The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #20

What:

Day twenty of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. A graduation card for when my brother gets his results from Uni in a couple of weeks.

How:

I printed out the owl and coloured him with Copic markers with the help of Sandy Allnock’s hex chart for choosing colour blends. I was even brave and followed her advice about increasing contrast in an image by going one darker for the shadows and I’m really pleased with how it worked.

I pondered various options for using the owl on a card, but ended up deciding to keep it simple and just die cut it out and create a banner to go with it.

I mounted the banner using foam tape, but for the owl panel I cut a circle of fun foam as that is neater and more supportive than small bits of tape and will hopefully survive being sent through the mail better.

Supplies:

• stamps:
  Penny Black – round and round (sentiment)
• digital stamps:
  DigiStamp Boutique – Merlin & Blinky set
• dies:
  Lawn Fawn – small stitched circles
  Clearly Besotted – tag along
• inks:
  Versafine – onyx black
• Copic markers:
  body – V01, V12, V15, V17, V09
  eyes – E0000, E40, E81
  feet – YR04, YR18
  beak – Y35, YR04
  scroll – T0, T1, T3
• paper and card:
  Papermill Direct – plain black