Dream Big Indigo Pencil Colored Leaves Background Card with Yana

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

I am back to sharing unique diy patterns you can create using your stamps. This time I was inspired by an image that I spotted on Pinterest and decided to try coloring one of the leaves from the Autumn Leaves set in gorgeous blues.

Even though these leaves are meant for Fall, by changing up the colors you can use them to create a dramatic background such as the one I am sharing today.

I started working on my card by stamping one of the leaves repeatedly (in a random fashion) onto a black cardstock panel. I first prepped my panel using an anti static powder tool and stamped images using embossing ink.

I made sure to overlap leaves a bit, but not too much. After covering the entire panel with gold embossing powder I used a small dry brush and removed powder where I had the leaves intersect making it look like some were on top of the others. I learned this easy technique from my friend Svitlana - she has a video tutorial showing how this is done. This eliminates the need to do masking when creating a background like this and makes stamping process go a lot faster.

Next I pulled out my Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencils and colored in my leaves using Dark Indigo and Cobalt Turquoise. Coloring took a bit of time - I first added a darker Dark Indigo color at the base of the leaves, colored tips using Cobalt Turquoise and to blend the two together went over ⅔ of the leaves with the Dark Indigo. You can also use Prismacolor Pencils for this technique.

Once my coloring was done I trimmed this panel to 4 x 5 ¼” and foam mounted onto an A2 side folding card base. I added a simple “Dream Big” sentiment on top and embellished this card using clear dots created using Nuvo drops in Morning Dew.

Have fun stamping!

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Wplus9 Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Stardust Stamp Set Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Black Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder PW100 Shop at: SSS | SC | HA | AZ	Simon Says Stamp Antique Gold Embossing Powder Shop at: SSS
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Heat Embossed Stardust Cards 3 Ways with Yana

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

Oftentimes simple cards are the best to give (and not that hard to make). For my today’s blog post I created 3 easy-to-produce almost flat projects using new Stardust stamp set as a focal point and also a few additional messages and images from the Little Dreamers set.

Inspiration for these projects came from the a photo I spotted on Pinterest - beautiful navy ceramic bowls with gorgeous gold specks.

I started working on my cards by finding the perfect cardstock shade. I didn’t have navy blue so I ended up making desired color of cardstock by blending PURE COLOR Dye Ink in Nautical Navy onto white cardstock. WPlus9 does carry beautiful Nautical Navy cardstock, but I didn’t have any in my stash, so I had to improvise.

After blending ink onto paper I used my heat tool and thoroughly dried paper panels that were cut to 4 x 5 ¼ “ to avoid having embossing powder stick to them (I knew I was going to do lots of heat embossing so I needed my paper to be bone dry).

With the help of a Mini MISTI stamp positioner I stamped and heat embossed stardust background onto my panels. I cut one of the stamps apart and ended up having 3 images instead of 2 for my cards. I also added sentiments to each panel. I went with different messages from the Stardust and Little Dreamers set. My messages ended up being: “Congrats. You’re A Super Star”, “Dream Big. Reach Reach For The Stars” and “I Love You To The Moon And Back”.

I also inked the edges of each panel with Versamark embossing ink and embossed them in gold to make the panels look a bit more finished.

I wanted to add some shimmer to my heat embossed backgrounds so I used Distress Mica Spray in Tarnished Brass and generously spritzed every panel. This particular color goes well with gold embossing powder.

While “Dream Big. Reach Reach For The Stars” card ended up being very simple, I stepped the other two cards up a bit. I added a heat embossed moon to my “I Love You To The Moon And Back” and colored it using FineTec watercolors from the Pearlescent Colors set (colored in gold).

My third project involved some die cutting. I used a circle die and die-cut an opening in my panel. I adhered a piece of black cardstock from the back (I sprayed it with same Distress Mica Spray before adhering) and foam mounted the die cut circle on top but offset it to create the look of a moon. Finally I heat embossed, sprayed and die-cut a star and foam mounted it onto my “Congrats. You’re A Super Star” project.

After foam mounting all of my panels onto A2 top folding black card bases I used a black pigment pen and added black dots in between the gold heat embossed stars.

As always, thanks for stopping by and have fun stamping!

Featured Supplies

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WPlus9 Stardust Stamp Set Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Little Dreamers Stamp Set Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Little Dreamers Die Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Nautical Navy Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	WPlus9 Nautical Navy Cardstock Shop at: WP9
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