Polka Dot Pals Harley

New releases are at Whimsy Stamps for the month of March and this is one of them – Polka Dot Pals Harley. I created this scene using a few of the other Polka Dot Pals sets as well: Polka Dot Pals Fern, Polka Dot Pals Imogen and Polka Dot Pals Syeda. It’s just so fun to mix and match these sets and I often have them all out on the coloring desk for me to use.

This scene was actually created by my youngest daughter who wanted to color along with me. This is her coloring and I think she did a great job. But most importantly, we had fun together.

I like to show the before and after coloring, especially of the faces, to show how much character can be added. Harley started out with two dots for eyes and a strand of straw.

Here’s a close up of his face. I wanted to go for a crooked smirk so it looked like he was smiling but also chomping down on that strand of straw so it wouldn’t slip out of his mouth.

These are the supplies that I used on my project:

Paper:
Make it Crafty Blending Cardstock
Park Lane Paperie Woodland

Stamps:
Polka Dot Pals Harley (character and frog)
Polka Dot Pals Fern (freckles and fence)
Polka Dot Pals Imogen (mushrooms)
Polka Dot Pals Syeda (clouds and straw)

Copics:
E70, 71, 74, 77 (fence)
C1, 3, 5 (eyes, teeth and nails on fence)
YR09, 12, 30, 31, Y21, 24 (mushroom)
W1, 3, 4, 8 (mushroom and clouds)
B91, 93, 95 (pants)
B01, 00, 0000, 41 (shirt)
G05, 03, 82, 12, 20, Y21 (frog)
G14, 17, 28 (grass)
YR24, 16, E08, 57 (hair)
E000, 00, 30, 31, R12 (skin)
BG0000, 11, 10 (sky)
BV23 (drop shadows)