Welcome to the Pretty Pink Posh July Product Release Blog Hop!
Today I have, not one, but two, cards to share with you featuring brand new Pretty Pink Posh stamps and dies (and even some older ones). Mixing and Matching stamp sets is one of my favorite things! For my first card share, I created one of my current favorite styles of cards, a tri-fold, because the Fly Away Friends Stamp Set hot air balloons and critters were too cute to be limited to a single card front! In fact, I had to pull out the previously released Camping Friends Stamp Set and Winter Friends Stamp Set for additional critters and images to complete this extended scene card.
A card base was created from trimmed Bristol Smooth Cardstock. The length of the cardstock is 12" and I trim the width to 5 1/2". From the extra strip leftover after making the card base, I used a Stitched Borders 2 Die to create a 12" cloud border. On the background I applied Salty Ocean Distress Ink and spritzed the background with water from a Distress Sprayer and blotted it dry with a paper towel. Once the background was dry, I adhered the cloud border along the bottom edge and then scored the base 4" from each side for three 4" x 5 1/2" panels. This is just slightly narrower than a standard A2 sized card base.
Images from the Fly Away Friends, Camping Friends, and Winter Friends stamp sets were stamped on smooth white cardstock using black ink and colored in with Copic Markers before being die cut with the coordinating dies. The images were adhered to the tri-fold card base as shown. Clouds from the Rainy Days Stamp Set were stamped on vellum using Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder before being die cut and adhered to the scene.
Greeting from the Fly Away Friends Stamp Set were stamped on the first panel and on the Camping Friends sign. Stars from the Fly Away Friends Stamp Set were stamped with Simon Says Stamp Blue Jay Ink. Iridescent Mini Star Confetti were scattered throughout the design to finish the hot air balloon scene.
V I D E O T U T O R I A L
To watch the creation of this critters in hot air balloons tri-fold card from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
S U P P L I E S
Click codes below the thumbnails are links to where you can purchase the products shown in this post from Simon Says Stamp, Pretty Pink Posh, or Ellen Hutson. Where available I use compensated affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
For my second card share, I have an inked rainbow background with an inlay with the Smile Shaker Die. Instead of a shaker card, I created an inlay decorated with images from the Summer Friends Stamp Set and a greeting from the Birdie Friends Stamp Set.
On a 4" x 5 1/4" piece of Bristol Smooth Cardstock, I used post it tape to mask off areas and inked the background with Distress Inks Laura Bassen Style. The background was spritzed with water from a Distress Sprayer before being blotted dry with a paper towel. Once dry, I die cut the Smile Shaker from the inked background, keeping the inside pieces to piece the inlay back together. The Smile was die cut once more from smooth white cardstock and the inlay was assembled. Foam adhesive was placed on the back of the panel and then the inlay pieces were placed on the front.
Imaged from the Summer Friends Stamp Set were stamped on smooth white cardstock using black ink and colored in with Copic Markers before being die cut with the coordinating dies. The images were adhered as shown.
An additional greeting from the Birdie Friends Stamp Set was stamped on black cardstock and embossed with white embossing powder before being cut into a thin strip and adhered to the card.
The design was finished with a scattering of Sunny Days Sequins.
V I D E O T U T O R I A L
To watch the creation of this rainbow and smile inlay summer friends card from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
S U P P L I E S
Click codes below the thumbnails are links to where you can purchase the products shown in this post from Simon Says Stamp, Pretty Pink Posh, or Ellen Hutson. Where available I use compensated affiliate links at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
G I V E A W A Y
There are 4 - $25 gift certificates up for grabs (two winners each day). Winners will be picked randomly along the blog hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PST on 7/18/2017. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog.
K E E P H O P P I N G
- Pretty Pink Posh blog
- Amy Rysavy
- Heather Hoffman
- Thi Lam
- Suzy Plantamura
- May Sukyong Park
- Joy Taylor
- Joni Andaya
- Nichol Spohr <-------- you are here.
- Crystal Thompson
- Yoonsun Hur
- Simon Says Stamp blog
- Amy Yang
