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    LOTV Male Birthday Card
    • Dec 20, 2017

    LOTV Male Birthday Card

    Hi everyone, today I have a fun and easy male birthday card for you all. To get this card started I stamped a Lili Of The Valley image called “Vegetable Patch” onto some Strathmore “Colored Pencil” paper with Versafine “Onyx Black” ink and I coloured the image with my Faber Castell Polychromos coloured pencils. I used the following colours: 155 /168 / 173 / 115 / 186 / 188 / 132 / 189/ 231 / 271/ 272 / 175 /101 (white: for burnishing) and Holbein “Naples Yellow” (from the Pas
    Fun Father’s Day Card
    • Jun 16, 2017

    Fun Father’s Day Card

    Hi everyone, today I have this year’s Father’s Day card for you all, featuring one of the adorable Lili of the Valley stamps: this one is called “Vegetable Patch”. I started this card by stamping the image on some Strathmore Colored Pencil paper with Versafine “Onyx Black” ink. Then I started colouring with my Faber Castell Polychromos coloured pencils. I used the following colours: 115 / 118 / 151 / 157 / 146 / 271 / 272 / 189 / 132 / 165 / 112 / 188 / 186 / 102 / 180 / 283
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