By Anna Escalada York

In today’s blog post, I will show you how to incorporate sprays and markers to change or
enhance the color of colored cardstock to help you stretch your supplies.

Skill: Advanced
Time: 2 hours

Directions:

Step 1:
Color a piece of teal or green patterned paper with green markers–College Ivy Memento marker
and Emerald Fabrico marker.

Step 2:
Die cut the colored patterned paper to form the leaves of the flower die cut.
Optional step: Spray the colored patterned paper with Sparkle Shimmer Spray.

Step 3:
Spray a die cut panel of watercolor paper with Angel Pink and Cantaloupe Fireworks! Sprays.
After it dried, I sprayed both sprays again. This combination of the two colors almost achieved
the peach fuzz color.

Step 4:
Using a piece of peach cardstock, die cut the small flowers for the floral die cut three times.

Step 5:
Stamp Pink Shimmer Delicata ink onto the flowers using a stamp. (On the card, you can see a
little shine on the flowers, but it ins’t visible in pictures.)

Step 6:
Add Pink Shimmer and Gold Glitz Delicata Ink onto parts of a large background stamp. Make
sure to leave parts of the stamp uninked (such as the lower left corner of the stamp).
Optional step: Add holographic embossing powder onto the stamped image.

Step 7:
Use Tangelo and Morocco Memento markers to color a smaller stamp and repeatedly stamp
card base to add texture.

Step 8:
Die cut the main sentiment out of more of the peach colored cardstock and the shadow die out
of some peach patterned paper. Spray the sentiment with Sparkle Sheer Shimmer spray and
the shadow paper with Cantaloupe and Angel Pink Fireworks! sprays. After the sprays dry, glue
the two layers together.

Step 9:
Glue the floral die cut pieces together.

Step 10:
Create the matte layer of the card by die cutting a piece of orange patterned paper and then
spraying it with more of the Cantaloupe and Angel Pink Fireworks! Sprays and Sparkle Sheer
Shimmer spray to mute the bold orange color.

Step 11:
Glue the floral die cut and the sentiment onto the upper card base. Trim off the right edge of the
sentiment so that it doesn’t overhang the upper card panel. Then glue the matte (orange) panel
behind the upper panel.

Step 12:
Stamp the sub sentiments with by coloring them again with more Morocco Memento marker.
(The sub sentiments came in 3 parts “I am,” “you are” and “going through this.” Since the last
sentiment wouldn’t fit on the card without a little help, I performed “stamp surgery” where the
stamp was cut before stamping to create two smaller stamps. If you are uncomfortable with this,
you can mask part of the stamp and stamp the sentiment a couple of times if you are trying to
create something similar.)

Step 13:
Glue the card panel onto an A2-sized white card base and then glue a few rhinestones around
the flowers and the sentiment.

Art Supplies

Imagine:

• Fabrico – Marker – Emerald
• Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray – Angel Pink and Cantaloupe
• Memento – Marker – Cottage Ivy, Morocco and Tangelo
• Sheer Shimmer Spray – Sparkle

Other:

• Simon Says Stamp – die cuts – Fine Foxglove
• Simon Says Stamp -stamp- Document It
• Honey Bee Stamps – stamp – With Sympathy
• Honey Bee Stamps – die cuts – With Sympathy
• HAI Supply – gem embellishments – Crystalline Grapefruit
• My Colors Cardstock – paper – Peach
• Echo Park – paper – Easter Tweetings
• Embossing powder in my stash
• Patterned paper (orange and teal) in my stash
• Watercolor paper
• Scissors
• Glue