Hello there! In the middle Winter I can’t help but long for Spring – longer, sunnier days with fresh rains and beautiful blooms coming from under the snow. What could be better? Today I have a Spring inspired card featuring beautiful crocus flowers from Pretty Pink Posh.
Surprisingly, I used to not like this flower, but as I grow older it appeals to me more and more.
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CARD DETAILS
Sometime ago I mentioned that I go through “coloring phases” – I color using just Copics, or just Watercolors and these days, it seems, I like to color with my colored pencils, Polychromos by Faber Castell, only. I love the texture these pencils add to my cards and I especially adore using them for floral images.
To create this card I used my mini MISTI stamping tool and stamped several flowers & grass images in VersaFine Onyx Black ink on light blue cardstock (it’s that new paper I’ve been hinting about in one of my previous posts, I still can’t share more about it, but soon!). I kept the images in the MISTI (to be able to re-stamp the outline) and colored them with the help of my Polychromos pencils.
I used the following colors: #101 White, #138 Violet, #136 Purple Violet, #249 Mauve, #171 Light Green, #112 Leaf Green, #226 Permanent Green, #267 Pine Green, #108 Dark Cadmium Yellow, #111 Cadmium Orange.
Once my coloring was done I replaced the panel in the stamping tool and restamped the outlines to have them look darker. I also used my heat tool to dry the ink as it takes longer to dry and absorb into the paper once stamped over pencil coloring. The images I used, for the most part, came from the Crocus Flower stamp set, the little yellow buds are from Cherry Blossoms set.
After die-cutting the images out with the help of coordinating dies I foam mounted them onto a panel of same blue cardstock cut to 3 3/4 x 5 1/2. I stamped a simple “With Love” sentiment in black ink and added horizontal score lines to the background. Lastly, I embellished my card using jewels from the Sugar Plum mix.
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 Pretty Pink Posh Crocus Flower Clear Stamps Shop at: SSS | PPP |
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 Pretty Pink Posh Sugar Plum Jewels Mix Shop at: SSS | PPP |
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Beautiful card I love the colors
your coloring on the flowers are beautiful! Thanks for sharing such a great card.
Gorgeous flowers!!
Your flowers are beautiful, as always. I admire your coloring skills. The card is lovely. TFS!
This is really pretty! 🙂 Love the glitter detail you added to the flowers.
Gorgeous crocuses – makes me want Spring now!
I love crocus flowers! They are one of the first to bloom in spring and are a beautiful sign of hope. You’ve brought out that quality with this card, Yana. Lovely!
Love your beautiful card!
Love your beautiful card
Love your coloring of the crocus’s. Cant wait to find out more about the blue paper.
I like the additional yellow buds.
What a beautiful card!! Your coloring gave life to the pretty flowers!
Beautiful card! Love the colors! Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful card! Love the crocus stamp set
Yana, your card is GORGEOUS! LOVE your coloring with the Faber Castell Pencils & the sugary looking glitter you’ve added to them! They look LOVELY on the CAS background you’ve created too! 😉 A GORGEOUS CARD!!!
Crocuses are the harbingers of spring in my area. As such they are most welcome. I like your coloring with you favorite pencils.
These crocuses sure do remind me of spring, especially when it’s just above zero degrees outside! Thanks for the inspiration of knowing that spring is only a card away!
Gorgeous cards – I just adore these crocuses and all of PPP’s flowers! And the lace glitter glue just takes it over the stop. Love your tip about restamping after coloring!
Stunning card, Yana! Love the addiction of the glitter on those amazing cosmos flowers! Thanks so much for the wonderful inspiration and chance to win!
Beautiful card.
Your color is so gorgeous!
I love your coloring!
Beautiful coloring with Polychromos!! I would love to be able to color like you! The colors you chose are dazzling!!
Lovely ‘Springy’ card! Mid-winter doldrums make flowers that much more beautiful…..!
You are so talented!
Simple cards are best IMHO. Thanks for sharing.
Your card is absolutely gorgeous; I just adore those beautifully colored crocus!
Gorgeous card! Love these flowers <3
That’s so beautiful, Yana! Love these crocuses, the colouring is fab, and I love that embossing that you did on the background – I keep forgetting to do that myself, I need to try remembering!
I don’t see my previous comment, so I’ll try again. I love this card, it’s absolutely beautiful! The colouring is fab, the crocuses are gorgeous, and the scoring of the background is so amazing!
I seem to be having problems with leaving comments, but I’ll try again 🙁 That stamp set is so gorgeous, and your colouring is fab. I also really love the scoring you did on the background – adds a nice touch. Well done, gorgeous card!
Another beautiful card!
Stunning artwork. This is the best release hop ever!
Yana, these purple crocuses really pop with the polychromo pencils that you used and the black outline; of course you already knew that! I can never seem to remember to do that re-outlining technique. I did emboss my last card’s flower outline but could not get my pencils into the smaller crevices. Thanks for sharing and I am intrigued about the blue paper you are hinting at!
Very, very sweet crd and I love the crocuses (croci?).
Oh my.. Those crocus are so beautiful
Such a pretty card, love your coloring.
These are so lovely…my crocuses in my front yard are the 1st flowers to pop “announcing the end of winter”. The colored pencils you used are perfect colors. I always look forward to seeing them when spring approaches.
This is colored beautifully!! Love it!
Beautiful card! I look forward to the crocus in the spring. The purple coloring is my favorite.
Beautiful card! Thanks for sharing.
Love all your ideas! My fav are flowers and love the crocus so I ordered the set. You really inspired me with your beautiful cards. I don’t miss your blog! Keep up your creative ideas!
Stunning card! Thanks for the inspiration
You always do such pretty cards!
These colors look so realistic. Crocus is always such a spring surprise. Can’t wait for you to share about the blue paper. It look like water…..
Just stunning!! Love these pretty flowers, the purple & the sparkly stickles is
a perfect embellishment.
Love your card and the new cardstock! Can’t wait to hear more about it!
Love your gorgeous crocus’s, Yana, and the gorgeous coloring! Beautiful!!
stunning card – love the colors:)
The crocus are beautiful. The first sign
that spring is on its way. thanks for
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