Hello my friends! Happy Earth Day! I created some really fun cards that celebrate spring. These are from the Cardmaker Stamp Collection. I’m using the sets called Cute Boots and Windy Sky. These sets are charming; I love how sketchily they are drawn.
I’m stamping and coloring these images on some colored cardstocks. This is a fabulous technique–it gives you a base color to build up your pencils on. I also did some heat embossing.
Card 1
On my first cards I stamped a pattern with the large umbrella stamp and colored it in with colored pencils. The paper I used is Silver Fox. I made sure to allow some of the paper to show through. It makes for some fast coloring too. I stamped the girl holding the umbrella onto a piece of Glacier cardstock. This is a beautiful soft blue. I also colored her in with more Caran d’Ache colored pencils.
Card 2
The Stormy Sky stamp is a background stamp, and it is stunning! I chose to stamp this with VersaFine Onyx black ink and heat emboss it with clear embossing powder. This will be a great stamp to use on underwater scenes for summer. I stamped the girl on a piece of white cardstock and colored her in with Copic markers.
If you would like to see how I put these cards together, you can watch the video here or over on my YouTube channel in HD.
Thanks for visiting my blog! Have a wonderful, crafty Day!
Hello crafty friends! Today I am part of a blog hop celebrating Scrappy Tails Crafts latest release. It’s called Home is Where Mom Is, and it’s full of Mother’s Day and spring stamps and dies.
I made a slimline card using the Oopsy Daisy Stamp set and coordinating dies as well as the Slimline Brick Background die. I love all the flowers in the Oopsy Daisy set as well as all of the clever sentiments!
I used my colored pencils to color in the daisies. To create the background, I used some Distress Inks and Bristol Smooth cardstock. I then cut it out using the Slimline Brick die.
Today, we are hopping along to celebrate the launch of the new release! Each designer along the hop will be showcasing products from the new release, so there will be plenty of Mother’s Day and Spring time inspiration! Hop along and leave your comments on each person’s blog and video to enter into the chance to win one of three $25 gift certificates to the Scrappy Tails Craft’s website! The more comments you leave, the more opportunities to win! Be sure to subscribe to the Scrappy Tails Youtube channel to enter the giveaways, and also consider subscribing to all of the designer’s blogs and videos. The hop ends on Thursday, April 1st at 11:59 PM EST. Winners will be announced on the Scrappy Tails Crafts Youtube channel on Friday, April 2nd. If you see something that catches your eye as your hopping along, be sure to use our design team member’s affiliate links listed in their blogs and video descriptions! This is no added cost to you, it’s just a fun way to support our crafty friends!
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Hello and welcome to my blog! I hope you are having a relaxing, crafty weekend! I am using one of my very favorite card crafting techniques today. I’m using my colored pencils on colored cardstock. The stamp set I’m using is Spellbinders’ March Clear Stamp called Wonderful Spring. It includes 3 of the most charmingly illustrated bunnies for spring. You can make up spring or Easter cards with this pretty set.
I’m also very excited to show you some new colored cardstock from Spellbinders. This is luscious, heavy-weight cardstock–100lb–in gorgeous colors. In the video below I will walk you through the new cardstock and then we’ll create an Easter card using the Stamp of the Month.
Hello! Welcome to my blog. It’s been a while since I’ve produced a 10 Cards, 1 Kit video using Simon Says Stamp’s monthly card kit. I love their card kits, but I’ve been pulled in other directions lately. When I saw their January card kit called Love You Beary Much, I knew I had to get it and make up some Valentines with it.
Also, today is my birthday, so I’m giving away two $25 gift certificates to Simon Says Stamp. To enter the giveaway all you have to do is be a subscriber to my YouTube channel and leave a comment there telling me your go-to art medium when creating your cards. My favorite art medium is colored pencils. For my birthday my family gave me a set of Caran d’Ache Luminance colored pencils. I’ve been wanting these colored pencils for a long time. I love my Prismacolors and my Faber Castells, but the Caran d’ache set it the Mercedes Benze of colored pencils. They are lovely!
The giveaway closes on Saturday, February 13th at 9pm Chicago time. On Valentine’s Day I will announce the winners here on this blog post and over at my YouTube channel. Good luck!!
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! I’m here to announce the two winners of the $25 gift certificates from my 10 Cards, 1 Kit & Giveaway using Simon Says Stamp’s January Card Kit video! I really enjoyed reading all of your comments about your favorite art mediums. Thank you for all the birthday wishes and the lovely comments! I picked two random winners and the winners are . . .
Tara Salladay
and
LaRue Hansen
Congratulations!! Thank you all for your support! Sending you all crafty hugs!! Jackie
Tara and LaRue–Please email me at jackiescrafttable@gmail.com to claim your gift certificates. Thank you!
Card #1: Colored Pencil on Pattern Paper Card
Card #2: Box of Chocolates Card
Card #3: Bold Sentiment Card
Card #4: Pink Bear Card
Copic Markers for the pink bear and heart: R 20, R22, R24, R27, R89, E30, E31
Card #5: Pattern Paper and Cut Apart Sentiment Card
Card #6: Neon Pink Glitz Stenciling Card
Card #7: Neon Pink Glitz Stenciling Card Part 2
Card #8: Another Pattern Paper and Cut Apart Sentiment Card
Hello! I hope you are having a wonderful weekend! I’m so excited about Scrappy Tails Crafts latest release, and I get to show you a few of the new products. These stamps and dies include products for Valentine’s Day, spring, and Easter, but you could really use them all year round.
For today’s cards I used a gorgeous stamp set called Popping Poppies. I love floral stamp sets! This one has beautifully drawn poppies with cute sentiments such as “Popping by to Say Hi,” “You Make Life Pop,” and You Popped in My Mind.”
Card #1: Poppy Heart Landscape Card
The large heart with poppies image fills up your A2 size card. I colored it in with Prismacolor pencils on kraft cardstock.
Prismacolor Pencils:
Flowers: Poppy Red, Raspberry, White, Dark Umber, Canary Yellow
Leaves: Chartreuse, Spring Green, Apple Green, Dark Green
Outside the Heart: French Grey 90%, French Grey 50%
Inside the Heart: Poppy Red, Pink
Card #2: Poppies on a Trellis Top-Folding Card
I stamped out the single poppies onto white cardstock and colored them in with Copic markers. I used one of the dies from the Basket Pop Up Card Dies to cut out the trellis for my poppies to climb up. I also used the Slimline Everyday Border Dies to cut out grass to put under them.
Hello and welcome! I’m stamping up some cute designs exclusive to the Not 2 Shabby Shop today. For my first card I used the set called “You, Me and Pumpkin Spice.” I love the little squirrels in this set as well as all the fabulous fall images. On my second card I used “Fall Gnomes.” It includes two of the cutes gnome images I’ve ever seen.
Card #1: Stamped Pattern Paper Card
One of my all time favorite techniques is stamping out my own pattern paper. Not only is it fun, but it allows you to use all of the images from your set on one card. I stamped my images onto a piece of kraft cardstock using Fallen Leaves brown ink. This is a pigment ink, so you almost always get a crisp stamping without the use of the stamp positioner. I wanted my squirrels to really stand out from the kraft cardstock, so I stamped them onto a piece of white cardstock and colored them in with colored pencils.
Card #2: Row Stamping Slimline Card
For my slimline card I pulled out my stamp positioner to stamp out the gnome several times. I used the same Fallen Leaves brown ink, and I stamped it onto a piece of light brown cardstock. I cut out this panel using a slimline die set from Trinity Stamps. I stamped the gnome in the middle first, so I could make sure he was centered, and then I shifted my paper along the bottom edge of my stamp positioner 1 1/4 inches on each side and stamped 4 more gnomes.
For the gnome that I colored in, I stamped him onto a piece of white cardstock. I used more colored pencils and fussy cut him out. I popped him up with foam adhesive as well as the sentiment. This slimline card measures 8 1/2 by 3 1/2.
Welcome to the “Sending you Pumpkin Kisses & Harvest Wishes from Not 2 Shabby & Kat Scrappiness!” We are thrilled you could join us on this blog & Instagram hop celebration! Kat Scrappiness has some of the best stamps, dies, and embellishments around and Not 2 Shabby is very excited to carry their products! Come hop with us and see what all the excitement is about!
The blog & Instagram hops and giveaways will start Thursday, September 10 and will end on Tuesday, September 15th. We will have 4 x $15 winners!! 2x pulled from blog comments and 2x pulled from the Instagram comments.
I have a 10% off coupon code for you from the Not 2 Shabby Shop: N2S10
Card #1: Stacked Pumpkins Slimline Card
This stack of pumpkins was so much fun to create on a slimline card–I wouldn’t have been able to do this tall of a stack on a regual A2 cards. I love all the images from this Happy Fall set! I stamped out my crow first and then stamped down from there, masking as I went along. I stamped on a piece of speckled off-white cardstock from MFT called Primitive Cream Heavyweight Cardstock. I love using colored cardstock for my colored pencil work. It gives you a nice base color to start with.
I then colored in my images with colored pencils. I colored the pumpkins different colors to add variation to my scene. I then masked my images and colored in the background behind them with Distress Oxide Inks. This is a really fast way to add color to your work.
Faber Castell Polychromos Pencils:
Dark Cadmium Yellow 108, Cadmium Orange 111, Dark Cadmium Orange 115, Light Cadmium Red 117, Deep Red 223, Light Red-Violet 135, Purple Violet 136, Delft Blue 141, Warm Grey VI 275, Black 199, Pink Madder Lake 129, Raw Umber 180, Terracotta 186, Burnt Umber 280, Permanent Green 266, Hooker’s Green 159
I used the largest wonky stitch slimline die this time and cut out a piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock. This is the paper to use if you are using your Arteza or Zig Real Brush Pens. It allows the pens to blend beautifully. I stamped and masked my scenes using VersaFine Onyx Black Ink and poured clear embossing powder over them. Once I melted the embossing powder, the lines were shiny and smooth. The embossed lines contain the watercolors, so you can paint and don’t have to worry about your images bleeding into each other.
I cut out another piece of Bristol Smooth cardstock using the smallest wonky stitch die and used that for my sentiment strip and to separate my two scenes. I stamped two more sentiments–one above each scene. The sentiments fit perfectly in the top corners of these scenes.
Arteza Real Brush Pens:
Pumpkin – Sunset Yellow, Orange, Autumn Red; Stem – Pale Green, Basil Green; Backbird – Wisteria Purple, Amethyst Purple, Eggplant Purple, Noir; Beak – Lemon Yellow, Peach; Leaf – Basil Green, Pale Green. Lemon Yellow, Orange, Cadmium Orange. Cheeks – Rouge Pink; Scarecrow – Face & Hands – Cantaloupe; Hat – Green Tea; Patches, Lemon Yellow, Orange; Straw Hair – Lemon Yellow, Orange; Jeans – Night Sky Blue
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Welcome back for day 2 of the Under the Sea inspiration hop! Today I created a mermaid card using a beautiful block stamp that I picked up at my local craft store. I stamped her out onto a piece of Gina K Designs Artist’s Choice Cardstock which is great for colored pencils. I pulled out some Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils to color in my mermaid. I love coloring mermaids, and for her tail I followed the inspiration on the block stamp and colored it in with blues and purples.
I then fussy cut her out, added some foam tape behind her and place her on a velum heart.
The sentiment comes from the LDRS stamp set called Mermaid Treasure. I stamped this using Versafine Onyx Black ink and then I pour on some Gina K Designs Fine Detail Clear Embossing powder. When you melt the powder, it gives a nice shine to the sentiment.
The stencil I used is called Perfect Pool Water from MFT. I used 3 different colors of Distress ink onto this panel of Bristol Smooth cardstock. I used Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio. The white lines left behind seemed to stark white, so I shifted the stencil and added more color.
Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils:
Skin: Burnt Siena 285, Burnt Umber 280, Light Red Violet 135, Light Yellow Ochre 185
Welcome! I hope you are all having a wonderful day. Today’s card is a chocolate themed card. I love this cute stamp set from Stamping Bella Oddball line called “Oddball with a Sweet Tooth.” The sentiment really spoke to me; it says “Sometimes to stop eating all the chocolate, one must first eat all the chocolate.” It’s a very funny and true sentiment. I know a lot of people who could relate to this sentiment. Lol! I’m going to make up many more cards using this stamp set. I have a 10% off coupon code for you to the Not 2 Shabby Shop: N2S10. The Not 2 Shabby Shop has so many stamps and crafty goodness, and I encourage you to check it out: https://www.not2shabbyshop.com/?AffId=19
I pulled out my colored pencils for this card. I’m using my Faber Castell Polychromos pencils on a piece of Stonehenge white colored pencil paper. I love using this paper for my colored pencil work. It has a nice tooth to it. To get a smoother look, you could use Gamsol and a blending stump to smooth out your work, but I like the look of the colored pencil lines.
Here is the list of colored pencils I used to color in my image:
Skin: Light Flesh 132, Cinnamon 189, Brown Ochre 182;
Hair: Terracotta 186, Sanguine 188, Burnt Sienna 283. Light Yellow Ochre 183, Deep Red 223
I also used a set of slimline dies from Trinity Stamps to cut out the two panels for my card. I love creating slimline cards lately. Trinity Stamps make some really fun slimline dies. To create my chocolate covered striped panel I used a Trinity Stamp Slimline stencil and blended on some Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink.
Hello crafty friends! I’m so excited to introduce the release of a new stamp set in the Not 2 Shabby Shop! It’s called Pup in a Cup. The main image is a darling pug holding onto the edge of a cup. This set also includes lots of fun sentiments and smaller stamps.
I stamped out the pug image onto a piece of Stonehenge Kraft cardstock using a dark chocolate brown ink. I pulled out my favorite art medium to color in this darling doggy, my colored pencils. I adore the look of colored pencils on kraft cardstock. This particular kraft cardstock is fabulous. It has a slight texture to it that allows you to add lots of layers to your work, and the pencils blend beautifully on this paper.
After I finished my coloring, I placed it back in my Mini Misti stamp positioner and re-stamped it. This really helps to revitalize the lines that colored pencils can obscure.
Here is a list of the Faber Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils it used:
Pug: Ivory 103, Light Yellow Ochre 183, Brown Ochre 182, Dark Sepia 175
Coffee: Burnt Ochre 187 & White
Cup: White, Cold Grey IV 233
Wrapper: Raw Umber 180 & Walnut Brown 177
Heart: Deep Scarlet Red 219 & Rose Carmine 124
I then cut it out with a wonky stitch cutting die, added foam tape behind it, and placed in on an A2 sized card base.
