Last summer I was inspired by a card from Yana Smakula, made by using Prismacolor pencils on black card stock! I never would have thought of this technique and couldn’t wait to make one myself! To begin, I heat-embossed in gold the leaves from Altenew’s Beautiful Day stamp set onto black card stock, and began to color them in. It was a little challenging to work around the raised lines of the embossed images, but loved how the color popped on the black! When I finished coloring in the leaves, I simply cut the black panel down to layer over a piece of metallic gold card stock, then mounted it onto a white card base which I’d run through the Cuttlebug with Stampin Up’s Petal Burst embossing folder. Finally, I embossed the sentiment in gold onto a scrap of black, lifted it with a piece of foam tape, then attached a few gold sequins to the card front.After making the card above, I wanted to try it again with another set, so I pulled out Winter Flowers by Simon Says Stamp, heat-embossed the images in gold onto the black card stock, and again, colored with Prismacolor pencils. I just love how creamy and translucent the color is on the black! The Greetings stamp was heat-embossed in gold as well, and mounted onto a strip of the gold paper. I put this card together in the same manner as the first, but without embossing the base card. Thanks to Yana for her continual inspiration!
Can you believe this is a pointsettia?! It’s from Simon Says Stamp’s Winter Flowers set and I challenged another stamper on Instagram to use it in a non-holiday way and this is my take! Unfortunately, I embossed the image in gold onto Neenah Index white cardstock instead of heavier watercolor paper, so as you can see, my coloring pilled the paper a bit. I used my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers in shades of pink and peach. Thankfully I had the coordinating dies to cut out the images, and just layered them to the faux wood panel using double-stick foam tape. That was adhered to a base card of green Bazzill card stock. A few sequins and a twist of gold cording, then the sentiment embossed in gold completed this fun card!
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