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.