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Pretty Pink Posh Birthday Celebration- Day 3

If you missed Day 1 CLICK HERE //  If you missed Day 2 CLICK HERE

Hello and welcome to the last day of the birthday celebration!

Before I start with today’s post, I just have to say a truly heartfelt thank you to every single person who has ordered during this release, left comments on the blog hop/ social media and been supportive during the last four years of Pretty Pink Posh. As many of you know, I’m a one woman business, so I’m working as quickly as I can to get all of your orders sent off. Please be patient as the order volume is far greater than it usually is so I’m struggling to keep up but I’ll be working through the weekend to try to get caught up! 

This is Yana and today I am sharing video tutorial showing how to color petunias from the Pretty Petunias stamp set for a no-line look!

Since violet is the color of this year and because I happen to love this color quite a bit I decided to color my petunias violet. I started working on my card by stamping images I wanted to use in watermark ink onto light gray cardstock panel. I knew I wanted to use the large flower duo and also add additional flowers and leaves to make this cluster a bit fuller. I am very lazy when it comes to masking, I was planning to use masking for today’s stamping, but later ended up not making them and I simply stamped my images in watermark ink overlapping previously stamped layers.

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

Watch the video above  I  Watch the video in HD on YouTube

I picked embossing watermark ink, but any pale ink color will do for this technique – just make sure to pick the color of ink you’ll be able to color over with the pencils you plan to use – and you can always test this on the back side of your paper. Use it as your palette, I always do so.

As I was stamping I made notes in my head which flowers and leaves were going to be in the front and which would be in the back. If you struggle with this – you can either mask your images so that you don’t have confusing stamped lines on your panel or test stamp your cluster onto a piece of scrap paper and label everything – then when you go to color your image you can use that as a cheat sheet.

The pretty Petunias stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh has very little detail to it and this is a good thing, because as you color, regardless of what coloring method you chose, you can add those details in yourself.

I used Polychromos colored pencils to color this images and I went with just a handful of pencils. I sharpened my pencils prior to starting an first used the blue violet color and outlined the base of the petal, added vines and slight details on the tip of the petal.

It is very helpful to look up the image you are coloring online. I simply go to Pinterest and type in Petunias. I look at photos, sometimes I search for illustrations, I can also add the name of the coloring medium I plan to use to look up examples. For instance petunias watercolor, or petunias pencils – it is very helpful to see how others have colored it – this will give you color combo ideas, detail ideas.

I added my pencil strokes going in one direction – I followed the imaginary vines of the petal. I don’t color in circles or horizontal and vertical lines. To blend out the violet color and color the rest of the petal I used a white pencil. I went over the violet coloring and extended it further into the petal. Next, I came in with the violet pencil again and added more details to the particular element.

I don’t use any blending solutions when I color, I only blend the using my pencils and as I get to the end of the blending I use a very heavy hand.

Once my coloring was complete I trimmed my panel to 4 x 5 1/4″. To create a sentiment I white heat embossed Hello Gorgeous from the Love Sentiment stamp set onto vellum. I trimmed it into a skinny strip, wrapped one end around the panel and cut the other end at and angle. I foam mounted the panel onto an A2 card base and added sequins from the Spring Blooms Mix to embellish this card.

No party would be complete without guests, gifts and a party favor, right? During the celebration, save 10% off your order using the coupon code provided below.

We have lots of amazing designers in today’s blog hop sharing new inspiration. Be sure to leave them lots of love- I’ll be giving away prizes to some comments left on their blogs!

Thank you for celebrating with me. I’m looking forward to the upcoming year and bringing you new products, inspiration and of course, some surprises along the way. Have a great weekend!
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Pretty Pink Posh Birthday Celebration- Day 2

Hello and welcome to Day 2 of the Pretty Pink Posh 2nd birthday celebration! If you missed Day 1, click here.

Have you seen the new Love Shaker die?  I think this die is so versatile.  It’s more than a shaker die – it’s a gorgeous frame too! I can envision lots of pretties (sparkling sequins) peeking through the open frame design – but I can see this pretty die layered over photographs on a layout too.

I created an ombre background with the scalloped border from the Stacked Edges 1 die set.  I wanted to repeat the scallops on the Love Shaker die. I love the colorful stripes of red and pink card stock peeking through!

To accent the heart I added Cupid Friends that were stamped with Memento ink and colored with Copic Markers. I’m smitten with these little guys! They’re easy to color, and the coordinating die cut makes them a breeze to cut too!

I love the stitching, scallop outline, and gorgeous hand written font on the Love Shaker die – the perfect details I expect from Pretty Pink Posh! Paulina never disappoints!

No party would be complete without guests, gifts and a party favor, right? During the celebration, save 10% off your order using the coupon code provided below.

We have lots of amazing designers in today’s blog hop sharing new inspiration. Be sure to leave them lots of love- I’ll be giving away prizes to some comments left on their blogs!

PRIZES: We’ll be giving away 2 $50 gift certificates to random comments left on the different stops every day! That’s right, we’re giving away a total of SIX $50 gift certificates! Comments must be left before January 15th 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!

 

 

Thank you for celebrating with me today and for all the love! I’ll see you bright and early tomorrow for day #3 of the birthday celebration. I hope you have a fabulous day!

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Pretty Pink Posh Birthday Celebration- Day 1

Hello, everyone ! Marge here today with you. I’m so pleased to share my two cards using the New Release Products from Pretty Pink Posh. All the new release products are amazing as always, and I’m featuring Birthday Friends Stamp Set and Coordinating dies today.

To begin, I stamped images from Birthday Friends Stamp Set and colored them using copic markers, then die cut them using Coordinating dies.

Then I cut a piece of A2 sized bristol paper, blended it using distress oxide inks (Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick, Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio, and Peacock Feathers), then splattered water onto it.

Then I die cut it using Storybook 6 Die, which is also one of a new release products, to make four shaker windows. I used the negative cut pieces as background panel for each shaker. I put mixture of Spring Blooms Sequins Mix, Daffodil Seed Beads, and Lilac Seed Beads into each rectangles .

Then I adhered Birthday Friends Images on the front using foam tapes. I also put a small star tag on the left upper corner of the card using Stitched Stars Dies to give it more cuteness .
 

Final touch was adding some Sparkling Clear Snowflakes Sequins Mix with 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins onto them.

Here goes my second card. To make it, I used Scallop Borders 2 Dies and some fun pattern papers to make festive look.

For the background color, I blended it using Distress oxide ink (Fossilized Amber).

I also stamped heart images from Love Sentiments Stamp Set, sentiment from Birthday Friends Stamp Set. Then I finished it off by putting Party Time Sequins Mix and Northwest Sequins Mix from the new release.

Now I finished two birthday cards.
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I’m also sharing some tips below :
1) For brown hair colors , my favorite copic color combination is : E13-E15-E18- any dark E (from light to dark shades)
2) When you put sequins to make shaker cards, try to mix the sequins with some seed beads like I did today. That will make your shakers look prettier.
3) Although this is not the Christmas season, I found that our snowflake sequins look so well on the soft color-distressed background.
No party would be complete without guests, gifts and a party favor, right? During the celebration, save 10% off your order using the coupon code provided below.

For the celebration, I brought along some very special guests to celebrate with me and I cannot wait for you to see what they made. Be sure to leave them lots of love- I’ll be giving away prizes to some comments left on their blogs!

PRIZES: We’ll be giving away 2 $50 gift certificates to random comments left on the different stops every day! That’s right, we’re giving away a total of SIX $50 gift certificates! Comments must be left before January 15th 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!

Thank you for celebrating with me and being so incredibly supportive. Go hop on over to the other stops, be inspired by the design team and special guests and be sure to share this with your friends. I’ll see you bright and early tomorrow for day #2 of the birthday celebration.

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Sneak Peek: Free Gift(s) In January!

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here this morning with a look at the newest free-with-purchase stamp set at Pretty Pink Posh called Butterfly Friends – as well as a couple of the dies and sequin mixes that are part of the new release! This new stamp set and coordinating dies will be free with a qualifying purchases in January 2018, while supplies last! I’m showing one card layout two ways – a shaker card, and what I call a “faux shaker”!

The Butterfly Friends stamp set is kind of fun and unique because a couple of the butterflies have a solid image that can be stamped with colored ink to “color” the butterfly without markers or pencils – although you can also do that if you prefer. The others are perfect for coloring and shading. I used all the butterflies in the set for my cards – it’s fun how well they work together too!

I also adhered the butterflies for lots of dimension. I folded up the wings, then applied adhesive just to the centers. That way the butterflies pop up in such a realistic way – so fun!

For both cards, I also used the new Storybook 6 dies – for the first one I die cut it then trimmed the edges down to form a shaker. I did a bit of watercoloring with distress inks to create a background, and filled my shaker with the new Spring Blooms Mix. I stamped the solid butterflies with Distress Oxide ink in Seedless Preserves, then used coordinating Copics to color the remaining butterflies. I die cut just the word “hello” from the new Hello Friend Script die (love that those two words work together or on their own!).

My second card, I again used the Storybook 6 die, only this time I cut it out of a panel of white cardstock that I had inked with distress in, then again from white cardstock – fitting in the white pieces with foam adhesive to pop them up a bit. Then, to create the “faux” shaker on this card, I smeared a good bit of Ranger Multi-matte Medium on the bottoms of each panel, sprinkled on some of the new Party Time Mix (pressing it down to adhere it well), then shook off the excess. Once that dried, I adhered the die cut “hello” and the butterflies – this time the solid ones were stamped with Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink and the rest again colored with coordinating Copics.

Don’t all these butterflies have you longing for spring? I know they are making me look forward to it soon!

The free Butterfly Friends stamp set will be automatically sent with orders over $60 once the new release goes live. In addition, if your order totals over $75, you’ll get the coordinating dies too! This stamp set will be available for purchase in May 2018, but for those who qualify, you’ll get these items four months before anyone else!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you are having a wonderful day!!!

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Sneak Peek: January Die Cuts

Well hello friend!  It’s a great day because there’s more new to share from the upcoming Pretty Pink Posh January 10th release! Today I’m playing with the new Pretty Petunias stamp set and Hello Friend Script die.  

I started by stamping the Pretty Petunias in Memento Ink and coloring them with Copic Markers.  The coordinating die set makes cutting them out a breeze!

I experiment with different arrangements using a piece of clear plastic the size of a card base.  I can arrange the flowers without committing and adhering them to the card base.  Because the sheet is clear I can also place my floral arrangement over different colored backgrounds seeing what the completed project will look like.

This card has a simple distress background of Milled Lavender.  I splashed the inked background with water, and then again with watered down Seedless Preserves.  Lastly I gave it a splash of white ink.

If you look close you’ll see some of the flowers and leaves are adhered to the card base while others are adhered with adhesive foam tape to add dimension.  I topped the flowers with the Hello Friend Script die cut from gold foil, and gold glitter paper adhered together.

Do you love the Pretty Pink Posh Storybook dies? If you said yes, then you’re going to love the new Storybook 6 die!

Storybook dies are a fun and easy way to set the scene for your stamped images.  You can insert figures into the die cut windows to tell a story, or use the die cut lines to define spaces like I did .

 I stamped images from Birthday Friends with Memento Ink and colored them with Copic Markers. The coordinating die cuts make these easy to cut and create with. I left each of the die cut boxes white so they didn’t have to compete with the bright colors of the stamped images.

The Birthday Friends stamp set has several different characters complete with lots of accessories!!! Like what? Well… A birthday cake, cupcake, presents and balloons so there’s lots of ways to arrange these!

We hope you’ve enjoyed the sneak peeks these last few days. Be sure to visit the blog tomorrow as we reveal the free stamp set that will be included with qualifying orders this month, while supplies last. It’s a fun set that we know you’re going to love!

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Sneak Peek: Birthday Friends

Today Yoonsun is revealing our new Birthday Friends set. This is part of our darling “friend” series that you all love and we are excited to be bringing you images that are perfect for that special occasion. We have presents, hats, balloons, cake and cupcakes, a beautiful sentiment and of course, our friends!

Steps:
1. Cut grey card stock to 4 ¼” x 11” and create a top-fold card.
2. Die Cut the Stitched Film Strip from white card stock.
3. Stamp cute images from the new Birthday Friends set on white card stock using black dye ink.
4. Color all stamped images with Copic markers. Die cut them with matching dies.
5. Die cut the word “Hello Friend” from white card stock.
6. Assemble all colored images & die cuts as shown to the picture using foam tape.
7. Add a few sequins to create a fun party atmosphere.

We hope that you are enjoying these sneak peeks! Join us tomorrow as we reveal some of our new dies releasing on January 10th!

 

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Sneak Peek: Birthday Scene

Hi there! Lexa here today with a sneak peek for the new release, I promise you that it will be an awesome one! This brand new stamp called Birthday Scene is adorable beyond words. Let’s get started…

First I stamped the image on watercolor paper with Versafine black ink then watercolor them using Distress Markers. I turned a bear into panda, it’s just a matter of how you color it. To frame the little scene I use Scallop Frames Dies on yellow cardstock. For this Birthday Scene, I want it to be colorful and festive so I add some Metallic Gold Confetti. This is just such a happy card!

I bet you all can’t wait any longer to see full reveal of the new release, just believe me that you will LOVE them! Thank you so much for stopping by today. Join us tomorrow for another round of sneak peeks.
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Sneak Peek: Cupid Friends + Love Sentiments

Hello Pretty Pink Posh Friends! I was recently visiting my mother and she gave me her wonderful collection of Valentine ephemera. I love vintage cupids and this little Cupid Friends stamp set reminds me of the vintage ones. Today I’ll be showing you two new stamp sets to make Valentines – both the Cupid Friends and the Love Sentiments set that releases on January 10th.

I have two cards to share with you today. The first card is a shaker card that uses Cupid Friends and Fly a Kite stamps and dies. I started with the largest Window Frames die to create my card base and shaker window.

I stamped the sentiment on the inside of the opening with red embossing powder. I then used some of the new heart confetti, Iridescent Heart Confetti Mix and Red Mini Heart Confetti, inside the shaker window.

Next, I stamped the two clouds from Fly a Kite and the two cupids from Cupid Friends with light colored ink for a no-line look. I colored them in with Copic markers, added shading with colored pencils, added fine black lines around them to outline, and then die-cut them out with the matching Cupid Friends Dies and Fly A Kite Dies.  I layered the cupids over the clouds on the top and bottom of the card.

To finish the card, I glued some of the same heart sequins over the background and on the clouds.

My next card uses the new Storybook 6 die for the background. I am so in love with all of the Storybook dies as they create the perfect windows for stamped images or shakers AND I always use the inside pieces for my sentiments on cards.

I die-cut the Storybook 6 die from the center of a pink card base. I die-cut a second one from white cardstock to use for the inside pieces.  I then used the new Love Sentiments stamp set for the stamped hearts and the sentiment. I embossed them with pink embossing powder on the two rectangular inside pieces of the die.

I attached a piece of white cardstock underneath the front of the card and then glued the four pieces to the white cardstock. I then embossed the little hearts in the Cupid Friends stamp set over the pink cardstock.

I stamped the two cupids with black ink and colored them in with Copic Markers and shaded with colored pencils. One of my Christmas gifts was a new set of Prismacolors, so I wanted to try them out and they work well over Copics! I finished the card with some of the new sequin mix called Spring Blooms.

Ever since I was a child I have loved making homemade Valentines and these two sets are so perfect for my cards. Thanks so much for visiting today and I hope you are enjoying your new year!

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Sneak Peek: Hummingbird Thanks + Pretty Petunias

Hello everyone, Joni here sharing some sneak peaks of upcoming products from our upcoming January 10th release! For these projects I used the new Pretty Petunias stamp set, Pretty Petunias Coordinating Dies. The new Hummingbird Thanks stamp set and Hummingbird Thanks Coordinating Die set.

To begin my card, I first stamped the images from Pretty Petunias Stamp set and Hummingbird Thanks Stamp set on a watercolor paper. Then watercolor each image then die-cut each image with its coordinating die set.

For the background, I simply distressed a white cardstock with Distress Ink in Evergreen Bough and Peeled Paint. Then, splattered with some water and added some of gold paint from Gansai Tambi Starry Colors.

I also added some Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix and new Iridescent Heart Confetti Mix.

This is just another look of the card.

For my next project, I simply just used the Pretty Petunias Stamp set, and Coordinating Die set.

To begin, I first stamped my images on a white cardstock and color them with Copic Markers and die-cut with Pretty Petunias Coordinating Die set. The “friend” die-cut is new. It’s from the Hello Friend Script Die Set. The “friend” was die-cut three times and colored with Copic Markers.

For the background, I distressed it with Distress Ink in Barn Door and Papertrey Ink Melon Berry.

These flowers have lots of possibilities, I added some white dots to give it more interest. I also die-cut a strip of melon berry cardstock using the Scallop Borders 1 to complete the look.

I hope you enjoyed my take on these goodies. Remember the Pretty Pink Posh will be opening up again on January 4th and we’ll continue to have sneak peeks leading up to our release on January 10th!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Until next time…

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Christmas Theme & Giveaway Week- Day 7

Hello, everyone ! Marge here today. Christmas is coming around, and I hope you are enjoying cardmaking for Christmas & Holiday. Today, I’m sharing clean and simple window cards with you. To make these, I used some of the brand new November Release products at Pretty Pink Posh.
 

First, I die cut small stitched holly leaves and berries from watercolor paper using Festive Holly Dies, and watercolored them ​with Distress ink reinkers (Peeled Paint, Gathered Twigs, and Fired Brick). I found that coloring using reinkers give more bright and rich colors than blending with the same colored inks.

Then, I made an A2-sized top-folded card base, picked out a smaller frame die from Window Frames Dies set,  and make a semi-round window on the front panel of the cardbase. To make patterned background, I stamped two snowflakes images from Holiday Greetings Stamp Set on the front panel using Arctic dye ink cube. Next, I stamped sentiments and mini images from Holiday Greetings Stamp Set on the inside panel , so that the sentiments could be seen through the die cut window.
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Next, I decorated the front panel using Winter Woodland Stamp Set and Woodland Critters Coorrdinating Dies, then I adhered holly leaves and berries on the top of the round frame using foam tapes. I also rounded a string on the top of the card, then finished it off with adding some sequins. To give it a clean look, I only wanted to use clear sequins for embellishment, so  Sparkling Clear Snowflakes Sequins Mix and 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins were used.

In the first card, I made a one layer copic colored scene.

In the second card, I gave some dimension by adding diecut images on the front panel using foam tapes. I also gave it some color accent by using red-white twine as shown below.

In the third card, I used brown  leaves, and I colored critters in gray tones to maintain overall neutral look.

So I could make three cards very quickly at one sitting. I really loved how the bright colored leaves and berries pop off the white background and I also loved shadowing of window frame on the sentiments that are shown through.
Tips:
1. Would be better if you use heavy-weight card stock (e.g. 110lb or more) to make these cards
2. For the one layer copic colored card, be sure to use heavy-weight copic friendly card stock .
3. Putting a 3mm sparkling sequin onto the sparkling snowflake sequin make the snowflake look really sparkling.
 
Now it’s time for our last giveaway of the week. Today we are giving away a MISTI stamping tool (or you can choose the Mini)!

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That’s it for today. Thank you so much for reading this post. We hope you have enjoyed our week of Christmas holiday projects. If you haven’t already, be sure to leave comments on each point for your chance at the giveaway for that day!