Yippee for Yana: Selective Pencil Coloring
Hi friends, Happy Tuesday! Welcome back to the latest edition of Yippee for Yana with the always awesome Yana Smakula! Read on, be sure to watch the video, and enjoy!
Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula for Simon! Welcome back for another Yippee For Yana video!
Today I’m sharing a card and a technique that is my favorite when it comes to background stamps and colored pencils. Over the last few months I’ve several videos showing how to color using Polychromos pencils from Faber Castell, however, if you are a beginner in card making or coloring those might have seemed a bit intimidating. For today’s video, I decided to go back to basics and do a simple selective background coloring.
I picked the Center Cut Kaleidoscope background stamp for my project, you can also use other background stamps. It’s best to use a stamp that has a bit of a pattern to it, something not totally random. I started to work on my card by covering a piece of black cardstock with anti-static powder. This is an important step in heat embossing and something that shouldn’t be skipped if
you aim for a clean heat embossed look.
Next, I stamped my image Versamark ink and covered with new Hero Arts Gold Glitter embossing powder. I’ve been wanting to try this product and I absolutely loved it – this might be my new favorite gold embossing powder ever. By the way, Hero Arts also has the same glitter embossing powder in Silver.
I used just 2 pencils to color today. Both are Polychromos from Faber Castell – #163 Emerald Green and #264 Dark Phthalo Green. Both of these come in the 36 pencil set. Coloring a background like this on black paper is a good place to start with colored pencils if you’ve never used them before. Why? Because this black paper is forgiving and it doesn’t take as much time or as much hand pressure to have nice colored surface. This pretty much is how I started using and getting to know my pencils – I colored on black paper. From there I slowly moved onto other colors of paper such as kraft and gray.
When you color the background like this it’s up to you to decide which section you want to color and which you’d like to keep as is. You can even color all of it if you like, I love to do just simple selective coloring and have a lot of black in the background for the contrast.
To create a sentiment I heat embossed Thanks from the Big Thanks Words stamp set onto black paper using same Gold Glitter embossing powder. To have even more sparkle I’m actually double heat embossed it. I cut Thanks out using a coordinating die and also die-cut a fun foam layer out of black adhesive foam to pop this element up a bit. I also wanted to add another skinny strip with another message. I used my pencil to color a piece of black paper in the same color as the coloring on the background and heat embossed my sentiment over it in Antique Gold embossing powder. I used “Never Change Who You Are” sentiment from the You Got This stamp set.
Have fun stamping!
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Folk Dance meets Plantiful Puns!
Hi friends! Happy Monday! Please welcome back special guest Anna Kossakovskaya with two gorgeous cards featuring our Folk Dance stamps and dies, CZ Design Tabbed Sentiments, as well as our super fun Plantiful Puns stamp set! Read on and enjoy!
Hello, Anna Kossakovskaya is here today on Simon blog! And I want to share with you two of my cards I made with Friendly Frolic release. The first one is all about the resist effect. I started by blending gently the future front panel with the soft orange ink. I let it dry and heat embossed Folk Dance background stamp with the detailed clear powder. I then blended with the orange ink over the heat embossed image. I made the color lighter closer to the center. it adds the nice shining effect.
For the sentiment, I white heat embossed two phrases from Tabbed Sentiments stamp set on the narrow kraft banners. I then adhered the ready panel to the card base, foam mounted the sentiment and added some orange and clear sequins as final details.
For the second card, I played with Folk Dance die. I die cut the front panel with it and foam mounted it to the kraft card base. I stamped the flowers in the jug from Plantiful Puns stamp set on the white cardstock and colored them with Copic markers. I then fussy cut this image and foam mounted it to the kraft base. I also added the white heat embossed sentiment from Tabbed Sentiments stamp set on the black banner.
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Doodling with Debby: Simple No Line Watercoloring
Hi friends! Welcome to the latest edition of Doodling with Debby with the fabulous Debby Hughes! Read on and be sure to watch the video for the full tutorial! Enjoy!
Hi, it’s Debby here for my monthly Doodling With Debby video feature on the Simon Says Stamp blog and for today I have a simple no line watercolored card using the new Plantiful Puns set.
The Plantiful Puns set is so up my street with its plant outlines and pots, jugs and jars to accessorize – I’ve been dying to use it! I started out by stamping the Aloe Vera image from the set in Antique Linen Distress Ink on Arches Cold Pressed Watercolour Card. This is my starting off point for any no-line watercoloring. Distress inks are water reactive and also the light color of this particular ink means that as I watercolor the ink will react with and blend into the painting. I stamped the image multiple times to get a good clear outline to color on the textured watercolor card. I then repeated the process with the terracotta pot.
I used Daniel Smith watercolors, and if you are interested in trying these out, then a great way to do so is to pick up my dot sheet from Simon Says Stamp which has a small sample of my favorite colors. To get defined shapes when no line watercoloring it is essential to ensure one area is dry before painting the one next to it. For the flowers, I must admit I didn’t know what Aloe Vera flowers looked like and so I turned to trusty Google to look them up and noticed that some aloe vera plants have flowers which have a gradient of colour from yellow at the base to a vibrant pink/red at the tip and I thought painting my flowers like this would bring in a nice pop of colour and also the changing hue would help separate the petals from one another.
With no line watercoloring, where you don’t have an outline to define areas within an image, it is important to get variations in shade and highlights so that for example the leaves don’t just become one green blob. To do this I mix a relatively concentrated color and painted this in a shadow area such as the base of a leaf and then rinsed my brush and dabbed it off on a paper towel. With my now just damp brush, I drew the color out towards the highlighted areas such as the tips of the leaf. To deepen the colors in the shadows of the leaves I often add just a touch of black and find this works really well to mute and darken the greens and blue-greens of leaves. For the terracotta pot, I find that purple has a similar effect for the color of the pot and so when I painted the first layer of the pot I added touches of purple into the shadow areas.
For those of you that like to talk specific paint colors, these are the main ones I used, although sometimes I just grabbed a mix off my palette.
- Terracotta Pot – Quinacridone Gold + Hematite Burnt Scarlet Genuine + Rose Of Ultramarine for shadows
- Leaves – Ultramarine Turquoise + Lunar Black and then touches of Quinacridone Coral for variation
- Flowers – Hansa Yellow Light + Quinacridone Coral
I mixed a touch of green into my pinky red mixture for the topmost petals. As green is the complementary color to red, it neutralizes and knocks back the brightness of the red slightly which I felt was more in keeping with the subtler shades elsewhere in the image.
I love to see terracotta pots which have been weathered by the elements and have mossy growths on their sides, and so I brought in a touch of green in patches on the pot. I wanted to keep things simple though and not fiddle too much, but I did add a few slightly darker layers to add dimension and to help define each area from its neighbor. With the painting done, I fussy cut the plant and pot and then set it to one side while I worked on the rest of the card.
For the background, I thought the open circle of the Center Cut Geometric Pattern stamp would create a great focal area for the plant pot to sit. I placed a piece of Simon Says Stamp Fog card in the Misti and treated it with a powder tool, I then stamped the image a few times in Simon Says Stamp clear embossing ink to get a good impression and sprinkled with Simon Says Stamp white embossing powder, tapped off any excess and heat set. I cut the Fog panel so the center circle was offset and the dimensions of the panel were slightly smaller than an A2 card base. I added plenty of foam adhesive to the rear of the background panel and added this to an Ivory card base. I then added more foam adhesive to the back of the plant and pot and adhered that over the open circle area.
I chose a sentiment from the Plantiful Puns set, and this set has some great options many of them a punny play on words and also this one which suits me perfectly as despite starting my University studies looking at plants I still manage to kill many houseplants from either under or overwatering! I stamped the sentiment in clear embossing ink on a slate card and white heat embossed before trimming to a banner and adding beneath the Aloe Vera with foam adhesive. I did think about adding some sequins or Nuvo crystal drops to this card, but in the end, I preferred to keep it clean and simple and let the watercolor stand out on its own.
Thanks for joining me today, and I’ll see you next time for Doodling With Debby.
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