Getting Cheeky with a Saturday Sketch

Hello! Pam had made another wonderful sketch to challenge us at Club Anya and Friends! I used the adorable Cheeky Mate and some cute pinwheel paper from Echo Park. I even had a pinwheel sticker that came with the paper so I was easily able to give her one to hold in her hand (it could have been done from the paper, too, of course. It just would have taken a little more time!)



The Details:
Stamp: Cheeky Mate (The Greeting Farm) Sentiment from Hero Arts
Paper: Echo Park, Baja Breeze (SU), White (Papertrey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Skin: R00,E00,E11,R20
Hair:E50,Y21,Y23,Y26
Clothes:BG11,BG32,BG34 all w/C1 over, R22,R24,C0,C1,C3
Misc: Fiscars Edge Punch, Echo Park Stickers, Circle Punches (SU), Sakura Glaze Pen

Have a wonderful weekend!
:-)Traci

New TGF Stamps Are Here!

WooHoo! You can get the new Cheekies and Oliver and Amelia RIGHT NOW at The Greeting Farm!! I had so much fun celebrating the new release at PCP with my fellow TGF fans! If you were not able to make it, I am so sorry! It was a blast! 10 different conversations going on at once and SO much laughing!

I made a card today with Cheeky Mate! I just LOVE her boots! And after seeing Kim's (PaperBabe) card on the Hop last night, I had to make mine red, too! (Although, mine do not compare to the fabulous red boots Kim colored! I want some of those boots!)

I thought I might share a little about how I figure out which color to use when I am coloring my images...I have a chart put out by Copic and available HERE on their site, that I printed out on my favorite cardstock to color on (Paper Trey Ink). I filled in the chart with my markers and when I am coloring I almost always hold my DP up to the chart to pick out my shades. Even though there are a LOT of Copic colors, most of us don't own them all, and even if we did, sometimes you are going to need a color that is just not available! So I try to find the closest color and then decide how it is off - like does it need to be grayer, or more red tinged, etc. In the case of this card there was not a yellow like the DP. (I often seem to have a hard time with yellow.) Y21 was the closest but was too dark and a little too red-based. Y000 was too pure/bright of a yellow. So I colored the hat and dress with Y21, lightened it with the colorless blender, then colored over it with Y000. For the shading I used Y23 with Y00 over it. I think it ended up matching really well!

The Details:
Stamp: Cheeky Mate - The Greeting Farm, Sentiment - Hero Arts
Paper: My Mind's Eye, Pure Poppy, White (Paper Trey Ink)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Copics:
Skin: E000,E00,E11,R20
Hair: E43,E44,E47,E49
Clothes: Y21 (lightened with Colorless Blender) w/Y000 over it, Y23 w/Y00 over it, R22,R24,R29
Misc: Spellbinders Oval and Scallop Oval Nestabilities, Fiskars Border Punch, Taylor's Tiny Twinkles, Ribbon (PTI)

Thanks so much for stopping by! Tomorrow I will have a Sweet November Sneak Peek!
:-)Traci