BEE My Valentine!

I'm on the blog today at Some Odd Girl sharing my Buzzy Bee Valentine card.  Buzzy Bee is an older digi, but he's too cute to pass up.

I copied him and flipped him to get the two of them facing each other.  I used Prismacolor Pencils and some Wink of Stella, although you can't really see the glitter in the picture.  They make a perfect little couple!

We Challenge YOU!

SOME ODD GIRL's February Challenge

Anything ODD Goes with a twist!

Twist is to use love, sequins, glitter.

For 2017 we are moving the challenge to the Some Odd Girl Blog and you have a whole month to enter the challenge!  Each month you can use ANYTHING SOG, but you must include the monthly twist in your creation.

You need to visit the SOG BLOG challenge page to get all the deets.

I used Teddy Bear Tia digi for my card and she is colored using Copic Markers.  The 'twist' I used was love.   

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!