Technique – colouring

Featuring colouring other than watercolouring

Flurry of festive wishes

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with this week’s challenge at Freshly Made Sketches using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I’ve been wanting to use the beautiful Winged Pair cling stamp (40-908) for a while and when I saw this week’s sketch, I knew it would be perfect! I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints and masked off the birds as I sponged a little distress ink across the background and added some splatters.

I used my new Blizzard embossing folder (65-013) for the background strip and sponged a little white ink to highlight the snowflakes – they are so pretty! (I’m not sure why my cards are appearing darker at the bottom – it must be the lighting – I need to look at my set up… maybe I’ll do this over the Christmas break!)

I trimmed down the image panel and stamped a sentiment from the Flurry mini set (30-927) before arranging everything on my 7×5 card base.

To complete my card, I added glitter to the branches – I hope you can see it, so difficult to capture in real life!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Beautified Christmas card

Hello friends!

Today I’m playing along with the current challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches using products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I chose a beautiful image from a clear set that was released a couple of years ago called Beautified (30-870). I love this set – it has some really elegant images which are so relaxing to colour! I stamped the image twice in a diagonal pattern following the sketch and then coloured them with my beloved Twinkling H2O paints. I fussy cut around the two central pine cones so that I could tuck the sentiment strip under them a little.

The sentiment is from the same set and I have to admit that getting the wording in the ‘right’ position took me the longest time… but I got there in the end!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Cheery winter wishes

Hi there!

Today I’m finally using a beautiful cling stamp called ‘Cheery’ (40-909) that was kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

I stamped the image in the centre of my card and coloured it with my Twinkling H2Os. I then added a frame from the Border Beauty Stick and Shine collection (15-008) and applied silver foil (21-001). The shine is so difficult to capture – this photo shows it beautifully but the angle of the lighting means that the greens are off – they are far closer to the colours in my first two photos!

Anyway, I masked off the frame and softly blended some Tumbled Glass distress ink across the background. I cut a couple of bows from the Jumbo Bauble die set (51-743) – one from white card which I coloured with my Twinklings and one from some silver card. After arranging them on my image, I added a sentiment from the Holiday Snippets set (30-307) and a few gems to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Fall flourish

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Color Throwdown challenge using some products kindly sent to me by Penny Black.

The combo this week is orange, yellow and green – another set that’s perfect for autumnal cards! In fact when I saw this combo, I thought about doing a die cut leaf card…. but I really want to try my new mica stains for that idea and they haven’t arrived yet… hopefully they will get here this week!

Anyway, I LOVE Chinese Lanterns and thought that the beautiful Fall Flourish stamp (40-783) would work perfectly with the challenge colours. I coloured the image with my beloved Twinkling H2O paints and then fussy cut around the image – which wasn’t as tricky as I was fearing.

I decided that the yellow would serve as my backdrop and used a stencil from the Background Basics set (25-021) – I love how there are several sizes of stencils in this set – especially as I often use UK card sizes which are different from the US sizes. For this card, I used a larger rectangle stencil and blended Squeezed Lemonade/Scattered Straw distress inks before splattering some yellow paint on top.

I adhered the image with some foam tape and added some sequins and the sentiment from the Fall Fence set (30-931) to complete my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Colourful Autumn Boots

Hi everyone!

We had a few days of unseasonably warm weather recently so I’ve spent a lot of time in my garden – weeding and getting it ready for winter. Today I decided I had earned a crafty day and felt that it was the right time to colour the image from the gorgeous Autumn Boots stamp set (31-013) that Penny Black kindly sent me last month. I will confess, I was a bit nervous to colour this image – especially the boots! I just want to do the image justice!

So I tried something different this time – rather than rely solely on my Twinkling H2O paints to colour, I got out some masking paper, masked off sections of the image and use distress inks for the boots and the pumpkins. Yes, it was a bit fiddly but totally worth it! I toyed with adding some coloured pencil details to the pumpkins in particular but decided to leave it this time.

As I had stamped the whole image onto making paper, I actually cut out some leaves and a bird and used them to mask off parts of the image when I created my background with the large circle stencil from the Background Basics set (25-021). I don’t usually do this when I create my backgrounds, but it meant that I didn’t have to lift any distress ink from the stamped image.

Penny Black has some amazing autumn sentiments but I just has to choose one of my favourites from the Autumn is Calling set (30-863).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

World of Thanks

Hi there!

Next up today is my card for this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge. I struggled a bit with my original plan for this sketch so started over! I was so happy when I found my bargain Hero Arts Beautiful World stamp set that I bought over the summer but hadn’t yet used.

I coloured the image using my Twinkling H2Os and fussy cut it. I made a small cut into the image so that the flower cluster would sit on top of the sentiment strip (from the same Hero Arts set)

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.