Digis, digis everywhere!

Whenever I print a digi out for a card I always fill the rest of the a4 card with other digis to colour and use at a later date. These 'spare' digis get put in a basket in my desk... They have built up quite a bit!!

Well, I finally got round to colouring my digis!!!

I always find if easier to get a couple of coordinating papers and then colour the image according to the colours on those papers. I put the images and the papers in separate envolopes to keep everything together.

Here are a few of my favourite digis - I love saturated canary images!! You can see that I've matched the colours to the papers. 

Now everything is coloured it's just a case of making up each card!! Here's a few I've done. Enjoy!x

Practice makes Perfect!

Ok, so my mission to practice colouring hair using promarkers has started! I did a bit of looking on the web yesterday for tutorials and tips on how to achieve a nice effect, and came across this hair and skin tutorial on the Letraset website. It uses a Gorjuss girl image and shows how to colour hair, skin and clothes to create highlights and shadows.

I printed off my 4 Saturated Canary girls and had another play...

hair: antique pink, cocktail pink, blush.
skin: ivory, oatmeal

hair: tan, pastel yellow, buttercup
skin: ivory, blush

hair: cocoa, tan, caramel
skin: blush, oatmeal

hair: cool grey 1-5, black fine liner
skin: ivory, blush

I have tried to do different hair colours and skin tones to experiment with the colours i have, and have come to the conclusion that i need more skin tone colours!!!

considering my last attempts I have to say, I'm quite pleased with myself!! I think I am definately getting better at colouring! The highlights and shadows add such depth to the images and really make them stand out. Think my fav is the blond hair. VERY happy with that!!

one thing I have noticed now that I am blending colours more is that the promarkers bleed alot on this card....think I need to make a trip to get some better quality card and some more promarker colours!!! :)

Speak soon.xxx

Bits and Bobs...

Its been a bit all over the place recently on the card making front, I have done a wedding invitation order, am working on quite a few male birthday cards and have had ALOT of fun with some digi stamps from Saturated Canary.

The invites were a joy to make - it was lovely to be able to work on some wedding stationary that wasn't mine tbh!!! I was given the brief of black and white damask with dark red as an accent colour. I made a range of different styled invites for the couple to look through and then from those they picked the invite they wanted. After a lot of emails and messages back and forth between me and the bride we finalised the font, wording and layout to exactly how she wanted. 

The black, white and red combo looked stunning on the final design, definitely a combo I'd like to work with again.

The male birthday cards are still works in progress so once they are finished i will post some piccys - working on two 80ths (for the same man) and an 18th card. I always find male cards quite difficult to do, so this is a challenge for me to say the least!! A fun challenge though!!

I had my eyes opened to the beautiful world of Saturated Canary by a friend this past week, who alerted me to a free digi stamp on the website. The digis are gorgeous!! - and SOOOOO fun to colour!!

I have 4 digis from them and I had a bit of a play with them today!

(I apologise for the crappy lighting in the photos!! NEED to get a decent light in here!!)

i used the circle framelit as a template to curve the clear stamp sentiment. 

thought this would make a beautiful card for a bridesmaid to give to a bride...or visa versa!!

am COMPLETELY in love with this digi!! everything about her is gorgeous!! including her cute kitty!!

I have used glossy accents on the balloon to give it dimension and shine. 

the HUGE eyes make these girls SO pretty!! and the quirky clothes allow you to go wild with the colour! I need more of these digi's in my life.....and so starts an unhealthy obsession with Saturated Canary digi stamps!! there are so many on the website - you can check them out HERE.

so thats what i have been up to recently! think I'm going to go and print some more of these digis off and colour some more :) - might work on colouring hair, haven't got the hang of it yet!!

By for now - speak soon.xxxx