Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a 3 Cards 1 stamp set video for you all using the Birthday Friends stamp set. Everyone always needs birthday cards and what’s better than being able to make three cards super quick and easily with the same stamp set? I’ll also be using the Love Shaker die and the Sparkling Clear Sequin Mix to finish off my cards.

Watch the video above  I  Watch the video in HD on YouTubeTo start off all my cards today I stamped, coloured all my images with Copic Markers and die cut them out using all the coordinating dies. I used a colour scheme from Pinterest as colour inspiration to colour in all my images. Then coloured my balloons rainbow for a separate card. Now that all my images are ready, I can move on to creating my cards.

To begin my first card, I pulled a piece of watercolour cardstock out and ink blended some Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry onto the bottom of the panel. Then I flicked some water over top to create the splatter look. I then dried it off with my heat tool and set it off to the side. Next, I took the Love Shaker dies and cut three out of some white cardstock. Then, I used an exacto knife and cut away the ‘Love’ word from the centre, so I’m left with three heart frames.

Next, I added a thin strip of foam adhesive around each of the frames and then adhered them around my card. I cut off the excess around the outside with scissors. Then, I added foam tape onto the backs of all my images and adhered them down inside of the heart frames. Lastly, I white heat embossed the ‘Birthday Wishes’ sentiment on a strip of black cardstock, cut the end at a diagonal and tied a small bow on the other side of the sentiment. I then added foam tape on the back and adhered it on the top right-hand side of my card. That finished the first card, now let’s move onto the second.

For my next card, I pulled all my rainbow balloons out and set them off to the side. I then made a make shift cloud mask/stencil that I just created with scissors out of some post it tape. I just drew a cloud border on the tape and cut around it with scissors. I then cut down a top folding card base, adhered it down onto my work surface and ink blended over the stencil with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, then I moved up the mask, ink blended over it again and continued up until I ink blended over the entire panel.

Copic Markers Used: BG11, BG23, BG49 / BV02, BV04, BV08 / R20, R21, R22, R24 / RV13, RV25, RV09 / Hair – Y21, YR21, YR23 / Y32, Y38, YR18 / Skin – E000, E00, E21 / Cake – E51, E53, E55 / Hair – E31, E35, E37 / W00, W1, W3 / Y11, Y13, Y15 / YG21, YG23, YG17 / B21, B24, B26 / Balloon – R14, R24, R29 / 0

Once I ink blended over my card base, I went ahead and added foam squares all along the back of my images and adhered them down into place onto my card base. Lastly, I stamped down the ‘Birthday Wishes’ sentiment in the bottom left hand corner with black ink and that finished up my second card.

For my final card, I started off with another top folding card base, and masked off the edges with some ¾” painters tape to create a rectangle in the middle. I then went ahead, and ink blended some Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink over my entire panel. Once I ink blended over the entire panel, I removed the painters tape and used a white gel pen to do some dots on the background, just to give it a little extra.

I then added foam tape onto the back of my images and adhered them down at the bottom of the ink blended area. Then, I stamped the ‘Birthday Wishes’ stamp set in black ink at the top of my panel and that finished up my third card.

To completely finish all my cards off, I scattered some Sparkling Clear Sequins around my cards and adhered them down.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed and were inspired!

Eloise

Hello Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I am sharing a video tutorial showing how to use the Sparkle Dot Patterns 1 stamp set (the 2nd set is releasing in March!).

This is a very clever stamp set that has been designed to help you align and evenly space any tiny embellishments on your cards. Each little circle dot represents a space for a sequin, or confetti piece, or little enamel dot, or jewel (we have these coming in our next release!). If you’ve ever tried to arrange tiny embellishment to form some sort of a pattern you know that it never works and the object, or shape, or pattern ends up looking wonky.

So you are probably wondering how does this stamp set work? Let me show you. I used a panel of white woodgrain cardstock for my cards today (and also a plain white panel), I love to use this paper for clean and simple projects that feature a lot of white space. Normally, I never stamp on this paper, because of it’s texture, as you’ll never be able to get a good enough impression, but since I didn’t really need a good impression, these stamps need to be used as a guide only I was safe using this paper and stamping on it.

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

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It’s best to use a light color of ink for your stamping so that the stamping will remain invisible under your embellishments. I used a very light gray ink. If you stamp onto colored cardstock you can use a watermark ink for a barely visible impression. It’s best not to use black as it might be visible even under the darkest color sequins and it will surely show through white.

Another must have tool for this technique is a pick up tool. I used a Crystal Katana tool– I always use it when I work with tiny embellishments, it really is a must have as it’s not that easy to pick up little piece with your fingers and position them properly on the project. There are other tools similar to this one, so you don’t have to use this exact tool, but just any tool that will help you pick up the pieces and place them exactly where you need them.

After adhering my confetti in place I set my panel aside to dry for a few minutes and worked on a sentiment as well as a floral cluster. I stamped flowers and leaves using images from the Autumn Blooms and Bold Blooms stamp sets and grouped them together into a tiny floral arrangement.

I also white heat embossed sentiments onto black cardstock using messages from the Birdie Friends and Winter Woodland stamp set and foam mounted onto the card.

I had tons of fun making these Clean & Simple projects and I love how easy it was to create fun shapes using my sequins with the help of this stamp set. I definitely see myself using it over and over again for all sorts of cards!

Happy cardmaking!

 

Hi Crafters!

It’s Justine and thank you so much for joining me for my first ever video for Pretty Pink Posh! I am hosting a very large event today called Save the Crafty YouTuber and Pretty Pink Posh is sponsoring 6x $25 gift certificates in today’s video! So be sure to head to video directly on YouTube so you can leave a comment.

I am hosting this event with over 55 videomakers that have come together to help out some of the crafters just starting to make videos. YouTube has changed some rules about who is allowed to earn money from their channels and many are at risk so I put together a hop with plenty of prizes to help increase views and subscribers before the end of February. There are 120 prizes being given away throughout the video hop, so the more videos you click and comment on, the more chances you have to win! You can see the whole list of videos on my blog!

Watch the video above  I  Watch the video in HD on YouTube  For today’s video, I wanted to make a mix of masculine and feminine love cards since Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. The Love Shaker Die combined with the Scallop Frames made such perfect accessories to create these quick cards. Did you know that two inked up 4×5 ¼ pieces of cardstock produced four cards!? I die cut each piece of coloured cardstock with the dies and saved all of the “waste”, then I die cut two pieces of white cardstock in the same way and added the wasted scraps into the card.

For the batch of pink cards, I used Candied Apple, Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide inks for the background. I blended them on the cardstock and added water to see the oxidized effect occur. My tips for perfect blending are: Don’t put too much pressure on the handle and allow the colour to build up slowly, start off the paper and work your way into it, move the colour around in a circular motion to avoid harsh lines.

For the batch of blue cards, I used Peacock Feathers, Broken Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide inks for the background. I blended them on the cardstock and added water to see the oxidized effect occur. The nice thing about the oxides is that they are much more user friendly for blending than the originals.

Thanks so much for joining my for this fun event everyone! And thank you to Pretty Pink Posh for having me on the video team and sponsoring this event!

Hi Everyone!

I enjoy creating for holidays and crafting for Valentines Day is super fun.  I love all the fun colors and bling.  I thought I would kick start Valentines Day crafting with some fun shaker cards.  I have been obsessed with shaker cards lately and definitely put my Pretty Pink Posh sequins to work for this project.

One of the things that I try to do is to mix my old and new stamp sets together.  I do like to stretch my stamp investment by finding new ways of pairing my stamp sets.  This forces me to have a new take on my stamp sets, be more creative and make something unique to me.

Watch the video above  I  Watch the video in HD on YouTube  I wanted to stick to a Valentines Day theme so I pre-selected the colors I would be using.  I am using Zig Real Clean Color Brush pens today because I wanted to achieve a soft, easy, watercolor look.  I found great success in using Bristol Smooth cardstock along with Versafine Onyx Black ink in conjunction with the Zigs.  I used a water brush to push the color around and had a dish of clean water and a paper towel handy to clean between colors.  To create the background I used Distress Oxide inks in Worn Lipstick and Wilted Violet.  I used the Distress Sprayer to create white splotches in the background.

I played with my stamp sets and came up with a couple of designs incorporating two stamps sets together or repurposing a themed stamp set and thinking of other ways to use it.  I paired Hummingbird Thanks and Bold Blooms together and made a lilac card.  I used my Summer Friends images along with Fly a Kite; I thought the heart sunglasses on the girl image were perfect!  Finally I used Birthday Friends images as Valentines Day images.  The Birthday Friends set is one of my favorites and my favorite part is the balloons.  I plan on using these balloons with animal images on a future card, so it appears the animals are being carried up.  I love that the Pretty Pink Posh sets coordinate so well with each other.

Here are the basics of making a shaker card:

• Cut out a window on a card front
• Place acetate behind window using glue – I used Glossy Accents
• Line the back of the window with two layers of foam tape (One layer of foam tape if you would like to use less sequins or reduce bulk)
• Make sure there are no empty spaces when adhering the foam tape, you do not want any of the sequin yumminess to escape!
• Powder tool around the inside tape of the frame to prevent sequins sticking to the side of foam tape (I do not powder as I do not mind the sticking)

You can use the Pretty Pink Posh sequins mixes as is because the mixes are super colorful and sparkly or you can add more sequins to match the color and mood of your project.  For this project I wanted over the top “bling” for my Valentines Day themed shakers so I achieved this with adding my all time favorites.

Here is a list of the sequins I used and some of my favorites to mix up.  In general, I will add gold colored sequins to warm toned cards and silver colored sequins to cool toned cards.

For this project I used these sequins as my base color:

• Spring Blooms Sequins Mix
• Sugar Plum Sequins Mix
• Assorted Heart Confetti

Then I added some of my favorites, this is optional.  I decided to mix in some of these in because I wanted to match the lightness of my images.  Here is what I normally use to mix, of course I do not use all of these the same time, I just pick and chose which ones will be best to achieve the look I would like.

• Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix
• 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins
• Sparkling Clear Stars Sequins
• Gold Mini Star Confetti
• Gold Mini Heart Confetti
• Iridescent Mini Heart Confetti
• Iridescent Mini Star Confetti
• Silver Mini Heart Confetti
• Silver Mini Star Confetti
• Iridescent Heart Confetti Mix

Here are the dies used in this post:

• Hello Friend Script Die
• Stitched Notes
• Scallop Circles
• Storybook 5

For finishing touches I added the Wink of Stella in clear on the stamped images.  I finished the insides of the cards with sentiments from the Love Sentiments stamp set.  I had extra colored images, which I added to the inside of the card, these included hearts and flowers.  I also made sure to layer my die cut sentiment “Hello Friend” to ensure the die cut popped and had a lot of dimension.

I hope you enjoyed these cards and give it a try! Thanks for stopping by!

~Rina