Gina K Designs | One Layer Floral Birthday Card. Video

Hello friends. It’s been awhile since I last used my favorite colored pencils from Faber Castell so for today’s video I decided to do some pencil coloring for a one layer floral card featuring stamps from Gina K Designs.

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VIDEO TUTORIAL

As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.

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CARDS DETAILS

I picked a stunning floral cluster from the Tropical Blooms stamp set for my card. I went with this image because of its size and the amount of white or open space. Whenever I do pencil coloring I make sure that the image I pick for my coloring is large enough and not too tiny so that I can actually do some color blending.

I stamped this image 4 times in total (twice on top and twice on the bottom – mirrored) onto Desert Storm 80lb cardstock panel (using a stamping platform) and colored each with the help of Polychromos colored pencils.

To me, pencil coloring is more time consuming than Copic marker coloring so I usually save it for special occasions. I used the following colors for my coloring:

• #129 Pink Madder Lake, #123 Fuchsia and #101 White to color flowers;
• #170 May Green along with #175 Chromium Green Opaque to color leaves.

I did very simple coloring with minimal layering and blending. You don’t need to go crazy here and do a ton of blending because this image already has gorgeous detail to it and the image illustration itself does a lot of work for you, so there’s no need to spend hours coloring this and adding shadows and highlights (unless you want to!) as the image outline, once applied, will add that for you.

The way this floral cluster is illustrated you have little shaded areas that tell you where you need to apply your darkest color. This is very helpful if you are not sure how to color. For the most part I started with a darkest pencil for each petal, next added medium and finished it off with white.

You can also lay down white pencil as a base layer and it will lighten up the entire section. This is a good trick to use if you don’t have enough colors. You can use white to substitute for the lightest color and you can also use gray pencil to substitute for the darkest color.

Once my coloring was finished I heat embossed image outlines using Gold embossing powder from Hero Arts. I also heat embossed a beautiful sentiment that reads “Happy Birthday To You”, this one comes from Scripty Saying One stamp set. I wasn’t quite sure which stamp I wanted to use for my sentiment so I didn’t stamp it to begin with, but usually when making backgrounds like this where the sentiment is a part of a background it’s best to do the sentiment first and everything else later, as later you might simply not have the space for the sentiment.

Next, I did some more watermark stamping in the background. I’ve die cut masks for my image using a coordinating die and masking paper. I added my masks in place and stamped same floral cluster onto the background. It doesn’t show much as it is stamped in watermark ink, but it helps fill this floral background in and makes it look like a once seamless piece.

I adhered my background onto an A2 white card base and used Sparkling Clear Jewels from Pretty Pink Posh to dress this card up. Finally, I also made an envelope liner with gold heat embossing to coordinate with this card.

SUPPLIES

I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support

Gina K Designs Tropical Blooms Stamp and Die Set Shop at: SSS | GKD	Gina K Designs Scripty Sayings Clear Stamps Shop at: SSS | GKD	Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils Shop at: AN	Faber-Castell Polychromos 12 Set Shop at: SSS | AZ | AN
Faber-Castell Polychromos 24 Set Shop at: AZ | AN	Faber-Castell Polychromos 36 Set Shop at: SSS | AZ | AN	Faber-Castell Polychromos 60 Set Shop at: AZ | AN	Faber-Castell Polychromos 120 Set Shop at: AZ | AN
Spellbinders Magnetic Handy Mat Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ	Simon Says Stamp Surf Blue Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ
Neenah Classic Crest 80 Lb Desert Storm Shop at: SSS | AZ	Simon Says Stamp Masking Paper Shop at: SSS	Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder PW100 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ
Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear Jewels Shop at: SSS | PPP	Ranger Studio Paint Artist Brushes Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Stamp Platform Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ
EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Tonic Spring-cut Fine Tip Detail Scissors Shop at: SSS	Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ
Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS | AZ

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