I die cut the header of my card using Scallop Border dies on white cardstock with size 5.5″ x 1.5″ (my card size is 5.5″ x 4.25″) and then I heat embossed the sentiment with Liquid Platinum embossing powder. To finished my card, I added here and there with my favorite Sparkling Clear Sequins.
Here’s a video to show how I created my card from the start to finish.
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have a video tutorial to share today showing you how to create one of my favorite type of cards – layered & dimensional!
My “secret ingredient” for these kind of projects is the use of special patterned paper and also stitching and I talk about both of these in detail on my video.
Often when I start working on cards that involve a lot of layers I like to build my future card design on my desk by using dies and stamps themselves, I find this to be very helpful especially when I want to visualize my card design and check if the size and shape of the dies I selected work well together.
From there I move onto picking out the right patterned paper. I have a favorite brand that I love to use whenever I use dies. The brand is called Trimcraft First Edition and they are from UK, but their papers are available on Amazon. The reason I adore them is for their “special effects” as I like to call them, their papers often have special coatings and finishes are are fantastic for such projects.
If you don’t have this type of paper you can always use other patterned paper or even stamp your own using paper design using stamps.
Each layer was cut out of patterned paper, the background layer pieces were all adhered together so that I could add machine zig zag stitching around the edges. I love adding stitching to my cards as it adds a lot to the handmade look and feel of my projects.
The scalloped circle layer and also the tag were both foam mounted for a pop of dimension and so was the little watercolored Fox Friend.
Hi there, Jeanne here. Have you noticed? The leaves are changing colors and there’s a crispness in the air! Fall is officially here! It’s that special time of year when we take the festivities indoors and welcome family and friends into our homes and hearts.
Thanksgiving is always at our house – we have as many people as we can fit around the table and there’s always great food and conversation! I like to send out personal invitations, and special notes to those who can’t make it this time… just to let them know we’re thinking about them as we’re separated by the miles.
I’m smitten with these adorable pilgrims from the Giving Thanks Stamp Set. The set has lots of extras – pumpkins, leaves, and sentiments in the prettiest script font. There’s even a Giving Thanks coordinating die set that has a stamp for each of the images in the set making crafting a breeze!
I created a scene inside a Scallop Circles die – this is the larger of the two circles in the set. It’s perfect for an A2 size card (4.25 x 5.5”). Scalloped on the inside and beautiful stitching on the outer edges, these Scallop Circles make everything just a little more elegant! Landscapes couldn’t be easier using the border dies from Pretty Pink Posh. There’s lots of different style borders to choose from. I chose the Scallop Borders Die Set. They coordinate perfectly with the Scallop Circles!
The finishing touch was a sprinkle of Sparkling Clear Sequins – who doesn’t love a little shimmer?
To close out our Thanksgiving theme week, we’re hosting a giveaway for a $50 Pretty Pink Posh gift certificate. Leave a comment sharing what theme week, or collaboration, you’d like to see in the future and you could win this prize!
Hi there, Joy here today, sharing my creation for the Thanksgiving Theme Week…
Being that I live in Australia, we don’t actually celebrate Thanksgiving, however, that being said I could not possibly go past making a card for someone that needs a little thanks, and what is better then using the Giving Thanks stamp and coordinating die set. Let’s jump in and I will tell you how I created this cutie…
I started out by die cutting a piece of white card stock using the Stitched Hexagons, on the centre hexagon that die cut out I stamped out a sentiment from the stamp set in some red ink, setting aside to work on the images…
The images I stamped out and coloured in with my Copics and went about die cutting them all out, I die cut quite a few out so as to have as many images as I need for my design…
Next was, to put the card together, I trimmed a piece of Kraft card stock to form the card base, with the trimmed white piece I foam mounted that to the card base and with the other die cut hexagon that had the sentiment stamped I adhered it straight to the card front…along the base of the card I added my images to form a very festive bounty look and completed the card by adding a scattering of Metallic Gold Sequins.
So even if you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving there are still ways of giving thanks and with this Pretty Pink Posh set there are so many options to give thanks in the form of a card…
If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards and projects, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.
Thanks for stopping by! I hope we have inspired you to create a fall project or card of your own!
Hi! It’s Melody here on the blog today sharing my project for the Thanksgiving Theme Week! I am going to my sister’s house for Thanksgiving and wanted to bring her a little gift for hosting us all. I am using theGiving Thanks Stamp Set and the Giving Thanks Coordinating Dies for my project.
I started with a kraft gift bag and randomly stamped leaves from the Giving Thanks Stamp Set. This a quick and easy way to dress up a simple bag.
Next I covered a tag with watercolor paper. I stamped the sentiment in gold ink and embossed with gold embossing powder and then used distress inks to create the background. I colored a variety of pumpkins, acorns and leaves with Copic Markers and die cut with the Giving Thanks Coordinating Dies and attached them to the tag. I used 6mm Metallic Gold Sequins and 4mm Metallic Gold Sequins to finish off the tag.
Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather dropping by with a couple cards and a tutorial for Thanksgiving Theme Week here on the Pretty Pink Posh blog!
For my cards today, I used some of the smaller elements in the Giving Thanks stamp set, and one of the larger sentiments paired up with a heat embossing and distress inking technique to get a unique one layer effect on my cards!
I started off by using an embossing powder tool over my white cardstock to keep the embossing powder confined to only where I stamped. I then stamped my small images in a random pattern in Clear Embossing Ink, then stamped my sentiment over the top with black Versafine ink – THEN, all at once, I sprinkled on Clear Embossing Powder and heat set it all at once. This way you have one layer of heat embossing.
Here you can see the effect – the small images are nearly invisible at this point.
Then the magic – using foam blending tools, add your distress inks over the top – the heat embossed areas will resist the distress ink, and almost magically appear!
Finally, I added some splatters of water and Gold Color Shine for some additional texture, then attached some Sparkling Clear Sequins before mounting on a kraft card base.
Such a fun way to add texture and interest to a flat card!
Here is a closer look at both cards.
What do you think – do you have a favorite? Do you like to give cards for Thanksgiving?
Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you are having a wonderful day!!!
If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards and projects, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.
Liz here and today I’m sharing a card for Day 2 of our Thanksgiving Theme Week.
I’ve been having lots of fun playing with this adorable Giving Thanks set as it has a lot of fun critters and images to color and a variety of fall leaves. Also, I love using the Coordinating Dies to help me cut them out, especially the tiny ones.
Since I love shakers, I thought to create another one and use the Mini Storybook 1 as I love the dual stitching feature which means that after you run the die through the cutting machine, the negative piece is left with stitching. Here you can see the stitching around the window frame.
Here, I placed the window die on the upper part of the card and ran it through the die cutting machine. Than I thought it would be nice to add a border 3/4 down, so I pulled out these cute Scallop Border and placed it down on the same piece I just die cut before running it again through cutting machine.
I wanted a contrasting color between the white cardstock and the plaid paper, so I die cut another Scallop Border and used some chocolate card stock which I glued onto the white piece by lining it up.
For the inside of the shaker, I created some clouds and grass by doing some ink blending and glued down some new 1/4″ Gold Star Confettiso they don’t fall down when shaking and added these wonderful 4mm Autumn Harvest Mix sequins perfect for fall.
I hope you liked today’s post. Be sure to join us tomorrow for another day of Thanksgiving inspiration!
If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards and projects, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.
This card is easy to make. I stamped the images from the Giving Thanks and Camping Friendsstamp sets. The images and ground were colored with Copic markers. The measurement of the card base is 7 ¼ x 4 ¼.
Next, I distressed the top of the ground to give it an interest in colors.
Finally, I stamped the sentiment “Happy Thanksgiving” from Giving Thanks stamp set and the “hello there” was from the Camping Friends stamp set. I also added some Sparkling Clear sequins to finish it off.
I hope you enjoyed! Enjoy the rest of our Thanksgiving Theme Week!
If you have missed any of our other Thanksgiving cards and projects, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.
On a watercolor paper, blend Altenew Ruby Red and Grapevine inks using a mini blending tool. Die cut out with Mini Storybook 1 Die. Add white watercolor splatters and Perfect Pearl solution
Die cut another watercolor paper with the same die, blend the little pieces with Altenew Evergreen ink
Hello and Happy Halloween! It’s Keeway again and I’m back for my second guest post for Pretty Pink Posh. For all of you taking the kids out for trick or treating, stay safe! I recently moved to my first home only a week ago and my neighbors have decorated their homes for all the trick or treaters tonight. I hope there’s a nice turnout or else I’m going to end up with a lot of candy…eeks!
Hopefully your Halloween cards are all sent out, cause it’s time to get started on those winter holiday cards! Have you seen how cute the holiday sets in the October release are? Today I’ll be showing off one of them today, the Winter Wonderland stamp set.
Admittedly, today’s card took quite a bit of time since there’s a lot of layers involved even though it might not look like it! I started with blue A2 sized card stock and die cut Storybook 1 in the center. Then I heat embossed a few snowflakes from the stamp set in white in the top left and bottom right corners.
Next, I die cut the same Storybook 1 on white cardstock, extracted the pieces within the windows to inlay in the blue windows. I cut a curve in the top 2 pieces leaving areas window for my shaker window.
So here’s where it gets interesting and some piecing together. First, I adhered a piece of acetate directly behind my blue cardstock. Next, I inlaid my die cut snow pieces back into the window. Then, I added craft foam in back, all around the areas outside the clear windows, leaving a small area to add some Winter Sparkle Mix Sequins.
Now to seal all the sequins in, I need to add a background. I used another piece of white cardstock, blended on some tumbled glass distress ink, and then heat embossed my sentiment “baby it’s cold outside” in silver right where it will show in the top right window. Woohoo, now the shaker scene is done!
Lastly, I stamped my the eskimo, igloo, and polar bear on white cardstock and colored them up with copic markers. Then I die cut them with the Winter Wonderland coordinating dies and adhered them to my card with foam squares. It’s finally done!
Hope you enjoy today’s post and thanks for dropping by! Thanks Paulina for having me!
