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I Love You Rain or Shine

Good morning! Heather here this morning, and I’m excited to be starting off the new year with a new tutorial theme – Something Old, Something New! I thought it would be fun to mix together both some brand new products, and some older ones – to show how AMAZINGLY well Pretty Pink Posh products work together! Today I’ve paired up the darling new Birthday Friends stamp set and coordinating dies, with Rainy Days, Rainy Days Additions, and Rainy Days Dies– as well as some of the classic Scallop Frames!

While these cute little friends are designed perfectly to hold the balloon image in the Birthday Friends stamp set, I thought it would be perfect for them to hold an umbrella as well!

For a change, I started off by stamping them on Neenah Desert Storm cardstock (my favorite kraft paper) – then colored them in with my Chameleon Color Tones Double Ended Colored pencils which make for easy blending of the colors. I also used the coordinating Birthday Friends dies to cut them out.

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Next up, I did the same with the top of the umbrella from Rainy Days Stamp set, and used the coordinating Rainy Days Dies to cut the handle of the umbrella from a dark brown cardstock. I also adhered the handle onto the post of the umbrella.

Next, I heat embossed part of my sentiment from Rainy Days Additions on a thin strip of the same dark brown cardstock, and also die cut the large Scallop Oval in the same color.

Then it was just a matter of putting all the elements together! I used some creme cardstock to adhere the frame, stamp the rest of my sentiment from Rainy Days Additions in a dark brown ink, and add the fun friends at the bottom. The only thing I adhered with foam adhesive was the top of the umrella to give it the feeling of coming out over the top of them. I tucked the handle between there hands so it looked like they were sharing holding it!

It felt like it STILL needed a touch more, so I added some layers of torn vellum on the bottom so it looked like they were standing in a huge puddle (I live in the Pacific Northwest – so this is VERY realistic! Haha!) – and then added a Scallop Frame cut in white around the edges before mounting on a card base made with the same dark brown cardstock.

A few 4mm and 6mm Clear Droplets are the perfect finishing touch – feels just like huge raindrops falling from the sky!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!

Tutorial: Creating Two Valentine Cards

Hi friends, Eloise here and today I’ll be using the new Cupid Friends stamp set to create two different sequin shaker cards. I’ll also be using the Stitched Notes Dies along with the Love Shaker Die and a few sequin mixes to create my cards today.

For my first card, I’ll be creating a full card shaker, with some images floating inside. So, to begin, I stamped out the two cupids from Cupid Friends and coloured them in with Copic Markers. Once I finished colouring them in, I went ahead and cut them out using the coordinating dies. I set those off to the side so I could work on my shaker pocket. I took a white piece of cardstock, cut it down to 4” x 5 ½”, then used the large rectangle die from Stitched Notes Dies and cut that out of the centre. This created a frame for my full card shaker. I then added adhesive on the back of the frame and adhered a piece of acetate to the back.

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Copic colours used: R20, R21, R22 / R14, R24, R29 / W00, W1 / B0000, B000 / 0 / Y21, YR21, YR24 / E000, E00, E21)

Next, I took a piece of watercolour paper, cut it down to slightly smaller than 4” x 5 ½” and used the ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’ sentiment from Cupid Friends and white heat embossed it into the centre of my card stock piece. I then used some Festive Berries, Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar Distress Inks to create a blended gradient effect. Then splattered some water over top to create a water splotch effect. I dried it off with a heat tool and could start to assemble my shaker card.

I went ahead and added some white thread onto the backs of my angels, then took the ends of the thread and adhered them directly to the ink blended panel using some scor-tape. Then, I added in some Sweetheart and Spring Blooms Sequin Mixes in the middle of the panel. Lastly, I added two layers of foam tape behind my white frame from earlier and adhered that over my card base directly. That finished up the first card, let’s move onto the second card.

For the second card, I wanted to create a see-through shaker design. To start up, I coloured the same two angels the same way I did for my first card and then cut them out using the dies. Next, I cut a card base to 4 ½” x 9”, scored at 4 ½” to create a square card. Then, cut down an additional white panel to 4” x 4” to create my shaker in. I then took the Love Shaker die and cut it out of the centre of my panel. Once that was cut through, I lined up the cut panel over top of my card base, then pressed in the Love Shaker die so I could cut it from the right place in my card base also. Once they were both cut, I set them off to the side to create a stencil. I cut the same die from some thin acetate, so I could ink blend through it.

To line up my stencil on the inside, I first closed my card, placed the ‘Love’ positive piece inside the negative piece, held down the inside of the love piece with my fingers, then opened the card base, adhered the stencil over top making sure all the grooves lined up with each other. Then, adhered down all three sides and made sure the front of the card lined up with the inside, it did so I began ink blending. I used Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar Distress Ink to ink blend on the inside of my card. Once I ink blended that I went ahead and ink blended my front panel with the same two colours. I then added adhesive onto the back of my front panel and adhered down a piece of acetate over top, then repeated the same steps for my card base. I then added adhesive onto the back of my love frame piece and adhered it on top of the acetate and also did the same thing for the inside of my card, except I added adhesive on the front of the piece and not the back so everything lined up.

Lastly, I added some Rose Gold Heart Confetti and also some Iridescent Heart Confetti to the inside of my shaker, added a layer of foam tape and adhered my panel over top. I also added my Cupid images with more foam tape and scattered around some Clear Droplets too. To finish up my card completely, I cut apart the ‘All My Love’ sentiment from Love Sentiments and white heat embossed the ‘All My’ sentiment onto some black cardstock. I cut that down into a strip and adhered that onto my card also and that finished up my second card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I’ll catch you next time.

Eloise

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Valentine Theme Week- Day 5

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing my take on these cute cherubs from the Cupid Friends stamp set, Cupid Friends Coordinating Dies, and Love Shaker Die.

To begin, I die-cut the “love” from the Love Shaker Die keeping only the love die after fussy cutting. For this card I wanted to create a bold background.

Next, to create my background I used the Distress Ink from Tim Holtz in Stormy Sky and Black Soot to create a dramatic effect.

Before adhering the love die I first splatter the background with white watercolor paint for added interest. Next, I stamped the cherub on a white cardstock and colored them with Copic Markers. The sentiment “happy valentine’s day” is also part for the Cupid Friends stamp set as well as the tiny bitty hearts. After coloring I die-cut the cherubs with its coordinating die set and the sentiment then I fussy cut.

I adhered every die-cut with foam tape for dimension and added Sparkling Clear sequins for interest.

I hope you enjoyed my take on these products. Join us tomorrow for another day of Valentine inspiration.

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Valentine Theme Week- Day 4

Hello, there! It’s Marge here with you today. I’ve already shared a few Valentine cards so far, but today I’m going to share somewhat different technique from my usual styles. But don’t worry, it’s easy, clean and simple to make, as always.

To make Valentine themed cards, I wanted to make bold and bright red colors, so I decided to use alcohol inks this time. Do you feel comfortable using alcohol inks? Unfortunately, I’m don’t. As a mother of two young children, keeping and using flammable materials in the house is not easy at all. So I try to use alcohol inks as simply as I can! If you are feeling the same way, I hope today’s post will help you a little as I’m a beginner, too.

Here are what I used for making alcohol inks background. You only need some colors that you want and Yupo paper. I used Watermelon as a main red color, and some other colors: Mountain Rose(coral), Sunset Orange(orange), Purple Twilight (violet), Sunshine Yellow (yellow), and Hazelnut (brown).

To begin, I opened the ink cap, and just dropped several drops here and there on Yupo. I repeated the process using the same or different colors. Then I wait while the drops spread and fuse each other and finally covered the entire panel. (See the photos in clock-wise direction)

If you want to make some patterns, brushing or sponging using pure alcohol or blending solution will help. I just wanted to let you know dropping inks only will work or you may tilt the panel before inks are dryup, so the fluid can flow on one side and make some patterns. Again, my point is that you don’t have to buy all those supplies they say to enjoy alcohol inks.

Here are three panels I made in just 3 minutes. I used several inks listed above for the two panels, then I used only Watermelon for the last.

After the panels are dried up, I trimmed them into 4×5.25 inches size. Once you have done with your own alcohol background, the next steps are pretty easier. Here I’m showing you 3 cards made from a single alcohol panel.

For the first one, I die cut the panel using Love Shaker Die, then used the remaining panel as a front cover.

I die cut one more Love Shaker Die from white glitter paper to use as a window frame.

The shaker was filled with the pretty Iridescent Heart Confetti Mix.

For the second one, I used the heart diecut piece as a window frame for shaker, which was filled with Iridescent Heart Confetti Mix and Rose Gold Heart Confetti Mix.

The shakers background is also made of white glitter paper which I used in the first card. Then I put colored images I made using Cupid Friends Stamp Set with Coordinating Dies, stamped a sentiment from Love Sentiments Stamp Set. Because I used other colors of alcohol inks like brown or purple, you can see some color gradation on the die cut, and I was very satisfied with this random effect.

In the third one, I used negative cut pieces from the Love Shaker Die to make a clean and simple card.

To give them more dimension, I used two layers of pieces. I would also recommend to use another diecut frame as a guidance in order to arrange negative pieces in right position.

Sentiment is from Cupid Friends Stamp Set, and I added Sparkling Clear Snowflake Sequins.

I’ve shown how to make a couple of simple designed cards from just one alcohol ink panel! So excited, isn’t it? I’m showing you one more card for your interest.

Here, I used another panel made of only Watermelon ink as the background. To make a heart shaped frame, I cut out the “Love” script from the diecut. The gold glitter “Love” script was made using the same way. The front panel is from Knit Picky paper pack. Then I finished off the card by putting Metallic Gold Confetti Mix.

Thank you so much for reading this post. I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope for some of those who are unfamiliar with alcohol inks like I am, this post will help you and that you give it a try. Have a wonderful day!

Marge

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Valentine Theme Week- Day 3

Hi there Pretty Pink Posh fans! Crystal here with the continuation of the Valentine’s Day week here on the PPP Blog. I wanted to create something that would utilize the beautiful “love” word from the Love Shaker die.

Let’s start by gathering our materials, for this card I used the following Pretty Pink Posh products :

Cupid Friends

Love Shaker Die

Love Sentiments

Sparkling Clear Sequins

With our Love shaker, I have die cut 4 “love” words from Melon Mambo cardstock and have trimmed off the heart. To save paper, I cut strips just wide enough to fit the “love”.

Once those were trimmed out, I glued the “love” on top of each other to create a thick die cut.

From the Love Sentiment stamp set, I used the “All My Love”. I masked the “love” from the set with washi tape, inked the stamp, then removed the washi tape. I stamped the sentiment on the card base above of where I plan to place the die cut “love”.

Now it’s time to work on the card panel. First I wanted to stamp the darker of my ink colors, so using the solid hearts from Cupid Friends with Melon Mambo, which will coordinate with the “love” die cut.

For the larger hearts from the Love Sentiments set, I have stamped those in the following ink colors. SU Powder Pink, SU Melon Mambo, Pink Shimmer Delicata, Altenew Blush and Altenew Soft Lilac.

I felt this card needed some touches of gold, so I heat embossed the heart outlines from Cupid Friends in gold embossing powder. Since the gun was hot and the powder was out, I decided to create a dipping effect on the love die cut.

This was super simple, as I tapped the half of the die cut in embossing ink, covered with powder and heat set. To finish the card, I added a strip of gold washi and added a few Sparkling Clear Sequins.

I hope you like the simplicity of this card! I certainly did! The colors could easily be changed and the sentiments from Love Sentiments could also be easily interchanged.

Have a fabulous day! Join us tomorrow for another day of Valentine inspiration!

Crystal

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Valentine Theme Week- Day 2

Hello, Liz here for day 2 of Valentine Theme Week.

I just adore this Woodland Critters stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh that I decided to create this sending you love card. I also used the coordinating die to help me cut out all of the images after I colored them in.

For this card, I started off by creating the shaker to place in the center using the Stitched Duo 3. For the sentiment on top, I embossed the “SENDING YOU” using the Rainy Days Additions stamp set using white embossing powder and cut the word “LOVE” using the Love Shaker die.

TIP: To cut just the word out, I cut rectangles 2 3/4″ x 1 5/8″ and placed over just the word before die cutting.

To have the word pop up, I cut the word out three times and glued them together. To fill in this shaker, I used a combination of sequins from the Sweetheart Mix and a splash of the Marshmallow Confetti Mix. Love how they look together.

Last but not least, added some foam mount tape underneath the images before adding them to the shaker card.

Be sure to join us tomorrow for another fun day of Valentine inspiration!

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Valentine Theme Week- Day 1

Hello everyone, Gemma here. It’s great to be on the Pretty Pink Posh blog today to share a card with you all.

I’ve always loved the look of shape dies with words within, so was thrilled to see the new Love Shaker die is the latest release. It made me think of the Love Heart sweets that we have in the UK (my home country), so I thought it would be fun to create a card version. It was a quick and simple card to make.

First, I ran a standard size card base through my die cutting machine with a circle die. By placing the circle die just off the top of the folded edge, it retains that edge and makes a circle card base. I then die cut a second circle, the same size, from a separate piece of white card and adhered it to the card base. This gives the card an uninterrupted circle shape at the front.

Next, I die cut two Love Shaker hearts from pink cardstock, and layered them together on the card base for some dimension. I couldn’t resist adding some iridescent heart confetti to finish this card. I think circle cards are such fun! They stand up very well and, if you make it from a standard size card base, it will fit in a standard envelope too.

Thanks for joining me. Have a fabulous day.

Gemma

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Hummingbird Many Thanks

Hello, Gemma here and I have a card to share today featuring the beautiful Hummingbird Thanks and Pretty Petunias – such a perfect combination! The images from these sets are fun to colour and offer so many possibilities. I’ve really been inspired by all the fabulous colour combos I’ve been seeing!

I stamped all the images first, then coloured them with copic markers. I chose some blue violets for the petunias, to help bring in some more of the purple from the hummingbirds. I brushed some Wink of Stella clear glitter on to the hummingbirds and added some black glaze pen dots to the eyes. Some glitter gel pen dots on the petunias are fun for extra sparkle.

I cut out all the images using the coordinating dies, then put them aside to work on the background. On a white card base, I blended on some salty ocean distress oxide ink, fading out the colour towards the top. I then flicked it with water for some droplet details.

Next, I cut two smaller white card panels for the front of the card. When placed at the top and bottom of the card base, this leaves a gap in between to reveal the lovely panel of colour. I stamped a sentiment, from the Hummingbird Thanks stamp set, on the bottom panel, then I added them both to the card base with foam tape.

I arranged the flowers and leaves on top of the blue background, tucking them under the bottom panel and securing with tape. For the flower on the right, I used a little foam tape towards the top so it could overlap and adhere to the top panel too.

I then added the hummingbirds, flying down from the top of the card towards the flowers. I love the sense of movement they have! I finished my card with a few of my favourite Sparkling Clear Sequins.

I hope you were able to get these wonderful stamps- they were just restocked but they are going quickly!

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Creating 3 Wild Rose Thank You Cards

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I have three thank You cards to share with you all using the same stamp set for all, along with the same sentiment die but adding a few other dies in to change up the design each time. Thank you cards are so important after the holidays and honestly, all year round so I love to have a lot of hand as I’m always in need of them.

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To begin my first card I’m using the Wild Rose stamp set and gold heat embossing a ton of the images onto some watercolour cardstock. I then used some Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers to colour in my flowers. I used No. 25 Pink, No. 27 Dark Pink, No. 82 Purple, No. 48 Emerald Green and No. 44 Deep Green for them all. Once they were coloured, I heat set them with a heat tool, cut them out using the coordinating dies and set them off to the side. I then pulled another piece of more watercolour paper and used the Stitched Notes die set, I used the large rectangle die and cut it out from the cardstock.

For my sentiment, I used the Thank You Script die and positioned it into the centre of my die cut panel. I then used a foam mat, placed it underneath the cardstock, and ran it through my Big Shot Machine like I would an embossing folder. This creates an impression of the die cut, rather than cutting through. Now that my panel has been embossed with the die cut sentiment, I used the Kuretake Gansai Starry Colours Watercolour Set and painted in the Thank You sentiment with a gold watercolour. I dried that with a heat tool and assembled my card. I adhered my flowers on with foam tape and adhered my leaves with flat adhesive. I then popped up the entire panel onto fun foam and then onto a card base that I covered with blue striped patterned paper and that finished up my first card.

For my second card, I started out with the rest of the colouring for my next two cards. I stamped down a ton of images onto some more watercolour cardstock using black ink this time and clear heat embossing over the top and used the same Zig Clean Colour Markers for my images. For my second card I used No. 33 Persian Green, No. 31 Cobalt Blue, No. 42 Turquoise Green and No. 41 Light Green. Once all my images were coloured, I die cut them out with the coordinating dies and moved on to my shaker. I’m using the Window Frames Dies, and I cut out the largest one out of some white cardstock. I set the negative piece aside and coloured the positive piece using Peacock Feathers and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, fading it into white.

Next, I added a piece of acetate onto the back of my negative piece using some scor tape and then added foam tape all around the edges to create a seemless well for my sequins to sit in. Next, I grabbed a white card base, adhered down my positive window frame piece, the added some Mermaid Mix Sequins onto the arched piece. I then removed the foam tape backers and adhered my panel over top. I then adhered my flowers at the bottom of my arched piece with foam tape and then adhered my leaves with flat adhesive. For my sentiment, I used the same thank you die, I adhered some stick it onto the back of some white cardstock, then cut it out and adhered it on top of my sequin shaker window. That finished up my second card, now let’s move onto the last card.

For my third card, I again started off with my coloured images. For this colour combo, I used No. 50 Yellow, No. 25 Pink, No. 202 Peach Pink and No. 41 Light Green. I set off my flowers and leaves to the side and moved onto die cutting I used the Scallop Ovals Dies and cut the largest one out of white cardstock. I set it off to the side, then used Tumbled Glass and Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to ink blend lightly into the centre of another piece of watercolour cardstock. I then sprinkled on some water, picked it up with a paper towel and dried it off with a heat tool. Next, I die cut the Thank You die cut from some more white cardstock and adhered it to the centre of my panel.

Next, I added foam tape onto the back of my scalloped oval and adhered that around my sentiment, then I adhered my flowers surrounding my oval/sentiment with foam tape and adhered my entire panel onto a piece of blue water-coloured paper.

To completely finish off my cards, I adhered some Metallic Gold Confetti Mix onto my first card with the gold accents and then some 4mm Tutti Fruitti Mix and 6mm Mix around my card also using some Multi Medium Matte adhesive.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed my thank you cards for today.

Eloise

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New Feature: Something Old, Something New!

Good morning! Heather here this morning, and I’m excited to be starting off the new year with a new tutorial theme – Something Old, Something New! I thought it would be fun to mix together both some brand new products, and some older ones – to show how AMAZINGLY well Pretty Pink Posh products work together! Today, I’ve used the brand new Love Shaker Die and Love Sentiments Stamp Set, with with the adorable Happy Snowman and Happy Owl stamps and dies! I also used the brand new Red Mini Heart Confetti.

I had the idea of making a snowman couple for a Valentine’s Card – it wasn’t until I got to the end of the card that I thought of adding the hat and bow from Happy Owl stamp set – that’s why they aren’t included in the tutorial photos!

First up, I stamped the snowpeople and their scarfs, using red ink to fill in the scarf with the polka dot pattern. I did a bit of soft coloring with Copics as well.

Next up, I heat embossed my sentiment in white on a strip of black cardstock, and then stamped one of the hearts from Love Sentiments Stamp Set, using the solid image to stamp in the same red as the scarfs for continuity. Since this stamp set doesn’t have dies, I just fussy cut out that little heart.

Next, I built the shaker element. I die cut the Love Shaker Die from turquoise pattern paper, then trimmed a piece of acetate just smaller than the heart. I backed it with acetate, and then used some thin foam strips (that were just added to the PPP Shop!) around the edges.

I filled it with the new Red Mini Heart Confetti, and added another piece of acetate to the back to make a complete shaker element.

Then it was simply a matter of assembling the card! I adhered the shaker element to the top, and the black sentiment strip with foam adhesive at the bottom, then added the snowpeople in between.

At this point, I realized that hat and bow from Happy Owl would be a perfect fit and addition, so I added those, then added the heart in the center of them, with some twine to make it look like they were holding a banner with a heart between them!