Animals at Fab n Funky

Good Morning everyone, firstly thank you for all the lovely entries into our Heatstroke challenge, I have to say they were all really 'hot' and warmed up the March evenings looking at them all. To find out if you were our winner please check the blog over at Fab n Funky

This week our theme is.....

Animals (no people allowed)

We have a brand new sponsor for this challenge in the shape of  

Fitztown.

They have some wonderful images on their website and don't just provide digi stamps but also cross stitch kits and a range of fine art items also. 

I worked with their image called Wild 3 to make a get well card for my cousin who has recently undergone an operation to remove a brain tumour. He now has a long course of treatment to undergo and we are all hoping and praying he will make a full recovery. 

I coloured the image using coloured pencils, I don't use any particular fancy artists pencils, in fact I have a set of stubby pencils from my local supermarket which cost me under a fiver, from their kids art section. They have quite soft leads so lend themselves to blending and I use a paper stump to this, I will sometimes soak the tip of the stump with alcohol by placing it on the end of one my alcohol blending pens that I use with my Spectrum Noirs or Promarkers, but I usually just use the stump dry. I highlighted the fur by adding random strokes of colour from a metallic copper Jelly roll pen.

The paper is from a my craft studio CD Silhouettes with style. It actually comes up a pale pink on the CD but with a bit of manipulation the colour controls I managed to give it a lovely warm orange colour.  I really like the look of a stamped border on this paper and felt that the wild grasses fitted really well with the Tiger. To add to the background I also die cut two branches from black card and stuck these down before adding the image and the sentiment. 

I used bright orange and black card from American crafts to add some layers behind the background, image and sentiment. 

My cousin loved his card.