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Tutorial: Creating A Cute Birthday Card

Hello Pretty Pink Posh fans! This is Yana and today I am sharing video tutorial showing how to create a colorful birthday card for a girl using the Birthday Friend stamps.

Pretty Pink Posh has many other stamp sets from the Friends series and many of them can be used to create a card like this. The characters within these sets maintain their size so you can easily combine friends from different sets to tell a story on your cards.

I picked pinks and yellows for this project as primary colors and made it into a birthday card for a girl, by using greens and blues you can easily change it up and make into a birthday card for a boy.

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The colors I picked were somewhat influenced by the set of sequins I was planning to use to embellish my card – the Party Time sequin mix. There are yellow, pink and blue sequins in this set; I wanted to color the elements on this card in colors that would match these sequins. It might seem a bit odd – trying to match the coloring to the color of sequins, but I often use this trick when I want to make sure everything will match. Its very easy to pick the right colors that would coordinate or resemble the colors of my sequins and not vice versa. Plus the sequin mixes already have the colors that work quite well together, so why not use that to our advantage?

I started working on my card by stamping nearly all of the images from this stamp set in Copic Marker friendly ink onto white cardstock panel. The only image I didn’t stamp was the little candle. I colored my images using Copic markers. I used:

  • RV14, RV13, RV11 to color pink
  • Y19, Y15, Y11 to color yellow
  • B02, B00, B000 to color blue
  • E00, E000, E11, E13, E33 to color skin and hair

I cut my images out using the coordinating dies and also die-cut identical shapes out of sticky fun foam – I often prefer to use a solid fun foam shape to foam adhesive squares. This adds a lot of stability to my foam mounted elements and prevents sagging.

Next, I white heat embossed the birthday sentiment onto a gray cardstock panel, foam mounted it in the center of a 4 ¼ x 5 ½” white panel and added my colored elements around it. In a way it looks like there’s a Birthday party going on on this card and the friends are dancing and having lots of fun!

Finally, I embellished my card using the sequins I used for my color combo inspiration – I added a lot of sequins in various sizes filling in the gaps in between the images. I also coated some elements using a shimmer pen.

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I hope you enjoyed today’s post and video. Happy cardmaking!

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Creating A Floral Card w/ Distress Oxide Inks

Today’s card video tutorial shows off how to colour your stamps without fancy crayons or markers! It’s Justine again, taking over the Pretty Pink Posh blog! I’m excited to be here with you again bringing you another video tutorial! Today I am using some of the fun new release stamps Cherry Blossoms and Encouraging Greetings! I am generally quite intimidated by colouring, so I always love to figure out ways to colour without needing a lot of colouring skills!

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I used Distress Oxide inks in Fossilized Amber, Picked Raspberry and Broken China to create a background. I let it completely dry and heat embossed flower images from the Cherry Blossoms set. I cut them out using the coordinating dies and pasted them onto a scalloped frame. I topped it off by adding a sentiment from Encouraging Greetings and embellished using a mixture of Spring Blooms sequins, clear droplets and pansy purple jewels.

I hope you enjoyed the video tutorial and it helped explain how to make this fun card. If you enjoyed today’s video, feel free to check out my YouTube Channel. See you in April!

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Tutorial: Creating A Window Card

Hi friends, Eloise here today to share a Easter themed card to share with you all. I’ll be using the brand new Bunny Friends set and Happy Easter Shaker Die to help create my window card today.

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To begin my card today I first stamped my images out from the Bunny Friends stamp set onto some Neenah Solar White cardstock using black ink. I then used my Copic Markers to colour in my images using a spring colour palette. Once I finished colouring in my images, I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. I then set them off to side and worked on my main focal point. I first used the Stitched Notes Dies and cut out the large stitched rectangle from some Watercolour Cardstock and then used the Happy Easter Shaker die and cut the die out of the center of the cardstock.  Once I had it cut out of my front panel, I laid the rectangle with the die cut egg over the top of a folded card base, adhered it down into the centre where I eventually want to adhere it and then laid over the egg die cut again, fit it into place where it fits perfectly, opened the card base up and ran it through my big shot machine again. Now I have all my layers to create my window card.

Copic Colours Used: W3, W0, W00, 0 / R24, R22, R21 / YG17, YG23, YG21 / BG23, BG32, BG10 / YR18, YR12, Y21 / R83, R81, RV10 / Y38, Y15, Y11

Next up, I cut a piece of acetate and adhered it down on top of my card base. Once I adhered this down, I realised I needed to ink blend on my card base, so I left the acetate on and also adhered my shaker die on top with some washi tape, then just ink blended some Twisted Citron Distress Ink over the top fading up to white like normal. Once that was ink blended on, I worked on my positive Happy Easter Shaker piece. I used an exacto knife and cut out the ‘Happy Easter’ wording and also the flowers and leaves at the bottom. This then leaves me the perfect frame. I then added adhesive onto the back and adhered it into place directly on my card base. I added foam tape onto the back of my rectangle piece, lined it up with the egg shape on the card base and adhered it down.

Now that my card base was ready on the outside, it was time to do the inside. I took some post it tape, cut it down to a hill shape and adhered the negative piece onto the inside of my card base. I then ink blended some Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress ink blending down into white, reversed the masks and did the same thing with the sky, only using Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean and blending, fading up to white. Now my background for my scene was ready, I could begin adhering. I added pop dots onto the back of my bunnies and adhered them down into place, making sure you could see all three from the front of the card. One they were adhered down I also adhered my flowers next to them using flat adhesive.

To finish up my card, I added some extra flowers from Bunny Friends onto the flowers on the die cut shaker piece and I coloured those in with coordinating colours I used earlier, then adhered them on with foam squares. Then, I also used the same greens as I did for all the leaves before and coloured in the remaining leaves. This would definitely be easier to do before I adhered it to the acetate, but for me it was an afterthought. Lastly, I replaced my front rectangle panel with another piece that I used some Tumbled Glass Distress Ink on, to replicate the card base I coloured as well. I decided this card didn’t need a sentiment also, so I left it sentiment-less and I feel like it worked perfectly with the design of card. But again, you could add one if you feel like you wanted too.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you enjoyed and got inspired to create a window card. I love these designs so much especially for a card like this where you wouldn’t always need to write a long message. It works so nicely! Anyway, thank you again and I’ll catch you all next time!

Eloise

 

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Tutorial: DIY Candy Treat Boxes

Hi friends, Eloise here and today I have some St Patrick’s Day little gift boxes to share with you all. These would be perfect for little gifts for co-workers or even children, just a little gift to give someone to give them a little luck and a sweet treat, or whatever you decide to put in them. I’ll be using the Best of Luck stamp set to help theme these DIY gift boxes.

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To begin my boxes today, I first cut down two pieces of green cardstock to 5 ½” wide by 8 ½” tall. This means you can get two boxes from one sheet of 8 ½” x 11 cardstock, which is great. Once they were cut down in half, it’s time to score. I pulled my large scoring board out, you can use a small one but you’ll need to turn the cardstock around every time to get the full length. My first score line is going to be on the short side at ¼”, then at 1 ¼”, then at 4 ¼” and lastly at 5 ¼”, then turn your cardstock 90 degrees and then on the long side, you’re going to score at 3”, then at 4”, again at 7” and again at 8”. This will be the base for your box.

Next take your box base over to your trimmer and you’re going to cut out a few rectangles. On the short side, you’re going to cut down vertically the 1 ¼” score line, all the way down to the 3” horizontal score line. Then, do the same for the 4 ¼” score line. At the bottom of your box, still on the short side. Cut up from the 1 ¼” score line again, to the 8” score line and repeat for the 4 ¼” score line. Then rotate your box 90 degrees, making sure you have the longer cut lines to the left of your trimmer and at the 3” score line, cut down to the cut you made earlier. Then, move your cardstock down, and do the same at the 8” score line. Then, flip your cardstock 180 degrees, and repeat. For the last cut, move your cardstock long ways and cut at the 4” score line, to the score line of the long cut you made earlier, flip the cardstock around 180 degrees again and repeat. This will be the base for your box all ready to go. If it’s easier for you, you can use scissors – but I personally liked using the trimmer, especially with a wire guide. Also – this will be explained and shown in the video so if you’re a visual learner, check that out above!

Now that my boxes were all ready before I moved onto anything else, I flipped it over to the front of the box, and ink blended some Lucky Clover Distress Ink at the bottom of which will be the top of the box, just to give my box a little gradient of colour. I repeated this for all four boxes, then turned over my box so it’s the inside and then stamped ‘Happy St. Patricks Day’ on the inside at the top with black ink on all four boxes as well. Then, I used my bone folder and scored along all the edges. I then set my boxes off to the side and worked on the decorations. I stamped out all my images from Best of Luck onto some white cardstock and used my Copic Markers to colour them all in. I then used the coordinating dies and cut them all out. While I was die cutting, I used the Smile Shaker Die and cut that out four times of white cardstock also. Since I just wanted the frames I used an exacto knife and cut away the ‘Smile’ word. Now I have all my frames, I can decorate my boxes.

Copic Colours Used: R14, R24, R29 / Y21, YR12, YR18 / Y11, Y15, Y38 / YG21, YG23, YG17 / B000, B41, B34 / Y21, YR21, YR24 / YR24, E99, E07 / RV10 / C3, C5, C7 / E000, E00, E21

To finish up my boxes, I first punched a hole at the top flap, and punched two smaller holes on the ½” flap. This will be for the string. Then, I used foam squares around the circle frames and adhered them to the front flaps of my boxes. I also added foam tape to my images and adhered them in place also. I then opened the box and adhered the four leaf lover images around the sentiment. For the little gift inside the boxes, I adhered four green foiled heart chocolates on the inside to create a four leaf clover, it’s super cute! To finish up the boxes, I folded in all the sides, added green twine into the punched holes and tied a bow to hold the top and bottom of the box together. Then for the sides, I added small strips of adhesive on each of the ¼” flaps and adhered them to the top of the box.

So that finished up my DIY gift boxes project today. I hope you enjoyed! These little boxes are super cute and easy to make with a half sheet of cardstock and can be decorated with any occasioned stamps. These would be perfect for small gifts as well.


Thank you so much for stopping by today and I’ll catch you all next time.

Eloise

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Tutorial: Creating 4 St. Patrick’s Day Cards

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.

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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!

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March 2018 Release Now Available

The March 2018 Release is now available in the Pretty Pink Posh Shop and select retailers that carry our products. If you missed our post yesterday, we revealed all of the products in picture form, but if you would like to see them in a video, Eloise has you covered!

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It’s Marge here with you. Today I’m going to share a watercolor card featuring the Cherry Blossoms Stamp Set  which is one of the March Release Products  from Pretty Pink Posh.

As you all know, Pretty Pink Posh steadily has released flowers stamps and what I love about them is that they are always released in shapes of separate blossoms and leaves, not in a bouquet or bunch shape.

There could be plenty of designs/layouts with these blossoms, which you can make into your own style. I have been seeing so many beautiful creations made with Pretty Pink Posh’s flowers sets, each of which is uniquely designed and beautiful as well. The new Cherry Blossoms Stamp Set is no exception. It’s very versatile! 

To begin the card, I stamped images of Cherry Blossoms Stamp Set on a piece of 300g watercolor paper using Versafine Onyx Black Ink  which is water-resistant. Then I colored them using Daniel Smith Watercolor paints from light to deep colors focusing on giving shades.

 I then cut the images using Cherry Blossoms Coordinating Dies.

To make a background panel, I prepared an A2 sized white cardstock from Bristol paper, then sponged  it with Distress Oxide Inks: Gathered Twigs, Peeled Paint , Twisted Citron , Squeezed Lemonade , Tattered Rose, and Worn Lipstick one by one from bottom to top. Next, I added splatters of clean water, gold pearl, and black inks. After the inks are dried up, I stamped a sentiment from the Encouraging Greetings Stamp Set on the center of the panel using Versafine Onyx Blak Ink.

Then I arranged blossoms and leaves on the panel according to the sketch I had in mind.

To embellish the card, I used several of our new Jewels Collection, which are so beautiful that they could add fantastic sparkly effect on your cards. 

I put some of Buttercream, Pink Blush, Spring Green, and Shamrock here and there using a glue, then I foam-mounted the panel on an A2 sized top-folded cardbase and finished it off.

That’s it for today. Thanks for reading this post. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you will visit us again soon!
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Tutorial: Creating 3 Birthday Cards

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.


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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.

Copic Markers Used: BG11, BG23, BG49 / BV02, BV04, BV08 / R20, R21, R22, R24 / RV13, RV25, RV09 / Hair – Y21, YR21, YR23 / Y32, Y38, YR18 / Skin – E000, E00, E21 / Cake – E51, E53, E55 / Hair – E31, E35, E37 / W00, W1, W3 / Y11, Y13, Y15 / YG21, YG23, YG17 / B21, B24, B26 / Balloon – R14, R24, R29 / 0

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!

Eloise

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Tutorial: Sparkle Dot Patterns 1

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.

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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!

Happy cardmaking!

 

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Save the Crafty YouTuber Video Hop

Hi Crafters!

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!

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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!

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Creating Three Valentine Shaker Cards

Hi Everyone!

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.

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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.

Here are the dies used in this post:

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!

~Rina