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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Just GORGEOUS!!! Love the colored pencil work with the gold embossing. WOW!!
This is a gorgeous card. Love the gold embossing!
Beautiful card. I love the sentiment.
Your coloring on your card is so beautiful! I love the delicate look of the flowers too!
Love the way that you embossed and colored that stamp set. Totally awe inspiring and elegant. Great job Jessica.
Beautiful card
Beautiful card…so elegant and the coloring is gorgeous.
Absolutely LOVE the gold on black with the red flowers! This card is better than any mass produced company could ever create. I love this! You really are super talented and my hat is off to you! I don’t know how you always come up with such fabulous creations but you do!
Your card is so beautiful! I really love the look of colored pencils on dark cardstock. 🙂 Great color choices!
Jessica, All 3 of your cards are wonderful. However your last one is my favorite. The colors you used and the new pencils are fabulous. Thanks for all of your beautiful work.
Wow! Your coloring is spectacular. Thanks for teaching how to use colored pencils with heat embossing, I’m excited to try the technique!
OMG what a beautiful card. I really do like this card
This card is simply beautiful. The colors show so well on this darker background. tfs
Your card is absolutely gorgeous. It’s so elegant. I love the colors and the style.
AWESOME card
Gorgeous card! Love the pink & gray combo!
Jessica, this is a really beautiful card!!! It has great art and fun, sweet words that make a perfect combination for someone to enjoy!
Beautiful card! I love the way the flowers pop off the gray background!
This card is gorgeous!! I love colored pencil coloring on flowers and these truly are stunning. Thank you for sharing your card (and pencil info) and the awesome inspiration! (mardy14@bellsouth.net)
Jessica, I wouldn’t have thought of combining grey and gold, but it’s stunning! This card is gorgeous, and I love how you chose to use both the gold tinsel and regular gold embossing powders- brilliant! The colored pencils sound amazing- I love the crayons by this as,e company. Thanks for inspiring us with such a lovely card- Simon Says Stamp out did themselves with this release and so did you with this design!
Gorgeous! The gold embossing is so beautiful with the black background.
I love the black, gold and pink together. It is just so gorgeous! I love the not even kidding at the end, made me giggle.
your card look so elegant and beautiful!
Love this hearty release, and I love all the gold you used.