Colouring Fur!

Happy Saturday!  I hope you have a great weekend planned.

Our new challenge up over at Color Me Creative is all about colouring fur.  I haven’t coloured fur before so dug out one of my VERY old stamps to see what I could come up with and found this little old bear.

Using a sketch from Fetch-A-Sketch and the new colours over at Color Q and Annabelle Stamps I cut out two strips of patterned paper and then die cut some stars, first in coaster board and then in patterned paper that I used to cover the coaster board.




The bear was coloured using E31, E35, E50 and E53 producing a lovely honey brown.  I think I will use this colour combo again, I really like it. Colouring fur is slightly different to the typical blending technique because you want to create a fluffy effect.  To do this you colour it quite roughly being careful not to overblend.  (I sound like I know what I’m talking about, don’t I?!  I haven’t a clue really, it’s just that I watched one of Suzanne (Dean’s) videos all about it over at the Color Me Creative classes!)


Once I’d done the colouring I took a flannel and spritzed it with some colourless blender.  I then dabbed the slightly wet flannel over the entire image to create a mottled effect.


I LOVE this coaster board from PTI, it cuts beautifully and it’s so easy to cover too.  I think you may see a bit more of this on my blog in the future! Our girls have been busy creating some more furry fun for you, so pop by for a visit..

Charlene Randall

Brook Guinn

Anary Baumgarth

Melanie LaBelle

Marie Gamber

Pat St. Martin

Jenn Cochran

Michele Spera

Sandie Dunne

Dana Joy

Steph Lee

Suzanne Foard

Andi Murdock

Shelby Goolsby

Hazel Parr

Renkata Pacheva

Our challenge this time is all about

** FUZZY-WUZZY, FURRY ANIMAL ANTICS **

Pull out those fun, cute fuzzy-wuzzy animal images and create furry & fuzzy texture with your markers and pencils!

You can use Copics, ProMarkers, other alcohol markers or Coloured Pencils!!

Use Inspiration Pictures Below as well!

OUR SPONSOR FOR THIS CHALLENGE IS

ScrapBitz Designs/CMC Classroom

and you could win a $20 Gift Certificate to SCACD !!

Our guest designers for this challenge are Carly of Carly’s Crafts (she’s only 13!) and Delphine of Delphine's Place

I’m also entering this card into Crafty Catz Challenge – to use die cuts or punches (stars).

I’m off now to rest up, I’ve been poorly for a few days now so keep needing to have a doze.  At least I’m blaming it on that, maybe it’s just that I’m getting old lol