Today we have another special post by Lori Hairston. She created these darling Easter tags using both new and old Pretty Pink Posh products.
Let’s take a look at her post and video, shall we?
Hi, there! I’m hopping by with an Easter card featuring two cute Pretty Pink Posh bunnies from the Easter Friends stamps and coordinating dies.
You might notice that one bunny is sporting a cute pair of glasses. You can find those on the Holiday Pals stamp set.
The card base and front are die cut using the largest die from the Scallop Square Tags dies. The pieces aren’t really attached just held together with a white clothespin. The inside sentiment is stamped on the smaller scallop square.
If you would like to see more, like how to draw the fun banner and how to watercolor the plaid, click the graphic below to watch it!
Today we have a special post by Lori Hairston, one of the guests in our March blog hop. She showed me a picture of these handmade baskets that don’t require a fancy die and I knew we had to showcase it here on the blog.
Let’s take a look at her post and video, shall we?
Hi, there! I’m happy to be here to share these mini Easter picnic baskets. So fun to make and they turn out adorable, especially when topped off with that sweet little bunny from the Easter Friendsstamp set! The bunny and egg are cut out with the coordinating dies and the tag is part of the Stitched Notes Dies.
What is it about Easter baskets? I’ve always loved them. When I was little I used the same one every year. One that was passed down from my uncle. My daughter, Lauren, used the exact same Easter basket and I’m keeping it for Louisa. She’ll be the fourth generation to use it. It’s old, it’s worn, but I love it!
I’ve sized these to hold 2 plastic eggs. Even though they’re mini, they’ll hold plenty to give as an Easter treat.
You can check out the video to see how easy the baskets are to make and there’s a couple of quick tips on the tag, too.Click the graphic below to watch it!
Louisa (even though she’s only 4 1/2 months old) is definitely getting one of these. Her momma can keep it and put it out every year. If you make an Easter Picnic Basket to give away, I bet it will be loved enough to keep from year to year.
Hello everyone, Eloise here and today I have a fun card using the Bee Friends stamp set. This stamp and die set is available through the month of March with qualifying purchases (it will be available for purchase starting in May 2017). You will receive the stamp set if you spend over $80 and the die set if you spend over $125. This is before shipping and taxes and also while supplies last. This stamp set is super fun and I encourage you to try and get this stamp set while you can.
Along with using the Bee Friends stamp set I’m going to be doing the Bubble Watercolour technique as I like to call it, and this is just something I remembered doing in primary school. You mix water, dishwashing liquid and paint, or liquid watercolour as I’m using today, mix together, blow bubbles using a straw and press your paper on top and it creates an amazing bubble watercolour look. It’s super fun and gives amazing and different results every time.
To begin my card today I’m starting off with my background. To do this technique your going to need a bowl – I’m using a large round bowl that’s not very deep and this worked great. Some water, dishwashing liquid, liquid watercolour – I’m using Dr. PH Martins in the video, but Distress Re-Inkers or other Dye Ink Re-Inkers should work great here too or any other liquid watercolour and of course, a straw and watercolour paper.
I first filled my bowl around 1/3 of the way with water, added quite a bit of dishwashing liquid, since I want there to be lots of bubbles and I then blew bubbles into the water, using my straw. Once I had lots of bubbles, I dropped some of my liquid watercolour on top. You typically want your watercolour to be quite liquid-y. Since mine was a bit thick at first, it popped the bubbles and didn’t give me the look I wanted. I tried again once I got rid of the thick watercolour and then pressed my paper onto the top of the bubbles, lifted up and heated it with my heat tool. You should be able to see here the startings of the watercolour look. The lighter colour I used wasn’t giving me the results I wanted, so I took a darker blue and repeated the process and got great bubbly results. I absolutely love this, I can’t wait to do this more! Once I repeated the steps and got to where I wanted it, I dried it completely with my heat tool and moved onto my images.
I stamped out all my images using the Bee Friends stamp set and used Copic Markers to colour them in. Bee’s are so easy to colour, I love colouring any size of image – but this is just so quick and easy, it’s so nice for it to be fast once in a while. Once all my images were coloured I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Once my images were ready I could assemble my card. I used the ‘Thinking of You’ sentiment from the same Bee Friends stamp set and stamped it with black ink onto my background.
I used the Stitched Notes die set and used one of the angled dies in the set and die cut the bottom of my watercoloured panel to create a fun angle. I then used foam tape to adhere my panel onto my card base. I then used foam tape and liquid adhesive to adhere my bee’s into place. Then for a finishing touch I used a Wink of Stella brush pen to give my bee’s some sparkle and then scattered some Sparkling Clear Sequins on top of my card.
I hope you enjoyed my card today and will give this technique a try. It’s a little messy, but it’s super fun! This technique would be absolutely perfect for an ocean themed card, but still works great for a sky themed card, since the little bits of white showing through looks like clouds.
I started working on these cards by stamping a cross image onto white paper. I used my mini MISTI stamp positioner and Simon Says stamp Intense black ink. Because I knew I will be coloring my image using Copic markers I picked this particular ink formula – it doesn’t bleed when it comes in contact with alcohol. Before I did my coloring I cut the cross image out using a coordinating die.
For my coloring I used Copic Markers. I used green for the leaves and I picked YG67, YG17 and YG03. To color the cross itself I used browns. I went with E79, E37 and E33.
I decided to make 4 Bar cards today instead of A2 (4 Bar card size is 3 1/2 x 4 7/8 “). I also made a slightly smaller panel and I used kraft paper. I feel that kraft is a fantastic color to use for easter cards as it looks very natural. I also find 4 Bar card size to be perfect for those smaller size stamps we all have in our stash.
I used Distress Oxide ink to create a partial ink blended background. I wanted to create a very soft and muted look so for this I picked kraft paper and Distress Oxide ink in Peeled Paint. I wanted to have a gradual transition from Peeled Paint to kraft and I wanted the top left corner to be covered completely in green, I didn’t want the little fibers embedded in kraft to show through and they would if I had decided to use regular distress ink so this is why I picked Oxide ink.
I stamped a beautiful Easter Blessings sentiment using Versafine Onyx black ink. After foam mounting kraft panel onto card base I foam mounted the cross and embellished me card using Sparkling Clear confetti mix. I added a few of those flat sequin circles onto my background, I used Nuvo Deluxe Adhesive and Crystal Katana tool.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.
Hello everyone, Eloise here and I have a video showcasing a couple of the brand new products that released on March 1st. I’m using the new Friends Forever stamp set along with the Stitched Notes die set for my card today.
To begin my card I stamped out some of the new images from the Friends Forever stamp set on some Copic Marker friendly paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I then used various colours of Copic Markers and coloured all my images, then used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Once my images were coloured in I could work on my background. I die cut two panels using the rectangle die from the Stitched Notes die set out of some watercolour paper. I then used the older Stitched Borders 1 dies and cut the curved die out of one of the pieces, to resemble a grassy hill.
Now my pieces were ready to go I pulled out my Clarity Stencil Brushes and a few Distress Ink colours, Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn for the grassy hill and Mustard Seed and Fossilized Amber for the sunrays. I first coloured my grassy hill with the greens, I just brushed the colour on, going back and forth horizontally across the card to get a nice blend. Once I did both colours I set it aside and moved onto my sunrays. I used a Tim Holtz stencil for this, I could have used masking tape to mask the rays off, but the stencil was easier. I did the same thing with the brushes for the stencil, instead I moved my brush vertically up and down the stencil a lot more than horizontally, since that’s the way the stencil openings go. Once both pieces were done I could assemble.
I adhered a blue piece of cardstock to my card base, and then I used some fun foam to adhere my sunrays panel. Before I added my grassy hill on top I stamped down the ‘You’re my Favorite’ sentiment on top with black ink. I then added the grassy panel with foam tape and added my absolutely adorable coloured images on as well. This set is so adorable, it’s insane! Once all my images were added and my scene was complete, I added some 4MM, 6MM and 8MM Sparkling Clear Sequins to finish off my card.
I hope you enjoyed my card today and have already purchased some of the new release! You guys are absolutely going to love the new products Paulina has designed, they’re so much fun!
Thanks for stopping by today and I’ll catch you next time.
I created a friendship card with a watercolor background. I’m so in love with this Stitched Notes die cut, I can slip in my tag on my card. As you can see, it turned out so cute!
Here’s a video to show how I created my card from the start to finish.
Hi Pretty Pink Posh friends! Shannon here today! So happy to join you to share a card featuring some of the yummy new products from the March release that went live today! Before we get to the card, here’s a video that Eloise filmed showcasing all of the new products.
For my card I started off with an A2 sized white card base and stamped flowers in grey ink as my background. I also stamped them once a separate piece of white card stock, colored in with Copic markers and fussy cut out. I die cut the smaller scallop square with blue card stock and adhered onto my card along with my cut out flowers on top. I stamped my sentiment and finished my card off with Sparkling Clear sequins!
That’s it for my card today, it was fairly quick and simple to create and i just love the scallop square with the flower pot!
Thank you so much for joining me today. Be sure to visit the Pretty Pink Posh Shop to view all of the new products!
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I’m excited to share a card using one of newest stamp sets – Easter Friends(releases on March 1st)!
I did quite a bit of watercoloring to create this project. First, I started by painting a plaid watercolor background using Gansai Tambi watercolors (colors I used are #34 pink, #40 yellow, #20 black and #10 white) and Arches Rough watercolor paper.
I also used flat ¾”, ½” ⅜” brushes. I find it much easier to paint plaid backgrounds using flat brushes, although this can be done using a regular round brush. I also used a #4 round brush to add white stripes at the very end. Remember to dry your paper in between each layer of stripes when creating this kind of background.
Watercolors were also used to color my stamped images – bunny as well as a boy and girl dressed in bunny costumes. Whenever I color small images like these I prefer to use watercolor pencils as this way I have a lot more control over where, how and how much color I am adding. I used Faber Castell watercolor pencils in gray (silver), pink, yellow and gold. My images were stamped onto Arches Hot Press watercolor paper which has a nice smooth finish to it and is ideal for watercoloring images that are stamped.
I cut bunny image out using a coordinating die and foam mounted him onto my character panel. I also added several die cut easter eggs (I used a coordinating easter egg die and cut images out of my test plaid watercolor background, I didn’t use a stamp image that goes with it, although you can if you want to).
Finally I embellished my card using Friendship sequin mix. This is limited edition mix, a portion of the profits made from selling this mix in March 2017 will be donated to a cause.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I today I’m excited to share a card using one of newest stamp sets- Everyday Greetings (releases on March 1st)!
We often look at sentiments as a last piece or a last step when we create a project and we forget that sentiments can be used in a variety of ways.
I used a large thank you message for my cards today, but many other sentiments from the Everyday Greetings set or other sets can be used for this technique.
I started working on this card by stamping a sentiment repeatedly in clear embossing ink onto a teal cardstock panel. I stamped each sentiment somewhat at an angle trying to create one continuous pattern. As soon as my stamping was done I added white embossing powder and heat set it with my heat tool.
I ink blended bottom left corner of my panel to make it slightly darker. Peacock Feathers distress ink was used as it best matched in color to my cardstock panel. I knew I will be adding a few additional elements to that corner, so I needed to make it slightly different from the rest of the card to help elements pop.
Even though I stamped Thank You repeatedly in the background I still wanted to add additional sentiment to my card. I used You’re The Best from the Birdie Friends set and stamped it in Black ink onto a strip of white cardstock.
I am enjoying using critters on my projects lately, so I wanted to add a few fun bees onto this card. I used several images from the new Bee Friends stamp set that comes as a gift with a qualifying purchase in March (and will also be available for purchase in May).
I used Copic markers and did simple coloring (B00 and B000 to color the wings; BG18, BG15 and BG32 to color bodies of my bees). The Bee Friends stamp set also has a set of coordinating dies, again you can get it as a gift with a qualifying purchase or buy it later this year in May. I used these to cut my images out.
I trimmed my background panel down to 4 x 5 1/4 inches and foam mounted onto an A2 top folding card base. Next I foam mounted my little critters on top. Lastly, I embellished the card using the Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix.
Be sure to watch my video tutorial below to learn how to make this card and see another bonus idea at the end of the video.
Hello everyone! Eloise here and today I have a video showcasing a couple of older products. I’m going to be using the Storybook 4 die to make a shaker card along with the Winter Wonderland stamp set, to alter a sentiment.
To begin my card today I used the Storybook 4 die and cut it out of some Neenah Solar White cardstock., making sure it was even on all sides, since I knew I would be using the negative piece. Once I die cut it out, I used some thin 1/8” Scor Tape and added adhesive on all of the lines connecting the frames together and then added a piece of acetate on top. Once I added the acetate I cut thin strips of 3M Foam Adhesive and added that behind the lines too, so it would create little cavities. I then filled each of the sections with a different colour of sequin. I used 4mm Lemon Meringue, 4mm Tangerine, 4mm Lime Sorbet and 4mm Aquamarine and then 6mm Pink Peonies. Once I filled all the sections I used another piece of acetate to cover the back. I really love how all the colours mix well together, but yet they’re separated. It’s super fun.
Once the shaker was complete I chose a coloured cardstock for my card base and adhered it together. At this point I didn’t want the purple to show through so I added a white piece of cardstock behind the shaker panel and that looked much better.
Cutting Stamps Apart
Once I adhered my card together it was time to work on the sentiment. I first die cut a banner out of some grey cardstock and I then took the ‘There’s Snow One Like You’ sentiment from the Winter Wonderland stamp set and cut it apart., leaving out the ‘snow’. I could have masked it, but it’s easier if it’s cut I find. I then stamped down the ‘There’s’ part onto my banner first, then I masked off the ‘One Like You’ part – just leaving the ‘On’ section clear masking. I inked it up, removed the masking tape and turned the stamp around so I could stamp ‘No’. Once I stamped that down, I turned the stamp back around, and stamped the additional ‘One Like You’ like normal. Now my sentiment reads ‘There’s No One Like You’ and that worked much better, since I wasn’t doing a winter card. I adhered the banner with foam tape onto the centre of my shaker panel and the card was complete.
Here’s a video to show how I created my card from the start to finish.
I hope you enjoyed my card and tutorial today. I wanted to make a simple yet effective shaker card today and I love doing this with the Storybook dies, they’re so versatile and fun to work with. Also, altering stamp sets is a fun way to stretch them for more life!
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