Cards

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Tutorial: Stamped Easel Card + Video

Hi everyone,

Rina here for a tutorial on a get well easel card.  I wanted to create a fun card for someone who is not feeling so well in fun spring colors, with fun, playful images. Easel cards are great because they are great to display and they can stand up by themselves, so the recipient can see and enjoy them! A message can be written on the inside or in back of the easel card.  What is also great is these cards can also lay flat and be put inside an envelope.

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For inspiration I imagined that all my Pretty Pink Posh stamp sets were just one giant stamp set.  I picked and chose the images that I wanted to achieve the look I was going for.  Here is what I decided to use:

The images were colored in Copic Markers, here is what I used:

  • Blue Green – BG10, BG11, BG32
  • Yellow – Y00, Y13
  • Pinks – R11, R21, R22, R24, R32, R14
  • Blacks – C1, C3, C5, C7

The background was created using Distress Oxide Inks in Fossilized Amber, Broken China, Cracked Pistachio and Worn Lipstick. A distress sprayer can be used for a soft distressed look.  I used the Picket Fence die to ground the bears.  For small images, I used the Zots Bling Glue Dots to adhere them to the background.

Here is how I constructed the Easel Card:

  • Start with an A2 card base, fold the front in, mountain fold style
  • On the bottom of the mountain fold adhere a 4 ¼ x 5 ½ inch decorated card front (only the bottom of the fold)
  • On the inside of the card base, figure out where you want the card front to rest
  • Apply an embellishment or a sentiment on a piece of paper and double foam tape it on the inside card base to allow the card front to rest on

Finishing touches included Wink of Stella Clear and 4mm Clear Droplets, 6mm Clear Droplets adhered with Distress Collage Medium.

Hope you like this fun, easy project and it brings a smile to your face! Thanks for stopping by!

Rina

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Playful Puppy Scene

Hello, Gemma here today sharing a card using the new Playful Puppies set. It teams up so well with the Happy Mail set, I decided to make a scene card featuring them both.

On a piece of white card, cut to the same size as my card base, I die cut a simple stitched diamond to create a window opening. On the card base, I blended on a light layer of blue and greens ink, for the sky and grass of the scene. I flicked them with some water for droplet details.

To help build the scene, I die cut a Picket Fence from brown card stock. I adhered this to the card base, then added the card panel over the top. I found a lovely sentiment from the Encouraging Greetings stamp set, which fit the scene and the space perfectly.

Next, I stamped lots of the images from the Playful Puppies and Happy Mail stamp sets, and coloured them with copic markers. I then die cut them with the coordinating dies.

I tucked the mailbox and the dog under the edge of the diamond window (using the Stitched Diamonds die set), then added some foam squares at the top of each image for some dimension. Then I added the bird flying down towards the scene and the ball next to the dog, both with foam tape. I love the look of the images breaking out of the window scene.

Finally, I added some of the gorgeous new jewels to the card. A few of the Sparkling Clear jewels around the sentiment, and a Metallic Silver jewel is the perfect finishing touch on the dog’s collar tag.

Thanks for joining me today.

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May 2018 Release Now Available!

The May 2018 Release is now available in the Pretty Pink Posh Shop and select retailers that carry our products. If you missed our post yesterday, we revealed all of the products in picture form, but if you would like to see them in a video, Eloise has you covered!

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It’s Marge here with you today. Are you enjoying our new May Release Collection? Today I’m sharing a warm greeting card for your friends or family who are not feeling good. I hope this card will make the recipients feel better and know that we are always caring and praying for them.

To begin, I stamped floral images from Flourishing Fuchsias Stamp Set on A2 size cold press water paper using Versafine Onyx Black ink, which is water-resistant. Then I watercolored them using Daniel Smith Watercolor Paints (I used Quinacridone Coral, Rose of Ultramarine, Quinacridone Rose, Quinacridone Gold, Sap Green, and Prussian Green). Then I cut them all by using Flourishing Fuchsias Coordinating Dies.

Next, I trimmed Bristol paper into A2 size (4.25 x 5.5inch), then ink blended it with Distress Inks: Worn Lipstick and Tattered Rose with splatters of water and dark ink on it. I diecut Get Well Soon Script Die from Copic friendly paper three times, glued the pieces top on top, then I colored them using copic markers : W10-W8-W6.

Next, I adhered pieces of flowers and leaves on the left side of the panel as shown in the picture using a glue and thin double sided foam tapes. I al​so glued the sentiment on the right side . Then I adhered the panel onto A2 card base with double sided adhesives.

 To finish off the card, I added some Pink Blush Jewels, Metallic Rose Gold Jewels and Sparkling Clear Jewels and a small twine bow.  Take a closer look at those jewels, beautifully glowing around the flowers.

Thanks for reading this post. Have a lovely day, friends !
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Sneak Peek: Happy Mail

Hi! It’s Mindy from My Creative Scoop! I’m here to share a little sneak peek of the new release. This stamp set is called, ‘Happy Mail’. I love how all the stamps from this release and previous releases will coordinate perfectly with this stamp set. You can make the cutest little cards with this mailbox. I’m also using the Scallop Borders Dies and Rainy Days Die Set.

I have a step by step tutorial of how I colored this entire scene. How fun right!

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and today’s inspiration – I know you can’t wait to get your hands on these stamps.

Have a wonderful day. Make sure you visit tomorrow for some more inspiration!

♥ Mindy

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Sneak Peek: Playful Puppies

Hello everyone! Amy here sharing a sneak peek of the new upcoming May 5th release. For my two projects today, I’m highlighting the adorable Playful Puppies stamp set and Playful Puppies coordinating dies.

To begin,  I colored the stamped images with Copic markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies.

I created the patterned panel by stamping the two solid bone stamps with white pigment ink on A2 sized kraft card stock. After, I die-cut the panel with the frame die from Stitched Notes for the beautiful stitched detailing on the card. I stamped the sentiment with dark brown dye ink.

To finish, I foam mounted the images as shown and adhered the front panel to a top folding card base.

For the second card, I created a fun scene using the puppies. I colored the stamped images with Copic markers again and cut them out with the coordinating dies.

I trimmed Smooth Bristol paper to 5″x 3.75″. I create the clouds using an acetate stencil I made using the cloud shaped die from Stitched Borders 2 and Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. Once again, I stamped the sentiment with dark brown dye ink.

I die-cut natural card stock with a Picket Fence die and adhered the fence to the cloud panel. Then, I die-cut Smooth Bristol card stock with a die from Stitched Borders 4 to create the lawn the puppies are sitting on. I inked it with Mowed Lawn Distress Ink. To finish, I foam mounted it to the top of the fence and adhered the puppies as shown.


I hope you enjoyed my projects; thank you for stopping by. Join us tomorrow for another sneak peek!

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Sneak Peek: Butterfly Friends + Simple Sayings: Life

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here this morning with a peek at some of the newest goodies from Pretty Pink Posh! You may remember the butterflies from the Butterfly Friends set that was the free-with-purchase set for the January release. It will now be available for purchase on it’s own! I paired it up here with the new Simple Sayings: Life– a sweet little sentiment kit for this rainbow butterfly cards! I also managed to sneak on a few of the new colors of jewels that will be releasing!

I played with some 3D effects for the butterflies using the coordinating dies. For this first card, I used some of the simple outline butterfly images I was going to color them, but ended up liking them clean and crisp and white so well that I left them that way. I did cover them with a sparkly coat of Nuvo clear glitter drops to help them pop a little.

I used some pretty rainbow pattern paper for the base of my card. I stamped the sentiment and butterflies on the white layer, then die cut the butterflies with the coordinating dies. I adhered the white panel to the rainbow layer, then adhered the butterflies just on the body portion, leaving the wings loose and curling them up once my adhesive dried. I finished off with a few of the Sparkling Clear Jewels.

For these next two cards I used the same technique, just changed up the colors on each one!

I stamped one of the large butterflies from the set, then die cut it with the coordinating dies. I then used the coordinating dies to cut the same butterfly again (without stamping) out of a rainbow of colored cardstock. I colored the stamped butterfly to coordinate with my layers of cardstock. I glued them all together in the centers, allowed to dry, then curled up all the wings for a SUPER fun dimensional effect! I also covered the wings of the top butterfly with sparkly clear Nuvo Drops as well.

I used Stitched Borders 1 to cut some pretty edges on a strip of pattern paper for the bottom of the cards, and stamped another of the sentiments from Simple Sayings: Life, then for these two cards added a few of the new Pearl White Jewels to finish these off.

So much fun- these rainbows make me so happy! And the sentiments and butterflies are both so darling together!

Hope you enjoyed today’s sneak peek! Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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Tutorial: Striped Color Blocking

Hi everyone, Eloise here on the blog and YouTube channel today with an encouragement card using the Cherry Blossoms and Encouraging Greetings stamp sets. I’ll be doing a sort of colour blocking technique I guess, basically I’m blending on stripes of colours, and white heat embossing my images over top of the coordinating colours needed. I don’t have a good technique name, but that’s the gist what I did.

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To begin my card today, I started off with a piece of watercolour cardstock, added some tape to the back of it to hold it down onto a craft sheet and then used post it tape to mask off diagonal lines. First tip is to use post it tape, or another low tack tape. I literally went through 8 pieces of cardstock from using the wrong tape and in the end decided to just use post it tape, because that’s what worked the best. So I masked off stripes all over my background and ink blended different colour Distress Oxide inks inside each strip. Since I was using Cherry Blossoms, I basically wanted them to be pink. Generally, I would want them to be lighter, because Cherry Blossoms are a lighter pink, but I didn’t have any lighter Oxide Inks, so this is fine. I used Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry and Abandoned Coral for the pinks and then Twisted Citron and Lucky Clover for the green areas. Once all my stripes were ink blended, I flicked on some water to create a water splotch effect, dried it off with my heat tool and then I could stamp my images.

Once my background was dried, I used my powder tool to coat my background, so that any powder didn’t stick to places I didn’t want it too. Then, I strategically stamped out my images over the coordinating colour stripes. I made sure to stamp out my flowers on the edge of the pink sections so that there was room for the leaves to be right next to each flower. Once they were all stamped, I used white heat embossing powder, poured it over top and then heat set all my images.

For my sentiment, I decided to use the Encouraging Greetings stamp set and so I stamped the ‘You Got This’ sentiment on a strip of black cardstock and white heat embossed the sentiment. I then added foam tape to the back and adhered it on the right hand side of my card. I then added fun foam onto my panel, set it off to the side and worked on my card base.

I cut down a piece of teal cardstock at a diagonal to match my background and adhered it onto a white card base. I wanted there to be an additional colour as well as white on the card base to match my white embossing, so that’s my little way of incorporating two colours into my card base. It’s a fun design element as well. I then adhered my panel on top and used some new jewels in Watermelon, Pink Blush, Spring Green and Shamrock onto my card base as well.

So that finished up my card for today, I hope you enjoyed and got inspired and I hope you enjoyed my video as well. Thanks so much for stopping by and I’ll catch you all next time!

Eloise

 

 

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Fly A Kite Scene + Sale

Good morning! Heather here this morning to share another Something Old, Something New card with you – the idea is to mix together both older and newer Pretty Pink Posh products – and to show you how AMAZINGLY well all of Pretty Pink Posh’s products work together!

Today’s card is a bright and happy watercolor spring scene featuring the Fly A Kite set, which is 25% off the next 3 days!

Lots of fun layers and colors – not to mention a good sprinkle of some of the fabulous jewels!

So to start off, I did some loose and messy watercoloring to create a background – nothing terribly fancy – just blue for the sky, and green for some grass or greenery at the bottom.

While that dried, I die cut a fence from white cardstock using the Picket Fence Die.

Next, we need a little bunny to hold the kite, so I stamped, die cut, and colored with Copics a cute little bunny using Bunny Friends stamps and Bunny Friends coordinating dies.

Next, stamp, color, and die cut the kite, string, and clouds using Fly a Kite stamp set and coordinating Fly a Kite Dies!

I then arranged my stamped and die cut elements into a scene that I liked…

…then used Jennifer McGuire’s trick of applying Press and Seal over the top to pick up the whole thing and…

…turn it over to apply adhesive! I added liquid glue to the fence, then used Double Sided Foam Squares and Double Sided Foam Sticky Strips for the bunny and clouds.

Then, simply pick up again with the Press and Seal, place on the watercolor background, press in place, then peal off the Press and Seal. At this point I also needed to adhere the kite to the clouds, but that was easy peasy!

Finally, it felt like my scene just needed a little something more – so I stamped, colored, and die cut a bunch of the flowers using Bunny Friends stamps and Bunny Friends coordinating dies again. I didn’t end up using all the flowers on this project, but I wanted to make sure I had plenty – and those others are saved and will probably be used on something else down the road!

For extra dimension, I adhered the tops of the flowers and greenery with Double Sided Foam Squares, then used liquid adhesive to adhere the bottom of the stems to the background. This makes it feel as if the flowers are popping right out at you!

Finished off by adding several Spring Green Jewels and Aquamarine Jewels to the background for some sparkle.

I planned on stamping a sentiment, but left everything to dry, then forgot to add a sentiment before I finished photographing the card. I’m not sure if I will add a sentiment on here or not now – it’s kind of cute as it is, and it makes it super versatile since it could be given for any occasion. What do you think – would you add the sentiment, or leave it as is?

  

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Have a wonderful day!

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Birthday Bunnies

Hi everyone! It’s Melody here today and I have a sweet birthday card to share with you. I just love the cute bunnies in the Bunny Friends Stamp Set. I used the set in combination with the Birthday Friends Stamp Set to put together this birthday scene.

To create the background I cut a piece of watercolor paper for the card front. Using a blending tool I blended Distress Oxide Inks in Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron, Squeezed Lemonade, and Worn Lipstick. Next I spritzed the paper with water and splashed on white paint. Once the paper had dried I die cut the half circle directly in the card front with the larger die in the Window Frames Dies.

The stamped images are colored with Copic Markers and the highlights are added with a white gel pen. I images are die cut with the Bunny Friends Coordinating Dies  and the Birthday Friends Coordinating Dies. Behind the frame I added foam tape to give dimension between the two layers.  The hill is grass is cut with the Scallop Borders 2 Dies.

The sentiment is from the Everyday Greetings Stamp Set and the card is finished off with sequins from the Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix.

Thanks for joining me today!

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Creating A Card with Die Cuts + Video

I always look forward to adding colour to my projects and I challenged myself to use a colour I rarely use. It was so worth it! It’s Justine here again for an April video tutorial. I’m looking at using dies on your cards and I have a challenge for everyone – try to step out of your comfort zone! I did it twice – using green and no stamping!

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I used the Stacked Edges 2 die to create an interesting green background. I additionally added the Stitched Foliage leaves cut twice in both gold glitter paper and the green background I created with Distress Oxide inks. The sentiment, Hello Friend Script, has been cut with the same glitter gold paper and black cardstock. I topped off the card with a few clear droplets.

Thanks for having me again here on the blog. I look forward to bringing you more inspiration next month! If you enjoyed my video, be sure to check out my personal channel for weekly videos.