Busy day on the blog today! For the 25 Days of Christmas Tags – Concord & 9th and giveaway post please click here. For the Simon Says Stamp Special Holiday Release blog hop and giveaway post please click here! For my Winnie and Walter Leading Lady post please scroll down or click here.
I am so excited to be joining the fabulous Winnie and Walter design team to celebrate their newest release as the November Leading Lady! This release is full of absolutely adorable stamps and it was hard deciding what to share today! You’ll have to check out my final Leading Lady post next week for the rest of my release creations! 😉
I’ve recently started using my colored pencils and I’ve fallen in love with the look of colored pencils on kraft cardstock!
I stamped the bird, branch, and ornament from Happy Owlidays with Evelin T Designs onto kraft cardstock with black ink. Then I die-cut the kraft cardstock with the largest tag die from Essentials: Carly Cutaways. I colored the images with my polychromos colored pencils and a derwent blender. I also applied a little glossy accents to the top of the bird’s hat and the top of the ornament and pinecones and sprinkled it with rock candy distress glitter for a little snow!
I stamped the sentiment from Happy Owlidays with Evelin T Designs with versamark and heat-embossed it with white embossing powder. I also stamped some of the snowflakes from Season’s Tweetings with Evelin T Designs with versamark and heat-embossed them with white embossing powder. I added more snow with a white gel pen and finally I finished the tag with red and white baker’s twine and a red jingle bell. I just adore that little bird…you’ll definitely see him again soon! 😉
Winnie and Walter is giving away 5 $30 gift cards to random commenters across all the hop stops so the more comments you leave, the better your chances! Comments must be left by Monday, November 21, 2016 at noon CST and winners will be announced on the Winnie and Walter blog!
You should have arrived from Virginia’s blog and Heather is your next stop! Here’s the full hop list in case you encounter a broken link!
- Winnie and Walter
- Guest Star, Virginia Lu
- November Leading Lady, Jessica Frost-Ballas —> You are here!
- Heather Hoffman
- Heather Pulvirenti
- Kate M Capper
- Kelly Griglione
- Keren Baker
- Lydia Evans
- Mayuri
- Vanessa Menhorn
Thanks for visiting and have a wonderful day! If this is your first time visiting my blog I hope you’ll come back! ? Happy Hopping!
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Super cute card.
I love your card! Awesome coloring with the Polychromos!
This is stinkin’ cute!!
You got such amazing depth of colour and coverage! What great work! I must try this.
This tag is so darn sweet! Love the look of colored pencils on kraft. So soft and cozy!
Darn cute!!! Think I already commented on this on Instagram. But doing so again as I want to win to get some W & W products.
that is adorable! Will have to give coloring on kraft a try.
It’s amazing how the colors really pop against the cardstock! So beautiful.
What a sweet tag!! I haven’t used my colored pencils in forever…I need to get them out again!!
You wee bird is precious Jessica! TFS
I love this bird – what a great card. I love colour on Kraft. TFS
Really beautiful tag!!! Great work!!!
I love the kraft tag with the cute little bird with the one ornament hanging from branch 🙂
Love the kraft tag with the cute bird and the one ornament hanging from the branch!
So cute and great colouring on Kraft with the pencils.
Your tag is adorable! I love using kraft and need to try my hand at coloring on it like you’ve done 🙂
Love that tag – CAS !! Have been coloring images for weeks now – still have to put them on the base cards. Oh the time… where does it go??
~ginny
Love the card
Such a cute card – your coloring brought that bird to life! I really like the rock candy distress glitter as snow, not too heavy but just a light dusting… perfect!
This is so gorgeous! Your colouring on the Kraft card is fabulous! xxx
Wow! This is pne adorable and cute tag, Jessica! I love your coloring on kraft and the splatters 🙂
Lovely! The kraft shows off the white sentiment and pretty bird so well!
This little bird is so cute ! ?
That little bird is so precious! I love how you colored him!
DARLING tag!!!!! I love the look of pencils on kraft!