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Hello! One of my favorite looks for fall is gold embossing on dark cardstock and coloring in images with colored pencils or metallic watercolors. Today I'm sharing an Autumn Bounty with this background created by stamping and embossing images from the Autumn Bounty Stamp & Cut Set on navy cardstock with Gold Embossing Powder and coloring in the images with Polychromos colored pencils.
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Images from the Autumn Bounty Stamp & Cut Set were stamped on navy cardstock with Versamark Ink and heat embossed with Gold Embossing Powder. The images were colored in with Polychromos colored pencils, using the white pencil as the base for most of the images. I love the way the color pops off the dark background!
Sentiments from the Autumn Bounty Stamp & Cut Set were stamped on navy cardstock with Versamark Ink and heat embossed with Gold Embossing Powder and White Embossing Powder. A Nesting Oval Infinity Die was used to die cut the sentiments into an oval and matted on a white die cut oval before being popped up with foam adhesive and adhered to the background as shown.
The design was finished by adding three die cut images from the Autumn Bounty Stamp & Cut that had been stamped on navy cardstock, embossed with Gold Embossing Powder, and colored in with Polychromos Colored Pencils. The images frame up the bottom of the greeting oval.
I hope this has inspired you to try coloring in background images with colored pencils on dark cardstock! Happy Fall!
Thanks so much for the wonderful coloring tutorial. Your cards was beautiful. Really helpful.
I love this look. So beautiful. Love it on the blue.
I’ve never used polychromos pencils, but I have Prismas and am hoping to get somewhat similar results. I really like the look of colored pencils on the dark cs. Thanks for sharing.
YES!! You are for sure a “Hero” star
Thanks for sharing.
Love this card, fall always gets my creative juices flowing.
Some very good ideas and a beautiful background.
Amazingly awesome! Beautiful coloring and love the design of the card overall. Another Nichol “jewel”. :-)
I look at a stamp set and never see what someone as talented as you do. What a great card.
This is a great card Nichol, love the colours on the dark cardstock. Thank you for showing.
Love this! The look of fall colors on a dark background is beautiful! Will be trying this today!
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