Less can be More when Embossing and Coloring

After my watercoloring craze, I picked out a few prismacolor pencils and decided to do some Embossing and Coloring. I love working with black paper (like with this fun card or this crafty sensation), but it can sometimes be hard to make the image stand out.

Embossing is a good start, but I found using these pencils can bring the beautiful images to life.

Embossing lets you keep the layers to a minimum while still having a great focal point.

Supplies Used for Embossing and Coloring:

Sea Of Textures Clear-Mount Stamp Set

Lift Me Up Clear-Mount Stamp Set

Up & Away Thinlits Dies

Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder

Silver Stampin’ Emboss Powder

Basic Black 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock

Versamark Pad

Heat Tool

• • • Prismacolor soft thick lead pencils (933 & 903)

  

  • Chrysanthemum Stamp (Spellbinders)

• How-to make these cards:

  1. Cut bright blue cardstock 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ and fold in half to create your 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″card base.
  2. Using versamark, stamp your image and sentiment onto 4″ x 5 1/4″ black cardstock.
     1. Quickly sprinkle images with your embossing powder and tap off excess.

     2. Pro-Tip: If you are stamping multiple images together to be embossed, and they are layered, masking can be impossible without wiping off your embossing powder. With the chrysanthemum, I stamped the flower and sprinkled the gold embossing powder and tapped it off. I then inked just the top of the leaves, and stamped it where I wanted it and sprinkled the powder and tapped it off. Where the leaves overlapped the petals, I took a small tool (a paperclip could work too) to remove the powder from the middle of the petals.

     3. Heat your image with a heat tool.
  3. Color the “empty spaces” of your image with the prismacolor pencils. I use my darker colors first for the inside parts that are likely to have more shadows, then finish with the lighter colors.
     1. Pardon but I was in a bit of a blue period! But this did make for a semi-matching set of Clean And Simple cards!
  4. If necessary, adhere dimensionals to pop-up the focal point.
  5. Adhere your finished black cardstock to your blue card base.

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  Chrysanthemum’s are my absolute favorite!!

  

  I recently used this dahlia stamp with the emboss resist technique!

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  The challenges I am playing along with:

  • Addicted to Stamps – Make your Mark
  • Stamping Sensations – In My Garden
  • Sunny Day Crafting – Animals
  • Animal Friends Challenge – In The Water
  • Happy Little Stampers CAS – Animals

  I hope this tutorial inspired you to create some fun projects! I’d love to see any of your cards that this tutorial may have inspired! Thanks for reading and Happy Crafting!!