Hey Lovely with Polkadoodles

 Hello friends, I am sharing some lovely spring inspiration with you today featuring the Hey Lovely stamp set from the Hello Spring collection from Polkadoodles.  I paired the stamped images with the Circle Hearts stencil from the Sweet Moments collection.  I used black ink because I am away from home and it's the only color I brought...but, it shows that you can still be creative with limited supplies.  Plus, I think using the grey paper and the black ink really make the orange and green pop!

I've coloured these flowers using my Prismacolor Premiere colored pencils in the following colors:

Green:  908, 1096, 1005, 1004
Red:  937, 924, 122, 1001
Yellow: 947, 941, 997, 916, 914, 938
Orange:  945, 1032, 921, 118, 1002

Garden Gnomes New Release with Artful Angel

 Do you love gnomes like I do?  I love gnomes!  I especially love to color them :)  Artful Angel is releasing some new stamps today and one of them includes these fun Garden Gnomes!  Aren't they sweet?

To challenge myself, I used The Color Catalogue from Sarah Renae Clark to color these fun gnomies.  I used an online random number picker and was given the number 004!  Ok, sure!  I also colored with my Kalour colored pencils (WHAT?!) using the Prismas Color companion.  When you get to know your pencils really well, you can pick out the proper colors in other sets to match certain ones.

So the color combinations I used from Kalour are following:

Skin Combo #3:  181, 175, 197, 195, 048

Antique Navy:  296, 374, 378, 464, 381

Dusky Green:  174, 168, 116, 108, 118

Harvest Yellow:  039, 041, 056, 053, 204

See you again soon my friends!

Abominable with Artful Angel and The Color Catalogue

 Well hellooooo there!  Today I am sharing a bookmark I created using the Abominable stamp set from Artful Angel, while also featuring The Color Catalogue from Sarah Renae Clark for the Artful Angel Color Challenge.  That was a mouthful wasn't it? LOL

This month we are using the #303 color palette from The Color Catalogue.  Such an inspirational tool that takes all the guesswork out of your color palettes.  Especially since Sarah Renae Clark has added the companions, which match up the colors to several different marker and pencil brands.  I use Prismacolor Premiere a lot, so this companion has been immensely helpful!

I focussed this color palette on the Yeti itself, but have also applied it to the main part of the bookmark...the background papers.  Below is the list of Prisma color pencils I used for this challenge!

208, 195, 930, 929, 928, 938, 935, 936, 1024, 1052

Have some fun and come and join us in the Artful Angel Takes Flight Facebook group!

Footprints from Artful Angel

 Hello from the north, it's definitely geting to be "Yeti" weather up here in Canada ;)

I am here to share a winter card with you today featuring one of the newest releases from Artful Angel called Footprints.  I coloured this yeti using my Kalour coloured pencils (combos listed below).  I also paired this sweet image with some papers from my stash cut using the Card Cut Essentials Die Set #2 from Pink & Main, also available at Artful Angel.

Colours used: I have included the names of the colour combinations.  I find them easier to remember than every pencil colour ;)

Fur: 137, 113, 396, 138, 242 (Tropical Sea)
Face: 170, 470, 460, 288, 287 (Sweater Vest)

Stay warm friends, I will be back soon enough ;)

Fairy Door with Woodware Designs

 Good day my friends, the snow is starting to stay on the ground here in the north.  How is the weather in your neck of woods? 

I am here to share a single-layer card with you today featuring the Fairy Door stamp set from Woodware Designs.  This company is fast becoming one of my favourites; stamp designer Francois Reed in particular!

I have colored this image wiht my Copic markers.  This stamp set is available (on sale!) at Scrapbook.com :)

Unfortunately I had a sticky marker and had to add some colored pencil over top to, not only deepend the shadows, but also to combat the shine fromt he sticky marker (ew).

What do you do to combat the shine left from a sticky marker?  I have also heard people use their embossing powder tools over the image to get a matte finish back.  Let me know in the comments below what you tips and tricks are for sticky marker shine!

Booklover New Release with The Rabbit Hole Designs

 I am back again my friends to share another project for The Rabbit Hole Designs new release!  This card features the Booklover stamp set and immediately won my heart.  This is my favorite set from this new release :)  If you know me, you know we are avid readers in this house, and anything books is always a win!

8 CRazy Nights Sentiments New Release with Artful Angel

 It's me again!  I am back to share another card for Hanukkah, using both the 8 Crazy Nights Sentiments stamp set and the 8 Crazy Nights stamp set from Artful Angel.