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.
Gorgeous and vibrant colors, love both cards with tag in the layout!
Those colors are so vibrant and lovely!
Love the bold colors!
I love the vibrant and 3 dimensional look of the flowers. Making a second card with the tag you cut from the first is a great idea.
I love the spectacular colors on your cards, Kelly! Great job!
Beautiful flowers. Such great coloring!
I love the outlining you did on the flowers with gray and blue. the card is so vibrant-love the colors and the stamps.
Very pretty. Lovely bold colors certainly will cheer the recipient.
The shading on these flowers is stunning! They look so real!
Welcome Kelly, Wow, Wow, is what I have to say. You are amazing, your coloring is fabulous !! Those Flowers are Beautiful they just POP, you just want to pick them and put them in a vase. I have been using copic’s for years but I can’t seem to get the blending down, so I wrote down your marker #’s and I am going to try your advise with the light to dark and reverse it. Thanks for listing the exact numbers of the markers instead of just saying copics. I follow Kathy Racoosin’s blog, she leaves the #’s also, and it has helped me a lot, she is AMAZING !! She has a fun coloring challenge going on now so I am getting lots of practice.Thanks Kelly for sharing, so looking forward to more from you.
Thank you so much Tracey! I agree Kathy is amazing. Try using a really light hand when coloring. The flicking/sweeping motion helps with the blending too!!
HOW STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
Prettiest card I’ve seen in quite awhile WOW!!!!
Kelly’s awesome just like her cards! LOVE her and the cards. Amazing coloring, as always!
Wow, what a stunner! I love the colors!
Such bright and beautiful cards! I love how you used the tag you cut out of the first card to create the second one! Great idea! Thanks so much for sharing!
such great coloring + I love the efficiency of the “2 for 1” concept of card creation!
I LOVE stretching supplies! It’s so fun coming up with new ideas.
WOW! I just LOVE how your card POPS! Thanks for the inspiration. :D
The colors you used are so brilliant!
Makes me smile BIG!
Just beautiful! Love the colors you used and love how your flowers just “pop” right off your cards!
awesome coloring!
Beautiful cards
Wow!! Beautiful!! Love your brightly colored flowers!!
Beautiful and colorful cards. Makes me feel so happy. You do a great job of designing and executing your design. Welcome and Thanks for sharing with everyone.
love both cards, simple lines, bright cheery colors. Very pretty…
i love my sending wishing set but haven’t had too much time to play with it.
i love my sending wishing set but haven’t had too much time to play with it.
Gorgeous card with beautiful, bright colours.
Love the vibrant colors!
Great ideas! The coloring is beautiful.
What a vibrant and beautiful card! I even love the subtle background!
These cards are just gorgeous, Kelly! Love the way you colored the flowers.
This card is stunning. I love the vibrant colors of the flowers. Awesomeness!!
Your copic coloring is stunning! Thanks for sharing your marvelous card!
These are lovely, Kelly. Your coloring is just beautiful.
Wow! Great colors, love your cards.
Gorgeous cards, wonderfully colored!
LOVE the bright colors
Stunning project! Your coloring is incredible! Thanks for sharing your ideas and talent with us :)
Beautiful cards. The coloring is gorgeous. I love these flowers.
Very pretty colors!
I wish my flower garden looked as bright and cherry as your card! Great job!
Cheery! Not cherry. Silly autocorrect.
What a great birthday card. I love everything you create. You always use such great colors. TFS
Wow these are just stunning!
Wow, these are absolutely beautiful!
Yay, Kelly, gorgeous work!
Wonderful colors! Beautiful job!
Great looking card. The colors you used are gorgeous.
Oh my goodness! These are gorgeous x 10! So in love with the bright colors and the pretty veining you did! Pinning right now. ;)