Tilda with Cozy Heart

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Welcome on back to the backyard where you get to meet Uniqua pretending to be a Magnolia Tilda! This cute little pink alien was so much fun to color and by request I’ve captured step-by-step photos of how she came to be.


Step 1. Carefully and lightly draw in your additions. Make sure to use a nice and clean eraser so you don’t leave any smudges.

Step 2. I erased as much as I dared to then colored in everything with RV11. I got distracted and was going to color just the antenna with the medium color and everything else with RV10. Half of the design is a darker pink on top of this current pink and the circles are easy to color so I didn’t mind coloring over them and adding them in later. If they were to be different colors, then I would make sure not to color them in – leaving them white like the eyes.


Step 3. I used RV32, RV11 and RV10 and shading in the ink areas.


Step 4. I used RV11 to sketch in and color the spots. Uniqua’s spots change position depending on which images your looking at, so I added them in the general spots and also shifted them around slightly to mesh with the image.


Step 5. The rest of Uniqua is a darker pink so I colored those areas in as well and shaded all the dark pink areas using R85, RV95, RV34 and RV32. With so much pink, what little girl wouldn’t love this character?!


Step 6. Take a break to do homework and go to class. LOL Then come back to finish up; adding color to the heart and socks; and more shadows in ares that need a little more depth. 😀


In hind sight… I was using Stamping Bella paper to color on and I should have left the dark pink ares blank then colored them in later as you can see I’ve reached the paper’s saturation level and it stopped blending well. You can catch up on the paper qualities in my Paper Project posts.

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:

The Poodles Parlour Challenge – Anything goes
Stampin’ for the Weekend Challenge #6 – Anything goes
Magnolia-licious Challenge – Color challenge

Edwin with Stolen Heart

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Is anyone a Backyardigans fan? Well, I’ve been having fun with some Magnolia stamps and colored a few of them to resemble the Backyardigans characters! LOL So this first one is Tyrone the moose and I used Edwin with Stolen Heart which was perfect!


All I had to do was add some antlers and ears then color in the face to look like Tyrone and the rest was easy… Edwin had the perfect shirt on and the face came naturally. 😀 To do this, I first drew in the the extras with a light pencil and just before coloring it, I erased the pencil marks as much as possible.


Check out that cute face… isn’t he adorable?! Tomorrow I’ll have a short tutorial on how I colored Uniqua so you can see how easy it was. I ended up coloring all five characters and made a gift set out of them for an elementary school teacher. So what do you think? An acceptable conversion?

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:

Pattie’s Creations Challenge #40 – Anything goes
Phindy’s Place Challenge #98 – Animal planet
Simply Magnolia Challenge – Anything goes

Hatter

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It’s finally here – the blog hop for Simply B Stamps and the release of the Alice in Wonderland Chibis! Our final image to bring out for show and tell is the Hatter and he is simply mad about today’s events. LOL

Looks like I’m first on the hop so you’re at the right spot!!
(See the whole list at SBS Blog if you get lost along the way.)


Thanks to everyone who played along in the guessing game on the banner! The last letter is “W” and is also the first in the series to spell…. WONDER! I used random.org to pick out a comment and our winner is from the Cheshire post…

Shari – Mar 22, 2012 11:07 AM
“ok, i think i have a good guess now….Is it wonderland?? Love your image!”

Congratulations! You’ve won all four Petite Dames from Little Miss Muffet Stamps in digi form!! Use my email address in the sidebar and contact me to claim your prize. 😀


Here’s the complete banner with all the images merged together. I didn’t have a good enough light on the wall to take a picture with it all strung together with ribbon but this give the basic idea. You can click on the image to see a larger version.

Thanks for dropping by. *Hugs

Make sure you also visit the SBS Blog for all the release details!
The next stop in the hop is the fantastic SUZI!

Alice

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Welcome back to the Alice in Wonderland Chibis previews from Simply B Stamps! Today we have the wonderful Alice – she’d be perfect for the upcoming holiday especially holding that bunny. Isn’t she cute?! Make sure to drop the SBS Blog for more inspiration using this image and tomorrow we’ll have a blog hop featuring our final image when all these images will be released. I wonder which character it will be?!


There have been some wonderful guesses in trying to figure out what this banner will say! You’re almost there with only one more day left before a winner is chosen. That’s right, today is the last day and tomorrow I’ll announce the winner who will receive all four Petite Dames from Little Miss Muffet Stamps in digi form!! Whohooo! Isn’t that wonderful?! He he he.


Here is your next and final clue… “N”! So far, the letters are “DOERN” and if you’re still wondering what it could be then here are two hints… the letters are mixed up and it’s been part of the file names. LOL Ok, ok… I’m practically giving it away but most of you have already guessed correctly. ;D I wonder who will win…. but you’ll have to check back tomorrow to see who it is! Good luck and thanks for dropping by!

Agent Eclair

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I’ve got a little surprise for you today… it’s a new challenge at Little Miss Muffet Stamps and we even have a freebie for you to use!! But before we get to those details I want to show off my project first. 😀 Our theme for this fortnight is Silhouettes – that’s right, we want to see your silhouettes and shadows!


For my project I merged three silhouette images to create the background… Agent Éclair Dropping, Agent Cupcake Descending and Treehouse Headquarters. The card came together quickly but in the end I decided to add a bit of color and added Agent Éclair in the foreground. The saying on the metal embellishment is “Possibility begins with imagination” which I thought as perfect for these girls. 😀


All the Silhouettes were released last week from Little Miss Muffet Stamps and even the rubber stamps are available in silhouette digi form!! It’s a steel of a deal too… any three silhouettes for just $3.00 – so head on over and start browsing for some ideas. 😀

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:

One Stitch at a Time Challenge #105 – Girly
Pile it On Challenge #12 – Up in the Air
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #94 – Metal
That Craft Place Challenge – Anything Goes
Cardmadfairy’s Digi Days Challenge – Sentiments


Now for that FREEBIE! Head on over to the Little Miss Muffet Challenge Blog and pick up a cute little silhouette that you can use in the challenge! It will be available for a couple days so don’t miss out. (And who knows, maybe the counterpart will show up for Easter next month!)

Red Queen

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Welcome back for another Alice in Wonderland Chibis Collection from Simply B Stamps. If you’ve been collecting your clues for the banner prize then your next letter is “R”. Click HERE to find out more details on guessing the banner name and a chance at winning a prize. What’s your guess? So far we have “DOER” … are you a Doer? Sometime I am most definitely not a doer but don’t tell my family that. LOL


The image used today is the Red Queen, from Simply B Stamps, and depicts one of my favorite parts – you can just tell she has the total authority over her dominion, the Red Queen fashion. 😀 Thanks for stopping by and and you’ve been enjoying these banners – you can also stop by the SBS Blog for more inspiration using this image.