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I've rediscovered my love of coloring with colored pencils and they were the perfect medium to color in these beautiful Fresh Fruit images from Mama Elephant! A simple stitched border detailing with the Fine Trimmings Dies along the top and bottom of the fruit strip and a repeating text background using the new Words Defined Stamp Set add perfect finishing touches to showcase this array of lovely fruit!
The fruit images from the Fresh Fruit Stamp Set were stamped on smooth white cardstock using Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink and colored in with Prismacolor Colored Pencils and blended with the Prismacolor Colorless Blender Pencil. Detail (seeds, fruit texture) and the greeting were stamped after the coloring was done to keep the ink nice and vibrant. I die cut the images with the coordinating Fresh Fruit Dies.
Stitching detail was added along the top and bottom of a 2" x 5 1/2" strip using a Fine Trimmings Die. I love the finished look a border die gives to the edges of a simple strip!
For the background of my card I wanted to add some custom stamped text. I grabbed five colors of Mama Elephant Pigment Ink and starting on the diagonal, repeated the "hello" greeting from the Words Defined Stamp Set. I love stamping text on the diagonal because it disguises the fact that the text may not be perfectly straight!
The text background was a bit too bold for my liking so I die cut a rectangle from vellum using a Peek A Frames Die and layered it over the background which perfectly mutes the text and keeps the focus on the beautiful fresh fruit strip.
The strip was adhered to the card with foam adhesive to finish the design.
V I D E O T U T O R I A L
To watch the creation of this colored pencils fresh fruits card from start to finish, click HERE or watch below:
S U P P L I E S
The letters below the thumbnails below link to stores where you can purchase the products shown in this post and video: SSS = to purchase from Simon Says Stamp, EH = to purchase from Ellen Hutson, SB.COM = to purchase from Scrapbook.com. Affiliate links used.
S H O P P I N G
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G I V E A W A Y
To celebrate the new release, Mama Elephant is picking 3 winners to win their choice of stamp set! Winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the Stampede. You have up to 4 chances to qualify to win! Each action qualifies for one entry, max 4 entries per stampeder please!
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K E E P H O P P I N G
- Anna Kossakovskaya
- Melania Deasy
- Pamela Ho
- Nichol Spohr <------- you are here.
- Vera Rhuhay
- Laura Bassen
I love your card. The coloring is amazing. The fruits placement on the card is perfect.
Posted by: Hema | August 15, 2016 at 08:27 AM
Oh! Fruit card! Perfectly! Thank you for the inspiration!
Posted by: Margarita | August 15, 2016 at 08:30 AM
Stunning as always..
Posted by: Michelle V | August 15, 2016 at 08:31 AM
Perfect card for fall! Love it!
Posted by: Barb C | August 15, 2016 at 08:35 AM
What a pretty card you made! Your coloring with the pencils is inspiring. Thanks for sharing with us!
Posted by: Meg Crawford | August 15, 2016 at 08:43 AM
Awesome card Nichol! TFS
Posted by: Dolly | August 15, 2016 at 08:58 AM
Super cute card!
Posted by: Debbie | August 15, 2016 at 09:07 AM
Fruit look so realistic! Love how you used words defined to create a background :)
Posted by: Pam W. | August 15, 2016 at 09:15 AM
Love it ! it looks so real !<3
Posted by: Alexandra S | August 15, 2016 at 09:17 AM
I really love the colorful word background. Looks great with your awesome fruit!!
Posted by: Kari V. | August 15, 2016 at 09:45 AM
Great trick of using vellum so soten the background. Fun release.
Posted by: Julie | August 15, 2016 at 09:47 AM
Your colouring them like reals ones. Love your background
Posted by: Mona spark | August 15, 2016 at 09:49 AM
I love to watch you color and thanks for the tip about coloring in little circles. The background is great with the vellum overlay.
Posted by: Brenda in in | August 15, 2016 at 09:50 AM
Love that background - will definitely be trying that out next time.
Posted by: Scrappy Teacher | August 15, 2016 at 10:01 AM
Thanks for the process video Nichol. There is a lot of work that went into making this card so delicious looking. Thanks.
Posted by: Jo-Ann Stoneham | August 15, 2016 at 10:04 AM
The fruit looks yummy! Adorable card!
Posted by: Rachel Bergfeld | August 15, 2016 at 10:07 AM
I love your creativity! And mama Elephant has such adorable stuff :). Thanks for sharing
Posted by: Nicole | August 15, 2016 at 10:09 AM
Fantastic.
I'm journaling in my bible and one of the pages
that caught my eye dealt with the fruits of life.
I've been looking for some good fruit stamps and
these will really fill the bill.
The coloring is great. Hope I can get mine
to look that good.
thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Mary Holshouser | August 15, 2016 at 10:11 AM
Loving all of these new releases! Thanks for the inspiration!
Posted by: Kristen Mary | August 15, 2016 at 10:11 AM
Oops I commented on previous post by mistake :( I loved the coring of fruits and lovely Background.
Posted by: Pooja | August 15, 2016 at 10:26 AM
Love the colors!
Posted by: Kelly B | August 15, 2016 at 10:34 AM
Awesome card
Posted by: Teresa | August 15, 2016 at 10:44 AM
Always excited for a Mama Elephant release. Great card.
Posted by: Tracy | August 15, 2016 at 10:46 AM
Adorable card Nichol!
Posted by: Jane | August 15, 2016 at 10:48 AM
I really like how you colored the fruits and stretched the sentiment stamp to make a background.
Posted by: Marta | August 15, 2016 at 10:49 AM