Here is a Halloween card I made over the weekend. I love the nerdy girl witch from Marlene at http://disguisedasagrownup.blogspot.com/ I love her digi stamps and her snarky personality. I colored the witch with my new set of Prismacolor colored pencils. I bought a set of 24 scholar colored pencils for $5.99 at Amazon last week. I bought a Prismacolor blender pencil from AC Moore and I don't think it worked that great with these pencils unless I used some mineral spirits. Does anyone have any suggestions.
Supplies
Paper: purple and green cardstock
Digistamp: nerdy girl witch from Marlene at Disguised as a Grownup
Stickles: Black Diamond, Purple, Silver
Sentiment: Archiver's Exclusive Snag'em Stamp Duos
Border Punch: ek Success
Inkssentials Glossy accents for the glasses and the pumpkin (hard to see in the picture)
The nerdy witch girl looks so cute! Thanks for making a card with her. :)
ReplyDeleteFor anyone else who is interested, she's now available at Squigglefly.
When coloring with my prismacolor pencils, I simply outline the image heavily. Then I take a blending stump, dip it in odorless mineral spirits (I use Gamsol) and blend from the outside in. This way - no lines - and you get an image that is nicely shaded - dark around the outline, and softer inward. Make sense?
Very cute!! Sorry, I haven't worked with colored pencils.
ReplyDeleteHi Christine!
ReplyDeleteSorry I'm late in replying here but there is a product I picked up not long ago that works wonderful with colored pencils. I don't know if you have an Archiver's store as that is where I bought this kit but they have a website as does the company that makes it. The kit contains a jar of Gamsol and comes with two sizes of blending sticks and a file to clean off the sticks. I have used this Gamsol on a few things and really like it. The only thing is that when stamping you have to use a dye based ink. The website for this kit is www.InkyAntics.com if you want to check it out.
Susan