Pretty Pink Posh: Watercolor Blog Hop – Smile

Hi!  I am so stoked that I was able to find some time to create a second card for the Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Blog Hop!  There are so many amazing entries and I am so floored by the talent that is out there.  All of the wonderful entries have really inspired me to give watercoloring another go.  I’m still trying to get the hang of watercoloring so please don’t judge me too harshly!

I am in LOVE with Phyllis Harris illustrations and am so happy that she designs for Unity Stamp Company.  I decided to try my hand at watercoloring one of my favorite images of hers.  What do you think?

See below for steps to reproduce:

1. Create an A2 card base out of Neenah Solar White 110lb. Cardstock
2. Use the Mama Elephant Basic Set Creative Cuts to create a frame out of Neenah Solar White 110lb. Cardstock
3. Cut an A2-size rectangle out of Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper
4. Stamp the girl from the Unity Stamp Company Face the Sunshine Stamp Set with VersaFine Vintage Sepia and heat emboss with clear embossing powder
5. Use Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers (071 Flesh Color, 021 Light Carmine, 091 Light Gray, 050 Yellow, 052 Bright Yellow, 041 Light Green, 044 Deep Green, 065 Mid Brown) to watercolor the stamped image
6. Wash the sky and grass with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink and Peeled Paint Distress Ink, respectively
7. Stamp the sentiment from the Unity Stamp Company Insightful Meadow’s Stamp Set with VersaFine Vintage Sepia
8. Adhere everything together using the Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots Tape Runner
9. Embellish with Pretty Pink Posh Sequins (6mm Sparkling Clear, 4mm Sparkling Clear) using Zots Bling Dots
10. Send a bit of happy mail to a friend and spread a little sunshine in their life!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today and I hope you get a chance to hop along with Pretty Pink Posh!

Happy Crafting!!

Pretty Pink Posh: Watercolor Blog Hop – Delightful Dahlias

Hi!  I have jumped on the Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush craze and am so excited that they came in time for me to participate in the Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Blog Hop!!! I ended up ordering the 36-color set from Amazon and they were delivered within the same day as when they shipped!  Gotta love Amazon.  See below for a thank you card that I made for my neighbors using these newly-acquired markers.  I gotta say that they are AMAZING!  I love how vibrant and easy they are to use!!

See below for steps to reproduce:

1. Create an A2 card base out of Neenah Solar White 110lb. Cardstock
2. Use the Mama Elephant Basic Set Creative Cuts to cut a stitched rectangle out of Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper and wash with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink
3. Use the Mama Elephant Thanks Script Creative Cuts to die-cut the sentiment
4. Stamp the dahlias and leaves from the Papertrey Ink Delightful Dahlia Stamp Set with Versamark Ink onto Tim Holtz Watercolor Paper and heat emboss with Hero Arts White Embossing Powder
5. Use Kuretake Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers (022 Carmine Red, 070 Orange, 050 Yellow, 052 Bright Yellow, 041 Light Green, 047 May Green) to watercolor the stamped images and fussy-cut
6. Adhere everything together using the Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots Tape Runner
7. Embellish with Pretty Pink Posh Sequins (6mm Sparkling Clear, 4mm Sparkling Clear, 6mm Tangerine, 4mm Tangerine, 6mm Marigold, 4mm Marigold) using Zots Bling Dots
8. Marvel at how vibrant and easily you were able to blend the color on these flowers!!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today and I hope you get a chance to hop along with Pretty Pink Posh!

Happy Crafting!!

Pretty Pink Posh: Cutting Edge Blog Hop Card #2

 

Hi Everyone!  Today is the last day to enter into the Pretty Pink Posh blog hop!!  My second card is inspired by JJ Bolton’s lovely cloud background and this gorgeous spring card that the talented Lisa Spangler created here:

Since fall is right around the corner, I thought it’d be great to create a card featuring some lovely autumn colors.  Since i’m absolutely obsessed with shaker cards ever since Paulina from Pretty Pink Posh hosted her first blog hop, I had to make another one!

 

See below for steps to reproduce:

1. Create an A2 card base out of Neenah Solar White 110lb. Cardstock
2. Use the Mama Elephant Basic Set Creative Cuts and the Spellbinders Card Creator A2 Matting Basics Dies to create a frame
3. Run the frame with the Darice Swirls Embossing Folder through the Cuttlebug
4. Adhere acetate to the frame to create the window for the shaker
5. Use the Mama Elephant Central Park Stamp Set to stamp and emboss the horse-drawn carriage in black
6. Use the Winnie & Walter The Big, The Bold and You Stamp Set as well as The Big, The Bold and the Happy Stamp Set to stamp the sentiment in Encore Gold Pigment Ink and heat emboss
7. Use the Mama Elephant Landscape Trio Creative Cuts to die cut a hill and use the negative image as a mask to blend Peeled Paint Distress Ink
8. Blend the clouds using a stencil (purchased from Impress Cards and Crafts) and Hero Arts Soft Sky Shadow Ink
9. Stamp and cut out some leaves from watercolor paper and use water and Distress Inks (Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Forest Moss, Vintage Photo) to create some fall embellishments!
10. Sprinkle in some sequins because how can you have a shaker card without sequins?!
11. Adhere frame to cardbase with foam tape
12. SHAKE!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today!  I am having so much fun on this blog hop and I hope you are too!

Pretty Pink Posh: Cutting Edge Blog Hop

Hi!  Please excuse the complete mess that is my blog but I’m a complete newbie to the blogosphere and I am trying to sort through it all!  I have been pretty hesitant at uploading any of my cards online because I don’t think my work is that great (plus I’m a horrible photographer) and I typically just reproduce cards that inspire me from blogs that I follow so I don’t feel like I should be posting them online.  In any case, I just HAD to get in on the fun at Pretty Pink Posh’s Cutting Edge Blog Hop!  So, here goes my very first card post to be submitted for my very first blog hop!!  EECK!!!

For this hop, I created a wedding shaker card featuring some Mama Elephant goodies (my absolute favorite stamp company) and my new Pretty Pink Posh Film Strip Die!  See below for steps to recreate the card:

1. Cut and score an A2 landscape notecard from Neenah Solar White Cardstock
2. Use the Mama Elephant Basic Set Creative Cuts dies to die cut the scallop base layer
   1. Use Spun Sugar Distress Ink and blend over the card base
   2. Use the Mama Elephant Love Quotes Stamp Set to stamp miniature hearts in Spun Sugar Distress Ink to create a background
   3. Adhere onto the A2 card base
3. Use the Mama Elephant Basic Set Creative Cuts dies to die cut the stitched rectangle from vellum
   1. Use the Technique Tuesday Happily Ever After Stamp Set to stamp the sentiment
   2. Emboss the sentiment using clear embossing powder
   3. Add some embellishments to the bottom so that you can hide the glue
4. Create the shaker
   1. Use the PPP Film Strip Die and die-cut several pieces of Neenah Solar White Cardstock (I think I had like 7 of them!)
   2. Cut a rectangle strip from Neenah Solar White Cardstock to create the back of the shaker (approximately 4.75″ x 1.75″) and take one of the film strips and trace where the windows will be lightly with a pencil so that you know where to stamp
      1. Use the Mama Elephant Pandamonium Stamp Set to stamp the pandas in the windows at each side of the film strip
      2. Use the Mama Elephant Type It Stamp Set to stamp the heart in the center window with Hero Arts Pale Tomato Shadow Ink
      3. Use the Mama Elephant Honey Bunny Creative Cuts to die cut the top hat and little bow
   3. Cut a rectangle strip from acetate to create the window of the shaker (approximately 4.75″ x 1.75″)
   4. Adhere all of the film strips together except for one and attach to the stamped rectangle piece
   5. Fill the middle window with Pretty Pink Posh 6mm Sparkling Clear Sequins and mini glitter heart die cuts using the Mama Elephant Creative Cuts Basic Set
   6. Adhere the acetate and the last film strip die cut to complete the shaker
5. Adhere the shaker to the top of the vellum
6. Adhere the vellum to the A2 cardbase
7. SHAKE!!

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today and I hope you enjoyed my first real post as much as I had fun making it!