Make It Monday- Colored Pencils

Hey, Happy Sunday to you all, and Happy Labor Day tomorrow, just in case I don't have a post for tomorrow.
I'd like to share my last minute entry for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday challenge. This week the challenge is Colored Pencils.
I've got a bit of a confession to make on this one. I only had a set of watercolor pencils, and a little set of Crayola colored pencils that I haven't yet given to La Princessa, so I almost didn't participate in this challenge. However, my sweet hubby recently gifted me with a copy of Coloring Techniques for Card Makers, and I just happened to have a 40% off coupon to Hobby Lobby, so I went to Hobby Lobby Thursday to check out the colored pencil selection. I left without any; I just wasn't comfortable investing in yet another set of coloring tools, considering how many $$ I've dropped on the Copics that I dearly love.
So, on Friday, that sweet hubby that I was telling you about, took me back to Hobby Lobby. He couldn't understand why I didn't buy any colored pencils when I went there to do just that. So I showed him the various sets of Prismacolor pencils. I picked up the set of 48, and they also had a little tearpad of rebate offers on Prismacolor products, good for $10, so I let him talk me into it.... until...... we walked by a display of easels that had a ginormous box of Prismacolors perched on one of the easels. My hubs? He says, and I quote, "Go big, or go home." Yeah, I walked out with that ginormous set of 120 Prismacolors!!! Yay me, and Yay enabling hubby!
So I got them home and then had to place them in color order, not sure why the manufacturer didn't do that, but anyway. Then I had to sharpen all 120 of them. Did I mention that somehow the power cord for my electric pencil sharpener must have been lost in the move last summer? I sharpened all those bad boys with the little sharpener that came in the set. Not a bad sharpener, mind you, it did a very nice job, but it was VERY time consuming.
All the above is why I'm just now getting a card posted. Oh, and the Prismacolors? Geez Louise, I don't know why I waited so long to get any; they color like a DREAM! Using the odorless mineral spirits and blending stumps, they blend beautifully, and the colors are rich and vibrant. I drew a little pumpkin on some scrap paper to get a feel for the pencils before starting my card, and I just could not believe how rich the colors are. They are every bit as vibrant as Copics, with no bleed through, in case you want to do a single layer card. So if you don't already have some of these, you have GOT to go get some, I'm just sayin.....
Here's the card:

Please do click on the photo to view this larger, I just couldn't be happier with my new pencils. I also tried to take advantage of some natural light for this card, NO PHOTO TENT! I don't remember the last time I took a photo of a card without it.
Thanks for listening to me drone on and on and on..... Ha!
What's in it:
Cardstock: Papertrey Ink- White, Blueberry Sky
Patterned paper: Bo Bunny; Fancy Pants Design
Stamps: Papertrey Ink- Boy Basics: Out of this World
Inks: Versafine- Onyx Black
Dies: Papertrey Ink- Rocket
Colored Pencils: Prismacolor Premiere {LOVE}
That's it for me (I think I need to go find something else to color!)
Smooch!