Surprise – you may think this is TP Dudley (the freebie from Whimsy Stamps) but that Dudley is all tied up with toilet paper. No, this is Mrs. Dudley! She’s all tied up in her latest quilting project. And with all the time she has on her hands, she’s not complaining.
I altered this image with creative color placement and colored the toilet paper first to make them look like rolls of pieced fabrics. Then I added strands of threads, pins, rolls of thread and a pair of scissors to help “sell” the theme. I think she turned out cute.
Many of you had a sneak peak when it was at this stage and thank you for the suggestions on colors. I wasn’t sure what to do and I agree with most that a gray-scale dragon would have made the colors pop. However, I wasn’t in a gray-scale mood so I went with teal which seems to be a second best choice.
I have a sweet project to share today featuring Polka Dot Pals Atlas with cotton candy on a boardwalk. I had pulled out a retired stamp from my stash to use as the background. I was considering going for a purple and blue sky on this but ended up going with a black night sky with stars. This is one of those projects that sat half uncolored on the desk for several weeks. I was debating on tossing it in the bin or to finish it. The cotton ball was the inspiration that I needed to finish this card.
The background was created by stamping the carnival duck game twice then coloring the floor to look like wood planks. In the end, the cotton ball was glued on top and a small piece of chipboard was used for the stick. Lastly, a chipboard sentiment was added.
Stamps Used: Polka Dot Pals Atlas by Whimsy Stamps Polka Dot Pals Mason by Whimsy Stamps (face, preview) Hook a Duck by Little Miss Muffet Stamps (retired)
It’s Easter this weekend and I thought I should at least get one bunny, chick or lamb project done before it passes. So I settled on a lamb and transformed Christine You Got This from Stamp Anniething. Special thank you to Ann for the stamp! The sentiment is from a Polka Dot Pals set.
At first I wasn’t sure how to color this cutie but then found inspiration in my daughter’s latest drawing and took it from there.
I stamped the character without the original face and wiped off the ink before stamping it. This gave me a blank canvas to play with. I started out with W1 and started to sketch out the face and lay down my shadows. Then I built upon that with W3 and finally jumping to W8 before working my way back blending as I go.
With the face and hair done, it was time to think about the clothing. However, I wasn’t sure what color so I skipped this and went on to the background. This part stumped me and I wasn’t sure what to do. I stewed about it for a few hours and came back later in the evening with the farm idea and a bright yellow sunset.
As you can see, I really did leave the clothing until last and it wasn’t until this point that I decided I should bring in some blue. I first had to fix my little mistake with her hair clip and then pressed on. After all was done, I placed it on a card, stamped the sentiment then used Liquid Pearls and a white gel pen to add some flowers.
“Baa-ram-ewe, baa-ram-ewe. To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true. Sheep be true. Baa-ram-ewe.” Thanks for stopping by!
We have a special collaboration post today and coloring challenge to share. Special thanks to Ann from Stamp Anniething for sponsoring this event and to Denise from Whimsy Stamp for supplying the other images to make it complete.
A few of us got together to challenge ourselves in coloring and we hope this inspires you to join along too. The rules were basic… (1) use a Stamp Anniething character, (2) the jar from Atlas Jar, and (3) to incorporate coloring water using Creative Color Placement techniques. Then (4), I added a personal objective onto myself to see how a Polka Dot Pals add-on face would work on these characters.
Following are details on my project but also make sure to visit everyone else and see their amazing projects. Everyone’s project is unique and totally fantastic!!
I started off by stamping the character and the elements on my card. I used a light no-lines color ink so I didn’t worry about masking anything except for the face area which is described further on. There were even a few things I stamped on there that I never colored too – but I don’t think you’ll spot them. Once everything was stamped, then the Creative Color Placement began.
I sketched out the hippo beanie hat on scratch paper to figure out how I wanted it to look. Some stamp companies don’t like it when stampers add pencil marks or black fine-line marker to their images. But I already knew that Ann, and Denise for that matter, was completely ok with this so I lightly sketched the hippo hat onto my project. Otherwise, I would have to start coloring in the hippo without any pencil guides to satisfy the other company’s criteria. Which is what I did for the water puddle, grumpy cloud’s mouth and the rainbow since they didn’t have a lot of detail. I also gave this character a new hair dew (patterned after another Stamp Anniething character) and did this so the hat would “fit” better.
My original concept to incorporate water was to have a giant storm contained in the jar with lightning, thunder and lots of rain. Then the sky outside the jar would have a somber look after a heavy rain storm but with tidbits of a rainbow poking through with sunshine. Yea, that didn’t happen. What resulted was something a lot less dramatic so I felt I had to add another water element and colored in the puddle of water. My overall idea is still there but you’ll have to imagine the stormy ambiance yourself.
The face is a stamp element from the Polka Dot Pals Syeda set. Before stamping the character, I used a cotton swab and wiped off the ink on the original face. This gave me a blank canvas and I chose to use this Polka Dot Pals add-on face stamp. It’s a nice fit so I think any of the add-on faces would look great. If you read this much, then thank you and I hope this project inspires you to color some today. Thank you to Ann, Jennifer, Mindy and Stephen for playing along. Cheers!
Here’s our second watercolor project that I did with my kids using the Let’s Make Art Peacock kit. I loved the colors and feathers and really wanted to be able to accomplish this. However, I think it might have been too much to tackle as a team but at least we got it done.
Amelia decided a more abstract version of the feathers would be needed and got out her watercolor markers to finish her masterpiece.
Lydia took her time to follow the instructions and had it almost perfect up to the last step then it got a little more watery than she wanted. Still looks cool though.
I think Cassandra was just interested in getting this one out of way but she did a great job following all the steps to complete hers.
Here’s my peacock – let’s just say it was good first attempt and I still have a lot to learn to master watercolors…. especially patience! LOL
Here’s a far out project that I wanted to share. This project combines three different stamps – Flower Garland Paper Doll Marci from La-La Land Crafts, Polka Dot Pals Khadija from Whimsy Stamps and Space Scape from High Hopes. This was an unusual combination for me and I’m not sure how one thing let to another – except I can say that I was tried of choosing a skin tone and wanted something different. Blue is different right? The rest is history.
I have to say this is one of my favorites projects this week. I think it has to do with using black in the sky (for space, of course) and for adding unique elements to make it even better.
In this section, I colored the white bow around the waist, added socks and glittery pink shoes. The pose on these hands always throw me for a loop on what to do so I went ahead and gave this girl some flower power. Her super power is to spread flowers and peace wherever she flies – oh yea, and she can fly too.
The faces from the Polka Dot Pals sets work naturally with the La-La Land characters. The images can be stamped in a light color or the ink can be wiped away from the character before stamping. Then the Polka Dot Pals Add-On Face can be added.
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