Critters...

Hi all,

You know there was a time a while ago, when the only stamps I had were red rubber and were critters... Yes I did say it was a while ago...The Dinosaur era of stamping LOL..

Well I saw a challenge at Penny Black and More  - Blooms, Butterflies or Bugs   that made me want to take out a very old red rubber stamp by Penny Black and colour a Hedgehog... I can't remember the last time I coloured a critter??

On my desk was a piece of left over Neenah 100lb smooth Desert Storm paper, now I generally don't use this colour cardstock for stamping on but I made a card the other week and pencilled coloured on it and it turned out amazingly well, so I thought I'd give it a try...

I've used my Prismacolor pencils on this card and also two MFT stencils and distress ink, to achieve this look...I must admit it looks very different of Dessert Storm cardstock compared to White but I'm liking the look LOL..

Hope you like the card, maybe you might try coloring on Kraft coloured cardstock!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Alli

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Altenew - AECP - Level 2 - Colour Your Day

Hi guys I'm back today with another card that I've made for my AECP.

Todays class was called Colour Your Day, with the lovely Therese Calvird, I really enjoyed this class and some of the info in the class I remembered vaguely from art class at school...way, way back...(too far back if I'm honest LOL)

So lets look at the colour wheel.. (this one is a free one I've downloaded)

Can you see from the wheel that if you say go with Red, that the complementary colour is Green, and that the Triad colours would be Blue-Green and Yellow Green... (Triad means it forms a triangle).
And if you look at the wheel it shows what other colours work well together too..like Orange and Red Violet or even Blue, colour combo's that you often wouldn't use together...

This really helps when your stuck, and not sure what colours go well with each other.

Also, photos can be a great colour inspiration too, or colour swatches, I have a lot of those saved on my Pinterest.., the other day I actually did a colour challenge that was from one of those swatches!

So I've based my card on the formula that Therese taught us the 70:20:10 Which is 70% of the card will be one colour, 20% is the next colour and 10% the last colour.. The colours used can be within the family of that colour. (like the colour wheel above)

Any way my card as I said is on the 70:20:10 rule,  I'm going to show you the card and then the process used..

I've used 70% as the neutral kraft colour, 20% the pink colours and 10% green colours.

So the process involved in this card... firstly, I stamped the image on to some kraft card stock with Sand Dune ink.

I've then go in with my light colours to add highlights, I like adding the white first on kraft card stock, this just ensures that I do in-fact get highlights where I want them.  And you need to work fast when using a light ink on kraft card stock as the ink seems to vanish..

Here I've started to add the darker greens to the image for shadows.. and then I'll move on to my Pink colours.

And once the image is complete, I can go back and re-stamp if need be. (I am using a stamping positioner)

I decided that I wanted to stamp the rest of the card with the images from the set, but my only colouring would be this one image, creating a spotlight effect.

Don't forget, that it won't be as detailed as this as the ink will nearly vanish.

I've framed the card and heat embossed a sentiment in Pink and used Pink sequins to tie in with my 20% colour.

 This formula can also be used in many ways... here's a few examples I've made..

On this card, I've used similar colours but the background is my 70% the cream leaves my 20% and the gold sentiment my 10%.

On this one, my background is splattered with my 20% and my 10% colours. (Pink/Reds and Green)

This whole card is just three colours too, White, Gray and Pink.

Hope this has helped you with you're colour combo struggle!

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Alli

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