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Creating Ink Swatches + Giveaway

Well hello everyone, it’s Nina-Marie here! I’m so glad you’ve stopped by the Pretty Pink Posh blog. Today I have a fun video tutorial for you featuring an idea on how you can use your Pretty Pink Posh Mini Tag dies to create your very own custom ink swatches!

I love being able to create attractive yet functional organization solutions for my creative space; my craft room is evidence of that. I find that the Mini Tag dies are the perfect size for using as ink swatches that allow me to keep my ink colors organized and handy as I am creating.

In my video tutorial, I am going to walk you through how I created these tags very simply. Depending on how large your ink collection is, you’ll probably spend a little bit of time die cutting but it goes by pretty quickly, especially if you’re watching a movie or something while you pass the dies through your die cutting machine over and over!

For the swatch ring, I used a large hoop earring that I found at my craft store. I chose this particular ring system because I love the flip-clasp closure of the hoop, which allows easy access to the ink swatches and keeps them secure when I want them all to stay on the ring. However, you can use whatever type of ring you prefer to hold your swatches. You can also find similar, inexpensive hoop earrings in the jewelry section of local box stores like Target, Walmart, etc, or purchase binder rings in the office section or on Amazon HERE.

To see how I created this ink swatch tag ring, be sure to watch the video below! If you enjoy, be sure to give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel.

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Nina-Marie did such a great job showing how just a few products (that is in most of our craft areas) can be used to organize our inks. If you’re interested in any of the products she mentioned, we have linked them below to make it easier for you!

Mini Tag Dies
Brother P Touch label maker
3/8” white P Touch tape
Mini Misti: Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Big Shot: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Butterfly Dreams stamp set: Simon Says Stamp // Reverse Confetti

We wanted to have a giveaway in this post for the brand new Mini MISTI tool for those who want to create their own ink swatches, or use on your paper craft projects. Enter the giveaway to win one of these handy tools, along with the versatile Mini Tags die set!

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If you have any questions about this post, feel free to leave it in the comments! Thanks so much for stopping by and spending some time with me; I’ll see you again soon!

xoxo, Nina-Marie

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Adorable Birdie Inspiration

Happy Monday!

I’m so excited to share these two adorable cards by Liz on the blog today. She always has such creative and vibrant cards and I know you’ll love these cards, too. Let’s dive right into her post…

For this first card, I used these fabulous new Scallop Circles Dies as it’s hard to resist not to use with all the amazing stitched details. Plus, I love how it cuts through the cardstock with a clean cut. Also, I used the new Birdie Friends stamp set as it’s so versatile with all the sentiments and cute images.

In addition, I pulled out this adorable bird from the Birdie Notes collection which I water colored using Zig Clean Color Real Brush to create another shaker card.

I’m head over heels about this new sequin Easter mix so I wanted to make sure to use again. Also, if you notice, I have some little flowers on the acetate. This is from the Spring Flower mix and thought it went perfect with this Hello Friend card.

Can you tell what else is new? It’s these tiny mini scallop borders from the new Stitched Borders 4 collection and let me say, these are absolutely wonderful and beautiful clean cuts.

On this next card, I had more fun using the new Stitched Borders 4 collection with these big stitched scallop borders, so I cut several of them using card stock from the Sweet Treats pack of Simon Says Stamp.

Next, I cut a strip of green apple cardstock to place on top of all the scallops, but since I wanted it with stitches, I pulled out the Stitched Borders 2 die set and used the stitched row.

As I was creating this card, I wanted something underneath the little bird, so I pulled out Stitched Photo Frames and die cut the largest one. Not only do you get a frame, but also this amazing small stitched rectangle which was the perfect size for this card!

Next, I water colored this adorable bird and little chick from the new Birdie Friends stamp set along with the matching coordinating dies which made it easy to cut the images out and pop them up for dimension. The tiny little bow is from the Holiday Pals set. Last but not least, I added the sentiment and some 4mm Sparkling Clear sequins.

I hope you all enjoyed today’s post and these cards by Liz. Join us on Wednesday as we’ll have a super fun post sharing how to organize/ swatch your ink pads, along with a video.

Have a great start to your week!

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Product Release Blog Hop Winners

Hello there!

I have a quick post announcing the winners from the Product Release Blog Hop. I didn’t want this post to get overlooked while we had our Easter theme week, so thanks for waiting a few extra days!

Without further ado, here are the two winners…

Ladies, please email me within 7 days and I’ll send over the gift certificates so you can shop!

A giant thank you to everyone who left comments on the blog hop and for the special guests and designers who shared their amazing inspiration. I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

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Easter Theme Week- Day 5

Hi there everyone, it’s Nina-Marie here today to share a fun, half-circle window scene card with you as part of our Easter theme week!

I love creating scenes and the new Pretty Pink Posh Window Frame dies are perfect for making something a bit different shape then the usual full-circle windows.

To start off, I have used the Lawn Fawn Happy Easter stamp set to create the images for my scene; I stamped them all onto white cardstock using black ink and colored them all with Copics. I’ve got the colors broken out below for easy reference:

Bunny: Eoooo, E50, E30, E31, RV00, R20, C1, C3
Bird: Y000, Y11, Y15, YR23, R20
Eggs: Y000, Y11, BG0000, BG10, RV00, RV10, G00, YG41
Tulips: RV00, RV10, Y11, Y15, BG0000, BG01
Grass (die cut) YG61, YG97, YG95, BG93

After coloring, I fussy cut everything out and added a few additional details using a white gel pen.

To put my scene together, I started off by die cutting a large panel from a Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die and the Pretty Pink Posh Window Frame die; the negative half circle piece from the window I saved for using as the background to my scene. I stamped a light yellow bunny background using the Peeps Background cling from Simon Says Stamp.

I colored the negative half circle with Cracked Pistachio distress ink and layered the following elements on top (in order): a white cloud border (Puffy Clouds border die from Lawn Fawn), a white fence (Picket Fence die from Pretty Pink Posh), and a strip of green grass (Grassy Hills border die from My Favorite Things).

I tucked all the images I colored around the window scene and laid the entire piece back inside the die cut window frame I had die cut previously. I added Wink Of Stella clear glitter, Glossy Accents and a heat embossed sentiment onto the card. And of course, I used some Pretty Pink Posh sequins and confetti to finish things off (Iridescent Mini Heart confetti and Easter Mix sequins).

If you have missed any of the previous posts, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

I hope you have enjoyed today’s inspiration and I’m so glad you stopped by to spend some time with me! Happy Creating!

xoxo, Nina-Marie

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Easter Theme Week- Day 4

Hello and Welcome Spring! I just love this time of year…….the colors, the sounds, the weather! We continue to share the Spring and Easter theme week today.

I love the birdie in the Birdie Friends stamp set. I’ve colored the main bird, tiny eggs, and branch with Copics and die cut with the coordinating dies. The tiny nest was stamped in brown dye ink and eggs were adhered with foam adhesive.

To give this a springy look, I layered a piece of plaid pattern paper to a top folding notecard. I layered all my images onto some of the Mini Tags Dies from Pretty Pink Posh. These were adhered to the plaid notecard as flat embellishments. I adorned the branch and the birdie with some pink flowers from the Spring Flowers Mix.

If you have missed any of the previous posts, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

Thanks so much for joining us today and hope you are enjoying a bit of Spring where you are! We’ll see you tomorrow for day 5 of Easter week!

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Easter Theme Week- Day 3

Hi everyone! It’s Carissa here. Thanks for stopping by today and for joining in all of the fun of the Pretty Pink Posh Easter Week. I have a fun little shaker card for you today, featuring that adorable little birdie from the Birdie Notes stamp set along with the Stitched Photo Frames Dies and Stitched Borders 4 Dies. Lots of Pretty Pink Posh goodness on this card.

I started out by stamping my little chick-a-dee in some black ink. I used permanent ink, as I knew I was going to watercolor this little guy with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers. I used Lemon Yellow, Yellow and Bright Yellow to watercolor this little guy. Rather than take the markers directly to the cardstock, I decided to pick up the ink from an acrylic block using a watercolor brush. This gave me a little more control over the intensity of the color from the get go. I knew I was going for a more watercolor look, and I didn’t want to overdo it on the first stroke. :)

I also used an egg stamp from the Simon Says Stamp Melody’s Easter stamp set. I stamped the egg in several soft spring colors. I used the Simon Says Stamp hybrid ink cubes in Lake Shores, Twirling Tutu and Willow for my eggs.

Once all my stamping and coloring was done, I used the coordinating dies to cut out my images. I usually hold my dies in place with a little micropore tape as I run them through my Big Shot. This prevents them from shifting around and eliminates the oopsies that can sometimes come with die cutting colored images.

I also cut the Stitched Photo Frames die. I used a little bit of textured cardstock for my frame. I love the…well for lack of a better word…texture that this card stock adds. A simple little touch like this can make all the difference in the world. I used the same die to cut some fun foam as well. This will allow me to create the shaker window on the front of the card and eliminates the frustration of cutting down tiny pieces of foam tape to add to the back of the die cut piece.

Building the shaker window up off of the card front is one of my favorite ways to create shakers.

I filled my shaker window with some Pretty Pink Posh goodness and some of the die cut eggs as well. I used the 4mm Sparkling Clear Sequins and the Silver Shimmer Seed Beads to create subtle shimmer inside the shaker window. I love the movement that the seed beads add inside shakers. It adds a fun noise element too that you don’t get with just sequins. I also sprinkled a few of the sequins outside of the shaker window as well.

I used the scallop edge border from the new Stitched Borders 4 die to add a fun shaped element to my card front. I also used the same border die to cut some metallic gold cardstock. I just mounted the card front slightly offset from the gold to create a beautiful double scallop edge. I embossed my greeting on the bottom of my card front using some gold embossing powder from Ranger. This ties in the gold that I used to mat my card front.

For my card base, I used the Bazzill Pale Rose card stock. This is one of my favorite pinks. It’s just so soft and subtle and very springy!

I added my shaker window to my card front and added my adorable little chick as well. I added him with foam adhesive to make him pop off of the photo frame. I also added a few of the Easter eggs on the outside of the photo frame as well. I adhered them using a mix of foam adhesive and tape runner adhesive to create depth.

So there you have it, a fun idea for an Easter card featuring a whole bunch of Pretty Pink Posh goodness, new and old. I hope you’ve enjoyed this project.

If you have missed any of the previous posts, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

I don’t know about you, but now I’m inspired to create all sorts of cute Easter projects. I hope you’ve been inspired with our theme week so far. We still have two more days of inspiration to share!

See you tomorrow…

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National Craft Month Blog Hop

I am so excited to be blogging today and on top of that, I get to share a card I made recently!

Today’s card uses some of the brand new products in the Pretty Pink Posh Shop. I was able to sneak in some crafty time recently and boy, did I have fun! With the busyness of running the day-to-day things in the shop, I don’t often get to craft, but when I do, I remember why I started doing what I do. Give me a few days, Netflix, coffee and stamp supplies and I’m one happy girl!

When I haven’t crafted in a while (ahem, months), it usually takes a few hours to get the creativity going, but the first card I make usually is my favorite from the bunch. This card was the first card I made in the most recent craft session and I just love how it turned out.

I started off by using the Scallop Circles as my focal point and paired it with the birdie trio from the Birdie Friends set. This set is my current go-to because you can use it for so many occasions and I really put a lot of thought into the elements and sentiments. I went the route of creating a mini scene and added the mini pink flowers from the Spring Flowers Mix.

To “frame” the mini scene, I paired the larger Scallop Square and made a shaker using my favorite Sparkling Clear Mix and added some of the Sparkling Clear Seed Beads. That little addition really adds to the shaker element, since those beads are really small and delicate.

For the last finishing touch, I added two bows from the Twine and Bows die set using some silver glitter cardstock. It’s amazing how just this little addition really made the card feel and look complete. Plus, die cutting it from the glitter cardstock made the card even more special.

Did you know that it’s National Craft Month? My friends at Right At Home are having a week long link-up so YOU can share what you have made recently and possibly win a prize! I’ve donated a $25 PPP gift certificate and I know there’s lots of other fun prizes, too. If you’re hopping along in their blog hop, your next stop is Catherine Pooler!

I hope you all enjoyed my card and the blog hop. Thanks for stopping by!

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Easter Theme Week- Day 2

Gayatri here sharing a card using the newly released Birdie Friends stamp set, Birdie Notes and Scallop Circles die set.

On this card, I have a shaker element sitting on a beautiful pastel background created using a masking technique.

For the background, I die cut many pieces of birdies from both the Birdie Notes and Birdie Friends coordinating dies using masking paper. I randomly adhered the mask on a white card panel. I used the smaller birdie to fill in the gaps. I burnished the edges of the mask using a Teflon folder so they don’t pop out when I am sponging inks. I picked pastel distress inks for sponging the background. They are Squeezed Lemonade, Tumbled Glass, Shabby Shutters and Spun Sugar. Once I sponged them on the panel, I spattered some clean water to get some texture. Afterwards, I removed all the masks. Once I patted down the water dry, I stamped the masked area with the respective birdies using Gray Flannel Memento Luxe Pigment ink. I wanted the image to be subtle, so I chose the grey colour instead of black. Once finished with the colouring, I adhered the panel on a white card base.

For the shaker element, I die cut the large Scallop Circle using white glitter paper. I also die cut a circle using vellum and adhered the vellum circle behind the scallop circle. Then I stamped the two birdies and the chick, copic coloured them. Die cut them out using the coordinating die. Then I stamped the sentiment from Birdie Friends stamp set on a strip of white cardstock. Finally die cut a big bow using blue cardstock using the Twine and Bows die set.

To assemble the shaker element on the card front, I added Iridescent Mini Heart Confetti to the centre of the card front. Then adhered the scalloped circle die cut with vellum backing on top of the confetti using foam adhesives making it the shaker box on the card front. On top of the shaker circle, I adhered the coloured birdies and chick die cuts using foam adhesives with the chick double foamed and the sentiment strip below the birdies. The bow die cut is adhered on top of the scalloped circle. Finally, I added the Sparkling Clear Mix to bring the whole card together.

I hope that you’ve been enjoying our Easter theme week so far. We still have three more days of great posts- we’ll see you tomorrow!

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Easter Theme Week- Day 1

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing inspiration for the upcoming Easter holiday.

You can easily create this project using the following Pretty Pink Posh products: Birdie Friends stamp set, Birdie Friends coordinating die set, Stitched Borders 4 dies, Scallop Circles dies set, and my all time favorite the Twine & Bows dies set.

To begin, I first stamped my clear cellophane bags with white StazOn ink using the cute images from Birdie Friends stamp set. Just make sure to clean your stamps with Hero Arts Ultra Clean as this will be sure to remove the white ink on your stamps.

Next, I die-cut white cardstock using the Scallop Circles dies set then distress the sides with Tumbled Glass distress ink, but instead of using the scallop portion, I used the negatives. I also used the negative of the large scallop and use the small circle scallop to create a cream border for my card tag (see the picture below).

To create a card tag I simply die-cut another negative circle and scored the top portion of the circle and adhered with glue. The distress on top and the scored portion on the bottom.

To create my grass for the tag I distressed the white cardstock and used the large scallop die to die-cut and get the negative. Then die-cut negative on the green portion using the tiny scallop border from Stitched Borders 4 dies.

The look of the tag card.

For the goodie bag, I die-cut an antique gold cardstock using the tiny scallop border from the Stitched Borders 4 dies and adhered at the bottom of the cellophane for added touch on the bags.

On the tag card, I stamped the sentiment “Sending Hugs” from the Birdie Friends stamp set using gold embossing powder. The cute birdie images are from the same stamp set they were watercolored using ZiG Clean Color Real Brush 60 and die-cut with their coordinating dies.

I also added my favorite bow from the Twine & Bows die set to finish it off.

I hope you guys enjoyed! Stay tuned- all week we will have Easter inspiration using Pretty Pink Posh products!

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March Product Release Blog Hop

Hello, sweet friends!

It’s time for the Product Release Blog Hop for the March 2016 release. Many of you have already placed orders, but for those who were wanting for more inspiration, today the design team and special guests have all sorts of inspiration to share!

Before we get to their awesome creations, I wanted to share a card that I made using several of the new products. If you have followed me for a little while, you know that I’ve been obsessed with glitter cardstock (especially with the scalloped dies) and the new Scallop Circles are no exception. They make the perfect frame for images.

I always enjoy creating scene-like cards and with the new birdie sets, they’re easy to make! I paired the Birdie Friends stamp set with the Picket Fence die, Stitched Speech Bubbles, Twine and Bows, and added a sprinkling of the Spring Flower sequins.

Just think of all the fun color combinations you could create using this card layout. Also, if you had little egg stamps, you could replace the flowers for eggs to create an Easter card!

Ready to hop along and see LOTS more fabulous inspiration with this release?

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 2 $25 gift certificates to two random comments left before March 14, 2016 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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Laura Bassen

Heather Hoffman

Amy Kolling

Yana Smakula

Joni Andaya

Liz Sarkisyan

Melania Deasy

Nichol Spohr Magouirk

Lisa Elton

Danielle Flanders

Yuki Yoshioka

Joy Taylor

Nina-Marie Trapani

Gayatri Murali

Julia Altermann

Yoonsun Hur

Carissa Wiley

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I truly hope you enjoyed the blog hop. Be sure to leave lots of love for the design team and guest designers!

Thank you all for your enthusiasm about the new stamp sets, dies and sequins. I can’t wait to start seeing your creations with the new products in blog and social media land!