Magenta Super Saturday - Coloring Hellebores with Prismacolors

I am coloring with my Prismacolors again, and this time I'm using the new Magenta Flower Corner stamp. This stamp was drawn by the very talented Nathalie Metivier, and the flowers are Hellebores. Hellebores are a beautiful winter flower, and often appear in Holiday bouquets. I think this stamp could be used all year round, and for any occasion.

I first cut 6 panels from different colors of cardstock, using the Lawn Fawn die LF768. The largest die of this set cuts a nice stitched edge panel that is 3.75" x 5". I placed the first panel into my MISTI and arranged the stamp in a corner. I stamped, and then flipped the panel and stamped again in the opposite corner. I did the same on each panel.

I stamped the dark cardstock panels with white ink, and the others were stamped with light colors of ink that went with the colors I was going to use on the flowers. The important thing is that you can see what you are coloring. This ink will be covered up later.

I have done this technique with different stamps before, and you can see those posts here and here. I like to stamp a lot of panels when I do this to make multiple cards. Once you have it set up, it's easy to do. One tip is that you should leave your stamp in your stamp platform until you have finished coloring all of your cards.

I have been experimenting with colors, and have found that I like certain ones on different colors of cardstock. I really like the purple on black, red on Kraft, and so on. The combinations I have here are some of my favorites, and you can find details about them in the product information below. I'm still tinkering with combinations, but when I have finally figured out my very favorites I will do a post about them.

Once I finished coloring each panel, I put each one back into the MISTI (I never moved my stamp) and stamped on each of the previously stamped and colored corners with Versamark Ink. It's very important to use a powder bag or some sort of anti-static tool before you stamp with the Versamark. Embossing powder really likes to stick to the Prismacolor.

After stamping with Versamark, I applied embossing powder to each one, according to what I thought would look good with the coloring and the color of the cardstock. In all, I used white, gold and silver.

After embossing the flowers, I went back and stamped and embossed the sentiments. I think that Magenta's Sally Penley calligraphy stamps go very well with this type of card design.

On all of the first 5 cards shown above, I stamped with Versamark ink and embossed using the same embossing powder on the sentiment as I used on the flowers. On this 6th card, I thought the silver would not show up well enough, so I searched for the right color of blue. I discovered I have a lot of blues.

Sorry for the not so great photos here, but I thought you would like to see my process. I realize I'm obsessive, but I wanted to get the best color for the sentiment that I could. I spent a lot of time coloring these panels, and I didn't want to ruin one by having a poorly matching color.

Weird shadows and lighting on both of these, but you get the idea. All of them were stamped and then embossed with clear embossing powder onto the front and back of a strip that I had saved of the same cardstock used in the panel. I ended up using Blueprint Sketch Oxide ink for this sentiment. I'm going to save this strip in case I need to refer to it in the future. (And yes, I have more blues but I stopped with these since I found my match).

Here are all of them ready to be matted. I wanted to finish them all for this post, but I also think it would be good to stamp, color and emboss the panels, and then wait to stamp the sentiment until you need a card for a particular occasion. I think this design and these stamps could be used for lots of kinds of cards such as Thank You, Happy Birthday, Merry Christmas, Thinking of You, Mother's Day, and Sympathy.

I hope you like these and will try out this technique.

Magenta Products Used:

14.669.L Flower Corner

07.989.G Merry Christmas

07.975.I Happy Birthday Large

07.979.G Thank You Medium

07.980.E Thanks Small

Other Products Used:

Card #1 Merry Christmas:

Prismacolors: PC924 Crimson Red

PC923 Scarlet Lake, PC1014 Deco Pink,

PC911 Olive Green, PC912 Apple Green,

PC1005 Limepeel, PC1004 Yellow Chartreuse

JudiKins Detail Gold embossing powder

Tea Dye Distress Ink

Versamark Ink

Lawn Fawn die LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Strathmore Tan Tone Mixed Media cardstock

Malmero Pearl Red cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Card #2 Purple Happy Birthday

Prismacolors: PC931 Dark Purple,

PC1008 Parma Violet, PC956 Lilac,

PC1026 Greyed Lavender,

PC911 Olive Green, PC912 Apple Green,

PC1005 Limepeel, PC1004 Yellow Chartreuse

JudiKins White Opaque embossing powder

Hero Arts Unicorn White pigment ink

Versamark Ink

Lawn Fawn die LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Papertrey Ink True Black cardstock

So Silk Passion Purple cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Card #3 Turquoise Thank You

Primacolors: PC105 Cobalt Turquoise,

PC905 Aquamarine, PC992 Light Aqua

PC911 Olive Green, PC912 Apple Green,

PC1005 Limepeel, PC1004 Yellow Chartreuse

JudiKins White Opaque embossing powder

Versafine Smoky Gray pigment ink

Versamark Ink

Lawn Fawn die LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Strathmore Gray Tone Mixed Media cardstock

So Silk Glamor Green cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Card #4 Orange Happy Birthday

Prismacolors: PC944 Terra Cotta,

PC921 Pale Vermillion, PC1001 Salmon Pink,

PC1011 Deco Yellow,

PC911 Olive Green, PC912 Apple Green,

PC1005 Limepeel, PC1004 Yellow Chartreuse

JudiKins Detail Gold embossing powder

Tea Dye Distress Ink

Versamark Ink

Lawn Fawn die LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

White Stonehenge cardstock

Stampin' Up Cajun Craze cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Card #5 Turquoise Happy Birthday

Primacolors: PC105 Cobalt Turquoise,

PC905 Aquamarine, PC992 Light Aqua

PC911 Olive Green, PC912 Apple Green,

PC1005 Limepeel, PC1004 Yellow Chartreuse

JudiKins White Opaque embossing powder

Hero Arts Unicorn White pigment ink

Versamark Ink

Lawn Fawn die LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Deep Blue cardstock from The Paper Cut

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock

Card #6 Blue Thank You

Prismacolors: PC901 Indigo Blue,

PC902 Ultramarine, PC1097 Powder Blue,

PC911 Olive Green, PC912 Apple Green,

PC1005 Limepeel, PC1004 Yellow Chartreuse

JudiKins Detail Silver embossing powder

JudiKins Detail Clear embossing powder

Versafine Smoky Gray pigment ink

Distress Oxide Blueprint Sketch ink

Versamark Ink

Lawn Fawn die LF768 Small Stitched Rectangle Stackables

Strathmore Blue Tone Mixed Media cardstock

Malmero Pearl Blue cardstock

Neenah Solar White 110# cardstock