Hi everyone! Amy K. here with this month’s Throwback Thursday. The idea behind today’s post is to show off some of the “older” Pretty Pink Posh dies. This month I worked with the Stitched Film Strip Die, Stitched Speech Bubble Dies, and the first stamp set…..Darling Friends(exclusively at Simon Says Stamp). I thought it would be fun to create a “comic strip” look with these dies and adorable images.
I started by diecutting 3 Stitched Film Strip Dies out of black cardstock. I spaced these across my top folding notecard as I would want them. I used them to mark where I would want to add a light blue sky for my comic strip. Using a Tumbled Glass Distress Ink Marker and my Distress Marker Spritzer, I applied the color over a post it note mask. When I was done all my color, I was able to add my Filmstrip Dies and trim off the excess. Love how there are tiny dots to my sky!
After stamping the tiny critter images from Darling Friends, each image was Copic colored and die cut with coordinating dies. A few trees and a mountain scape were also colored and cut out. To complete the scenes, I added each element to the “comic strip”. The sentiments, from Birdie Friends stamp set, were stamped onto the Stitched Speech Bubble Dies and adhered with foam adhesive!
Along with this darling card that Amy has shared with us, I have a few cards that have used the Stitched Film Stripin the past. Click on the photos below to see the original post from the designers.
Thanks for visiting the blog today! I hope you are inspired to create new cards using this older die set!
Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here with a couple shaker cards using both the positive and negative die cuts from the Window Frames Die Cuts and some ink blending to create an ombre color fade on the inside of the shaker to compliment the sequins and confetti!
Look how the soft ink blending on the inside of the shaker sets off the filling so well – and the Iridescent Mini Star and Heart Confetti pick up the color of the ink that is underneath them – helping make it more versatile than ever!
I started off by choosing my pattern paper, and trimming a piece of white cardstock to fit the front of my card, leaving the pattern paper showing at the top and bottom – in this case I did 4 1/4″ by 4″ – almost a square. Use some removable tape (washi tape or Post It tape which is what I used here) to hold the die in place and run through your die cut machine, saving both pieces.
I chose some inks that coordinated with the dominate color of my pattern paper and used a foam ink blender to add a soft color on the bottom of the inside piece. I used a light touch – I didn’t want the color too deep, and let it fade out to white at the top.
Next, I stamped my sentiments on the outer portion of the frame using Birdie Friends Stamp set, and also stamped the larger birdie, Colored with Copics, and die cut with the coordinating Birdie Friends Dies.
Add the acetate windows to the outer portion of the frame, and then a little trick I like to use to line up the inner portion perfectly – use a tiny bit of easily removable tape (again, I used Post It tape) to hold the back piece to the acetate window, apply adhesive to the back of just the inner portion of the window, place panel where you would like it on the card front, press firmly to attach adhesive, then easily pull off the outer portion that is only attached with that tiny piece of tape.
I used a mix of the Iridescent Mini Starand Heart Confetti, and some smaller 4mm Strawberry Burst and Peridot Mist sequins – I only used one layer of ordinary foam adhesive, so I didn’t want my shaker to have bulky items in it. I also spaced out the colored sequins, that way if things didn’t shake around a lot, I knew everything would be evenly spaced out to begin with with. Aren’t those sequins so pretty and sparkly together?
Add foam adhesive to the front of the shaker windows and attach over the sequins – see how perfectly they line up? To finish off, I wrapped some twine around the entire card front, tied in a bow, then mounted my little birdies with foam adhesive over the bows.
Here is a closer look at each of the finished cards!
Would love to hear what your favorite color combo of these is! I don’t think I can choose between the two – and I can’t get enough plaid paper these days! LOVE it!
Thanks so much for stopping by today – have an absolutely wonderful day!!!
It’s day 2 of our collaboration blog hop with our friends at Avery Elle. If you missed yesterday’s post, click here. There were so many amazing ideas from designers all across the globe and don’t forget, if you hop along and leave comments, you just might win one of the gift certificates!
Today’s card features stamps from the Woodland Wonders and Wild Birthday sets from Avery Elle. If you know me, you know I love shaker cards, so I decided to make a shaker. I thought it paired so well with the animals and the banner was the perfect size to top my card!
I honestly couldn’t stop playing with these critters- I made three cards with them! I love how they have a cute and whimsy look to them and the possibilities are endless!
My go-to mix for shaker card is my popular Sparkling Clear Mix. Since it has four sizes mixed together, it makes it super easy. To add just a bit more iridescence, I added in the Iridescent Mini Circle Confetti, also releasing in August.
Prizes: be sure to leave comments on each stop- there are 2 $25 Avery Elle gift certificates and 2 $25 Pretty Pink Posh gift certificates. Both companies will pick two random comments left before July 24, 2016. Winners will be announced on the company blogs on July 26th.
Did you have a favorite project on the hop? I’d love to hear what caught your eye!
We hope that you enjoyed our two day blog hop. A giant thank you to Avery Elle and their team for being partnering with us. It truly was a joy to work with them!
I am so excited it’s finally time to share about this special collaboration blog hop that I’ve been keeping a secret. I’ve been a long-time fan of Avery Elle(pretty much since the beginning!) and I’ve had the great privilege to work with Jamie and her team on several occasions pre- PPP days. I thought it was time to bring our two companies together for a two day blog hop filled with inspiration from both teams featuring both companies!
It’s been quite a while since I got to craft and I was beyond giddy to pull out my Avery Elle sets and create. For today’s card, I used the adorable Woodland Wonders set and paired it with the Peek-A-Boo, Stitched Duo 2 and Scallop Frames die sets.
I adore these cute critters and thought having them peek out from the Peek-A-Boodie was a cute idea. I like how this looks, especially with the stitching element on the outside. To finish the “scene” I added those little grass elements and thought the little purple flowers from theLilac Garden Flowers Mix looked cute with it.
It’s rare that I create a card without adding the Sparkling Clear Mix and for this card, I changed it up and had it be part of my background! I put down a bunch of Multi Medium Matte and then added the sequins to the background. Such a fun look and it really makes the card shine in person!
Prizes: be sure to leave comments on each stop- there are 2 $25 Avery Elle gift certificates and 2 $25 Pretty Pink Posh gift certificates. Both companies will pick two random comments left before July 24, 2016. Winners will be announced on the company blogs on July 26th.
Did you have a favorite project on the hop? I’d love to hear what caught your eye!
I hope that you loved today’s blog hop and were inspired by the variety of projects. We’ll be back tomorrow for another round of designers and inspiration!
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I’m excited to share a simple see-through shaker card tutorial today. I’m usually not a big fan of shakers, but with the right tools (and by tools I mean dies designed specifically for shakers) I’m starting to enjoy this type of cards more and more.
My today’s shaker is a see-through one, I’m using a card base with some printed texture/design and you can actually see that print through the window and through the sequins. Typically I close my shakers with white cardstock, but for this card I used clear acetate on both front and back of the shaker piece.
To create this card you’ll first need to create a few elements, I’m using the Rainy Days stamp set and matching dies along with Versafine Onyx Black ink, watercolor paper and watercolors to create mine. I stamped the umbrella and a cloud in black ink, heat set with my heat tool, did some very quick watercolor in blue and cut the shapes out using matching dies.
For my watercolors I used Daniel Smith watercolor sampler sheet (simply because there’s a huge number of blues to choose from), but these can be colored using any colors or any mediums really.
After you’ve stamped, colored and die cut the umbrella use glue and adhere the pieces together. I used Multi Medium adhesive in Matte.
While glue on the umbrella is drying go ahead and die cut the shaker front panel – I’m using Stitched Duo 2 diesand white cardstock. I’ve cut my dies apart as I recently used the inner die to create a continuous pattern for my card, you can see it here so I used washi tape to hold them together and I also used the connector pieces (what’s left of them) to alight the two dies perfectly. I also used a die from the Stitched Essentials 1 set and die cut just a little tail to go under my shaker. I didn’t need to cut the entire shape out as it would have been hidden anyways and I was making a see-through shaker so I needed it to actually not be there to look pretty.
Next go ahead and slide the umbrella through the Stitched Duo 2 dies and secure in place. You can skip this and just adhere the umbrella on top, but I thought it looked extra fun this way. I also die cut two rectangles out of clear acetate using the outer die from the Stitched Duo 2 set. This can be done using scissors, but if there is a die for that, why not use it, right? I adhered one from the back of my die cut cardstock piece.
Use foam adhesive to build the walls of your shaker. I usually use various types and brands of foam adhesive for that, but recently I came across this super thick foam dot adhesive from Studio G (you can find it at Michaels and similar stores). I rarely use adhesive that is this thick for my usual cardmaking as I find it to be just too dimensional, but it works perfectly for shakers and it’s very inexpensive too.
So build your shaker walls, use an anti static powder tool to eliminate the stick on the sides of the foam adhesive and add the sequins of your choice. For this project I went with the Gold Mini Star Confetti. I love these tiny confetti sequins and I’ve actually used a few packs to make an oversized layout shaker, you can see it here. Close up the shaker with another piece of clear acetate and continue making your card.
To finish this project I adhered my shaker onto an A2 top folding card base, foam mounted the watercolor cloud and added a sentiment. I stamped Get Well Soon onto the shaker itself and also heat embossed Sorry You’re Under The Weather in white onto black cardstock.
I couldn’t resist adding a few more sequins, so I adhered several 4mm Metallic Gold sequins to complete this card.
Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here to share a couple of fun cards I made by dressing up some papers from a 6×6 paper pad with PPP dies and sequins – these cards are amazingly simple to make, and yet with a few simple steps they look like you spent lots of time on them!
Am I the only one who hoards (I mean, COLLECTS!) pattern papers? I’ve gotten pretty good at using them, since I’ve learned that I will definitely be adding more all the time, and will constantly have a new favorite, so I may as well enjoy the current favorite by actually using it! However, some of those pattern paper pads have the extra pre-decorated patterns that are almost a stand alone on as a card, but when I use them, I like to dress them up a little to make them a bit more unique! PPP sequins and border dies are the perfect way to do that!
Here is the paper pad I used, as well as the pattern papers I chose. The top right pattern papers I trimmed to fit an A2 card front, 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, and the bottom images are from two sides of one piece of paper that I cut apart.
I selected two different borders from Stitched Borders 1 Dies, starting with the scallop, and cut it to fit on each side of my pre-designed portion of the paper.
On this photo you can see how I first trimmed one side with the zig-zag, layed the pre-designed portion over the top, then used Post-it tape to attach the die on the other side for perfect placement before running through my Big Shot die cut machine.
Here they are die cut and layered together:
Next, I used kids fun foam and my tape runner to attach them to the card front for some sturdy dimension.
It’s time to announce the winners of the Rainbowchallenge we hosted. It truly was a joy to see all the beautiful work submitted and read how you were inspired by the cards by the team and see you stretch your creativity.
It’s always hard for us to pick winners. Ultimately, it came down to the use of PPP products, how they interpreted the inspiration and of course, use of the pretty rainbow colors! I truly wish I could award you all prizes for joining along!
If you are one of the winners, please email me within 7 days to claim your $30 gift certificate. Nicola, as a special mention, you’ll receive a small gift as well! Please email to claim your prize.
Would you like to see more challenges occasionally? I would love to hear your thoughts!
Thank you to everyone who joined along in the challenge. Have a great rest of your Sunday!
Hello friends! I am so happy you are joining me for another video tutorial, this time featuring a fun circle shaker card and Copic coloring techniques!
I love the Scallop Circle dies, which are one of Pretty Pink Posh’s fabulous, exclusive die sets! These dies are perfect for creating windows, shakers, frames and more. Today I’ve used the die to create both a shaker and a frame for the Copic colored flower scene inside.
The flower is from Hero Art’s Marianne’s Flowers stamp set; Isn’t that rose pretty? I used my Copic markers to color the rose and background.
In the video I have for you (see below), I’ll be walking you through the coloring, as well as how I created texture on the leaves and sky. For reference, I’ve listed out the Copic colors used in today’s project below and in the video:
Rose: RV00, R81, R83, R85
Leaves: YG61, YG63, YG67, YG97
Stem: E42, E84, E87
Background: BG01
To see how I put this card together, be sure to check out the video below or over on the Pretty Pink Posh YouTube channel! Please give it a big thumbs up and subscribe for more creative inspiration!
Julia here with a shaker card featuring the awesome heart shaped confetti in the colors gold, silver, and iridescent. The confetti pieces are very small, and they are flat, which makes them absolutely perfect for a shaker card without much bulk!
I started out by die cutting a scalloped edge on the long side of some pink card stock using one of the dies from the Stitched Borders 1 die set. I just love the little stitched detail in each scallop – it’s details like this that take a card design to the next level.
Next, I used the Scallop Circles die to die-cut a window into my pink panel. You get a circular shape (the outside edge of the die), but the die gives you another – second – piece which is circular with a scallop border on the inside.
I die cut that shape again from silver glitter paper and then adhered it on top of some acetate – the acetate was adhered to the back of my pink panel with some adhesive tape. I added some foam tape on the back of the panel around my window, making sure that I had a closed “border” which would hold my sequins securely. I poured the confetti on my card base and then adhered the front panel to it, trapping the sequins.
My cute birdie, which I colored with Copic Markers, is from the Birdie Notes mini stamp set. I fussy cut mine with scissors, but there’s a matching die set if you don’t want to fiddle. This cute little set would be perfect for decorating an envelope as well.
I added a few white dots into each scallop on the edges as decoration. I also traced the outline of the Scallop Circle Die with my gel pen for addition contrast. Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you got inspired!
Today I am here with a fun, new tutorial on how to make your own baby dress card for a baby shower!
To begin I first distressed the white card panel and die-cut the top part of the card panel with Pocket Border die(neck line of the dress).
Next, I die-cut the sides of the panel, slanted on both sides using the straight border die from Stitched Border dies 2.
Next, I cut the bottom of the panel and made another on a strip of cardstock using Stitched Borders 3 dies.
For the sleeves of the dress I used the square die-cut from Storybook 4 dies.
Here’s just to show you pieces of the dress. The bunny and bow die-cut images were from the Holiday Pals Stamp set and Coordinating dies. The sentiment (sweet girl) was from the Lawn Fawn Hello Baby stamp set.
I also distressed the white card base and adhered the dress with foam tape for dimension.
For the final touches for the dress I added some Sparkling Clear sequins in 6mm for the neck line and 4mm all around the dress.
I hope you enjoyed today’s tutorial. Thank you so much for stopping by.
Hi everyone! Amy K. here with this month’s Throwback Thursday. The idea behind today’s post is to show off some of the “older” Pretty Pink Posh dies. This month I worked with the Stitched Film Strip Die, Stitched Speech Bubble Dies, and the first stamp set…..Darling Friends (exclusively at Simon Says Stamp). I thought it would be fun to create a “comic strip” look with these dies and adorable images.
Here are close ups of the two finished cards – I absolutely adore the bright happy colors of this paper pad!!!
If you are one of the winners, please email me within 7 days to claim your $30 gift certificate. Nicola, as a special mention, you’ll receive a small gift as well! Please email to claim your prize.
