Hello friends! It’s Nina-Marie here with you today and I have a video tutorial to share with you showing how to create pearlized watercolor effects using Zig Clean Color markers and the Gansai Tambi Starry Colors watercolor palette. I’ll also be using a few Pretty Pink Posh products as well and I think you’re going to really enjoy today’s post… so let’s get started!
For those of you unfamiliar with this product, the Starry Colors watercolors are a pearl-tinted palette that has a collection of six different gold, water-based pigments. I wanted to use these with my Zig Clean Color markers to create a pearlized effect and the result is stunning! Pictures don’t really do the intense shimmer justice; in real life the shimmer is incredible!
The stamped images I used for this card are from Mama Elephant’s Freestyle Florals stamp set. The style of these images lend perfectly to the artistic style of watercoloring I did. I also used Pretty Pink Posh’s Storybook 2 die, Clear Droplets and Birdie Friends stamp set.
The video I created goes into all the details about the process of creating the pearlized watercolor effect, as well as how I put the entire card together, so I encourage you to check it out! If you enjoy, please give the video a big thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more inspiration!
We also wanted to have a giveaway in this post for a 48 pack of the popular Zig Clean Color Markers, the Starry Colors watercolors and two water brushes. Enter the giveaway below…
Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here to share a couple of fun cards – something fun that I recently tried on a whim – sort of an optical illusion that makes it look like the shaker cards are overflowing with gold and silver Mini Star Confetti!
I started off by choosing a couple different pattern papers – I love to choose papers from a single paper pad, since they usually coordinate very well together! I die cut them using the two large layers of Decorative Tag 1 Dies – cutting the scallop portion also out of white cardstock, then piecing them together by alternating the center and outer portions – this way I can use both the negative and positive cuts! I saved the pattern scallops to use another time.
I used some simple Scotch single sided tape to tape the white scallop to the outer frame from the back, then some sturdy Score Tape to attach the acetate for the shaker window.
Before attaching the acetate, I used the outer portion to position and center the inner part by applying adhesive tape, setting the outer frame where I wanted it placed, then fitting the center oval in place…
…then lifting the outer frame to be able to add the acetate and foam for the shaker.
I added a cute sentiment to each one using Birdie Friends Stamp Set – I actually mixed these up, and was going to stamp the sentiments in reverse! Didn’t notice until it was too late! :)
Next, add some foam adhesive to build the shaker. I cut strips to make the proper length – since the roll is too wide to fit, then peel off the paper backing so that it easily bends around the shape of the tag.
Finally, add the shaker elements for the inside on top of the back panel, then adhere the front panel over the top!
Now for the overflowing part – add some random little dots of Glossy Accents on each side of the frame…
…and sprinkle on some of the confetti – shaking off the excess. Once dry, the Glossy Accents does a very good job of holding it on firmly – even if you might lose an occasional one here and there.
Here is a side view of them – isn’t it a fun effect?
Today I wanted to share with you a simple tutorial in the honor of the Rainbow theme week that we had on the Pretty Pink Posh blog last week! Using a rainbow theme is one of a simple ways we can send a cheerful message to our friends and loved ones.
To begin my card, I first use a cloud template (any cloud dies you have will do) I simply die-cut a cloud on a piece of white cardstock. I distressed the white card base using Distress Ink from Ranger.
Next, I distressed different pieces of white cardstock using Distress inks and die-cut each one using the Mini Tags die set.
For the bottom of my card base, I also distressed and splatter it with water using my watercolor brush for interest.
Next, assembly time! You can use almost any kind of die-cut letters you have, or you can substitute them for stickers or alphabet dies. The cute birdie is from an all-time favorite, the Birdie Notes mini stamp set.
Did you see that we have a Rainbow challenge happening on the blog? This is the perfect time to pull out your rainbow colored products and share it with us.
I hope you guys enjoyed, thank you so much for stopping by! Have a wonderful week!
It’s been about four months since the last challenge I posted where YOU could share your Pretty Pink Posh creations. This is the perfect opportunity for me (and others) to see your stunning work. Many of my designers started as customers and once I saw their work, I invited them to join the team. Now is the time for YOU to share your creativity and beautiful works of art!
I pulled four different cards that some of my designers have created with a rainbow theme to serve as inspiration for this challenge. You could be inspired by the colors they used, stamps, layouts… it’s really up to you and your interpretation!
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If you are social on Instagram, be sure to hashtag #prettypinkposh and tag me @prettypinkposh so I can be sure to see your work there as well! I love seeing what my customers and readers create and as I’m looking to the upcoming months, I just may be in need of some new talent to join the team as a guest designer for new releases!
Hello friends, it’s Nina-Marie here with you today to share some Rainbow Theme Week inspiration on using your Distress Inks and Copics together to create a fun birthday card!
I really love the playful appearance of the Stitched Speech Bubble die set; the added stitching detail around the edges of the finishes the dies off perfectly.
For the coloring on the speech bubble dies I used Distress Inks in the following colors: Festive Berries, Ripe Persimmon, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean and Wilted Violet. On all the speech bubbles I also used my Distress Sprayer to add fun water droplets, which add a lot of interest!
The stamps I used for this card is the Cool Cat set from My Favorite Things; aren’t they adorable? They paired so well with these speech bubble dies, it was like a match made in heaven!
All of the critters are colored with Copics… I used the following colors for the cats: C00, C1, C3, C5, C7, R20, R21. I ended up fussy cutting these cats out with scissors, but you could get the coordinating dies instead.
And of course, no card would be complete without some fabulous sequins from Pretty Pink Posh! I used my absolute favorite Sparkling Clear sequins and scattered them about on the card… they add just the right amount of sparkle and shine and I LOVE the result!
Be sure to watch the video below to see how this entire card came together! If you enjoy, be sure to give it a “thumbs up” and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more inspiration!
I hope today’s card has inspired you to pull out your Pretty Pink Posh products and create some fabulous rainbow themed cards of your own! Thanks so much for spending some time with me and I hope you’ll stop back again soon!
Amy here as a guest designer. I’m so excited to join Pretty Pink Posh Rainbow theme week!!! I love rainbow colors on my cards! They make my recipients so happy! So today, I am whipping up some colorful flowers.
Here is what I come up with. More details below:
Stamp some flowers from Altenew Wild Hibiscus set onto watercolor paper using a brown waterproof ink. Stamp a separate flower onto another piece of paper
Loosely watercolor them with distress inks. Leave out one of the flowers so I can overlay it with my pink flower. Blend some Antique Linen distress ink at the corner. Add some texture with water droplets, then gold and white watercolor splatters
I die cut some white card stock using Stitched Film Strip Die for 4 times and adhered them together for a thick window. Adhere everything with glue and foam tape
Heather here to share a card for this week’s Rainbow Theme at Pretty Pink Posh!
I started off by watercoloring a rainbow background, then created a window shaker using the newStorybook 4 Die. I die cut it out of kids fun foam as well as the gray cardstock – an easy way to create separate windows for my shaker.
I added a white frame with the larger size of the Scallop Frames to set it all off, and stamped my sentiment from Birdie Friends on the inside.
Shannon here today to share a rainbow card I created for rainbow theme week! I decided I wanted to make a rainbow completely out of sequins! So that’s exactly what I did! I’m in love with the new 4 mm iridescent sequins and I thought this was a perfect way to show them off!
I started off creating my rainbow by just adhering my sequins to the paper but I noticed my rows were just wonky and did not look like a rainbow at all so I found something circular in my craft room to trace a faint half circle with. In my case I just used a roll of painters tape but you can use whatever you have on hand that would give you a good guide to start making your rainbow. After I had my rainbow traced out I started adhering my sequins following my traced line, changing colors of sequins each row. I found the best way to adhere the sequins down were to use the Zots bling dots which are just teeny tiny glue dots. I found this worked best simply because I could move my sequins around if I found I wasn’t lining them up the way I liked it.
I used the following sequin colors all in 4mm to create the rainbow:
Now that my rainbow is done onto the rest of my card, I stamped my clouds from the Rainy Days stamp set. My blue clouds are stamped with Bashful Blue ink from Stampin up and then I went in with a blue Copic marker on the edges. My larger cloud was stamped with Lavender ink from SSS.
I fussy cut my clouds out leaving a small white border and adhered towards the top of my rainbow with some fun foam to give them some dimension.
I die cut the Scallop Frames die out of white cardstock to frame my card, I also adhered some fun foam on the back of my frame to pop it up to the same dimension of my clouds. Lastly, I stamped the ‘Brighter Days’ sentiment in Dusty Concord Distress ink and the ‘Wishing You’ part of the sentiment in just black ink from SSS.
That’s it for my rainbow card today!! I just love how the rainbow full of sequins turned out!
Thanks for joining me today! Stay tuned… we have more rainbow themed cards this week AND a little birdie told me we’ll have a challenge coming soon.
If you have missed any our other rainbow inspired cards, click on the photos below to see the post from that day.
Today we are starting our Rainbow Theme Week on the Pretty Pink Posh blog! Here, I choose Pastel Rainbow colors featuring Rainy Days stamp set. Actually, I challenged myself to stretch my stamp set to create a set of card with pastel rainbow colors :)
My first set of card is happy clouds card in framed using Scallop Frames Dies. I white heat embossed the clouds and blended with distress ink pad.
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have a Get Well card with a DIY rainbow die cut background to share today.
I love to create unique and one of a kind backgrounds for my cards and I find dies to be great tools for this task. Today I’m inviting you to use one of the Pretty Pink Posh border dies to create a rainbow background.
To minimize the use of supplies (such as watercolor paper) and time I first cut a rectangle out of watercolor paper (I knew I wanted to use distress inks and add a lot of water, so I needed my paper to be able to absort water and not warp) and using a border die from the Stitched Borders 1 set cut the panel into 8 curved sections.
The number of sections was not random, I knew I wanted to have a background that resembled a rainbow, so I needed to make sure to have 7 die cut elements, the 8th one, the one on the bottom was discarded as I planned to have a bit of white space on the base of the card. If you don’t want any white space and would rather have the rainbow cover the entire card front, go with 7 sections.
The next step is all about adding color to the die cut pieces. There are a number of ways this can be done depending on the look you’d like to get. I went with Distress inks (the colors I used are: Worn Lipstick, Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon, Wild Honey, Crushed Olive, Peacock Feathers and Seedless Preserves). You can also use watercolors, alcohol markers, ink pads or even die cut individual sections out of colored cardstock.
After blending each color rather heavily onto the paper, I added lots of water drops to activate Distress inks and create beautiful effects on my background. I worked in layers – added a first layer of drops, let the water sit on the paper for about a minute, soaked up extra water with a rag, dried the paper with my heat tool and repeated the process a few more times to get the look I wanted.
Tip: You can also heat emboss outline images onto the die background in white embossing powder to add some additional texture (do so before blending ink or watercoloring to save time).
Once I was happy with the result I adhered my die cut panels onto a white cardstock panel using a tape runner and that finished the background for my card. You can also adhere these directly to the card base.
To embellish this project I first stamped and die cut an umbrella from the Rainy Days stamp set, it was a perfect match to go with my rainbow. Because the rainbow background ended up being vibrant I needed to create some sort of screen to mute a part of it and to also house the umbrella and the sentiment.
I used the smaller circle die from the Scallop Circles Die set and die cut it out of white cardstock to serve as a frame, the inner section was die cut out of vellum to serve as screen. To be able to adhere these together and to adhere onto the card (and make sure the adhesive would not be visible from under the vellum) I also die cut two clouds using dies from the Rainy Days Coordinating Die set. I did not stamp the clouds, but only used the dies on their own as I feel stamping wasn’t necessary here, these clouds have a perfect shape.
I adhered both of the clouds onto the scalloped circle and this way was able to attach the vellum to the frame. The clouds also let me hide the adhesive to adhere vellum to the background.
Lastly, I heat embossed a Get Well Soon sentiment in white embossing powder over black cardstock for a pop of contrast, adhered it onto the umbrella and foam mounted the latter over the cloud cluster. I also added a little branch from the Holiday Pals stamp set stamped in light pink ink and embellished the card with my favorite clear sequins and small Clear Droplets(I adhered those over the largest sequins).
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