Hear the News

I have a horrible feeling that I am becoming whiny about missing my digital camera.  However, I am a little disappointed with the results of my step-by-step coloring examples for this project.  The lines look really harsh and don't seem to show how to blend color pencils very well.  I think you will be able to get the idea though.  For today's card I paired the flutter chick (B1250) and hear the news (B1246) stamps together with paper from the Butterfield collection.  All the coloring was done with Prismacolor pencils.

First I stamped my bird onto some of the "graph" paper of the Butterfield collection using black VersaFine ink.  I thought it would be interesting to have some of the lines showing through the bird.

Second, I colored the center of the bird as well as the tops of the wings with a canary yellow pencil.  Can you tell from the picture that I pressed really hard at the center of the belly with my pencil and lightened my touch as I moved away from the center?  I wanted the middle of my bird to be a dark yellow and the edges to be a lighter shade that would be easier to blend into the surrounding brown.

Next, I added some sandbar brown to my bird.  I pressed really hard at the bottom of the bird and each wing and then lightened my touch as I moved up towards the head.

Finally, I used small circles and colored over the entire image with a peach beige pencil to blend all of the colors together.  I lost some of the details of the bird doing this (such as the eyes), so I went back with a fine-tip black marker and drew them back in.

To finish the card, I punched out the bird image with a 1 1/4" circle punch and layered the bird and saying onto the card using some dill cardstock as a mat.

Comments

[Heidi]

Really cute card, love how you stamped on that paper. Great tutorial on the coloring, even if it's scanned! Turned out great. Hope your camera arrives soon!