Vibrant Christmas. - Take One

This weekend, I spent more time colouring. I was inspired by Kathy Racoosin's card for day 3 of her 30 day colouring challenge. She also inspired me to try using my Inktense pencils with my Aquamarker blender pen.

For the colours, I was inspired by this wonderful photograph on the Jingle Belles blog. I used more muted colours for the background, went a bit brighter with the tree and then went a little overboard with the sequins. And since I couldn't find my Wink of Stella marker, I used Perfect Pearls to add some shimmer to the tree.

I'm entering my card into the following challenges:

Jingle Belles - A very vibrant Christmas

Cupcake Inspiration - 300th Challenge Celebration - Confetti Inspiration Challenge

CASology - Week 137 Tropical

Friday Mashup - FM200 Combine 2 previous challenges
178 - Vellun and/or stitching (faux or real)
188 - Silver/gold and/or Christmas

Promarker/Flexmarker colouring practice

A quick post from me showing the flowers I coloured today using the practice sheets from the OCC Copics class I took a while back. This image was drawn by Kristina Werner, one of the teachers for this class.

For me, Kathy Racoosin's 30 day colouring challenge offers a great opportunity to practise a little more using my Promarkers and Flexmarkers using the tips, tricks and videos from this Copics class. Before I started colouring, I watched Sandy Allnock's video about colouring these flowers again and then set out colouring the flowers using the red, yellow and green colour combinations I had tested when I first took the class.

30 day colouring challenge with Kathy Racoosin

When I read that the lovely and utterly talented Kathy Racoosin of The Daily Marker is hosting a 30 day colouring challenge from March 4 to April 2, I knew I wanted to join in. It's all about the joy of colouring, if only for 5 to 10 minutes a day.

My coloured pieces below were based on Kathy's inspiration video on day 2. The first picture shows the colours a little better than the second picture, yet the second picture shows all the supplies I used.

For the bottom card I started by drawing circles using the inside of a roll of painter's tape, shifting the roll sideways to draw overlapping circles. I then coloured in the different areas using Flexmarkers and decided to colour the remaining white areas using a permanent black marker I had on hand. Lastly, I added the leaflike veins and a few more lines using a thin black Letraset marker (0.3 mm).

For my second card (top left) I used the small label die from the set of CutUps from The Cat's Pajamas. I didn't like the big areas I got at first, so I did some more overlapping and ended up with those oval shapes. Beforehand I had no idea that the basic shape would be a perfect base for 3 of these ovals, but it turned out great. After colouring I tried adding some white dots using a white gel pen and then added a few black lines as well. My white dots did not turn out the way I would have liked, but hey, I didn't get a chance to practise as much as Kathy did LOL.

I do have a few ideas on how to turn these pieces into cards, but since the challenge is all about the colouring and not so much about creating cards, I thought I would post my pieces separately.

So how about joining us for a bit of colouring for the fun of it? Go check out Kathy's blog for all the details. You will want to visit her blog anyway, if you haven't already, since she is a really inspiring card maker. During this challenge, she will be posting lots of inspiration and videos using all kinds of colouring mediums.