How to.... Penny Black Mice

Hi again and welcome to my 3rd tutorial and card for Penny Black Saturday Challenge, and this week I've coloured this gorgeous Penny Black stamp - Ode to Joy. This week there is a sketch to follow - and I so love sketches, for me it takes the hard work out of making a card.


To begin with, I've stamped the "Ode to Joy" stamp with Memento Rich Cocoa onto SU whisper white card...

And these are the colours I'll be using: Warm Grey 2 and 4, Satin, Pale Pink, Vanilla and Ivory...

I have very lightly dotted some Warm Grey 4 around the areas of the mouse that I imagine would be in shadow - I picture the light coming from the right of him so the darkest areas would be on his back...

Then I went over the areas I had just coloured, very lightly with WG2 - you can either use light feathery strokes or light circular movements. By going over what you have already coloured and moving outwards with the current colour, you will blend the 2 shades...

Next I coloured over the whole mouse with Satin, using small circular movements to blend all the shades together...

Next, I added a little Pale Pink to the inside of his ear and his cheek...

Then blended the pink in by colouring over the whole areas with Ivory...

I have repeated the steps for each of the mice... I have added more WG4, WG2 and Satin to each of the mice to give a bit more depth...

I have coloured the piano keys with Vanilla and Ivory...

And added some dimension to the music book with Satin and Vanilla then blended over the whole pages with Ivory...

And here's my finished card using the sketch...

I have used MME I Believe papers, a Nellie Snellen die, a MS wide border punch which is threaded with cream satin ribbon, greeting from Craftwork Cards.


Have you seen the fabulous designs from the Design Team? If not then hurry over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge now, why not join in and you could win fabby prizes including the promarker colours that I've used for this tutorial, which were kindly supplied by Letraset. 

I'd like to enter my card into the following challenges...
Daring Cardmakers - 3 (3 mice, 3 papers, 3 flowers, 3 dewdrops)
Stampin' for the Weekend - Winter