Good morning! I’m super excited to be a stop on the hop for the Simon Says Stamp You Are Loved blog hop!
Have you checked out the release yet? It’s fabulous!!! It actually went live last month but in the excitement of the holidays we decided to share inspiration with you after the holidays! 😉
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I’ve already shared two cards using the new release here and today I’m sharing another card using the gorgeous So Loved set with colored pencils!
To start I stamped the flowers onto a panel of slate grey cardstock with SSS Barely Beige ink using my MISTI and then I left the stamps on the lid. Then I colored each flower with four caran d’ache luminance pencils. I laid down a layer of white and then used three shades of a peachy red to color each petal. I love the way these pencils blend so smoothly! And the best news: Simon Says Stamp now carries three sets! On a side note, I own and have used prismacolor and polychromos pencils but, hands down, the luminance are my FAVORITE! You can see another card using the luminance here!
Once I was done coloring I placed the panel back in my MISTI and restamped the flowers with versamark and heat-embossed them with gold tinsel embossing powder. Then I filled in the foliage and sentiment. I used the same gold tinsel embossing powder for the foliage and regular gold embossing powder for the sentiment! I love the pop of color and combining grey with gold! I’m looking forward to trying a similar card but with aqua and navy flowers! I hope this inspires you to try using colored pencils on colored cardstock for a vibrant design! And if you have any questions about the luminance pencils please feel free to ask!
Check out the You Are Loved Gallery on the Simon Says Stamp blog for even more crafty inspiration! And we have a special gift for all of our blog hoppers this weekend!! Use the code LVE584 on any purchase at Simon Says Stamp this weekend for your free Festive Berries Distress Oxide Ink Pad!
To celebrate the You Are Loved release EVERY stop on the hop is giving away a $25 gift certificate to Simon Says Stamp! To enter, leave a comment on all the hop stops before 11:59PM ET Sunday, January 13th! Winners will be posted on the Simon Says Stamp store blog on Wednesday, January 16th. Your next stop on the hop is the amazing Suzy!! If you get lost or encounter a broken link, here’s a list of all the stops on the hop:
- Simon Says Stamp Blog
- Nichol Spohr
- Nina-Marie Trapani
- Jessica Frost-Ballas –> You are here!
- Suzy Plantamura
- Amy Rysavy
- Lisa Addesa
- Heather Hoffman
- Marge Yoon
- Anna Kossakovskaya
- Karin Åkesdotter
- Bibi Cameron
- Barb Engler
- Anna-Karin Evaldsson
Thanks so much for stopping by, have a fantastic day, and enjoy the hop!
And some quick house-keeping! The winner of my Seasons Givings blog hop is sdjodoin! Please send me an email to claim your prize via the contact form above! Congratulations!
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What a beautiful card!
Absolutely in love with this card with mind blowing coloring and embossing
What do I have to do to get this beautiful card in the mail.?
What a beautiful card!
Gorgeous! I love your color choices and great coloring.
Beautiful card! Your colouring is amazing. Thank you for all the great ideas!
Definitely inspired to use my colored pencils. Your card is beautiful.
Well, that was Lovely.. It would deserve a frame in my house! 🙂 Happy New Creative Year!
I literally just said “Yes please!” when I saw your card. That pencil coloring with the embossing and the black is stunning. I also really like how you worked in the sentiments with your design as well. Thanks for sharing your art with us!
Jessica, your card is just beautiful! And, the sentiment is so great! Thanks for sharing your gorgeous design!
Beautiful Card. Love all the color on the dark background.
I absolutely love your pencil colouring, it inspires me to give colouring a go and improve my technique. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
Love your gold embossing and amazing coloring
Wow stunning card Jessica, I never consider using a base card other than white. May have to try it!!
WOW! So so pretty. Love the colors.
Thanks for sharing
Gorgeous coloring on the gray card stock! I have tried this a few times, and it really is amazing how rich the colors are on darker paper. It is time consuming and a bit tricky to keep it all lined up. Your work is amazing and DOES continue to inspire.
The colors on this card are beautiful and really pop with the gray background
This card is absolutely stunning. I also took a peek at the blue poinsettia card you linked to. If this is any indicator of the effects you can create I will get these instead of the Poly Chromosome. Can you buy individual colors separately? Just thinking how quickly I would use the white up.
Love the colored pencil on dark background – stunning <3
Stunning!
Just stunning!!!
Thanks for your side note about coloring pencils.
Such pretty cards!! I just ordered the So Loved stamp set and can’t wait to use it for myself!!! Thanks for the great inspiration!
Wow! Beautiful coloring and choice of colors! A real knockout of a card!
I always seem to forget how amazing bright colors look on dark cardstock. Thanks for the reminder 🙂