Welcome to Watch It Wednesday!  Today I have a video to share with you about the colored pencil techniques I used on this trifold card for my friend Sally.  She made a super fun apron for me using fabric that has apples + pears on it, and this is the thank-you card I made for her.

I just had to use the apron from the new Clear Design What’s Cooking set + the Design Accents Four Apples set — they were just too perfect to pass up!

Here’s the front — that’s the apron in the background:

Here’s how it looks when you open the front:

And here’s the inside

I also had to use the  Clear Design Woodland Creatures set — not because they are her favorites, but as a joke because she doesn’t like the woodland critters — especially the raccoon, ha ha ha!  (Can you believe it?) And, for another little joke I included a gift card to Pinkberry — I got it when we were there together — hopefully she didn’t see me…!  (Not stamping related, but they have the best frozen yogurt!)

Now to the video –  if you’ve been hesitant to try and use colored pencils, never fear — there’s a quick intro!  All of the coloring is done with just regular old colored pencils — nothing else.

Featured Supplies:

• NEW! Clear Design: What’s Cooking
• Clear Design: Woodland Creatures
• Screen Shadow
• Design Accents: A Little Note
• Design Accents: Four Apples
• Design Block Scattered Flowers
• Primary Elements Chalk Ink, Memories Black Ink
• Blossom, Sunshine Notecards
• Other: heart ribbon (American Crafts), pink pom-pom ribbon (Bazzill) colored pencils (Prismacolor), teal cardstock, scallop border bunch (Fiskars), paper edge distressor (Tonic for Tim Holtz)

Next I thought I’d share the colored pencils pencils that I used in the video in case you wanted to try this:

• Apple with seeds: chartreuse + green apple
• Apple without seeds: deco pink, pink, scarlet lake
• Raccoon: black, white, cool grey 70%, cool grey 30%

And, here’s a larger-than-life-extreme-closeup of the stamped designs that I covered in the video:

And some tips:

• When looking for inspiration for a card, think of what your friend likes — or doesn’t, ha ha!
• Don’t try to erase “mistakes” when doing colored pencils — you’ll only make it worse.
• I love using colored pencils because they are so portable!  You just need the pencils + a pencil sharpener to get great results.
• To make the trifold card, trim a piece of cardstock to 4″ x 12″, then score at 4″ and 8″ and fold.
• Stamp a background with a DesignBlock + shadow ink for a neat tone-on-tone look in a jiffy!  That’s what I did on the inside of the trifold.

Thanks so much Sally!  I really, really, REALLY do love the apron!  And, I treasure our friendship.  Hugs! :) 

Tomorrow we’ll be announcing the winners of last week’s Favorites Challenge — wait until you see!  I’ll be back on Friday with more fun friendship projects.

Until then, hope you enjoy the video!  Please leave me a comment if you have any questions.

Update:  ALL of the stamps from today’s card (plus more!) are now HERE in the store!  Plus Shadow Inks, too. Woo hoo!

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