30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE DAY 4: A LITTLE BIT OF COLORED PENCILS

I was hoping to post every day (hmmm) but tomorrow is a travel day up to Mammoth (about 5 hrs door to door) and it is at altitude (our house is at 7900') so probably won't be able to color or post tomorrow.  I worked on these two Mo Manning images (mostly Polychromos) and the little girl with the Corgi is done unless I put in a background (always makes me nervous) but the cute little Frenchie is just started.  I did the wings in metallic pencils and then blended with a blender pencil.  Will probably add a bit of Wink of Stella to the wings and might try to finish him tomorrow night when I get my supplies unpacked and if I don't collapse!  Can't wait to see the snow again since Mammoth has more since we were up in February.

 

30 D AY COLORING CHALLENGE DAY 3: WHEN THINGS GO WRONG...

I just love this stamp from Mama Elephant and was excited to finally have a chance to color it.  I stamped it on bristol board to use with the zig clean color brushes and also on Hammermill 100lb digital cover sheet (Amazon) for coloring with Copics.

The first photo is of the image stamped on the bristol and started with the zigs.  To get the ombre effect on the letters I applied the paint to the bottom of the letters and then pulled the color up with a water brush. Pretty much the same technique for the flowers and leaves, although the leaves have 2-3 colors.  I used wink of stella on the Hello.

 When I finished all the coloring I thought the images might look really vibrant against a black background and I really, really didn't want to fussy cut it.  So I took a black marker and colored all around the image but the strokes were visible and it wasn't a really dense black so I covered it with the Spectrum Noir Sparkle Black pen, which you can see below.  Hmmm

 It seems like a hot mess to me and I wish I had just cut it out.  On the picture below, you can see the image stamped on the Hammermill paper with Wplus9's Fairy Dust Ink pad for some no line Copic Coloring.  Hoping to finish that in a few days.

30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE - SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT

I am very lucky to have my own craft room (small, but mine) but my husband really likes when we watch TV together at night so I took one of his, now unused, stainless steel surgical carts and turned it into a coloring cart.  I put most of my coloring mediums onto the cart (no ink pads, no Tim Holtz crayons etc) just stuff that I can sit in the living room at night and color while we watch TV. I can wheel it anywhere in the house or back into my craft room.  My Raskog cart from Ikea stays in my craft room and now holds miscellaneous papers, envelopes and foil.  If you like and find this useful I'd be so happy to hear from you.

EVERYTHING ON BOTTOM SHELF IS IN A PERFECTLY SIZED WINE BOX!

COPICS BEING USED ARE IN THE JAR TO THE RIGHT

 COPIC STORAGE:TJANDTHINGS ON ETSY

30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE DAY 2

Day 2 - This is is one if the images I stamped in preparation for the challenge and it is embossed in gold.  I used Copics to color with a little bit of color pencil.  For the background I mixed a few drops of BV29 with about 15 drops of 0 blender solution into a tiny bottle and painted it on with a waterbrush filled with blender solution.  I didn't add any texture but left it very soft.  I went back over areas that I wanted darker.  As usual, I can't remember which stamp company this is from but will add it as soon as I find it (I am so disorganized at the moment).

this photo is a little washed out compared to original

30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE

I have posted a lot about the 30 Day Coloring Challenge and it is finally here! Wouldn't you know it Day 1 has arrived and I have to go to work.  I want to share an image that I started (somehow I have quite a number of these) at Copic Boot Camp but never finished.  We were using this image (sorry, can't remember who designed it) in a lesson on watercolor backgrounds using Copic markers.  I did a little bit of the background and really wanted to finish it so it was a perfect size project for this first day of the challenge.  I used Copics for the flowers and then used colored pencils for additional details and white signo gel pen.  Very simple coloring and I am glad it is finally done and ready to be made into a card.  Please excuse bad phone photography.   Just found the stamp and it is Technique Tuesday's Morning Glory. Whew!

POWER POPPY CHRISTMAS WREATH

I so love this Power Poppy image but it took me quite a while to actually finish the coloring and because I sized it so large (4 1/2 inches) I wasn't sure what I was going to do to make the card.  I die cut it in a circle thinking I would make a frame but I didn't like that so instead I used a circle die to just overlay it.  I kept the sentiment simple, a Wplus9 Merry die (colored with Spectrum Noir Shimmer Pen and also used clear on the red ornaments)and the Christmas word from their Festive Greetings. The white shimmer paper is from PTI which kept it simple but pretty.  I really wanted the image to be the primary focus.  Hope you all like it and I would love to hear from you!

TRI-FOLD ELF CHRISTMAS CARD

I love these MFT Santa's elves and finally got a chance to color them and to do them in a mix of pastel colors. I don't know why I opted for a tri-fold as I could have gotten three cards instead but I just liked the idea.  The sentiments are Mama Elephant Merry Christmas Wishes and Simon Says Stamps Hand Lettered Winter Wishes.  Dies used: MFT Stitched Snow Drifts and Simon Snowflakes.  The shimmer paper is PTI, the sequins are Lucy's, embossing powder is Hero Arts Satin Pearl (love, love, love) and the whole card was spritzed with shimmer mist.  

FRONT

RIGHT

MIDDLE

30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE: WINE CRATE LID AND DISTRESS INKS

I am so happy that KATHY RACOOSIN has started another 30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE.  For today's coloring project I had this weird idea to color one of my husband wine box lids.  He has a whole collection that he has been putting on the wall of his wine storage here in Mammoth Lakes.  Some of the art work is so pretty that I thought it would be fun to paint one.  After a bit of experimenting with the limited supplies that I have up here, I opted to use distress inks which seemed to stain the wood nicely.  I forgot to take a before picture but here is one of my next lid to paint.

 Won't this be fun to tackle!

This was the lid that I thought would be a good test.  It was easy and fun and I think it came out great and I only used distress inks!

30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE #thedailymarker30day.

I am so happy when I am coloring so I am thrilled to bitty wits about this 30 day coloring challenge. Unfortunately, I am out of town BUT, I did bring watercolors (Peerless), 72 Copics, and some prestamped and printed images.  Woohoo, I even remembered my magnifying glasses! I am posting using only my ipad so it is a little tricky and I have done no editing. This is my image for today in watercolors.

EXPERIMENTING WITH BLENDING SOLUTIONS FOR COLORED PENCILS

As much as I love using my copics and feel very comfortable with them, I am a relative newbie to colored pencils.  I have had my Prismacolors for a long time but other than sharpening them I had not really done much with them.  I think I was intimidated by seeing what professional artists can do with them which seems almost magical.  But I have been trying.  The adult coloring book craze has been a major aid in motivating me to use my pencils.  Having read so many different articles on blending options I decided I needed to try them for myself.  Let me say first off that I had only ever tried a blending (or burnishing) pencil and may not have been using properly but I didn't get great results.  I then watched a YouTube video about using vaseline but when I tried it I found that, for me, it was hard to control and I got big clumps of vaseline on my pencil or blending stump.  Gamsol I was familiar with but after spilling the container and getting the smell everywhere I decided it wasn't for me and I again, wasn't loving the results.  Next up, Baby Oil.  Who would have thought that this would give both lovely results in a controllable manner and NO SMELL!

I also liked that I could go over the area that I had already blended with the baby oil and add more color which I did in both the rose and the flower.

First layer

Blended with additional layers

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30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE #atthedailymarker30day

I flew home from NY on Saturday so obviously didn't get any coloring done and then I was jet lagged and just plain exhausted.  Yesterday I was functional enough to finish coloring the Make it Crafty lilies that I started in NY and finished the card this am.  

MAKE IT CRAFTY LILIES DIGI
MAMA ELEPHANT FEMME FRAMES
PAPERTREY INK SHIMMER CS
AVERY ELLE 120LB WHITE CS
COPICS
CLEARLY BESOTTED ALL OCCASION SENTIMENT
RANGER LIQUID PLATINUM EMBOSSING POWDER
WINK OF STELLA CLEAR

30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE #thedailymarker30day

Today is my last day in NY with my sister and I am quite sad to leave her but glad to get home to my hubby.  In the midst of getting her resettled and packing, I took  break and began to color this wonderful Make It Crafty digi.  Zoe, I just love all these flower stamps!  It is far from finished but I may get to work on it on my 5 hr. flight home tomorrow.  Here is my coloring for today.

Copics used so far: E000, 35, 77:  RV 10,11,13: YR24:  YG07,45,63,67

   

         

30 DAY COLORING CHALLENGE DAY 2: #thedailymarker30day

Brrr, it is snowy and cold on Long Island today so staying in (the hotel room) is just fine.  One of the images I brought with me to color is this adorable Mo Manning digi printed on Xpress it paper.  I thought I had more skin and hair colors with me .. but nope, I don't so here is my attempt with my limited supplies on hand.  Left the little flowers uncolored so I can add some white and wink of stella when I get home.

                                      

By the way, I am completely inept at blogging on my ipad. Can't figure out how to size photoes and a bunch of other problems.