Please join me in celebrating the 9th birthday of a super special, super delightful stamp company: A*Muse! Their stamps always make me — and the recipients of my cards — smile!
So you can imagine how honored I was when Heather asked me to join in the A*Muse 9th birthday celebration + Everything’s Rosy release blog hop. But then, when I got the stamps in the mail I jumped up and down with pure joy — they remind me of a prairie rose scrambling over an old wooden fence — so sweet!
I just love solid stamps like the Wild Rose and the Wild Rose Branch because they’re perfect for adding shading with good old colored pencils. You just can’t go wrong — it’s so simple.
Stamp the wild rose and wild rose branches with ink — I like to use chalk inks for this technique (full supplies for everything listed below). Then start adding red and brown pencils to the parts of the petals that you want to be the darkest, then blend with pink and white.
Then for the leaves, start out by adding a darker green and then go over it with a lighter green and white. Everything will be rosy in no time at all. :)
Supplies: A*Muse wild Rose, wild rose branch, and merci stamps, white pretty pearls, green kitchen paper, red petite gingham paper. The faux bois paper in the background is also by A*Muse — love it. Prismacolor pencils in white, pink, scarlet lake, moss green, apple green and brown. Tim Holtz distress ink in antique linen and tea dye (to add the distressing to the edges). Spellbinders large labels Nestabilities die cut. Colorbox rose petals chalk ink for the rose, chestnut roan for “merci”, and Hero Arts grass green chalk ink for the rose branch.
Now then, it’s A*Muse’s birthday, but they’re giving away presents to all of YOU! How sweet and generous is that? To win the Wild Rose and Merci stamps, just leave a comment on this post. A random winner will be announced on on Monday, May 10th on the A Muse blog.
Now, on to the next stop in the hop — the talented Lexi Daly! Pssst, she has a giveaway too, as do all the gals in the hop! So the more blogs you visit, the more giveaways you can enter = the more chances you have to win! If you have any problems hopping around you can always head back to the A*Muse blog for a complete list of direct links to all the participants
Happy hopping, and mega HUGE Happy 9th birthday hugs to Linda, Heather, Julie, and everyone at A*Muse!
Merci,
Wow!!!!!! Oh my goodness!!!! You are amazing at coloring in those flowers!!!!! I just love it!!!!! What a gorgeous card!!!!! Thank you for sharing!!!!!
~Lindsay~
Beautiful shading! Love what you did!
thanks for the techniques – pretty card
It all makes you want to slow down a lot – break out the pencils – and let us color a little bit!! Love it!
Holy cow, Lisa! It looks like you painted these! Fab-O!!!!
I LOVE the shading on the wild rose- a beautiful card! Thanks!
Lisa, what a beautiful way to enhance this stamp. I have never thought of ’embellishing’ with colored pencils on a stamped image – but the effect is wonderful. Thanks for the step by step details.
Happy Bday A Muse!
OMG this is just amazing! genius use of coloring pencils!! i just love what you did here!
Beautiful stamps & card! Fantastic technique for adding more detail, thanks for sharing :)
WOW! absolutely LOVE how you colored the roses – they look like they’ve been hand painted. i think it’s beyond me – but, LOVE to look at your creation ;)
Love this! The stamps are great and your COLORING – OMG! And… thank you, reading your directions, seeing your photos actually makes me think I just might be able to do this too! I’m off to hop and to find my colored pencils….
Love this hopping thanks for sharing some goodies!!
Love the card. Great idea. Will have to try it.
Beautiful card. I love what you do with colored pencils.
This is beautiful! Thanks for the coloring techniques. You make it sound easy!
WOW, Lisa, this is gorgeous! I love how you added detail and depth with your colored pencils. And I love the touch of gingham you added too!
What a gorgeous card and a new technique for me to use. Who woulda thunk!?
How beautiful Lisa! Thanks for the info. Have a great day!
Lisa, lovely card and coloring! Really adds POP to the images! Thanks for the note on my post, too! I’m in Central TX someplace *grin* midway between Dallas and Waco. Yes, spring has been really wonderful here this year … I’m holding out for a spring-like summer, too! All the best to you! -Anna.
The hand colored stamp makes this really original, and I really like the stitching too. I need to learn how to do that! It looks so great on cards.