Coloring with Sketch Pens | DCAM Critter Sheets

September 23, 2020 Sidelle Menon 16 Comments

Hey there!

I have been checking out different types of floral images apart from hand-drawn and stamped images and I came across the lovely critter sheets by Die Cuts and More. I ordered the Ready to color Wild Roses one a few months ago to try it out.

Initially, I tried watercolors but since it's not printed on watercolor paper, the colors just seeped in and I did not like the result. Then I tried painting with my distress inks and got the same result. I was annoyed and decided to not work on it for a while.

I was cleaning my table after finishing a project and saw my stash of sketch pens that I have had for years, probably 10+ years, and thought of trying them on the critter sheet. The next morning I tried coloring one of the flowers and loved how vibrant it looked!

I colored two flowers in yellow, orange, red, a bit of brown, and the leaves in shades of blue. I used a dark background so that the colors of the elements could pop out and distressed the edges with some torn jeans distress ink.

After arranging the elements, I glued them down and added a sentiment heat embossed in white from Essential sentiments by My Favorite Things. Finished the card with a few black Pearl Drops from Little Birdie by Itsy Bitsy.

I'm entering this card for the following challenges:

1) IKEsWORLD CHALLENGES #136- U is for UNDER THE WEATHER/AG

2) LTSCB #137 - Anything Goes

3) Corrosive Challenge #09

4) CARDZ TV ANYTHING GOES CHALLENGE #123

5) Scrapping4Fun Challenge 175 - Anything Goes

6) Penny's Challenge #480

7) Allsorts Challenge - Week 590 My Lovely Garden

8) Crafty Catz Challenge #519

9) Creative Fingers - Challenge #193

10) MIUCB #41 - Anything Goes + Foiling