Hi, friends! Lauren Taylor here and today I’m sharing a handmade card I created featuring some of the spring products! This project truly captures the essence of spring with its cheerful floral design and a playful shaker element that’s bound to bring joy.
I began by die-cutting various elements using the Tulip Shaker Dies and the Grass Border Die. From green cardstock, I cut out the grass border as well as the stems and leaves for the tulips. For the tulip tops and their frames, I chose a lovely rose pink cardstock, and for the shaker portion of the tulip, I die-cut the flower bud shape from acetate, using a helpful trick of placing printer paper underneath to ensure a clean cut. Assembling the tulips involved adhering the pink tops to the green stems and leaves. The shaker tulip required attaching the acetate to the frame using adhesive.
The real magic happens with the shaker element! I used thin foam strips to build a little container within the tulip frame and then filled it with the vibrant Sugar Pop Shaker Beads. To seal the shaker, I attached one of the solid tulips to the back of the frame, creating a delightful interactive element. For the background, I opted for a soft, blended look using the Watercolor Oval Mask Stencil and Distress Inks in shades of Squeezed Lemonade, Dried Marigold, and Tumbled Glass, aiming for a sunny, sky-like feel. A touch of black splatter added a bit of whimsy.
After adhering this background to an A2 card base, I arranged the die-cut tulips and grass border across the front. Finally, I added the Large Celebrate Shadow Diesentiment, die-cutting the word and its shadow from white and pink cardstock respectively, and attaching it with foam strips for added dimension. This card, with its celebratory sentiment and fun shaker, is perfect for so many occasions!
I hope you were inspired by this shaker card. Thanks for stopping by!
I don’t know about you but even though I love stamped images, I tend to build my cards based on the sentiment and I’m a big fan of punny sayings and couldn’t wait to use the “You’re Tea-riffic” sentiment.
I stamped all the tea party images with VersaFine Clair Nocture ink and heat embossed the images with clear embossing powder. I love how the Nocturne ink gives crisp outline images but it’s not alcohol marker safe—hence sealing the ink with clear embossing powder. I know some will caution that the clear embossing can cause wear and tear on your marker nibs but I haven’t had any issues and willing to live on the edge (no pun intended) to take this crafty risk—so far so good.
I colored all the images with a combination of Copic & OLO markers in Teals, Pinks and Beige + a little red for the yummy strawberry shortcake. I also added a few white gel pen markings for extra dimension.
After coloring, I paced a Rectangle Eyelet white cardstock panel into a MISTI, lined up Tea Time images and placed the sentiment right below tea time images. Then I stamped the sentiment with VersaFine Nocturne Ink and adhered all the images with foam tape.
To finish the fun Tea Party card, I adhered the decorated Eyelet panel to a pink card base. A perfectly clean and simple and tea party card to celebrate someone special on being Tea-Riffic!
Hi friends Debbie here and I’m back with the new Seashell Wreath set from the newest release. Whenever my daughter goes on a tropical trip she will collect the sand from the beaches. And the seashells on the wreath made me think of the time she was able to collect small seashells with her sand for her bottle.
So to start off with my card, I stamped the Seashell Wreath setonto Copic friendly cardstock. Along with the slightly larger individual Seashells in the set.
Once the coloring was done I cut them out with the Summer Wreath coordinating Dies. Adding Foam squares to the back of the Wreath and the individual shells.
Next for the panel, with the new Chevron Pierced PlateI die cut it out using Neenah Solar White Cardstock.
To add a nice Melon color and frame up the wreath I used the largest Notched Square Die. Before I adhered the wreath to the Notched Square die cut, I needed a sentiment.
Using the Sentiment Strips:Summer I placed the Notched Square and the Wreath in my Misti for placement. Stamping out the Happy Summer in Black ink.
Knowing I would have a bow hanging down from the top of the wreath. There are so many options for bows with Pretty Pink Posh. I used the bow from the last release, Floral Wreath Builder Set. Another option is the Beautiful Bows Die Set.
After I adhered it all together I realized it needs some Seafoam Pearls. How appropriately named are they!? Especially in the center of the Starfish over the bow.
Thanks for stopping by and stay crafty my friends!
Hi friends! It’s Sophie and I am back today to share a fun card I made featuring some of the new June release items. Let’s check it out!
For my card I wanted to feature some fun and vibrant colors that summer at the beach is known for. I actually rarely use purple so this really helped me stretch my creative energy!
To start, I stenciled a background using the newLayered Coral Stencils in three shades of purple, pink, and aqua over white cardstock. I overlapped the colors to create a more seamless blend. Once finished, I actually just took the blending brushes and used whatever ink was left over to do a light wash over the whole paper so that the background was not as stark white.
Then, I spent some time die cutting the Stitched Coral Dies out of various coordinating colors of cardstock. I also cut an Eyelet Circleout of Vellum for a place to ground my images. I also cut a little bank of sand using the same Eyelet Circle as well as the new Shoreline Borders. I really like this border set because the waves are really unique and can be used for non-ocean/beach themed cards as well. I think they would make great snowbanks or just abstract borders for scenes on cards!
I hope this was inspiring for you! I’d love to know below if you’ve ever been scuba diving/snorkeling – this card makes me want to go to the ocean for sure! :)
Hello, it’s Gemma here and today I’m sharing a clean and simple card using the new Spring Floral die set. There are 3 different styles of flowers in this set and I decided to focus on the daffodils.
I chose some different colours of yellow card, along with sparkle white and spring green, then die cut the pieces from the Spring Floral die set. These flowers are quick and easy to assemble.
Next, I used the Notched Squares die setto die cut a navy and white striped background piece. I also die cut a navy frame, by using two of the Notched Square dies together.
On an A2 card base, I stamped a sentiment from the Sentiment Strips: Birthday stamp set. I adhered the background and frame above, then tucked the flowers into the frame, adhering with liquid glue to finish.
I hope this card inspired you. Thanks for stopping by!
Hello crafty friends, Marine here with you today, back to take you to the beach and have some fun building a giant sandcastle! As always, I created a very textured background and added a few seashells in the corners, but this Sandcastle Shaker is totally self-sufficient and is definitely the star of the show, or should I say the star of the beach!
I started off by cutting a Chevron Pierced panel out of Strathmore bristol smooth cardstock, I placed the Watercolor Oval stencil on top, and covered the middle of my panel with antique linen oxide ink to create sand. I applied a little bit of vintage photo oxide ink on the edges to darken the sand a little bit, mixed the colors with my blending tools, and then added a subtle pattern to this sand section using the Mini Polka Dots stencil along with vintage photo oxide ink. At that point I knew that most of the sand would be hidden behind a vellum panel, but the polka dot pattern is cute and we still can see it through the vellum. I splattered water on the panel and dried it with a paper towel, mixed some vintage photo oxide ink with water and used a small brush to add brown splatters all over the sand section, and then did the same with copic opaque white ink.
I removed the Watercolor Oval stencil, and once the sand was dry, I temporarily taped the mask that comes with the Watercolor Oval stencil to the sand section using pieces of rolled-up washi tape at the back of the mask. I covered the rest of the panel with salvaged patina oxide ink, and created a seashell pattern using the Layered Seashells stencils: with stencil #1, I applied peacock feathers oxide ink with a very light hand, and with stencil #2 I applied the same ink but with a heavier hand to make the seashell details stand out. Just like the sand section, I added texture to my seashell border, starting with water splatters. Next I mixed some peacock feathers oxide ink with water and used my slim brush to add more splatters to the seashells, and I did the same with white ink. To finish my background, I wanted to add a foam effect along the sand edges, so I first used a sponge dauber and applied copic opaque white ink on those edges, and then I used the rounded end of a brush to add more ink. And when my panel was dry, I attached it to a light blue card base.
I used Seashell Border dies to cut six seashells out of colored cardstock, picked matching distress inks and applied ink to the edges of each seashell, mixed those distress inks with water and added splatters to the seashells. I did the same with white ink, set them aside to dry, and then worked on my Sandcastle Shaker. Here are the steps I followed to build it:
1. Cut a Sandcastle Shaker frame out of kraft cardstock using the main die and the small insert dies 2. Applied vintage photo distress ink to the edges of the castle, and added white and brown splatters 3. Cut a whole Sandcastle Shaker out of acetate, and attached the castle frame on top using liquid glue 4. Flipped the castle over, added foam strips all around it and on the middle sections as well, creating four different “rooms” 5. Poured Chocolate shaker beads inside each “room” 6. Cut a whole Sandcastle Shaker out of beige pattern paper, splattered white ink all over it 7. Peeled all the backing papers off the foam strips 8. Attached the beige castle to the foam strips to totally close the Sandcastle Shaker
I decorated the front of my sandcastle with brown gingham roofs and white glitter flags on top of each roof. Next I cut a large Eyelet Circle panel out of vellum, added white splatters all over it, stuck my Sandcastle Shaker on top right in the middle using 1mm foam squares, attached the vellum panel to my card using 1mm foam squares again, and added seashells on the corners.
For my greetings, I started by cutting the Summer Script twice: out of dark aqua cardstock and out of white cardstock. I attached the dark aqua word on top of the white word using liquid glue, shifting them a little bit to create a white border, and then stuck my Summer Script to the Sandcastle Shaker using liquid glue as well. Next I white heat embossed “Sending good vibes” from Sentiment Strips: Summer on light blue cardstock, trimmed it into a slim banner using a Sentiment Strips die, and attached that banner to the castle using foam squares.
Finally, I applied glossy accents to the Summer Script to make it super shiny, with kind of a wet effect, and added sparkles to the seashells using white blizzard nuvo drops. And that’s it!
Thank you so much for stopping by, and see you next time!
Hey crafty friends! I’m Rebecca Keppel and when it comes to three dimensional or interactive cards, I am hopeless if I need to do any measuring at all! That’s why I love Pretty Pink Posh’s die sets like the Shadow Box Dies. There is no measuring required! You die cut all the pieces that you need (which are all included in this set) and adhere everything together. That includes both sides of the box as well as decorative rectangles for the window and decorative edges for the “shelves” or layers of the shadow box.
It is so quick and easy to create the shadow box that you can spend more time decorating it! I added some of the Stitched Humingbird Dies. Cutting them out of colorful cardstock really popped off the greens and blues I used for my shadow box.
Welcome Pretty Pink Posh friends, Annette Allen here with you today and I am so excited to be guest designing for the June release. I hope you are ready for all the summer fun this release has to offer. It is time to shake it up with a fun seashell shaker card, so let’s get started.
Create card from white cardstock A2 size.
On a white A2 panel stencil the new Layered Seashells stencil using your favorite Red, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple ink pads. Don’t be afraid of layering the colors as it will give those seashells a fun color blend.
Adhere your stenciled background to your card using liquid glue or a tape runner.
Die cut the Seashell Shaker die on teal cardstock. I used a shimmer teal cardstock. The back of the shaker on white cardstock and for the window instead of clear acetate, let’s use vellum.
Adhere all your elements to create the shaker and fill it with the new Underwater Mix.
Now that we have a shaker let’s adhere it to the lower part of the card at an angle using liquid glue.
Stamp the sentiment You Are Spe-shell from the new Seashells stamp set on white cardstock, using black ink and then die cut using the coordinating Seashells dies. Die cut the coordinating die two more times on white cardstock and adhere it to the stamped die cut sentiment. This give the sentiment a little dimension. Adhere the sentiment to the Seashell shaker using foam tape.
Stamp the sentiment Enjoy Your Day from the new Sentiment Strips Summer stamp set on white cardstock using black ink. Die cut the sentiment out using the Sentiment Strips dies and adhere the sentiment to the seashell shaker using foam tape.
Nothing like a seashell shaker card… right? Make sure to check out all the inspiration from the design team using the new release. It is Shell-tastic.
Hello crafty friends, Barbara here! I’m sharing a fun and colorful project using the new Stitched Seashell dies. I began with an A2 size card base made from smooth white card stock.
I then trimmed down a piece of light blue card stock to create a textured background panel that would be slightly smaller than the card base. Using the new Summer Words stencil I added texture paste over the top with a pallet knife.
I set that aside to dry completely while I cut all the gorgeous seashells dies to use for my project . I cut them from white card stock and then used distress ink and a foam blending tool to add lots of color. I added them to the stenciled panel with foam squares.
Last, I cut the new Summer Script dieout of more white card sock and added over the seashells for a fun summer themed card.
I hope that this card inspired you to play with this fun Summer collection. Thanks for stopping by!
Hello crafty friends! It’s June here, and today I’m on the blog to tell you a bit more about a card I made using the newest release. It’s a simple one, but definitely my favorite I’ve created this month!
First of all, I can’t be the only one that’s excited about a new addition to the wreath stamps right? I loved all the themed wreaths from back in the day, and seeing the newSeashell Wreath stamp set made me SO excited! For my color palette I used very soft colors, mostly beiges with some touches of pastel purple, yellow and pink.
I stamped even more shells from the Seashells stamp set and used the same colors as I did for the wreath for each type of shell or coral. I put some inside of the wreath and some on the bottom, trying to make sure the colors look balanced.
For my background, I used the largest of the Stitched Torn Rectangle dies, because it just adds such a nice detail to each card. I used Antique Linen Distress Oxide to add color to my panel. I put more color towards the edges, so the center would remain lighter. To make it look even more like sand, I took the same Distress Oxide and splattered it across my panel, also focussing it mostly around the edges.
To finish of my card, I used the scripted sentiment that’s in the Seashells stamp set and put it in the center of the wreath. This ended up being a rather simple card to create, but I love the way it turned out! I’m all for colorful cards, but more neutral colored cards like this one are so up my alley!
I hope to see you again soon, bye for now! Happy crafting!
