I began by stamping the tree trunk and branches on Kraft paper using Unicorn White pigment ink. Once it was completely dry, I colored in the solid white image with my Faber-Castell Polychromos pencils.
I rounded the tree panel using the Rounded Rectangle Infinity Dies, and then embossed the message with Brass embossing powder on Classic Vellum and die cut with Oval Infinity Dies. I carefully cut around a couple leaves with an X-acto knife to allow them to be on top of the message panel.
The design is pretty, yet simple enough to mass produce another five cards.
Here's a look at the full kit:
I'm part of a fun blog hop today! Be sure to leave a comment for everyone along the hop - Hero Arts will be drawing a winner among all the comments to receive a free kit! Get your comments in by Sunday, May 13 at 11:59pm PST.
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Amy Kolling
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Jessica Frost-Ballas
Amy Tsuruta
Emily Midgett
May Sukyong Park
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Wow the coloring on your tree looks great!
ReplyDeleteThat looks wonderful. I like the artsy look...
ReplyDeletefantastic tree. Your card is a stand out in this hop. Very cool!
ReplyDeleteYou did an awesome job on your cards. Thanks for sharing and have a great week.
ReplyDeleteOh wow! Wonderful colouring! Great inspiration for the monthly kit.
ReplyDeletei would have never thought of coloring over white stamping. wow, just, wow! has a storybook feeling. love it. reminds me of the golden books i used to read as a child. gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful coloring on that tree!!
ReplyDeleteYour card is stunning ! Your work with the color pencils is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteSuch wonderful coloring! Your tree looks so realistic - I love it! Thank you for another great idea for what to do with the kit!
ReplyDeleteWow! The tree looks so dimensional and real! Love your design, coloring and result.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great kit!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome idea! Love it!
ReplyDeleteSuper pencil coloring!
ReplyDeleteHi. What a beautiful card!
ReplyDeleteI've always wanted to try the monthly kits but shipping to the UK is so much that I haven't made the leap yet!
Lovely card. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteLove the girl on the swing.
ReplyDeleteWOW!!! Beautiful and unique creation that could be used for a male or female. Great coloring!
ReplyDeleteThat is such a creative idea. Love it.
ReplyDeleteThis kit is absolutely stunning!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card. Your coloring is absolutely amazing.
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous! Love the look you got with the white stamping and coloring on top.
ReplyDeletelove what you did with the tree!
ReplyDeleteLove the tree . This is a great kit!
ReplyDeleteI love the detail of this card and time you gave it to have a lovely realism. Beautiful coloring.
ReplyDeleteYour coloring is amazing. And I love how u got the leaves to be on the top of the sentiment.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful and it doesn't look simple! The details are great and I like the thank you idea. Thanks for sharing with us!!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! Love it.
ReplyDeleteLibby, your card is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteSo tasteful in it’s simplicity!
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome idea! Love it!
ReplyDeleteLove the sentiments with this set.
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of coloring over white. Gorgeous coloring.
ReplyDeletewhat a cool technique!
ReplyDeleteWow, pretty. Thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteWhat a stunner! Your coloring absolutely has the beautiful tree just popping off the page.
ReplyDeleteYour pencil colouring is amazing!! It looks so real life. Just a pretty card!
ReplyDeleteSuch a cute card. Love how you used your colored pencils with that stencil. :)
ReplyDeleteThe colors really pop on your card. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, using the white pigment ink will save my white pencils!
ReplyDeleteI love the coloring on your tree-lovely card!
ReplyDeleteWow your coloring gives the tree so much dimension. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI am very impressed with the way you colored the tree! I wish I could do that!
ReplyDeleteLove that tree on the kraft, especially the way you colored it - it's beautiful and so realistic!
ReplyDeleteLove your choice of card stock color.
ReplyDeletePretty card! Love the tree!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card with the lovely tree. Thanks for sharin!
ReplyDeleteNever tried this technique, very nice result.
ReplyDeleteGreat coloring. I like how you stamped in white first. I think that gave the tree its depth, along with your expert shading. Very nice card!
ReplyDeleteI love what you did with the coloring of the tree
ReplyDeleteVery creative use of the tree branches!
ReplyDeleteOh Libby what a beautiful card - love your colouring on white ink, it's stunning
ReplyDeleteBlessings
Maxine
Wow! What adorable scene and colouring!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love your card!! I think it's my favorite in the hop :)
ReplyDeleteLove this release!!!
So sweet. I like how you stamped and colored the tree.
ReplyDeleteI love that tree! And your pretty card, too.
ReplyDeleteYour card is amazing, I keep going back to see the details. Looks great stamped in white with the pencil coloring. I need to try the technique, but I know mine would never come close! I really like this month's kit!
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful card!! Love it!
ReplyDeleteLibby, this is soooooo pretty!
ReplyDeleteAwesome HA kit and awesome card!
ReplyDeleteLove it! You completely transformed the style of the stamp, I just love seeing this kind of techniques, it always give me new ideas. Plus you really made me miss my colored pencils... Will have to visit the m soon ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you! xx
Love that your card is done with coloring pencils instead of ink! I will definitely try this when I receive my HA Kit!
ReplyDeleteStunning work with the colored pencils! Love this beautiful card!
ReplyDeleteLove this kit! Beautiful card!
ReplyDeleteLove this
ReplyDeleteWow, your tree is amazing!
ReplyDeleteWow!!! Your coloring on your tree looks amazing!!
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Wow! Gorgeous card! I love how you did that - I'm definitely going to have to give that a try! Thank you for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful use of coloured crayons, great image and sentiments used and how you displayed the sentiment, very classy x
ReplyDeleteThis card is really beautiful! I love all your details.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty card.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing...
Love your card! This kit has some really awesome stamps and dies in it and I'm excited for mine to ship/arrive!
ReplyDeleteI adore the gender neutral theme...thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThis kit is absolutely incredible! Thank you for the inspiration and for sharing your talent with us!
ReplyDeleteThat tree is just gorgeous! Beautiful colouring.
ReplyDeleteOh my, this looks like a tree in my back yard. And spring is here. Thank you, this is lovely!
ReplyDeleteLove the card and cool coloring technique, looks awesome on kraft ♥ Looking forward to playing with this new kit :)
ReplyDeleteLovely card. Your coloring technique is awesome. A must try. Love this kit!! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteA great idea. Thank you for sharing
ReplyDeleteI love how the white ink made highlights -pretty cool benefit!
ReplyDeletePardon me if I gush, but I really love your card!!! You made a simply beautiful tree! The golden sentiment is beautiful, too!! This is definitely one of favorite cards on the hop!!! :)
ReplyDeleteI love trees and tree swings and swinging, so I'd love to win this Kit also!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea- love the colored pencil on the white ink. Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful coloring love it.
ReplyDeleteWhat a perfect background stamp to color!
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