Cards

Happy Monday!

I’m so excited to share these two adorable cards by Liz on the blog today. She always has such creative and vibrant cards and I know you’ll love these cards, too. Let’s dive right into her post…

For this first card, I used these fabulous new Scallop Circles Dies as it’s hard to resist not to use with all the amazing stitched details. Plus, I love how it cuts through the cardstock with a clean cut. Also, I used the new Birdie Friends stamp set as it’s so versatile with all the sentiments and cute images.

In addition, I pulled out this adorable bird from the Birdie Notes collection which I water colored using Zig Clean Color Real Brush to create another shaker card.

I’m head over heels about this new sequin Easter mix so I wanted to make sure to use again. Also, if you notice, I have some little flowers on the acetate. This is from the Spring Flower mix and thought it went perfect with this Hello Friend card.

Can you tell what else is new? It’s these tiny mini scallop borders from the new Stitched Borders 4 collection and let me say, these are absolutely wonderful and beautiful clean cuts.

On this next card, I had more fun using the new Stitched Borders 4 collection with these big stitched scallop borders, so I cut several of them using card stock from the Sweet Treats pack of Simon Says Stamp.

Next, I cut a strip of green apple cardstock to place on top of all the scallops, but since I wanted it with stitches, I pulled out the Stitched Borders 2 die set and used the stitched row.

As I was creating this card, I wanted something underneath the little bird, so I pulled out Stitched Photo Frames and die cut the largest one. Not only do you get a frame, but also this amazing small stitched rectangle which was the perfect size for this card!

Next, I water colored this adorable bird and little chick from the new Birdie Friends stamp set along with the matching coordinating dies which made it easy to cut the images out and pop them up for dimension. The tiny little bow is from the Holiday Pals set. Last but not least, I added the sentiment and some 4mm Sparkling Clear sequins.

I hope you all enjoyed today’s post and these cards by Liz. Join us on Wednesday as we’ll have a super fun post sharing how to organize/ swatch your ink pads, along with a video.

Have a great start to your week!

Hi there everyone, it’s Nina-Marie here today to share a fun, half-circle window scene card with you as part of our Easter theme week!

I love creating scenes and the new Pretty Pink Posh Window Frame dies are perfect for making something a bit different shape then the usual full-circle windows.

To start off, I have used the Lawn Fawn Happy Easter stamp set to create the images for my scene; I stamped them all onto white cardstock using black ink and colored them all with Copics. I’ve got the colors broken out below for easy reference:

• Bunny: Eoooo, E50, E30, E31, RV00, R20, C1, C3
• Bird: Y000, Y11, Y15, YR23, R20
• Eggs: Y000, Y11, BG0000, BG10, RV00, RV10, G00, YG41
• Tulips: RV00, RV10, Y11, Y15, BG0000, BG01
• Grass (die cut) YG61, YG97, YG95, BG93

After coloring, I fussy cut everything out and added a few additional details using a white gel pen.

To put my scene together, I started off by die cutting a large panel from a Simon Says Stamp Stitched Rectangle die and the Pretty Pink Posh Window Frame die; the negative half circle piece from the window I saved for using as the background to my scene. I stamped a light yellow bunny background using the Peeps Background cling from Simon Says Stamp.

I colored the negative half circle with Cracked Pistachio distress ink and layered the following elements on top (in order): a white cloud border (Puffy Clouds border die from Lawn Fawn), a white fence (Picket Fence die from Pretty Pink Posh), and a strip of green grass (Grassy Hills border die from My Favorite Things).

I tucked all the images I colored around the window scene and laid the entire piece back inside the die cut window frame I had die cut previously. I added Wink Of Stella clear glitter, Glossy Accents and a heat embossed sentiment onto the card. And of course, I used some Pretty Pink Posh sequins and confetti to finish things off (Iridescent Mini Heart confetti and Easter Mix sequins).

If you have missed any of the previous posts, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

I hope you have enjoyed today’s inspiration and I’m so glad you stopped by to spend some time with me! Happy Creating!

xoxo, Nina-Marie

Hi everyone!  It’s Carissa here.  Thanks for stopping by today and for joining in all of the fun of the Pretty Pink Posh Easter Week.  I have a fun little shaker card for you today, featuring that adorable little birdie from the Birdie Notes stamp set along with the Stitched Photo Frames Dies and Stitched Borders 4 Dies.  Lots of Pretty Pink Posh goodness on this card.

I started out by stamping my little chick-a-dee in some black ink.  I used  permanent ink, as I knew I was going to watercolor this little guy with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers.  I used Lemon Yellow, Yellow and Bright Yellow to watercolor this little guy.  Rather than take the markers directly to the cardstock, I decided to pick up the ink from an acrylic block using a watercolor brush.  This gave me a little more control over the intensity of the color from the get go.  I knew I was going for a more watercolor look, and I didn’t want to overdo it on the first stroke. :)

I also used an egg stamp from the Simon Says Stamp Melody’s Easter stamp set.  I stamped the egg in several soft spring colors.  I used the Simon Says Stamp hybrid ink cubes in Lake Shores, Twirling Tutu and Willow for my eggs.

Once all my stamping and coloring was done, I used the coordinating dies to cut out my images.  I usually hold my dies in place with a little micropore tape as I run them through my Big Shot.  This prevents them from shifting around and eliminates the oopsies that can sometimes come with die cutting colored images.

I also cut the Stitched Photo Frames die.  I used a little bit of textured cardstock for my frame.  I love the…well for lack of a better word…texture that this card stock adds.  A simple little touch like this can make all the difference in the world.  I used the same die to cut some fun foam as well.  This will allow me to create the shaker window on the front of the card and eliminates the frustration of cutting down tiny pieces of foam tape to add to the back of the die cut piece.

Building the shaker window up off of the card front is one of my favorite ways to create shakers.

I filled my shaker window with some Pretty Pink Posh goodness and some of the die cut eggs as well.  I used the 4mm Sparkling Clear Sequins and the Silver Shimmer Seed Beads to create subtle shimmer inside the shaker window.  I love the movement that the seed beads add inside shakers.  It adds a fun noise element too that you don’t get with just sequins.  I also sprinkled a few of the sequins outside of the shaker window as well.

I used the scallop edge border from the new Stitched Borders 4 die to add a fun shaped element to my card front.  I also used the same border die to cut some metallic gold cardstock.  I just mounted the card front slightly offset from the gold to create a beautiful double scallop edge.  I embossed my greeting on the bottom of my card front using some gold embossing powder from Ranger.   This ties in the gold that I used to mat my card front.

For my card base, I used the Bazzill Pale Rose card stock.  This is one of my favorite pinks.  It’s just so soft and subtle and very springy!

I added my shaker window to my card front and added my adorable little chick as well.  I added him with foam adhesive to make him pop off of the photo frame.  I also added a few of the Easter eggs on the outside of the photo frame as well.  I adhered them using a mix of foam adhesive and tape runner adhesive to create depth.

So there you have it, a fun idea for an Easter card featuring a whole bunch of Pretty Pink Posh goodness, new and old.  I hope you’ve enjoyed this project.

If you have missed any of the previous posts, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.

I don’t know about you, but now I’m inspired to create all sorts of cute Easter projects. I hope you’ve been inspired with our theme week so far. We still have two more days of inspiration to share!

See you tomorrow…