Hi everyone, this is Yana Smakula for simon says stamp.com and thanks for joining me today.
Welcome to another episode from my by-monthly Yippe For Yana video series!
In today's episode I wanted to go back to pencil coloring on Black cardstock, but offer
a simpler easier to color idea.
So today I'm using a fun background stamp from Hero Arts - this is Christmas Lights
Bold Prints stamp and it's a 6x6 cling stamp.
I have a sheet of black cardstock, this is cardstock from Simon Say Stamp, it is smooth,
but still has a bit of tooth to it and it's cutial to make sure your paper has some tooth
as this is what will effect your coloring with colered pencils.
Basically you need to use paper that has some tooth to it to be able to color well with
colors pencils.
I've prepped my paper with my anti static powder tool, I usuallu like to use my other
tool as it covers a larger area faster, but I took it to a crafty retreat and haven't
yet unpacked my bags even though its been more than 3 weeks now.
But I had a good reason my mum was visiting me from Ukraine, so I have been very busy and this is my excuse
for not unpacking the bag.
I'm using Simon's embossing ink to ink up this stamp and going to stamp it twice just
in case onto this black cardstock.
I am using my misti stamp positioner to make sure I get a perfect impression and to make
sure I have that ability to double stamp my image.
I love to use Simon's Antique gold embossing powder on black - so this is the color of
powder I am using today.
I think I was planning to use white at first as I was going to go with blue and white colors
for this card, but I forgot and also because using Antique Gold is like a habit for me
- I subconsiesly reach for it every time.
I used a dry paint brush and cleaned up some stray embossing powder particles and heat
embossed this background with my heat tool. You have to remember
This card design will not look like much at first as it's rather simple, but it will have
a cool wow factor once we get to the very end.
Once my heat embossing was done I used a regular pencil eraser to get rig of the anti static
powder on my paper - I just went over the entire panel with my eraser.
I picked Faber Castell Polychromos pencils for my coloring today, you can also use Prismacolors,
but like I mentioned in many of my previous videos I happen to prefer Polychromos better,
I think they are higher quality and I don't know, I can't explain it - I just like these
pencilns much better compared to Prismacolors.
I still use prismacolors especially since I have a huge 150 color pack of them, but
my crafty heart prefers the Polychromos.
I picked just 4 pencils - 2 blue (a lighter and darker) and 2 white (actually a white
and a very light gray).
I did trim my panel to 4 x 5 1/4" before I started coloring as I didn't want to color
any unnecessary space, this kind of coloring just like any other kind of coloring really
does take quite a bit of time.
I made sure to sharpen my pencils, I know this might sound like a silly advice - we
all know we need to sharpen pencils, but I often forget to do so or avoid sharpening
them for as long as I can so that I don't waste any of the pencil, but sharpening the pencils
really does help especially when coloring tiny spaces like these Christmas lights.
So if you watched some of my previous videos where I shared pencil coloring on black cardstock
and felt intimidated - this is a much much simpler version, the same appoach, the same
look, but really a simpler version of a colored background.
So I enourage you to give this idea a try - if you don't have this particular background
stamp, look through your stash - maybe you have a similar stamp, or just a string of
lights that you can heat emboss multiple times and go ahead and color.
It's fun and it's relaxing.
I come home from work at 5 oclock, have dinner and I look forward to coloring a background,
it lets my mind rest and I enjoy this process tremendously.
So I decided to color my lights blue and white.
You can have additional colors, or you can color these in just one color - whatever you
like best, maybe you want these to be traditionally red and green or vintage pink and teal.
Do what makes your heart happy.
I tried coloring about every other light blue and next colored what was left white.
I have found for this particular card I liked laying light color first and coming in with
the dark color and not vise versa.
Quick tip of you - if you make a mistake and accidentally color where you aren't suppose
to - you can erase some of the pencil with a pencil eraser.
I'm not sure if this will work on white cardstock, but this has worked for me a few times on
black and it's been very helpful.
My coloring process took about 20 minutes and I was really happy with how this background
turned out.
This card idea was actually inspired and prompted by a card I did earlier using same stamp set
- I was writing a blog post for it and I though about coloring these lights with pencils and
as soon as my post was done I went and tested my idea out and it worked!
To create a sentiment for this card I used one of Simon's older sentiment stamp sets
- this is Peace on Earth set and I heat embossed a long skinny sentiment that reads Wishing
You The Happiest, Merriest, Brightest, Most Fun Filled Christmas Ever.
I really like this stamp set for non standard messages like this one - it's not often that
I use it, but I do like having a tall skinny sentiment like this in my stash.
I foam mounted my background and my sentiment onto a card base and that's where the real
magic started to happen.
I knew I was to jazz my background up so I used a Wink of Stella Gliutter pen and asdded
generous amount of glitter onto each of my lights.
As I was doing that I noticed I didn't color every light, I missed a few - so I went back
to my pencils and colored those.
To spice this card up even more I used glossy accents and coated each of my lights - this
really made my card pop and pulled the entire project together.
So this finishes this project!
I hope you'll give this idea a try. And I really do hope that you fill less intimidated now.
As always, do tag us on social media so that we can take a peek at your projects. I would love to see what you make.
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Thanks so much for jouning me today, I'll see you next time, bye!

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