To start, I began with a smooth cardstock and masked off an area for distress oxide ink blending. I first blended Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick, and Peacock Feathers within the masked area. I then applied the Triangles Stencil over the ink blended area and blended another layer of Picked Raspberry on top of the ink blended area.
I then got to coloring the lovely Toucan images! I stamped all the images with a copic friendly ink and then proceeded to color all the images using my copic markers. I love adding details with a white gel pen to the critters as a final touch.
To stamp the sentiment, I got out my MISTI(I didn’t want to mess up my ink blended background!) and arranged the images and sentiment to where I wanted it and then stamped the sentiment with black ink. I adhered the images with foam tape for a little pop.
To start, I created a stenciled background with the new Waves stencil. I blended yellow ink through it onto a white card base and then lifted the stencil and turned it so that the waves were upside down.
I lined up the downward wave points on the stencil with the upward wave points on the cardstock and then blended ink through that. When I was finished, I had a fun, chain-like pattern.
I cut the Aloha Shaker die from the panel and trimmed it with the stitched rectangle die from Stitched Notes. I used scissors to remove the Aloha word from the sun frame, and then blended more yellow ink on it, so that the stenciled pattern was no longer visible.
I cut the new Sunshine Script die from white cardstock and coloured it with a dark gray Copic marker. I also cut a banner from one of the dies in the Stacked Edges 1 set, and blended blue ink along the edges for dimension and a pop of colour.
Because the Sunshine die cut is so narrow, it’s quite flexible and I was able to curve it to match the curve of the banner. I adhered the stenciled panel to a white cardbase then stamped a partial ‘Sending You’ sentiment from Tropical Birds inside the cut out sun, directly on the card base.
I put foam tape on some of the sun rays, and placed it onto the card, offsetting the rays, so that there was a doubled-up effect. Then I glued the sentiment banner on top – I used liquid glue on the edges and foam tape in the centre for support.
Finally, I chose some yellow jewels from the Citrus Mix and glued them above and below the sentiment strip.
I love how bright and sunny this card is, I hope you do too! There are so many possibilities with stencils and dies!
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Thank you to everyone who left comments on the blog hop and for the special guests and designers who shared their beautiful inspiration using our new release!
I wanted to let you know that the new release stamps and dies have been restocked and we’ll be getting more. In addition to this, we’ll be getting a shipment of stencils and adding more release bundles next week. I’m so happy you all loved this release!
We’ll be sharing a new video and posts soon. Stay tuned!
Hello friends, Eloise here and today I’m here to share twelve ideas on how to use the Pretty Pink Posh stencil bundle #1. In today’s video, I’m just sharing the techniques and hopefully in my next video I’ll share some ideas using the backgrounds I made.
Working from left to right, here is how I
made each background.
#1 – Colour then Stamp. For this first background, I took a piece of white cardstock, adhered it down and adhered my Graduation Stencil over the top. I then used washi tape to mask over the other images besides the hats. I ink blended some Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink over the top. I then removed the stencil and stamped over the hats using the Congrats Grad stamp set. Super simple and easy background with these stamps that match. If you want the confetti images back from the stencil, line up the stencil and then mask off the hats instead and ink blend over the rest of the areas.
I also did the same technique using the Leaves Stenciland Mother’s Day stamp set, which I will share the quick and easy card I made with that background at the end of the post.
#2 – Tracing. I took a piece of apricot coloured cardstock and adhered it down into place. I then laid over the Leaves Stencil and traced around the shapes with gel pens. Then to show some examples I coloured a few in, drew random patterns in some or you can trace with a black pen and colour with a different colouring medium. I liked this idea more for a larger stencil with larger spaces to colour. But it still turned out okay and is another fun way to get more from your stencils.
#3 – Heat Embossing. I taped down a piece of white cardstock and adhered the Wide Stripes Stencilover. I then smooshed down my Versamark Ink and added some Rose Gold Embossing Powder over the top. I took a brush and brushed away some of the powder on the outsides and heat set it with a heat tool. I liked this way since you can use any embossing powder you own and being able to brush away whatever powder you don’t want is kinda nice so you can keep it in different areas.
#4 – Dry Embossing. I think this is definitely one of my favourite ways to use stencils. I ran a piece of white cardstock with my Graduation Stencilover the top through a die cutting machine. I made sure to use a metal shim and also the rubber embossing mats to allow the stencil to emboss and tada, the stencil pattern is embossed. I think why I like this way the best is because you can use it as a subtle background, add colour inside, etc. Also, stencils are cheaper than embossing dies which is also nice, as well.
#5 – Embossing Paste. I used some Texture Paste from Ranger and dyed it using Black Soot Distress Oxide Ink. I then took a piece of white cardstock, adhered it down and then adhered the Graduation Stencil over the top. I used a palette knife to spread the paste over and then before it dried, I sprinkled glitter over the top just for some added interest, but either way it looks good. I then removed the stencil (remember to clean it straight away) from the paper and set it aside to dry. Embossing Paste was huge a while ago and I still really like it; the clean-up is a little messy though.
#6 – Paints. So, for my next background, I used some acrylic paints. I have some Kaisercraft ones since I picked them up super cheap. I took a piece of white cardstock and put the Wide Stripes Stencilover the top. I then used little paint daubers and three colours of paint; a lavender, dusty pink and aqua and dabbed the colours over the stencil. I then removed the stencil and let it aside to dry. I really liked using the paints, I always look at paints as not really a card making supply. But using them over stencils just looks like Distress Oxide Inks or something; they blend really nice and they’re cheaper.
#7 – Tone on Tone. This one is super simple, not a lot of thought went into it but basically, I just wanted to create my own patterned paper. I love tone on tone and it’s definitely my most used patterned paper. So, using a light colour of cardstock; in my case yellow and then a darker yellow ink, I used the Wide Stripes Stenciland ink blended over it. Super simple but being able to create these easy backgrounds, eliminates me running out of my favourite pieces of patterned paper.
#8 – Layering. Layering stencils are super fun. I like it especially when you have a really open design and then you can layer like a polka dot or something over top to give it a little fake texture. But in this case, I ink blended some blue inks over the Wide Stripes Stencil horizontally, then rotated it 90 degrees, and ink blended the same colours again. This created a checkered sort of effect and brought new opportunities to a simple design of stencil.
#9 – Bleaching. To do the bleaching effect, I ink blend some Distress Inks / Oxide Inks (I’m using these because they react with water) onto watercolour paper. I then laid theWide Stripes Stencil over the top and sprayed over it with water. I blotted the paper with a paper towel and picked up the stencil. The parts where the stencil was stays the bright colour and the bits in between go lighter. I love the way this works out, it’s perfect for sunrays or a night sky or even to create the same tone on tone effect as earlier.
#10 – Foiling. So, a little while ago I got some Deco Foil Adhesive which is super cool for those of us that don’t have any machine to foil with. I took a piece of white cardstock, laid over the Wide Stripes Stencil at a diagonal and taped it down. I then took some of the liquid adhesive and a paint dauber and dabbed it over the top. Remember, whatever texture is left behind when you lay the adhesive down, the foil is going to pick up that texture. I set it aside to dry for around half an hour and then took a piece of foil, laid it over top and rubbed over the foil with my fingers where the adhesive is. I also used a bone folder at the end to really help stick down the last few bits. Foiling is super pretty and honestly; I will use it a lot more now that I don’t have to use a machine.
#11 – White Ink. I love using white ink on a dark colour of cardstock. It’s perfect for easy night skies, etc. This time I used the Graduation Stencil and ink blended white ink over the top of a black piece of cardstock. Super simple, but effective. You could do this with lighter colours of cardstock as well to create a more tone on tone effect as well.
#12 – Watercolour. Last idea this time around is to use watercolour. Watercolour is one of my favourite mediums since it’s so free flowing and gorgeous. So, I used the Leaves Stenciland a watercolour palette and painted over a selection of the leaves. I used two different tones of greens for them. I then lifted up the stencil and mopped up a few of the really wet areas with a paper towel. Obviously, this isn’t going to look perfect, but I like how it’s not perfect since it looks like you water coloured them yourself… even though you didn’t.
So that’s the twelve ways I’m sharing on
how to use stencils today. I then went off camera to create a card with one of
the backgrounds.
To start off my card, I stamped a couple of images from the Peonies stamp set and coloured them with Copic Markers. I then cut them out with the Peonies coordinating dies.
I then took one of the leaves backgrounds that I made in my video and die cut a circle from the centre. While I was die-cutting I cut the Lattice Background Die from vellum as well. I adhered the vellum lattice behind the circle and popped up the entire background on foam tape and adhered it to a yellow card base.
I then popped up the images on foam tape and adhered them into place as well. For my sentiment I used the ‘Big Hugs’ one from Elephant Friends and white heat embossed it onto a thin black strip of cardstock. I then tied a little hemp cord bow on one side and adhered that onto my card as well.
So, that finished up my super simple card for today as well as all the backgrounds I made. In my next video, I’ll be sharing a few card ideas using the backgrounds I made today.
Thanks so much for stopping by today and I’ll see you next time.
Hello! This is Nicky with you today with a ‘slimline’ card where I have used two older but much beloved Pretty pink Posh stamp sets, namely Koala Friends and Birthday Friends.
This card measures 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches with a panel cut at 8.2 inches x 3.2 inches. You can purchase envelopes for a card with these dimensions – just search for Slimline, Invitation, #9 or Size 9 envelopes.
I ink blended my background using a Clarity Stencil Brush and Distress Ink in Mowed Lawn and Mermaid Lagoon. I used a hill stencil (of which there are many on the market). I stamped the sentiment and then backed the panel with white craft foam and adhered it to the base. Using craft foam not only nicely lifts your panel but it also helps cards with embellishments survive the rigors of the mailing system!
My images were all stamped on Bristol Smooth cardstock using Ranger Archival Ink in Potting Soil. I watercolour painted them all using Kuretake Zigs. Koalas were painting using Grey No.91 and Mid Gray No.96. Three other colours were used for the accessories and they were Yellow No.50, Light Pink No.26 and Light Green No.41. Certain areas were highlighted with a Uniball Signo white gel pen.
The images were then either die cut or fussy cut and applied with dimensional foam tape. I embellished my card with Pretty Pink Posh jewels- Lemon Drop, Pink Blush and Spring Green– as seen in the image above and since I had one remaining painted image I decided to add it to the inside of my card as a cute little surprise.
I appreciate you stopping by to read today, thank you and happy crafting! Nicky x
Usually when I build a shaker card, I use foam tape for the shaker walls. But you can also stack a die cut to create the walls and that’s what I did here. I started by cutting theLattice Background Die 5 times – 4 from plain white cardstock and 1 from a panel of cardstock that I had blended a rainbow of ink onto.
I used liquid glue to stack the 4 white die cuts and then glued a panel of acetate on top before gluing the rainbow die cut on the very top. When the glue was dry, I flipped it over, and there were lots of tiny windows just waiting to be filled!
I put one tiny jewel in each window, using a jewel pickerand craft pick to make sure that the faceted shiny side was facing out the window. I went in rainbow order, trying to match the rainbow on the front of the card.
Hi, everyone! It’s Marge here and today I’m going to share a Father’s Day card design which is not that much masculine but with cute critters selected from various stamps sets.
Next, I trimmed a piece of A2 sized Bristol Paper, and then I ink blended it in teal blue and olive green using my cube dye inks ( Teal Cave and Galactic Stream, Olive and Moss). For visual interest, I splattered with water, white acrylic ink, and deep navy colored inks onto my panel and let them dry. After my panel was dry enough, I stamped a sentiment from Father’s Day stamp setwith Versamark Ink on the top of the panel using my MISTI, then I heat embossed it in white.
Copic markers I used: E27-E25-E23-E21 and E47-E44-E42 for Giraffe, Warm Gray and Cool Gray for Elephants, RV13-R20-R30-R000 for ear, B37-B34-BG07-BG05-BG02 for balloon,
That’s it from me for today. Thanks for stopping by.
I started by die cutting the stitched rectangle from the Stitched Notes die set– this meant that I knew exactly how much space I had for my adorable critters!
I stamped the elephant first, slightly off-centre. I knew I wanted the fox to the right, facing the elephant, and his sign is longer, so I needed a bit more space on that side for him.
Next, I cut a mask for the elephant before stamping the koala on the left and the fox on the right. This gives just a little bit of overlap and makes them look like they are one larger image. I made sure that all their feet were lined up, so that they are ‘standing’ on the same level.
I stamped the sentiments from Animal Signs, Father’s Day andElephant Friends into the signs and then coloured the animals with Copic markers, using minimal shading.
To create the sentiment, I used sharp scissors to perform ‘stamp surgery’ on the Happy Father’s Day sentiment from Father’s Day . If this is not your thing, you can carefully mask it and stamp it 3 separate times – make sure you clean it completely each time so you don’t get any ghosting!
To add a bit of colour, I blended light blue ink over the top half of the card, fading out towards the animals, so I didn’t have to do any more masking!
To finish the card, I created an oyster-gray card base and stamped the confetti from Congrats Grad all around the edge to create a little texture and interest around my scene.
The Animal Signs set is great for so many occasions! Since the sign spaces are open, you can really customize it for the recipient.
I hope you were inspired by this card. Thanks for stopping by!
Hi Friends! It is Dana here today sharing a Tropical themed card from the New Release at Pretty Pink Posh. My card today uses the most creative and fun die called Beach Scene. It is one die that cuts all of the pieces to create your beach scene.
To create myBeach Scene, I began by die cutting the scene from a sky blue piece of cardstock. I kept this piece together and attached it to my card panel. Next, I used little scraps of cardstock and I die cut the small little pieces for the scene. I then layed the small pieces on top of my die cut matching the lines. It was really easy to do because everything matches up perfectly with my original cut.
Next, I used the Happy Summer Script die. I die cut it from a piece of cement gray cardstock and attached it to the bottom of my card panel. This die is perfect for an end of the school year card… perfect for a student, teacher or even the office staff.
To finish my card, I mounted my card front onto a cement gray cardstock mat and attached everything to a rainbow panel of patterned paper. Lastly, I attached everything to my A2 card base.
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PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. We are giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before June 17, 2019 at 11:59 PM PST. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!
