I create a coffee shop scene using Stitched Pieces Die and coffee cup and mug from Christmas Friends stamp for wall decorations. I used scallop border dies from Stitched Borders 4 to make a table, so the sweet couples can sitting in the cafe and enjoy their coffee latte.
Today we have another big giveaway as part of our giveaway week. We are giving away a 60 pack of Zig Clean Color markers! Leave a comment below sharing your favorite Christmas or holiday memory.
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have an interactive Christmas card to share featuring the Winter Wonderland stamp set and wobble springs. Plus, this post kicks off our Christmas Theme and Giveaway Week!
Wobble springs are something new and very exciting you can now find in Pretty Pink Posh store. And just in time for the Holidays, too! I was very excited to get my hands on these and I can’t wait to share a card I made using them.
In case you don’t know what wobble spring is, it’s a little plastic spring that attaches with one end to the card base (or anything else; thank tags, gift bags etc) and with another end to an object and provides that object with movement when touched. It is super fun to play with, even for adults – it’s mesmerizing in a way and addictive I’d say.
The element that wobbles on my card today is the igloo and a little penguin. The spring is hidden behind both of these and adds movement to both objects. To embellish the card, I added 4mm Clear Droplets and 6mm Clear Droplets, which are one of my favorite finishing touches.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how to make this card and how to use wobble springs to create addictive interactive cards.
Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here to share a couple cards using the Clarity Stencil Brushes – along with a video review of them. I was super excited to recently get my hands on a set of them – I have been seeing them used so much, that I was really curious how they worked.
If you aren’t familiar with them, they are brushes that can be used as an alternative to foam ink blenders with beautiful results! I paired them up with the adorable Fox Friends Stamp Set and coordinating Fox Friends Dies to create one layer stenciled panels. I was originally going to just make one layer cards, but they kind of grew into this by the time I finished!
Here is the video sharing how I used the stencils – and with my first voice over of my video (I was a bit nervous – please forgive the soft voice and occasional humming or losing my place!)
After the video I colored all the foxes in with some Copic Markers – I used Warm Grays – W00, W1, W3, and W5, and Blush R20, added my frames, and stitched with my sewing machine around the outside edges to finish them off a little. Added some jute twine, then attached with foam adhesive to colored card bases to finish off.
Here is a close up look at each one – on this first one I also used the Scallop Circles Dies to frame my fox.
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!
