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This Koala Friends from Pretty Pink Posh is so darn cute with the different size Koalas so I decided to create this fun upright card. Also, reached for the Birdie Friends set to add a branch, leaves, and sentiment to add to the scene.

For this card, I started out by die cutting a couple of Scallop Circles, one for the inside of the card and the other for the top of the card and shaker.

To color these Koala’s, I used the following copic colors: CO, C1, C3, C5, R11 for the belly and ears. For the branch, E37, E33, E31 and for the sentiments, I used the Zig Clean Color Brush.

Next, I die cut a large basic circle almost the same size of the Scallop Circles to create the background and use for closing the shaker from behind.  Added some clouds using Salty Ocean distress ink and began to piece together the shaker by adding several sequins using the Berry Bright Mix and glued down some Silver Mini Star Confetti on top.

From there, I created the circle card base by placing the same circle onto a folded card stock and ran it through the die cutting machine leaving a little portion of the circle die not hitting the top of the card stock.  This way it leaves a fold on top.

Once the card base was done, I scored the front cover halfway and glued the bottom half only to add the circle shaker on top.

To decorate the inside of the card, I used patterned paper for the center along with the second Scallop Circles. From there, I added a sentiment from the Birdie Friends set where I colored using my zig clean color brush. Also, added some foam mount under the sentiment to pop it up which helps to hold the card upright so one can place anywhere.

From there, I created another white circle card base, but used a larger circle die since I was trying to create a double card put together. Plus, I wanted to give this upright card a white border around it and add an extra area to write a message.

When it lays flat, it shows the white border around the card, but when upright, only shows the top original card.

GIVEAWAY: leave a comment on this post and one person will win all five of our brand new stamp sets!

Congratulations to Katie Baird! 

Check out Day 1 of the blog hop HERE

Hello, Gemma here today to share a card featuring some fabulous June release products.

The new Geraniums stamp set has a lovely selection of different images, perfect for building floral clusters and scenes. I especially love the textured look of the leaves. For my card today, I coloured some images with copic markers, then die cut them with the coordinating dies.

Next, I die cut the new Hello Shaker die from gold glitter paper. I adhered this square die cut at an angle on my card base.

I placed the geranium leaves around the frame, adhering with liquid glue. I then used foam squares to add the flowers over the top. I love the look of gold and pink together. To finish my card, I added some of my favourite Pearl White jewels.

BONUS: we’re giving away a free not-yet-released die in each order over $60 this month, while supplies last!

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before June 19, 2018 at 11:59 PM PDT. 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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Yana Smakula
Suzy Plantamura
Alix Davis
Jeanne Jachna
Crystal Thompson
Anna Kossakovskaya
Joni Andaya
Shannon McComb
Melody Rupple
Amy Kolling
Eloise Blue
Justine Hovey

We hope that you enjoyed the blog hop these last two days. Be sure to leave comments on all the stops- we’ll be randomly picking comments to win gift certificates.

Hi, there! It’s Marge today and I’m sharing a shaker card featuring some of our new June 2018 Release for the blog hop.

To begin my card, I stamped the Koala Friends Stamp Set on a copic friendly paper and colored them using copic makers, then I cut them all using Koala Friends Coordinating Dies.

Copic Markers Used: 

Koalas : E29-E18-E15-E13-E11-E01

Tree branch : E49-E47-E44-E43-E42

Leaves : BG09-G29-G07-YG03-YG01

I prepared two pieces of A2 sized Bristol Paper, and ink blended them using Distress Oxide Inks: Antique Linen, Tattered Rose, Cracked Pistachio, Bundled Sage, and Evergreen Bough.  I added splatters of water and wiped out excess water using dry tissue. These two pieces will be used for front and background panel for shaker.

To make a shaker window, I diecut one of the inked panel using Mini Storybook 1 Dies, and simply cut out the inside bars to make a large rectangle window.  I found that the cut out square from Mini Storybook 1 Dies perfectly matches with the Hello Shaker Die in size. (You could just use Hello Shaker Die only to make a window.)  I adhered a piece of acetate film behind the window panel. I cut Hello Shaker DIe out of 110 Neenah White paper three times  then glued them top on top to make a dimensional frame. Then I put the frame onto rectangle window I had created previously.

Look at the beautiful mixture of sequins and seed beads just before I covered the shaker. I really love how they look together. Above all, I would strongly recommend to mix Pewter seed beads to your shaker since the neutral gray color of them balances the colors in the shaker beautifully. Finally, I covered the shaker with another inked panel then I adhered the shaker onto white card base.

I then adhered Koala images around the shaker and label as shown in the picture. As a final embellishment, I added Buttercream Jewels and Spring Green Jewels.

BONUS: we’re giving away a free not-yet-released die in each order over $60 this month, while supplies last!

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before June 19, 2018 at 11:59 PM PDT. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

Check out Day 1 of the blog hop HERE

Hi, there! It’s Marge here with you and I’m sharing two shaker cards featuring the new Hugs Shaker Die from Pretty Pink Posh. I’m so glad to share these as I really had fun playing with the shaker die along with other new products from the May 2018 Release.

I started my cards by diecutting Hugs Shaker Die out of heavyweight white card stock . I also cut lovely pastel colored pattern papers to use as front panels of the cards. Then I adhered acetate film on the back of front panel, and then adhered Hugs Shaker Die cut onto the front surface of acetate film.

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For the first card, I mixed several of my favorite jewels/sequins/ seed beads  to make shakers , which is my favorite moment. I usually use bunch of embellishment to give visual interest to my shakers. It is just so fun ! Here, you could see Sea Glass Jewels, Metallic Gold Jewels, Ivory Jewels, Sparkling Clear Jewels, Berry Bright Mix, Gold Shimmer Seed Beads, Spring Green Seed Beads, Lilac Seed Beads, and Daffodil Seed Beads in just one shaker.

I added colored images from Playful Puppies stamp set and Happy Mail stamp set, which were colored using copic markers and then were cut using Playful Puppies Coordinating Dies and Happy Mail Coordinating Dies.  To embellish the card, I added Sparkling Clear Jewels, Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix and Berry Bright Mix sequins here and there.

For the second card, I stamped Flourishing Fuchsias Stamp set onto 80lb Neenah White paper using light grey dye ink, then I did no-line coloring using copic markers and cut them all using Flourishing Fuchsias Coordinating Dies.

Copic marker numbers I used are as below.

Blue : B39-B06-B04-B02-B00

Pink : RV25-RV23-RV21-RV10

Green : G14-YG03-YG01

Next, I added more details with my Prismacolor Polychromo pencils and then I placed them around the Hugs Shaker Die frame using glue & foam tapes.

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I wrapped a vellum sleeve that I had cut using Pocket Border Die around the lower part of the panel, and then I assembled shaker. I put in blue ,pink and yellow colored sequins/jewels/ seed beads : Sparkling Clear Jewels, Ivory Jewels, Lemon Drop Jewels, Amethyst Jewels, Watermelon Jewels, Party Time Mix sequins, 3mm Sparkling Clear sequins, Gold shimmer Seed Beads, Lilac Seed Beads, and Daffodil Seed Beads.

As a final touch, I added Sparkling Clear Jewels, Lemon Drop Jewels, Party Time Mix sequins, and Champagne sequins.

Now I finished my two cards. As Pretty Pink Posh provides us all colors of beautiful sequins, jewels, and seed beads, I always enjoy making my own assortment according to the color schemes of my cards.

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before May 14, 2018 at 11:59 PM PDT. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

Pretty Pink Posh blog << you are here
Kelly Latevola
Yana Smakula
Laurie Willison
Suzy Plantamura
Melody Rupple
Alexandra Stapleton- Smith
Jessica Frost- Ballas
Heather Hoffman
Crystal Thompson
Joni Andaya
Lydia Fiedler
Mindy Baxter
Yoonsun Hur

We hope that you enjoyed the blog hop these last two days. Be sure to leave comments on all the stops- we’ll be randomly picking comments to win gift certificates.

Check out Day 2 of the blog hop HERE

Hello, Gemma here today to share a card for the May blog hop. When I think of fuchsias, I think of the classic pink and purple flowers so I chose this colour scheme for my card today.

I began by stamping out lots of images from the Flourishing Fuchsias stamp set. I coloured them with copic markers, then cut them out with the coordinating dies.

Next, I blended on some distress oxide inks in Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserves on the right hand side of a white card base. I flicked it with water for distress details. I then used a Scallop Border die to trim down another panel of white card, which will sit on top of the card base and allow the pop of colour to show at the edge.

I planned out my layout of flowers and leaves to help me figure out the best placement for my sentiment. I then chose a sentiment from the Everyday Greetings stamp set, stamping it in black versafine ink and heat embossing with sparkle embossing powder.

I added the panel to the card base with some foam sheet behind, which adds some nice dimension. I then adhered the flowers and leaves on top, using a mix of liquid adhesive and foam squares.

I finished the card with a scattering of Pansy Purple jewels, which fit the colour scheme perfectly.

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

PRIZES: be sure to leave comments on each stop. I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates to four random comments (2 winners each day) left before May 14, 2018 at 11:59 PM PDT. 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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Jennifer McGuire
Justine Hovey
Kay Miller
Jeanne Jachna
Laura Bassen
Lexa Levana
Cathy Zielske
Eloise Blue
Shannon McComb
Lea Lawson
Thi Lam
Amy Yang

There is so much amazing inspiration today, I hope you enjoy it all! Be sure to leave comments on all the stops- we’ll be randomly picking comments to win gift certificates. See you tomorrow!

If you missed yesterday’s blog hop post, click here.

Hello, there! Marge here with you today for day 2 of our blog hop. Today I’m sharing a card the Cherry Blossoms Stamp Set from the new Pretty Pink Posh March Release. I did no-line watercoloring for my card.

To begin, I stamped blossoms and leaves on an A2 sized heavy-weight watercolor paper using Distress ink Antique Linen, then watercolored them using Daniel Smith Watercolor Paints.

 

There are so many color options in Daniel Smith Paints that you may feel difficult what to choose, but, I  found that I need only several of those colors  to make watercolor flower cards. Here, I used my favorite colors which are Quinacridone Coral, Quinacridone Violet, Permanent Alizarin Crimson for blossoms, Prussian Green and Sap Green for leaves, Burnt Umberfor background. After I finished watercoloring, I trimmed the four edges a little to make the panel look clean.

To add a sentiment, I made a round stitched rectangle tag from a deep green card stock using the Stitched Pieces Die, then a sentiment from Encouraging Greetings Stamp Set was chosen and heat-embossed on the tag with white embossing powder. Then I punched two small holes on both sides of the tag, put natural twines through the holes,  and tide a bow. The tag was also adhered onto the panel using foam tape.

Next, I foam mounted the panel onto an A2 sized side-folded card base. As a final touch, I added Buttercream Jewels onto the empty spaces between blossoms and leaves. Look how the jewels sparkle beautifully on the card! The Jewels Collection is now my favorite among the new release!

Here’s another look at the finished card.

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