Tuesday 14 October 2014

Polkadoodles - Digi Queens Week 7

Hello and good morning Polkadoodlers -

Wow, I can't believe another fortnight as flown by!

Anyhoo, it's my delight to share my Digi Queen themed card with you this week - and the theme is Halloween.  It's one of those themes that you either love or hate --- it's a bit like marmite. :)

For my card I used Polkadoodles Witchie Witchie 2013 Digi Download Bundle for the tree/owl and bats (there's loads of fab Halloween stuff in the bundle), and the gorgeous girl is a digi stamp called Witchie Skeleton 2013.  The links can be found below.

Here's What I Did
To start with I made an A5 black card base. I matted orange and black card onto the base along with the orange swirly coloured paper which was made using Pan Pastels. The tree/owl, girl, bats and pumpkin are all Polkadoodles images which I coloured my Copic pens.  All the coloured elements were fussy cut out and glued onto the card base along with my die cut fence. To finish off I punched out a few dots from black glitter card.

To colour her hair I selected 3 purple shades - dark, mid and light and 2 shades of green - light and mid. Purple - I started at the crown with the deepest shade and flicked a little way out, then using my mid shade and starting where the deep shade finished I flicked further towards the area where I thought the light would hit, ensuring I left a white area.  Green - Then from the edge of her hair I started with my mid shade and flicked towards the purple, again not too far. Using my lightest shade of green I flicked towards the purple, again leaving a small area of white.

Using my lightest purple shade I coloured in the white area that was left, and blended up towards the mid purple shade and down to the light green until they blended together. This effect is simple to do but it might take a few goes to get it right - it also looks fab on fairy wings too.

Here's What I Used
Digi Stamps: 'Witchie Witchie' 2013 Download Bundle and 'Witchie Skeleton' 2013
Paper/Cardstock (CS): , Papermainia Coloured CS, Craftwork Cards Super Smooth Colouring CS, Black CS, Black Glitter CS
Copics: Skin - E0000, E000, E00, E02 / Hair - YG03, YG11, V000, V01, V04 / Bows - Y00, Y38, YR07, YR68, / Tree - C2, C3, C5, C7, 100 / Costume - C2, C3, C5, C7, 100 Y02, Y38 / Pumpkin - Y00, YR04, YR07, YR68, W2, W3, YG03, YG06, YG663, YG67, 100 / Bats - C3, C5, V01 / Mask - V000, V01, V04
Pan Pastels: Permanent Red, Phthalo Green Orange, Dairylide Yellow
To see more fabulous designs to inspire you why not check out the fab makes from the Digi Queen girls our at our challenge blog over at  Polkadoodles towers.

Thank you for dropping by - why not leave me a message I'd love to hear from you.

Thank you everyone!

Hugs
 x Janine x

5 comments:

Ali said...

Thats a great card! The pumpkin looks a bit scary!! xx

Christine L said...

Yes... I agree with Ali... the pumpkin looks scarier than the witch... she's quite pretty as witches go!! LOL! Loving what you did with this one... such perfect colouring and a fabulous background!

Hugs
Christine x

Sandra H said...

Truly beautiful as always and full of lots of gorgeous details as always you are so creative x

Juls said...

Her colourful hair is fabulous :-) xx

8kidsandstillfindtimetocraft said...

That hair is awesome and that background sky is stunning xx