So Very Grateful Emerald Pencil Colored Leaves Background Card with Yana

Hello friends! This is Yana and I hope you are having a fabulous week!

For today’s blog post I decided to continue exploring DIY pencil colored backgrounds. Check out my first blog post in this mini-series HERE (please link to my previous post - Dream Big Indigo Pencil Colored Leaves Background Card with Yana).

I looked through my stash in search of large, outline images with little to no detail and came across these leaves from the Modern Peonies stamp set. You can also use leaves from other WPlus9 floral sets or try using other images altogether.

Once again I prepped my black cardstock panel with an anti-static powder tool and stamped leaves making sure to overlap them a bit, but not too much. Next, I covered my panel with Gold embossing powder and before heat setting it used a small dry paintbrush and cleaned away any embossing powder where my images intersected. See my previous post mentioned above for more details on this technique.

After heat embossing I picked 2 colors of green pencils from my Polychromos set from Faber Castell - Dark Phthalo Green and Emerald Green and started coloring the leaves. I wanted the base of the leaves to be darker, but I didn’t have any darker green colors, so I decided to use Dark Indigo to darken the colors and create shadows.

The coloring process went rather quickly and I can’t say it took me longer than 30 minutes. I am really enjoying this technique at the moment and I’m already planning my next card.

Once my coloring was completed I adhered my panel onto an A2 white card base. To create a sentiment I heat embossed "So Very Grateful" from the Grateful Greetings in same Gold embossing powder onto a piece of white cardstock and foam mounted it onto the card.

Have fun stamping!

Featured Supplies

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WPlus9 Modern Peonies Stamp Set Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Grateful Greetings Clear Stamps Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Black Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ	Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils Shop at: SSS
Faber-Castell Polychromos 36 Pencil Studio Set Shop at: AZ	Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder PW100 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	ScraPerfect Crafting Pouch Shop at: SSS | AZ	Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink Pad Shop at: SSS
Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS	White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS | AZ