Digital Stamps and Prismacolor Pencils--

Hello there. I hope you're having a great day. I'm back with another card where the design elements were chosen by my spread sheet and the random number generator. I have been enjoying making cards with this element of unknown. 

The card today was made using Rachelle Anne Miller digital stamps, a stencil, colored pencils, pattern paper for the color pallet, for a birthday, using stickles for a little glitter happiness.

I have become an affiliate for Rachele Anne Miller stamps. They have graciously given me a shopping link and coupon code to share with you.

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coupon code is JENNIEPUGMIRE

The great thing about digital stamps is that you can size them to fit the card the way you want. The image I chose today is actually a Christmas stamp, but It can be made into a winter birthday card. You can buy it here:

https://tinyurl.com/2zd7sf66

I added the downloaded image to a publisher document. I like using publisher because you can layer text boxes and images easily. I did make this image large enough to fit most of the front of a card.

Before I began coloring I added some clouds to the background with the MFT cloud stencil.

You can buy it here:

https://tinyurl.com/2k4vc6sj

 The only problem with that was that I had forgotten to clean the stencil when I used it last, and the very light Cloudy sky ink from Simon Says Stamp came out a little more purple. Oopsie. 

After I printed the stamp, I trimmed it down an began coloring with my Prismacolor pencils. I used this little strip of pattern paper to choose the colors. And Pinterest to find color pencil combinations. 

I used the French grey colors for the guinea pig and the bunny and a brown combination for the bear.

Browns: 946, 1082, 941, 1083 French Greys, 1076, 1074, 1072, 1070, 1069, 1068

The mail box was colored with cool greys; 1067, 1065, 1063, 1061

Usually, when I use colored pencils I color in many layers. Today I decided to use the color blender to make coloring a little quicker. 

I added this yellow, pink, and purple combinations for the bird, hat, scarf and ribbon.

yellow:1034, 1003, 916, 914 pink; 931, 195, 930, 929 purple; 931, 1008, 956, 1026 

And this blue to add shadow to the snow; 1086. And 926 red for the mailbox flag.

When the coloring was complete, I trimmed the panel down even more with the Small Stitched Rectangle dies from Lawn Fawn. You can buy them here:

https://tinyurl.com/4hntzcuy

It added just a little detail around the border. Then I added it to a yellow cardstock card base. 

Then I added the stickles to the ribbon, hat and scarf. 

And that finished up the card. Thanks for stopping by. 

You can watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/dBNwGJGQYeQ