Cards

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh’ fans! This is Yana Smakula. I love to use colored pencils to color my stamped images with, they add a lot of interest and intricate details to all sorts of images, but especially flowers. Today I’m sharing a simple coloring tutorial featuring Magnolia Flowers stamp set and Chameleon Color Tones pencils.   

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

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I selected 2 flower images from the Magnolia Flowers stamp set and my plan was to stamp them in black ink onto kraft paper, color with pencils and re-stamp flower outlines with black ink again for a nice crisp black line. To be able to do this I used a MISTI stamping tool. You can skip this step and stamp your images using a clear block and perhaps re-outline the image boundaries with a black pen, or even skip re-applying the black outline altogether, but I think taking that extra step is what makes the finished card look extra nice.

If you do use a stamping tool remember to keep the stamps in the tool and not remove them.

I wanted to use Chameleon Color Tones pencils for my coloring. This is a new to me product, something I came across when visiting the CreativeWorld show in Germany this winter. I was intrigued by these pencils because they are double sided. One pencil has 2 colors built into it, for example, a light pink and dark pink. I have a 25 pencil set, and because the pencils are double sided this gives me 50 colors, plenty to chose from to create beautifully colored images. Pencils come in a nice display case and I’ve found them to be very easy to use.

I picked a few pencils for my card: 2101 Pear and 2102 Basic colors for the green pencil; 101 Soft White (there’s also cream, but I am only used white), 801 Lychee and 802 Strawberry, and finally 901 Warm Pink along with 902 Plum.

I prefer to color with colored pencils on non white paper as when I’m coloring on white I can always use my translucent coloring mediums, such as Copic markers, for example, these pencils are opaque or semi-opaque and that means I can color with their help over not just white surfaces, but dark surfaces too and still have beautiful vibrant results. The paper I colored my image on is Neenah Desert Storm 80lb Cardstock.

Even though each pencil has 2 shades, it doesn’t mean you have to use only those shades for your coloring. I used a white pencil, and light shades from 2 different pencils to color the petals. I went back to the darker shades of my pencils to add deeper shadows and a beautiful dimension to the flower petals.

I love using colored pencils for images like these as I can sharpen my pencils to a very fine point and have the smallest, finest stroke details on my petals. This is something I can’t really achieve with Copic markers, the tip of the markers is just never that fine.

Once my coloring was done I placed the image back inside my MISTI tool, made sure nothing shifted, inked up the stamps and re-stamped the black outlines to make them crisper. There are coordinating dies available so I used mine to cut these gorgeous flowers out.

Next, I positioned the flowers on the background panel and having figured out the placement I stamped a simple “with love” sentiment in black ink. This message comes from the Floral Hearts stamp set. To spice my background up a bit, I added some splatter. For this, I used a shimmer spray from my stash and just pattered some of it into the background. Next, I used foam adhesive and adhered the flowers in place.

At this point, the background still looked a bit blank, so I decided to trim it down to a smaller size to make this card into a 4Bar instead of A2 and also to stamp some additional flowers using tone on tone stamping technique.

I pulled out my watermark embossing ink and some additional magnolias from this stamp set and stamped several flowers around the edges of the panel framing my focal point. Using the watermark ink gave me beautiful soft impressions on the paper that blended well with the rest of the background.

Finally, I used some sequins and jewels to embellish this card. I went with pretty Easter confetti mix using just some pale pink sequins and Valentine Jewel mix using white and light pink jewels. As always, I adhered these in place using my trusty Crystal Katana tool.

We will be having new inspiration every day using a different floral set to coordinate with our floral sale. Hope you’ll join us again tomorrow!

Hi, friends! Marge here sharing two cards featuring School Friends stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh. This set is perfect for school & teacher themes!

To begin, I stamped School Friends on 80lb Neenah White Paper using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink then I colored the images with copic markers. I cut them all using School Friends Coordinating Dies.

I trimmed a piece of Bristol Paper into A2 size (4.24×5.5 inch), then I ink blended it using Distress Oxide Inks – Wild Honey, Fossilized Amber, Squeezed Lemonade, Mermaid Lagoon and Peacock Feathers from bottom to top.To give some interesting layout to the card, I die cut the inked panel using Storybook 1 Dies. Among the three windows created by Storybook 1 Dies, two were to for shaker window and one for chalkboard. I die cut Storybook 1 Dies out of black card stock again, heat embossed sentiment in white and then I added a little bit of white pigment ink around the edges by just using my fingertip.  To give some dimension to the chalkboard, I layered  4 pieces including the top one. 

In order to make a shaker, background panel was inked with Distress Oxide inks in Fossilized Amber and Picked Raspberry. I put a variety sequins in the shaker which included 4mm and 6mm Ballerina Pink, 4mm and 6mm Raspberry, 4mm Champagne, 6mm Champagne, 4mm and 6mm Lemon Meringue, Cotton Candy Seed Beads, Pewter Seed Beads, Sparkling Clear Seed Beads, and Gold Shimmer Seed Beads.

Colored images were then adhered using glue and foam tapes. I put the panel onto a card base made of 110 Neenah White then I added Sparkling Clear Sequins Mix as a final embellishment.

For my second card, I diecut 110 Neenah White paper and  red cardstock using Scallop Borders 2 Dies and adhered them.  Sentiment was heat embossed on red cardstock in white and I die cut it using Mini Tags Dies Set.

I used mini hearts paper from Pebbles Forever My Always  6×6 paper pad as a background panel. To add some lovely mood I added Ivory Twine Ribbon. 

The floor shades were made by copic coloring : E30-E51-E50. After I adhered the School Friends images, I embellished the card by adding Metallic Gold Jewels, Buttercream Jewels, and 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins.

I hope you can take advantage of this great sale. Have a great rest of your week!

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana Smakula. I rarely make shaped cards now and frankly, this is something I really miss from my early card making days. When I saw the Spring Wreath stamp set by Pretty Pink Posh I knew it was perfect to use for a cute little circle card. It’s like it was made just for that!

If you are not into shaped cards and prefer regular A2 card size and format you can easily incorporate my today’s idea into a traditional format card.

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

I started working on my project by stamping the Spring Wreath in black ink on regular white paper. I wasn’t sure which coloring medium I wanted to use for this card, but having just received a set of Dual Ended Chameleon pencils in the mail I wanted to give them a go. For this card, I picked just a handful of colors to test these pencils out.

If you are not into colored pencils, you can, of course, color this wreath using any coloring medium you like, the images here are small and don’t require a lot of work, so it’s a great image to color quickly or on the go.

Once my wreath was colored I also stamped a darling butterfly from the Beautiful Butterflies set and another separate flower from the Spring Wreath set and again colored both images using same dual ended Chameleon pencils.

There are coordinating dies available for both of these stamp sets, I used mine to cut the wreath, individual flower and also the butterfly out.

Next, I stamped a sentiment for this card that reads Spring Greetings, it comes from the Spring Wreath stamp set. I stamped it on dark yellow cardstock and heat embossed in white embossing powder, once it was ready I trimmed t into a skinny strip.

From this point, if you prefer a standard format card you can create a regular A2 card base and follow the tutorial. I however wanted to make a circle card so I die-cut a circle card base using a regular circle die. I first created an A2 card base out of light yellow cardstock and next used the die to cut it into a circle. I made sure the die blade went outside the fold of the card so that I didn’t just die cut 2 circles, but rather a circle card base.

Next, I used lots of foam adhesive squares to foam mount the colored wreath on to the card. Before I adhered it in place I added some white twine to be able to tie it into a bow later. It just adds a nice finishing touch to the card.

I made a V-shaped cut on the right-hand side end of the sentiment strip and having figured out the placement I adhered it in place using glue, I only added glue where the strip overlapped the wreath. I used different shades of yellow of cardstock for the card base and sentiment strip so that they won’t blend together.

I also shaped the butterfly a bit and adhered it onto the card using foam adhesive to pop it up above the background. I also foam mounted the individual flower I had colored.

Finally, I used a mix of sequins from the Easter mix and also small clear droplets to embellish this card. I adhered them in place using liquid glue.

I think these cards turned out really beautiful. I hope you like them! Have fun stamping!