Pretty Pink Posh | Water Scene Cards with Pond Friends Stamps. Video + Sale!

Hello, friends! Today I have a video that shows how to makes water scene cards using the Pond Friends stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh.

I started to work on my cards by stamping images from the Pond Friends stamp set in alcohol marker friendly ink and cutting the images out using coordinating dies. Next, I colored them using my Copic markers to bring these cute swans to life.

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

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CARD DETAILS

I used the following colors:

• W1 and RV00 as well as a colorless blender to color the swans gray and pink
• E31, E33
• YG01, YG03, G94
• BG45, BG11.

I have two card ideas to share today. For my card #1, I wanted to use scraps of colored cardstock to create layers of water, if you will, on my card. I like to have fun and unique backgrounds on my cards using I can always achieve that with the help of colored cardstock. I cut several colors of cardstock to 1 3/4” tall x 4 ¼” strips and used my scissors to freehand a wave on each of those pieces.

You can use a die, Pretty Pink Posh has several die sets that would work perfectly for cutting little waves or hills like these, I didn’t have any on hand, so I freehand the cuts using scissors.

Lately, I love to add ink blending to my backgrounds, not colored ink blending, but white. White pigment ink is a fantastic tool to help you soften the background and create various effects on paper. I’ve been using it a lot recently to make clouds for my cards and today I decided I might as well use it to make water. I grabbed my ink blending tool and blended white ink onto my hand-cut panels to make that background. I also did the same thing to make a background for the 2nd card I’m sharing today.

The white ink isn’t as visible on the lighter colors of cardstock, but it still adds a nice touch and softens the color of the cardstock beautifully. With the panels ink blended I used glue and adhered them to another scrap cardstock panel. Next, I brought in my paper trimmer and cut the panel to 3 3/4” by 5” giving me a beautiful 1/4” white mat when adhered to an A2 white card base.

With the background panel created I arranged the images to create a scene on my card and adhered everything in place using a mix of foam adhesive for dimension and glue. I also used my white Sakura pen and added a lot of white pen details to these images to make them pop. Seeing how the scene is set on water, I added details to the background as well – little water rings here and there to make it look somewhat more realistic.

I also added a bunch of Sea Glass Jewels – I scattered them around the images filling the background in. I got so carried away building the scene, that I completely forgot about the sentiment for this card! Luckily, I had room for a skinny strip sentiment at the bottom and I stamped one that reads Hello Friend. This sentiment comes from an older stamp set, Birdie Friends.

Let’s take a look at the 2nd card. I made the background for this card in the same manner as for the previous card – I ink blended white pigment ink over a light blue cardstock panel. Here, I also added some scoring to the background to make it more interesting, I shared this technique in my Valentine’s Day video, please do check it out if you’d like to learn how to create this scored background:

Pretty Pink Posh | Valentine’s Day Cards featuring Hot Foiling with Coordinating Dies. Video

I trimmed the panel to 3 3/4 x 5” and foam mounted to the A2 white card base. For this card I placed two swans, a pink and a gray one, looking at each other in the center of my panel and added the rest of the elements around them creating a scene.

This time I did plan for a sentiment, I stamped one from the Pond Friends stamp set and it reads You Are So Very Special To Me. I stamped it in black ink on a skinny white cardstock strip and foam mounted it to the card to give it a bit of a lift. I used the same Sea Glass jewels to embellish this project and again, I scattered them around the scene to add interest to my background.

Have fun stamping!

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SUPPLIES

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!

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