Colored Pencils on Dark Cardstock w/Kelly

Hello Crafters! I'm trying something a bit different today and I hope you love it as much as I do.

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Honestly, when my friend Lydia first introduced me to it I wasn't on board. But, I'm so glad I eventually tried it!

I started by heat embossing my flowers and leaves in white on coal mine cardstock. Then I picked out my colored pencils and started coloring. Yep, colored pencils. Shocking, right?

I started by putting down a layer of white all over the image. I used light pressure. I didn't want to fill up the fibers of the paper too soon just get a nice base layer. After that I started adding in my other colors all the way out to my darkest. Then another layer of white before working back to my lightest color.

This actually went by extremely fast for colored pencil work.  I do think I'm getting faster, which I'm pretty sure is only going to come with more practice. So plan on seeing more colored pencil cards in the future, ha!

You can see in the extreme close up how bright and vibrant those colors actually are. I totally love them! I think those layers of white really do add a vibrancy to the colors that they wouldn't have otherwise.

I fussy cut my embossed images so they would be popped up over my tone on tone background. I love tone on tone backgrounds because they add interest without competing.

Thank you so much for joining me today! I hope you'll give this technique a try soon! :)

Featured Supplies

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Wplus9 Modern Peonies Shop at: SSS | Wplus9	Wplus9 HE IS RISEN Shop at: SSS | Wplus9	Wplus9 That Is All Shop at: SSS | Wplus9
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