Hello Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I am sharing video tutorial showing how to make several Good Luck cards featuring Best of Luck stamp set. I have 4 easy to make card ideas that work for St Patrick’s Day, but can also be used as an everyday Good Luck or Encouragement cards.
I started working on my projects by stamping images from the Best of Luck stamp set in alcohol marker friendly ink onto white cardstock. I used Copic markers and did some very basic and quick coloring. These, of course, can be colored using any coloring medium you prefer, I decided to use Copic markers because I find them easy to use. I used mostly green colors, although I didn’t use the St Patrick’s Day green as I don’t particularly like that shade of green, I went with the green that I like.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.
I used the following Copic Marker colors: YG03, YG17, C7, C5, C3, C1, Y11, Y15, Y17, E00, E02. Once my coloring was done I used coordinating dies and cut my images out in my Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting machine.
Card Idea #1
For my first card I decided to use the horseshoe and a 3 leaf clover. To add some interest to my card I used colored cardstock and added it from the corners of white panel. I picked 3 shades of green cardstock and trimmed it using paper trimmer into 4 pieces.
I had cardstock panels cut to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and I trimmed them going on a diagonal once and than once again in the opposite direction. Next, I stamped Best of Luck sentiment in black ink onto my white cardstock panel and foam mounted the horseshoe in place and also used glue to adhere the shamrock.
Next, I temporarily adhered the panel onto my cutting mat – I aligned it with the grid and I started adhering green cardstock pieces in place. I didn’t measure anything, I just eyeballed the placement trying to evenly frame the image and sentiment in the center.
Once I had all the pieces adhered I used my scissors and I trimmed the rest of the cardstock off. I used new jewel embellishments from Pretty Pink Posh to dress up this card and I went with the Shamrock color of course – I used this color for most of my cards today.
Card Idea #2
For my next card I decided to use a non St. Patrick’s Day sentiment, but rather one that reads Sending Good Vibes. This sentiment comes from the new Encouraging Greetings stamp set.
I stamped and die cut a rainbow, pot of gold and a few shamrocks. I didn’t want to color the rainbow as a regular rainbow, but used just yellows instead. I stamped my sentiment in black ink and foam mounted my elements in place. I used foam adhesive to foam mount the yellow rainbow and once I had it placed I used a double layer of adhesive to foam mount the pot of gold and the shamrocks on the other side of the rainbow. I also added one shamrock onto the pot itself – I used glue for that one.
To add a bit of shine and sparkle to this card I used my Aqua Shimmer pen and added a generous amount of shimmer to the rainbow and also the gold coins in the pot. I feel like this shimmer really stepped up my card and added a bit of that necessary wow to this simple design.
Finally, I tucked 2 more shamrocks behind the rainbow for some additional interest. I also used new Jewels to embellish my card, I went with the lighter green color this time- Spring Green. I trimmed my panel to 4 x 5 1/4″ and foam mounted it onto an A2 top folding card base.
Card Idea #3
For my next card I did some negative die-cutting – I die cut an opening using a coordinating die for one of the images in a white cardstock panel.
I stamped a Best Of Luck sentiment and foam mounted my panel onto an A2 white card base. Next, I adhered my colored image in the opening, so it was recessed in the card and foam mounted a pot of gold over it creating a little scene.
I once again used my Aqua Shimmer pen to add some shine to the gold coins and I also adhered one of the shamrocks onto the pot with gold. Lastly, I couldn’t resist embellishing my card using new jewels and I used several Shamrock colored jewels to dress up this card.
Card Idea #4
My last card for today is an interactive one – I used a mini wobble spring to add movement and interest to this project. I stamped, colored and die-cut Patrick with the shamrocks and coins. I used scissors to just him out as I didn’t need to coins and shamrocks, I wanted to add the wobble spring just behind the guy.
I also stamped same image and Happy St. Patrick’s day sentiment onto a white cardstock panel. I colored the coins and shamrocks stamped in the background using Copics, but I didn’t color the little guy as I already have one colored and attached onto the mini wobble spring.
I adhere him in place and that added a ton of interactivity to this super simple card. Ever since I learned about these wobblers about a year or so ago I can’t stop using them for my cards! I think they are so much fun and every wobble spring card I’ve ever given to somebody made that person smile and play with the interactive element for a long time.
I foam mounted my panel onto a 4 Bar card base and of course I embellished it using the new Jewels in Shamrock.
Which card idea do you like the most? Share below! And as always, have fun stamping!
It’s Justine Hovey visiting the Pretty Pink Posh blog for my monthly video. Today, I created a shaker card with some heat embossed acetate. If you know my style, you know that I love colour, but I’m not a massive fan of colouring. I wanted to find a way to incorporate gorgeous colours with stamped images from a variety of Pretty Pink Posh Stamp Sets: Hummingbird Thanks, Pretty Petunias, Butterfly Friends (releasing in May) and Love Sentiments. I stamped them in Versafine onto heat-resistant acetate and embossed the images in white.
Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have a 3 Cards 1 stamp set video for you all using the Birthday Friends stamp set. Everyone always needs birthday cards and what’s better than being able to make three cards super quick and easily with the same stamp set? I’ll also be using the Love Shaker die and the Sparkling Clear Sequin Mix to finish off my cards.
To start off all my cards today I stamped, coloured all my images with Copic Markers and die cut them out using all the coordinating dies. I used a colour scheme from Pinterest as colour inspiration to colour in all my images. Then coloured my balloons rainbow for a separate card. Now that all my images are ready, I can move on to creating my cards.
To begin my first card, I pulled a piece of watercolour cardstock out and ink blended some Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry onto the bottom of the panel. Then I flicked some water over top to create the splatter look. I then dried it off with my heat tool and set it off to the side. Next, I took the Love Shaker dies and cut three out of some white cardstock. Then, I used an exacto knife and cut away the ‘Love’ word from the centre, so I’m left with three heart frames.
Next, I added a thin strip of foam adhesive around each of the frames and then adhered them around my card. I cut off the excess around the outside with scissors. Then, I added foam tape onto the backs of all my images and adhered them down inside of the heart frames. Lastly, I white heat embossed the ‘Birthday Wishes’ sentiment on a strip of black cardstock, cut the end at a diagonal and tied a small bow on the other side of the sentiment. I then added foam tape on the back and adhered it on the top right-hand side of my card. That finished the first card, now let’s move onto the second.
For my next card, I pulled all my rainbow balloons out and set them off to the side. I then made a make shift cloud mask/stencil that I just created with scissors out of some post it tape. I just drew a cloud border on the tape and cut around it with scissors. I then cut down a top folding card base, adhered it down onto my work surface and ink blended over the stencil with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, then I moved up the mask, ink blended over it again and continued up until I ink blended over the entire panel.
Once I ink blended over my card base, I went ahead and added foam squares all along the back of my images and adhered them down into place onto my card base. Lastly, I stamped down the ‘Birthday Wishes’ sentiment in the bottom left hand corner with black ink and that finished up my second card.
For my final card, I started off with another top folding card base, and masked off the edges with some ¾” painters tape to create a rectangle in the middle. I then went ahead, and ink blended some Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade Distress Ink over my entire panel. Once I ink blended over the entire panel, I removed the painters tape and used a white gel pen to do some dots on the background, just to give it a little extra.
I then added foam tape onto the back of my images and adhered them down at the bottom of the ink blended area. Then, I stamped the ‘Birthday Wishes’ stamp set in black ink at the top of my panel and that finished up my third card.
To completely finish all my cards off, I scattered some Sparkling Clear Sequins around my cards and adhered them down.
Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed and were inspired!
Hello Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I am sharing a video tutorial showing how to use the Sparkle Dot Patterns 1 stamp set(the 2nd set is releasing in March!).
This is a very clever stamp set that has been designed to help you align and evenly space any tiny embellishments on your cards. Each little circle dot represents a space for a sequin, or confetti piece, or little enamel dot, or jewel (we have these coming in our next release!). If you’ve ever tried to arrange tiny embellishment to form some sort of a pattern you know that it never works and the object, or shape, or pattern ends up looking wonky.
So you are probably wondering how does this stamp set work? Let me show you. I used a panel of white woodgrain cardstock for my cards today (and also a plain white panel), I love to use this paper for clean and simple projects that feature a lot of white space. Normally, I never stamp on this paper, because of it’s texture, as you’ll never be able to get a good enough impression, but since I didn’t really need a good impression, these stamps need to be used as a guide only I was safe using this paper and stamping on it.
Watch my video tutorial below to learn how I made this card.
It’s best to use a light color of ink for your stamping so that the stamping will remain invisible under your embellishments. I used a very light gray ink. If you stamp onto colored cardstock you can use a watermark ink for a barely visible impression. It’s best not to use black as it might be visible even under the darkest color sequins and it will surely show through white.
Another must have tool for this technique is a pick up tool. I used a Crystal Katana tool– I always use it when I work with tiny embellishments, it really is a must have as it’s not that easy to pick up little piece with your fingers and position them properly on the project. There are other tools similar to this one, so you don’t have to use this exact tool, but just any tool that will help you pick up the pieces and place them exactly where you need them.
After adhering my confetti in place I set my panel aside to dry for a few minutes and worked on a sentiment as well as a floral cluster. I stamped flowers and leaves using images from the Autumn Blooms and Bold Blooms stamp sets and grouped them together into a tiny floral arrangement.
I also white heat embossed sentiments onto black cardstock using messages from the Birdie Friends and Winter Woodland stamp set and foam mounted onto the card.
I had tons of fun making these Clean & Simple projects and I love how easy it was to create fun shapes using my sequins with the help of this stamp set. I definitely see myself using it over and over again for all sorts of cards!
It’s Justine and thank you so much for joining me for my first ever video for Pretty Pink Posh! I am hosting a very large event today called Save the Crafty YouTuber and Pretty Pink Posh is sponsoring 6x $25 gift certificates in today’s video! So be sure to head to video directly on YouTube so you can leave a comment.
I am hosting this event with over 55 videomakers that have come together to help out some of the crafters just starting to make videos. YouTube has changed some rules about who is allowed to earn money from their channels and many are at risk so I put together a hop with plenty of prizes to help increase views and subscribers before the end of February. There are 120 prizes being given away throughout the video hop, so the more videos you click and comment on, the more chances you have to win! You can see the whole list of videos on my blog!
For today’s video, I wanted to make a mix of masculine and feminine love cards since Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching. The Love Shaker Die combined with the Scallop Frames made such perfect accessories to create these quick cards. Did you know that two inked up 4×5 ¼ pieces of cardstock produced four cards!? I die cut each piece of coloured cardstock with the dies and saved all of the “waste”, then I die cut two pieces of white cardstock in the same way and added the wasted scraps into the card.
For the batch of pink cards, I used Candied Apple, Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet Distress Oxide inks for the background. I blended them on the cardstock and added water to see the oxidized effect occur. My tips for perfect blending are: Don’t put too much pressure on the handle and allow the colour to build up slowly, start off the paper and work your way into it, move the colour around in a circular motion to avoid harsh lines.
For the batch of blue cards, I used Peacock Feathers, Broken Glass and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide inks for the background. I blended them on the cardstock and added water to see the oxidized effect occur. The nice thing about the oxides is that they are much more user friendly for blending than the originals.
Thanks so much for joining my for this fun event everyone! And thank you to Pretty Pink Posh for having me on the video team and sponsoring this event!
I enjoy creating for holidays and crafting for Valentines Day is super fun. I love all the fun colors and bling. I thought I would kick start Valentines Day crafting with some fun shaker cards. I have been obsessed with shaker cards lately and definitely put my Pretty Pink Posh sequins to work for this project.
One of the things that I try to do is to mix my old and new stamp sets together. I do like to stretch my stamp investment by finding new ways of pairing my stamp sets. This forces me to have a new take on my stamp sets, be more creative and make something unique to me.
I wanted to stick to a Valentines Day theme so I pre-selected the colors I would be using. I am using Zig Real Clean Color Brush pens today because I wanted to achieve a soft, easy, watercolor look. I found great success in using Bristol Smooth cardstock along with Versafine Onyx Black ink in conjunction with the Zigs. I used a water brush to push the color around and had a dish of clean water and a paper towel handy to clean between colors. To create the background I used Distress Oxide inks in Worn Lipstick and Wilted Violet. I used the Distress Sprayer to create white splotches in the background.
I played with my stamp sets and came up with a couple of designs incorporating two stamps sets together or repurposing a themed stamp set and thinking of other ways to use it. I paired Hummingbird Thanks and Bold Blooms together and made a lilac card. I used my Summer Friends images along with Fly a Kite; I thought the heart sunglasses on the girl image were perfect! Finally I used Birthday Friends images as Valentines Day images. The Birthday Friends set is one of my favorites and my favorite part is the balloons. I plan on using these balloons with animal images on a future card, so it appears the animals are being carried up. I love that the Pretty Pink Posh sets coordinate so well with each other.
Here are the basics of making a shaker card:
Cut out a window on a card front
Place acetate behind window using glue – I used Glossy Accents
Line the back of the window with two layers of foam tape (One layer of foam tape if you would like to use less sequins or reduce bulk)
Make sure there are no empty spaces when adhering the foam tape, you do not want any of the sequin yumminess to escape!
Powder tool around the inside tape of the frame to prevent sequins sticking to the side of foam tape (I do not powder as I do not mind the sticking)
You can use the Pretty Pink Posh sequins mixes as is because the mixes are super colorful and sparkly or you can add more sequins to match the color and mood of your project. For this project I wanted over the top “bling” for my Valentines Day themed shakers so I achieved this with adding my all time favorites.
Here is a list of the sequins I used and some of my favorites to mix up. In general, I will add gold colored sequins to warm toned cards and silver colored sequins to cool toned cards.
For this project I used these sequins as my base color:
Then I added some of my favorites, this is optional. I decided to mix in some of these in because I wanted to match the lightness of my images. Here is what I normally use to mix, of course I do not use all of these the same time, I just pick and chose which ones will be best to achieve the look I would like.
For finishing touches I added the Wink of Stella in clear on the stamped images. I finished the insides of the cards with sentiments from the Love Sentiments stamp set. I had extra colored images, which I added to the inside of the card, these included hearts and flowers. I also made sure to layer my die cut sentiment “Hello Friend” to ensure the die cut popped and had a lot of dimension.
I hope you enjoyed these cards and give it a try! Thanks for stopping by!
For my first card, I’ll be creating a full card shaker, with some images floating inside. So, to begin, I stamped out the two cupids from Cupid Friends and coloured them in with Copic Markers. Once I finished colouring them in, I went ahead and cut them out using the coordinating dies. I set those off to the side so I could work on my shaker pocket. I took a white piece of cardstock, cut it down to 4” x 5 ½”, then used the large rectangle die from Stitched Notes Dies and cut that out of the centre. This created a frame for my full card shaker. I then added adhesive on the back of the frame and adhered a piece of acetate to the back.
Next, I took a piece of watercolour paper, cut it down to slightly smaller than 4” x 5 ½” and used the ‘Happy Valentine’s Day’ sentiment from Cupid Friends and white heat embossed it into the centre of my card stock piece. I then used some Festive Berries, Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar Distress Inks to create a blended gradient effect. Then splattered some water over top to create a water splotch effect. I dried it off with a heat tool and could start to assemble my shaker card.
I went ahead and added some white thread onto the backs of my angels, then took the ends of the thread and adhered them directly to the ink blended panel using some scor-tape. Then, I added in some Sweetheart and Spring Blooms Sequin Mixes in the middle of the panel. Lastly, I added two layers of foam tape behind my white frame from earlier and adhered that over my card base directly. That finished up the first card, let’s move onto the second card.
For the second card, I wanted to create a see-through shaker design. To start up, I coloured the same two angels the same way I did for my first card and then cut them out using the dies. Next, I cut a card base to 4 ½” x 9”, scored at 4 ½” to create a square card. Then, cut down an additional white panel to 4” x 4” to create my shaker in. I then took the Love Shaker die and cut it out of the centre of my panel. Once that was cut through, I lined up the cut panel over top of my card base, then pressed in the Love Shaker die so I could cut it from the right place in my card base also. Once they were both cut, I set them off to the side to create a stencil. I cut the same die from some thin acetate, so I could ink blend through it.
To line up my stencil on the inside, I first closed my card, placed the ‘Love’ positive piece inside the negative piece, held down the inside of the love piece with my fingers, then opened the card base, adhered the stencil over top making sure all the grooves lined up with each other. Then, adhered down all three sides and made sure the front of the card lined up with the inside, it did so I began ink blending. I used Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar Distress Ink to ink blend on the inside of my card. Once I ink blended that I went ahead and ink blended my front panel with the same two colours. I then added adhesive onto the back of my front panel and adhered down a piece of acetate over top, then repeated the same steps for my card base. I then added adhesive onto the back of my love frame piece and adhered it on top of the acetate and also did the same thing for the inside of my card, except I added adhesive on the front of the piece and not the back so everything lined up.
Lastly, I added some Rose Gold Heart Confetti and also some Iridescent Heart Confetti to the inside of my shaker, added a layer of foam tape and adhered my panel over top. I also added my Cupid images with more foam tape and scattered around some Clear Droplets too. To finish up my card completely, I cut apart the ‘All My Love’ sentiment from Love Sentiments and white heat embossed the ‘All My’ sentiment onto some black cardstock. I cut that down into a strip and adhered that onto my card also and that finished up my second card.
Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I’ll catch you next time.
To begin, I die-cut the “love” from the Love Shaker Die keeping only the love die after fussy cutting. For this card I wanted to create a bold background.
Next, to create my background I used the Distress Ink from Tim Holtz in Stormy Sky and Black Soot to create a dramatic effect.
Before adhering the love die I first splatter the background with white watercolor paint for added interest. Next, I stamped the cherub on a white cardstock and colored them with Copic Markers. The sentiment “happy valentine’s day” is also part for theCupid Friends stamp set as well as the tiny bitty hearts. After coloring I die-cut the cherubs with its coordinating die set and the sentiment then I fussy cut.
I adhered every die-cut with foam tape for dimension and addedSparkling Clear sequins for interest.
I hope you enjoyed my take on these products. Join us tomorrow for another day of Valentine inspiration.
Hi there Pretty Pink Posh fans! Crystal here with the continuation of the Valentine’s Day week here on the PPP Blog. I wanted to create something that would utilize the beautiful “love” word from the Love Shaker die.
Let’s start by gathering our materials, for this card I used the following Pretty Pink Posh products :
With our Love shaker, I have die cut 4 “love” words from Melon Mambo cardstock and have trimmed off the heart. To save paper, I cut strips just wide enough to fit the “love”.
Once those were trimmed out, I glued the “love” on top of each other to create a thick die cut.
From the Love Sentiment stamp set, I used the “All My Love”. I masked the “love” from the set with washi tape, inked the stamp, then removed the washi tape. I stamped the sentiment on the card base above of where I plan to place the die cut “love”.
Now it’s time to work on the card panel. First I wanted to stamp the darker of my ink colors, so using the solid hearts from Cupid Friends with Melon Mambo, which will coordinate with the “love” die cut.
For the larger hearts from the Love Sentiments set, I have stamped those in the following ink colors. SU Powder Pink, SU Melon Mambo, Pink Shimmer Delicata, Altenew Blush and Altenew Soft Lilac.
I felt this card needed some touches of gold, so I heat embossed the heart outlines from Cupid Friends in gold embossing powder. Since the gun was hot and the powder was out, I decided to create a dipping effect on the love die cut.
This was super simple, as I tapped the half of the die cut in embossing ink, covered with powder and heat set. To finish the card, I added a strip of gold washi and added a few Sparkling Clear Sequins.
I hope you like the simplicity of this card! I certainly did! The colors could easily be changed and the sentiments from Love Sentiments could also be easily interchanged.
Have a fabulous day! Join us tomorrow for another day of Valentine inspiration!
I started working on my projects by stamping images from the 
Next, I temporarily adhered the panel onto my cutting mat – I aligned it with the grid and I started adhering green cardstock pieces in place. I didn’t measure anything, I just eyeballed the placement trying to evenly frame the image and sentiment in the center.
Once I had all the pieces adhered I used my scissors and I trimmed the rest of the cardstock off. I used new jewel embellishments from Pretty Pink Posh to dress up this card and I went with the 
To add a bit of shine and sparkle to this card I used my 
