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You Make Life Fun + Video

Welcome back everyone, it’s Mindy! Today I’m sharing a card and video using some fun products from Pretty Pink Posh.

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To start my card, I’m going to color up my images. I stamp two of the Cuddly Cats from the set onto Neenah Solar White cardstock 80 lbs with copic friendly ink. Then color with copic markers and use the coordinating die to die cut them out.

For my front panel, I’m die cutting a star from a piece of White cardstock using the Stitched Stars Die. This will leave a beautiful stitching around the shape that adds a little more interest to the front of the card. I’m also going to use the Simple Sayings: Life stamp set and stamp my sentiment with black ink. Be sure to check out my video for a great tip on making sure you stamp straight.

For my background panel, I used a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock and add Aged Mahogany and Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink with the English Brick Wall Stencil. For the sky, I ink blended Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch and Black Soot Distress Oxide. My front panel is popped up with foam tape and added to the ink blended panel for some fun dimension. Then I could add my Cuddly Cats by tucking them in the Stitched Star Window.

You can’t make a card without adding some beautiful jewels! I used the Metallic Gold Jewels which reminded me of stars.

I hope you enjoyed today’s inspiration!

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For You Anemones

Hello, Gemma here today sharing a watercolour floral card featuring the Anemomes stamp set. I’ve been enjoying using my zig clean colour real brush pens recently, and the Pretty Pink Posh florals are perfect for watercolour techniques.

I began by heat embossing the images from the Anemones stamp set in pale gold onto Bristol Smooth card. I used some Zig clean colour real brush pens and a water brush to colour the images. These are the colours I used: 230 pale rose, 220 tea rose, and 44 dark green. Once dry, I die cut the images with the coordinating dies.

On a card base, I adhered a piece of black and white patterned paper. I took another piece of white card and used one of the dies from the Scallop Borders 1 die set to cut it down at an angle. I stamped a greeting from the Everyday Greetings stamp set, following the angle of the scalloped die cut edge.

I adhered this panel to my card base with liquid glue, then placed the flowers and leaves onto the card, adhering with a mix of foam tape and liquid glue. As a pretty finishing touch, I added some Ivory jewels to the center of the flowers.

I hope you enjoyed this card. There are lots of possibilities with these stamp sets!

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November Product Release Blog Hop- Day 2

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Hello, Gemma here today and I’m sharing a card featuring Decorative Ornaments– one of my favourite sets from the Pretty Pink Posh November release.

I’ve had fun trying different techniques with this set, including watercolour with zig pens, and embossing on vellum. I love to copic colour images, though, so decided to stamp some images with copic friendly black ink and colour that way. I kept to one colour family on each bauble, to keep the tones similar and let the patterns shine out. Once they were coloured in, I die cut them with the coordinating dies. Then I added some white gel pen and clear glitter pen details.

For this card, I thought it would be fun to revisit a design I made (HERE) with the Bunny Friends stamp set earlier this year. It’s still one of my favourite designs – I love the border of images with a bold colour behind. On the right side of a card base, I added a blend of Chipped Sapphire distress oxide ink, flicking it with some perfect pearls mix for shiny droplet details.

I took another piece of card, not as wide as my card base, and blended on Milled Lavender distress oxide ink. I stamped a greeting from the Penguin Pals stamp set with versafine black onyx ink. I find a pigment black ink is necessary for stamping sentiments over distress oxide ink, as dye ink seems to fade back too much.

I added foam tape behind this panel, then adhered to my card base. I arranged the baubles on to the edge of the panel, using some purple tape to temporarily adhere them together. This makes it easier to add the adhesive in one go – foam tape for the right side where they overhang, and some liquid glue for where they sit directly on the panel. To finish the card, I added some jewels around the sentiment from the new Starry Sky Jewels Mix.

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before November 20, 2018 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!

We hope that you enjoyed the blog hop these last two days. Thank you for all the sweet comments, love and support!

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November Product Release Blog Hop- Day 1

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Hi, everyone! It’s Marge here with you today and I’m going to share a watercolor poinsettia card featuring the New Release Products.

I started my card by stamping Poinsettias and Elegant Holly onto 140lb cold press watercolor paper using embossing ink, then heat embossed them in gold. I watercolored the images in red and green, then I die cut them all using Poinsettias Coordinating Dies and Elegant Holly Coordinating Dies. White acrylic ink was splattered onto the images to express snow.

To make a panel, I prepared A2 sized watercolor paper, masked four edges then I ink blended it using Distress Ink Antique Linen and Tea Dye. I splattered dark ink and metallic gold ink on the panel and let it dry. After I stamped a sentiment from Decorative Ornaments Stamp  on the lower part, I adhered my colored images using glue and foam tapes. Finally I foam mounted the panel onto red card base, then finished it off by adding some Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix and 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins.

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before November 20, 2018 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!

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Be sure to leave comments on all the stops- we’ll be randomly picking comments to win gift certificates. See you tomorrow!

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Christmas Tag Inspiration

Hello friends… Angelica here, and I’m so excited to be part of the 25 Days Of Christmas Tags with Pretty Pink Posh. I made two shaker tags with products from the new release for this fun event.

To construct the shaker tags, I used coordinating heavyweight cardstock and acetate, as well as double-sided adhesive. I added the adhesive to the cardstock before die-cutting with the Ornament Shaker Die. I die-cut once with the adhesive on the backside, and once with the adhesive on the front side.

I snipped the word out of the ornament with adhesive on the front side, since this was going to be the backside of my see-through tag. I trimmed two pieces of acetate the same size as the ornaments. I attached the acetate to each cardstock side with adhesive. On the ornament for the front, I wrapped Darice Double-sided Foam Sticky Strips around the edge. I filled the window with Berry Bright Confetti Mix.

I carefully used my finger to make the confetti even height, then closed the window with the back ornament. I die cut a gold topper, and used liquid glue to attach it to the ornament.

For the blue ornament, I did the same steps, using Winter Days Confetti Mix in the window, and silver glitter paper for the topper.

These ornaments were quick to make. If you like making shaker cards, I definitely recommend giving this project a try. They’re a perfect touch for wrapped presents.

Plus, more inspiration from these designers! Click photos to visit their blog posts.

 
  
  
 
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you were inspired by these pretty tags.

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Simple Autumn Greeting Cards + Video

Hello Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula and I’m thrilled to be sharing a set of easy to make Fall cards featuring Pumpkin Patch Critters stamps.

The Pumpkin Patch Critters stamp set features adorable critter peeking from behind various size pumpkins. I thought they would make a great focal point for simple, easy to make Fall greeting cards for family & friends.

Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.

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I made 4 cards to create a set, all feature the same layout and supplies and are very easy to make – you just need a handful of things. I started working on these by stamping the sentiment “Autumn Greetings” in the center of 4 1⁄4 x 5 1⁄2” panels. Next, I stamped a pumpkin and critter above the sentiment in Copic-marker friendly ink.

Once my stamping was done I used Copic markers (as I consider them to be a quick and efficient way to color) to color. I used:

  • YR07, YR04, Y17 and Y15 for the pumpkins;
  • YG95 and YG99 to color stem of the pumpkins;
  • W3 and W 1 to color bunny and cat;
  • E79, E37, E33 and YR04 to color the fox and squirrel.

I wanted to add something else to my projects, so I decided I’d stamp tiny florals. I used the Bold Blooms stamp set for this. This is a smaller set with a bunch of beautiful flowers that work really great as little accents on cards. In my recent video, featuring the Happy Mail stamp set and seasonal Happy Mail cards, I used the same flowers to dress up a mail box and they made my cards that much more beautiful and complete.

I used the same marker colors here as before plus a few yellow makers – Y35 and Y13 and once I had all of these colored I used my coordinating dies and cut these out in my die cutting machine. I did keep some of the flowers almost white by coloring them using a W1 marker for a little bit of shading.

Next, I tied gold thread into a messy bow and adhered under the stamped pumpkins. My idea was to have gold thread sticking from behind the tiny floral cluster that I foam mounted on top.

Once everything was done I trimmed my panels down to 4” wide as the stamping seemed a bit off to me, so by trimming the panel I made sure the stamping was centered. I adhered my panels onto A2 light brown woodgrain card bases and used Metallic Gold Jewels to dress these cards up. Gold seems like the perfect option for Fall, it complements the warm Autumn colors beautifully.

I also added some subtle stamping onto some of the panels using yellow ink and images from the Holiday Greetings stamp set.

Have fun stamping!

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Distress Ink Poinsettias

Hello, it’s Mindy here with a new video. This release is over-the-top amazing! Today, I’m sharing a card featuring the Poinsettias stamp set. I also have created a video showing how I created it that you can watch down below.

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I stamped all the images from this set onto Bristol Smooth cardstock and embossed with white embossing powder. Then I ink blended Festive Berries and Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Inks. For the leaves, I ink blended Cracked Pistachio and Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide which is such a gorgeous combo for leaves. Then I die cut using the coordinating dies.

I attached my flowers and leaves onto a 3 3/4″ x 5″ piece of Fog Cardstock and trimmed off the over hanging pieces. I layered my card with White cardstock an Cherry Red cardstock for a base. The banner with my sentiment is heat embossed with white embossing powder onto Black cardstock using the Angel Friends stamp set. This banner is such a perfect way to add a sentiment.

I finished off the card by adding Silver Moondust Nuvo Drops to the centers of the flowers and some Jewels around the empty spaces. Have you seen the new jewel mixes? They are so gorgeous!

I hope you enjoyed today’s inspiration!

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Merry Shaker Tree

Hi, there! It’s Marge today and I’m so happy to share with you a Christmas tree shaker card I made using the new release products. My card features  the Tree Shaker Die, Elegant Holly stamp set and Berry Bright Confetti Mix from the new release.

To begin, I cut a piece of gold mirror card stock with Tree Shaker Die and then I die cut white card stock again for front panel. I adhered an acetate film on the back of white panel and then I adhered Tree Shaker Die cut on the acetate film window using glue.

Next, I trimmed a sheet of pattern paper into 4.125 x 5.375 inches, which would be used as shaker background. I placed Berry Bright Confetti Mix and 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins on the pattern paper first, then I covered it with my shaker front panel using foam tapes.

After I assembled the shaker, I stamped solid images of  leaves and berries from Elegant Holly Stamps Set on white paper using various dye inks to give color gradient, then I used copic markers to add more shades on them. I die cut the images using Elegant Holly Coordinating Dies and  applied Multi Medium Matte on the surface, then coated with Distress Dry Glitter. When medium was dried I adhered leaves and berries on top of the shaker. Finally, I put the shaker on red card base, then I finished off the card by adding Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix.

I love that the Tree Shaker Die can be used to make quick and easy shaker cards or it could be used alone to create beautiful dimension on your cards. Have a wonderful day.

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Gradient Backgrounds on Holiday Cards + Video

Hi friends, it’s Rina here today. I am loving the new holiday release from Pretty Pink Posh.  I have been obsessed with ink blending from light to dark so I thought I would play with the new release and try this technique out.

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Today I am using the Penguin Pals and the oldie but goodie Happy Snowman stamp sets.  I am also using the latest script dies which are so beautiful.  I absolutely loved how they looked on my finished cards.  I used the Season’s Greetings Script and Happy Holidays Script dies.  I also had to try out the Pine Sprigs dies and they are so elegant and delicate.

Here are the copic marker colors I used:

Grays – N0, N1, N3, N5

Blues – B02, B04, B16

Reds – R20, R22, R24

Orange – YR02

I am also featuring the latest jewel releases in the Holiday Mix and Starry Sky Mix. The different sizes, shine and color added extra bling to my card along with the Spectrum Noir clear glitter brush pen.

The distress oxide ink colors I used to blend the blue card were Tumbled Glass, Broken China, and Mermaid Lagoon.  The red card was blended with Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick and Candied Apple.  I colored the Pine Sprigs die cuts with Peacock Feathers on both cards.

I cut a 4 ¼ by 5 ½ inch panel and cut it twice using the Scallop Borders 2 dies to create hills.  I adhered them to my card base and arranged the images, pine springs and script die cuts.

Hope you try this out and thanks for stopping by!

Rina

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November 2018 Release Now Available

The November 2018 Release is now available in the Pretty Pink Posh Shop and select retailers that carry our products. If you missed our post yesterday, we revealed all of the products in picture form, but if you would like to see them in a video, Eloise has you covered!

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The fabulous November release from Pretty Pink Posh includes a gorgeous Poinsettia stamp set. I love the floral sets from PPP as they are perfect for different colouring techniques.

I stamped my images with black ink and used my copic markers to colour them in. For the white flower, I used some neutral greys in N0 and N1, plus some YG01, which adds a hint of colour. I then die cut the images with the coordinating dies.

The Poinsettia stamp set includes leaves, but I decided to use some of the new Pine Sprigs dies on my card instead. I die cut them from white card and, before popping them out of the white card piece, I used my copics to add colour.

On my card base, I adhered a piece of red patterned paper. I then cut a piece of white card down, using one of the dies in the Scallop Borders 1 die set. On this panel, I embossed the greeting from the new Decorative Ornaments stamp set with gold embossing powder.

I added this panel to my card with foam tape. I used liquid glue to adhere the pine springs and the red poinsettias, then some foam tape for the larger white poinsettia.

I couldn’t resist embellishing the card with some Metallic Gold jewels for the centres of the flowers. This was a little fiddly but I love the effect. I also added some of jewels from the newly released Holiday Jewels Mix, which match the colours on this card perfectly.

Enjoy browsing the Pretty Pink Posh Shop full of the new products. There will be more inspiration with the new release and next week, we’ll have a two day blog hop filled with even more inspiration!