At the bus stop...

Another friday and time to introduce you to one of the characters from the Bus Stop Bunch! Dr. Digi kindly split up the original bus stop digi into individual characters for us to use! Here is the original -

And I selected Babs, on the right, to colour today! And her little dog Baldric!

I like setting myself new challenges, so this time I wanted to have a go at a puffa jacket! 

Here is a close up of her -

And here is the digi image you can get of just her ( In know people like to compare the digi to the colour version). 

As normal she is coloured with polychromo pencils on kraft card. My kraft card stash is running very low and I am unable to find it to buy anywhere so it looks like I might have to learn to colour on something new, lol!

If you are interested in how I coloured her hat there is a photo demo of how I do knitted texture here.

I have also added a close up of Baldric and if you would like to see a demo of how I do fur, that is here!

As well as the polychromo pencils I used white posca paint pen for highlights. The stars are a recent purchase from Paperchase. The font I used for the sentiment is Grilled Cheese BTN. Background paper is from Papercrafter Magazine. I also used a 7x5 kraft card blank.

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From the stash...

The unused stamp set stash is getting a bit embarrassing, so I thought I should crack on and use another hoarded stamp set that I love! This stamp set is from Mama Elephant and is called Me & My Yeti. (I had my copy from Diestodiefor).

I made two versions, using up almost all of the set between the two cards. I stenciled a background using distress oxides and then cut out and added the elements which were coloured with copics. The greeting is from a magazine freebie set and the background paper is from a Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid 6x6 Set.

To add a bit of depth and scenery I used a Joy die called "Mery's Christmas Tree and House Border". I also added some shadow, white posca pen highlights and some stickles glitter.

Tea-L-C

Dr.Digi's retro-friday today, I wanted to get my magazine cards blogged this year so popping in with Tea-L-C, a project I did for Making Cards Magazine earlier this year, along with Tea Trolly Dolly and Perfect Sunday.

Here she is, Tea-L-C digistamp coloured with polychromo pencils on kraft card. I also used a sentiment & biscuits from the Tea Time Sentiment Set and a backing paper from the awesome Tea & Bickies Backing Paper Set. 

If you are interested in buying any of the Dr.Digi products I have used for any of the cards I made for the magazine they are also all part of the "Tea Time Set" which is only £5, so an amazing deal, it's got 9 digis in it, as well as the papers!

Because I made her for the magazine I have some additional details including pencil selections and a recipe for making the card, so here goes!

Card Recipe.

Base

• Create 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm card blank.
• Print out onto white paper the Bickie – Rich Tea backing paper from the Tea and Bickies Backing Paper Set.
• Line paper up centrally on card, adhere with double-sided tape and cover card blank. Cut off any excess.

Topper

• On the PC make a topper image (16.5 cm x 11.5 cm) using Tea-L-C digistamp and sentiment from Tea Time Sentiments Sheet. Resize elements to fit.
• Make digistamp paler.
• Add an edge on the topper before printing to make it easy to cut out straight.
• Print out topper directly onto Kraft Card. Also print on the same A4 sheet the digistamp once again, at full strength to use as a guide when you colour.

Colouring

• Colour in Tea-L-C  digi with Faber Castell Polychromo Pencils.
• Sketch in a warm brown floor surface for her to sit on also with Faber Castell Polychromo Pencils.
• Add highlights using White (0.7 mm) Posca Pen.
• Clean up any smudges and pencil dust around your image using an eraser.
• Cut out topper. Using a curved edge to guide you, cut off one of the corners. 

Assemble

• From the sentiments sheet print and cut out a tiny set of biscuits and one larger Rich Tea Biscuit (4.5 cm diameter). For a perfect circle use a round die to fit your large printed biscuit.
• Stick the Rich Tea biscuit into right hand corner of card front. Check words can be seen.
• Glue a stack of tiny biscuits to her plate and cover over the digi’s cup cake.

To Finish

• Using 3D foam place topper onto card
• Add Ranger Glossy Accents to glasses and jam in jammy dodgers. 
• Add some Neon Flamingo Stickles to the pattern on her dress.

Polychromo Pencil Guide:

Skin: 101, 129, 130, 132, 177, 190, 219

Dress; 101, 129,133, 219

Slippers: 101, 129, 133

Chair: 101, 108, 109, 177, 180, 274

Cat: 101, 108, 115, 164, 190, 199, 219, 274

Wood: 101  177, 187, 190

Thanks very much for visiting today, I hope you feel inspired to do a bit of colouring! She is a smashing stamp to colour up, plenty of texture options! Now I must go and make myself a cuppa, and be very English about things :) lol.

A bit of Avery Elle for Christmas

Here are a few Christmas cards I made using two Avery Elle Stamp Sets, Brring On the Joy and Winter Woodland Wonders. I got both sets from Dies to Die for, so links to them there.

Each card uses a stenciled background and topper images coloured with copics. :)

She-Ra. Or She-Nar.

Do you remember She-Ra on the tele? Friend of He-Man? Unfortunately my poor Ex-Work-Colleague, Sheenagh was rather renamed at some point in work history, plus Shenar is easier to spell. 

I had this image from Mayzy Art to make her a card. I think  Mayzy Art is no longer live, I'd love to link to the shop here and give them full ownership, I'm not sure if they intended this to be a freebie, but it's free online now. Anyway, thanks Mayzy Art for the awesome image!

 (If you know different please pop me a message!) 

I had to use this image tho, it's such a cool version of She-Ra, and was great fun to colour. I used copics for this one!