Blanche!

Today I wanted to show you a little project I have been working on that's for me, in my craft room.

As lots of you know, I'm totally unorganised sometimes...well all the time! I need constant reminders of what I have to do and write lots of lists to keep me on track, of course I'm always losing aforementioned scrappy lists, so when I saw this board at a craft show I knew it would be perfect as a blackboard

 

 

The board came blank, and I first masked off along the base of the words and gave it two coats of

 Jo Sonja's black gesso and then sealed it with Jo Sonja's Clear Glaze Medium.

 

Next I used Mod Podge and decoupaged some pretty paper onto the words, I don't like to tear my papers as I don't like the finish, it was quite hard to do them all in one piece but well worth it to have a nice finish.

 

 

I used a black gel pen and did some faux stitching on the words, and a white gel pen around the blackboard.

I couldn't resist one of the latest digi stamps by Mo Manning of Mo's digital pencil, She's called Blanche! I just think she is so brilliant, and it appeals greatly to my quirky side! She also comes with a cute little slogan, which I printed out and stuck to the blackboard.

 

So, what to colour her with...Spectrum Noir blendable pencils of course!

 

 

I started to colour her skin with 093, its the darkest tone as I wanted to work dark to light to see if I could achieve the same results, happy to report it works!!

 



 

I then went onto 009, gently going over the first colour and a bit further into the white.

 

 

I then finished with 005, I also left some white paper, I know that's a bit scary but its ok, the colours are pale enough for them to not leave a hard edge and look glaringly obvious.

 

 

I finished her skin by going back over with 093 to deepen her cheeks and anywhere that may have blended out a little too much.

 

I then finished the picture with the following colours:

Macaw: 011, 015, 062, 063, 046, 118, 120

Chair: 041, 063, 064

Desk: 084, 087, 104

Dress: 056, 058, 059, 061, 065, 029

Lamp: 018, 019

Paper: 038, 040

Tote: 036, 030

 

 

I took a long time to "fussy cut" her out with a knife, so that the black would show through,

I love her a lot, and hope one day I look that cool!

 But until then....

Happy Colouring everyone

Nicky x