Hello and welcome! Today I have another simple one layer Christmas card idea to share featuring coloring with a shimmer pen. Recently I’ve been looking into simple ways to color images and I shared a video showing how to color using a single white pen, I also made a few cards and colored them using Nuvo Drops.
For today’s video I wanted to explore another simple and quick way to add color to outline images and I decided I’d use my shimmer pen. We wont be necessarily adding color to the images, not technically coloring them in a traditional sense of the way, but we will use the shimmer pen to highlight these images and help them pop off the background.
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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 used Ornamental stamp set by Cathy Z for Simon Says Stamp from the Fun & Festive release and heat embossed images in Antique Gold embossing powder on Island Blue cardstock.
This is fun Holiday stamp set with modern imagery and sentiments that allow you to create Christmas ornaments. My idea here is to have a sentiment on my card and surround it with pretty ornaments. Each ornament is different, with a different pattern or sentiment. This stamp set offers a number of options to decorate the ornaments – you have several sentiment and several images that all fit inside that ornament image. I love stamp sets like this with lots of versatility to them and clever and modern designs.
Next I ink blended my background for an ombre look. I used Deep See ink as my mid color and Navy as my dark color (also blending Black at the very top) keeping the bottom of my panel the way it is. I really love doing these ombre ink blended backgrounds lately, they are simple to make, but look beautiful.
To color each ornament I used shimmer pen from Tonic Studios. I simply added a generous amount of shimmer onto each image (I did to so twice to have as much shimmer as possible). You can totally color these using markers, watercolors, or anything else you like to use, I wanted to try alternative ways to color so I’ve been exploring other mediums I could color with.
Once the shimmer was dry I adhered my panel onto an A2 white side folding card base and I also added several nuvo drops in Red and White to add a pop of color to this Holiday card. I love the way it turned out, I kept my stamps in the MISTI tool as I plan to mass produce this card design.
You can also try and do this in a different color, you can go with red and add a really deep red ink blending, you can go with pink, teal, even green would look stunning. I hope you’ll give this idea a try using these or other stamps from your stash. If you do, remember to share online and tag on social media – I also love seeing what you guys are making.
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!
 CZ Design Clear Stamps Ornamental Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Island Blue Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Navy Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stam Deep Sea Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Gloss White Nuvo Drops Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Red Berry Gloss Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS |
 Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS |
 Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Spellbinders Circle Replacement Foam Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo Shop at: SSS |
 Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS |
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Like the sparkly ornament card.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
what a fun idea! Thanks for the inspiration
Gorgeous card!! Loving all the shimmer!
Gorgeous card! Love the ornaments!
Thanks for the tip of painting with simmer pens.
I like the ornament set you use
Simple yet elegant. You are so talented and I too love creating simple cards. Thank you
Love the card. Thanks so much for the video. They really help me to learn.
Love your choice of colors and you have convinced me that I need a shimmer pen in my life!
I love using blue on my Christmas cards. I enjoyed your video.
Love your card and all the shimmer. Your blending is beautiful, I wish I was better at it.
Gorgeous! I love your out-of-the-box ideas…you matched the stamp set’s modern design by Cathy Z with your modern colors and card design! And, it’s so simple to create! An A+ idea for us! Thank you, Yana! ✨
A beautifully designed card and a gorgeous color palette. Thank you for sharing your artistry with us.
Beautiful card!!
Very cool idea!
Love this Fun & Festive release! Beautiful ornaments on your card! Love the colors and the sparkle!
Looks lovely and
easy to do. Great
idea.
Carla from Utah
Ok, I don’t know why I never thought to start with a colored cardstock for a monochromatic ombre background, but I’m definitely filling that away for a later day! I think the ornamental stamp is one of my faves–i see lots of versatility.
A beautiful card—the shimmery sentiment ornaments really do pop against the simple ombré background. Thanks for the video tutorial!
I love your shimmery card. What a creative way to separate the ornaments from the background while using the same color.
Your card is so pretty! A clever use of this ornament stamp. Thanks so much for the inspiration!
What a fun and easy to mass produce card
I’m always looking for ideas on one layer cards and this one is fantastic! And I’m loving how you’re doing more CAS cards lately. 😀
Love the technique. Thanks for doing You Tube on it! Lovely card
Love your subtle sparkly ornaments, wonderful CAS card!
Another beautiful ink blended card Yana, its always great when you can mass produce such beautiful Christmas cards!
I really like this SSS release and all the cards you’ve made with these stamps. I need a lot of cards so these styles really work for me. Thanks for the video too.
luv blues for my Christmas cards!
Beautiful card.
Thanks so much for sharing…
I am so excited for the holiday season. I love this card. Thank you sooo much!
So much beautiful sparkle and shine on the ornaments! Just lovely! 🙂 What a great idea!
Thanks for sharing your technique for this gorgeous card.
Great idea for single layer card! We need cards that are easy to mail, without a lot of things attached!
So pretty! Another really great idea! Thanks.
Thanks for sharing great video
Shimmer pens make such pretty ornaments!
Beautiful card!! Love the blue, and that this stamp set is so versatile!
Beautiful card! I love the shimmer!
Beautiful card love the coloring. Thanks for sharing the video.
I love the final result Yana! Thanks for sharing this cool idea!
Loving this clean and simple card! I also think that ink blending color over colored cardstock is brilliant and I would have NEVER thought of it myself! Thanks for the inspiration Yana!
Beautiful!
You are the queen of blending! Stunning!
Great card Yana, love that you used the shimmer to colour the ornaments. Never thought of blending on coloured cardstock, much easier. Thank you so much for showing.
I love ornaments on a Christmas card! So pretty!
What a pretty clean and simple card! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful card. the ornaments are
so shiny and pretty. thanks for sharing
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Another simple but very impressive card! This ornamental set is one of my favourites from this release and showed it off beautifully. Your shading/blending is spot on and adds depth to the card so nicely! Thanks for making several of this style of card so we can see that simple can be spectacular and impressive and that we don’t need everything out there to make amazing over the top cards
What a fabulous one layer card with pizzaz!
I think you’re going to be my card guru this season: keep it simple and sparkly!