues you can easily change it up and make into a birthday card for a boy.

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The colors I picked were somewhat influenced by the set of sequins I was planning to use to embellish my card – the Party Time sequin mix. There are yellow, pink and blue sequins in this set; I wanted to color the elements on this card in colors that would match these sequins. It might seem a bit odd – trying to match the coloring to the color of sequins, but I often use this trick when I want to make sure everything will match. Its very easy to pick the right colors that would coordinate or resemble the colors of my sequins and not vice versa. Plus the sequin mixes already have the colors that work quite well together, so why not use that to our advantage?

I started working on my card by stamping nearly all of the images from this stamp set in Copic Marker friendly ink onto white cardstock panel. The only image I didn’t stamp was the little candle. I colored my images using Copic markers. I used:

  • RV14, RV13, RV11 to color pink
  • Y19, Y15, Y11 to color yellow
  • B02, B00, B000 to color blue
  • E00, E000, E11, E13, E33 to color skin and hair

I cut my images out using the coordinating dies and also die-cut identical shapes out of sticky fun foam – I often prefer to use a solid fun foam shape to foam adhesive squares. This adds a lot of stability to my foam mounted elements and prevents sagging.

Next, I white heat embossed the birthday sentiment onto a gray cardstock panel, foam mounted it in the center of a 4 ¼ x 5 ½” white panel and added my colored elements around it. In a way it looks like there’s a Birthday party going on on this card and the friends are dancing and having lots of fun!

Finally, I embellished my card using the sequins I used for my color combo inspiration – I added a lot of sequins in various sizes filling in the gaps in between the images. I also coated some elements using a shimmer pen.

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

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Creating A Floral Card w/ Distress Oxide Inks

Today’s card video tutorial shows off how to colour your stamps without fancy crayons or markers! It’s Justine again, taking over the Pretty Pink Posh blog! I’m excited to be here with you again bringing you another video tutorial! Today I am using some of the fun new release stamps Cherry Blossoms and Encouraging Greetings! I am generally quite intimidated by colouring, so I always love to figure out ways to colour without needing a lot of colouring skills!

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I used Distress Oxide inks in Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry and Broken China to create a background. I let it completely dry and heat embossed flower images from the Cherry Blossoms set. I cut them out using the coordinating dies and pasted them onto a scalloped frame. I topped it off by adding a sentiment from Encouraging Greetings and embellished using a mixture of Spring Blooms sequins, clear droplets and pansy purple jewels.

I hope you enjoyed the video tutorial and it helped explain how to make this fun card. If you enjoyed today’s video, feel free to check out my YouTube Channel. See you in April!

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Tutorial: DIY Candy Treat Boxes

Hi friends, Eloise here and today I have some St Patrick’s Day little gift boxes to share with you all. These would be perfect for little gifts for co-workers or even children, just a little gift to give someone to give them a little luck and a sweet treat, or whatever you decide to put in them. I’ll be using the Best of Luck stamp set to help theme these DIY gift boxes.

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To begin my boxes today, I first cut down two pieces of green cardstock to 5 ½” wide by 8 ½” tall. This means you can get two boxes from one sheet of 8 ½” x 11 cardstock, which is great. Once they were cut down in half, it’s time to score. I pulled my large scoring board out, you can use a small one but you’ll need to turn the cardstock around every time to get the full length. My first score line is going to be on the short side at ¼”, then at 1 ¼”, then at 4 ¼” and lastly at 5 ¼”, then turn your cardstock 90 degrees and then on the long side, you’re going to score at 3”, then at 4”, again at 7” and again at 8”. This will be the base for your box.

Next take your box base over to your trimmer and you’re going to cut out a few rectangles. On the short side, you’re going to cut down vertically the 1 ¼” score line, all the way down to the 3” horizontal score line. Then, do the same for the 4 ¼” score line. At the bottom of your box, still on the short side. Cut up from the 1 ¼” score line again, to the 8” score line and repeat for the 4 ¼” score line. Then rotate your box 90 degrees, making sure you have the longer cut lines to the left of your trimmer and at the 3” score line, cut down to the cut you made earlier. Then, move your cardstock down, and do the same at the 8” score line. Then, flip your cardstock 180 degrees, and repeat. For the last cut, move your cardstock long ways and cut at the 4” score line, to the score line of the long cut you made earlier, flip the cardstock around 180 degrees again and repeat. This will be the base for your box all ready to go. If it’s easier for you, you can use scissors – but I personally liked using the trimmer, especially with a wire guide. Also – this will be explained and shown in the video so if you’re a visual learner, check that out above!

Now that my boxes were all ready before I moved onto anything else, I flipped it over to the front of the box, and ink blended some Lucky Clover Distress Ink at the bottom of which will be the top of the box, just to give my box a little gradient of colour. I repeated this for all four boxes, then turned over my box so it’s the inside and then stamped ‘Happy St. Patricks Day’ on the inside at the top with black ink on all four boxes as well. Then, I used my bone folder and scored along all the edges. I then set my boxes off to the side and worked on the decorations. I stamped out all my images from Best of Luck onto some white cardstock and used my Copic Markers to colour them all in. I then used the coordinating dies and cut them all out. While I was die cutting, I used the Smile Shaker Die and cut that out four times of white cardstock also. Since I just wanted the frames I used an exacto knife and cut away the ‘Smile’ word. Now I have all my frames, I can decorate my boxes.

Copic Colours Used: R14, R24, R29 / Y21, YR12, YR18 / Y11, Y15, Y38 / YG21, YG23, YG17 / B000, B41, B34 / Y21, YR21, YR24 / YR24, E99, E07 / RV10 / C3, C5, C7 / E000, E00, E21

To finish up my boxes, I first punched a hole at the top flap, and punched two smaller holes on the ½” flap. This will be for the string. Then, I used foam squares around the circle frames and adhered them to the front flaps of my boxes. I also added foam tape to my images and adhered them in place also. I then opened the box and adhered the four leaf lover images around the sentiment. For the little gift inside the boxes, I adhered four green foiled heart chocolates on the inside to create a four leaf clover, it’s super cute! To finish up the boxes, I folded in all the sides, added green twine into the punched holes and tied a bow to hold the top and bottom of the box together. Then for the sides, I added small strips of adhesive on each of the ¼” flaps and adhered them to the top of the box.

So that finished up my DIY gift boxes project today. I hope you enjoyed! These little boxes are super cute and easy to make with a half sheet of cardstock and can be decorated with any occasioned stamps. These would be perfect for small gifts as well.


Thank you so much for stopping by today and I’ll catch you all next time.

Eloise

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March 2018 Release Now Available

The March 2018 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, Eloise has you covered!

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It’s Marge here with you. Today I’m going to share a watercolor card featuring the Cherry Blossoms Stamp Set  which is one of the March Release Products  from Pretty Pink Posh.

As you all know, Pretty Pink Posh steadily has released flowers stamps and what I love about them is that they are always released in shapes of separate blossoms and leaves, not in a bouquet or bunch shape.

There could be plenty of designs/layouts with these blossoms, which you can make into your own style. I have been seeing so many beautiful creations made with Pretty Pink Posh’s flowers sets, each of which is uniquely designed and beautiful as well. The new Cherry Blossoms Stamp Set is no exception. It’s very versatile! 

To begin the card, I stamped images of Cherry Blossoms Stamp Set on a piece of 300g watercolor paper using Versafine Onyx Black Ink  which is water-resistant. Then I colored them using Daniel Smith Watercolor paints from light to deep colors focusing on giving shades.

 I then cut the images using Cherry Blossoms Coordinating Dies.

To make a background panel, I prepared an A2 sized white cardstock from Bristol paper, then sponged  it with Distress Oxide Inks: Gathered Twigs, Peeled Paint , Twisted Citron , Squeezed Lemonade , Tattered Rose, and Worn Lipstick one by one from bottom to top. Next, I added splatters of clean water, gold pearl, and black inks. After the inks are dried up, I stamped a sentiment from the Encouraging Greetings Stamp Set on the center of the panel using Versafine Onyx Blak Ink.

Then I arranged blossoms and leaves on the panel according to the sketch I had in mind.

To embellish the card, I used several of our new Jewels Collection, which are so beautiful that they could add fantastic sparkly effect on your cards. 

I put some of Buttercream, Pink Blush, Spring Green, and Shamrock here and there using a glue, then I foam-mounted the panel on an A2 sized top-folded cardbase and finished it off.

That’s it for today. Thanks for reading this post. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you will visit us again soon!
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Tutorial: Creating A Shaker with Distress Oxides

Hi Crafters,

It’s Justine Hovey visiting the Pretty Pink Posh blog for my monthly video. Today, I created a shaker card with some heat embossed acetate. If you know my style, you know that I love colour, but I’m not a massive fan of colouring. I wanted to find a way to incorporate gorgeous colours with stamped images from a variety of Pretty Pink Posh Stamp Sets: Hummingbird Thanks, Pretty Petunias, Butterfly Friends (releasing in May) and Love Sentiments. I stamped them in Versafine onto heat-resistant acetate and embossed the images in white.

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I created a fun background using some Distress Oxide inks. For this background, I used: Seedless Preserves, Abandoned Coral, and Fossilized Amber. I die cut a frame using the Scallop Frames Dies to use for my shaker. I attached the acetate to it using foam tape.

Lastly, I added the sequins to the background (Assorted Heart Confetti, Spring Blooms Mix, Iridescent Mini Circle Confetti and Sparkling Clear) and covered the coloured panel using the frame I created with the foam tape and acetate. Super fun and easy! I finished it off with a sentiment from the Love Sentiments set. I hope you enjoyed today’s project and you give heat resistant acetate and stamping a try!

I’ll be back in March with another video tutorial. If you enjoyed today’s video, feel free to check out my YouTube Channel.

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Tutorial: Creating 3 Birthday Cards

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a 3 Cards 1 stamp set video for you all using the Birthday Friends stamp set. Everyone always needs birthday cards and what’s better than being able to make three cards super quick and easily with the same stamp set? I’ll also be using the Love Shaker die and the Sparkling Clear Sequin Mix to finish off my cards.


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To start off all my cards today I stamped, coloured all my images with Copic Markers and die cut them out using all the coordinating dies. I used a colour scheme from Pinterest as colour inspiration to colour in all my images. Then coloured my balloons rainbow for a separate card. Now that all my images are ready, I can move on to creating my cards.

To begin my first card, I pulled a piece of watercolour cardstock out and ink blended some Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry onto the bottom of the panel. Then I flicked some water over top to create the splatter look. I then dried it off with my heat tool and set it off to the side. Next, I took the Love Shaker dies and cut three out of some white cardstock. Then, I used an exacto knife and cut away the ‘Love’ word from the centre, so I’m left with three heart frames.

Next, I added a thin strip of foam adhesive around each of the frames and then adhered them around my card. I cut off the excess around the outside with scissors. Then, I added foam tape onto the backs of all my images and adhered them down inside of the heart frames. Lastly, I white heat embossed the ‘Birthday Wishes’ sentiment on a strip of black cardstock, cut the end at a diagonal and tied a small bow on the other side of the sentiment. I then added foam tape on the back and adhered it on the top right-hand side of my card. That finished the first card, now let’s move onto the second.

For my next card, I pulled all my rainbow balloons out and set them off to the side. I then made a make shift cloud mask/stencil that I just created with scissors out of some post it tape. I just drew a cloud border on the tape and cut around it with scissors. I then cut down a top folding card base, adhered it down onto my work surface and ink blended over the stencil with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, then I moved up the mask, ink blended over it again and continued up until I ink blended over the entire panel.

Copic Markers Used: BG11, BG23, BG49 / BV02, BV04, BV08 / R20, R21, R22, R24 / RV13, RV25, RV09 / Hair – Y21, YR21, YR23 / Y32, Y38, YR18 / Skin – E000, E00, E21 / Cake – E51, E53, E55 / Hair – E31, E35, E37 / W00, W1, W3 / Y11, Y13, Y15 / YG21, YG23, YG17 / B21, B24, B26 / Balloon – R14, R24, R29 / 0

Once I ink blended over my card base, I went ahead and added foam squares all along the back of my images and adhered them down into place onto my card base. Lastly, I stamped down the ‘Birthday Wishes’ sentiment in the bottom left hand corner with black ink and that finished up my second card.

For my final card, I started off with another top folding card base, and masked off the edges with some ¾” painters tape to create a rectangle in the middle. I then went ahead, and ink blended some Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink over my entire panel. Once I ink blended over the entire panel, I removed the painters tape and used a white gel pen to do some dots on the background, just to give it a little extra.

I then added foam tape onto the back of my images and adhered them down at the bottom of the ink blended area. Then, I stamped the ‘Birthday Wishes’ stamp set in black ink at the top of my panel and that finished up my third card.

To completely finish all my cards off, I scattered some Sparkling Clear Sequins around my cards and adhered them down.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed and were inspired!

Eloise