Friday, July 4, 2014

Happy Fourth of July! Stampendous Blog Candy!


My son's favorite holiday is Fourth of July!   So, I am always looking for cool stamps with fireworks or flags.  This House Mouse-Designs image is perfect for this year's celebration.

If you look at this flag closely, you will see that it has shape. Think of each shape as hills/valleys or a mountain.  The sides (valleys) of the flag are further away from the light source, the center (hill) of the flag is closer to the light source.  Therefore, I added my shading/darker colors in the valley areas, and the lighter/highlight colors on top of the hill.  I did the same with the faces, the center of their face is the "hill" and further away on their tiny faces would be the valleys. 

Colors Used:
Copic:
Red R58, R29, R24, R22, R20
Blue B21, B24, B26
skin: E00, E000, E11, R20, R21
brown: E33, E35, E30
Gray: W1, W3, W5

Now for the Blog Candy - This beautiful stamp is a wonderful for any season, or celebration.  I will mail this stamp to one random winner.  Just leave a comment telling me your favorite thing about Fourth of July.  Anyone can play, I will pay postage anywhere within the USA.  Winner will be announced Thursday July 10.  So tell your friends to drop in.  Here is a picture of the prize and a sample of what I did with it!




2 comments:

  1. Love your coloring as always--I'm jealous! My fav thing about the 4th are the fireworks. My birthday is the 3rd and my dad used to tell me when I was very young that the fireworks were to celebrate my birthday.

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  2. Thanks Jennie for sharing your 4th of July with us!! This is awesome andthe coloring, shading etc are crazy good :) My fav part of this special day is Being with my wonderful family and friends and celebrating this awesome day!!!!

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