Simon Says Stamp | Kaleidoscope Coloring. Video

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Hi everyone! Welcome back for another episode from my by-monthly Yippee For Yana video series for Simon Says Stamp Blog! In today’s video I’m using Copic markers and Simon’s Kaleidoscope background stamp to create gorgeous and rather effortless patterned paper look.

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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 started working on my card by heat embossing Kaleidoscope background in Antique Gold embossing powder onto a 4 ¼” x 5 ½“ white cardstock panel. I knew I wanted to color my panel using warm greens, so I picked a warm gold embossing powder. By planning what colors you want to use to color your panel and picking out appropriate color embossing powder you can achieve some fantastic results.

I used my anti static powder tool from ScrapPerfect to prep the surface of my paper before embossing. Usually I like to use a similar tool from EK Success, but the area that dispenses powder on that tool is much smaller, so for large backgrounds like this one I prefer to go with ScrapPerfect.

For my coloring I picked YG95 and YG93 Copic markers. With my darker marker I decided to color in the background or the sections that will make up the background. The idea is to color this so that it looks like there’s a dark background and some lighter as well as white shapes on top of it.

I looked for a shape that seemed to be largest and colored it using my darker marker. I liked the way it looked and proceeded to coloring the rest of the identical shapes using same color.

There are 2 reasons why I heat embossed my background and didn’t stamp it using alcohol marker friendly ink. I didn’t want to have a black outline, I wanted this background to have a very rich and luscious look so I picked Antique Gold embossing powder. Reason number 2 is I didn’t want to spend too much time being careful and staying within the lines. Heat embossing creates a raised edges and that, in a way, helps to keep the marker in place and prevents, again in a way, from going outside the line. You can still go outside the line of course, but it just isn’t as easy to do.

I wouldn’t recommend using white or clear embossing powder for this technique as if you do go over the embossed line the embossing will pick up the color of your marker and that won’t look as nice. This antique gold embossing powder probably picked up the color from my green markers, but because it’s a dark colored powder you can’t really see any marker smudges on it.

Once I colored the background using my darker, YG95 marker I also used a lighter YG93 and colored in some additional shapes. You can go with just one color – I think that YG95 coloring alone looked very pretty, or you can add in additional colors.

I adhered my colored background onto A2 white card base and added a simple heat embossed sentiment on top. With the background being so pretty I didn’t want to cover much of it up so I embossed a sentiment onto a skinny strip. My sentiment reads “Every Little Thing Is Going To Be Alright” and comes from the Uplifting Thoughts stamp set.

Finally, I coated some of the white sections on my background using Nuvo Glaze from Tonic. I love to use this product to add dimension to my stamped images and I’ve actually used up almost an entire bottle already, I was struggling to finish coating shapes on this card.

It’s best to leave it to dry overnight and make sure you set it on a flat surface, sturdy surface.

P.S. After Nuvo Glaze dried I noticed a slight blue tint to it. I’ve never noticed it before (I think this might be the first time I coated it over white). Just something to note and keep in mind.

I hope you’ll give this a try. Have fun stamping!

P.P.S. SNEAK PEEK!

I wanted to share a STAMPTEMBER sneak peek before I finish this post. If you liked the technique I shared today, you’ll LOVE my tomorrow’s projects:

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 Kaleidoscope Background Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Clear Stamps Uplifting Thoughts Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: SSS	Simon Says Stamp Antique Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS	Tonic Crystal Glaze Nuvo Shop at: SSS
Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS	ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS	EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS	Scor-Tape 1/8 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS
Copic Sketch Marker YG93 Grayish Yellow Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker YG95 Pale Olive Shop at: SSS	Scrapbook Adhesives White Foam Squares Shop at: SSS