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,
This is beautiful! I am always inspired by how you use pencils to fill in around stamps… I always get stuck thinking that once I’m done inking, I’m done! But not so – I need to keep my colored pencils handy!
Gorgeous card! Thanks for teaching us how to use the colored pencils!
Wow, what a striking card! Love the country feel.
Love that you made the stamped image look hand drawn very lovely and I love the summer picnic color scheme – I am so ready for summer
I love this rose stamp and I enjoyed seeing you use the pencils on top of the ink. Great technique. Thanks for sharing.
Color me silly! I’ve NEVER thought to color and blend pencils over an already stamped image. You can bet I am going to try this right away. I love your card! You have done A Muse proud!
Great tip, I would have never thought to use colored pencils to highlight a stamped image. Who knew!! Thanks for the inspiration!
Wow! Your shading is amazing. Beautiful!
Roses are fab. Happy Birthday A Muse!
Hi Lisa, thank you for the technique! Lovely card!
What a pretty card! Thanks for the tips on the shading. For some reason I think I never would have thought of doing that! I’ve got to start thinking outside the box :)
What a lovely card and great technique with the colored pencils.
When I first glanced at your card creation, I thought it was watercolor – your coloring talents are over the top! Just beautiful!
Your coloring is amazing on your card!
I love this technique! It looks like it was painted. Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
That is some insanely gorgeous coloring! Do you think if I print it out and put it under my pillow I might pick up some of your talent while I sleep ;-)
Hee hee Amy, that cracked me! :)
I love the watercolor look- beautiful!
Wow- that colouring is amazing. That card is jaw-droppingly gorgeous.
I am seriously in awe of how beautiful your card is! I can’t wait to try out the technique (stamping and using the pencils) here at home!