3 Card Ideas Using Colored Pencils

Are you looking for cardmaking ideas using colored pencils?

Well join us today as Sandy gives us some ideas to use colored pencils on three different kinds of essential papers!

Hello there! I’m Sandy Allnock and I’m so excited to have gotten an early peek at Life is a Circus….because honestly, ain’t that the truth!? Ha!

I’ve made three cards to give you some ideas on how to use this set from the upcoming release – using Prismacolor pencils on THREE different papers! Yep, let’s think out of the box!

Each paper is very different – and all work a little differently; see a bit about each one in the video…

Here are the colors I used for all the cards – on the left is the bigger color list for the second 2 cards, and on the right are the colors for the monkey…

The first card is stamped and colored on Woodgrain embossed cardstock – yes, you can stamp and color on this textured paper! I stamped it in Versafine Onyx and let it dry completely before doing anything to it.

There’s only one short swing in this set – but if you mask off the strings and just stamp the swing, you can add your own strings of any length – so you can make a flying monkey trying to grab a high wire swing like I did!

Next up is coloring on Letterpress paper – it’s really soft, so it takes the pencil pigment well and leaves a beautiful texture. Plus it just FEELS good to color on it.

I turned it into a square card with rounded corners – and die cut the circle with one of the new dies in this release, too!

Last but not least – I colored on vellum! The background is on letterpress, and you can see it’s a simple indication of a scene – easy! The Essentials vellum is nicely thick – not so much that it’s super cloudy, but enough that it holds up well to stamping and coloring. If you want to hold the vellum down, put a little adhesive under the ball to tack it down a bit.

You can also use Copics on vellum, but beware of trying blending very much; solid colors work best. I like pencils as a medium on vellum much better.

I hope you liked my fun cards – be sure to scroll through the blog to get peeks at other new release sets coming our way!

Thanks so very much for joining me for this little peek at the Life is a Circus set. Put an alarm on your calendar for Sunday morning so you can be first to nab one when it’s released!