Polkadoodle Challenge 21 - Sketch

It's Friday again, so another Polkadoodle challenge! This week, Nikky gave us this sketch and asked us to use the Jingle Jangle Christmas cd and the rubber stamps that go with it.The green doodled backing paper and Polly are both from Jingle Jangle Christmas. I've coloured Polly with watercolour pencils and added some glitter glue to her wings. Polly did have some stars that she was scattering, however I had a little mishap with a pair of scissors and I cut them off. So instead she is holding a stamped gift with a glittery bow.

The two sentiments are stamps and the satin green ribbon is from my stash.

You have until 12noon on 18 October to enter - please leave a comment on the challenge post with a link to your creation. Don't forget that you need to follow the sketch and to only combine your Polkadoodle creation with a maximum of three other challenges. Good luck!

• Backing papers: From Jingle Jangle Christmas
• Image: From Jingle Jangle Christmas, coloured with watercolour pencils and glitter
• Stamps: Jingle Jangle rubber stamps
• Ribbon: From my stash
  

Tutorial - Digi Colouring with Watercolour Pencils

And here is the second tutorial to accompany this weeks challenge!

My equipment is very basic! These are the watercolour pencils (24) that I use and also the brush felt tips (30). The watercolour pencils can be used as ordinary pencils, but they really come to life when a tiny bit of water is added.

For this tutorial I am colouring Polly Polkadoodle from the Halloween download. I've started with a light and pale layer of colour.

I've now added more definition to Polly's hat by dipping the nib of my pencil into water - I can now spread the colour more easily and also choose which areas I want to leave as highlights.

To build up more intense and darker colours, I've used not only the blues but also greens and purples. I would not use the black at this point as to go too dark too quickly may spoil the overall effect.

The same technique is then applied to her cape. Colour is built up slowly with greens, browns, blues and reds.

Other smaller areas are now coloured.

And only now (below) have I added a tiny bit of black here and there to provide a darker contrast to the colour. However, it is really the colour and it's depth that I want to portray which I feel provides a richer and deeper colour than using black as this can be a very flat tone.

And here are the two images together that I coloured for these tutorials. Same technique applied to both images but different results due to the medium used.

And this is the card I made with the Polly Polkadoodle image. Papers are also from the Halloween download and the little fimo spider is made by me!

Hope you've enjoyed the tutorials and that you will be able to join in with the challenge this week!

Frosty Polly

The current Sketch Saturday challenge is:



And I've made a frosty Polly card! The backing papers and the digi image of Polly are from the Polkadoodles Jingle Jangle Christmas cd - I've coloured Polly with felt tips and a bit of white gel pen and some glitter glue (hence the slight bleeding of colour on her dress!)

The snowflakes are from my stash (I think they came from the pound shop originally with some gift tape stuff) as are the gem centres. The present that Polly holds and the sentiment are actually stamps and you are having a very sneak peek of them! The stamp sets, by Polkadoodle, are due to be launched very soon on Create and Craft (more details will be added to my sidebar) - one Christmas set to complement the Jingle Jangle cd and one to complement Candy Doodles cd. I've seen the designs, and they are fab!

Sorry about the slightly blurry photos but its hardly got light properly over the last few days as the weather has been terrible. And I didn't want to use flash.

• Backing papers and Digi image: Jingle Jangle Christmas by Polkadoodles
• Present and sentiment stamps: Jingle Jangle Christmas stamps by Polkadoodles
• Everything else: My stash
  
  
  

Polkadoodle Challenge - Week 6

It's Friday and it's Polkadoodle time again! For week 6, the DT were limited to making a landscape card with our own coloured Polly and also to use paper or digital ribbon (not normal fabric ribbon). If you pop over to the blog you will see the DT examples and we've all come up with something really different! For my card, I've used a tall thin card blank, coloured Polly with watercolour pencils and added a bit of glitter glue to the front of her spotty top. The grass has been cut with a Sizzix die and then the edges have been lightly inked. The flower is a Stackie which has been curled and then layered with more glitter glue in the centre.

The sentiment is from Lulu the Ladybird collection which I have coloured with watercolour pencils to match the backing paper. And I've cut threading holes for the paper ribbon with a little nifty tool I got from Lakeland ages ago (when they still sold crafting supplies!) and have added two digital buttons too.

All the papers, embellishments, sentiment and image are from the new Sugar Birdies cd, which, I can proudly tell you, will be showcased at 12 noon on Wednesday 1 July on Create and Craft - Sky channel 671. So you'll be able to see all the DT examples of what you can create with the fab cd and of course buy the cd!

There were some stunning entries last week to the sketch challenge and thank you to all those who entered! We really do appreciate it!

• All elements: Sugar Birdies cd
• Dies: Sizzix Original medium yellow grass die
  
  

Polkadoodle Challenge #3 - Sketch

And here is the third Polkadoodle challenge! Again it is a sketch (I do like sketches!) The Design Team have come up with some wonderful interpretations of the sketch - mine is a bit more simplistic in its approach!

The Polly image, flowers and backing paper are all on the very soon to be released Sugar Birdies cd - click here to pre order your copy!

Polly was already pre coloured but I added some more with watercolour pencils and a bit of glitter.

The stitching is all faux as I'd just shortened two pairs of Samuel's school trousers and made them into shorts (the knees had big holes in!) and I didn't want to stitch through card as well! The edges have all been inked with a small blue inkpad.


The flowers were all cut from various backing sheets - I printed some of the sheets smaller than A4 to give more sizes, and I've added them to the card with 3d foam pads and again added glitter glue to the centres.

Pop over to the blog and enter the challenge! The top three entries from each week get a cute little blinkie to wear on their blog!

• All backing papers, image and embellishments: Sugar Birdies cd