As my garden is in full spring bloom and I’ve been working outdoors a LOT painting my patio furniture, I thought I would pick some bright spring colors for this image. I first colored up Anna and Spike with the following Copics<\/a><\/span>: Then to add detail and texture I used the following Prismacolor Premier Color Pencils<\/a><\/span>: To keep the card focused on the colored image, I used complimentary colored card stock in bright pink for the card base, a fun striped rainbow colored card stock for the background, and a dark purple card stock for the frame around the picture. The frame was die cut using the smaller of the Pretty Pink Posh Scallop Frames Die Set<\/a><\/span>. For a simple sentiment, I used a Faber Castell Pitt Pen in XS<\/a><\/span> to hand write: “It’s a dogs and coffee kind of day.” on the front, and on the inside, it says: “Oh who am I kidding — Every day is a dogs and coffee kind of day!” And to keep the continuity of the card going, I used a plaid paper (the reverse of the striped paper on the card front) and a bit of extra dark purple card stock to add a patterned detail on the inside liner sheet.<\/p>\n CLICK on the following picture to watch a process video of creating this card (start to finish):<\/p>\n Next on the YouTube Craft Room Helpers Collaboration + Giveaway lineup is Jeanie – Scrapbookingmamaw:\u00a0 https:\/\/youtu.be\/MJRJ2P5cvI0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am honored to be joining a wonderfully talented group of crafters for this Craft Room Helpers: What Do YOU Color With Collaboration and Giveaway. For my Copic and Prismacolor colored pencils tutorial, I got to work with an adorable digi image from Little Blue Button Stamps called “Spike and Anna Having Coffee.” As my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,12,3],"tags":[3971,3976,3975,3973,467,3972,3967,3968,3969,3970,212,3966,3974],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12264"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12283,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions\/12283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190430_182319-1024x576.jpg\")
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\nSkin: E51, E21 and R20 for blush
\nHair: W1 and W3
\nDress and hat: RV02, V04 with trim of dress using: BG11, BG13
\nCoffee cup: W1, YR21, YG25
\nSpike: W1, W3, YR21 and R20 for ears; Dog Collar: BG11, BG13; Dog Tag: YG25 and YR21
\nLips and tongue: R08
\nBoots: W5 and W7
\nGrass: YG25, YG17 and G17<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190430_185536-1024x576.jpg\")
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\nHair: Metallic Gold (PC 950), Dark Umber (PC 947), Black (PC 935) and White (PC 938)
\nDress: White (PC 938), Dahlia Purple (PC 1000),and Violet (PC 932)
\nBoots: Black (PC 935) and White (PC 938)
\nSpike: Chestnut (PC 1081), Dark Umber (PC 947), and White (PC 938) (I also added extra white fur with a Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen<\/a><\/span>)
\nCoffee cup and Dog collar: Dark Green (PC 908)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.craftypaws.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20190430_182257-1024x576.jpg\")
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\nCrafting By Design Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nSimon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday Pet Project Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nWord Art Wednesday Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nCreatalicious Anything Goes Challenge with Optional Flowers<\/a>
\nThrough the Craft Room Door Anything Goes Challenge<\/a>
\nCrafts Galore Encore Anything Goes Challenge<\/a><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n