What a challenge that was!

I really do love a good challenge and boy did I get one today. Over at the Passion for Promarkers blog they had a new challenge to create a background with your promarkers. I got all giddy about it and wanted to combine it with the sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday because I thought I could easily create different backgrounds for each circle. Lets just say it wasn't that easy at all.

I tried a water colouring technique to get a background wash thingy outta the promarkers but all that did was permanently colour one of my blocks. I then tried the baby wipe technique that I've seen used with TH distress re-inkers, that kinda worked but got messy quickly. So what finally worked are the three pics above.

For the checkerboard-esque look I drew lines down a piece of burgundy coredinations at 1/4" intervals horizontally and vertically and then coloured in alternative squares using Burnt Sienna. This took a good hour to do and I wished i'd spaced them further apart but the overall effect is subtle and I like it so hey.

For one of the circles I got two clear stamps, one heart and one swirl, I coloured the heart with Maroon and the swirl with Moss Green and stamped all over a piece of card and the cut out a circle from the best bit in the middle. The other circle was just four different colours striped across and again cut out with the nesties. For the big scalloped circle, I embossed it with the polka dot cuttlebug folder and then coloured each dot with Umber.

My darling little image that Mam got me is a Sugar Nellie stamp and I coloured her using all the colours I've used to create my backgrounds, put a bit of glitter on the flowers in her hat and sat her on the ribbon.

And voila! Am off to bed to dream about promarker backgrounds now! :-D

Almost forgot the most important bit!

Entering for:

Passion for Promarkers - Week 47 - Backgrounds

Sweet Sketch Wednesday - Sketch 45