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Sneak Peek: Woodland Critters

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I wanted to share a quick card using the Woodland Critters set (releases on May 1st) as well as a fun way to add details to colored images using beads.

Woodland Critters stamp set features a number of cute forest animals and a few additional images such as mushrooms and flowers. One of the critters, the hedgehog, is mirrored – there are two identical images facing each other and you can use those for spinner cards – you can have a critter on the front and back of your spinner or just have two hedgehogs looking at each other for a cute love or friendship card.

This stamp set works really well with an older Camping Friends set – many images from both of these complement each other and let you create fun scenes with woodland critters.

Since I love to stamp my own patterns I wanted to show you how you can use critters and create a partial stamped pattern for a simple card.

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

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I used Copic markers to color my stamping and I went with:

  • YG99, YG95 and YG93 to color grass, bird’s wing and butterflies;
  • E79, E37, E33 and E31 to color bear, deer and hedgehogs;
  • RV29, R24 and R22 to color mushrooms and bird’s belly;
  • W3, W5 and a colorless blender marker to color bunnies.

 After my coloring was done I foam mounted my colored panel onto an A2 top folding card base made out of white cardstock and embellished my card using beads. I wanted my hedgehogs to carry something on theirs backs, but I didn’t want to add any additional stamped and colored images (you can add mushrooms, apples and even leaves to their backs), I decided I would add beads in red, green and cream colors.

I also added several sparkling clear sequins in different sizes and tied a natural twine bow at the top of my card.

We hope you’ve been enjoying all the sneak peeks of the new sets. Join us tomorrow as we reveal all of the new products that will be available on May 1st.

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Friend Shaker Card + Video

Hi there, Joy here today bringing you a post for the Pretty Pink Posh blog using the Friends Forever set that released in March!

I have something a little different for you from me of course, I created a video, yep I don’t do them often but I do try and well once I sort out the light situation in my room maybe then I may create more LOL I do try…

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I created a couple of cards in this video and you will notice what card I share in the still shots in the video is not the one I create on the video, but I wanted to give you option of 2 different colours and how super easy these can be to create, so why make 1 when you can create 2 right..

Creating shaker cards with Pretty Pink Posh product is so fun and easy, so sit back and watch how I create these cards for you…

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Have a great day and thanks for stopping by. Be sure to join us tomorrow as we start our sneak peeks for our upcoming May 1st release!

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Stretching Your Die Cuts+ Video

Hello everyone, Vera here sharing another way to use Easter Friends coordinating dies as a non–Easter project. With a little imagination, you can create all sorts of characters with some of the dies you may already have in your stash!

For this project, I also used Friends Forever Coordinating Dies, Friends Forever Stamp Set and Everyday Greetings Stamp Set.

This is super fun project and I encourage you to try it!

First, I die cut the bunny from Easter Friends coordinating dies on bristol paper, and die cut the heart and the flowers from Friends Forever Coordinating Dies and Scallop Square Tags on white card stock. I used Copic Markers for coloring all the die cuts.

 To watch the creation of these tags from start to finish, click HERE or watch below.

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We hope that today’s post and video has inspired you to think of new ways to use your die cuts!

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Layered Pastel Easter Card

Today we have another special post by Lori Hairston. She created these darling Easter tags using both new and old Pretty Pink Posh products.

Let’s take a look at her post and video, shall we?


Hi, there!  I’m hopping by with an Easter card featuring two cute Pretty Pink Posh bunnies from the Easter Friends stamps and coordinating dies.


You might notice that one bunny is sporting a cute pair of glasses.  You can find those on the Holiday Pals stamp set.

The card base and front are die cut using the largest die from the Scallop Square Tags dies. The pieces aren’t really attached just held together with a white clothespin.  The inside sentiment is stamped on the smaller scallop square.


If you would like to see more, like how to draw the fun banner and how to watercolor the plaid, click the graphic below to watch it!

 

Happy Easter!

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Tutorial: Spring Friends Card

Hi everyone, Joni here sharing a different way of using the Stitched Notes Dies and pairing them with the Friends Forever stamp set, Easter Friends stamp set, and the Bee Friends stamp set (releasing in May 2017).

To begin, I distressed an A2 cardstock panel and die-cut with Stitched Notes Dies using the frame.

Next, I die-cut the center of the frame using one of the L dies to create a chevron pattern as a background. In this case, I also alternated some colors for my chevron.

Then, I colored these cute images. The girls and rose are from the Friends Forever stamp set, bunny from Easter Friends stamp set, bee from Bee Friends stamp set, the bow on their head is from the old favorite, Holiday Pals stamp set. All of these sets also have their coordinating die sets that are used on this project. If you did not get a chance to snatch the Bee stamp set this past released, this will be available for purchase in May 2017.

After die-cut cutting my chevron, I then put it together inside the frame and stamped the sentiment from Easter Friends stamp set “spring is here”. I also added some dots on the front panel using my Copic Markers.

The clouds are die-cut from another favorite, Rainy Days. To finish of the card I added some Lavender Moon sequins to match the card.

I hope I have inspired you to look at your products in a different way. Thank you so much for stopping by.

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Bubble Watercolor Technique

Hello everyone, Eloise here and today I have a fun card using the Bee Friends stamp set. This stamp and die set is available through the month of March with qualifying purchases (it will be available for purchase starting in May 2017). You will receive the stamp set if you spend over $80 and the die set if you spend over $125. This is before shipping and taxes and also while supplies last. This stamp set is super fun and I encourage you to try and get this stamp set while you can.

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Along with using the Bee Friends stamp set I’m going to be doing the Bubble Watercolour technique as I like to call it, and this is just something I remembered doing in primary school. You mix water, dishwashing liquid and paint, or liquid watercolour as I’m using today, mix together, blow bubbles using a straw and press your paper on top and it creates an amazing bubble watercolour look. It’s super fun and gives amazing and different results every time.

To begin my card today I’m starting off with my background. To do this technique your going to need a bowl – I’m using a large round bowl that’s not very deep and this worked great. Some water, dishwashing liquid, liquid watercolour – I’m using Dr. PH Martins in the video, but Distress Re-Inkers or other Dye Ink Re-Inkers should work great here too or any other liquid watercolour and of course, a straw and watercolour paper.

I first filled my bowl around 1/3 of the way with water, added quite a bit of dishwashing liquid, since I want there to be lots of bubbles and I then blew bubbles into the water, using my straw. Once I had lots of bubbles, I dropped some of my liquid watercolour on top. You typically want your watercolour to be quite liquid-y. Since mine was a bit thick at first, it popped the bubbles and didn’t give me the look I wanted. I tried again once I got rid of the thick watercolour and then pressed my paper onto the top of the bubbles, lifted up and heated it with my heat tool. You should be able to see here the startings of the watercolour look. The lighter colour I used wasn’t giving me the results I wanted, so I took a darker blue and repeated the process and got great bubbly results. I absolutely love this, I can’t wait to do this more! Once I repeated the steps and got to where I wanted it, I dried it completely with my heat tool and moved onto my images.

I stamped out all my images using the Bee Friends stamp set and used Copic Markers to colour them in. Bee’s are so easy to colour, I love colouring any size of image – but this is just so quick and easy, it’s so nice for it to be fast once in a while. Once all my images were coloured I used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Once my images were ready I could assemble my card. I used the ‘Thinking of You’ sentiment from the same Bee Friends stamp set and stamped it with black ink onto my background.

I used the Stitched Notes die set and used one of the angled dies in the set and die cut the bottom of my watercoloured panel to create a fun angle. I then used foam tape to adhere my panel onto my card base. I then used foam tape and liquid adhesive to adhere my bee’s into place. Then for a finishing touch I used a Wink of Stella brush pen to give my bee’s some sparkle and then scattered some Sparkling Clear Sequins on top of my card.

I hope you enjoyed my card today and will give this technique a try. It’s a little messy, but it’s super fun! This technique would be absolutely perfect for an ocean themed card, but still works great for a sky themed card, since the little bits of white showing through looks like clouds.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Eloise

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Tutorial: Seed Bead Shaker

Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here this morning – and I’m super excited to share a little card tutorial with you this morning using some of the new release! My card today actually started with my pattern paper – I loved the tiny blue flowers, and decided to base my card around that color. I also used some little coordinating dies to make my shaker element, then filled it with some brand new seed beads that are releasing for spring!

First up, I stamped and colored this adorable little girl from the new upcoming Friends Forever Set, then die cut her with the coordinating dies. My sentiment from another new set, Everyday Greetings, was heat embossed on a shape die cut with a new die set called Scallop Square Tags. (You can see the Copic colors I used below – please excuse the one that is upside down on the far left!)

 
The stamp set Friends Forever has a little heart in it – and I used the coordinating die on it’s own to add 3 little openings for my shaker window. This is a great way to stretch your dies creatively!

Added my acetate window, a DOUBLE layer of foam adhesive (to give my shaker plenty of room to move!), then filled it full of Hydrangea seed beads. I added a panel of white cardstock trimmed to size to the back of it – this allowed me to have more freedom in when I wanted to add it to my card front, as well as leave white space behind the shaker area.

I added some lace to the card front, as well as a bit of jute twine tied in a bow, and adhered my sweet little girl to the front of the shaker element.

I love the way seed beads work in a shaker – they move so well! And these new spring colors are all fabulous – wait until you see them!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you are having a wonderful day!!!

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Product Release Blog Hop- Day 2

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

I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s amazing hop and are ready for day 2. Today we have more talented designers and special guests for you and I have a feeling you’re going to be blown away with their creations.

We have a special treat- a fun, easy-to-follow tutorial by Heather showing how you can use both halves of a die cut piece to make two cards with an entirely different feel!

Shall we get started? First off – I paired up the large rectangle from the brand new Stitched Notes Dies and the Storybook 5 die. These are a perfect fit together to build a shaker element – and then save the inside pieces for the second card!

I stamped and colored the same girl from Friends Forever with my Zig markers to coordinate with the pattern paper I chose. Don’t you love how just changing the colors gives them an entirely different feel? I then die cut them with the coordinating Friends Forever Dies. I also stamped my sentiments from Everyday Greetings the card on the left I did on the small white panel, the card on the right I did in the smaller window directly on my pattern paper.

I added acetate to the top portion of the window on the right hand card, added a double layer of foam tape, and filled it with the sparkly and beautiful Friendship Sequin Mix (a Limited Edition Mix with a portion of the profits will be donated to Compassion International – LOVE!)

The other card I embellished with some flat Sparkling Clear Confetti Mix – one of my new favorite embellishments! I adhered the girls in their places, then feeling that they needed something more, I added a coordinating rose in each of their hands, also from Friends Forever.

You’ll notice on this card that I adhered the white panels with foam adhesive, and also added the girl with foam adhesive – this made the perfect amount of dimension on the card.

On the second one, since I used a double layer of foam tape to hold all the sequins in my shaker, I attached the girl directly on the front of the shaker – I didn’t want this card to be too thick and bulky.

I love to make shaker cards – but I also love a clean and simple card. This is a fabulous way to make one of each with a minimum of effort as well!

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For those joining us for the blog hop, I wanted to let you know that this month we have a special gift offer for orders over $80! The Bee Friends stamp set will be automatically sent with orders over $80 this month. In addition, if your order totals over $125, you’ll get the coordinating dies too! This stamp set will be available for purchase in May 2017, but for those who qualify, you’ll get these items two months before anyone else! These are while supplies last (I did order quite a bit, but cannot guarantee they will last through the end of the month).

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 March 17, 2017 at 11:59 PM PST. I’ll be announcing the winners next week, so be sure to return and see if you are one of the winners!

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!

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Creating A Scene with Clarity Brushes + Video

Hello everyone, Eloise here and I have a video showcasing a couple of the brand new products that released on March 1st.  I’m using the new Friends Forever stamp set along with the Stitched Notes die set for my card today.

To begin my card I stamped out some of the new images from the Friends Forever stamp set on some Copic Marker friendly paper with Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I then used various colours of Copic Markers and coloured all my images, then used the coordinating dies to cut them all out. Once my images were coloured in I could work on my background. I die cut two panels using the rectangle die from the Stitched Notes die set out of some watercolour paper. I then used the older Stitched Borders 1 dies and cut the curved die out of one of the pieces, to resemble a grassy hill.

Now my pieces were ready to go I pulled out my Clarity Stencil Brushes and a few Distress Ink colours, Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn for the grassy hill and Mustard Seed and Fossilized Amber for the sunrays. I first coloured my grassy hill with the greens, I just brushed the colour on, going back and forth horizontally across the card to get a nice blend. Once I did both colours I set it aside and moved onto my sunrays. I used a Tim Holtz stencil for this, I could have used masking tape to mask the rays off, but the stencil was easier.  I did the same thing with the brushes for the stencil, instead I moved my brush vertically up and down the stencil a lot more than horizontally, since that’s the way the stencil openings go. Once both pieces were done I could assemble.

I adhered a blue piece of cardstock to my card base, and then I used some fun foam to adhere my sunrays panel. Before I added my grassy hill on top I stamped down the ‘You’re my Favorite’ sentiment on top with black ink. I then added the grassy panel with foam tape and added my absolutely adorable coloured images on as well. This set is so adorable, it’s insane! Once all my images were added and my scene was complete, I added some 4MM, 6MM and 8MM Sparkling Clear Sequins to finish off my card.

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I hope you enjoyed my card today and have already purchased some of the new release! You guys are absolutely going to love the new products Paulina has designed, they’re so much fun!

Thanks for stopping by today and I’ll catch you next time.

– Eloise

 

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Sneak Peek: Easter Friends

Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I’m excited to share a card using one of newest stamp sets – Easter Friends (releases on March 1st)!

I did quite a bit of watercoloring to create this project. First, I started by painting a plaid watercolor background using Gansai Tambi watercolors (colors I used are #34 pink, #40 yellow, #20 black and #10 white) and Arches Rough watercolor paper.

I also used flat ¾”, ½” ⅜” brushes. I find it much easier to paint plaid backgrounds using flat brushes, although this can be done using a regular round brush. I also used a #4 round brush to add white stripes at the very end. Remember to dry your paper in between each layer of stripes when creating this kind of background.

Watercolors were also used to color my stamped images – bunny as well as a boy and girl dressed in bunny costumes. Whenever I color small images like these I prefer to use watercolor pencils as this way I have a lot more control over where, how and how much color I am adding. I used Faber Castell watercolor pencils in gray (silver), pink, yellow and gold. My images were stamped onto Arches Hot Press watercolor paper which has a nice smooth finish to it and is ideal for watercoloring images that are stamped.

I cut bunny image out using a coordinating die and foam mounted him onto my character panel. I also added several die cut easter eggs (I used a coordinating easter egg die and cut images out of my test plaid watercolor background, I didn’t use a stamp image that goes with it, although you can if you want to).

Finally I embellished my card using Friendship sequin mix. This is limited edition mix, a portion of the profits made from selling this mix in March 2017 will be donated to a cause.

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

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Happy cardmaking!