Doodling with Debby: Spring Pencil Coloring on Kraft

Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! I hope your week is starting out well so far! As always, I’m delighted to welcome back the forever fabulous Debby Hughes back for her latest installment of Doodling with Debby on our blog! Be sure to watch the video and enjoy!

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Hello, it’s Debby here for my monthly Doodling With Debby video feature here on the Simon Says Stamp blog. Today I’m coloring with pencils a sweet springtime scene using the Showers & Flowers stamp set.

Doodling with Debby: Spring Pencil Coloring on Kraft

I love the look of pencils on kraft card, and I think the kraft card on this occasion adds a lovely homely feeling to this springtime scene. I stamped the welly boots image from the Showers & Flowers set in clear embossing ink, then cut a mask from Inkadinkadoo Stamping Mask paper and then stamped the rabbit as if he’s sitting behind the boots. We have two white rabbits, and I can fully believe that this cutie has been up to mischief and knocked over the flower-filled welly boot!

Doodling with Debby: Spring Pencil Coloring on Kraft

I colored the scene with Prismacolor pencils. I mainly used three shades of pencil for each color along with a white pencil for highlights.

Doodling with Debby: Spring Pencil Coloring on Kraft

When the coloring was finished, I added white gel pen details for the polka dots on the boots and also to add a few highlights to the flowers. I also darkened the eye of the rabbit with a black glaze pen.

Doodling with Debby: Spring Pencil Coloring on Kraft

For the sentiment, I stamped the ‘Thanks’ from the Showers & Flowers set in clear embossing ink, sprinkled with white embossing powder and then heat set. I also stamped a coordinating sentiment from the Thanks stamp set on Surf Blue card and white heat embossed before trimming to a banner.

Doodling with Debby: Spring Pencil Coloring on Kraft

I cut the kraft panel with a Wonky Rectangle die and foam mounted on a Neenah Solar White card base. I also foam mounted the Surf Blue sentiment and then finally added a trio of Sweet Shop sequins to finish.

Thanks for joining me today and I’ll see you next time for Doodling With Debby.

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  1. The effect of colored pencil on kraft is so soft and lovely, and you’ve achieved such wonderful texture too. Gorgeous card and I appreciated seeing the video of how you colored this!

  2. Your coloring on the kraft card stock with colored pencils is beautiful! This is a cute design on this gorgeous Spring card. Thanks for the tips for using this medium. :)

  3. I always seem to forget about this technique. I need to create a list so that I remember. The scene is so sweet and adorable

  4. Your card is lovely! The pencil coloring is so beautiful on the kraft cardstock. It gives your card such a soft look to it.

  5. Your coloring is wonderful — so fun to watch you do it. I appreciated the tip about using the stamp sheet to replace lost details, like on the bunny’s face.

  6. I love this card from Debby, she is such a great watercolour artist, unfortunately watercolour and me is no combination. That’s why I was so excited that she used pencils, I love my pencils and her video is a great tutorial and shows that she is also an great pencil artist! Thank you Debby!

  7. Love this sweetness on Kraft cardstock. Those boots are perfect for the Spring weather. Thanks for the tips.

  8. What a great card! I love white on kraft already and this additional coloring technique is so spectacular!

  9. Thanks for a great video. I appreciate the advice on coloring white animals as I love to color polar bears and often have trouble with the white showing up.

  10. A very beautiful Spring card. The coloring with the colored pencils on the Kraft paper really makes the colors stand out.

  11. I love the look of colored pencils on kraft and keep trying to do it. Your video was great and makes it look so easy – very pretty card!

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