Hello, stampers! Welcome back to my blog. I’m excited to join Simon Says Stamp for their Hey Bestie and Love You More releases blog hop. I have a Valentine’s Day card to share featuring my all-time favorite Polychromos pencils (can you tell it’s been AGES since I used them last) and oh-so stunning Suzy’s Lots of Love Watercolor Prints.
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CARD DETAILS
I love to color with Polychromos pencils by Faber Castell, especially when I have a bit more time to dedicate to my coloring. With this card, I didn’t need to think about the design much as the design was already pre-printed for me, so I all had to worry about was coloring.
I have shared a number of videos and tutorials on my blog talking about the aspects of coloring with Polychromos, so I’m not going to go into detail in this post, but I encourage you to check out my tutorials here: Polychromos Pencils Coloring Basics for Cardmakers | Pencil Coloring Over White Heat Embossing |Â Polychromos vs Copics | Polychromos Coloring on Toned Gray Paper | One Layer Floral Pencil Colored Card.
To begin, I settled on a color scheme for this card and selected several pencils:
- 154 Light Cobalt Blue and 156 Cobalt Green to color the letters
- 129 Pink Madder Lake and 123 Fuschia to color the flowers
- 170 May Green, 168 Earth Green Yellowish and 167 Permanent Green Olive to color the leaves
- 156 Cobalt Green and 157 Dark Indigo to color the flowers
With the coloring completed, I used a Sakura White pen in size 0.5 and added white dots to some of the flowers, colored flower centers white on other flowers and added highlight lines to the pink flowers. All of that added a lot of detail and interest to this card. I love using my Sakura pens for this and have a pack of 3 in various sizes, I use all sizes depending on the project I am working on.
I love to stamp, so naturally, I wanted to add some simple stamping to my colored panel to enhance in. I stamped “There’s no one I’d rather be linked to than you” inside the letter O. I used my mini MISTI stamping tool and Intense Black ink for stamping.
Next, I stamped “Hello, my love“, again in black ink, this time I positioned it in between the letters V and E. I also stamped “I love you so much” on Sea Glass cardstock, cut out and foam mounted onto the panel overlapping both letters V and E.
Lastly, my panel was trimmed to 4 x 5 1/4″ and foam mounted onto A2 white side folding card base. I use white flat sequins from the Birthday Cake mix.
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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!
 Simon Says Stamp Suzy’s Lots of Love Watercolor Prints Shop at: SSS |
 Cz Design Clear Stamps I Still Do Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamps Love and Valentines Word Mix 2 Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Birthday Cake Sequins Shop at: SSS |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos 12 Set Shop at: SSS |
 Faber-Castell Polychromos 36 Set Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS |
 Crystal Ninja Crystal Katana Pick Up Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Craft Tacky Glue Shop at: SSS |
 White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS |
Love, love, love this pretty card Yana! Your colored pencil cards are always my favorites!
Beautiful card. You totally have an eye for color combinations
Beautiful card. I will have to try colored pencils.
Beautiful Yana!
Beautiful colors and details.
Fabulous card beautifully put together.
Fabulous card beautifully put together
Beautiful card! Love the colours!
So pretty in these colors.
Beautiful card…
So beautiful!
Your card is so pretty and I love your coloring. So glad to see you using your colored pencils again.
I have never tried the colored pencils. It is something I have always shied away from, but this card makes me think I should give it a try.
These floral letters are so beautiful!
Love the card. I have always avoided using color pencils, but his card may encourage me to get them out again.
Very pretty with great use of pencils.
Beautiful Valentine card! Love the coloring!
Such a beautiful card! Beautiful color combination. What a neat release!
Love your design…the colors, the details, and the sentiments make for a beautiful card.
I love those colors together!
This Is so clean! Love the color combo!
Beautiful card! Love the colors!
Great card! Love the colors!
Really beautiful. The colors are very nice and makes you feel good!
Like the color choices and the additional details used to make the panel stand out. The additional stamping is well placed.
Your colouring is so beautiful. I love the colours you’ve chosen.
Your coloring is fantastic!
Your coloring is fabulous! Pretty colors-great card.
I love coloring with polychromes too — which you turned me on to! Can’t thank you enough for that. Haven’t seen you use them in a long time. Love the colors you used on this project and appreciate the idea of using pencils on the watercolor paper. I forget about that tip. Thanks, Yana!
Absolutely beautiful coloring!
I love how you enhanced one of Suzy’s marvelous coloring cards–I love her water coloring cards. You have inspired me to get out my polychromos pencils, they are awesome too!
Beautiful! Beautiful! A keeper. This is a card I would frame.
Beautiful card and wonderful coloring!
Wow! Your card is beautiful! You’ve inspired me to use my colored pencils today!
Your work gets me curious about those wonderful looking pencils, time to explore
I “LOVE” the colors.
Lovely card, beautiful coloring!
These css as refs are beautiful! Gets me in the mood to make my Valentine’s Day cards!
Beautiful! I just love your colored pencil coloring!
Beautiful card. I love working with colored pencils but haven’t done it in a while. Need to get them out.
You colored this card so beautifully. Love all the details you added. Thanks for the inspiration!
Beautiful colors.
Wow, this is so pretty. Love the coloring with the pencils.
Such a cute card
This is so lovely. You color choices are spot on and when I watch you with your color pencils, it makes me want to pull out mine and get started. Thanks for the nudge.
Lovely card, Yana! Love your color choice and your extra touch to the card! Thanks for your inspiration!
Wonderful card! Love your coloring.
Love your style! Beautiful card
Love your style, gorgeous card!!
Loveyour style, beautiful card!!
Always love watching your pencil coloring for your gorgeous cards. Thanks for sharing your beautiful projects.
Gorgeous card, Yana.