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Please read with an English accent. Thank you!
Every once in a while, I like to give the Copics a rest (I figured they deserve it.) and dig out the Pencils. (I used Polychromos here.) I love colouring with Pencils, (Sssssssh, don’t tell the Markers!) I enjoy how the resulting rough texture of Pencil on paper, is so different to the buttery smoothness you get from colouring with Copics. Ummm, mmm.

Anyhoo. Instead of just colouring with Pencils, I thought I’d play around with colouring in Pencil, on different coloured card and comparing the results. I know. Far out!

So, first things first. I used white card, (booooooring, in a coloured card experiment, I know, but, we need a base line, Peeps.) kraft card and black card.

In the case of the white and kraft cards, they both had a bit of tooth, or texture to them, which is great for Pencil work. The black card was lovely and thick, but it was smoother and so didn’t take as many layers of Pencil before the fibres broke down.

I used the exact same Pencils on each of the images, but, on the kraft and black card, I put down an initial layer of white Pencil First. Who said that was cheating?!

Alrighty then, here’s Tiny Townie Penelope has a Pencil on white card…

Isn’t she adorbs? Luuuuurve her. Here she is again, this time on kraft card…

Oh my, she’s sooooooo cute. Let’s just have another little peek at her…

Did you notice how I stamped the image in different coloured inks on each coloured paper? Yep, I live life on the edge. Rock ‘n’ Roll, Baby!

So, you can’t have three Penelopes sitting on the desk with no party to go to. Better sort that out. Look, all the same, but different. Oooooooooh…

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Well done on keeping the English accent going all the way though! Have a great day. Hugs xx

Here’s a little bit of weekly inspiration by our amazing guest designer (yet she’s not considered a guest at all) PAULIENABELLA! (she will always keep that name as she was a baberooni and will always remain close to my heart!)

Seriously I CANNOT with this card.  I simply CANT.  can you? LOL

Paulineabella used our gardening chicks 🙂

mwah!

Monday again! Seriously, I’m getting a little freaked out about the pace at which these Mondays are coming around. Somebody stop the ride, I want to get off for a minute!

 

If you’re joining us for the first time you may want to check out the previous Marker Geek Monday posts HERE.

 

This week I’ve got a little video for you. You can watch me colour one of our recent releases, the lovable and totally squishable EDNA. She’s got her own section on the website, because y’know, she’s a bit of a diva. 😉 Today’s image is MEET EDNA.

Here’s a bonus colour map so you can colour along! (See HERE for instructions on obtaining the main colour maps for Stamping Bella images.)

 

 

I used one of my “go to” hair colour combos, which you can find in this post HERE along with a few others!

 

For past Stamping Bella colouring videos, you can check out this THIS PLAYLIST over on my Marker Geek Youtube Channel!

 

Have a fantastic, colourful week. Remember to experiment, then pop back and share your results here with us on the blog or over on Instagram using #markergeekmonday ! We love to hear from you, so don’t be shy.

 

MWAH!

 

~Elaineabella

YAY!! I LOVE FRIDAYS!!

And off I go to Montreal again to visit my dad for the long weekend

this week’s challenge was an inspiration photo

SOOOO pretty and can be interpreted in so many different ways… the wedding theme.. the floral theme.. the colors.. the stance.. you name it, it works!

Let’s see what our baberoonis came up with shall we?

AliceWERTZabella used TINY TOWNIE BONNIE loves BOWS stamp and CUT IT OUT Bundle

Danabella used our CLOSEUPS “I DO”

FAYE-W-J-ABELLA used UPTOWN GIRL MELANIE THE MODERN BRIDE

Kerribella used TINY TOWNIE BONNIE LOVES BOWS

Lesliebella used closeups “I DO”

Sandiebella used our MASON JAR OF FLOWERS STAMP and CUT IT OUT BUNDLE

Shelabella used TINY TOWNIE BONNIE loves BOWS

Stephabella used UPTOWN GIRL BRIGITTE the BRIDE

Tracybella used our MASON JAR OF HEARTS stamp and CUT IT OUT BUNDLE

TRACYMACabella used UPTOWN GIRL BRIGITTE the BRIDE

These are soooo BEEYOOTIFUL arent they?  *DROOLWORTHY* I say!

Here are some cards from our SISTAHOOD!

 

 

Such gorgeous cards.. so little time LOL

Now for NEXT WEEK’S CHALLENGE

a MOJOBELLA sketch!

 

Mwah to da sistahs who LOVE Bellarific FRIDAY

Lesliebella!

It’s my turn for Design Team (DT) Thursday and today I’m going to show you how I combined two different Stamping Bella images to make a “new” image.  This was a special order birthday card for a little girl who loves purple and does many types of dance including ribbon dancing.

I combined two stamp sets to make this card for her. 

 

(Tiny Townie Fairy Best Friends)

and 

 

(Tiny Townie Tiny Dancers)

I coloured up the left Tiny Townie Fairy with copic markers.  I used the matching Cut It Out and then cut off the other Fairy so I was left with this image

Then I coloured up one of the ribbons from Tiny Townie Dancers and fussy cut it out.  This is what it looked like.

 

I added it over the Fairy’s hand to cover up the fact that I’d cut off the other fairy – LOL.  I popped up both the image and the ribbon for some dimension.  Here’s a closer look

I love making custom order cards for people and combining different Stamping Bella images makes it easy!

 

I’ve made many cards combining images and sentiments.  Here are just a few

Make a Wish Hoppy Poppy image with partial sentiment from Milton

Uptown Girl Curly Clara Needs Your Address with sentiment from Uptown Girl Sunny is Stylish.

Pampered image with sentiment from Uptown Girl Serena Has a Sign.  (This was a thank you for a spa gift card I received)

Uptown Girl Fiona Loves Flowers image with sentiment from Uptown Girl Brittany the Birthday Girl.

 

I hope you’ve enjoyed this DT Thursday and you look at your stamps differently now and find ways to combine images.

 

Cheerio…..Leslie

Paulineabella!

How stunning is this card using our MEET EDNA stamp.. Seriously, I CANNOT.  I need to smush Edna and shove her in my mouth.. that’s how cute she is LOL.

Hope you love her ALMOST as much as I do 🙂

 

MWAH!