Hi, crafty friends! I have a couple of golfers coming your way today. Mulligan and Bogey are from this summer’s Stacey Yacula release from Purple Onion Designs. The collection is Amongst the Pines, and it has an outdoorsy/sports feel to it, which is perfect right now with the summer Olympics underway in Paris.

I stamped Mulligan and Bogey using Extreme Black ink from My Favorite Things, before covering them with masks and stamping the 18th Hole. I covered that with a mask and stamped the Woodland Horizon.

When I color large scenes like this, I always start with the background. I colored the sky first, then the green. There’s a lot of green in this one, and even thought I used different green combos for different elements and tried a new combo for the majority of the green, most of it blends together in the end and looks pretty much like the same color.

On Bogey, I repeated the colors I used for the clouds on her outfit. Repeating colors creates a more cohesive design, and the end result isn’t rainbow vomit, which can easily happen if you don’t restrain yourself from using every color under the sun. I even used the pinks on a few details in Mulligan’s outfit, and colored the rest of his outfit blue. I chose a dark blue combo for his pants and hat, and used the lightest color in that combination as the darkest color for the lighter blue on his sweater and shoes. This way, the color isn’t the same across his entire outfit, but I’m not introducing a new color. It’s a great way to avoid rainbow vomit.

To finish off the card, I stamped a sentiment from The Great Outdoors Sentiment Set using Lazy Day ink from My Favorite Things, before finishing off with a few enamel dots from the North Shore mix from Altenew.

See? Not a whole lot of colors, given this is a full A2 size panel that’s all covered with color.