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Hello everyone, Eloise here and for today’s video I’ll be sharing another 3 Cards 1 Stamp set video, using the brand new School Friends stamp set. This set was perfect because it had a ton of images and also included 3 sentiments. I also tried to keep these cards quite simple, so I just used three small die sets; Scallop Frames, Stitched Duo 1 and Stitched Film Strip and then I also just pulled in a few colours of Distress Inks to make my backgrounds as well.

To begin my cards today, I first started off with stamping, colouring and die cutting all my images. I stamped pretty much two of everything and used a colour combo I found on Pinterest for my colour inspiration. Once they were all coloured and die cut, I could assemble my cards together.

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For my first card today, I die cut two of the Stitched Film Strip from some white cardstock. Then I added foam tape to the backs and set them off to the side. For my background, I used Evergreen Bough, Peacock Feathers and Cracked Pistachio and ink blended a gradient onto some watercolour cardstock. I then flicked some water onto my background, picked it up with a paper towel and dried it off with a heat tool.

Next, I arranged all my images onto the base, figured out where I wanted the sentiment and stamped the ‘Hey There Smarty Pants’ into one of the gaps with black ink. I then adhered down my frames over top and adhered the images inside with foam tape as well and that finished off my first card.

For my second card, I pulled out the Scallop Frames and cut them twice out of some white cardstock. I then adhered some foam tape onto the backs of the frames. For my background I again went for a simple ink blended look. This time I used Lucky Clover, Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron and repeated the same steps as before. I dried it off with a heat tool and adhered my frames at an angle into place.

I then took out a few images and arranged them into place as well. I adhered them down with flat adhesive. For my sentiment I used the ‘You’re An A+ In My Book’ sentiment with more black ink onto the background as well and that finished up my second card.

For my final card, I wanted to make a mini card; something that would be perfect to put into your kids lunchbox with a little note for their day, or what have you. So I took the Stitched Duo 1 and cut out two tag shapes; one from watercolour cardstock and one from plain white cardstock. I ink blended some Carved Pumpkin and Spiced Marmalade ink onto the bottom of the watercolour tag and then ran it through my Big Shot Machine with the geometric embossing folder from We R Memory Keepers. I then took the second tag, and scored the top edge with my scoring tool. I added adhesive onto the flap and adhered it to my coloured tag and that created my mini card base.

To finish up, I adhered down the remaining images with some foam tape onto the bottom and then for the sentiment, I white heat embossed the ‘Just A Note’ sentiment onto some black cardstock. I cut it down to a strip and adhered it on the right hand side of my card and that finished off the last card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I hope you enjoyed and got inspired. I’ll catch you all next time.

Eloise

Hi Crafters, Justine here and I’m back with you for another video tutorial this month! I hope you are loving the new release as much as I am! Today I wanted to create an elegant, yet easy card tutorial. You can use stamps and dies from this release or any of the fabulous Pretty Pink Posh stamps in your stash to try this out.

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I started off by die cutting the Hello Shaker Die out in white cardstock. I grabbed some Himalayan Musk Embossing Powder by Wow and embossed the die cut three times. This creates a very thick, almost chipboard like embellishment. It’s a favourite technique of mine because you get a really smooth impression on the embossing powder.

I then stamped out a background using the Geraniums stamp set in black on a white card panel. To fill in the gaps, I used a little image from the School Friends set– it was the perfect filler stamp!

I glued the die cut to another die cut (off-center) in black cardstock to make it pop off the card. You could also challenge yourself to a more complex card by turning this die into a shaker card! If you enjoyed my video, be sure to check out my personal channel for weekly videos.

Hi everyone, Eloise here and today I’ll be using the older Bee Friends stamp set, along with a few newer items; Encouraging Greetings Stamp Set and Stacked Edges 2 Dies to create an encouragement card. I’ll be pulling in a honeycomb stencil and some texture paste to create a glossy stenciled background which fits my theme perfectly.

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To begin, I first started off with a piece of watercolour paper, taped it down onto a craft sheet and laid over my Tim Holtz stencil at an angle. I then ink blended some Squeezed
Lemonade and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide Inks over the top. While blending, I was careful to not go over the harsh edges, because this stencil is so skinny, I really wanted there to be full hexagons rather than half hexagons from the edges, so I was just super careful. Then once I was finished blending on that area, I carefully moved the stencil over a little and ink blended a little more so it was wider. Now that I ink blended over the stencil, I wiped it clean and used some Transparent Texture Paste and added it over top using some palette knives. Once it was over the stencil, I removed the stencil and set the panel off to the side to dry.

Next, it was time to colour my images. I used some Copic Markers and the images from Bee Friends. I stamped them down, then coloured them in and cut them out using the coordinating dies. I set them off to side once they were cut, and dried off the rest of my panel with a heat tool just to make sure it’s super dry. Now, I used the hexagon border from Stacked Edges 2 Dies and cut that three times from some white cardstock, I popped them up on foam tape and adhered them to the edge of my coloured panel. Making sure they were staggered so they looked a little more random. Next, I added more foam tape to my bee images and adhered them down around also. Making sure to adhere their trails behind them flat onto the background.

Copic Colours Used: B0000, B000, B01 / Y11, Y35, Y38 / W5, W7, W9 / 0

Now that my card was almost complete. I used the Encouraging Greetings stamp set and white heat embossed the sentiment ‘You Got This’ onto strip of black cardstock. I also popped that up on foam tape and adhered it to the right hand side of my card hanging off the edge a little. Lastly, I added some Lemon Drop Jewels onto my card, scattered around my images. I then popped up the entire panel onto a white card base that had a little strip of blue cardstock on the left.

So that finishes up my card today, I hope you enjoyed the project and feel inspired. Thanks so much for stopping by today and I’ll catch you all next time.

Eloise

Rina here and for today’s cards I wanted to use the Sparkle Dot Patterns 2 stamp set to create giant balloons with Nuvo Crystal Drops Gloss in Simply White.  This was my first time trying this technique and the verdict is in – THIS WAS SO FUN!  The stamp creates dots where a variety of materials can be adhered to create an image.  I used Nuvo drops, but anything can be used such as sequins, confetti, stickles, etc.  I cannot wait to figure out what to do next with these fun stamps!

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In addition to using the Sparkle Dot Patterns 2 stamp set, I am also using “Birthday Friends” for the girl and boy image.  I created a hill using the Scallop Borders 2 Dies.

I colored the images using copic markers and here are the colors I used:

Skin: E21, E50, R20

Hair: E34, E35, E37, E29

Pink: RV13, RV25

Blue: BG10, BG53

Grey: C1, C3, C5

I used Versamark ink to stamp the balloon 3 times into colored cardstock.  I placed the Nuvo Drops on each circle of the stamped image.  This was really fun and satisfying.  Once you get the hang of it, you will want to do this all day!   I used twine to create a string from the balloon to the stamped image.  If you do not have twine, you can simply draw the balloon strings in.  I stamped the sentiment Birthday Wishes from the Birthday Friends stamp set.  I added the stamped image so the image looks like it is holding the balloon strings.  To finish off the card I added Sparkling Clear Confetti near the sentiment and then adhered my card front to a 4 ¼ x 5 ½ inch card base.

I hope you enjoyed these cards, the Sparkle Dot Patterns stamps sets are super fun and a great new technique to try out. Thanks for stopping by!

Rina

Hi everyone,

Rina here for a tutorial on a get well easel card.  I wanted to create a fun card for someone who is not feeling so well in fun spring colors, with fun, playful images. Easel cards are great because they are great to display and they can stand up by themselves, so the recipient can see and enjoy them! A message can be written on the inside or in back of the easel card.  What is also great is these cards can also lay flat and be put inside an envelope.

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For inspiration I imagined that all my Pretty Pink Posh stamp sets were just one giant stamp set.  I picked and chose the images that I wanted to achieve the look I was going for.  Here is what I decided to use:

• Fly a Kite – Sun
• Everyday Greetings – Sentiments
• Bee Friends – Bees
• Halloween Friends – Bears with wings
• Bold Blooms – Flowers
• Picket Fence Die
• Scallop Borders 2 Dies – Backing for sentiment

The images were colored in Copic Markers, here is what I used:

• Blue Green – BG10, BG11, BG32
• Yellow – Y00, Y13
• Pinks – R11, R21, R22, R24, R32, R14
• Blacks – C1, C3, C5, C7

The background was created using Distress Oxide Inks in Fossilized Amber, Broken China, Cracked Pistachio and Worn Lipstick. A distress sprayer can be used for a soft distressed look.  I used the Picket Fence die to ground the bears.  For small images, I used the Zots Bling Glue Dots to adhere them to the background.

Here is how I constructed the Easel Card:

• Start with an A2 card base, fold the front in, mountain fold style
• On the bottom of the mountain fold adhere a 4 ¼ x 5 ½ inch decorated card front (only the bottom of the fold)
• On the inside of the card base, figure out where you want the card front to rest
• Apply an embellishment or a sentiment on a piece of paper and double foam tape it on the inside card base to allow the card front to rest on

Finishing touches included Wink of Stella Clear and 4mm Clear Droplets, 6mm Clear Droplets adhered with Distress Collage Medium.

Hope you like this fun, easy project and it brings a smile to your face! Thanks for stopping by!

Rina

I always look forward to adding colour to my projects and I challenged myself to use a colour I rarely use. It was so worth it! It’s Justine here again for an April video tutorial. I’m looking at using dies on your cards and I have a challenge for everyone – try to step out of your comfort zone! I did it twice – using green and no stamping!

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I used the Stacked Edges 2 die to create an interesting green background. I additionally added the Stitched Foliage leaves cut twice in both gold glitter paper and the green background I created with Distress Oxide inks. The sentiment, Hello Friend Script, has been cut with the same glitter gold paper and black cardstock. I topped off the card with a few clear droplets.

Thanks for having me again here on the blog. I look forward to bringing you more inspiration next month! If you enjoyed my video, be sure to check out my personal channel for weekly videos.

Hello friends, Eloise here and today I have two cards to share with you using the Wild Rose stamp set. I LOVE florals. They make for super classy cards for almost any occasion and I think everyone needs a good floral stamp set. This one is great as it contains so many images and you can create full clusters and bouquets. I’ll also be pairing in the Thank You Script word dies since I couldn’t help but use it also! These new products are amazing!

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To begin my card today I wanted to try something new. I decided to pull out some Toned Tan and Toned Gray cardstock that I had in my stash from Strathmore and since it’s a mixed media paper, it can be used with watercolours. So I really wanted to try it out with my Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers with it. I originally had purchased it to use with coloured pencils, but I didn’t have any yet so I thought watercolours would give an interesting look too. I first stamped three flowers and six leaves onto each colour of cardstock. Then I told heat embossed the images on tan paper with gold embossing powder and silver on the grey paper. I always prefer to have heat embossed images when I’m water colouring, it’s easier to contain it.

I coloured up my images the same way I colour on normal watercolour cardstock. I scribble some of my colour down where I want the darkest area to be and then with a water brush, I pull out the colour in stages into the rest of the area. This ensures a nice gradient between the colour so it looks perfectly blended. I repeated this process on all the petals and then on the leaves also and these markers blended so nicely on this paper, so super smooth and the colours blended out so well. I loved colouring with these markers on this paper I got great results and colouring on a different colour of cardstock gives it a really interesting look to it all. The colouring on the tan paper makes the colours appear more warm, and the colouring on the grey cardstock makes the colours appear more cool. Which is so interesting and gives a completely different look to these markers.

Once my colouring was completed I die cut the images out using coordinating dies. Next up, I used the Stitched Notes die set and cut into two pieces of white cardstock that measure 4″ wide by 5 1/2″ tall. This is because I want to use frame not the actual rectangle piece that it cuts. So when I lined up the die, I want it to be perfectly centered. So once I die cut those, I added foam tape onto the back and adhered them onto two card bases. For the inside of my cards, I die cut some green polka dot cardstock with the same rectangle die from Stitched Notes and adhered them flat into the card base. For my flowers and leaves, I arranged them onto the center of my card, picked them up with a little press n seal and adhered them down in stages. I used liquid adhesive for the leaves, then more foam tape for the flowers. I did this since I wanted these flowers to be placed perfectly, and once I got them places I didn’t want to loose where I had placed them.

For my sentiment, I used the ‘Hello’ from Birdie Friends and white heat embossed it twice onto a strip of black cardstock. Then I used the Thank You die set and just cut the ‘you’ word six times out of white cardstock and adhered three each together. I then adhered both sentiments onto my cards. To finish up I used the Berry Bright Sequin Mix and scattered them around the flowers.

That finishes up my cards for today, I hope you enjoyed and are inspired to try different papers to see how different mediums look on them. Thanks so much for stopping by and I’ll catch you next time.

Eloise

Hi everyone, Rina here. I am a BIG fan of shaker cards, so today I thought I would make a mini shaker birthday card.  I love this smaller size; you do not have to use too many sequins to make a huge impact.

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I am using the Bunny Friends, Birthday Friends and Fly Away Friends stamp sets for today’s card.  I am also using the larger Scallop Square die to create the shaker frame. I am coloring the bunny and balloon images with 4 copic markers: RV0000, RV21, RV25, RV29.

 
To create the shaker frame I cut out:

• 1 scallop square pink frame
• 1 solid square in acetate
• 3 scallop30 square white frames
• 1 solid square in pink

I adhered all these layers with Tim Holtz collage medium.  Before you adhere the solid square in pink, fill the shaker well with sequins.  I used the Friendship Mix, Mini Gold Star Confetti, Sparkling Clear Stars and 3mm Sparkling Clear Sequins.

To create the sentiment I cut out a thin piece of black paper and white heat embossed the Happy Birthday sentiment from Fly Away Friends.  I wrapped the piece around the shaker frame. Once the sentiment is in place, adhere the bunny and balloon images to the middle of the card.  To finish off the card, I accented the stamped images with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen in Clear and adhered the new Watermelon Jewels to the outside of the shaker.

Once the card front is all complete, adhere the shaker to a 4 ¼ x 4 ¼ inch card base!

I hope you try this mini shaker out! Thanks for stopping by!

Rina