Sixth Street Sundries

Emily Midgett

prismacolor

Adding pops of color with colored pencils!

Good morning! I have a quick post for you today… I helped to create some Hero Arts projects for a trade show earlier this year, and I wanted to share this project with you before it got lost on my computer haha! This project is fairly monotone, but it has a few little pops of color that I added with my Prismacolor pencils.

I started by stamping Hero Arts’s Urban Skyline Bold Prints background onto some white card stock using Soft Granite ink. I wanted a subtle background so that I could add some bright pops of color. Next, I white heat embossed one of the sweet little houses, a tree, and a car from Welcome Neighbor onto some gray paper from the Midnight Mix Layering Papers. I’ll let you in on a little secret: the coating on the Hero Arts Layering Papers makes for super smooth colored pencil blending. 😉 I die cut the elements with their coordinating frame cuts, then added some pencil details using my Prismacolor colored pencils and blender pencil.

 

I heat embossed a greeting from Welcome Neighbor onto another panel of dark gray card stock, then matted it with some Pool card stock. I adhered a strip of white to ground the house, tree, and car, then added those elements with dimensional foam adhesive. I love how the super subtle (but still incredibly detailed background) makes that dark gray house with the teal roof just pop right off of the page!

Well, that’s all for me today! I hope you’re having a marvelous weekend!


Some exciting news! 

Hello!!! I am incredibly pleased to announce that I am now a part of the Honey Bee Stamps Design Team! I have loved Honey Bee’s products for quite a while, and I’m so thrilled to be a part of their team for the remainder of 2017! (You can see the announcement, with links to the other incredibly talented designers’ blogs, here.)

To celebrate, I wanted to create a “thank you” card using some of my most favorite Honey Bee products. You’ve seen me use the Country Blooms stamps and dies several times before with watercolors, but I wanted to try them out with my Prismacolor colored pencils and blender pencil. I started by die cutting all of the dies from Toned Gray paper, then stamping the coordinating stamp images from Country Blooms with some black ink. (I find that, with colored pencils, just use your favorite black ink. Brand doesn’t make much difference.)

After I had colored all of the pretty flowers in happy shades of pink, yellow, and blue, I arranged them on an A2 stitched rectangle cut from the same Toned Gray paper from Strathmore. (I don’t like when the outline of die cuts is a different color from the solid colored background, so by using the same color of paper for both the die cuts and the background, they match. Yes, I’m that picky haha.)

For the greeting, I used some very pale pink card stock to cut the beautiful Thanks and Giving dies three times. I adhered the die cuts together using some liquid adhesive in order to create a dimensional die cut. I adhered it in the center of the stitched rectangle, then arranged my Country Blooms swags in the corners, adhering them with foam adhesive. The final step was to add a touch of sparkle using some pretty pink sequins from Cartwright’s to fill out the bouquets.

And that’s all for that card! I’m so grateful to the ladies over at Honey Bee for allowing me this opportunity. I can’t wait to get started showing you their wonderful products!

Also, on an unrelated but still exciting note, I surpassed 2000 followers on Instagram this past weekend. I have dreamed of achieving this goal for a long time, and was able to (with the help of my extremely supportive and amazingly talented friend Jessica to get me over the hump) realize my dream this past weekend! I have a special giveaway planned, but I am still rounding up prizes from my favorite companies, so stay tuned for information on how you can enter to win my giveaway!

Have a marvelous day, friends!