It seems like it would be easiest to make a one layer card, but actually it’s pretty difficult not to put a simple frame, layer, or embellishment on a card. I was playing around with colored pencils a few nights ago for my #100DayProject and ended up with a card that worked for me, so I’m entering it in the AAA Cards Challenge for one layer cards. I’m not using the optional photograph for inspiration.
It had been awhile since I used colored pencils on kraft cardstock, so that’s where I started. I stamped Altenew’s “Needlework Motif” in black ink on a kraft card base.
The next step was to color the entire image with white pencil so that the colors will appear bright as well as providing some highlights. Given the nature of the stamp, choosing colors was clearly personal preference, and I liked the pinks, oranges, and bright greens together.
The final step was to choose a sentiment. I wanted one that would balance the design on the top a bit since I had decided not to stamp anything from the opposite corner. Papertrey Ink’s two-step sentiments from “Scripted” worked well.
Oh that’s clever to colour in white first. It certainly worked, and I love the bits of white that peek through, for example on the ends of the petals.
Brilliant idea & technique to colour first in white & it certainly does provide highlights. Your end result does make it look like thread on a needlework piece.
Oh, I wouldn’t have thought to color the image white first, but that makes perfect sense! Lovely card.
Very neat idea to give yourself a white background so that the colours pop – and I can see as I type that we’ve all thought the same! It’s a lovely contrast with the kraft background …
So pretty! Thanks for playing at AAA Cards, hope to see you join in with future challenges too. Stay safe and keep crafting!
Pretty – and it looks involved even though it is a single layer. Your color choices are spot on.
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