Sending & Wishing: Creative Ways to Stretch Your Supplies!
Hi readers! Happy Sunday to you! I hope you all are having very relaxing and fun weekends! I’m very excited to WELCOME first time Simon blog guest designer Kelly Latevola! She is as sweet as she is talented! And boy, does she have both qualities going on! Check out these floral beauties featuring some of our exclusive products! *Drool*
Read on and enjoy!
I started by stamping my Artful flowers on a white card panel. I created a few masks of the flowers so I could tuck a few behind the others. After they were all stamped I removed any masks and began coloring with my Copic markers. I usually start with my lightest to darkest for my base layer. To get some more blending I then go in reverse darkest to lightest. Basically I color the flower twice :) After all the flowers were colored I set to work on my background color. I used gray markers to add in a shadow behind the flowers. This really helps them appear 3D. After the shadows were done I outlined all the flowers in some blue greens. You can color right over the gray it’s okay, you won’t hurt it, I promise!
Once the coloring is done I outlined the flowers with a copic multiliner to really help them pop. I also added a few white dots with my gel pen to the centers.Now the scary part. I die cut a tag right out of the middle. Ahh. It is kind of scary after you spent all that time coloring but it’s usually worth it ;)
I die cut a second tag out of some Robin’s Egg Bazzill card stock. I also stamped and colored three flowers and fussy cut them out. Don’t forget to color your edges black for a finished look! I used my Black Soot Distress Marker for this. I arranged the flowers onto my tag by matching them up with the outline on my stamped panel. The sentiment is a combination of stamps and dies from Sending and Wishing. After stamping the sentiment I threaded some yellow bakers twine through my tag and added it to my card with foam tape. A few sequins and some glossy accents in the flower centers finished it off.
For the second card I didn’t have to do much since my focal point was already created. Yeah for less work! I added more yellow baker’s twine, glossy accents, and sequins. The sentiment is another combination of stamps and dies from Sending and Wishing set. Seriously, you can create so many different sayings with these. It’s wonderful! I decided I wanted this sentiment to really stand out against my busy background so I heat embossed it on black with white embossing powder.
For the background I took a white panel and trimmed it to 4 x 5.5. I stamped the circles from the Falling Backgrounds set horizontally and heat embossed them using Wow Neutral Ultra Shimmer. I love how this adds interest but doesn’t take anything away from the tag. I tried to vary the length of the circles reach by stamping more or less of it. This makes sure it reaches the edges behind my tag and trails off above and below it. I added this panel plus another piece of Robin’s Egg Bazzill card stock to my card base. The tag was added on top with foam adhesive and that completed the card.
Very pretty! Love the color combo!
A M A Z I N G !!! I love both cards.
I love the colors of this cards
The flowers are beautiful!
beautiful coloring, your flowers really pop!!
Cool cards they are great and I love the bright colors!
Oh….these colors are gorgeous! Thanks for showing us how easy it can be to ‘switch things up a bit’…
Great cards! ;-)
Your coloring on this card is just beautiful. Lucky person that gets this card.
Wow! Love the bright bold colors on these cards.So pretty.
Like the bright colors of her flowers perfect for summer.
stamping sue
http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/
Beautiful cards. The colors pop. Your fussy cutting is amazing. Michelle t
Fabulous cards! Adore Kelly’s style of bold and beautiful flowers. Thanks for sharing how you created them. :)
Stunning cards. Beautiful colouring. Low how you were brave enough to cut a tag in the middle of your colouring. I think I’d wuss out there after all that work!!
Beautiful cards – love how you made them and the color choice:)
How beautiful! Love the colours.
Gorgeous cards! The flowers look so realistic and their coloring is so vibrant and beautiful! I love the use of tags on the cards and the die-cutted words of the sentiments are awesome! Thank you for sharing!
how pretty and bright and cheerful, make you happy just to look at it, imagine if you receive these cards…
Beautiful–love the colors!
Beautiful vibrant cards!
Like the wonderful coloring of the flowers. Especially like the shadowing & the tag the way it pops.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
very pretty
Both your cards are just gorgeous Kelly..Your coloring skills are as always just amazing !! ..So happy to see you as GD here :)
Awesome cards and techniques! I love the beautiful, bright colors!
Love the tag. it seems more interesting to have only partial pieces of a design on the card.
You can picture in your mind where the rest of the “flower” might be.
thanks for sharing two great projects.
Wow, so pretty. Really inspiring!
I am in awe at the coloring on those flowers. Absolutely beautiful!
Love the colors, love the coloring, love getting two cards with not as much work – beautiful!
the colors are so beautiful and vibrant! just lovely! :)
Fabulous cards and coloring…Thanks for the inspiration!!
So beautiful card. Love these flowers and the coloring simple stunning. Thanks for sharing.
LOVE this card…OMG, the colors are TERRIFIC and those flowers are just so beautiful! Great two cards!
Kelly, thank you for sharing your wonderful talent with us. These cards are STUNNING! Welcome to the SSS blog.
Eye popping beautiful.
especially LUV the look of that tag!!!
Absolutely stunning florals! I need to dust off my copics and give this a try. It looks like the effort is really worth it! Thanks for the inspiration.
Such lovely cards!
I need to practice with my Copics …. summer bucket list item!
Breathtakingly beautiful cards, love the bright and vibrant colors!!!
Fabulous colors and design on these cards.
Oh so bright and colorful! Love this and gonna give it a whirl…
Can’t even tell you how happy I am to see you guest designing here, Kelly! Huge congrats!!! Your talent is amazing and I’m so glad more people will be able to see it now! Your cards are STUNNING!!! ♥
Oh boy, does Kelly EVER have that talent thing going on, like you said. Stunning coloring and love the tag layout.
Beautiful cards, love them! Thanks for the inspiration!
So beautiful.
Bright, beautiful, & bold. Love it!
Really gorgeous work
WOW!!! Gorgeous cards!!
such colorful cards – – – -enjoyed the use of tags on thes cards
The colors are so vivid and bright, beautiful cards.
Love the fresh colours and the way you made two different cards from the same stamps!