Supplies: Lilacs in Pitcher, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink Pad, Inchie Finder, Copic Markers, Diamond Dust, White Inchie Square, Inkssentials White Opaque Pen
Join the Inchie INKlings in this month's challenge by creating an Inchie that uses "Spring Flowers." Yes that's right - I am yearning for sunshine and flowers and so we are going to brighten up our days with some flowers.
Use an Itty Bitty, crop a larger image, layer multiple images, spotlight your Inchie on a card, create an Inchie jewelry piece - just remember to us "Spring Flowers."
Rules:
- Feature a Lockhart Stamp Company image - you can use any other stamps, words, papers or embellishments, but use your Lockhart stamp images as the focal point for these challenges.
- Picture must be emailed to us at customerservice@ellenhutson.com by February 15th, 2009. Please put "Spring Flowers Inchie Challenge" in the subject heading.
- Alternately send us your Inchie to add to our "Wall of Love" or include a self-addressed stamped envelope for it's safe return if you would like it back. Send to Ellen Hutson LLC, 1145 - 12th Ave NW, Suite C2, Issaquah, WA 98027.
- You may enter up to three times again for this month's challenge.
We will do a random drawing of all participants once we get all images uploaded to the Inchie Challenge photo ablum. The winner of this random drawing will receive:
To create this month's Inchie Challenge sample I used the new Lilacs in Pitcher. Nothing seems like spring quite as much as the aromatic Lilac blossoms! Once again I located the portion of my stamp that I wanted to select using my yellow Inchie Finder that is included in the Inchie Paper packs. Rather than stamping and punching out the image I elected to stamp directly on my white inchie square. I placed my stamp face up on my work surface and inked it with Memento Ink. Using painters tape to make a little handle on the inchie square I used that little handle to stamp my square to the stamp surface.
Coloring these little squares is quick and easy. Start with your lightest colors. It's always easy to go darker, but not quite as easy to lighten your colors.
Continue to add your depth to your image using the natural shading in the stamp image as your guide. The purples I used for this project are BV000, BV11, and V15. They do not belong to the same Copic family. I find that I get a much more realistic look when I vary the groupings of colors. The greens I used are: YG00, YG63 and YG17. Once again these are not from the "regular" Copic color groupings. You will note that I did go darker with each additional color - the second number in the Copic colors signifies the depth of color, with 0 being the lightest and 9 the darkest.
Rather than leaving the Inchie Square white I added a hint of purple by coloring on a clean palette and picking the V01 up with my Colorless Blender. This allowed me to keep the V01 much lighter than if I would have used it directly on my square. I wanted to have contrast with the white opaque pen dots I added - those dots were to emulate Baby's Breath added to the bouquet as well as highlights on the lilacs themselves.
The last addition to my little square was the gorgeous bling! Florists add this to their bouquets to make them sparkle, so why shouldn't we?!?
Be certain to check back in a few days to see who our winners are of the last TWO month's challenges! I must apologize - with everything going on I completely forgot to do our random number generator. You would think perhaps that I am losing my mind, or worse losing my memory - and if you do think that, you are most likely right - LOL! Thank you once again for your patience!
