The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #12

What:

Day twelve of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge and today I really did simplify the colouring with a cute little critter and his umbrella.

Inspired by:

The idea for the die-cutting of the panel came from Jennifer McGuire, though I have yet to try the dot shading technique she demonstrates in that card. It’s on my list…

How:

I stamped the umbrella and the bunny separately and die-cut the circle the bunny’s in before colouring them with Copic markers. I fussy cut the umbrella — there are matching dies available, but I don’t often buy those as they’re significantly more expensive than the stamps (so I can just buy more stamps instead) and I am happy fussy cutting most things.

Then I prepped the main panel by die-cutting the larger circle from it and also from some patterned paper to use as a background. I heat embossed the sentiment and then decided to add the tiny flowers, which I coloured with Copics. One note about the sentiment: it says its rather than it’s. There is a gap between the t and the s in its, so they did leave space for an apostrophe, but you do have to add your own and this is where a VersaMarker comes in handy if you’re heat embossing.

The only “trick” with assembling the card was to use a knife to cut around the hand that would hold the umbrella so that I could slip the handle behind it. That and oodles of foam tape to raise the white panels and give the card some dimension.

Lessons Learned:

With Copic shading, it really is worth going back over some areas with your darkest colour just one more time.

Check that sentiments have apostrophes where they need them. I have at least a couple that are missing them.

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Mama Elephant – up and away
• dies:
  Lawn Fawn – small stitched circles
• inks:
  Memento – tuxedo black
• colour:
  Ranger – embossing powder – liquid platinum
• Copic markers:
  bunny – E42, E43, E55, E23, E57
  umbrella, top – YG07, FYG2
  umbrella, underneath – G02, G12
  flowers – Y19, YR68, YR09
• paper and card:
  Neenah – solar white
  Papermill Direct – plain – dark green