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!
Interested in the products I used? To make them easy for you to find, I have listed them below. (Affiliate disclosure can be found here). Your purchases help keep my blog running and I thank you for the support!
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Wow! This card is gorgeous!! I love everything about it.
I am so in love with your card! It is stunning! I am not familiar with the MISTI but I’ll have to look it up. That and the pencils may be more things I need to buy lol.
I never think of using grey cardstock to color on, always white. So beautiful!
beautiful coloring! and, c’mon, the sentiment <3
Swoon! I love this card! Your beautiful gold embossing is perfect with the colored pencils on slate. Wow!
Beautiful card! I especially love the gold embossing.
VERY BEAUTIFUL card.
Your card is beautiful (love that stamp set)! The coloring is superb and I love the idea of embossing after the coloring is complete.
Jessica, this is awesome! So beautiful
Oooooh, so pretty. Your coloring is beautiful and the gold embossing is too. It all stands out beautifully on the slate background.
You never disappoint. Your coloring is outstanding. I love this card.
What a stunning card! I love the gold embossing on the black card!
This is so beautiful, Jessica! The flowers really seem luminescent! I love the metallic sparkle or the embossing powder you used, too.
Beautiful card! 🙂
I love this idea of coloring on the background with the pencils. It is a beautiful card! Your work and these products are amazing! Thanks for sharing! kReN@afourthlife
Wowza, this is so gorgeous, Jessica! Love the colouring, and the whole layout. That stamp set is beautiful!
Beautiful! I love the coloring!!!
Woah!!! You’re so talented! Those color-penciled flowers are just soooo beautiful!
Stunning card! Thank you for sharing!
This is gorgeous
What beautiful coloring. Ordinarily I shy away from gray backgrounds, but you proved how beautiful a gray card can be! Thank you for participating.
Beautiful. I really like the use of pencils here.
Simply stunning! Love colored pencil on dark cardstock.
what great ideas! thanks for the inspiration!!
My Caran dach are my dream ! Wow this is a very versatile release !