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Colorful Umbrellas

Hello friends!!

Amy here today to share my first card as a Pretty Pink Posh designer. I am so happy to join sweet Paulina’s team! ☺

For my card today, I have used Rainy Days Stamp Set and Rainy Days Additions Stamp Set. These two sets coordinate perfectly! The umbrellas remind me of rain, which is very common in Seattle. However, rainy days don’t have to be bad days. Let’s brighten it up with rainbow umbrellas!

Here is how I made my card:

Stamp umbrellas from Rainy Days and Rainy Days Additions with distress inks. I have used (from top left) Fired Brick, Tea Dye, Picked Raspberry, Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, Seedless Preserves and Peacock Feathers.
Add shading and highlight to each umbrella with the same inks using a wet paint brush. Paint the background with teal blue watercolor paints. This creates a perfect rainy sky!
Die cut the panel with Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die. Mount with craft foam on white card base
White heat emboss the sentiment on black cardstock. Mount with foam tape
Lastly, embellish with sequins. I have used 3mm Clear Sparkling, 4mm Clear Droplets, 6mm Sparkling Clear, 4mm Strawberry Burst, 4mm Blue Lagoon and 4mm Lavender Moon.

Pretty Pink Posh: Sending You Joy and Sunshine

I am addicted to colored sequins these days! They are so fun to use with my favorite Sparkling Clear sequins!

That’s it for today. Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful day! ☺

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Sweet Foxes

Hello, Anna Kossakovskaya is here today with my second guest designer post,and todayI have another card created using Fox Friends set to share with you.

I stamped all foxes from the set using gray inks for the next coloring – such light silhouettes make the card softer. For cutting, I used the Fox Friends coordinating dies. Then I made the background – I cut the front panel using the Scallop Borders, blended it with two Distress inks, sprinkled with the water to get some spots and glued to the card base.

Then I cut three ovals using Stitched Tags Die – one for each of foxes – and stuck them to the panel with the foam tape to add the dimensions. Afterwards I placed the foxes on the ovals.

The final details are the sentiment under the front panel and some sequins: 6mm Peacock Feathers, 6mm Sunshine Glow, 4MM Sparkling Clear and 4mm Clear Droplets (small).

A big thank you to Anna for being a guest designer this month. She is so very talented and I love the chances we get to work together!

Be sure to visit the blog tomorrow… we’ll be making our DT announcement and hosting a $100 gift certificate giveaway!

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Creating Felt Flowers + PDF Download

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I am stretching my dies and using them to make flowers for an elegant Sending Hugs card.

Dies are such versatile tools and you can do so much using them. In one of my previous blog posts I shared a card where I used one of Pretty Pink Posh dies to die cut canvas, today I’m going to die cut felt and manipulate the die shapes slightly to create florals.

Before we get start I’d like to point out that you can use your thin dies to die cut felt, but not all brands felt will cut equally nicely. I suggest staying away from the cheapest felt and going with something a bit more expensive if you’d like to get a nice clean cut with your dies. I have a few different brands of felt and some die cut okay, some die cut beautifully, others don’t cut at all. My favorites so far are Simon Says Stamp and WPlus9.

So grab your felt and Pretty Pink Posh dies and start die cutting! I’m using a scalloped border die from the Stitched Borders 1 set and also an inner circle die from the Stitched Duo 2 set.

The scalloped border die gives you a nice border which you’ll need to trim with your scissors. I like to trim mine pretty close to the scallops, this way when I roll my flowers they end up being not too dimensional (not too tall). You can also use border die from the Stitched Borders 2 set, Stitched Borders 3 and Stitched Borders 4. If you have all of these sets you can even mix and match your die cuts and have flowers with different size petals. To create the flower simply roll the scalloped strip and secure the end with glue. I used Glossy Accents, however a hot glue gun would probably be a better option.

You can also create flowers out of circles. Here I’ve die cut a few using the inner die from the Stitched Duo 2 set and used white thread to pinch the middle of the circle to create tiny blooms. If you’d like to have bigger flowers, use a circle die from the Stitched Essentials 1 set or even from the Stitched Banners Duo 2.

No flowers look complete without a few leaves, so I used a branch from the Holiday Pals die set to die a few leaves for my floral clusters.

To put this card together I also created a mini see-through shaker by using a die from the Stitched Essentials 1 set along with tiny silver confetti stars and smallest clear sequins from my Sparkling Clear Sequin Mix. I die cut one more tag out of dark gray cardstock by using a die from the Mini Tag die set. The sentiment, Sending Hugs, was heat embossed in white embossing powder onto vellum and the vellum strip was wrapped around the card.

I also added one tiny banner die cut out of felt to continue the overall felt theme and embellished my card with a number of clear sequins.

Assortment of Felt: Simon Says Stamp
Versmark: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Heat Tool: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Wow Bright White Embossing Powder: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp

Have fun cardmaking!

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Throwback Thursday: Storybook 1

Hi everyone! Amy K. here with a bright summery card featuring an older but wonderful die called Storybook 1. I’m sharing this for our monthly Throwback Thursday feature!

I wanted to use the Blissful Butterflies from the recent release again before summer is over. I began by nesting the largest Scallop Frame die along with the Storybook 1 die. This gives a large(r) frame to make my shaker PLUS it gives such a pretty border around the Storybook 1 die. I masked off the area where my shaker contents would go and blended Tumbled Glass Distress Ink to my top folding white notecard.

I added some sequins in 4mm and 6mm Marigold, Tangerine, and Sparkling Clear along with some Iridescent Star Confetti to my shaker. I added my large frame with foam adhesive and sealed the edges. To the front of my card, I added some Copic colored Blissful Butterflies with foam adhesive. Lastly, I added my stamped and die cut “hello” to the lower right corner of my shaker card.

Along with this sweet shaker card that Amy has shared with us, I have a few cards that have used the Storybook 1 in the past. Click on the photos below to see the original post from the designers.

Thanks for visiting the blog today! I hope you are inspired to create new cards using this older, versatile die!

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Tutorial: Creating Colored Droplets

Welcome back everyone! It’s Nina-Marie here with you today featuring a fun technique on coloring your Pretty Pink Posh Clear Droplets to create gorgeous embellishments for your cards!

I love using Clear Droplets on my cards; because they are clear, this makes them perfect for using with just about any style of project! However, sometimes you might find you want them to be a specific color to coordinate better with your card, or to create a certain effect. Well, by using some Copic refill ink, you can do just that!

I used refills for this technique today, but bear in mind you can color over the Clear Droplets with markers instead. Since I was creating a lot of the same color of droplets, I ended up using the Copic refills because it was faster than coloring with an individual marker.

For those of you looking for other alternatives to recreate this technique: Copic ink is alcohol based; and while I haven’t tried it personally, I would imagine that other alcohol inks like Ranger Adirondacks, Nuvo/Tonic Creative Pens, Chameleon Pens, Touch Twin Markers and others would also work. Just do some testing before trying it on a specific project!

In today’s video, I’ll be sharing the steps I took to create the colored Clear Droplets, including a few tips and tricks! I’ll then walk you through how I used those droplets to create the sweet scene card you see in the photos, using Pretty Pink Posh dies and stamps from My Favorite Things!

Watch the video above I Watch the video in HD on YouTube Thanks for stopping by and spending some time with me!

xoxo, Nina-Marie

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Distressed Watercolor Scene + Giveaway

Hello everyone, Joni here with another tutorial sharing how to do a splattered background with distress inks. On this project I used the new Rainy Days Additions and Fox Friends stamp sets and Fox Friends Coordinating die set.

To begin I first stamped the sentiment from Rainy Days Additions stamp set “joy and sunshine” with Versamark ink and then white heat embossed with white embossing powder. Next, I distressed it with Wild Honey, Worn Lipstick, and Evergreen Bough.

Next, I smooshed some of the distress ink on the acrylic block, I added some water and used my brushed to gather the colored water and splattered it on the white panel. I did used all of the three distress inks for splattering.

Next, I colored the fox with Copic markers. I stamped the puddle of water, clouds and umbrella from the Rainy Days Additions stamp set. The umbrella handle is from the original Rainy Days stamp set.

This image below is showing you the water puddle. Such a simple image but it adds so much to the card!

The die-cut images for this project were adhered with foam tape for dimensions. I also added the new Pewter sequins which I think is my new favorite now. The sentiment “sending you” is also from the Rainy Days Additions as well.

Here is a detailed look at the card.

Fox Friends stamp set
Rainy Days Additions stamp set
Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Amazon // Ellen Hutson
Mini Ink Blending Tools: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Mini Ink Foam Refills: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp

We also wanted to have a giveaway in this post for a chance to win the brand new sets featured, along with the Pewter sequins! Enter the giveaway below…

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I hope you guys enjoyed! Have a wonderful week ahead!

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Sending You Joy and Sunshine

Hello friends!!

This is Amy! I am back today to share another card using Pretty Pink Posh supplies. I am playing with the Rainy Days Additions set. This set is so cute!!

Here is how I made my card:

White heat emboss the clouds from Rainy Days Additions all over a watercolor panel
Blend rainbow colors of distress inks on top and add water with a paint brush. The colors I used are Worn Lipstick, Dried Marigold, Fossilized Amber, Lucky Clover and Peacock Feathers
Die cut the right side of the panel with Scallop Borders Die. Mount the panel on a card base matted with patterned paper
White heat emboss the sentiment on black cardstock. Cut out a banner. Add some twine to embellish
Lastly, I embellish with PPP Sparkling Clear sequins and 4mm Clear Droplets

That’s it for today. Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful day! ☺

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Tutorial: Butterfly Shakers

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here to share a couple Butterfly theme shaker cards again using some of the NEW release from Pretty Pink Posh – SOOOO much to love!

For these cards I combined the large butterfly die from Blissful Butterflies Coordinating Dies with some of the smaller images from the Blissful Butterflies Stamp Set – and some distress inking, one of my favorite techniques lately!

To begin with, I cut my card front using the fabulous new Storybook 5 die from white cardstock, then cut it again out of kraft cardstock to get the center windows. I then used the large butterfly die to make a window for my shaker.

Next, I used some Versamark ink to stamp the solid tiny butterfly from the stamp set randomly over the white background, sprinkled with clear embossing powder, and heat set – at this point, the butterflies are invisible…

THEN – I blended distress inks over the background – see how the white butterflies magically appeared? Then I took the tiny outline butterfly stamp set, and stamped it around the outside as well, but in the same distress ink color as was blended on each area – in this next photo, you can see how the right hand card front was already done this way – doesn’t it add so much to the background?

Finally, I added the butterfly trail to the shaker part, and stamped a sentiment from Camping Friends Stamp set, and heat embossed them both in white, then added the acetate and foam adhesive to these pieces to form the shaker element – which is filled with the new size 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins – such a PERFECT size for shaker cards, and I’m pretty sure they are extra sparkly!!!

Here is a close up look at the finished cards:

See what I mean? Don’t you think those sequins are especially sparkly?

I love how just changing the distress ink colors helps change the entire feel of the card:

That small size sequin moves especially well in the shaker cards too – small enough that I only had to use one layer of foam adhesive, and it still moves freely.

Pretty Pink Posh: Die Cut Rainbow Background

3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins
Storybook 5
Tim Holtz Distress Cubes: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Mini Ink Blending Tools: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Mini Ink Foam Refills: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp

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Camping Shaker + PDF Download

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have a video tutorial to share today featuring one of the new stamps & dies- Camping Friends.

To create the shaker area for this project I used a coordinating die, not a stand alone die, and die cut a tent window in a rectangle panel. I often like to use my coordinating dies on their own without the stamps and using the die like this is a great example of how you can stretch the use of dies beyond just using them with their matching stamps.

I also filmed a video tutorial to walk you through the cardmaking process from start to finish.

Watch the video above I Watch the video in HD on YouTube Instead of using acetate for my shaker window, I once again used vellum. If you missed my earlier post, click here. The reason I went with vellum here is because when using vellum, unlike acetate, I’m able to emboss it. I embossed a tent image in Gold Embossing powder (I made two identical cards and for the other card I used Simon’s Antique Gold embossing powder) and adhered vellum screen onto the die cut rectangle from behind.

Tip: when using acetate you won’t be able to heat emboss it unless the acetate is heat resistant, but you can stamp on acetate with special kind of ink like StazOn. You can also stamp on vellum and there are a lot of different kinds of ink what will dry on vellum surface.

Instead of using regular white and brown cardstock, I used woodgrain textured card as I feel is was a perfect match for this nature-themed project. I also added a bit of natural twine to the mix.

To finish this card I heat embossed, watercolored and die cut several additional images from the Camping Friends stamp set, foam mounted them onto the shaker panel and embellished my card with 4mm and 10mm Rose Gold sequins as well as 4mm and 6mm clear droplets.

Camping Friends stamp set
Daniel Smith Watercolors: Amazon // Ellen Hutson
Versamark: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp
Heat Tool: Amazon // Ellen Hutson // Simon Says Stamp

Happy cardmaking! Thanks for joining us today!

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August Product Release Blog Hop Day 2

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

I don’t know about you, but yesterday I was so inspired by all the amazing inspiration. It’s amazing how just a few products can create so many unique cards! I have even more talented designers and special guests for you today and let’s just say, you are going to want to craft after you see what they made!

Today we have Vera sharing a sweet card using the new so many of the new products. On this card she uses the Fox Friends stamp set, Camping Friends stamp set, Rainy Days Additions stamp set, Blissful Butterflies stamp set, Mini Storybook 1 die and also the Scallop Border dies.

I stamped the fox image on Bristol paper with Versafine Ink, colored with Copic markers, and then I cut it with the coordinating dies. I then stamped the clouds using a gray ink pad and then heat embossed “miss you” on it. As usual, I had to finish it off with my favorite Sparkling Clear sequins.

For the rest of the details on how I created my card, I will show in my five minutes video. Click the graphic below to watch it!

Ready to hop along and see LOTS more fabulous inspiration with this 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 August 17, 2016 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!

Yana Smakula

Nichol Spohr Magouirk

Kelly Latevola

Julia Altermann

Mindy Baxter

Nina-Marie Trapani

Laura Bassen

Amy Kolling

Heather Hoffman

Lisa Elton

Kristina Werner

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I hope you all enjoyed our two day blog hop and were inspired by the new products. A giant thank you to all of the talented designers who shared their inspiration!