Drawing up a storm

As per my last post, I've been taking a bit of a break from crafting to recharge my creative batteries, as it were.

 

I have still been creating but rather than papercrafting, I've been drawing. :)

 

I've done a whole bunch of sketches recently and have turned several of them into digi stamps. All these stamps are now available in the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet:

 

 

And I've been playing with the original pencil sketches which I used for the digi stamps, colouring them in in different mediums...

 

I coloured in Flora using my Prismacolor pencils (this scan doesn't really do it justice - my scanner seems to struggle to pick up the subtleties of pencil colouring):

 

 

And I shaded in Forest Elf just using a plain HB pencil:

 

 

I've also done some other fun drawings recently... for a "Draw Me" challenge, I responded to a challenge to draw myself as a character from Doctor Who and drew myself as a Time Lord:

 

 

And for a challenge to draw a crossover of Sherlock with a video game, I drew Sherlock and Watson as, respectively, a Mage and a Paladin from World of Warcraft! :D

 

I'm really enjoying getting back in drawing and sketching. Am even looking into possibly taking some art classes in the summer term...

Sci-Fi Meets Crafting...

I love it when a couple of my different interests coincide/collide... :)

 

I love making ATCs and I occasionally swap a few in private swaps over on ATCsforAll. There's a lot of organised swaps going on over there too but I'd never taken part in them before... however, I've been tempted in recently because there's a Doctor Who-themed swap happening! :)

 

I love Doctor Who. Well, I should say, I loved Doctor Who. I still watch it and enjoy it etc but, as good an actor as Matt Smith is, he just doesn't grab me the way David Tennant did. It's still a great show, but I'm not hooked on it - and fannish about it - the way I was. 10th Doctor will always be my favourite Doctor.

 

So of course, I just had to make my cards for the ATC swap 10th Doctor-themed. I made 5 cards in all (3 for the swap, 1 for the swap host and 1 for myself):

 

 

I had the idea of putting images of the Doctor in front of a "Wrinkle-Free Distress" technique background, as the splodges of colour this technique creates rather puts me in mind of some fabulous exploding supernova or beautiful gas cloud in space. :)

 

I drew the images up into digital line drawings so I could print them the size I wanted and then coloured in the printed images using my Prismacolor pencils. I then cut them out and attached them over the backgrounds.

 

I liked these images so much that I thought I might make a couple of them into digi stamps. One of my OSAAT DT teamies was very taken with the idea as she has someone to make a card for who's a Doctor Who fan so I went ahead and did it and these two digi stamps are now available in the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet. :)

 

My Whovian BIL has a birthday coming up in just over a month so guess what he might be getting on his birthday card? ;)

Whimsey Girls

I finally this week got around to playing with an idea that I'd had in my head for some time....

 

I made this ATC a couple of weeks ago for the WOYWW 4 anniversary swap... to make it I inked old book pages with Distress Inks and drew a design on, then painted in the image with gesso, to mask out the background, and when dry I coloured it in with Prismacolour pencils. I really liked the effect and had an idea in my head to do the same technique with my own version of whimsy girl images.

 

And so I did! :)

 

 

I made this set of 5 ATCs using the same technique. I love the vibrant colours of the background, it seems to make the images really pop.

 

I liked how these cards came out so much that I decided to also turn them into digi stamps. :)

 

So the 5 whimsy girl images, complete with a text background, are now available as Alipeeps' Art digi stamps from the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet. :)

 

 

 

 

Been doodling again... :)

I've been having a bit of a creative frenzy this past week and doing a lot of drawing.... both doodling on some of my card creations... and also drawing some new digi stamps.

All of these stamps are now available in store at the StitchyBear Digi Outlet... and I've also been having a play at colouring them in to see how they look. :)

Alien Amour - coloured with Promarkers:


Geisha Girl - coloured with Promarkers:

Lovestruck - coloured with Promarkers:

Shades - coloured with Promarkers:

Spring Meadow - coloured with Prismacolor pencils:

Portrait 1 - coloured with Promarkers:

 

 

Keep My Secret - coloued with Prismacolor pencils:

I had lots of fun drawing these - and colouring them too! :)

Alipeeps' Art Digi Stamps!

Readers of my WOYWW post this week will have seen me mention some exciting news that I was impatient to share... I had to wait for a few details to be finalised but am pleased to say it's now all up and running so I can tell you all my giddy news!

 

The more eagle-eyed of you may have spotted that my blog now sports some page headings because I've added a new page...

 

Yup. That's right. My exciting news is...

 

As of today you can now buy Alipeeps' Art digi stamps from the Stitchy Bear Stamps store! :)

 

I am sooooo excited about this! I used to draw all the time when I was younger but kind of got out of the habit over the years, but in recent months, through my crafting (and particularly art journalling and making ATCs), I've gotten back into it and I've been thinking for some time about maybe turning some of my drawings into digi stamps.

 

I've been honoured to be a member of the Design Team for One Stitch At A Time, the Stitchy Bear Stamps challenge blog, for a while now and love Stitchy Bear's stamps and their store so I naturally turned to them to ask if they'd be interested in selling my stamps, and they only went and said yes! :D

 

So the first 4 Alipeeps' Art digi stamps are available to buy right now at Stitchy Bear Stamps, with lots more to come. And just to maybe tempt you to take a peek, here's a fairly quick, clean and simple card that I made using one of my new digi stamps - Starry Dreamer:

 

 

I honestly cannot *wait* to see what other people make using my images! :D

 

In fact, I'm so excited that I think I'll offer a bit of a giveaway. Let's have a linky party eh? (My first ever on this blog - woot!). Make a project using one of my digi stamps and link it below and one month from now, on 16 April,  I will pick a winner to receive two free Alipeeps' Art digi stamps. :)

 

Enjoy creating! :)

 

 

 

Sweet Pea Variations

It's Variations Week at the Sweet Pea Stamps blog this week... where all the DT make creations using the same stamp. It's amazing to see the very different work everyone creates from the same starting point... and really shows how versatile the images are! :)

 

Today is my turn to share my creation using Anna Marine's gorgeous Mystery stamp. I used the digi version of the stamp and printed it onto white cardstock and coloured it with my Promarkers.

 

 

To be a bit different, I decided to go completely the other way from the stunning artwork this stamp is based on and, instead of using dark, gothic colours, I went with pretty pastels and light colours. I think it's an awesome effect... and just goes to show you that gothic doesn't have to be gloomy! :lol:

I decorated my card with muted pink and grey papers and added gemstone flourishes and pretty flowers (punched/die-cut from white card and coloured with Promarkers to tone with the image) to finish.

You can find this lovely stamp at the Sweet Pea Stamps store, in both red rubber and digi versions (and don't forget the Super Sale is still running, with 33 pages of red rubber stamps reduced to just $2 each! :D)