There’s lots going on in this short video – coloring rich flowers in Perfume Bouquet, with Copic marker colors I rarely use; combining two very different stamp sets (Mini Love Cards for tags); and making a 5×7 card, rare for me!
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COLORING TIPS
I had accidentally grabbed and cut down a sheet of 110lb cardstock – I generally prefer 80lb as it blends better, but went forward with it anyway. It really does make a nice crisp card front!
When coloring Perfume Bouquet, I recommend coloring each full flower together; you could approach it petal by petal, but that’s ok being a little mushy compared to defining the place where the two big flowers do meet with some extra of the darkest color. Follow the shading lines in the stamps on this one, they’re really accurate.
I pulled out purpley-pink markers I normally don’t use – and now I’m wondering why! With these, you do have to be careful since the RV6’s start going desaturated — but a pop of RV66 brightens things up.
When it came to the little tags, I picked the cacti….so sweet! I didn’t leave myself space for a sentiment (whoops!) so added a ‘just for you’ in my own handwriting. The rest of the tags will be for a Valentines project for my Toastmasters club – they’re getting used to me making little treats for holidays!
FINISHING TIPS
The Perfume Bouquet stamp is HYOOOOGE. To place it on a regular A2 card it would basically be touching the top and bottom of a full card front; I nearly decided to cut it in half and get two cards out of it, like I did with THIS card….but chose instead to make a BIG card for once, 5×7. The colored panel is cut down by 3/4″ vertically and horizontally so I have a nice wide border on a clean white card base.
I plan to make something for my Toastmasters club – might need to be careful with some of the sentiments (ha!) but the images in this Mini Love Cards set are adorable, aren’t they? They’d be great for school valentines!
SUPPLIES
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- Perfume Bouquet, Colorado Craft Company: EH – CCC
- Mini Love Cards, Colorado Craft Company: EH – CCC
- Copic Marker colors: RV69 RV66 RV63 YG63 YG67
- Neenah Cardstock, Solar White, Classic Crest: 25pk – 250pk
- Jet Black Lawn Fawn Ink Pad
- Scotch Foam Mounting Tape
So stunning, thank you for sharing your video on this stamp, I saw it on Yana’s site & was hoping someone would choose to colour it as it’s gorgeous. Do adore those plums & purples. x
These flowers are so stunning Sandy, I love them! I love the whole card, so great. The colours you used are beautiful.
Your little circles with the images are also gorgeous.
Thank you so much for sharing and have a great day.
Thanks for the great video. I have a smaller peony stamp and will give your color combo a try.
What a beautiful color. It looks so real,, one can go and smell the fragrance……….
This is so beautiful Sandy
Gorgeous!
How beautiful! I am making note of your gorgeous color choices. I also loving the Hyooooge(!) stamps by Colorado Craft. Of course, I had to add this perfume bottle to my collection.
I find that a knitpicker helps bring twine thru easier than a poker tool. It’s used to bring sweater pulls to the back/inside of a sweater.
Wow, this coloring turned out great!
Wow – that’s a fistful of flowers! I grow peonies in my yard, and I’m tellin’ ya – that’s one HUGE perfume bottle! (Hmm looks like Chanel Mademoiselle, one of my all time faves, too!) Great colors – I’ll plan to use that combo soon – good for Valentine’s Day for sure! I also like that tip about using a white “colored” pencil to tone down colors done in Copics – one to remember. Thank you, as always, for the fun of watching you work, and the inspiration to try it at home!