Hi, crafty friends! It's May here today with a one layer card featuring the gorgeous floral images from the Amazing You stamp set. It was my first time trying colored pencils and it was so much fun than I expected.
I started by stamping my images with following crisp inks: Rouge(flowers) and Frayed Leaf(leaves). I did lots of masking along the way to create some dimension on my flower bouquet.
After coloring my images, I added some shadows along the bottom of my bouquet with a light brown colored pencil. The sentiment is from the Beautiful Day stamp set.
To finish off my card, I added a few clear sequins on the card front. I'm still on the fence about adding those sequins – maybe it would have looked better without sequins? I almost added red ink splatters right before I took photos of my card. But I'm glad I didn't.
Don't you love all the layers in different shades of red? I was surprised to see myself being able to color with colored pencils. It's a shame that I've owned a full set of colored pencils for 4 years, and I just realized that how wonderful coloring medium it is!
I made a video tutorial to show you how to make this card from start to finish. You can watch it here or on YouTube channel:
(stamp set used: Amazing You)
Thank you so much for stopping by today. Happy crafting!
15 comments
May you are soooo talented!!!
I loved your card! OMG i loved the colored pencil work you did!
A beautiful example of your personal artistry. I would love to see more cards with your colored pencil work…
This is a lovely card. The colored pencils create a lovely, soft look to these flowers. Thanks for sharing this.
Beautiful card. I love colored pencils. It was fun watching you work. I think the sequins look great. But the card would look great without them, too. Hope for more colored pencil cards!
Thanks for sharing this using colored pencils! I would like to sharpen(no pun intended) :) my skills with this technique and will look for more ideas from you. Your card is beautiful and since I’m not a huge fan of sequins, I would have left them off the card, but they do not detract from your card!
May, this is absolutely gorgeous!
Your card is stunning, thanks so much for the tutorial!
Thanks so much for the awesome video! your colored pencil roses are wonderful. I will be ordering a better sharpener for mine as I have a problem with mine breaking the pencils. Thanks for the tip!
Wow, this is absolutely gorgeous!! Love the colours and your coloured pencil work is amazing!
Thank you. I just got that stamp set in the mail and can’t wait to get it inky!
Absolutely stunning! You make me want to color more, May!
Love this card the sequence looks good. I have the same problem with those pencils. I have the 150 set so I called prismacolor and they are sending me another set after I send mine to them. There has been a problem with the lead breaking inside the wood part and some will not sharpen at all. They asked if I was using their sharpener for their pencils and I was of course. Good luck and just love your work.
beautiful card and i love the coloring :) thanks for the video tutorial
May, this is such a lovely card. Great job! I have watched several videos with colored pencils prisma are very soft leads don’t drop them they do break very easily, so when you sharpen them that’s why they break.