Hello Pretty Pink Posh Friends! Suzy here and today I get to show you one of the soon to be released stamp sets called Bee Friends. This was the stamp set that came free with an $80 purchase during the last release in March, so you’ve probably seen a few projects made with this darling stamp and die set. During this latest release, it is now up for sale! Today I have three projects to share with you featuring Bee Friends.

If you look close, there are some other sneak peeks on this image as well – three new stand alone die sets: Scallop Hexagon Dies, Scallop Circle Tags Dies, and Scallop Borders 2 Dies. Paulina always knows how to create dies that are irresistible and different than anything else on the market!

This shaker card was made using the new Scallop Hexagon Dies. I die-cut the medium sized hexagon out of the top half of watercolor paper. I painted the front of the card with a yellow and orange watercolor wash. I used foam tape to create a shaker card and filled the opening with the new Mini Sparkling Clear Flower Sequins.

I stamped the images on white cardstock with black ink and colored them all in with Copic markers. I attached them to the front of the card. I stamped the sentiment on the bottom of the card with Versamark Ink and embossed it with white embossing powder. Last, I added some more of the Mini Sparkling Clear Flower Sequins around the flowers and some 4mm and 6mm Marigold Sequins around the Hexagon.

This card is made using the new Scallop Borders 2 Dies. I die-cut a stitched rectangle out of watercolor paper and then used a border die along one edge. I stamped and embossed all of the heart images in the stamp set with white embossing powder randomly over this piece. I then water colored it with light blue watercolor. I layered it over a piece of patterned paper that shows along the bottom edge.

I stamped the sentiment with Versamark Ink and embossed it with blue embossing powder. I cut around the edges and attached it to the front of the card. I then stamped all of the other stamped images on white cardstock with black ink and colored them in with Copic markers. I attached them to the front of the card around the sentiment.

I used the new Scallop Circle Tags Dies for this little gift tag. Wouldn’t this be so cute tied to a plant as a gift? I die-cut two tags out of watercolor paper and I painted one of them with blue paint. I die-cut the opening piece out of the center of this one and attached it to the unpainted tag. This gave me white under the opening and also made the tag thicker.

Next I stamped a sentiment from the Everyday Greetings stamp set in the opening. I stamped all of the images on white cardstock with black ink and colored them in with Copic markers. I layered the flowers around the opening and added a bee on top of the opening. I finished it with some of the new Mini Sparkling Clear Flower Sequins.

Thank you so much for visiting the Pretty Pink Posh blog today! I hope you enjoyed these projects with the new Bee Friends stamp set. I can’t wait for you to see all of the new stamps and dies being released – they are some of my favorite PPP products ever! Have a great week!

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I wanted to share a technique video to show you two different ways to add color to outline images from the Bold Blooms stamp set that releases on May 1st!

Bold Blooms is a smaller set that features a number of beautiful floral and greenery images. There are coordinating dies available for this set but you can always use your stamps with or without the dies.

I started working on my card by stamping floral wreaths onto white cardstock panels cut to 4×5 ¼“. I made sure to outline a circle shape using a pencil to assure my wreath would be perfectly round.

For my stamping I decided to use just one flower shape – rose and two leaf shapes. I first stamped a number of flowers using black ink following my pencil line and later came in and stamped the leaves. You can chose to have a smaller wreath if you like, but I wanted to make sure my wreath would fit a sentiment so I made mine pretty large. As I was stamping my roses I made sure to rotate my image every time I made an impression. I wanted my wreath to look more organic, I wanted roses to face different directions and I also wanted to somewhat group my roses – I made little clusters with two flowers in each.

For my sentiments I used the new Thoughtful Greetings stamp set and stamped them messages  in black ink. One of my sentiments reads “I Appreciate You More Than Words Can Say” and the second one reads “Thank You for Everything You Do”. I love the font used for these sentiments and I can see myself using it often on different projects.

After my stamping was done I used a pencil eraser and erased that circle pencil shape I had on my panels.

To do my coloring I used solid layer stamps to color one of my panels and also alcohol markers to color another one. And this is what is great about this set – you can chose to use solid layer stamps to add color to your outline images or you can use your favorite coloring mediums – pencils, markers, and even watercolors.

I used two shades of green ink to “color” my leaves; as for the roses – I went with lots of pink and just a hint of yellow. These images are rater easy to align – these are simple shapes so the solid layers fit inside outline layers very easily. By the way, you can always go for a slightly offset look if you want – I love how that looks.

To color my second wreath I used Copic Markers. I used the following colors: YG67, YG17, YG03 – to color leaves; RV14, RV13, RV10 to color pink flowers; Y19, Y15 and Y13 – to color yellow flowers.

To add some details to my wreath and my images I used a black pigment pen and a white gel pen.

I adhered my panels onto A2 top folding card bases made out of light gray cardstock and to spice one of my cards up I foam mounted a few stamped and die cut flowers. I wanted to add some interest to this card and I decided to do that using little die cut pieces.

One last thing I did – I embellished my cards using some sparkling clear confetti, clear droplets and beads.

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

Happy cardmaking! Join us tomorrow as we reveal another new set from our May release!