Colouring Background at Make it Colourful

This is my last post for Make it Colourful as their Guest designer this month. I must say I've had lots of fun colouring with the team, a chatty one too, LOL! Thanks again, Zoe, for inviting me :) The DTs have been a great inspiration, their colouring are simply GOR-JUSS!!! You should really head on over to their blogs and see for yourself. There's never once that I'm not amazed by their works :)

And so, this week we are to colour backgrounds! You know sometimes there are a lot of standalone character stamps out there that would look great with a scene behind them. And Make it Crafty has a good selection of digital scene objects, landscapes to pair with your favourite stamp! They've just released a new set of Carnival stamps! Soo fun! Go check them out HERE!

Supplies: Make it Crafty Wonky House on a Hill digi & Flying Balloon Chair digi, Magnolia, Bon Voyage Tilda, Unity frame and sentiment stamp, Autumn Leaves alphabet stamp, Copic markers, Bazzill cardstock, Washi tape, Mini pegs

Zoe was the one who gave me my first Magnolia stamp, which I have inked up so many times, coloured in distress inks, Copic markers and colour pencils. And this one here is one I've bought myself to add to my collection, and I have another one on the way {SyyHHhh....you didn't hear that}. I've paired her with MIC's latest flying balloon chair, and Wonky house on a hill digi. I combined both digi using MS Word and tilted the chair a little so it looked as if it was flying!

My greatest challenge with colouring this was to create the right perspective. The house obviously had to look smaller, and I was doing some research online to see how I could make the house look like it was far away, and found that most of the time, far objects are a little washed out. So I experimented with that even before the digis were printed. In MS Word, I increased the brightness of the wonky house digi by 10%, and printed it out that way.

Screen capture from MS Word

While colouring, I also tried to use lighter colours and more cool grays to shade and colour the background, hoping to achieve the right effect, while I kept the colours bold for the chair and Tilda. I'm not sure if the effect is clear in the photo, but I'm quite pleased with the outcome. Will need to experiment on the shadows and highlights to make this look more realistic.

This is one of the biggest card that I've attempted to make, also because the original Tilda is already quite big and I had to proportionate the rest of the image to fit her in :) I had to crop away quite a bit of the original image too.

Before cropping

*Phew* that was a long post! Glad you're still here! Now hop on over to Make it Colourful to see other DTs' work of art, and join us too if you can! Magnolia-licious is the generous sponsor for this week's challenge :)