Our first Jingle Belle Challenge of the year - the 13th year to be exact - is to use something that you may have received for Christmas, whether it was from Santa or something you gifted yourself. I was forced to clean up my craft table go through the container of Christmas stamps that I have on it and am embarrassed to say that there were quite a few of them that had never been used - you know those pre-Christmas and post-Christmas sales just kept showing up in my e-mails and I should know enough to just delete and move on, but e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. was a temptation and I gave in, way too many times.
So, this might be breaking the rules a bit, but I first chose a stamp set that I actually bought for myself last Christmas but hadn't used yet. There was a recent tutorial on Splitcoaststampers on Kraft Pencil Coloring that I wanted to try. I perused my unused stamps and decided to use this one by Unity - Blessed Baby (which still is available, but wait and get it on sale).
I stamped it a few times and did some experimenting with my Prismacolor pencil colors and came up with a color choice that I liked.
Ok see... this is yet another reason your coloring is above and beyond... you really take time to think about the palette and try new techniques etc. AND IT SHOWS!!! Yowza! Thanks for sharing your new (NBUS totally counts!) Santa goodies with us at Jingle Belles!
ReplyDeleteI love this one! Good idea to do a sample chart of possible colours beforehand because you ended up choosing perfectly.
ReplyDeleteNot breaking the rules at all ... and your coloring is stunning ... so very glad you joined our *What did Santa bring you?* prompt at Jingle Belles.
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