Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here this morning with a couple cards to share for a very special blog hop for Autism Awareness! You can find all the info on the hop HERE – what it’s all about, who’s participating, and all the sponsors of this great event!
I made two cards today featuring a variety of new and old Pretty Pink Posh products!
I created some bright happy scenes with fun sentiments, happy balloons, and pretty flowers – not to mention a few of the popular new Pretty Pink Posh jewels!
I started off with the cute little boy and girl from Birthday Friends, and stamped the bundle of balloons for them as well. I colored them up, then die cut with the coordinating Birthday Friends Dies. I die cut a couple of Stitched Speech Bubbles from black cardstock, and heat embossed sentiments on them from the new Encouraging Greetings Stamp Set(a must have!).
Next, I stamped several of the flowers and greenery from the new Bunny Friends Stamp set, and cut them out with the coordinating Bunny Friends Dies. I tried to keep the color combos well coordinated, using the same Copic colors between balloons, flowers, and clothes, then mixing them up between the cards to balance everything out.
After I planned my placement of everything, I did some Copic coloring with my Warm Gray Copics to add a ground for the scene. Next, I adhered the girl and boy and their balloons with foam adhesive, and covered the balloons with a good thick coat of Glossy Accents. Once they dried, I even added a second coat for lots of shine! You can see it best in the next two photos.
Once that all dried, I adhered the sentiment on the speech bubble with two layers of foam adhesive to pop it up above the rest, then adhered the flowers directly on the cardbase. This layering makes the scene pop just that much more! I finished off by adhering a few of the new jewels- Spring Green on the girl card, and Lemon Drop on the boy card.
I had so much fun building the scene on these! Pairing all the different sets together was so much fun – and as always, I love how well all the Pretty Pink Posh products work together!
Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!
Hi everyone, Rina here. I am a BIG fan of shaker cards, so today I thought I would make a mini shaker birthday card. I love this smaller size; you do not have to use too many sequins to make a huge impact.
I am using the Bunny Friends, Birthday Friends and Fly Away Friends stamp sets for today’s card. I am also using the larger Scallop Square die to create the shaker frame. I am coloring the bunny and balloon images with 4 copic markers: RV0000, RV21, RV25, RV29.
To create the sentiment I cut out a thin piece of black paper and white heat embossed the Happy Birthday sentiment from Fly Away Friends. I wrapped the piece around the shaker frame. Once the sentiment is in place, adhere the bunny and balloon images to the middle of the card. To finish off the card, I accented the stamped images with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen in Clear and adhered the new Watermelon Jewels to the outside of the shaker.
Once the card front is all complete, adhere the shaker to a 4 ¼ x 4 ¼ inch card base!
I hope you try this mini shaker out! Thanks for stopping by!
I wanted to create a background using the flower images, and add some dimension with layers.
Two of the flowers in the set work really well layered, so I began by stamping and gold heat embossing the larger of the flowers, along with the leaves. I set the stamps up in a cluster on one stamp block, making it quicker to stamp the background.
On a seperate piece of card, I stamped and gold heat embossed lots of the smaller cherry blossom flower, then die cut them with the coordinating die. I chose two colours of Zig clean colour real brush markers – 071 flesh colour and 026 light pink – and coloured in all the smaller die cut flowers. I love how these markers blend so easily without water.
Next, I adhered the embossed panel to a card base, and rounded two opposite corners with a 1/2 inch corner chomper.
I added the die cut flowers to the card base with foam tape, over the top of the larger flowers.
I chose a sentiment from the Everyday Sentiment stamp set, stamping on to white card then trimming down into a flag banner. To help it show up on the card, I added a black card banner underneath, slightly larger so it shows at the edges. I finished the card with some sparkling clear sequins.
Hello Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I am sharing video tutorial showing how to create a colorful birthday card for a girl using the Birthday Friend stamps.
Pretty Pink Posh has many other stamp sets from the Friends series and many of them can be used to create a card like this. The characters within these sets maintain their size so you can easily combine friends from different sets to tell a story on your cards.
I picked pinks and yellows for this project as primary colors and made it into a birthday card for a girl, by using greens and blues you can easily change it up and make into a birthday card for a boy.
The colors I picked were somewhat influenced by the set of sequins I was planning to use to embellish my card – the Party Time sequin mix. There are yellow, pink and blue sequins in this set; I wanted to color the elements on this card in colors that would match these sequins. It might seem a bit odd – trying to match the coloring to the color of sequins, but I often use this trick when I want to make sure everything will match. Its very easy to pick the right colors that would coordinate or resemble the colors of my sequins and not vice versa. Plus the sequin mixes already have the colors that work quite well together, so why not use that to our advantage?
I started working on my card by stamping nearly all of the images from this stamp set in Copic Marker friendly ink onto white cardstock panel. The only image I didn’t stamp was the little candle. I colored my images using Copic markers. I used:
RV14, RV13, RV11 to color pink
Y19, Y15, Y11 to color yellow
B02, B00, B000 to color blue
E00, E000, E11, E13, E33 to color skin and hair
I cut my images out using the coordinating dies and also die-cut identical shapes out of sticky fun foam – I often prefer to use a solid fun foam shape to foam adhesive squares. This adds a lot of stability to my foam mounted elements and prevents sagging.
Next, I white heat embossed the birthday sentiment onto a gray cardstock panel, foam mounted it in the center of a 4 ¼ x 5 ½” white panel and added my colored elements around it. In a way it looks like there’s a Birthday party going on on this card and the friends are dancing and having lots of fun!
Finally, I embellished my card using the sequins I used for my color combo inspiration – I added a lot of sequins in various sizes filling in the gaps in between the images. I also coated some elements using a shimmer pen.
I hope you enjoyed today’s post and video. Happy cardmaking!
Hi Everyone! It’s Melody here today. I have a project to share created with the Cherry Blossoms Stamp Set and the Cherry Blossoms Coordinating Dies. I was so excited when Pretty Pink Posh added flowers to their product line and the new Cherry Blossoms are definitely a favorite.
Let’s start out by talking about the card front. I used the new Stacked Edges 2 Die. There are three dies in the die set and I am using the v shaped die for inspiration for the layout. I cut the die twice, once from white cardstock and again from black cardstock. I layered the die cuts in the middle of card, adding white cardstock at the top and a patterned paper on the bottom.
At the top of the card I stamped a sentiment from the Encouraging Greetings Stamp Set in black ink. Next I stamped the flowers and leaves on watercolor paper in white pigment ink and embossed with white embossing powder. The flowers and leaves are colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brushes.
When the flowers were dry, I die cut with the Cherry Blossoms Coordinating Dies. Once I was happy with the placement of the flowers and leaves I added them to the card front with glue and foam tape. In the center of each flower I added a Watermelon Jewels.
I love how this card came together and I hope you do too. Thanks for joining me today!
Today’s card video tutorial shows off how to colour your stamps without fancy crayons or markers! It’s Justine again, taking over the Pretty Pink Posh blog! I’m excited to be here with you again bringing you another video tutorial! Today I am using some of the fun new release stamps Cherry Blossoms and Encouraging Greetings! I am generally quite intimidated by colouring, so I always love to figure out ways to colour without needing a lot of colouring skills!
I hope you enjoyed the video tutorial and it helped explain how to make this fun card. If you enjoyed today’s video, feel free to check out my YouTube Channel. See you in April!
Good morning! Heather here this morning to share another Something Old, Something New card with you – the idea is to mix together both older and newer Pretty Pink Posh products – and to show you how AMAZINGLY well all of Pretty Pink Posh’s products work together! Today’s card is definitely not one to tackle unless you have a bit of spare time – but the results are SOOO worth the effort! Check out that SPARKLE!
So I started off by stamping the bottom border from Sparkle Dot Patterns 2 Stamp set on a panel of white cardstock repeatedly with soft gray ink. I did this so that once I finished the card, if I used a jewel too small to cover the dot, or misplaced it slightly, you wouldn’t see a black circle peeking out. It was also helpful for the Clear Droplets I added, since you can’t see it under there either.
Then was the slowest part! I add alternating rows of Aquamarine, Lemon Drop, and Watermelon Jewels. I filled in the centers of the pattern with 4mm Clear Droplets. I used alternating sizes of the jewels – mostly so I didn’t have to sort through for one size, or run out! My jewel picker was very helpful with placement. There are lots of options for adhesive – for this I used tiny dots of Glossy Accents. It was nice and sturdy to hold everything in place, and I like that since it dries glossy, it just adds to the look of the Clear Droplets.
Next up, I die cut a large Scallop Frame from aqua cardstock, then stamped and heat embossed my image fromEaster Blessings in the negative die cit so as not to waste anything!
I colored the image with Chameleon Colored Pencils, then die cut with the coordinating Easter Blessings Dies. I also die cut the Easter from Happy Easter Script Die twice – once from pale yellow, and once from white to adhere together with a glue pen for a bit of a more sturdy and dimensional sentiment.
These jewels are SOOO beautiful! They are super sparkly and fun in real life – kind of hard to fully capture in a photo.
I definitely think this is the longest I’ve spent on one single card in a while! I almost feel like I should frame it and use it as a decoration – haha!
Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!
Hi friends, Eloise here today to share a Easter themed card to share with you all. I’ll be using the brand new Bunny Friends set and Happy Easter Shaker Die to help create my window card today.
To begin my card today I first stamped my images out from the Bunny Friends stamp set onto some Neenah Solar White cardstock using black ink. I then used my Copic Markers to colour in my images using a spring colour palette. Once I finished colouring in my images, I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I then set them off to side and worked on my main focal point. I first used the Stitched Notes Dies and cut out the large stitched rectangle from some Watercolour Cardstock and then used the Happy Easter Shaker die and cut the die out of the center of the cardstock. Once I had it cut out of my front panel, I laid the rectangle with the die cut egg over the top of a folded card base, adhered it down into the centre where I eventually want to adhere it and then laid over the egg die cut again, fit it into place where it fits perfectly, opened the card base up and ran it through my big shot machine again. Now I have all my layers to create my window card.
Next up, I cut a piece of acetate and adhered it down on top of my card base. Once I adhered this down, I realised I needed to ink blend on my card base, so I left the acetate on and also adhered my shaker die on top with some washi tape, then just ink blended some Twisted Citron Distress Ink over the top fading up to white like normal. Once that was ink blended on, I worked on my positive Happy Easter Shaker piece. I used an exacto knife and cut out the ‘Happy Easter’ wording and also the flowers and leaves at the bottom. This then leaves me the perfect frame. I then added adhesive onto the back and adhered it into place directly on my card base. I added foam tape onto the back of my rectangle piece, lined it up with the egg shape on the card base and adhered it down.
Now that my card base was ready on the outside, it was time to do the inside. I took some post it tape, cut it down to a hill shape and adhered the negative piece onto the inside of my card base. I then ink blended some Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress ink blending down into white, reversed the masks and did the same thing with the sky, only using Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean and blending, fading up to white. Now my background for my scene was ready, I could begin adhering. I added pop dots onto the back of my bunnies and adhered them down into place, making sure you could see all three from the front of the card. One they were adhered down I also adhered my flowers next to them using flat adhesive.
To finish up my card, I added some extra flowers from Bunny Friends onto the flowers on the die cut shaker piece and I coloured those in with coordinating colours I used earlier, then adhered them on with foam squares. Then, I also used the same greens as I did for all the leaves before and coloured in the remaining leaves. This would definitely be easier to do before I adhered it to the acetate, but for me it was an afterthought. Lastly, I replaced my front rectangle panel with another piece that I used some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink on, to replicate the card base I coloured as well. I decided this card didn’t need a sentiment also, so I left it sentiment-less and I feel like it worked perfectly with the design of card. But again, you could add one if you feel like you wanted too.
Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed and got inspired to create a window card. I love these designs so much especially for a card like this where you wouldn’t always need to write a long message. It works so nicely! Anyway, thank you again and I’ll catch you all next time!
Hello Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I am sharing video tutorial showing how to make fun and colorful Spring cards featuring Bunny Friends stamp set.
I started working on all of my cards by stamping a number of bunnies on to Neenah Solar White 110lb cardstock in alcohol friendly ink. I stamped several panels with a bunch of bunnies and later also stamped additional images from this set – beautiful flowers. I didn’t know how many images I would need for my projects, but I wanted to make sure to have plenty on hand when I was creating. I ended up having too many, so I saved them for future projects.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.
One of the elements I loved the most in the Bunny Friends set is the cracked easter egg. I played a bit and cut it out – I wanted to customize my bunnies and have other bunnies sitting in the egg shell, not just the one bunny.
The most awesome part about these eggshells – is when put together they form a one full egg! Isn’t that cool? And seeing how you can kind of extract just the egg you can have any kind of critter sitting in there as long as the size of the critter works with the size of the egg. Pretty Pink Posh has a ton of cute little critters that would fit in there. I always love to stretch my stamps and with this particular Bunny Friends stamp set it was one of the ways to do it.
I did some simple and basic Copic coloring to color my images. At first I used W5, W3 and W1 markers to color bunnies, but later I completely skipped using the W5 and for some bunnies even the W3 markers and kept my bunnies almost white. There are many different ways these bunnies can be colored, be sure to check Pretty Pink Posh blog for more inspiration.
Card Idea #1
For my card idea #1 I colored and cut out a bunch of critters, I think I have every bunny from the stamp set cut out here, and some bunnies I cut out twice. I used my stamp positioner tool and stamped the Happy Spring sentiment in the center of my panel. Next I trimmed my panel to be 4 x 5 1/4″ as I wanted to foam mount it onto an A2 size card base and I foam mounted my bunnies around the sentiment.
You’ll notice that I added white polka dots to the purple egg bunny – I just used my white gelly roll pen and added little details to spice this image up. You can customise these egg shells however you like really, or they can be left as is – it’s all up to you.
Once I had all of my bunnies in place I used the new Watermelon Jewels and I embellished my card. I really loved these little jewels – they come is several sizes and the smallest is smaller than the 3mm sequin and sometimes I do want to add that one tiny embellishment to my card so these worked really well for me and I know I’ll be reaching for them often.
Card Idea #2
My card #2 features negative die cutting. I used a 4 x 5 1/2″ white cardstock panel and die-cut 3 bunny shapes in the panel – I taped my dies in place and run this panel through my die cutting machine. I set the die cut shapes aside and kept just the panel with the negative openings.
At the same time I also die-cut same stamped bunnies out to place inside the openings. I used my Copics once again and did some quick coloring in the same way I mentioned before.
I also die-cut more egg shells to place each of those bunnies in the shell – I had one yellow, pink, and blue. I also wanted to add some flowers to this card, I stamped a bunch of images from this same Bunny Friends stamp set, I did the same thing – I cut them out and colored with Copic markers using the same colors as before to make sure my colors would go well together.
I also stamped a sentiment directly onto my panel and I went with You Make Me Smile from the new Encouraging Greetings stamp set. I also decided to stamp grass next to each bunny – I used a little grass image from the Camping Friends stamp set. This is what I love Pretty Pink Posh stamps for – they all go so well together and images can be used to tell an endless story. With each new set you get more and more options to create scenes and tell different stories on your cards.
Once my stamping was done I foam mounted my panel onto an A2 card base. You want to be sure to complete all of your stamping prior to foam mounting the panel as it will be very hard to add any additional stamping to this panel later if you use foam squares.
I used regular adhesive to adhere the bunnies, I inlaid them, but because the main panel is popped up, the bunnies are recessed on this card. And once that was done I foam mounted the egg shells over the bunnies and over the panel so I used double layer of foam adhesive there. I also added my little colored and die cut flowers next to each bunny and I think that the flowers really helped this card come to life. This card ended up being my favorite from all of the cards I’m sharing in this video. Once again I used new jewels to embellish it and add a bit of sparkle.
Card Idea #3
My next card is very simple and it is a fun Friendship card. I stamped Friends Make Everything Better sentiment in black into a white cardstock panel cut to 3 1/2 x 4 3/4″ .
Next I added one of bunnies – I picked one that isn’t holding anything and I added some flowers and die cut greenery to him. I used a solid layer of fun foam and double sided tape to foam mount the panel onto an A2 card base, I foam mounted my bunny and flowers and decided I wanted to stamp the grass on this card as well to help ground my little scene.
Because I had a solid layer of fun foam and not individual foam squares attaching my panel onto the card I was safe to do my stamping here. So I stamped the grass and used the Pink Blush Jewels to embellish this card.
Card Idea #4
Moving on to card #4 – I wasn’t planning on making this many cards at once, but I had a bunch of cute bunnies on my desk, so I couldn’t resist. I white heat embossed Sending You Smiles Across the Miles in white embossing powder and foam mounted two of the bunnies onto the card. I used one with the carrot and added an egg shell to the other bunny.
To hide the bunny’s ear under the shell I actually cut it partially off as I wanted to have the shell a bit closer to his head. This time I used glue to adhere the shell and skipped adding another layer of foam adhesive. Of course I used jewels to embellish this card.
Card Idea #5
For my last project for today I did some more negative die cutting, but this time I die cut identical shape in a layer of fun foam to foam mount my panel in place. I heat embossed a sentiment onto the panel and it warped slightly from the heat, so the solid fun foam layer served a double purple here – it popped the panel up and it helped to keep it flat and eliminated the warping.
I adhered a cute bunny with a carrot inside the opening – I think this little bunny is my favorite from this set and I also added an egg shell along with two die cut grass pieces. I didn’t stamp the grass onto the panel this time, but added it as a die-cut element as the panel was pink and I wouldn’t have been able to color it the light green with Copic Markers that I did on white cardstock.
I also used a white gel pen and added large white polka dots onto the egg shell to make it eggstaspecial.
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I wanted to create a background using the flower images, and add some dimension with layers.
Next, I adhered the embossed panel to a card base, and rounded two opposite corners with a 1/2 inch corner chomper.
At the top of the card I stamped a sentiment from the 
You’ll notice that I added white polka dots to the purple egg bunny – I just used my white gelly roll pen and added little details to spice this image up. You can customise these egg shells however you like really, or they can be left as is – it’s all up to you.
Once I had all of my bunnies in place I used the new 
At the same time I also die-cut same stamped bunnies out to place inside the openings. I used my Copics once again and did some quick coloring in the same way I mentioned before.
I also die-cut more egg shells to place each of those bunnies in the shell – I had one yellow, pink, and blue. I also wanted to add some flowers to this card, I stamped a bunch of images from this same Bunny Friends stamp set, I did the same thing – I cut them out and colored with Copic markers using the same colors as before to make sure my colors would go well together.
