Laguna Surf...

Today I'm sharing another peek at one of the new Sheena A Little Bit Sketchy stamp sets... Laguna Surf. As soon as I saw this image, I knew I wanted to try coloring it with the Spectrum Noir pencils on Kraft cardstock. I love the look of colored pencils on kraft! 

Crafters Companion Supplies:

Sheena Laguna Surf

Spectrum Noir Blendable Pencils (119, 22, 19, 33, 112, 94, 74, 58, 65, 55, 90, 61, 87, 73, 113)

Scootin' By...

Its time for another There She Goes Stamps Challenge! This week our challenge is brought to us by Tracy MacDonald! Its a color challenge...Blue, Yellow and a Neutral! 

To be eligible for the giveaway, create a NEW card or project using the color challenge, and then come back to the TSG Blog to add your name and a link to your project in the InLinkz that is located at the bottom of this challenge post. This challenge is open until the winner has been announced on the following Monday (August 15th). The winner will get a $5 gift certificate to use in the TSG Web store!

social butterfly...

The other day I mentioned the new pencils that I was experimenting with, Koh-i-noor woodless pencils. On the other card, I blended the colors with a blending stump and baby oil. For todays card I used a different method of blending them. After stamping my image in Stazon, I colored in sections with pencils, using white to blend the colors. The leads are so soft in comparison to the crayola and kids pencils that I've used in the past. The colors blend beautifully. I lay down a bit of white, go over it with a light color and then blend those out with white. Next I would add in a bit darker color at the edges, again blending that color in with either the white or the light color. For the lines that looked a bit to hazy from the colored pencils on them, I simply went over top of them with a black marker.

High Hopes Stamps has a cool sketch up on their blog as a challenge for a GDT call. I'd keep my fingers crossed but its kinda hard to stamp that way. Would love to get the chance to play with their stamps...cute, cute images! This is the sketch I used for the card. Instead of the bottom panel, I added the outline of stitching. This allowed me to follow the layout without covering up too much of that pretty pattern paper.



supplies used:
stamps: Rubbernecker
pattern paper: Kaiser
sketch: High Hopes
rubon: Melissa Frances
other: Koh-i-noor pencils, watercolor paper

I promise thats it for posts for today, LOL! Have a great weekend and stay warm! We're getting more snow and rain. ick, double ick! Bring on spring!!!

a bit of coloring fun...

I've been drooling over Copics for awhile now but when I started adding up all the basic colors that I wanted I realized that the little bit of Christmas money I had burning a whole in my pocket wasn't going to cover it. Add in the fact that I couldn't find any inks that would work with the Copics locally and I wasn't even sure I would like the markers, I started looking for other options. I saw some excellent tutorials on GinaK & Hero Arts blog's on the Koh-i-door & Prismacolor pencils. The Koh-i-door woodless pencils had gorgeous rich colors, were economical and they would work with the supplies I already had on hand. I was able to pick up a set of 24 for under $9 with a coupon at my local craft store. So bear with me, because you might be seeing alot of them in the coming weeks.

Todays card is using the kids in the Lizzie Anne Designs School Days set. I used the Koh-i-door pencils on them and blended the colors with baby oil. The faces were watercolored because there is no skin tones in the set. I'm going to have to look into adding some Prismacolor pencils to my collection to fill out the colors.

supplies used:

stamps: Lizzie Anne Designs School Days

pattern paper: Cosmo Cricket

ribbon: American Craft

button: Autumn Leaves

other: Koh-i-door pencils

Be sure to stop back in a few days when I share another card using a different way to blend the pencils. Have a great Friday!!!