Spectrum Noir Inspiration

Hello there,

It's a fabulous thing that as a part of the Spectrum Noir Design Team we get to go back over our colleagues tutorials on the Spectrum Noir Website and take inspiration from just one of them to influence our own design once a month.

I am amazed at the ideas and inspiration stored in there by some amazing designers so if you haven't spent some time strolling through the tutorials, hop over, you won't believe how much is there......BUT....finish reading here first lol

Today's inspiration came from an older tutorial (told you I'd spent some time on there lol), first published in 2012....

The tutorial talked about dress and hat shading and it is from there I took inspiration for this design....

No hat I know, but the tutorial really made me think about simple shading of clothing instead of trying to hard to add details (like folds) that aren't there!

Here's the link to my inspiration Colouring the dress and the hat

And here's what I used  to make mine:
Spectrum Noir markers:
Skin: TN3, FS9 , 6 ,4, 2
Hair: GB10, 6, 4, TN8
Clothes: LG1, 2, 3, DR3
Bunny: PL1, 2

Image: Dollshouse stamp by Little Darlings Rubber Stamps
Papers: First Edition
Flowers: Petal Lu from That Craft Place
Matt Black card (the only black card I use, and is my top tip) from Crafter's Companion

More pics:

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Crafty Hugs

Sandie xxx

Challenges I'd like to enter into:

Love playing with new skin tones...

Hello again,

I love taking inspiration from fellow crafters, especially different colour combinations for my markers.  We all approach our colouring in a different or slightly different way, creating our own style, so when we see a tutorial or a design that we just swoon at we love to take a peek at the colours used and write them in colour journals (yes, the ever growning book where I write down all my combo's)....

So here's one of my latest combo's based on an awesome tutorial by Dilyana Kupenska 
Using HB2 SPECTRUM NOIR in my skin tones...

Here's all the bits you need to know:

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Inspiration: Adding Skin Shades with HB2 by Dilyana

Link for you to check out the tutorial and give it a go: 

http://www.spectrumnoir.com/adding-skin-shades-hb2/

Image: Little Darlings, Dollhouse Precious Dolls, Wings

(I wanted her to be summery but with subtle colour tones, a different interpration of Summer, half light brings such fab tone's to my garden which  was the inspiraton here) x

Spectrum Noir Markers:

Skin: FS1, 3, 7, HB2

Hair: EB6, 7, 8, True Black

Dress: GB4, 6, 7, 9

Wings : JG1, 5, 6, 7, GG2

Neenah Solar White Card

Die'sire Lace Flower die set with leaf die

Backing papers, ribbon, flowers from my stash

Here's a few more pics:

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Crafty Hugs

Sandie xxx

Challenges:

http://lilpatchofcraftyfriends.blogspot.co.uk/ 15

http://deepoceanchallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/ 109

http://a-step-in-the-darkness.blogspot.co.uk/ 26

http://simplypapercraftsforalloccassions.blogspot.co.uk/

http://artbymiranchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/ 37

http://bunnyzoescrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/july-challenge-summer-breeze.html