Wednesday 6 July 2011

Black and white plus one

I thought I'd do another little card for our challenge over at St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge this month which is to do any card you like but limit your colours to just black, white and one other colour of your choice.  For my first card I used teal, but this time, I've gone for more black and pink as my accent colour, but this time I wanted to show you can colour character stamps in a limited colour palette.


OK, so perhaps choosing a zebra for this is a bit of a cop out as you can't really do anything other than black and white on him!  I love this little guy - he's called Stripes and is another great character drawn by Crissy Armstrong, this time in rubber from Kraftin Kimmie.  I am making him my second entry into her DT call which is currently on this month - click the link below to find out more.  I coloured him using my copics C1, C5 and C9 for the black, with W1, W3 and a hint of W5 for the "white" with a tiny bit of pink on his nose - hardly any actual black at all which is the secret to black and white shading oddly (handy having a comic expert for a husband sometimes!)  The card is finished with some DP from My Minds Eye, a black matt and black base card and a sentiment from Lili of the Valley which I thought was appropriate as it looks as though the butterfly has brightened Stripes' day.


Thanks for visiting.
Craftilicious x

6 comments:

  1. I love the simple layout of this one, with the circle in the top left corner, balancing out the butterfly. Its really well done! I also think your shading on the zebra is wonderful with the highlights on the hooves too -- great job! Thanks for another great entry!!

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  2. Fab use of a lovely cute image and it's all put together so well with each element complimenting the rest. Zx

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  3. Hi, love this adorable image ! fab card....
    thanks for visiting my blog !!
    love and hugs
    chris richards
    Ella's craft creations
    xxxx

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  4. What a super duper card, love the pink in it

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  5. Love the pink with this! Great coloring job!! Love it..so cute!
    Best of luck in the Call!

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  6. Hi sweetie, this is just gorgeous, fabulous colours too thanks for joining us at Sunday's with Crissy this time big hugs love pops x

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