Center Cut Heart Background - Selective Polychromos Colored Love Card
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Welcome back for another episode from my by-monthly Yippee For Yana video series for Simon Says Stamp Blog! In today’s episode I’m sharing a delicate Love You card featuring selective pencil coloring.
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I’ve already showcased the technique I’m using for this card in one of my previous videos ( • Yippee For Yana Series... ), be sure to watch it if you haven’t yet seen it. I am still very much fond of pencil coloring, so I decided to play with this technique once again and do some partial coloring.
I started to work on my card by stamping a beautiful Center Cut Heart background stamp in watermark ink onto Neenah Desert Storm cardstock to have a faint impression on my paper, I wanted to heat emboss this background in white embossing powder, but I also wanted to color parts of this background with my colored pencils and to make it easier for me to color I first stamped the image using a stamp positioner tool, colored it while there was no embossing powder and later added embossing powder over the coloring.
I was going for a very soft, feminine look and for my coloring I used just two pencils - White and Rose Carmine (these are Polychromos pencils). I’ve mentioned this many times in the past - I simply adore these pencils and I use them all the time.
I have a smaller 36 set of pencils and in that set there’s only one hot pink an no lighter pink. When I color I like to have a light and a dark shade of one color to have nice gradual transitions. So I used white pencil instead and I blended the hot pink into a lighter pink and finally into white with the help of the white pencil only.
I didn’t want to color the entire background as a), that would have taken too long, and b), this is not what I had in mind for this card. I wanted to have a lot of kraft, a lot of white and also hints of pink.
What I love a lot about Polychromos pencils is that they are erasable in a way. You can take a regular pencil eraser and erase some of the color if you made a mistake. It’s a very cool and valuable quality of this product, I think. Sometimes I change my mind, or the coloring doesn’t look the way I want it to look or I’ve accidentally colored over something I wasn’t planning to color so I just use pencil eraser to correct my coloring.
Once my coloring was done I heat embossed the background image in white embossing powder. I also created several additional elements for my card following the same technique. I used a rose image from the Best Mom Ever stamp set and also the word LOVE from the Stained Glass Love stamp set.
I trimmed my background to 4 x 5 ¼”, foam mounted it onto an A2 side folding card base, foam mounted the word “Love” and also foam mounted the pencil colored rose.
I wanted to add “You Forever & Always” part of the sentiment but I wanted to heat emboss it in white on pink. I didn’t have any pink cardstock that matched in color to the pink coloring, so I made my own little piece of pink paper by coloring a piece of kraft paper using my pencil.
I always do this with my Copic markers and sometimes do this with my watercolors so why not do it with the pencils? Right? It matched perfectly, I heat embossed the sentiment and trimmed it into a skinny strip using my Tonic Trimmer, foam mounted onto the card. Lastly, I coated the flower using my Tonic Studios Aqua Shimmer pen and that finished my project.
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• Simon Says Cling Rubber Stamp Center Cut Heart Background - shrsl.com/phna
• Simon Says Clear Stamps Stained Glass Love - shrsl.com/phni
• Simon Says Stamp Stained Glass Love Wafer Dies - shrsl.com/phnj
• Simon Says Clear Stamps Best Mom Ever - shrsl.com/?hbde
• Hero Arts White Embossing Powder PW110 - goo.gl/cJKDb9
• Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 - goo.gl/30WUwT
• Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils - shrsl.com/jnja
• Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils 12 Piece Set - shrsl.com/nj5w
• Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad - goo.gl/czcrUu
• Mini Misti Stamping Tool - goo.gl/hPRSPX
• Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform - shrsl.com/?hdvi
• ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch - goo.gl/tYRJdl
• Tonic Spring-cut Fine Tip Detail Scissor - shrsl.com/phnp
• Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer - shrsl.com/jme9
• Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape - shrsl.com/?iefv
• White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 - goo.gl/ZwcoCZ
• Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares - goo.gl/fxU7wx
• Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo 2 Pack 888n - shrsl.com/ntah
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The thing I love the most about your cards is you color combinations . They are always so gorgeous!
Thank you, Kim!
The colors make this card so fresh and pretty!
thanks, Wendy!
Beautiful card and I like that you left the heart the colour of the cardstock.
thank you so much, Denise!
Always beautiful Yana! I love the pink and white on the kraft, pretty combo. Love watching your videos, I always learn something.Thanks for sharing and always inspiring.
thank you so much :)
Another gorgeous card, Yana! I think leaving the heart without color was the right choice...Love the look of pink and white on Kraft...who knew?
Thanks so much for another great video tutorial :)
thank you, Barb! It seems like everyone agrees it was the right thing to do to not color it - glad I didn't!
That's a great idea Yana, to do the heat embossing after the image is colored...TFS!
thank you, Nancy! It was a treat coloring this image :)
Gorgeous card Yana! I love the white on Kraft paper. Another fabulous video 🙂
aww! thank you so much, Shelley!
This is absolutely gorgeous! Love it! Someone gave a tip about using that trimmer.....if you score your cardstock first, you can cut the paper to get a top folding card.
yes! thank you, I'm looking forward to trying that today :)
Gorgeous card! I like it as is, center uncolored. TFS!
thank you, Michelle!
This is a very beautiful card! I like that you did not color the heart white. You are a very talented artist and I enjoy watching all of your videos.
thank you, Diana! Reading the comments I'm now too happy I didn't color it
Absolutely Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
thank you, Donna!
Beautiful card.
Very pretty card!!
What a Great Card, Yana, as always. This would be a great Mom's Day card, too! Love it!
Thank you so much!
Gorgeous card as always Yana! Love the way colored pencils look on the Kraft cardstock (& the way your nail polish matched as well!). Thanks so much for sharing and I hope your week is off to a great start. ~HUGS~
#kindnessmatters
This is gorgeous and I like the color it has a soft touch to it.....well done Yana and tfs
thank you, Terrie!
Very beautiful soft colouring. For your trimmer ... if you fold the paper first and then trim it you can make top folding cards :)
thank you for the tip :) I'll be sure to try :)
So stunning!
Thank you, Cindy!
Love this Yana!!!
Thank you. Becky!
So pretty!
Thank you!
Gorgeous card, I love watching you work your magic with the polychromos pencils.
awww! thank you so much, Sybil!
Omgness - I adore this card - and I can't believe I just realized you are a fellow lefty!! I wish we could form a lefty crafters community because I find certain techniques and tools especially, are more challenging, and would love to have a place to seek advice and share with fellow lefties. :)
yes! I'm a lefty :) and funny thing is - I didn't even know (until recently) that there are scissors for lefties!
I bought a bunch of pairs, but its actually really hard to cut properly with them because I am so used to adapting with right-handed scissors - what a revelation though to actually be able to SEE where you are cutting. I don't know about you, but I really wish some of the tools could be special ordered for lefties -- the righties have no clue how awkward and challenging it is to use things like the envelope punch board, or even paper trimmers, etc...!
It's absolutely stunning Yana! I don't think you should have colored the heart! It's perfect as is 💗
yay! So glad you like it, Zsoka! Thank you!
I could watch you make this project over and over again Yana, I love it! Thank you for all the help and support you give us crafters through your video tutorials. :o)
thank you!
So very pretty.I love the 2pencil blending,I think it looks really good.
Thank you, Valerie!
This looks so lovely!!!!! I like the heart being left open
thank you!
Beautiful
Thank you!
It's so beautiful Yana...TFS!
Thank you, Nancy!
Stunning!!
Thank you so much!
So very pretty!!!
thank you, Tiffany!
Splendid card!
thank you!
It’s a beautiful card! I think you were right not to color the heart.
thank you!