Clara at Passion for Promarkers Challenge

 Its time for another Passion for Promarkers challenge and the theme this week is to die for - we want you to use at least one diecut or punch on your creation.

I coloured Clara in using my promarkers and then used the out of the die technique to cut her out using my nesties.  The dp is from Authentique and Basic Grey, and I added some aged black frantage to it.  I love this open lace webbing.  I die cut gears out of grungeboard and then frantaged them, before adding them with gem swirls.

Supplies: 

Image: Visible Image Clara

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Skin: coral, sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink

Hair: black, cool grey 5, 4,3

Clothes: aubergine, plum, amethyst,
burnt orange, orange, bright orange, tequila sunrise

Papers: Authentique Enchanted, Basic Grey Wisteria

Embellishments: diecut gears, gem swirls, webbing

Tools: Spellbinders circles, Tim Holtz Shapers gears, frantage

Challenges: 

I love promarkers - square card with something round on it

Simon Says Stamp -anything goes

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

Challenges4everybody - anything goes

Stampavie  and more - lots of die cuts

Sweet Stampin' - anything but birthday

Stamps+fun=creativity - Bingo (lace, free, flower)

CRAFT - fantasy/make beleicve/ bling it up

Love to Create - punches/dies

Bearly Mine - anything goes
Party Time Tuesday - anything goes

 

Baby girl

One of our friend's has had her baby at 32 weeks, but fortunately baby is making good progress and while she is still in hospital, hopefully she will be out soon.  I coluored the image using my pens in and then stickled her wings.  I embossed the white cardstock using a couple of embossing folders, and then die cut flowers and layered them up.  Finally, pearls, lace and gingham ribbon to finish.  I really need to get myself some baby sentiments.

Supplies:

Image: Saturated Canary Butterfly Baby

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers

Papers: DCWV Nana Nursery, Paper ill linen

Embellishments: pearls, ribbon, lace, buttons, stickles

Tools: Dienamics layered rose die, Spellbinders circle nestibilities

Challenges: 

I love promarkers - square card with something round on it

Make it Monday

Simon Says Stamp -anything goes

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

Challenges4everybody - anything goes

Sweet Stampin' - anything but birthday

 Totally papercrafts - lace and flowers

One stop - buttons nad bows

Totally Gorguss - ribbon and pearls

Whoopsi - add circles

Stamps+fun=creativity - Bingo (lace, free, flower)

Paper Playtime - emboss

My Heart peices - emboss

Bearly Mine - digi days

Stampin for the weekend - diecuts/punches

Moving along with the times - baby card

Stamp with fun - baby card

Saturated Canary - photo inspiration

Flutterby Wednesday - sketch

CRAFT - fantasy/make beleive/ bling it up

Love to Create - punches/dies
Simply create - babies

 

Colouring Clara from Visible Image 5

I am absolutely in love with Clara, the latest character stamp from Visible Image Stamps.

How gorgeous is she, all sassy and steampunky :)

We were having a conversation in the DT group about coluring her and I offered to do a tutorial to show how I coloured her hat, as larger white spaces can be scary.  Since I was doing the hat, I also did photos for how I colourd all of her so over the next few days I am going to share with you how I coloured Clara. I am no expert by the way!!

I like to colour from darkest to lightest, its personal preference, but I find I get a better effect this way.  My preferred cardstock is Diamond White from the Paperterie, and for my stamped images I use 300msg.

The first thing I do is decide where the light source is coming from, and I usually either go for top left or right as I find this easiest. 
So for this image the light is coming from the top left hand corner as I look at it.

This is the final instalment of my tutorials on how to colour Clara.
For the hat band and umbrella I used burnt orange, orange, bright orange, tequila sunrise promarkers - I love orange and purple as a colour combination.

I started with burnt orange and outlined the darkest areas on the hat band and inside the umbrella.

I then went over those areas and into the white space with orange,

And then with bright orange.

I added depth to the shaded areas using burnt orange.

And blended it using orange.

I added burnt orange to the outer part of the umbrella, thinking about where the darkest parts would be.

Then I went over then coloured parts and into the white space with orange,

 and then bright orange.

 I then went over with burnt orange followed by organe to darken up the shaded areas. And added bright orange to more of the white space.

 Finally I blended everything together with tequila sunrise.

Tomorrow you will see the card I made using Clara ;)

Supplies: 

Image:  Visible Image Clara

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Colours: burnt orange, orange, bright orange, tequila sunrise

 

Visible Image DT post - Shabby Chic Katie

Today I am showing you Katie from Visible Image Stamps.

I coloured Katie in using my pens and added stickles to her feet and the butterflies.  The dp are all from First Edition and I distressed the edges for that shabby look.  I layered up lace and organza ribbon and added a bow.  I frantaged the Hobbycutz lasercut leaf using aged ivory frantage, and the butterflies using aged aqua frantage, and finally added some muslin and flowers.  The sentiment is from the More than words set 7.

 And for more inspiration don't forget to check out the Visible Image's facebook page, and the Visible Image blog where we have a monthly challenge.  This month's theme is Get Stamping

Supplies:

Image: Visible Image Katie

Sentiment: Visible Image More than words set 7

Colouring medium: promarkers and flex pens

Skin: coral, sunkissed pink, blush, ivory, pastel pink

Hair: caramel, sandstone, light fawn

Clothes:sorbet, blossom, pink mittens, arctic blue, cool aqua, soft aqua

Papers: First Edition Blank canvas, Summer Breeze, Isabelle

Embellishments: Hobbycutz lasercut butterflies and leaf, lace, organza ribbon,
mulberry flowers, muslin, frantage

Tools:

Challenges:
Make it Monday

Simon Says Stamp -anything goes

Crafty Ribbons - anything goes with ribbon

Fussy and Fancy - vintage

Challenges4everybody - anything goes

Sweet Stampin' - anything but birthday

 

A bit of Blog Candy

I have lots to be thankful for - I design for That Craft Place shop,  2 awesome stamp companies, and amazing lasercut company and some fabulous challenge blogs - and it is my 5th year of blogging - I can't believe I started blogging in March 2008!!!  I have met some amazing people through my blog who have become close friends, and through lots of support I have grown into the crafter I am - so I am going to offer some blog candy ...

In fact 4 prizes ...

 2 single stamps of your choice 

  2 single stamps of your choice

£5.00 worth of lasercutz

£15.00 That Craft Place voucher

OK so the rules - 

yes there are a couple of rules!!

You need to post this blog candy on your side bar

You don't need to be a follower - 

only follow if you intend to continue following

It would be lovely if you could take the time to join in one of the above blogs

 I design for - 

if you do you can enter this as a separate entry - link it with the challenge entry

I will delete any candy blogs or anyone entering more than once, unless it is a card for a challenge.
I will post world wide.

The closing date is Sunday 28th April at 10pm and I will draw the winners after that.

Colouring Clara from Visible Image 4

I am absolutely in love with Clara, the latest character stamp from Visible Image Stamps.

How gorgeous is she, all sassy and steampunky :)

We were having a conversation in the DT group about coluring her and I offered to do a tutorial to show how I coloured her hat, as larger white spaces can be scary.  Since I was doing the hat, I also did photos for how I colourd all of her so over the next few days I am going to share with you how I coloured Clara. I am no expert by the way!!

I like to colour from darkest to lightest, its personal preference, but I find I get a better effect this way.  My preferred cardstock is Diamond White from the Paperterie, and for my stamped images I use 300msg.

The first thing I do is decide where the light source is coming from, and I usually either go for top left or right as I find this easiest. 
So for this image the light is coming from the top left hand corner as I look at it.

For the top I used burnt orange, orange, bright orange, tequila sunrise promarkers - I love orange and purple as a colour combination.


I started with burnt orange and outlined the darkest areas on the the right hand side of her top as I look at it.

Then I added the orange over the top and into the white space, remembering she is a girly so there is shading elsewhere!

The I worked bright orange over and into the white space, paying attention to where the lightest parts would be - namely on her chest!

I defined the shadows again using burnt orange,

And blended them in using orange.

Bright orange was worked over and into some of the white space left, 

 before I went over the top using tequila sunrise.

Tomorrow I will be back for the final instalment on how I coloured the umbrella and hat band.

Supplies: 

Image:  Visible Image Clara

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Colours: burnt orange, orange, bright orange, tequila sunrise

 

That Craft Place Challenge

 Its Sunday and that means it's time for a That Craft Place challenge and the theme this week is make an altered item.

I painted the wooden plant pots and tray using acylic paints, and mixed colours together to get the colours I wanted.  I then covered the pots using the decopatch technique, PVA glue and Basic Grey patterned paper.  Ellie and Beth helped cover the pots and got very gluey!!  Having sealed them using modge podge I put oasis in the pots and covered with tissue paper stained using distress ink in a mini mister.  Ellie painted the flowers and I stamped over them using the Visible image crackled background and versamark ink.  The flowers were embossed using gold embossing powder.  We die cut the felt flowers, layered them and added the brads.

Supplies: 

Wooden plant pots and tray 
Wnedy Vecchi Art Parts
Image: Visible image Crackled background

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium:acrylic paint

Papers: Basic Grey Whats up

Embellishments: felt, pearl brads

Tools: gold embossing powder, Tim Holtz Tattered Flowers die

Challenges: 

 

Hobbycutz challenge

Its  time for  Hobbycutz challenge

The theme for this fortnight's challenge is Mother's Day.

I coloured the image from Floppy Latte in using my pens and cut it out.  I simply matted some gingham dp onto cardstock and added green organza ribbon and a knot,and then the garden trellis. Finally I added the word Mum using the lasercut letters.

Supplies: 

Image: Floppy Latte Camilla

Sentiment: 

Colouring medium: promarkers and flex pens

Papers: Pink Petticoat

Embellishments:Hobbycutz garden trellis, letters, organza ribbon

Tools: 

Challenges: 

Colouring Clara by Visible image 3

I am absolutely in love with Clara, the latest character stamp from Visible Image Stamps.

How gorgeous is she, all sassy and steampunky :)

We were having a conversation in the DT group about coluring her and I offered to do a tutorial to show how I coloured her hat, as larger white spaces can be scary.  Since I was doing the hat, I also did photos for how I colourd all of her so over the next few days I am going to share with you how I coloured Clara. I am no expert by the way!!

I like to colour from darkest to lightest, its personal preference, but I find I get a better effect this way.  My preferred cardstock is Diamond White from the Paperterie, and for my stamped images I use 300msg.

The first thing I do is decide where the light source is coming from, and I usually either go for top left or right as I find this easiest. 
So for this image the light is coming from the top left hand corner as I look at it.

Today I am going to show you how I coloured her skirt and her boots.  I used the cool greys and black for this.


So I start with cool grey 5 and shade the darkest areas - down the right side of the skirt and the pleasts and creases.

Then I go over the CG5 with Cool Grey 4 and work into the white spaces and build up the pleats nad creases.

 Then I go back in with CG5 working over the shading already done.

 And then again with CG4 working into more of the white space.

 Taking your time to layer up the colours means you will get a darker effect without needing lots of black, that can look quite harsh.

Now I use some black just at the darkest ppoints and in the creases and pleats to make sure they are defined.

I go over the black with CG5, working the CG5 into the black so there isn't a harsh line.

Finally I went over all the skirt in cool grey 4.

I used exactly the same prinicples for the boots :-

Starting with CG5 on the right hand side whre it will be darker ...

 then adding CG4 ...

 Before adding black into the creases and darkest parts.

 Then CG5 yo blend the black out.

 And finally CG4 over them all.

Tomorrow I will be back with how I coloured her top.

Supplies: 

Image:  Visible Image Clara

Colouring medium: promarkers 

Colours:black, cool grey 4,5