How to.... Penny Black Snowmen

Firstly, I'd just like to say a big thank you to everyone who left such lovely comments about last week's Hedgehog tutorial and I hope you like this one just as much.


This is the second of my series of 4 Penny Black tutorials for the Penny Black Saturday Challenge and I had to stick to the theme for this week which is "All my favourite things" well that was no hardship I can tell you!


So to start with I stamp the image with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto SU whisper white card...

And here are the colours I'll be using - plus the blender pen.

I'll start off by colouring the snowman, all I'm trying to achieve here is to give him a bit of shape, because we all know that snowmen are white. Using very light, short strokes I have coloured from the outline inwards in the areas where I imagine there would be shadow with Powder Blue...

My next step was to soften the harsh lines of the Powder Blue by colouring over the top with the Blender pen, I've held the image in front of my desk lamp so that you can see where I have used the blender...

 And this is how it looks once the blender has dried...

I've repeated the Powder Blue and Blender for the snow on the ground...

Moving onto his hat and scarf, I have very lightly coloured some of the stripes with Orchid, I've used very light strokes as I want to keep it quite pale (if I was more heavy-handed I would be laying down more ink and the effect would be darker)

I've then used the same light strokes to fill in the other stripes with Arctic Blue

Next I'm going to add some shading. I've used very light, short strokes to add some Purple to the areas I think would be most in shadow..

Using small circular movements with the Orchid, I have coloured over the Purple areas and slightly outwards, this blends the 2 shades...

Here, I've coloured the shadow areas of the blue stripes with Sky Blue, again using short, light strokes..

And blended them with the Arctic Blue as before...

I wanted a little more depth, so I repeated the process of adding Sky Blue and Purple to the shadow areas and blending, this builds up the depth of colour. Repeat this process until you are happy with the depth...

 I coloured the tassles by using long, light strokes of Arctic & Sky Blues and Orchid & Purple, and then coloured the parcel with the same colours. I used Sky Blue to colour his nose and added some highlights to his nose and the parcel with a white gel pen. I also added Polar White Flowersoft to the pom-pom on his hat....

Here's the finished card...

So this week's theme at Penny Black Saturday Challenge is "all my favourite things" and these are mine...
promarkers!, snow, purple, charms, and trying something new (the white on white theme)
and if you haven't already been over at PBSC, then hurry now and see all the fabulous designs by the DT.


I'd also like to enter my card into the following challenges...
Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes
ABC Challenge - H for Holidays
I Love Promarkers - Icy Colours
Simon Says - Prince Charming
A Spoonful of Sugar - Snow/Snowflakes