Spring Box Card with Pretty Pink Posh

Hi, friends! I’m continuing my collection of making holiday themed box cards with Spring and Easter! I started with die cutting the Scallop Box Card Dies out of yellow cardstock for the base pieces and smooth, white cardstock for the scalloped pieces to do some ink blending. I used the new Layered Butterfly Floral Stencils with Distress Oxides in Picked Raspberry, Saltwater Taffy, Salvaged Patina, and Squeezed Lemonade to create the design on the scalloped die cuts.

I assembled the Scallop Box Card base together and added the stenciled scalloped pieces to the panels. Using a large piece of watercolor cardstock, I used the same Distress Oxides to ink squish and blend all the colors to give a watercolor look. I also splattered on gold watercolor for some sparkle! When it was dry, I used the Stitched Eggs Dies and Decorative Butterflies Coordinating Dies to cut out eggs and butterflies. I die cut as much as I could out of the panel, but only a used a few for today and I’ll save the rest for a future project.

For the butterflies, I also stamped the bodies from the Decorative Butterflies Stamp Set with a pink ink and used the Coordinating Dies to cut them out. I glued them to the center of the butterfly die cuts from the watercolor cardstock. I also cut the bunny feet and flower stem from the Big Easter Cupcake Dies, strips from the Sentiment Strips Dies, and flowers and leaves from the Spring Mug Additions Dies. I glued all of the layering dies together and created a scene on the shelf piece of my box card with the eggs, butterflies and flowers. I love the softness of the eggs and bright pink of the flowers!

I stamped my sentiment from the Decorative Butterflies Stamp Set onto my die cuts and added the sentiment to the front of the box card. My little bunny feet are sticking up above the sentiment and they’re my favorite part of the box card! Box cards have been so fun to make and I love having my Valentine, St. Patrick’s Day and now Easter box cards on my desk! I’d love to know what I should make for May - probably something for Mother’s Day? What would you like to see?!

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Whale Hugs Light Up Card with Pear Blossom Press and Picket Fence Studios

Hey friends! Today, we’re kicking off a CRAFTY Collaboration Video Hop with Pear Blossom Press and Picket Fence Studio! Come hop along with us and see some awesome light-up cards! Plus, each company will be giving away $25 PRIZES! All you have to do to be entered to win is to leave a comment at each stop along our YouTube Hop Lineup before March 29th at 11:59 PM EDT. Winners will be announced on the Pear Blossom Press & Picket Fence Studios Blogs on 3.31.24!

My card features a One Light, PB Press Stamp Set, Black Perfect Sentiment Stock and World's Best Foam Tape from Pear Blossom Press and More of the Best Hugs Ever Stamps, Dies and Tree Bark Stencil from Picket Fence Studios. I just loved these hugging whales and I used the stencil as my ocean water rather than tree bark! I hope you have a fun time hopping with us - make sure to watch my video on YouTube so you can get all the details of how to hop along.

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Market Bloom Birthday Card with Scrapbook.com

I know I probably say this with almost every collection released from Scrapbook.com, but the Market Bloom Collection is my new favorite! The colors of the Market Bloom Patterned Collection Paper Pad are so beautiful and I love this mix of flowers and citrus fruit. I used some of the patterns and solid cardstock from the pad to create today's card!

Starting with the stenciling, I used a pink and green ink pad to color in the flowers and leaves from the Spring Flowers layering stencil set. For the flower centers, I used Guppy Lunar Paste - I just love the shine it gives to the background! Then I did my die cutting from the Market Bloom Florals die set as well as the "happy birthday" banners from Birthday Sentiment Banners set and a cute garland from the Celebration Banners set.

I trimmed my background to 4x5.25" and adhered it to my card base. Then I adhered the flowers down with a mix of liquid adhesive and 1mm foam. I added my white letters to my banners and layered all three with liquid adhesive - I did have to use some foam to help support some of the letters, but mostly relied on the dimension from the flowers underneath them.

For some final touches, I added some Pops of Color in different colors around the flowers. I just love these colors and just how fun and floral it is! What do you think of this new collection? I like the fruity items, but the florals are just my favorite.

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Teaching is an Adventure Mini Slimline with Kindred Stamps

I am having some fandom fun today with Kindred Stamps! I did mix in a few other items from other companies, but the images are from a retired set called Teaching is an Adventure. I'm sorry that this set is not available right now, but make sure to join the Kindred Stamps Fan Club so that you can stay up to date on when limited drops are made of retired sets!

You can see my process below, but I started with die cutting my blue background and used Solar Paste to add the stars to the background. When they dried, I added some white splatter and layered it onto a piece of yellow cardstock so that my card would measure 3.5x6.5 when folded. My sentiment is stamped and cut from a speech bubble die from PopsicleSticks (like my mini slimline dies). 

My images were stamped and colored with alcohol markers; I had a few images up when coloring so I did my best to match her dress and the look of the bus! I fussy cut the images out and added a few highlights with a white gel pen. These were popped up, along with the sentiment, with foam adhesive to the card. I added some final touches with some of my favorite embellishments from Trinity Stamps. I hope you have fun watching my latest video today!

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You're the Tweetest with Pretty Pink Posh

I have some Spring inspiration today with Pretty Pink Posh! First I started with stenciling my birdhouse background on white cardstock with the Layered Birdhouses Stencils. I used the A stencil with Distress Inks in Spun Sugar, Saltwater Taffy, Squeezed Lemonade, Salvaged Patina and Tumbled Glass. Next I used the B and D stencils with Distress Inks in Picked Raspberry, Abandoned Coral, Mustard Seed, Evergreen Bough and Mermaid Lagoon. Finally, I used the C stencil with Pearl White Stardust Butter from The Crafter’s Workshop.

While the background was drying, I cut a birdhouse from the Decorative Birdhouses Die Set from a light yellow cardstock as well as the scallop details and archway from pink sparkle cardstock. I added some Mustard Seed Distress Ink to darken the color of the birdhouse and used Ohuhu Art Markers in teal colors to color in the leaves to match the teal birdhouses I stenciled. I assembled the bird house together and I just love the stitched details!

From the A Little Birdie Stamp Set, I stamped two birds and a little branch in alcohol marker friendly black ink. Using Ohuhu Art Markers, I colored them in and used the Coordinating Dies to cut them out. Once my background was dry, I trimmed it down to 4 x 5-1/4" and layered it with blue cardstock onto an A2 card base. I added the birdhouse towards the center of the card with foam adhesive, leaving room for the “You’re The Tweetest” sentiment beneath. Finally, I added my stamped images and different colors from the Rainbow Shimmer Confetti around the card as well as a few on the bird house.

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Sanity is Overrated with Miss Ink Stamps

I love each release from Miss Ink Stamps as she builds more of her Magic Collection! This last release has a wonderful scene building die set and I knew I wanted to make this iconic scene from the movie adaptation of this fandom story. I started with stenciling my background with the layering Radishes stencil set then stamped and colored my images.

Next I did my die cutting and started assembling my scene. I did use some Distress Ink to create a stone floor and to darken the top of the Castle Arches and added some bronze splatter. I had fun making this card and I definitely want to make another card with a whole class of characters with a similar feel! Which character is your favorite from the Miss Ink Stamps Magic Collection?

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Floral Cards with Spellbinders February 2024 Clubs

I received more of my February Clubs in the mail this week! I didn't get my stencil yet, but I wanted to get out all of the different mediums. I didn't really combine too many of the clubs together, but I have four cards to share with you. First is my BetterPress card (you can see another one here) that I impressed with a brown ink and colored my images in with Distress Watercolor Pencils. I used the coordinating die for the hummingbird and added a few spots of Pops of Color.

My hot foiled card is actually pretty quick and easy! I used the Champagne foil I received with my plates and added Distress Oxides along the bottom half of the paper. I splattered on some mica spray that I thought matched the hot foil and popped up my sentiment. After I moved on to my Stitching Dies and thought I would do a white on white look with colored floss. I think it turned out so cool and I just love the bold colors on white!

My last card uses two Clubs together - the Clear Stamp & Die Set and the Embossing Folder. I stamped and colored my image with alcohol markers. I embossed the folder on white cardstock and it's peeking out through the die cut floral image! I just love the subtle background behind the bold flowers. I used a light yellowish green cardsotck around the arched image and a few white pops of colors to add a few final touches.

Which Club is your favorite this month? It's hard to narrow down but I think I really enjoyed the Stitching Die the most this month! Let me know yours in the comments!

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Be Mine Valentine's Day Shaker Card with This Calls for Confetti

Did you see my last Valentine's Day card with This Calls for Confetti? I am using the speech bubbles that were the negatives of my Chatty A2 Die for the first card to make the background of today's shaker card. Check out the video on the post to see how I made the ink blended background while today's video shows how I made my background of the full panel shaker.

I made my own mix of shaker bits with the LOVE Polymer Clay Mix and Blush Opaque Iridescent Confetti. I thought they matched best with the colors of my card. Which card do you like best out of the two? I think they're both great but I think I might like this one more. I used a sentiment from a digital sentiment set from TCFC that comes with the Chatty A2 Die!

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Happy Birthday, Pretty Pink Posh! Celebration Blog Hop

I am so excited to be celebrating Pretty Pink Posh's birthday release today! I'm so excited to be a part of the 10th birthday celebration (my kiddo just celebrated her 10th birthday so it's so fitting)! There are so many amazing new things - stamp sets, dies, interactive dies, hot foil plates, embellishments... I just love all the celebratory products. My card today is even inspired by the Pretty Pink Posh logo!

My background has layered stencils - I used Distress Oxides with the Layered Balloons Stencils and Stencil Paste with the Birthday Words Stencil. My cupcake uses some of the new dies - I have the cupcake from Big Birthday Cupcake and candles and banners from Interactive Cake. Finally, the sentiment is from Party Time and I used the coordinating die for "Party." I can't wait to see how other creators used the new release and I'd love to know what your favorite new product is from the release!

Make sure to check out the rest of the Product Release Blog Hop for more inspiration using the new products from Pretty Pink Posh! There are five (5) $30 gift certificates up for grabs (one winner each day). Winners will be picked randomly along the blog hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PST on 2/16/2024. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog!

BLOG HOP DAY 3 LINEUP

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Laura Bassen

Carissa Wiley

Raquel Arribas

Lauren Taylor (here now!)

Sindhu Prajay

Dana Kirby

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Birthday Wreath Card with Pretty Pink Posh

Are you loving the new release from Pretty Pink Posh?! I was so excited to make a sneak peek project for this last release and I couldn’t figure out the color scheme I wanted to use to stencil the Layered Birthday Wreath Stencils, so I just used all of them! For all three layers of the stencil, I used pinks, oranges, yellow, greens and blues of Distress Oxides.

I used small brushes for the tinier details and masked when I needed to to get all the details colored in. I really could not bear to cut any part of this stenciled wreath away, so I made a big card! My card base measures 5-1/2x5-1/2” and I used a 1/4" corner rounder. I layered on a piece of blue cardstock with the same dimensions, before adding my stenciled panel. I trimmed it down to 5-1/4x5-1/4" and used the same corner rounder.

Using coordinating colored cardstock, I cut out Birthday Candles and layered them together onto the card with foam adhesive. I also hot foiled the Happy Birthday Hot Foil Plates with gold foil and used the coordinating Happy Birthday Shadow Dies to cut the sentiment out. The sentiment was also popped up with foam adhesive under the candles.

I recreated this card in an A2 size with dye based inks for Scrapbook.com; did you see my video over on their YouTube channel? If not, watch it here and leave me some love in a comment! I have a short little video sharing my stenciling in case you're curious of how I did my masking and layering down below.

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