I die cut the header of my card using Scallop Border dies on white cardstock with size 5.5″ x 1.5″ (my card size is 5.5″ x 4.25″) and then I heat embossed the sentiment with Liquid Platinum embossing powder. To finished my card, I added here and there with my favorite Sparkling Clear Sequins.
Here’s a video to show how I created my card from the start to finish.
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have a video tutorial to share today showing you how to create one of my favorite type of cards – layered & dimensional!
My “secret ingredient” for these kind of projects is the use of special patterned paper and also stitching and I talk about both of these in detail on my video.
Often when I start working on cards that involve a lot of layers I like to build my future card design on my desk by using dies and stamps themselves, I find this to be very helpful especially when I want to visualize my card design and check if the size and shape of the dies I selected work well together.
From there I move onto picking out the right patterned paper. I have a favorite brand that I love to use whenever I use dies. The brand is called Trimcraft First Edition and they are from UK, but their papers are available on Amazon. The reason I adore them is for their “special effects” as I like to call them, their papers often have special coatings and finishes are are fantastic for such projects.
If you don’t have this type of paper you can always use other patterned paper or even stamp your own using paper design using stamps.
Each layer was cut out of patterned paper, the background layer pieces were all adhered together so that I could add machine zig zag stitching around the edges. I love adding stitching to my cards as it adds a lot to the handmade look and feel of my projects.
The scalloped circle layer and also the tag were both foam mounted for a pop of dimension and so was the little watercolored Fox Friend.
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have a video tutorial to share today featuring one of the new stamp sets – Giving Thanks.
This stamp set, even though it’s focused towards Thanksgiving, can be used for a variety of Fall projects. Today I’m using botanical images to stamp a unique Fall background.
I filmed a video tutorial to walk you through the process from start to finish and explain everything in detail.
I wanted to create a one layer card so I started by stamping my sentiment first. When stamping a pattern I sometimes forget I need to leave room for my sentiment and then have to add it as a second layer and cover up a part of my background. For this particular card I wanted the sentiment to be placed on the same layer as my pattern so I started by stamping the sentiment first.
Next I arranged the images around it – I used several leaves, pumpkins and also tiny leaves and an acorn to stamp my background. I didn’t have enough images to cover the entire A2 card front at once, so I had to re-arrange stamps and stamp each image about 4 times to be able to cover the entire panel.
Because I wanted to watercolor these images I did my stamping on watercolor paper and used a waterproof ink. There are many ways how these images can be colored, so pick the way you are most comfortable with and select the paper and ink best suitable for your coloring method.
I didn’t do anything special in terms of coloring. I used Derwent Inktense pencils and quickly added color to my background. I used 5 colors and tried to keep each color to each specific image.
Lastly, I added some shimmer using Wink of Stella Glitter Pen, drew in white dots on the leaves and pumpkins and adhered several small and medium Clear droplets scattering them on the background.
I don’t have a card for today but I will share my traveler’s notebook story with Pretty Pink Posh products! Traveler’s notebooks are very popular right now, and I love to use it too! The size is just the perfect fit for me; so handy to carry and easy to keep nearby. I will show you how I made my DIY traveler’s notebook insert and share how I used my Pretty Pink Posh products for memory keeping and journaling in my traveler’s notebook.
Here’s a video to show how I created the notebook and decorated the pages with Pretty Pink Posh stamps and dies.
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have a video tutorial to share today featuring one of the new stamps & coordinating dies – Halloween Friends.
I’m also going to share a simpler and faster way to create ink blended backgrounds and will talk a bit about ghost stamping! I filmed a video tutorial to walk you through the process from start to finish and explain everything in detail.
Instead of using a piece of white paper to create my Distress ink blended backgrounds I’ve been using colored cardstock. The trick is simple, pick the color of cardstock to match the lightest color on your future ink blended background. So here, to create a background going from black to purple to light purple for this Halloween card, I used light purple cardstock as my base.
By the way, you’ll still be able to add water to your backgrounds, done on colored cardstock, to have Distress inks move and react like they usually do on white, and it will take you significantly less time (and ink!) to blend a background. It took me a little over 3 minutes to create a background for this card (while it usually takes no less than 10 minutes if I start on white).
Another trick I am sharing today is cutting critter silhouette out of black cardstock to use a shadow or create the illusion of having multiple critters on a card. This doesn’t work everytime and on every card, but it does look fantastic on those cards where the background is dark.
The last tip for today is to try using watermark embossing ink over the ink blended background to create ghost stamped images. Stamping with this kind of ink will create slightly darker transparent impressions that look like shadows or ghosts!
Hello crafters, this is Julia taking over the Pretty Pink Posh blog today! I want to show you how you can, quickly and easily, create a shaker card with the brand new, limited edition Autumn Seed Bead bundle that just released!
The Giving Thanks stamp set and die set is perfect for this type of card since the dies for the leaves and pumpkins have enough detail so everyone know what they are. I decided to only cut a few openings into my panel along the left side of my panel, with the sentiment from Giving Thanks snuck in-between.
As with every shaker card, you’ll need to adhere a piece of acetate to the back of your panel and then add foam (dimensional) adhesive around the openings, making sure to not leave any gaps where the shaker elements could escape from. Then add the shaker elements, here the seed beads. I think they are perfect – they are tiny which allows me to add a lot of them even in small spaces and still be able to shake ‘em!
Once you adhere your panel on top, your shaker is done! You can stop here, and just leave it as is, but I wanted to add some very subtle dimension and detail and so I added a few more die-cut shapes of leaves and pumpkins. I used the same card stock that my panel was made from so the color would match exactly.
Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you had fun with this tutorial! Catch you again soon!
Hi friends! It’s Nina-Marie back with you today and I am sharing some inspiration for using the new Pretty Pink Posh STAMPtember exclusive set that was designed for Simon Says Stamp!
This set called Winter Bird Friend is SUPER cute, and features some fun accessories that can be used to dress up the bird that is also included in the stamp set. I wanted to use the set however to show you that you can use the accessories with some of your other favorite Pretty Pink Posh sets!
I’ve paired the Winter Bird Friend set with the Fox Friends stamp set, also by Pretty Pink Posh, to create a cute snowy scene! I love how adorable the foxes look with their winter attire on… ready for a fun day in the snow!
In today’s video, I’ll be sharing how I created this fun scene, along with tips and tricks on a few techniques I used during the card process!
I hope this was inspiring to you and showed you how you can get even more use out of the fun images included in the Winter Bird Friend stamp set! Thanks for spending some time with me today… I’ll see you again very soon!
Hi everyone! This is Vera and today I have Hexagon Magnetic Bookmark to share with you featuring the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Hexagons Dies.
Magnetic bookmarks are popular lately and they’re so easy to make! When I saw the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Hexagons Dies I knew that there were so many options for both cards and other projects.
To create these magnetic bookmarks, I used white cardstock and flexible magnet sheet (you can use flexible magnet tape too). The images are Pretty Pink Posh clear stamps : Camping Friends | Holiday Pals | Rainy Days and the sentiments are from the Birdie Friends Stamp Set. I blended the hexagon die cut with dye ink pad and colored the images using Zig Clean Color Real Brush. On the back side, you can write the words as desired using a black marker and white gel pen.
Here’s a video to show how I created these bookmarks from the start to finish.
If you read the post title and have followed the Pretty Pink Posh blog for a while, I’m sure you are super excited. For this special challenge blog hop, I am bringing back the popular 10 Minute Craft Dash and honestly, I couldn’t be more excited. This challenge is where I challenged crafters to create something within a 10 minute time frame. I really wanted to encourage crafters that they didn’t need to set aside a whole day, or several hours, to create something.
The super sweet Nina-Marie has created a post, along with a coordinating video, for today’s post. Let’s check out what she made…
Nina-Marie here with you today sharing a fun project -and challenge- with you today! This post is in collaboration with Altenew’s Ultimate Craft challenge and here at Pretty Pink Posh, we are featuring a fun 10 Minute Craft Dash.
In this challenge, you are required to make a card or project in 10 minutes or less! When I got the assignment topic for this post I knew this would be fun, but also REALLY challenging for me because I usually make cards that are pretty involved in the coloring process. I knew immediately that coloring of any length would be out of the question because it takes me MUCH longer than 10 minutes to color something in! Haha!
Another thing I do not do when I am making a card is actually PLAN; I like to create as I go along. I sometimes have a general idea with the direction of a card when I start out, but nothing real definitive. But for this, I knew I needed a solid plan to stick to because of the limited amount of time I had to work with. This layout for my card was super easy to put together, but at the same time, shows off the gorgeous floral pattern in the background perfectly!
Speaking of the background; I wanted to color SOMETHING in this card, but because of the 10 minute time frame, I knew it was going to have to be a fast technique. In this video, I’ll be sharing how I created this beautiful watercolor background in less than 4 minutes!
Be sure you check out the video below to see that, along with how I created the entire card in a total of 9 minutes and 42 seconds!
How to Play: Create a card/ craft project within 10 minutes featuring Altenew and post the time it took to create. Also, include the challenge graphic in your post and link back to the challenge!
Prizes: To celebrate this fantastic blog hop, Altenew is giving away $35 gift certificates to FIVE lucky winners. Winners will be chosen at random from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below and will be announced on the Altenew blog on October 17th, 2016.
* If you aren’t able to stay within the 10 minutes, you can still link up your post. (It might qualify for one of the other challenges part of this challenge blog hop)!
Welcome back everyone! It’s Nina-Marie here with you today featuring a fun technique on coloring your Pretty Pink Posh Clear Droplets to create gorgeous embellishments for your cards!
I love using Clear Droplets on my cards; because they are clear, this makes them perfect for using with just about any style of project! However, sometimes you might find you want them to be a specific color to coordinate better with your card, or to create a certain effect. Well, by using some Copic refill ink, you can do just that!
I used refills for this technique today, but bear in mind you can color over the Clear Droplets with markers instead. Since I was creating a lot of the same color of droplets, I ended up using the Copic refills because it was faster than coloring with an individual marker.
For those of you looking for other alternatives to recreate this technique: Copic ink is alcohol based; and while I haven’t tried it personally, I would imagine that other alcohol inks like Ranger Adirondacks, Nuvo/Tonic Creative Pens, Chameleon Pens, Touch Twin Markers and others would also work. Just do some testing before trying it on a specific project!
In today’s video, I’ll be sharing the steps I took to create the colored Clear Droplets, including a few tips and tricks! I’ll then walk you through how I used those droplets to create the sweet scene card you see in the photos, using Pretty Pink Posh dies and stamps from My Favorite Things!
In this challenge, you are required to make a card or project in 10 minutes or less! When I got the assignment topic for this post I knew this would be fun, but also REALLY challenging for me because I usually make cards that are pretty involved in the coloring process. I knew immediately that coloring of any length would be out of the question because it takes me MUCH longer than 10 minutes to color something in! Haha!
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