Flowers at Crafts and Me

Hiya Peeps,

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It's challenge time at Crafts and Me and it was my turn to choose and as usual I like to make it easy and I have chosen my favourite theme of FLOWERS.  As well as my challenge card I have a little cloud tutorial for you.  So grab a coffee and sit back and relax......

 Ingredients:-

Image by Hannah Lynn "Gardening Girl Dawn" from Crafts and Me 

Papers & Lace by Websters

Lasercut Chipboard Fourish, Dragonflies and Filagree Centre by Make It Crafty

Magnolia Doohickey Grass Die

Doily and Flowers from stash

Now onto the tutorial........... 

Firstly what I will say is that if you look at the clouds in the sky, they change everyday and are so random that you can't get this wrong as there is no right way or wrong way of doing it.  If you don't feel confident then stamp your image but don't colour it and practice drawing the clouds. I'm not the best at tutorials so if you want to see how this is done in Youtube hop on over to the fabulous Annika Ryan from Another Messy Crafter, who demo's this brilliantly.

You will need B91, B000, C1, C00 and your colourless blender and of course your image.  I have chosen "Gardening Girl Dawn" by Hannah Lynn from Crafts and Me.

 

First I draw random outlines of the clouds using B91.  Remember to make sure you have very small lines towards the bottom to make them look like they are far away bring depth to your scene.

Then I added the B000

Then I added some C1.  Think of this as your shadows.

Then I go in with the C00 and blend

Then I use the colourless blender pen to blend all the colours together, which tones down the colours and gives you subtle clouds.

These are the colours I have used to colour the image:-

I hope you will experiment, you can add some B00 to make your clouds bluer or add some oranges, reds and yellows and create a sunset.

Whatever you decide, have fun and hope to see you over at the Crafts and Me Challenge Blog with lots of flowers.

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges:-
Aud Sentiments - Happy Birthday 

Crafty Purple Frog - Lots of layers
Flutterby Wednesday - Anything Goes
Inky Impressions - Dies/Punches
Papercraft Star - Lace
Paper Shelter - For girls
Pennys Challenge - Anything Goes
Simon Says - Anything Goes
Deep Ocean - Happy Birthday
Scrap Creation  - It's a girl thing