It’s another challenge day at Make it Colourful and this week we want to colour with purple!! This challenge is sponsored by Some Odd Girl and for my project I used School Girl Tia and Bookish Tia then set in front of the Sunflower Garden by Make it Crafty.

Today I just have a colored image for you and I used two shades of purple. For the clothes and eyes I used V91, V93, V95 and V99. Then for the hair I used V112, V15, and V17. I also used a a new skin tone combination which is E000, E00, E21, E53.

Time to get out those purples and lets see what you got – and don’t forget to upload your pictures into the new gallery! 😀

Aloha! Our challenge this week at Make it Colourful is to “Cast your shadows” so we want to see your images’ shadows on the page. ;D Our sponsor this week is Some Odd Girl and I had the pleasure of coloring up Flower Girl Mae, which I thought looked perfect with the Island Hammock by Make it Crafty!

For this card I went back to the basics… which for me is one decorative paper, one ribbon (or lace), an embellishment or two and lots of coloring! I think the coloring is my favorite part and sometime the quicker the card the better. ;D

I colored the image as normal then went back in to add shadows. I imagined the sun coming down from the upper right corner so I placed my shadows dragging down to the lower left corner. I also added a shadow for the girl and colored it directly on the decorative paper.

DT Challenge: Make it Colourful – Challenge #21
Main Stamp: Flower Girl May (SOG) and Island Hammock (MiC)
Patterned Paper: Marjolaine (BG)
Chipboard: Filigree Borders (MiC)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels One

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin tone: E000, E00, E30, E31, R12
-hair: E21, E23, E25, E27, E29, E59, E49
-browns: E23, E57, E59; E30, E31, E55
-greens: YG61, YG63, YG67, YG99; YG93, YG95, YG97, YG99
-blues: B91, B93, B95, B97; B000, B00, B01
-pinks: R12
-grays: W7

Did you know? National Doughnut Day is on the first Friday of June each year, succeeding the Donut Day event created by the Salvation Army in 1938 to honor the women who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. The holiday celebrates the doughnut (a.k.a “donut”) — an edible, torus-shaped piece of dough which is deep-fried and sweetened. Many American doughnut stores offer free doughnuts on National Doughnut Day.
[National Doughnut Day, Wikipedia.org]

How did you like the Mo & Zo’s Carnival Blog Hop?! Well, it’s still going on for a few more days so you can get in on the action! Plus don’t miss out on the MEGA Blog Candy Blog Hop which has several chances for you to win.

Welcome back to another weekly challenge with Make it Colourful from our break last week! This week our theme is to color black hair and we’ve pulled together some variety for your inspiration! I used W00, W4, W6 and W8 Copic markers on the hair.

Our sponsor this week is Some Odd Girl and I used Flower Kaylee and paired her up with the Rainbow Dandelion from Make it Crafty. I was inspired by flowers on her dress and thought she would be perfect in front of those dandelions!

I wanted both images to be large and take up the most amount of space on the card… at the time, I was in a coloring mood, not a creating mood. LOL. Here’s a picture of the background before it was placed on the card. I love this image and how the foreground is featured in a close up perspective. That makes this image so versatile as you can add any size image with it.

Even though the images took up most of the card, I managed to add several embellishment and final touches, including the faux stitching, metal tag with gem eyelet, some pearls and the lasercut chipboard hearts! The tag was stamped with a lowercase alphabet metal stamps and a hammer which is nice for any type of sentiment. The lasercut chipboard hearts were covered with Liquid Pearls, of course.

I’d like to enter in the following challenges:
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge #63 (thoughts of spring)
Simply Create Challenge #42 (use metal)
Stamp Insanity Challenge #56 (use metal)
Pixie Dust Studio Challenge #71 (spring forward)
Fussy and Fancy Friday Challenge (springtime)

DT Challenge: Make it Colourful – Challenge #15 (black hair)
Main Stamp: Flower Kaylee (SOG) and Rainbow Dandelion (MiC)
Patterned Paper: Togetherness (CC)
Chipboard: Love Heart Swirls (MiC)
Metal Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities

Copic Markers colored on Copy Paper:
-skin tone: E000, E00, E21, E11
-reds: R11, R12, R14, R17, R29
-yellows: YR30, Y23, Y26; YR30, YR31, Y000
-greens: YG61, YG63, YG67; YG91, YG95, YG97; G40, G24, G28
-blues: BG70, BG72, BG75, BG78; B0000, B91, B52, C00
-purples: BV20, BV23, BV25
-browns: E41, E42, E43, E44, E47
-grays: W00, W4, W6, W8

Did you know? Glitter describes an assortment of very small (roughly 1 mm²) pieces of paper, glass or plastic painted in metallic, neon and iridescent colors to reflect light in a sparkling spectrum. Glitter was invented by Henry Ruschmann. Accounts conflict as to when glitter was invented—some say 1934 and others shortly after World War II. Today the company he founded, Meadowbrook Inventions, is the world’s leading manufacturer and supplier of glitter. Glitter can occasionally be used in criminal forensics, as its distinctive color, size, thickness, material and patterns can link perpetrators to victims or locations, if glitter was present at the crime scene or a related location.
[Glitter, Wikipedia.org]

The challenge this week at Make it Colourful is all about the light source. The challenge is to color the image with the primary light source coming from the upper left corner. I was going to do something dramatic but ended up with a softer color pallet.

This card was made with Guitar Kody and Relax Mae from Some Odd Girl; and the “handmade” tag was made with Flower Garden from Make it Crafty. I used more laser cut embellishments covered with Liquid Pearls and here is the Flower Garden up close:

DT Challenge: Make it Colourful – Challenge #8 (light source top left)
Challenge: Some Odd Girl Challenges (handmade tag)
Challenge: CCEE – Challenge #1108 (distressing)
Challenge: Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenges (spring)
Challenge: DYSU Challenge #8 (anything goes)
Challenge: Paper Romance – Challenge #29 (anything goes)
Main Stamp: Relax Mae and Guitar Kody (SOG) and Wild Flowers (MiC)
Patterned Paper: Olivia (BG)
Chipboard: Flower Leaf Embellishments and Love Heart Swirls (MiC)
Metal Die: Magical Tag (WoJ)
Copic Colors:
-skin/eyes: E000, E00, E11, E13, R11, R12, B91, B93, B95
-hair: W1, W4, W6, W8, E50, E51, E53, E55
-clothes: R20, R21, R22, R24, BG11, BG72, B91, B93, B97, C00, C1, C3, E70, E71, E74, E77, Y32, Y38, W00, W1, W2, W4, W6
-guitar: E55, E57, E59, W4, W6, W8
-flowers: (colors above plus) V12, V15, V17, YR21, YR15, YR18, G21, G24, G28, YG91, YG93, YG95, E41, E43, E44

Did you know? The roadrunners bird are inhabitants of the deserts of the Southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America; and are the ground foraging cuckoos. The bird, although capable of flight, spends most of its time on the ground. Roadrunners and other members of the cuckoo family have zygodactyl feet (two toes in front and two toes in back). Roadrunners can run at speeds of up to 20 miles per hour (32 km/h) and generally prefer sprinting to flying, however, they will fly to escape predators. The roadrunner has a dove-like “coo” that is slow and descending. It also makes a rapid, vocalized clattering sound with its beak.
[Geococcyx, Wikipedia.org]

Update: I was the top Fav at Some Odd Girl for this challenge!