Ever Get Tired of Coloring?

I don't know if I will get tired of coloring stamps, I can't seem to stop! I like my prismacolor pencils best, but I have some Tombow markers and Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers that I was playing around with yesterday. Here are two images I colored with the pencils from 2 Cute Ink from my digital stamp library.

I added some details with black marker like hash marks and dots. I tried to get as much color as I could on the image. The prismacolor pencils are great for that, lots of pigment, easy to layer and smooth leads. I'm also working on a coloring contest for Esther Price candies, where you can win Easter chocolates...that's my kind of contest!

Jennifer McGuire has a video of using pencils and gamsol, which dissolves the wax a bit and smooths the pencil marks...and since she's the master at any technique, I thought you might want to take a peek, so here's the link.

Happy Monday!

Chark

Penguins Is Practically Chickens

I got to help choose this design for the 2 Cute Ink contest I won. I asked for an animal other than an owl reading because c'mon...animals reading? How cute is that? Well, it's pretty darn cute if you're Heidi and you draw a penguin in glasses. I wonder what he's reading.

I colored this guy up and fussy cut him and put him on a Dylusions spray background I made. I spent an afternoon with a pizza box to catch the sprays, a million sheets of different types of paper and about 3 spray colors. After the papers dried, I cut them out and ran them through the Big Shot with this 3-D embossing folder by We R Memory Keepers. My favorite papers were the slightly glossy kind you shouldn't send through an inkjet printer because they'll smear. The spray droplets are more pronounced and don't bleed into the paper as much...you can see that in the close-up.

You might recognize my post title from this classic Bugs Bunny cartoon. One of my favorite cute penguins is little guy, especially when he cries ice cubes. Love!

Happy Monday!

Chark