Promarker Colouring :)

So someone on one of the crafty selling pages I go on shared a link to there Open Colouring book full of free Manga pictures with the free to colour as long as giving Credit to her and the Artist for the image and only use for personal use. So no selling of images or work used with them. I love Manga pictures but I'm not talented enough to draw any so this site has to be a favourite for me at the moment - Deviant Art. So here are the images I have coloured so far: Here is Penelope drawn by Sureya and l-Jaycee-l I used Black, Poppy, Sky Blue and blender for the clothing. Black and Cool Grey 3 for the shoes and Poppy, Cocoa and gold for the hair and then the weopens were Cocoa and Cool Grey 3 again. I used blush, Ivory and Dusky Pink for the skin.

Next is Jack drawn by Sureya and Chimiiki I used Grass, Poppy, Yellow and Gold for the clothes. Ivory, blush and Dusky Pink for main Jack's skin and Cinnamon and Dusky Pink for the Puppet.

Here is Mahel drawn by Sureya and Cici88 for her I used Orchid, Plum and Antique Pink for the clothes and shoes. For the skin I used blush, Ivory and Dusky pink and then for the Hair, Yellow and Gold.

Last of all to share is Seer drawn by Sureya and Darknessunderthemoon I used Grass, Sky Blue and cool Grey 3 for clothes and shoes, the same colours for the books and then Yellow and Gold for the hair. And the usual Blush, Ivory and Dusky Pink for skin.

I love the nibs they make colouring the really thin tiny areas a lot easier. Hoping to have a go at card making soon and make use of the images.

Brotherly Love

So I have finally finnished a layout based on the Sketch below found from Sketchabilities

Great site it's sketch 68.

I used Echo Parks Little Boy Collection

I Used Texture Paste mixed with Yellow Acrylic Paint and Crafters Workshop Chicken Wire 6x6 template for the bottom left hand corner and top right hand corner.

I used some Papermania Capsule Liquorice Sherbet Letter stickers for the Title.

I stuck the first layers of paper shapes down with double sided tape and then the other layers I used 3D foam tape and inked all the layers to give dimention too.

I created the stars using Star Chipboard and covering in the different Little Boy papers and inking all the edges in black Promarker pen to make them stand out a bit.

The photos are of My Boys messing about on a log on one of our walks. :)

I found this quote and thought it was fitting "All for one and one for all My brother and my friend What fun we have The time we share Brothers 'til the end." ~Author Unknown I tried writing it in pencil first and it was rather neat but going over in Sukura Black Glaze wasn't the best Idea I had as it was a bit thick for small writing.

Thank you to everyone for all the lovely comments, it means alot :) hope you like this layout.

The Usual Suspects.

Not sure if this Layout is finished to be honest but can't see what else to add so I am leaving it as is. The Photos were of my three boys each in the Stocks at Corfe Castle.

I used Crafter's Workshop 6x6 Bricks Stencil to create the background along with texture paste mixed with Red and Brown Acrylic Paint which I pasted through the stencil and once dry I went round the bricks with black Pen and then some White Acrylic Paint to make them more brick like and stand out. And to border the photos to make them stand out more I used The wavy chequered stamp from Dyan's Around The Edge Stamp Set, I stamped image using Black Momento Ink but then went over the image with black pen to make it stand out more.

I then wanted to use the Title The Usual Suspects but didn't have a lot in the way of Alpha Stickers so it hasn't turned out as well as I would have liked but it will do. Before sticking the title in place I gessoed a bit of the background.

Birds Of a Feather Flock Together

Wow a second post from me today, another Layout that was awaiting on a title. Found the title from The Perfect Title site This Layout came about from messing with paper from my scraps box and just felt like tearing, cutting, twirling and layering. It looks a bit of mess in away but I like it lol.

The Photos are of My Eldest Todd feeding the Parakeets at Bristol Zoo. I don't really have much in the way of lettering in my stash so I decided to do the title in my own handwriting using a Black Glaze Sukura Pen.

My Cousin, My Friend

So this is the Layout I started the other day and have finally found a Title I liked and finished it today. If any one has a stack of unfinished Layouts due to lack of Titles I highly recommend checking out The Perfect Title Site. A good online friend of mine Jacqui pointed me in the direction for the site, So thank you Jacqui x

First of all I got some Texture Paste and mixed with some Urban Brown paint and a Crafter's work Shop stencil Wood Grain I used an old card to spread the paste over the stencil to leave a raised bark effect over the card stock. Think I may need to purchase some of these stencils in the 12x12 format soon lol.

If any of you are Dyan Reaveley fans you will have noticed I used the leaves from the Around the Edge Stamp set Which I coloured using two types green ink sprays. If you haven't heard of Dyan, check her out she is great and has some awesome work on her blog.

And the Mushrooms from the Doodle Parts Stamp set which I coloured with my Promarkers.

It took me a while but I found the perfect title, but I was luck to find some perfect alpha stickers from my stash. The photo on the left is my Eldest Todd with my Niece and then The photo on the right is Oscar my Middle son with my Niece. They were posing for me at Monkey World. :) I matted the photos on to some Pink handmade paper and then stuck down them with 3D foam pads and at the bottom of the photos layered some ribbon and lace before sticking the title down.

Provehito In Altum - Launch Forth Into The Deep

So I am a little hooked on 30 Seconds To Mars at the moment, Ok I am hugely loving them right now. So after watching Donna Downey's latest Inspiration Wednesday Video I felt inspired to do some Art Journalling and as I was listening to 30 STM I ended up with this page:

I happened to pop to town and come across some Black Spur Plasterboard tape which is like mesh which looked similar to what Donna had used and I picked up some cheap Acrylic Paints too.

I decided I wanted to use 30 STM symbols here is intertwined 3's standing for 30

This symbol below is An inverted Roman Numeral of 2

Provehito In Altum is the bands motto and means Launch Forth Into The Deep.

And I have done the symbols Clock Hands pointing counterclockwise supposed to mean Seconds. And Drawing of Mars. the two dots represent Phobos and Deimos, Mars' moons. which you can see best in the first picture of the whole page.

I Stuck the tape all over the page and then painted Gesso over the top and then once dry Red and Orange Acrylic Paint and then with pieces of paper I drew out the symbols, cut them out and added tape to them too then stuck them in place and painted in Black Arcylic Paint to make them stand out I used Gesso and White Acrylic paint around the edges.

Love the texture of this page and after using the tape I think I'm going to need to attempt a canvas with it, its great stuff. I think I need to purchase one those tape machines that do the writing can't remember the name of them but I remember my mum having one to do name tapes for clothing lol

Reach for the Stars

So as promised here is the First Art Journal page I started. I had no idea where I was going with this layout. All I can say is it started with me wanting to play with the Ghosting Technique. But I couldn't get the hang of it at first so I re-inked the page but it got rather grungy but the Ghosting worked this time. But I still didn't like the grunge look this time.

So I wanted to add some colour and texture. I used Crafters Workshop Star Shower and texture paste mixed with Red Acrylic Paint and some Yellow Pebeo volume touch 3D Paint to make the stars stand out. Didn't realise till after using the 3D paint that its supposed to be used for fabric but said other surface too in very small writing. I made it puff up using a heat gun as I didn't want to wait the 24 hrs for it to dry.

I then used the Crafter's Workshop Cubist Stencil with Gesso mixed with Yellow Acrylic paint for the sides.

Still looking rather dull I decided to draw round my hands and colour them in with old felt tips to give some colour.

Last of all I decided to write with my Black Sukura Pen "Reach for the Stars"

Think my Second page which I shared yesterday is the best out of the two lol.