Better With You

 Hello and welcome!  I came up with the board for this week's Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge and I hope you'll find the time to have a go.  For my card, I knew I wanted to do some Copic colouring and create a wee scene so I went with Colouring-Critters-Scene to come up with this card.

Usually when I am Copic-colouring, I have a vague idea of what colours I want to use and then just pull them out as I go.  For this card, though, because there were a lot of elements, I decided to plan out my colours before I started so as to not have a mass of different colours.  Because I actually wrote down my colours for each element, I've included them here at the bottom.

After colouring all the various images, I cut them with my Scan n Cut and set them aside to work on the background.  Firstly, I masked off the card front with a rectangle mask and ink-blended blues and greens to represent a sky and ground.  Before removing the mask, I splattered on some ink as well as some white gouache and once that was all dry, I stamped the sentiment.

Finally, I added my coloured images and called it done.  Unfortunately, my little squirrel got a weepy eye as my ink obviously wasn't dry before I started colouring.

Copic Markers:

Tree Stump:           E31, E35, E57, E79

Picnic Basket:        E34, E35, E57, E79

Picnic Cloth:          R27, R29, R59

Squirrel:                E31, E33, E35, E57, E79

Fox:                      E13, E15, E18, W1, W3, R20, R00

Boy's Top:              R27, R29, R59

Boy's Hair:             E44, E79

Boy's Jeans:           B91, B95, B97, B99

Boy's Boots:           C3, C5, C7

Boy's Skin:             E11, E21, E00, E000

Products used: 

Stanps:  Hoodie Weather (MFT)

Ink: Amalgam (Gina K.), Versafine Onyx Black, Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Uncharted Mariner Distress Inks, Seafoam (Catherine Pooler)

Cardstock:  White, X-Press It

Accessories:  Masking Rectangle Stencils (Taylored Expressions), White Gouache, Copics

Cheers

Karren