Happy 4th of July 2016

It's time for another Theme Week!
Let's get crazy with Stars & Stripes!

We would love for you to participate with us in our THEME WEEK and it's quite easy to do so!  Simply create a project using ANY Stamp Anniething product (as your main focal point) in the set "theme" for that month. Post your project to the corresponding album over at our Face Book Group page (Stamp Anniething Stampers)! You may enter as many projects as you wish, but you will only be counted as ONE entry person.  A minimum of 5 people (not including DT Members) is needed in order for a prize to be given.

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So here we go for June'sTheme Week!

Make ANY project using stars and stripes!!!

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Here is what I made for the June Challenge:

When stars and stripes were mentioned of course all I could think of

was of Fourth of July or an American theme.

My stars and stripes are subtle but you can clearly see where they are. 

For this card I used

Chloe and Sam - Love You

First stamped the image

then I stamped it on a piece of masking paper

so I could use distress ink all over and not 

"ruin" the image I intend to color. 

After getting all inky with the distress inks:

Mermaid Lagoon (a tiny bit around Chloe and Sam)

Black Soot (which covers most of the background)

and Mowed Lawn (for a grassy area)

Then I drew up some fireworks

with my Uniball white pen and my Prismacolor Pencils to add some color

Prismacolors Premier and Prismacolor Berol used:

PC903, PC906, PC924, PC926, PC942, PC935 and Berol 915

When I was done with my background I carefully removed the 

masking paper to save for another project

The I colored my image as normal with Copic markers

Copics:

BV11, E21, E53, E01, E50, R30

E0000. E000, R21, R39, R27, R46

B24, B28, B37, B000, B34, B95, B97

W5, W7, W9

C5, C7, C9

When all of the coloring is done I had

to look around the edges of the stamped image

because sometimes a few bits here and there

weren't covered by the distress inks 

so I just for over it with the closest

colored pencil that matched.

Here is a close up of the Copic coloring, a tad bit of the background

and you can even see some of the firework colors reflecting 

on their shiny hair.

 Here is a tad bit of the process

before I started coloring the image

and check out those coupons and spicy wings

LOL  I just use junk mail to protect my table from the ink.

As you can see it's a pretty clean cover/masking I just had to 

fill in a few little white spaces but nothing major. 

Then I proceeded with my Copic coloring. :) 

Those are the colors for Chloe's face but not Sam's.

I hope you liked my card. 

Make sure to join us on the Facebook page with 

a project with the theme above. 

Thank you for stopping by.

Have a great weekend to everyone

and Happy 4th of July to those that celebrate :)

Katya Bess