Tom Cat!

Meet Hipster Tom Cat!  Some Odd Girl has 4 new Hipster Cat digis that arrived in January.  He was colored with Prismacolor pencils and distress ink was used as the background.  Purfect dude card!

MEOW!

Just sharing one of the new Hipster Cats from Some Odd Girl!  This is Coffee Cat digi stamp, one of the four new Cat additions to the SOG shop in January.  

She was colored with Prismacolor Pencils and her glasses were made shiny using Glossy Accents. Gotta love a latte drinking kitty!

Mark your place!

I'm on the Some Odd Girl blog today sharing my bookmarks.  I am a HUGE reader, I often have two books going at one time, one up stairs, and one down.  Even though I do read digitally too, I still have the need for good ole fashion bookmarks.

This features digi stamp Demure, and was colored with Copic markers.

This features Reading Tia, and was colored with Prismacolor pencils.

Some Fur with Prismacolor pencils!

I like to color fur with Prismacolor pencils so I decided to share a close up of how I do it.  First you need to start with an image from Some Odd Girl or another stamp company.

This is Coffee Cat Digi Stamp from Some Odd Girl, printed onto X-press it paper.  Yes, that is a Copic paper but I like to use pencil on it to sometimes.

I start with my Warm Gray 20% and coloring in small circles lay down the color for all of her fur.  I like the tiny circle technique, but that doesn't me it's right for you.

I have switched to Warm Gray 30% and I'm going to start to work in some features using this.  You can see I am starting to work on her nose area.

Next I have started to work in the deep shadows using  Warm Gray 70%.

After adding in the darker color her fur takes on more depth and the coloring is starting to look better.

To make my Warm Gray 70% look better I will use the Prismacolor Colourless pencil. It smooths the colors out so harsh lines between tones look better.

Since I forgot the ears I'm going to do them now with Warm Gray 20% and Deco Pink.

Finished Fur!

When I color with pencils I find I color slowly.  Making the little circular motions takes me more time than flicking with an alcohol marker. You don't get that finished smooth look like you do from alcohol markers so if you want that you better stick to markers.  Personally, I love the look pencils give to fur, all that texture - yummy!

Hope some of my helpful hints work for you!

Welcome the new baby!

Another new digi from Some Odd Girl colored up.  This is digi Baby Bath, and it will be perfect for baby cards...birthday, new baby, as well as scrapbook pages, pocket pages...and you can use it as either a boy or girl.

This was colored using Chameleon pens, and a white gelly roll pen covered with Wink of Stella glitter.  It's hard to see but I wanted the bubbles to have a bit of sparkle.

Chameleon Pen Flower!

I've been having so much fun playing with the Chameleon pen set I got earlier this month for my birthday.  Today I'm excited to share the digi Flower, from Some Odd Girl, that was colored using ONLY 3 Chameleon pens.

Normally I would add more detail but I wanted to share it as is so you can see the red color variations.  I think these pens may become a new favorite for me.  Pens used BR5, RD4, GR2.

Hipster Tom Cat

Playing with my Prismacolor pencils and just finished up the new digi from Some Odd Girl, Hipster Tom Cat.

I like the soft look I get with pencils, especially for animal fur. I colored this on X-press it paper which is very smooth, not much tooth.  But I like how he turned out.  More Hipster Cat projects to come!

This MUCH!

Today I'm sharing a Valentine card I made using another 'new to me' stamp set from Sugar Pea Designs, Foxy Friends.  I colored him using Prismacolor pencils. I intentionally kept the card simple because I thought it would be perfect for a guy.  Not to frilly, just sweet!

Coffee Please!

I'm on the blog today at Some Odd Girl sharing my Copic colored Coffee Lover Mae digi.  I absolutely love this new digi and will be inking her up again and again.  

Just a reminder that Kristy, illustrator/owner of SOG, will be releasing one or two NEW digis each week, so check the store often.

I dig YOU!

Time to start thinking about Valentine cards again.  I was excited to play with a new to me stamp set from Sugar Pea Designs, Gopher.  I must admit, I did think he was a beaver even through the stamp name is Gopher.  Anyway, he makes such a cute little valentine for one of my favorite little guys.

He is colored with Copic Markers plus I used die cuts from Lawn Fawn and my silhouette cameo to create the card.  

I'm entering this into the Mix It Up Challenge #27 at Sugar Pea Designs blog, theme is anything goes.

Eat Cake!

Celebrate and eat CAKE!  

I colored Party Tia digi stamp from Some Odd Girl using Copic Markers.  This is such a fun new digi, you can almost hear that party horn tooting!

A Full Heart!

I created this ATC card for a swap at Vera Lane Studios.  I happened to have some modeling paste right in front of me when I read about the swap and thought....why not.

I created the background by distress inking patterned paper from 7 Gypsies.  Next I used modeling paste, glitter, and a stencil to create the raised background hexagons.  Tossed on some heart puffs and, of course, the doglet from Vera Lane Studio.  The sentiment is from Vera Lane too, it was printed, cut apart and dragged through ink.

Ta-DAH!