Ellen Hutson Pinsights Challenge!

Hi there! I’m back again today (I know, two non-design team posts in one week! I’m shocked!) with an entry for the Ellen Hutson Pin Sights Challenge! Their challenge graphic this month is so pretty:

Those Design Seeds color palettes are just a font of inspiration for me. {Insert all of the heart eye emojis.} I particularly loved the green and pink combination… I don’t use the combo that much as the focal point of my projects, and there’s something so deliciously shabby chic about pink and green when paired together, so I decided to make an antique hydrangea using one of my favorite Ellen Hutson sets: Mondo Hydrangea.

I colored the lovely hydrangea using my no-line pencil technique that I shared in this video. I started by stamping the hydrangea onto some pale spring green card stock using white ink. I then colored the flowers using my Prismacolor pencils using Deco Peach, Blush Pink, Pink, Carmine Red, and to add shadows, Chestnut. (The 150 pack of Prismacolor pencils is at Dick Blick and Amazon for an amazing price!)

After I had finished coloring the flower, I silver heat embossed the sentiment from Mondo Hydrangea. I trimmed down the sides a bit, then matted the pencil panel with some pale pink card stock. On the card base, I used a coordinating green ink to stamp the individual leaf and flowers in the Mondo Hydrangea set to add some interest to the background. I tied a thin twine bow around the pink and green layers, then added some foam adhesive and popped up my colored panel on my card base.

Not going to lie: colored pencils are not the quickest coloring medium in the world. I could have done this project in about half the time (or maybe even less than that) had I worked with my watercolors. BUT! This card is going to be sent to someone very special to me, so I wanted to add some extra love and care to it, and I think the pencils definitely helped accomplish that.

Hope you’re having a marvelous week! I will be back tomorrow with the Where Creativity Meets C9 team’s final Feature Friday post for Concord and 9th’s anniversary month!