A gorgeous card from Nanda

Hello

I told you we would be seeing more of Nanda's gorgeous creations, and here we are

Nanda has used Inky Impressions digi sentiment Dance in the Rain, which is one I personally love!  To find out how Nanda made the card, please visit her blog Nanda Creatief.

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you will be back soon to see more gorgeous Inky Inspirations

Using Coloured Pencils

Hi there, it's Vicky here with a tutorial on how to get the best effects when colouring stamps with coloured pencils.

I am a professional coloured pencil artist, with over 20 years experience (yikes - showing my age now!!) So when it come to choosing coloured pencils, I've tried them all!!  My pencils of choice are Faber Castell "Polychromos" and Derwent, both the "Artists" and "Studio" range.  These are all oil based and they keep their colour for years, I've even hung portraits in direct sunlight and had very little fading!

The most important thing to remember when using pencils is to KEEP THEM SHARP. 

I have stamped this cute image "Water Lili" on heavyweight cartridge paper, cartridge paper will take up the pencil much easier than smooth card.

I then start with folds in the dress, using Polychromos PURPLE and DARK RED very lightly...

I then lightly went over with ROSE CARMINE again very lightly... 

Sorry a bit of jump now!!  I got so carried away colouring I forgot to take pics :-(  But you can see how I darkened the folds with the DARK RED and PURPLE, building the colour up gradually. The lighter areas are shaded with ROSE CARMINE and finally blended with WHITE.

You can see I have started on the hat, again with the PURPLE and DARK RED.  I have darkened the areas closer to her head, and behind the upturned brim.

This time I remembered to take photos, so you can see how it gradually darkens.  I have gone over the shadowed areas with the ROSE CARMINE and then built up depth with the PURPLE and  DARK RED.

I lightly shaded the rest of the hat with the ROSE CARMINE, leaving small areas white for highlights, these were then blended with WHITE.

I also coloured her lips with ROSE CARMINE.  Now I move onto her hair.  I used BURNT UMBER for the darkest areas, I like to make the area under the hat and the tips of the hair the darkest.

The lighter shade is BROWN OCHRE which is blended with the darker shade.

I continue this for the rest of the hair, leaving white for the highlights.  I used the same colours for the eyes, darker in the corners, and leaving a white highlight.

For the hatband, bow and bottom of the dress I used CHROME GREEN OPAQUE (darker) and EARTH GREEN YELLOWISH.  The skin is VENETIAN RED, CINNAMON and MEDIUM FLESH. All of the colouring is done in exactly the same way, starting with shadow, darker areas and building up the colour gradually.  Her cheeks are shaded with ROSE CARMINE very lightly.

So there she is finished!!  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and it has inspired you to get your coloured pencils out.

Come back here again soon for some more Inky Imspiration!!

Robin Hood Christopher

Hello Inky fans, Vicky here today to show you this fab stamp called Robin Hood Christopher!!  When I saw this, I knew I had to have it!!  My brother is called Christopher and when he was 4yrs old he was dressed up as Robin Hood.  This was for a street party for the Queen's Silver Jubilee and it has always been one of my favourite photos of him (see below card for photo)

So here is the card I made, I really had loads of fun colouring this cute stamp.  It is one of the gorgeous rubber stamps and available HERE 

I used promarkers to colour him and have kept the embellies down to a minimum, because I want the stamp to stand out, and also it's a male card!!

Ok here is the photo (I'm sure my brother would kill me if he knew I was posting it!!!!)

Doesn't he look sweet???  And just who is that pretty flower girl next to him.....I wonder!!!!

I hope you all have a great day, and pop again soon for some more Inky Inspiration

Rachel Skating

Hello Inky fans, Vicky here with a card to give you a little inspiration!!  Well, I did promise to start earlier with my Christmas card, but I have surprised myself by beginning in January!!!!  But this little stamp is such a delight to colour, I couldn't wait a moment longer to ink her up and get going!!  You can find her HERE.  I have chosen a neutral, vintage look and teamed her up with papers from Forever Friends.  I have used Nestibilities and Spellbinders snowflake dies.

Awaiting photo

Image - Inky Impressions 'Rachel Skating'

Colouring - Promarkers

Paper - Forever Friends

Dies - Spellbinders

Don't forget you can find loads of inspiration on this site, so come back again soon

 

Pumpkin into Holly Wreath

Hello

Today I'm sharing with you a Christmas ornament that I made using a non Christmas stamp!  I used 'Lili's Pumpkin' which can be found HERE.  I used a small holly stamp, coloured and cut out the leaves, and simply placed them over the pumpkin!

I added a few gems as berries.  I cut Lili out and mounted her on a nestie shape added some bling from my stash.  All the colouring is done with promarkers.

Do come back soon for some more Inky Inspiration!