Hello and welcome! Today I have another simple one layer Christmas card idea to share featuring coloring with a shimmer pen. Recently I’ve been looking into simple ways to color images and I shared a video showing how to color using a single white pen, I also made a few cards and colored them using Nuvo Drops.
For today’s video I wanted to explore another simple and quick way to add color to outline images and I decided I’d use my shimmer pen. We wont be necessarily adding color to the images, not technically coloring them in a traditional sense of the way, but we will use the shimmer pen to highlight these images and help them pop off the background.
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VIDEO TUTORIAL
As always, I filmed a video tutorial showing how to create this project from start to finish. I’m hoping you’ll enjoy it. Watch it below or on my Youtube channel.
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CARD DETAILS
I used Ornamental stamp set by Cathy Z for Simon Says Stamp from the Fun & Festive release and heat embossed images in Antique Gold embossing powder on Island Blue cardstock.
This is fun Holiday stamp set with modern imagery and sentiments that allow you to create Christmas ornaments. My idea here is to have a sentiment on my card and surround it with pretty ornaments. Each ornament is different, with a different pattern or sentiment. This stamp set offers a number of options to decorate the ornaments – you have several sentiment and several images that all fit inside that ornament image. I love stamp sets like this with lots of versatility to them and clever and modern designs.
Next I ink blended my background for an ombre look. I used Deep See ink as my mid color and Navy as my dark color (also blending Black at the very top) keeping the bottom of my panel the way it is. I really love doing these ombre ink blended backgrounds lately, they are simple to make, but look beautiful.
To color each ornament I used shimmer pen from Tonic Studios. I simply added a generous amount of shimmer onto each image (I did to so twice to have as much shimmer as possible). You can totally color these using markers, watercolors, or anything else you like to use, I wanted to try alternative ways to color so I’ve been exploring other mediums I could color with.
Once the shimmer was dry I adhered my panel onto an A2 white side folding card base and I also added several nuvo drops in Red and White to add a pop of color to this Holiday card. I love the way it turned out, I kept my stamps in the MISTI tool as I plan to mass produce this card design.
You can also try and do this in a different color, you can go with red and add a really deep red ink blending, you can go with pink, teal, even green would look stunning. I hope you’ll give this idea a try using these or other stamps from your stash. If you do, remember to share online and tag on social media – I also love seeing what you guys are making.
SUPPLIES
I’m listing the products I used below. Click on the link to go directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you so much for your support!
 CZ Design Clear Stamps Ornamental Shop at: SSS |
 Neenah 110 Lb Solar White Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Island Blue Cardstock Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Navy Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stam Deep Sea Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Gloss White Nuvo Drops Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Red Berry Gloss Nuvo Crystal Drops Shop at: SSS |
 Hero Arts Heat Embossing Gun Shop at: SSS |
 Versamark Watermark Emboss Ink Pad Shop at: SSS |
 EK Success Powder Tool Applicator Shop at: SSS |
 Mini Misti Stamping Tool Shop at: SSS |
 Spellbinders Circle Replacement Foam Shop at: SSS |
 Ranger Mini Round Ink Blending Tools Shop at: SSS |
 Tonic Aqua Shimmer Pen Nuvo Shop at: SSS |
 Scor-tape 2 1/2 Inch Crafting Tape Shop at: SSS |
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What an easy card to make and it looks beautiful and festive! Love these ornament stamps!
I look forward to all your tutorials as they are so informative and fun and inspirational! Beautiful blues!
Beautiful card I love the background
Love this simple but festive card. Beautiful colors!
Stunning love the unique design
I’m really liking the ink blending on colored cardstock. Beautiful card, Yana!
What a darling, but simple card. So pretty, Yana!
I love your word baubles.
Great card idea. Thanks for sharing.
Yana, your shimmering baubles are gorgeous! You’ve sent my Christmas spirit soaring with your showcase today…
~carol
Yana, I love how you did this card; I would have been adding string or floss or something to each bauble to “hang” it, but you showed me I don’t need to do that. I love your design & technique.
Love the colors used and to to remember we can “color” using many different products that we would normally consider”embellishments”.
What an awesome card! Simple yet super beautiful! 🙂
I love what you created.
Live through ombre and the sparkle!
So pretty! Love the sparkle!
That’s beautiful. I could definitely make this for all of my holiday cards this year!
Very clever and a CAS card for mass-producing. I love the gold on the blue and think it’s perfect for a Christmas card.
I love how you designed this card. 🙂 The individual sentiments inside the ornaments are so neat.
Wow, this is great! What a fun, simple way to design a card.
Thanks for sharing the details on making this card! It is beautiful!
I love this card! The color is amazing and I think would look amazing in other colors too like you mentioned. It is amazing how you gave so much dimension to the one layer….very inspired, thank you!
Love all of the new ideas!
Lovely card and thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Beautiful cards!
Lovely modern Christmas card. Thanks for all the tips!
Beautiful card. Love the shimmer and the ornament set. Very nice.
Love this card. I want to try it with some sparkle markers that I have.
Pretty card! I like how you made each ornament different!
Wow! Love your gorgeous card and your amazing colouring!!!
Simple yet gorgeous Yana, love this ornament card.
Gorgeous card and so perfect for mass production!! Love the shimmer of the ornaments and the ombre background!
Thanks for the tutorial Yana. The shimmer is great for Christmas.
So pretty and so simple, Yana! Love this idea.
Lovely card, great technique!!
WOW, the gold and blue look amazing together…
Beautiful card I love the simplicity of it an how elegant it looks!
Lovely, very distinctive card! Love the colors!
lovely card. thanks for the tutorial.
Those blues are truly stunning. Wow!
Really Pretty card!!! Pretty easy to mass produce I love that!!!
love just the hint of shimmer against the embossing – very classic
love the simplicity and elegance of this card:)
A lovely ornament card – very creative way to highlight some lovely sentiments too and I adore the beautiful blue shades you used.
I just love the shade of the blue card stock. It seems to glow. Adding the shimmer pen just makes it all festive.
Very nice design, simple but really Christmassy! 🙂
The blending on your card is amazing! And I love how you simply filled the ornaments in with shimmer pen! Beautiful!
Very classy, clean and pretty card today.
Love the way you added sparkle to these!
Looks simple but is so stunning!