Month: July 2015

Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# BLACK Black8

Ice Cream Emma

July 30, 2015 craftybit

Hi!

I’m here with a new card, really loved working with the papers I used for the wedding card that was shared on the Paper Nest Dolls Facebook page the other week with Prom Avery, so I thought I would use them again and pair them with sweet Ice Cream Emma for a birthday card. Todays image is coloured with copics and a few Faber Castel Polychromos to add detail to the hair and add some definition to the shadows. I have also made a video showing how I colour the image and going step by step through how I put the card together.

Copic:
Skin: E000, E00, E21, E11, BV00
Hair: E41, E42, E43
Dress: R000, R00, R11, RV42
Shoes: T0, T2, T4
Ice cream cone: E50, E53, E55, E57

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Gift From Millie

July 30, 2015 craftybit

Hi!

I have a new card for you today, it’s all about those bright strong colours. Also for the past couple of weeks I have been hopping onto the diversity bandwagon, Sandy Allnock has shared a wonderful chart for what she calls colouring the human rainbow, you can get it for free from her website. It’s all about trying to mix it up when it comes to skin colour. I have been trying to do that before, but have a way of defaulting back to caucasian skin colours I usually do, as that is a colour combo that is in my head. But after printing and colouring that chart (you can find a video of me colouring it and talking abit more about it here), I do find myself using more and more different skin colours. I have the chart laying on my table next to my colouring together with my hex chart and my copic chart. And it just makes me change things up. I also find myself using other pattern papers as different skin colours lends them self for other colour combinations for the clothes and the whole card.

Copic:
Skin:E21, E23, E25, E27, V17
Hair: BG11, BG13, BG15, BG49
Eyes: YG01, YG05, YG09, G09
Dress: YR12, YR16, YR09, YR18, Y15, Y17, YR24, YR27

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Sonny Honeycloud Rocks

July 18, 2015 craftybit

For this card I pulled out my distress inks, not for the character as she is coloured with copics as usually, using one of Sandy Allnocks wonderful skin colours from her coloring the human rainbow chart, adding a lighter colour for those highlights. But the background is all distress inks. Actually only three of them, the orange is made by blending the yellow and the pink and the green is made by blending the blue and the yellow, a simple but fun background.

The character is called Sonny Honeycloud Rocks and is a Little Miss Muffet Stamps stamp, it is so adorable. I loved playing with the pinks in the hair, just adding more and more different shades. Don’t forget to join the challenge over at Little Miss Muffet Stamps Challenge Blog this week, its anything goes.

Copic:
Skin: E000, E00, E93, V12
Hair:RV02, RV04, RV06, RV09, RV17, RV69
Greys: N0, N2, N4, N6, N8
Stars: Y00, Y02, Y08

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Paper Nest Dolls – Maddy With Glasses

Maddy With Glasses

July 17, 2015 craftybit

Hi Everyone!

Today I have a tag for you all, I’m using the adorable Maddy With Glasses and being a girl with glasses myself I thought I would give her pink hair. Now for some reason you can’t see the adorable candy-floss pink hair she got on the photo, it looks greyer than in real life.

Copic:
Skin: E11, E13, E57, E49
Hair: R0000, R000, R00, R01, T0, T2, T4
Dress, Shoes, Glasses, Book & Bow: G0000, G000, G00, G12
Book pages: E40, E41, E42

Supplies:

Tim Holtz Sizzix Framelits TAG COLLECTION Wafer Thin Die Set 658784

My Mind’s Eye 6 x 6 CHALK STUDIO 2 Paper Pad CS3011

Simon Says Stamp MINI STARS Craft Dies sssd111355 Pure Sunshine

DoCrafts Assorted Colossal Colours 8X8

3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent

*Glue Dots 3/16 MINI DOT N GO Disposable Dispenser Adhesive

80s Fashion Decade

July 15, 2015 craftybit

Hi Guys!

So you all know I love me a challenge, so when I saw the colouring challenge over at Saturated Canary I just new I needed to enter. The challenge is to colour on of their Fashion Decade Digis, I choose to colour the 80s one, not only because I’m an 80s girl in so many ways but also because of that hair! Just love that hair! I also wanted to join the #thehumanrainbow movement that Sandy Allnock started, to get us colourists to start using a bigger variation of skin colours in our colouring to show the true blend of people out there. So that is something you are going to see much more from me.

Copic:
Skin: E53, E55, E57, V17
Hair: E23, E25, E27, E29, E49
Eyes: YG01, YG05, YG09, G09
Dress: RV10, RV21, RV13, RV25
Pants: T0, T2, T4

Polychromos:
 Bistre, Fuchsia, Van-Dyke-Brown, Light Purple Pink, Hooker’s Green

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Make It Crafty – Scootin Witch

Scootin Witch – Updated and with a video

July 14, 2015 craftybit

Today I have a card and a video for you, this post is all about those cast shadows and I go through in the video how I thought about my cast shadows. Cast Shadows is the challenge over at Make It Colourful this month, so come on over and join us! I really like how the cast shadows on the witches tummy from the handle looks, I’m not as happy with the one on the ground, it’s to far down on the paper and a little to much near the center. But hope you’ll enjoy the video.

Copic:
Skin: YG01, YG23, YG25, YG17, G28, G85
Clothes: V0000, V000, V01, V12, V15, V17, V09
Shoes: N0, N2, N4, N6, N8, N10, 0
Broom: E70, E71, E74, E77, E79
Light: Y00, Y04
Background: BG70, BG72, BG75, BG78

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Marley Blooms

July 11, 2015 craftybit

A while ago I bought some Faber Castel Polychromos pencils, but I haven’t used them that much so I decided that for the card today I would, but colouring with copics goes so much faster. So I went for something in between, I’m using some Neenah cardstock as it is good for both copics and pencils. The Make It Crafty cardstock I usually use for colouring with copics have to little “teeth” for me to get good results with my polys (which could just be me as I’m very new to them). I knew I just needed to use Marley Blooms and doesn’t that flower look awesome with those pencils creating some extra depth. I didn’t keep track on the pencils used but you have the copic listed down below.

Copic:
Mouse: W0, W1, W3, R01, R31, R32
Flower: YR18, YR09, YR16, YR21, Y21, Y18, YR24, YG23
Shirt: W0, W1, YR18, YR09, YR16, YR21
Pants: BG10, BG23, BG13, BG49

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Make It Crafty – Scootin Witch

Scootin Witch

July 7, 2015 craftybit

The new challenge over at Make It Colourful this month is Cast Shadows, it’s a really fun challenge as most things casts a shadow and this is a good way of practising finding where the light is. The creation I did this time isn’t really a card, it’s just colouring, and that is the nifty thing about these challenges, you don’t need to make a card, you can just colour to your hearts content. I like how this image turned out, but every time I pass it on my table I feel that it needs something more. So today you get the coloured image, and in a couple of days you are getting a video of the colouring and hopefully an updated image where I added some more details to the background, kind of kicking it up a notch.

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