Thursday, March 5, 2015

#thedailymarker30day ~ Day 2

Today's video over at The Daily Marker, Kathy did a really cool graphic design using a roll of painters tape to create her initial design and then colored it and added doodling. Doodling must be the new fad as Ashley Cannon Newell had a great video on using your stamps and doodling this past Monday.
So my design isn't as graphic nor as great as Kathy's but here is where it started using a heart die cut as my tracing piece.
I started by lightly marking a cross in the center of my panel using a pencil so I could erase the lines.
I then centered the heart die onto each pole of my cross and traced the heart using a Micron pen.
I then moved the die so that each lobe of the heart connected with one lobe of the hearts I already traced. Confused yet? I'm terrible at describing these kinds of details. Hopefully you can tell by the picture how I did it. ;0)
Then I started coloring 3 sections using a red Copic marker. Moving to the right red section, I colored three sections in a yellow Copic, so the yellow was colored over the red in that one section, creating orange. I continued on using green and blue creating this rainbow effect I added some white doodles using a gel pen. Here's my finished card:



My next card focused on the coloring technique from THIS VIDEO from Jennifer McGuire using Copics and distress inks.

I used the new set "To A Cute Little Chickie" from My Creative Time. I colored my little chickie using a yellow Copic and initially distressed the outside of the chickie using Tim Holtz Mustard Seed but it didn't really show up, so I used Walnut Stain, which was a little too dark. Oh well, it is what it is! I put the little chickie in a basket from MFT Easter Blessings and then finished him off with some Wink of Stella. A fast new favorite!

I can also add this card to the CASology challenge.
Thanks so much for looking! Blessings~ Birgit

5 comments:

Kara Lynne said...

Great idea with the heart die and blending the colors! Such a cute little chick in the basket!

Birgit said...

Great idea to make a heart flower and the blending of colours turned out well. Love the little chick:)

Kirsty Vittetoe said...

Love the sweet creation!!!!

Joyce said...

These are both wonderful creations. Good for you for watching those videos. I need to do more of that. Love your little bird in his cute basket. Thanks so much for playing along at CASology this week.

Tracey McNeely said...

Two beautiful cards, love your sweet chick in the basket. Thank you for sharing with us at CASology this week!