Hello friends! Thank you for joining us today to celebrate Pretty Pink Posh March 2018 release! This post is a part of a celebratory blog hop (more about the hop and giveaways below). Today I have a Spring Floral card to share featuring Cherry Blossoms stamp set from Pretty Pink Posh and pencil coloring with the help of Polychromos pencils from Faber Castell.
One of my favorite sets from this release is the Cherry Blossom set. Pretty Pink Posh now not only has fun critters to play with, but also these simple yet very beautiful outline flowers.
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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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CARD DETAILS
I decided to use flowers for my card today and do some quick coloring using my Polychromos colored pencils. I started working on my card by stamping images from the Cherry Blossom set in black ink onto Toned Gray Sketch Paper from Strathmore using my mini MISTI.
I suggest you use some sort of a stamp positioner tool for your stamping as once you finish coloring you’ll need to re-stamp the image outline to make it crisp and black (when coloring with colored pencils over a black outline the outline becomes muted and dull).
Why did I pick gray paper and not white? The answer is – simply because I love to use my Polychromos pencils on non white papers. You can easily color your images with alcohol markers on white paper, but you can’t color with alcohol markers on non white papers and have the same look. With pencils, on the other hand, you can color even over black and have stunning, vibrant results.
I used Pinks, Greens and white for my coloring. I didn’t use any blending solutions, truth be told I’ve never used one, and I just blend the colors using my white pencil. I used Fuchsia #123, Pink Madder Lake #129 and White #101 to color the flowers. The green pencils I used are: May Green #170, Chrome Oxide Green #278 and Earth Green Yellowish #168.
Once my coloring was done I placed my colored panels back into my mini misti and re-stamped the images over my colored piece. I used same ink for my stamping. Just to be safe, I used my heat tool and zapped these with the heat for a few seconds. Colored pencils create a somewhat of a sleek surface where the ink needs a bit more time to dry, so to make sure I dont smear anything I heat set it just in case.
I used coordinating dies and cut these images out in my Spellbinders Platinum die cutting machine. Next, I created a floral cluster and picked a Happy Spring sentiment from the Bunny Friends stamp set to go with these flowers. I stamped sentiment in black ink onto 4 x 5 1/4″ panel, foam mounted the panel onto Fog Gray card base and foam mounted floral cluster on top. I used a white gel pen to add white dot details to my flowers.
To embellish this card I used new Jewels from Pretty Pink Posh in the color Watermelon. These jewels come is several colors and each pack has jewels of several sizes, the smallest are just about 2mm in size and together with the other size jewels they make perfect little embellishments. One last thing I did – I used my Tonic Aqua shimmer pen and I added some shimmer to all of the flowers on my card.
POLYCHROMOS COLOR CHART
I mention a color chart in my video. I downloaded mine from the Faber Castell website here.
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GIVEAWAY
There are 4 $25 gift certificates up for grabs (two winners each day – this is Blog Hop Day 1). Winners will be picked randomly along the blog hop. Comments must be left by 11:59 PM PST on 3/12/2018. Winners will be announced on the PPP blog.
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
 Pretty Pink Posh Cherry Blossoms Clear Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | PPP |
 Pretty Pink Posh Cherry Blossoms Die Set Shop at: SSS | PPP |
 Pretty Pink Posh Bunny Friends Clear Stamp Set Shop at: SSS | PPP |
 Pretty Pink Posh Watermelon Jewels Shop at: SSS | PPP |
 Strathmore 400 Series Recycled Toned Sketch Wirebound Journals Shop at: AZ | BL |
 Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Simon Says Stamp Fog Gray Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Spellbinders Platinum Die Cutting Machine Shop at: SSS | SC | SPEL | AZ |
 Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils Individual Shop at: BL |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils 12 Piece Set Shop at: SSS | AZ | BL |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils 24 Piece Set Shop at: AZ | BL |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos 36 Pencil Studio Set Shop at: SSS | AZ | BL |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils 60 Piece Set Shop at: AZ | BL |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils 120 Piece Set Shop at: AZ | BL |
 Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Mixed Media Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS | AZ |
 Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS |
 Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ |
 Tonic Deluxe Adhesive Nuvo Glue Shop at: SSS | SC |
 Sakura Classic White Bold Line 10 Gelly Roll Pen Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ |
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Beautiful card, lovely coloring! You are inspiring me to play with coloring using pencils. Thanks for sharing your ideas… 🙂
What a beautiful and delicate card, I love your colouring and the whole design, your colouring is of course amazing, and the layering definitely adds to the whole design!
I love your ideas!
I’ve been looking into those polychromos pencils. Seeing your art today is very convincing that these pencils are very nice!
I am always impressed by your coloring with this Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils. I have Prismacolor pencils which I know has a different property than the one you always use. Got to use what I have for now. Thank you for the tutorial.
Sooooo beautiful.
Yana, you are a pro with those pencils. I love watching you color. Those stamps are beautiful!
So beautiful, Yana!
I love the coloring on this card. It fits perfectly with the stamp. So beautiful
Gorgeous coloring!!
Beautiful!!!!
Beautiful cherry blossoms with that gorgeous coloring!
This card is beautiful. The colors and the coloring are spot on. Great job. Thanks for sharing.
Your work is so beautiful! TFS!
Beautiful card! Looks like Spring!
It is such a beautiful card, Yana!
I absolutely LOVE this card
Look real & beautiful
I am learning so much about pencils from you! Beautiful job on this card!! Love it.
I really learned a lot from your video, thanks!
Love the cherry blossom tutorial. Will be coming back to this!
I have a soft spot for cherry blossoms anyway but the way you’ve coloured these is absolutely gorgeous. So pretty!
Your pencil coloring skills are superb. I am trying to get better, so I will look at yours in detail again. SO PRETTY!
So pretty for Spring. I like your coloring and the dimension.
Love the card
your creations, always inspiring! I sure do love Pretty Pink Posh. I see some new stamps in my very near future 🙂
Lovely card Yana!
I love the colors you used. Beautiful card.
Such a pretty card!
I love how you coloured your cherry blossoms. Thank for the inspiration
The card is beautiful. Love the colors you used.
Love your pencil colouring! Awesome cards thank you for sharing your ideas.
Gorgeous! I love the way you used the different card stock – cannot wait to try this!!!
Gorgeous card using colored pencils!
Thanks for another tutorial on using poly pencils! I’m heading out today to the local art supply store to pick up a few more colors and a white pencil is at the top of the list. After watching your video and seeing the size of your white pencil, I’m thinking maybe I should pick up TWO white pencils!!!!! Thanks, Yana.
Your cards are always so beautiful and creative! I could watch your videos all day. Your pencil coloring on this card is awesome and inspiring. Thanks!
this card is just gorgeous. Thanks for sharing:)
Your video is amazing – thanks for showing the way you use the white pencil to make the colors pop! This new release is fabulous.
Beautiful card. Colors are amazing. Thanks for sharing…
Absolutely beautiful!!
Very pretty! I’m loving coloring with pencils.
The Cherry Blossoms are beautiful! You did such an amazing job coloring them.
Omg! I love this card!! I’m a big fan of flowers in general and I love this stamp set. Love the color choices too. It’s my first time on your blog so I did join the email list, I look forward to other great posts
Beautiful! Makes me wish spring was here. I’ve seen some gorgeous colouring lately with polychromos pencils and it’s inspired me to try them out. I just have to buy some. Hopefully I can find them around where I live and not have to order internationally and pay extravagant shipping price. Here’s hoping!!
Beautiful card for spring!
Hello Yana, I love your pencil coloured cards. Now that you’ve tried those polychromos for a while, can you tell us if you prefer prismacolors or polychromos? Thank you
Your card is lovely, it looks so soft. I really like the PPP release and love the new jewels.
Gorgeous card, beautiful stamp set. Always love watching you color.
Hi Yana, Beautiful card, such pretty colors. I love PPP, great small company, I love supporting the smaller companies.
Really beautiful card. I enjoy watching you color with colored pencils.