Coloring Challenge- Day 7 Mason Jar

This is an SU stamp I've had hanging around uninked for quite a while.  I have a lot of those.  Last year's uncrafty slump definitely set me back a bit.  I would have liked to have spent more time making the jar photo real but I just didn't go there.

Coloring Challenge- Day 6 Shitake

Hubby's having/going to have one of those weeks at work and I've been wanting to break out my Unity pun stamps so there you have it.  Today's coloring project.  Quick and easy but with an end goal in mind this time.  It's colored with Copics and a white gel pen and mounted on a mini Stampin' Up card.

Coloring Challenge- Day 5 Angel Gal #3

I was planning to do something else today but as I said, all of these SCACD images were already stamped and oh so convenient.  :)  I did this with watercolor pencils but I'm not sure if I'll go back and blend or not.

Coloring Challenge- Day 4 Angel Gal #2

Ok.  Got her done.  I really need to take that hair and skin class.  :)  Obviously I was having serious inking problems on these images so this is another one I'll trim out entirely.  It even smudged a bit on her cheek when I was working on it today.  Grrr.  This was colored with Crayola colored pencils.

Coloring Challenge- Day 3 Angel Gal #2

Well, I didn't get far on this one but it's a start.  It's another SCACD (Susana's Custom Art & Card Design) image. Did I mention there were 8 stamps in the prize kit?

Coloring Challenge- Day 2 Angel Gal

So I've had a set of SCACD stamps for more than a while now.  I actually won them over at Craft Test Dummies but I've never used them.  I think I just didn't have anyone of an appropriate age to send the images to.  However, now that I know lots of girls approaching tween years quickly, I figured it would be better to break them out than get rid of them.  This is my favorite one.  I definitely got her skin a bit too pink (I knew I should have stopped twiddling with it!) and I really need to take a skin and hair class over at Kit and Clowder but for not usually doing people, I'm rather pleased with her.  When I go to use her, I'll trim her out entirely- for whatever reason, when I stamped her and a bunch of other images I want to color, the ink went on blotchy or the stamp slipped and I got double images. Blarf.

I mostly tried to use my distress markers to color this just to get them out and use them.  However, when it came to skin, I switched over to colored pencils.

Coloring Challenge- Day 1 dinos

So Kathy Racoosin over at The Daily Marker is one of my coloring (and design) heroes.  I love her abilities and style.  I want to be Kathy when I grow up.  LOL!  She's holding a challenge for the next month to simply color every day.  It doesn't have to be fancy, complete, mounted, anything.  Just color.  I can do that.  Or at least I want to do that.  


Day 1.  I've culled my stamp stash again but there were a few sets that I didn't want to completely part with but I knew that I really wouldn't use them enough to make it worth keeping them.  Those I stamped up a few pages of blanks for future use.  Dino-mite was one of those.

While I spent quite a bit of time on it, it still doesn't have the shading/depth on it that I'd like.  I tend to get my Copics on heavier than I'd like in shaded areas and then blend over them so much that they fade out.  Oh well.  There it is for today.