Trotsky and his bone!

Happy Friday Folks! Back with another project on my Dr.Digi DT day! This is Trotsky!

I have actually coloured him up before as part of the digi "Perfect Sunday" that used for Making Cards Magazine last year, but it was nice this time to make him the star of the show! Here he is a digistamp -

And here is my version of him, close up! -

As normal he is coloured with polychromo pencils on kraft card.  

Background paper from May's edition of Making Cards Magazine.

Greeting made using font Newsflash BB. 

As I was cleaning up my image after I had finished colouring (Just using a standard eraser, one of the great things about polychromos!) I managed to rub away part of my greeting, so I printed it out again and added it with foam tabs. Doh! 

Thanks for joining me today! Hope you have found some inspo in this post and may I enable you with a link to the Dr.Digi shop to see all the other fabulous animal digi's for sale?

Perfect Sunday but on Friday.

Hi again! First off, I have now completed one year working for Dr.Digi! Hooray! Now, back to work....

 It's my normal Dr.Digi's friday post but I'm time-travelling a bit with this and sharing with you a card I made a few months ago for Making Cards Magazine! (I made three cards for this and the first one is blogged here, the third one is yet to be blogged!)

I had a "British" theme to work with so one of the digis I chose was "Perfect Sunday" featuring Ambrose and Trotsky the dog.

You can get this digi here, but also he is part of the Tea Time Set (saves you a load of money so worth checking out) and the Weekend Set (if you fancy using those digi's more?) plus Trotsky is available by himself as a digi here, and he is also part of the Animals Set!

So here is my card (finally, lol!)

I coloured him with polychromo pencils on kraft card. The sentiments are all from the Tea Time Sentiment Sheet and the backing paper is from the Tea & Bickies Backing Papers Set.

Because this was for a magazine I have also prepared a detailed recipe with how I made it and which pencils I used so I'm going to share that here too in case you want to have a go with him?

Recipe!

Base: 

• Create 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm card blank.
• Print out onto white paper the Bickie – Brew 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 Perfect Sunday digistamp and sentiments from Tea Time Sentiments Sheet. A small sentiment is also on the bone. 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. Print out the topper once again by itself.

Colouring: 

• Colour in Perfect Sunday 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 the coloured digistamp from one topper and 3D foam mount onto the other uncoloured topper.   Cut out uncoloured topper. Using Fiskars Rounder Corner Scissors, cut off bottom right corners.

To Finish:

• Using 3D foam place topper onto card
• Add Ranger Glossy Accents to glasses and Trotsky’s eyes and nose.
• Add pearl bling around digi and one in the bottom right corner to finish.

Pencils Used!

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

Hair and Beard: 101, 199, 232, 274

Shirt: 101, 120, 146, 151

Waist Coat and Socks: 101, 110, 115, 121, 177, 225

Trousers: 101, 199, 233

Shoes: 101, 177, 180, 190, 274

Chair: 101, 177, 219, 225

Poof: 101, 120, 146, 151

Bone: 101, 108, 177, 180

Dog: 101, 123, 130, 132, 177, 187, 190, 199, 250

Products used:

 Dr.Digi's House of Stamps Tea Time Set

Kraft Card and Kraft Card Blanks

White paper for printing

Faber Castell Polychromos (24 pencil box set and a few additions)

Ranger Glossy Accents

Pearl Bling

White Posca Pen (0.7mm)

3D foam tape

Double sided tape

Cosmic Shimmer Glue

PC and a printer

Graphic Editing Software

Sharp knife and ruler or guillotine

Small Scissors

Fiskars Rounder Corner Scissors

Derwent Electric Eraser

Faber Castell Pencil Sharpener

Right! That's it, such a long post, but I hope there was something in all of that you were interested in, even if it's just a pencil colour combo? :D If you would like to check out the all new shiny Dr.Digi Shop, please click the image below!