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.
I don’t have a card for today but I will share my traveler’s notebook story with Pretty Pink Posh products! Traveler’s notebooks are very popular right now, and I love to use it too! The size is just the perfect fit for me; so handy to carry and easy to keep nearby. I will show you how I made my DIY traveler’s notebook insert and share how I used my Pretty Pink Posh products for memory keeping and journaling in my traveler’s notebook.
Here’s a video to show how I created the notebook and decorated the pages with Pretty Pink Posh stamps and dies.
Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather dropping by with another easy tutorial for you today! As soon as I saw the adorable new Happy Snowman stamp and coordinating die set, I immediately thought of an adorable little snowglobe – and the Window Frames die was the perfect way to create them! The Happy Snowman stamp and die set are such a great value – so inexpensive, and yet so fun and versatile!
I filled them full of tiny Iridescent Mini Circle Confetti, and stamped sentiments with the unreleased but free with $100 purchase Holiday Greeting stamp set – so many fun sentiments, and a fabulous font! Look how fun these are when you shake up all that confetti – just like turning a snowglobe upside down, don’t you think?
I started off with two colors of solid cardstock, and used the larger of the Window Frames Dies to cut my window, then cut a snowdrift from some white cardstock using the Scallop Borders Dies.
I stamped and colored up the Happy Snowman and one of the scarf images two times, then used the coordinating Happy Snowman Dies to cut them both out.
Here are the Copics I used if you’re curious! I get asked that a lot, so thought I’d include the picture this time.
Next, I trimmed and adhered my “snowdrift” to the front panel, then adhered the snowmen so that they would peek through in the proper place, then added my sentiments.
I decided to use fun foam to make the pocket to hold the confetti – so I used the Window Frames die and a pencil to mark the place – this was perfect, because then when I cut it out with scissors, it was a little larger than the opening, so it didn’t show around the edges at all, and left room for the confetti to go beyond the window.
I added acetate to the back of my window, then piled on LOTS of that fun confetti, then adhered the front piece over and shook up the confetti. My original plan was to have the pink scarf snowman with the pink card, and the blue one with the blue card, but I accidentally did them backwards, and was happy I did because I ended up liking the contrast better that way!
The finishing touch was a few of the snowflakes from the Snowflake Sequins Mix adhered on the outside, and a few 4mm Clear Droplets in the center of the largest snowflakes. Here is a closer look at each of them.
I’m having a hard time deciding if these are cards, or really just toys…since I just want to sit and shake them up over and over – just like a snowglobe! Heehee!
Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope you are having a wonderful day!!!
Hello, Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and I have a video tutorial to share today featuring one of the new stamps & coordinating dies – Halloween Friends.
I’m also going to share a simpler and faster way to create ink blended backgrounds and will talk a bit about ghost stamping! I filmed a video tutorial to walk you through the process from start to finish and explain everything in detail.
Instead of using a piece of white paper to create my Distress ink blended backgrounds I’ve been using colored cardstock. The trick is simple, pick the color of cardstock to match the lightest color on your future ink blended background. So here, to create a background going from black to purple to light purple for this Halloween card, I used light purple cardstock as my base.
By the way, you’ll still be able to add water to your backgrounds, done on colored cardstock, to have Distress inks move and react like they usually do on white, and it will take you significantly less time (and ink!) to blend a background. It took me a little over 3 minutes to create a background for this card (while it usually takes no less than 10 minutes if I start on white).
Another trick I am sharing today is cutting critter silhouette out of black cardstock to use a shadow or create the illusion of having multiple critters on a card. This doesn’t work everytime and on every card, but it does look fantastic on those cards where the background is dark.
The last tip for today is to try using watermark embossing ink over the ink blended background to create ghost stamped images. Stamping with this kind of ink will create slightly darker transparent impressions that look like shadows or ghosts!
Hello crafters, this is Julia taking over the Pretty Pink Posh blog today! I want to show you how you can, quickly and easily, create a shaker card with the brand new, limited edition Autumn Seed Bead bundle that just released!
The Giving Thanks stamp set and die set is perfect for this type of card since the dies for the leaves and pumpkins have enough detail so everyone know what they are. I decided to only cut a few openings into my panel along the left side of my panel, with the sentiment from Giving Thanks snuck in-between.
As with every shaker card, you’ll need to adhere a piece of acetate to the back of your panel and then add foam (dimensional) adhesive around the openings, making sure to not leave any gaps where the shaker elements could escape from. Then add the shaker elements, here the seed beads. I think they are perfect – they are tiny which allows me to add a lot of them even in small spaces and still be able to shake ‘em!
Once you adhere your panel on top, your shaker is done! You can stop here, and just leave it as is, but I wanted to add some very subtle dimension and detail and so I added a few more die-cut shapes of leaves and pumpkins. I used the same card stock that my panel was made from so the color would match exactly.
Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you had fun with this tutorial! Catch you again soon!
Hi friends! It’s Nina-Marie back with you today and I am sharing some inspiration for using the new Pretty Pink Posh STAMPtember exclusive set that was designed for Simon Says Stamp!
This set called Winter Bird Friend is SUPER cute, and features some fun accessories that can be used to dress up the bird that is also included in the stamp set. I wanted to use the set however to show you that you can use the accessories with some of your other favorite Pretty Pink Posh sets!
I’ve paired the Winter Bird Friend set with the Fox Friends stamp set, also by Pretty Pink Posh, to create a cute snowy scene! I love how adorable the foxes look with their winter attire on… ready for a fun day in the snow!
In today’s video, I’ll be sharing how I created this fun scene, along with tips and tricks on a few techniques I used during the card process!
I hope this was inspiring to you and showed you how you can get even more use out of the fun images included in the Winter Bird Friend stamp set! Thanks for spending some time with me today… I’ll see you again very soon!
Hello everyone, Joni here with another cute tutorial using the open cloud image from the Rainy Days stamp set. Really versatile and creative use for Halloween cards!
To begin, I stamped the clouds multiple times onto white cardstock.
Next, I drew some faces on the clouds using the pencil first, then I added the Micro Pen on the top of the pencil marks and erased the leftover.
Then I distressed the black cardstock with white pigment ink to create that chalk finished. Next, I colored the clouds with Copic markers and die-cut it with Rainy Days coordinating die.
I then adhered the clouds with foam tape. The die-cut “booyah!” were from the Papertrey Ink Headline Alphabet dies. I also added some Pewter sequins for added interest.
Here’s a closer look at the card. You can create so many fun designs, even for Thanksgiving or Christmas!
Thank you so much for joining me today, I hope you liked it! Have a wonderful day!
Hi everyone! This is Vera and today I have Hexagon Magnetic Bookmark to share with you featuring the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Hexagons Dies.
Magnetic bookmarks are popular lately and they’re so easy to make! When I saw the Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Hexagons Dies I knew that there were so many options for both cards and other projects.
To create these magnetic bookmarks, I used white cardstock and flexible magnet sheet (you can use flexible magnet tape too). The images are Pretty Pink Posh clear stamps : Camping Friends | Holiday Pals | Rainy Days and the sentiments are from the Birdie Friends Stamp Set. I blended the hexagon die cut with dye ink pad and colored the images using Zig Clean Color Real Brush. On the back side, you can write the words as desired using a black marker and white gel pen.
Here’s a video to show how I created these bookmarks from the start to finish.
Good morning Pretty Pink Posh friends! Heather here to share a couple watercolor Butterfly cards that are not only super easy to make, but perfect for using up pattern paper scraps! I’m using some of the newly released stamps and dies from Pretty Pink Posh – it was such a fabulous one!
I started off by trimming my pattern paper edges. I use a lot of 6×6 paper pads, and when I trim them down to a normal A2 card size (4 1/4 x 5 1/2), I am left with a strip that is 1 3/4 x 6 inches. I used one of the scallop dies from the new Scallop Borders Dies to just barely cut off enough to form a border.
Next, I used my MISTI to stamp my sentiment and little butterfly with it’s trail from Blissful Butterflies Stamp Set. The little “friend” is from the Birdie Friends Stamp Set. My favorite watercolor ink is Versafine, and by using my MISTI I was able to stamp twice to get a nice crisp, dark image. I stamped the sentiment first on all 3 pieces of watercolor paper, then added the butterfly, and finally the tail. This allowed me to place the butterfly as if it landed on the “l” in “hello” – I love that effect!
Next, I used a waterbrush and some watercolors to add a simple watercolor wash, and once that dried a bit, a few splatters in the same colors. Then, once that dried again, I taped on my scallop strips, centering the scallops, and using a paper trimmer to remove the excess on the top and bottom.
And finally – of course there HAD to be some sequins too, right? I love how versatile the Sparkling Clear Sequin Mix is – you can pretty much use them on anything, and you have every size you need! I use Glossy Accents with a fine tip applicator, and reverse action tweezers to adhere my sequins. I usually squirt a little Glossy Accents on a non-stick mat, pick up the sequins with my tweezers, dip them just a bit in the glue, then attach them to my card. Sometimes I dot the Glossy right where I want the sequins and then just set them in place.
Here is a closer look at those little butterflies – seriously, aren’t they so cute sitting on the word “hello”?!?!?
And here is a look at each card – just in case you wanted to see them each up close!
