Hand in Hand Christmas and Koh-i-noor Coloring Tutorial

Hi. Here is a Christmas card I made using the sketch challenge at SCS for this week. I used Melanie's latest stamp set, Hand in Hand and added a sentiment from Asela's Christmas Blessings set.

I colored the image with Koh-i-noor pencils and blended it with odorless mineral spirits and blending stumps. I added score lines around the image and backed it with a layer of Real Red card stock.

The red ribbon, from Gina K's Pure Luxury Ribbon Holiday Assortment, is placed on another white layer and that is over a layer of Old Olive. The card base is a piece of Pure Luxury 120 lb card stock.

Scroll down if you want a coloring guide for this card, using Koh-i-noor pencils.

I used three colors from my box of Koh-i-noor pencils, the light pink, light brown and the golden yellow (darkest of the three yellows).

On the child's hand I lightly colored arund the edges and crease lines using pink.

With golden yellow, I lightly colored over the pink. I colored past the wrist line just a bit.

Next I dipped a clean blending stump in my odorless mineral spirits (OMS) and using circular motions, blended the colors and brought them in toward the center of the image.

For the adult hand, I used the golden yellow around the edges again.

I added some light brown over the yellow and blended as above.

I had to dip my blending stump a second time on this larger hand to pull more color to the center, for a well blended image.

When you are using this coloring method on light areas a used blending stump, that has color on it already, can leave too much color on your paper. You can use a new stump or sand it down somewhat to clean it. Another thing I frequently do is dip my used blending stump into OMS and rub it on scratch paper to remove some of the color.

I hope this was helpful.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!