Dogwood Sympathy Card with Colored Pencil

 


I made this card to practice coloring with colored pencils as I'm not that great at coloring. The stamp set the floral image is from is Colorado Craft Company's Big & Bold Thank You Dogwood stamp set. Colorado Craft Company has beautiful stamp sets that cover up a large area of the card. I wanted to challenge myself and color on a non-white card base so I made this card on Classic Craft Cardstock from Papertrey Ink. I used Prismacolor colored pencils but I don't remember the exact colors I used.




I stamped the image in black ink and first colored the entire image with white colored pencil. I then used a variety of pink colored pencils for the petals but I tried to keep the flower mostly white or light pink. I did the same with the leaves and stem but with greens and browns. To smooth out the coloring, I used Prismacolor's Colorless Blending Pencil. The colored pencils dulled the black ink, so I restamped over the image in black ink. 




To finish the card, I stamped a sentiment from Colorado Craft Company called Big & Bold Sympathy Rose and glued the card front to a craft notecard. Items used are linked below.


SUPPLY LIST
CCC Big & Bold Thank You Dogwood [CCC] 
CCC Big & Bold Sympathy Rose [CCC] [SSS]
Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils [SSS]
Prismacolor Colorless Blender [SSS]
Papertrey Ink Classic Kraft Cardstock [Papertrey Ink]

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