FM111 Pencil Me In

Today it is my turn to host on the Friday Mashup.  When I was taking art class in junior high, pencil drawings were my favorite.  My ex-husband made me a pencil drawing of chocolate-chip cookies for his college course that I had framed.  I may even have that around here somewhere...  Mmmm, cookies.  Anyway, I still like to draw and shade with pencil.  So my challenge for you at today's Friday Mashup is to use pencil in your project, as well as use a splash of color.  You can tell what neutral color I'm aiming for with my challenge.

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Here's your Mashup Challenge:

1. Create a project using "your choice of a Neutral & a Splash of one Bright Color".
2. Create a project "using a Pencil (regular graphite #2)".
3. Or Mash it Up and create a project "using pencil & your choice of a neutral & a Splash of a Bright Color".

For my project, I stamped my image in Basic Gray, after stamping off, and then added shading in with pencil.  I used a blending stump to blend in and smooth out the shading. 

I picked a pretty detailed image and focused on a few buds to get crazy with the shading.  For the splash of color, I went literal with splattering watered-down reinker spots with a paint brush.

Stamps: Because I Care, Friendly Phrases; Paper: Lucky Limeade, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White; Ink: Basic Gray, Lucky Limeade reinker, Wisteria Wonder reinker; Accessories: Wisteria Wonder baker's twine, Pencil, Blending stump, Paint brush, Delicate Details EF, Big Shot, Dimensionals.

As I'm writing this, I'm making a video on pencil shading based on this card.

I'll plug it in here as soon as it is done (new GoPro camera, also doing double-duty for hubby's mountain biking, and he is working on a custom mount for me.  It's a process.).

Success!  Here ya go...


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