Monday 21 January 2013

So Much to Learn!

After watching a fantastic  You Tube Tutorial by Alyce at Kit and Clowder, I decided to have ago at the technique she used on the mermaids tail.

I chose an image from Tiddly Inks, called Mermaid Miranda, which was one of the first digis I tried to colour last year.
As you can see the results were not fantastic, very flat,  although I was very pleased with myself at the time- lol



Hopefully, you will agree that my latest attempt is an improvement!



I love they way that Alyce's Tutorial shows how to colour the tail to look like scales.



I coloured her up with my Pro Markers of which there were many!!, so I shall only give the ones I used for the hair and tail

Tail - Tropical Orchid, Pink Lobster, Fushia Pink & Pink Mittens
Hair - Sandstone, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna and Copic E31

I merged her with Make it Crafty Under the sea elements.

I cut some Cricut corners using Ornemental Iron.

I added some shells sprayed with Glitter and some glossy accents to the bubbles and a gorgeous little metal seahorse - I found these on ebay.

Now I must go and watch another one of  Alyce's Tutorials - cos there is so much to learn.

Challenges I would like to enter are:-

Tiddly Inks - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - Anything Goes
Cards Galore  - Anything Goes
Dream Valley Challenges - Girls, Girls, Girls
Stamp-n-doodle - Anything Goes

7 comments:

  1. Jules!!
    I love your card! Your coloring is so beautiful!
    I also loved Alice´s tutorial at you tube and learned a lot too. You did an amazing job!
    Regina

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  2. Wow Jules, the improvement is stellar!! Such gorgeous coloring and a beautiful card too! So happy you joined us at Tiddly Inks!!
    Hugs,
    Leah

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  3. OH MY GOSH!! What a beautiful job!! And what a big improvement too :) I love it...fantastic work and so glad you enjoyed the tutorial :)

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  4. Wow Jules!! You can definitely see the difference. You did a beautiful job and the colors you chose are spectacular!! Well done!!
    ;)

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  5. Wow! Your first attempt was great but the second is fabulous! Well done you! Thanks for joining our "girls" challenge at Dresm Valley and good luck!
    Hugs xx Cara xx DT

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  6. This is beautiful cards.
    Thank you for sharing this with us at Dream Valley.
    Hugs Karolina

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  7. I definitely agree that your latest colouring is much improved to the flat version. I often look at other people and think 'why can't I do that' but with practice, often you can, as you have proved here.

    Lin xx

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Jules :)