Floral Thank You Card with Yana

Hello, friends! I hope you are having a great stamping week! The card I’m sharing with you today is not just a card. There’s a whole story to it.

But let me start from the beginning! This is Yana and if you’ve been following me for the past few month you probably saw a few of my pencil colored cards on black cardstock. I shared one recently in this post on gray and a few prior on black here and here.

As I started working on this card I didn’t have any black cardstock left, so I used this olive green from my stash. I was at a crafty retreat and just wanted to do some stamping for fun. I didn’t know if I’d finish this card or not or if it would even turn out to be any good.

I heat embossed 4 partial floral clusters to form the background using Simon’s Antique Gold embossing powder and started coloring some sections of these clusters. I didn’t have many supplies with me, but I did bring my set of Polychromos pencils so I instantly reached for my favorite combo - teal and deep blue.

I colored large leaves and also many of the tiny leaves in this set. Next I pulled out a white pencil and colored the small flower buds white. I didn’t really know what color I wanted to color the large flowers so I kept putting off coloring those for as long as possible.

At one point Kristina, a cardmaker I greatly admire, got curious about this background and asked if she should could color it. She picked the greens and colored large flowers over a few day period. So I guess you can say this card was done by both of us!

I didn’t finish this card at the retreat as like I mentioned I didn’t have all of my supplies with me, so I saved this background and took it home. I finally finished it yesterday - adhered the panel to an A2 card base and added a simple heat embossed Thankful sentiment.

This is not a card design I would repeat again, these flowers really did take a very long time to color, but it did turn out absolutely beautiful! I think I am going to save this card and instead of mailing it will keep it for myself this time.

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase. Please note: this list contains affiliate links.

WPlus9 Beautiful Bouquet Dahlia Stamp Set Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 Beautiful Bouquet Ranunculus Stamp Set Shop at: WP9	Simon Says Stamp Antique Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS	Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS | AZ	Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun PW200 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ
Faber-Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils Shop at: SSS	EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS | SC | AZ	Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS | HA | AZ	Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS	White Fun Foam 12 Pack 9 x 12 Shop at: SSS | AZ
Tonic Studios 8.5 Inch Paper Trimmer Shop at: SSS