Dare To Get Dirty!

Dare To Get Dirty is a week of fun, challenges, and prizes for our Fan Club members at Splitcoaststampers! So much of our site content is free, but there are some special 'perks' and members-only content for paid members. Dare To Get Dirty is our annual "thank you!" to the members of our Fan Club. This year we are throwing more than 40 challenges at them in the course of a week! It's a lot of fun behind the scenes, hosting the challenges and encouraging these sweet ladies as they jump in with us and see what it's like to get a little Dirty!

The Splitcoast Team (Lydia, Lori and I) always kick off the event by hosting the first challenges, and this is the sample I made for mine. I can't share the challenge details, but I can tell you that this little duck image is from High Hopes, and he's watercolored with QoR paints. I used a liner pen to extend his little hilltop out to better fit the panel. The sentiment was built using stamps from my Everyday Words clear set from Impression Obsession.

If you're a Fan Club member, come see what we're doing in the challenge forum today! If not... why not? :)

 

Designed To Color sketch challenge

There's a new challenge posted over at the Designed to Color blog! If you love to color, I hope you'll check it out and play along! This is my last challenge post with Designed to Color - it has been a fun six months getting to know the crew behind this magazine! Wish you all the best, girls -- thank youuuuu!!!

This is the sketch for this month's challenge... I sort of flipped it and chopped off one column of squares to make it fit a more narrow card size.

This month's challenge is sponsored by High Hopes Rubber Stamps, and they sent me this adorable image to work with! When the seasons change here we have several weeks of strong winds, and the kids will all be out with their homemade kites, made from plastic shopping bags and palm branches.  It's always so fun to see!

I colored the image (Duckie Flying Kite) using Touch Twin Markers - normally I'd have a color map for you, but there are so many tiny areas in this image, and I really took my time shading the duckie and grass with lots of tiny colored dots... the color map might look a bit scary! All the colors I used are listed below. I also used a white colored pencil to highlight a few areas.

The cloud dies are from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, and the sentiment (on an Impression Obsession diecut) is from Heart and Soul Rubber Stamp Co.

These are the Touch Twin markers that I used: