Colour Throw Down Challenge #ctd479

Four Little Pigs

This is my entry for the Card Challenge -  Color Throwdown #479 in which your design had to use the colours red, pink and grey.  So as you can see I used a grey card stock base, the piggies are pink and they are carrying red flowers and the sentiment is red also.

Now to tell you how I created my design.  I had in my stash this pre-cut grey card base with a beautiful irregular edge, so there was no need to cut any card stock and I decided to make my card flat without any layer or matt either; printing straight onto the card base front panel.

I used my stamping positioner to stamp my design.  Firstly I stamped the image onto some masking paper and cut this out.  Starting from the left I stamped the first image, then covered this with the mask and stamped the next image.  I continued this by moving the mask up to the previously stamped image and then stamping the next; until I had enough room for the sentiment but not for a pig! Leaving the mask in place on the last pig, I then stamped the sentiment 'You Make Me Happy'.  Lastly, I stamped some clouds in the top half of the front panel.  I did have to stamp out a mask for the clouds too, as you can see from the cluster on the right one cloud is behind another so the cloud at the front needed masking before I stamped the cloud behind.  With all the stamping done now, next came the colour - not before allowing the ink to dry a little first.

To colour the pigs I decided to use my Prismacolor Coloured Pencils and Zest It Pencil Blend.  I used three tones of pink for the pigs.  I started with the lightest for their bellies and inside the ears.  Next I used the darkest pink for where the shadows were formed and then I used the medium toned pink to blend these all together.  I used a brown for their trotters, snout and for some darker blending on the far ears.  When I was happy with the colour of the pigs, I used my Zest It to blend and smooth out the pencil lines.  The flowers were coloured with a dark red and with the smallest bit of yellow for the centres.  I also used two tones of green for the grass, initially the darkest to outline the stamped lines and then the lighter tone to bring the two colours together.  Again I used my Zest It on the flowers and the grass area.  The clouds were left uncoloured because they were going to be grey for the challenge anyway.  I then used a black permanent marker pen to go over the pigs eyes, snout and mouths.  A red and green marker were used for the stems and leaves of the flowers and the sentiment.  

Everything was coloured and blended that I wanted coloured and blended but then I added my embellishments.  With a white gel pen I added three dots to each pig's cheek and inside their wiggly tails and with Wink of Stella I went over the red coloured pencil on the flowers' petals to make them glittery.  My project was then finished!

I would love to know what you think about my project, so please leave a comment.  Thank you.

Till next time, keep crafting!

Lorraine