Southern Scraps

High Hopes is adding rubber stamps by Dustin Pike to their line! Sneaks peaks will take place on the High Hopes blog and on the Design Teams blogs this coming Sunday.... continue Monday and Tuesday... then explode with a blog hop on release day!!! Do you want to win a package bursting with new release stamps? Of course you do :-) Help them spread the news about the blog hop and release on Wednesday 20th January. See my previous post for a High Hopes image! I love to color these!

I've been studying some Prismacolor tutorials and have been trying to improve my coloring skills. Here are a few good tutorials I've found: I've colored this image with Prismacolor pencils, desparately trying to apply what I've learned. I actually do thing this is my best colored pencil job yet. This card is made for the High Hopes challenge - use a bow, The Pink Elephant Birthday theme challenge , Creative Inspirations use something new (my new item is the label trio die) and for Aly's Sketch chall enge. I had to tweak the sketch a little but I started with it for my inspiration. Stamp: High Hopes Gavin the Birthday dragon Paper: BasicGrey Lime Ricky Tools: Prismacolor pencils, Nestabilities oval, scallop oval, and labels trio Accents: Ribbon