Tag: colored pencils

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  Two Peas in a Pod

  Posted at 10:24 am by Stacy Tiedemann

  Dec 21st

  

  Hello everyone! Jackie here from Jackie’s Craft Table. I hope you’re all having a fun holiday season! I’m taking a break from Holiday Card crafting to create a fabulous friendship card!

  The stamp set I’m using is called Girlfriends from Art Impressions, and I’m also using some chevron pattern paper from Scrapping for Less called Fairy’s Garden.

  I decided to pull out my Prismacolor pencils to color in these ladies. I love AI stamps–they’re quirky and cute. They also provide you with a great example on the packaging of how to color in their images. For the most part I used their example as my inspiration, but I did change up the colors to match the cheery chevron pattern paper.

  

  I colored them in pretty simply. Below you’ll see a list of the pencils I used. After I finished my coloring, I pulled out my Gamsol which is an odorless mineral spirit. I dipped a paper stump into the Gamsol and gently blended my colored pencil work. It breaks down the wax from the pencils and smooths out the coloring. It also helps to brighten the colors.

  Prismacolor Pencils:

  Both Ladies – Skin: Beige 977 & Beige Sienna 1080, Hair: Sienna Brown 945 & Chocolate 1082, Lips: Process Red 994, Cheeks: Magenta 930

  Lady on Left – Sweater: Light Aqua 992 & Muted Turquois 1088, Pants: Blush 928 & Clay Rose 1017, Shirt: 50% Cool Grey 1063, Shoes: Goldenrod 1034

  Lady on Right – Sweater & Shoes: Apple Green 912 & Dark Green 908, Pants: 50% Cool Grey 1063

  

  To pull this card together, I used a scalloped oval die to cut out my image and added some foam tape behind it. I used a banner die to cut out the chevron pattern paper, and I adhered everything down onto a piece of green card stock. This is a top-folding, A2 sized card. I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of pink card stock and adhered that over my oval. I love the sentiments in this set–so funny and cute! For a touch of sparkle I added some green gems diagonally across the card.

  You can check out my process video over on my YouTube channel.

  Check out the Scrapping for Less Shop to find the products I used for this card and many other fabulous products!

  Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day!!

  Jackie Pasko

  Posted in All | Tagged art impressions, card making, cardmaking, clear stamps, colored pencils, Coloring, girlfriends, handmade card, handmade cards, patterned paper, Prismacolor, Scrapping for Less, sfl
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  Grande-Sized Love from MFT

  Posted at 9:00 am by Kimberly Smith

  Dec 12th

  

   

  Hello and Season’s Greetings to you all! I hope you are having a good December and are busy making memories with friends and loved ones. Today I want to share with you a little card with a grande message. ( I know, I know but I love punny.)Grande-Sized Love from My Favorite Things clear stamp.

  This pure innocence girl from MFTis incredibly versatile. You could use it for a thank you card, birthday card, I love you card and of course she would be adorable on a card containing a gift card especially if that gift card was for a place that served coffee. I kept things pretty simple wanting her to take center stage on the card. Here is the run down of what I did and what I used to do it:

  • stamped the image out in Gina K black amalgam ink
  • colored her in with Copic sketch markers
  • used a Prismacolor pencil to add in hair strands
  • stamped the image out onto patterned paper from Echo Park’s Spring Dots and Stripes paper pad and then fussy cut out her dress

  

  When paper piecing an item like clothing you want to cut directly on the black line because the lines in your image that you are adding the cut out to are the ones that will show. 

  • adhered the dress down with liquid glue
  • used a stitched rounded rectangle die to cut out image
  • used a travel coffee cup die from my stash to create a travel coffee cup like the one the girl is holding n the stamp
  • stamped the sentiment and then embossed it with WOW clear embossing powder (you can use baby powder or an embossing buddy to keep your embossing powder from sticking where you don’t want it to)
  • add finishing touches to the heart and around the sentiment withNuvo Stone Drops in pink granite
  • also added some sparkle to the polka dots on her dress and the coffee cup with a Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen in clear
  • cut the striped paper down to 4″ x 5 1/4″ and my white card base to 4 1/4″ x 11 scored it at 5 1/2″ for a top folding card
  • glued it all down except for the travel coffee cup which I popped up withbig circle double sided foam tape

  This card is bright and cheery and a perfect thank you for me to give to a fellow coffee lover who really is always there to pick me up. I really do love the pure innocence collection from My Favorite Things and am so excited to add this little gal to my collection. Thank you for spending some time with me today on the blog and hope you are carving out a little time for yourself to do something crafty.

  Keep on crafting,

  Kim 🙂

  Posted in All | Tagged amalgam ink, cardmaking, colored pencils, copic markers, cute, Echo Park, embossing powder, foam adhesive, Gina K amalgam ink, Greeting Card, liquid adhesive, MFT, My Favorite things, patterned paper, pure innocence, Scrapping for Less, sfl, Spring Dots & Stripes, sweet, versatile
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  Florals from Gina K Designs and Papers from Scrapping for Less

  Posted at 11:00 am by Luci Manos

  Dec 4th

  

  Hi Everyone!  Luci here from My Crazy Craft Life with a few cards using the Gina K Designs “Sweet Friendship” stamp set, Spring Patterns paper pack from Scrapping for Less, some Crystal Nuvo Drops, Stone Nuvo Drops, and a few sequins!

  I colored all of these images with Prismacolor Premier Pencils, I’ve added the photos of the pencil numbers next to each photo!

  Be sure to check out the video HERE!

  

  

  For this first card, I stamped the image on 110lb Neenah Solar White card stock.  I am making an A2 size card I used a stitched oval die to cut out a frame for the card.  I used a powder blue color card base and cut one of the pieces of pattern paper down to 4 1/4 X 5 1/2, so the piece is the size of the card with no borders. I used a stitched oval die to create a frame from the pattern paper.  Then I adhered the floral design to the card base and used foam tape to pop up the frame piece and adhered it while lining it up.  I stamped the sentiment on the same type of paper and cut the thin strip to about 4 inches and fishtailed the ends.  I adhered the sentiment to the card panel toward the bottom leaving some of the frame hole showing on the bottom.  I used Crystal Nuvo Drops and some sequins from my stash to finish off the card.

  

  

  For the second card, I stamped the image on Strathmore Colored Pencil paper, the card is A2 size and I cut the back panel from pattern paper to 4in X 5 1/4in to leave a border from the dusty pink color card base I used. I used a stitched oval die to cut out the image, used “Worn Lipstick” Distress Oxide Ink to give some color just to the outer edge of the oval.  Then I cut out an oval the next size up from the same colored pencil paper and layered it behind the oval with the image.  I adhered that piece toward the bottom center of the card, stamped a sentiment from the same paper, cut out the strip, fishtailed one end and adhered it to towards the top of the card. I finished off the card by adding some Crystal Nuvo Drops.

  

  

  For my final card, I stamped the image on Strathmore Colored Pencil paper, the card is A2 size and I cut the back panel from pattern paper to 4in X 5 1/4in to leave a border from the Neenah Solar White card base I used.  I then used strips to crisscross measuring  2in X 4 1/4in and 1 3/4in X 5 1/2in.  The image I cut down to 2 1/2in X 3 3/4in  and adhered it to a rectangle piece measuring 3 1/4 X 4 1/2in.  I stamped the sentiment directly onto the image paper and finished it off with some Nuvo Stone Drops.

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  Posted in All | Tagged art, Card, card making, card making hobby, cardmaking, cardmaking hobby, cardmaking tutorials, Cardmaking Video, cards of instagram, colored pencils, flowers, fun, gina k designs, good vibes, hobby, inspiration, nuvo drops, paper crafts, Papercraft, papermaking, prisma color pencils, Prismacolor, Prismacolor Pencils, Scrapping for Less, sfl, spring patterns, Video

• Winter Fun with A Gnome Winter by Picket Fence Studios

  Posted at 9:00 am by Kimberly Smith

  Oct 30th

  Hi Everybody! Kim here and today I am using A Winter Gnome by Picket Fences which brings cuteness with just a face. I don’t know how they have managed to accomplish this but I’ll take it because this little gnome head is just adorable and without even seeing his eyes he screams Winter! I knew when I pulled this stamp set out to play with…er I mean work with it that I definitely wanted to use Kraft cardstock. I also wanted his beard to be very white and I thought the Kraft cardstock would work well for this. Originally I was going to adhere the naked trees down on top of Kraft paper but while making another card with Carta Bella’s Christmas 6×6 paper pad the snowflakes on top of woodgrain sheet caught my eye and I thought those trees would look perfect on top of that paper instead.

  

  I heat embossed the image on Kraft cardstock with detailed white embossing powder after stamping the image with Versa Mark ink. Blues of course work for winter, I was going for an ombre effect so I started with Navy and worked up with lighter blues by section. Coloring with Derwent Inktense pencils I guess I just forgot that they don’t resist water in any way and thought I could wipe the color off the white embossed areas with a baby wipe but that did NOT work the way it did in my head. So I ended up fussy cutting the image out and using a label punch to punch out the sentiment.

  

  Instead of the white embossing powder which I had already embossed by the way resisting the blue it looks like it just absorbed it. Not what I was going for but it certainly became what I was going with (insert wink emoji here). After adding some sequins with Multi Medium Matte I then used a white Signo pen to trace over some of the details in the gnome’s hat to make them look whiter. I also decided that his beard needed some of that white Signo pen treatment as well. All in all I am happy with this card and per usual seeing about a dozen other ways I would like to use this stamp set.

  

  Thank you so much for checking out the blog today, I hope you take some time for yourself and get crafty.

  Keep on crafting,

  Kim 🙂

  Posted in All | Tagged #scrappingforless, A Gnome Winter, cardmaking, Carta Bella, Christmas, colored pencils, Coloring, cute, embossing, gnomes, greeting cards, naked trees, patterned paper, picket fence studios, Scrapping for Less, tree, trees, white embossing, winter, Winter Fun

• Company of Cats from Newton’s Nook!

  Posted at 11:21 am by Kimberly Smith

  Oct 3rd

  Hello crafty friends!

  Newton’s Nook has been a favorite company of mine for years now and I am super excited to get to play with one of their stamps! Company of Cats is such a cute and clever image and I had a blast coloring all the different kitties. This stamp set could not have come into my life at a more perfect time because just a few weeks ago my husband and I adopted a kitten. Ember weighed less than three pounds when we brought her home and she is growing like wild fire!

  

  

  We are both just smitten with her! She is sweet and loves to be loved and it has been so much fun to watch her play and explore as she grows. Our dog on the other hand is a little afraid of her still and tries to pretend she doesn’t exist but as I said it’s only been a few weeks so hopefully they will become friends eventually. Now back to the card…

  

  

  Here’s a quick run down of what I did while creating this card:

  • I stamped the image using Lawn Fawn’s Jet Black ink since I knew I would be using my Copic Markers
  • I actually ended up also using colored pencils to color some of the cats
  • After coloring all the cats, their collars, and the little birdie at the top I went around all the cats with B000 to create a halo effect
  • I got out a stitched rectangle die from MFT and cut the image out so it would be framed a little better and glued it down to a black piece of cardstock
  • I didn’t want to detract from the kitties so I added a sentiment to the inside of the card only so the Company of Cats would get the majority of the attention. I embossed it with VersaMark ink pad and used white detail embossing powder on the sentiment stamp.

  I had so much fun coloring this stamp and thinking of all the different cats out there in the world. I will admit though Ember is my favorite cat in the world but I am a little biased.

  Thanks so much for stopping today and spending a little time with me. I hope you have an amazing day and take the chance to create something today!

  Keep on Crafting!

  Kim 🙂

  Posted in All | Tagged cats, colored pencils, Company of Cats, Copics, cute, Ember, embossing powder, fur balls, Jet Black, kitten, kitties, kitty, Lawn Fawn, Newton's Nook, smitten, stamp, sweet, Versamark

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