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Hi there, Joy here today bringing you a post for the Pretty Pink Posh blog using the Friends Forever set that released in March!
I have something a little different for you from me of course, I created a video, yep I don’t do them often but I do try and well once I sort out the light situation in my room maybe then I may create more LOL I do try…
Creating shaker cards with Pretty Pink Posh product is so fun and easy, so sit back and watch how I create these cards for you…
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Hello everyone, Eloise here and today I have a 1 stamp set, 3 cards video for you all. I’m going to be using the Friends Forever stamp set today since there is a lot of images as well as a lot of sentiments, which is what I want. Along with the stamp set I’m also using a few Pretty Pink Posh dies and sequins, too.
For my first card today, I used the Window Frames dies to create an opening into some watercolour cardstock, ink blended some Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed Distress Ink on top of the panel and created a shaker card using the Friendship Mix, Petunia Seed Beads, Sparkling Clear Stars and Sparkling Clear Seed Beads. I used a double layer of foam tape, since I wanted a lot of shake to happen. I sealed off the shaker using some white cardstock.
On top of my window shaker, I added some images I previously coloured with my Copic Markers and then adhered them with glue dots. For my sentiment I used some Twisted Citron Distress Ink onto some more cardstock and cut out a banner using the Stitched Notes dies. I then stamped the ‘Love You’ sentiment from the Friends Forever stamp set on top of the banner with black ink. I added foam tape onto the back and added onto the top of my panel. I then wrapped around some hemp cord and tied a bow. I mounted the entire panel onto a blue card base and the card was complete.
For the second card, I die cut the Stitched Film Strip from some white cardstock first and then moved onto my background. I laid out my elements on the background first to see where I wanted everything placed, once I knew I took some Wild Honey and Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink and used a piece of acetate, smooshed the ink on top, sprayed it with water and pressed down onto the cardstock. I repeated this until I was happy with the result. I then dried it off with a heat tool and stamped the sentiment ‘Hello Friend’ on the left with black ink.
I then adhered my kids that were previously coloured also with Copic Markers and adhered them to the back of the film strip. I then added foam tape all along the back and adhered it down to the card panel. To finish it up I added some Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix and then adhered the entire panel to a card base.
For my third card I first cut a piece of watercolour paper with the frame die that comes in the Stitched Notes die set. Once that was cut I used the Peekaboo Windows dies and cut the rectangle one out of the panel and also out of some masking tape. I then masked off the windows and used the Twisted Citron Distress Ink to colour the top of my piece and then fading it out to white. Once the green was blended I used the negative masking tape piece and placed that around the windows and used some painters tape to help hold it down and then used the Squeezed Lemonade to do the same inking to the windows. I then splattered on some water and dried it with a heat tool.
After everything was adhered and dried, I added my sentiment ‘I’m So Glad That We’re Friends’ from the same Friends Forever stamp set and stamped that underneath the windows with some black ink. I then went ahead and added adhesive to the whole back of the die cut panel and then added my images behind the window. I then added some foam tape behind the entire panel and kids and then I added some colour onto my card base. I used Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and ink blended it onto my card base, blending it out to white. I added my panel on top and my card was complete.
Hello everyone, Vera here sharing another way to use Easter Friends coordinating dies as a non–Easter project. With a little imagination, you can create all sorts of characters with some of the dies you may already have in your stash!
For this project, I also used Friends Forever Coordinating Dies, Friends Forever Stamp Set and Everyday Greetings Stamp Set.
This is super fun project and I encourage you to try it!
First, I die cut the bunny from Easter Friends coordinating dies on bristol paper, and die cut the heart and the flowers from Friends Forever Coordinating Dies and Scallop Square Tags on white card stock. I used Copic Markers for coloring all the die cuts.
Hello everyone, Eloise here and today I have a 10 minute card challenge card for you all. As much as I love to create very full on cards that take a lot of time I also enjoy creating very simple and quick cards. So today I thought it would be fun to do the challenge. For my card today I’m using the Easter Blessings stamp set along with the Scallop Oval dies.
For my background I did a super quick and easy watercolour background. I first blended on some Tumbled Glass and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Ink quite messily and then went in with some clean water and spread out the colour using the brush. This creates a fun watercolour background that’s quite pale and light, and it’s also very quick and easy to do! Once my background was done I dried it off with my heat tool and now I could assemble.
Before adhering everything down, I stamped out my sentiment onto the bottom centre of my card, using the same Easter Blessings stamp set with some Versafine Onyx Black ink. I then added foam tape onto the back of my frame and my image and adhered those down into the centre of my card. I popped up the entire panel on some fun foam and adhered it down to a pre-made card base. For a last finishing touch I went ahead and added some Wink of Stella to my cross image in the centre and that finished up the card.
I hope you enjoyed my card today and were inspired to either make a quick and simple card or to try and make a card in 10 minutes. This style of card can be used for so many different occasions just with a switch up of some colours, images and a sentiment. I think I’ll be using this design for a lot of cards now that I need quickly.
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!
Happy Easter!
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 Friends stamp 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.
Have fun creating Easter projects with Pretty Pink Posh goodies!
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.
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.
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I have two simple yet elegant Easter cards featuring the Easter Blessings stamp set and coordinating dies.
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.
I hope you enjoyed today’s video and post. Happy cardmaking!
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.
– Eloise
