Hi everyone! My name is Jaycee, and I’m so excited to be a part of Alex’s newest release over at Alex Syberia Designs. Like many of my crafty friends who have already shown their amazing projects on Alex’s blog, I wanted to show you all my approach to creating a simple floral card. No special tools needed besides colored pencils, and a printer—the rest is up to you! To see how I made my card project just for Alex’s blog and using one of (many) favorites from Alex Syberia Designs releases, check out my video below.
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Beautiful Clematis Digital Stamp
One of the places I draw inspiration from is botanical illustration. The reason I love the Clematis stamp is because it complements my favorite floral coloring style.
In the above project, I simply printed the image on Neenah Desert Storm 80lb cardstock. I made sure that my printer only printed using the black ink cartridge, as I find that yields the best result without any feathering. Then I broke out my Faber-Castell Polychromos Pencils and colored away.
Using a high-quality colored pencil gives you full coverage. However, pigment placed on top of the printed outline then obscures the detail of the digital stamp. So I went over places where I colored outside the lines with a Pigma Micron 005 Pen to enhance the detail of the image. It elevates the definition of the floral bouquet. Then after fussy cutting the image with my Fiskars Swivel Knife, I foam mounted the colored floral pair onto a speckled panel of Neenah Desert Storm. The sentiment comes from Altenew-Forever in Love; I thought the sentiment paired well with the flower duo.
Thank you so much for visiting!