Studio Monday with Nina-Marie: Encouragement Cards for Kids
Hi friends! Thanks for tuning into week 3 of the Studio Monday with Nina-Marie feature! This week Nina is back with three adorable encouragement cards. I think they could also be great cards to give to teachers! Read on, and enjoy!
Hi everyone it’s Nina-Marie here today…welcome back to Studio Monday! For today’s video tutorial, I’m going to be sharing some inspiration on pairing the new Better Together and Scandinavian Prints stamp sets from Neat & Tangled to create fun encouragement cards for kids!
The adorable children images from Better Together are so sweet, and I love how each kid is holding their own little furry friend. I did all the coloring of these images using Copic markers, which I will be walking you through on the video. For reference, you can see the colors broken down below:
Girl with dog: RV10, RV23, R27, R46, R59, E33, E37, E47, R20, C3, C5, C7, 100, E0000, E51,E21
Girl with owl: E0000, E00, E21, E23, E17, E18, E37, E47, E84, RV00, R20, RV52, Y00, Y11,Y06, BG0000, BG01
Boy with fox: E00, E21, E57, E47, E49, Y38, YR15, YR68, R46, R59, R89, YR20, YR82, YR12
I also did some watercoloring using Prima’s Watercolor Confections (the Classics set) and a Penny Black Inc. stencil to create a whimsical background for these little kids. I love the uneven texture of the dots, as it matches perfectly with the style of the children.
I’ll be walking you through how I created this background -as well as the entire set of cards- in the video! Be sure to give it a “thumbs up” if you enjoy and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more weekly inspiration!
Thanks for stopping by today and have a happy week of creating! :)
xoxo, Nina-Marie
What charming cards you’ve made; sheer delights! I love making cards for my niece and nephew (6 and 4), two lights of my life, so your creations have special impact – and inspiration – for me! Thank you for the smiles this rainy Monday!
~carol
What sweet cards! Thanks for the video.
These are so cute! Adorable.
Super sweet! I need to make a batch of cards for my friends’ kids and love this simple background – thanks for the inspiration!
Oh, so cute and lovable! I adore your coloring work! Thanks for sharing!
These are the most adorable cards! Love the bright cheerful colors and amazing sentiments!
Super cute cards. My kids will love to have something like that. Love the background idea . Thanks for sharing
So adorable and cute!
ADORABLE! These are just the sweetest…..LOVE the sentiment, Do Small Things With Great Love!!!
How cute are these cards?!!
Awe these are adorable – I love the backgrounds of each of these beautiful cards – so eye appealing for a kid to receive – TFS your work! Have a blessed wee!
So adorable and sweet!!!
These are adorable!
So darling cards! Awesome coloring.
Super cute cards .
Great job of such vibrant colors on these adorable cards!
Cheerfulness! The coloring is wonderful on the cute kids cards. Have a BEE-utiful day!
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
Super sweet cards! I really like the background you made to match the kids with the stencil & water coloring.
Sweet coloring
These would be such fun cards to make for my grand kids love the bright color.
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Oh my world Nina Marie, these are awesome! Love all the fun and beautiful colours! :-)
So precious and sweet.
Excellent coloring skills.
So beautiful cards!!!!
Love the vibrant colors and the cute stamps.
So stinking cute. I can see the little child’s face light up when they open it. Thanks for sharing.
The dotty backgrounds are perfect!
So very sweet. Great idea for showing your children some love and encouragement.
What adorable cards. Love the way your dots turned out so casual looking with the stencil! I have so much trouble achieving that very look.
I can’t think of a nicer “treat” in a lunchbox that would bring smiles to the special boy or girl receiving these lovely creations! Fantastic idea – TFS
Hwo cute are these cards.
So darling Nina. Love your copics work and these cards will really make some little person smile. Thanks for your inspiration.
Such a wonderful idea to send cards to kids. Great examples.
Nina, your cards are so bright and fun and I love the message!
Your coloring is perfect & I love how you used the stencil! Thanks for the inspiration!
Always a good thing encouraging our young ones
Great kid cards!!
Love the dots of color.
The little kids are cute.
It is always a good thing to encourage our kids
and praise them for the good things they do.
thanks for sharing.
Sweet cards:-)
So dang cute….but how could they not be with sweet ‘polkie dots’ and delightful children !gracing the
so cute and sweet!
so pretty, perfect for cards for children. Thanks for the ideas on how to create the stripes on the little boy – very clever and easy technique:)
These are so cute!
Well done, Nina-Marie! Simply adorable cards for kids.
Awesome cards with these cute little kiddies! I’m always looking for good ideas for the small ones in my life. Thanks for sharing!
Very cute. I really like the background you created.
Cute cards! Any child would love these.
sweet cards
Adorable set of cards, Nina. Sweet images!
Cute cards! This would be great to put in your child’s backpack for some extra encouragement before a big test or just because. TFS :)
Adorable cards! I love those sentiments. TFS