Handmade monochromatic birthday card in warm brown and gold tones featuring the Say Cheese Meadow girl holding a camera, with striped and star pattern papers and the sentiment “Focus on you, it’s your day,” designed by Sharon Smith for Crafty Stamp Co.

Focus on You with Sharon | Say Cheese Meadow in Warm Neutrals

Roll out the red carpet — Design Team artist Sharon Smith (@hummingbird_crafty_gifts) is in the spotlight today!

Sharon is sharing a gorgeous monochromatic card featuring our Say Cheese Meadow 4x6 stamp set, paired with the Pumpkin Breeze and Lights Camera Action 6x6 paper pads. With cozy golden-brown tones, subtle stripes and star details, and the sweet “Focus on you, it’s your day” sentiment, this design is perfect for celebrating someone special.

If you love Copic coloring, warm neutrals, and camera-themed cards, you’re going to adore all the little details Sharon added. Let’s hand things over to her so you can see exactly how this beautiful card came together!

 

Good morning, Sharon here with a cute sepia card. I wanted to challenge myself to color Say Cheese Meadow with only 3 markers, a great project if you've only got a few markers.

Handmade monochromatic birthday card in warm brown and gold tones featuring the Say Cheese Meadow girl holding a camera, with striped and star pattern papers and the sentiment “Focus on you, it’s your day,” designed by Sharon Smith for Crafty Stamp Co.

Supplies:


Crafty Stamp Co:
             Say Cheese Meadow 4x6in Stamp Set
             Pumpkin Breeze 6x6in Paper Pad
             Lights Camera Action 6x6in Paper Pad
Stamping Card
Black Ink Pad
Ohuhu Markers: Y9, Y145, Y314
Black Prisma Color Pencil
Black Fine Liner
White Gel Pen
A2 White Cardbase
Brown Gems
Circle Die
Wet Glue and Foam Squares


Step By Step:

I stamped my image onto stamping card and set about coloring. As Meadow's hair was such a large section I tackled that first. I usually color dark to light and was able to do this with my 3 chosen colors for the hair but ran into problems when I moved to skin there wasn't enough shading between this and the hair. To combat this I colored all of the rest of the image in my lightest color and built up layers of each color upon this. I cheated a little and used a black pencil to darken off sections. I also used a black fine liner to define her eyes and a white gel pen to give me eye sparkles
Once she was colored I fussy cut the image.

Handmade monochromatic birthday card in warm brown and gold tones featuring the Say Cheese Meadow girl holding a camera, with striped and star pattern papers and the sentiment “Focus on you, it’s your day,” designed by Sharon Smith for Crafty Stamp Co.
Keeping with my color theme, I chose some patterned papers and cut them to size.

Handmade monochromatic birthday card in warm brown and gold tones featuring the Say Cheese Meadow girl holding a camera, with striped and star pattern papers and the sentiment “Focus on you, it’s your day,” designed by Sharon Smith for Crafty Stamp Co.
These were glued together with wet glue. Meadow had foam squares added to the back and adhered them to my card.

Handmade monochromatic birthday card in warm brown and gold tones featuring the Say Cheese Meadow girl holding a camera, with striped and star pattern papers and the sentiment “Focus on you, it’s your day,” designed by Sharon Smith for Crafty Stamp Co.
I used one of the sentiments from the stamp set and cut it into a circle with a die. I also cut a circle mat from patterned paper.
A little tip here if using nesting dies and there is too much of a difference between sizes, I use the same die for both. I cut my sentiment, then drew around the outer of the die and cut this with scissors, giving me a slightly larger circle. This also works great for word dies!
I did find the white sentiment a little stark, so I colored this with my lighter marker.
I also used foam squares to add this to my card.


Handmade monochromatic birthday card in warm brown and gold tones featuring the Say Cheese Meadow girl holding a camera, with striped and star pattern papers and the sentiment “Focus on you, it’s your day,” designed by Sharon Smith for Crafty Stamp Co.

Finally, to balance my card, I added some brown gems! What do you think? Do my colors work? I would love to see if you attempt this color challenge too!

Thank you for stopping by. Please come back to see more inspiration from my team members!

Crafty Hugs
Sharon 
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