Clearly iStamp: Color me easy notecards

October 26, 2010

Color me easy notecards

Hey friends, welcome to another Tuesday Tutorial. Today, I've got something that everyone needs to have on hand and yet still have fun making. For me, notecards are soemthing that I consider to be a must havce for sending notes to school, but if you don't have little ones in school, these are still so conventient to have made up for all sorts of reasons.

Because these notecards are essentially a "throw away", I don't want to expend tons of energy, but I do want them to look nice and to enjoy myself while I'm creating. So, I kept things very simple but still got some fun techniques in there too... some embossing and coloring to boot!

I started with with 4x4 base notecards in Cottonball White. I find that these are the best size to actually "write" notes in... not too much space and not too little space, but just right.

Ripe Olive - 3 3/4" x 3 3/4"

Fresh Papaya - 3 1/4" x 2 3/4"

Wild Ginger - 3" x 2 1/2"

Because it is fall, I decided to go with the set called Autumn Blessings. The pumkin is a great image to color, but I didn't want to spend the time coloring it the way I would "normally" do so. Here is what I did instead.

I used Versamark ink and stamped the pumpkin image onto the Wild Ginger Cardstock.

Then I covered it with gold embossing powder.

Tap excess and get that heat gun out. Apply the heat directly on one area until you see the powder melt. Then move on to the next area. You can burn your embossing powder and the result will look like very flat and dull.

This might surprise you, but I really enjoyed using my Copics to color directly on the colored cardstock. This allowed me to be imprecise and easy.

I grabbed my Fresh Papaya(YR31), Ripe Olive(YG95), and Hot Cocoa (E29) Copic Markers. I started with the Fresh Papaya and followed the pumpkin lines. I only outlined and didn't color it in. The marker will fade slightly as it seeps into the cardstock.

You can see where it has faded on the left side of the image.

Follow with your other colors. I started with my Hot Cocoa (E29).

Then follow up with the Ripe Olive (YG95). Remember, I'm not filling in line to line. I'm just adding color to spots on the leaves and stems. This is supposed to fast and easy.

Just put all your layers together. I added a great sentiment from the set All Around Sentiments... perfect for those notes to school or a greeting to a friend or co-worker.

So there you go! You can still have your fun with time to spare. As always thank you so much for stopping by and visiting us here at Clearly iStamp.

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