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.
Such beautiful colors!
Gorgeous! Beautifully colored and love getting more out of a project. Thank you for sharing ♥
I just love Kelly’s style, her colouring and lay-outs! So glad to see her as your GD. She’s made brilliant things with these stamps, just awesome colouring!
Beautiful colors. Love this project.
Love the colors in your card .
wow this card is beautiful! I absolutely love the way she coloured those flowers! amazing job
Wow! This is beautiful copic coloring…..love the background, too!
Oh, to Colour like this is a dream for me…lovely!
Beautiful coloring on the flowers, love them!
Super gorgeous! Kelly my friend, you are so fantastically talented!!
What a beautifully colored card. How so happy and bright. Love the flowers Thank you Kelly for sharing you’re ideas. Have a Happy Day!
Gorgeous cards, those flowers are beautiful!
Fabulous cards, awesome coloring Kelly!
It’s amazing how your coloring transformed such simple stamps! Beautiful!
Awesome cards. Such beautiful & vibrant colors.
Wow, both of these cards are gorgeous but I think I like the tag version the most because those colors pop against all the white!
Great job Kelly. Love your colours :)
Wow! Love the coloring on those flowers. I have that floral set, but never thought to color them like this. Definitely pinning this for future inspiration!!! Thanks so much for featuring these! ~ Andrea
Beautiful cards, love the bright flowers!
Marvelous coloring. Made my eyes happy.
These flowers are looking so colorful alive. Great card !
lovely bright card!
WOWOWOWOW!! Just BEAUTIFUL!! LOVING the BRIGHT and HAPPY Colors!! THANKS for sharing and have a FABULOUS WEEKEND!! =)
beautiful cards!! lovely!! I really thought the flowers were 3D!! fantastic!!
Always love Kelly’s work & these are no exception. Stunning cards!
Love the coloring
Wow, those are bright and beautiful cards!
These are totally gorgeous!
Kelly has such amazingly awesome coloring skills.
Pretty flowers. The black really does make them pop.
They’re both gorgeous! What a great way to save time and stretch supplies!
Really terrific cards and will try you gutsy move of cutting a tag right out of the center!!!!!! Such a clever technique. Gorgeous Coptic coloring btw!!!!
Gorgeous! Love the bright colors!
WOW!! These colors are so beautiful! Love those big flowers! Hugs, Robin
I always need ideas for stretching the supplies I already have (and maybe to stop myself from buying more but we both know it won’t stop me from accumulating more!). I follow the blog by email.
Gorgeous cards, Kelly!
Gorgeous card! I love the vibrant colored flowers.
Wow, these flowers really pop off the card! Stunning!
Absolutely gorgeous!
I adore KELLY and am so HAPPY for HER! She’s a dear friend, fellow crafter and we are also both on the same Design Team! Love Kelly and could NOT be happier for this very talented lady! A superstar MOM, friend and all around great person! HUGS and CONGRATS! Love you girl!!
Love these lovely cards!
Very colorful and beautiful!
I just love, love, the bright and brilliant colors of the flowers on today’s card.
Very pretty cards. I love the bright colors of the first card, super job coloring. The second card is lovely too, but the bright images on the first card really caught my eye. Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous cards!
These are such stunning colors–so pretty!
Those flowers are WOW!!! Gorgeous cards!
Wow! These are beautiful! The vibrant colors are so lovely.
Absolutely stunning coloring job by Kelly.
Kelly, I’ll never look at this set the same way … and me without a copic marker in the house! Just lovely…
=] Michele