Colouring with alcohol pens - Part 2 - Hair

Hiya crafty friends,

Part 1 - Last weeks finished dress

Welcome to my Clare Curd Crafts DT day and Part 2 of the Colouring with alcohol pens videos.

Last week I shown you Part 1, where I coloured Gorjuss' dress.

This week I will be colouring her hair, which isn't my strongest point...still need lots of practice but I'm quite pleased how it came out.

I decided instead of black hair I would colour her hair brown/auburn. I wish my hair was that colour...lol :)

 The colours I have used this week are:

Hair
Caramel	Eb2 (169) Skin Tones
Vanilla
Satin	FS1 (26) Pastels
Walnut

So, now on to the video

Be sure to pop in next week when I will be showing my skin coloring and the finishing touches.
See you then!

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Quick and easy alcohol pens tutorial - Step 1

Hiya crafty friends,

I don't know about you, but I could spends hours colouring one image with my alcohol pens. I love colouring as I find it very relaxing, but I decided to challenge myself and simplify a technique to use when I want to do a image in a quicker time (because believe me I will still spend ages on other images...well it is my stress busker).

I always to tend to work in groups of three for each colour I use, a dark, medium and light.

So I thought I would video my challenge for you all to see how I get on. I decided to colour a Gorjuss stamps as they are one of my faves. Today I will share with you step one, which will be followed for the next few Wednesdays with the subsequent steps.

I am starting with the 'dress' today and I will be using using Promarkers, but Clare has a fantastic collection of Spectrum Noirs in her store, which will work just the same.

Going by the Spectrum colour chart, here are the nearest eqvilents I could see

Dress Promarkers	Spectrum Noirs
Aubergine	PL5 (81) Purples
Amethyst	PL3 (85 Darks
Orchid	PL1 (147) Pinks

Tights
Black	True Black (120) Essentials
Ice grey 1	IG (CGO.5) Cool Greys

And always stamp your images with Memento Ink, as this ink will not run when coloured on.

Right, on to the video...

Be sure to visit next week for step two

Thanks for stopping by.

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It's the best stress buster for me!

Hiya crafty friends,

I really love to colour with my alcohol pens! It's the best stress buster for me.

I came across this digi stamp from Polka Doodles a while back and loved it. So I decided to enter their colouring challenge, which this weeks theme is 'Halloween Colours'. It didn't have to be a Halloween card but you had "to make sure you use Halloween colours such as purple, black, green and orange in your project".

I decided to make a shaped card so the digi stamp could take centre stage.

The Promarker colours I used where:

Umbrella:	Hair:	Dress:	Boots:
Orchid	Walnut	Ice Grey 2	Ice Grey 2
Amethyst	Burnt Orange	Ice Grey 5	Ice Grey 5
Meadow Green	Orange	Warm Grey 3	Warm Grey 3
Apple		Meadow Green	Orchid
Ice Grey 1 (metal bar)	Skin:	Apple	Amethyst
Orange	Coral	Grass
Burnt Orange (Handle)	Blush
	Ivory
	Baby Pink (Cheeks)

Thanks for stopping by

Happy crafting

Debbi x

All about the layers

Hiya crafty friends,

It's that time of the week again for me to share with you my Clare Curd Crafts Design Team project.

My fingers definitely got very inky making this card. I used the combination of Spiced Marmalade, Dried Marigold and Mustard Seed Distress Inks to make the sunset sky, which I really love doing, in all it variations. Hmmmm...I can see a lot of inky experimenting ahead making different skies...keep your eyes peeled ;)

Memento Tuxedo Black was used to stamp the grasses to give a silhouette effect.

I added a sentiment, cutout of white card to match the card base.

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