WK 4....D = Darks (Halloween/Autumn) - Lyra Rembrandt Polycolours challenge blog

Hi everyone! Welcome back to our brand new challenge this week!

Before we get to business have you seen the amazing Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils on Hochanda TV yet? 

Watch out for the colouring shows as these amazing pencils are making regular appearances and are selling fast - plus you can pick up some hints and tips...if you want to learn all the best techniques and get real-time input from our UK Brand Educator and the Design Team though, make sure you come and join us on Facebook where we can help you with any questions and where we're all posting regularly with you on our pencil journey! 

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We are sponsored by the very cute and lovely Melonheadz for this challenge - if you havent seen their store before make sure you pop over, there are some mega cute image sets on sale, we've had a hoot using these designs! 

Our new challenge for you today is

D = 

Dark Colours 
- think Halloween/Autumn colours!

So you can enter the challenge with ANY project you like as long as you coloured it with a medium (pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like) - our only other rule is that you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 24 OCT AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST

Prize 1: You can a great digi bundle for the Sponsor's Melonheadz digi store, who are our sponsors for this week - we will choose a winner via Random.org

Prize 2: We also have some Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away - to win this you need to be in the UK so please add UK next to your name in your entry - if you're in the UK and don't add it after your name we won't count you in the draw and you could miss out.  Again we will choose a winner via Random.org

So let's see what the Design Team have made this week! 

Scatty Jan Ohhh think darks was a bit tricky for me I soooo wanted to add some lights in. I used the lovely Witches clothes Line bundle adding in a few cut spiders/ bats/web/grass and gravestone.  I added in a few bubbles to the cauldron and to give some background 

The colours I used are

Purples 033/034/035

Greens 073/074/075

Greys 097/098/199

Blues 049/050/051

Orange 009/013/015

Skin 030/032/076/094

White 001

Yvonne - Hello there! I am on holiday but still had time to play with this fab bundle from Melonheadz called  Halloween String Beans and these are so much fun! I loved colouring these up.  I opted to make a stepped step card - as I thought their long legs would lend themselves well to the stepped card.   I used papers from the Polkadoodles Halloween Papers bundle 1 and 2, the pumpkins and sentiment is from this too, you can see the range here.  All the colour combos and close ups of the images are on my blog!

Susan - The images I have used are from the Feelin Witchy Bundle I had so much fun playing with these images....

 these are the pencils I have used

Skin - 32 ,31 ,30

Hair - 75

Greens - 68 , 67, 70 ,71

Burnt Ochre ,87

Delft Blue ,41

Nikky...It can be a bit tricky when you think 'Darks' but you can actually achieve this quite easily - really it just means contrast, if you get really good contrast between light and dark this will make your image really pop and the darks then become much darker without really being too hard to achieve. Optical illusion!
I adored this image from our lovely sponsor Melonheadz...this was from the Wizards Bundle here - they supply you with a bundle with little supporting elements so I pulled them all together in Word and just made my own little scene....I should probably have gone much darker but I really wanted to get a nice glow effect going on...

Colours I used are (sorry this might not be 100% as I forgot to write them down!)
Skin: 82 Brown Ochre, Umber, Light Carmine
Clothes: 55 Night Green, Violet
Cauldron & Cat: Black with a little Violet added
Bubbles: Night green, Veridien, Violet, Gold ochre
Background: Gold ochre, light carmine
White 01 to blend

Cara....I used the Halloween Stuff bundle by Melonheadz, I absolutely adored working wit the images, I combined two of the Zombie images, I think they are adorable and a bit like me and my husband.  I used my browns for shading on this card as I wanted the colours to look quite dirty ... as zombies do of course!

Pencils used:

Skin: 68,73,76

Browns: 75,76

Orange: 13,15,17,76

Blue: 44,51,Black

Challenge 3 is still open for entries until NOON GMT today, 10th October and can be found on the post below so chance for a last minute entry if you missed it last time!! 

So it's time to announce the winners of our 2nd challenge 

B = Bright

Wow! so many entries again - thanks to everyone who entered!

We have 2 prizes....

Prize 1 =  a $12 voucher for the Sponsor's digi store, chosen via Random.org

#8 VIC

Well done! Please email us here and quote code PC0021 to claim your prize!

Prize 2 = We also have a set of 12 Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away to a Random UK  winner via Random.org

#28 Vanessa

Well done! Please email us here and quote code PC0022 to claim your prize!

And the Design Team's Top 3 favourite entries are:

#28 Vanessa

#12 Christine

#22 Claire

It was SO hard to choose our favourites this time there were some stunningly creative entries and some awesome colouring skills going on - thankyou all so so much for joining us and entering and we would love you all to come and join us on our Facebook group too! 

PLEASE PLEASE remember to add UK with your entry on your name if you want to be considered for our pencils prize - this can only be sent to UK entries and if you dont have UK with your name you won't be in the random draw! I know there were loads of you there who were UK but to keep it fair we have to stick to the rules so please remember to add UK so you don't miss out on the chance of a great prize. 

Thanks to all of you who entered - we look forward to seeing all the entries for our next challenge and we'll be back again next week! 

Make sure you pop over to our Facebook page here!! 

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Challenge 3....C = Creepy Autumn Pencil Case Craft Colouring challenge sponsored by Star Stampz

Welcome back to our 3rd challenge here at the Pencil Case - wow time is flying by here!! 

The aim of our blog is to tell you all about our passion for our favourite Pencils!....

The Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour oil based range of pencils have been around for many years and are tried and tested Artist's Quality LIGHTFAST pencils which you will love! They have always been quite difficult to get hold of here in the UK but Premium Art Brands are now the UK Distributor for this great range - and we're here to show you how lovely they are! If you are a UK retailer you NEED to stock these in store - please see how at the top of this page!...78  gorgeous, BRIGHT, Vivid, LIGHTFAST, UV resistant, creamy, buttery, oil based pencils which give you amazing results. If you want to see more come over and join us on Facebook too...

This week we are very thrilled to have the lovely Star Stampz as our Digital Sponsor, make sure you check out their fabulous store for some great images!

So our challenge for you this week is

C= Creepy/Autumn Colours

Perfect for all your Halloween and Autumn Colour makes!

So you can enter the challenge with ANY project you like as long as you coloured it with a medium
(pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like) - our only other rule is that you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 10 OCT AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST

Prize 1: You can some great digis for the Sponsor's digi store, who are our sponsors for this week - we will choose a winner via Random.org

Prize 2: We also have a set of 12 Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away - to win this you need to be in the UK so please add UK next to your name in your entry - if you're in the UK and don't add it after your name we won't count you in the draw and you could miss out. Again we will choose a winner via Random.org

So let's get to the Design Team's gorgeous makes for this challenge!...

Scatty Jan I adored colouring my image this week - This one is called Autumn Fall reading and you can find her in the store here . I love using the Autumn colours in the pencils apart from the skin colours I used pencils from the 24 set.....

Colours I have used:

Skin Light skin/Dark Skin/Indian Red/Purple

Hair Dark Sepia/Van Dyck Brown/Gold Ochre

Light Blue/True Blue

Venitan Red /Pompeian Red

Sap Green/Apple Green

Light Orange/Dark Orange

Cara - For my image I went for alternate autumn colours, I was thinking frosty mornings ect, 

as the image has some quite large areas for the background I used some Sansador and a paper stump to blend.  I also made use of my White Graph'it shake marker to add details and my Gold glitter Shake pen to go around the border.  I also went over all of the details with a black fine liner to define the image more as sometimes I go over the lines and they get all faded.

Pencils used:

Sky/Background: Black, White, light grey, Blue Violet, Prussian blue, Light Blue

Skin: Venetian Red, Burnt Ochre, White

Dresses: Blue Violet, Dark Grey, Black, Light Blue, White

Yvonne - I got to play with this fabulous image called 'Autumn Fall Girl Reading' which you can get here. I loved this image and it was so easy to colour, I made a 7x7 card.  

I coloured the image with the following pencils:

Skin: 32, 89, 92

Hair: 82, 80, 76

Tree: 87, 76, 75

Coat & pumpkins: 08, 13, 15

Boots & Scarf: 39, 38 & 36

Grass and bushes & leaves: 68, 70, 71, 82

Nikky....I went for Creepy Autumn colours for this challenge, I adore this image from our sponsor, it was perfect for this challenge. 

I really wanted to get a nice glow from the fairy wand so I left that area right to the end to make sure I could really get some great blending. I really didnt use that many colours on this image and just laid down lots and lots of layers to build up the colour...I don't know what paper I'd printed this on but it was pretty awful & didn't give a lot of tooth so I need to get rid so I don't end up with more LOL!....

Colours I used: Skin Fairy: 31 Medium Flesh, 82 Brown Ochre, 76 VD brown, 27 Lt Carmine cheeks

Hair: 37 Blue violeet, 36 Dark violet, 41 delft Blue

Dress: 67 Veridian   Wand glow: 83 Gold Ochre, 21 P Geranium Lake

Witch: Hat/dress/shoes: 39 Lt Violet, 37 Blue Violet - + 33 Wine Red on Dress, Cloak Black

Witches face - skin as per Fairy with a layer of 68 Moss Green over the top

Background colours: sky - 15 Dark Orange, Black, 24 Rose Carmine...landscape: Black + violets, Foreground: 67 Veridian + 83 Gold ochre

Susan - I just love this image that I have used .It is Autumn Fall from Star Stamps Lots more details on my blog

Pencils used = Skin 03 -32 -87

Hair 80 -87 -75

Coat ,Tights Pumpkins 87 -89 -87

Boots 87

Tree 80 -75 -76

Pencils used:

Sky/Background: Black, White, light grey, Blue Violet, Prussian blue, Light Blue

Skin: Venetian Red, Burnt Ochre, White

Dresses: Blue Violet, Dark Grey, Black, Light Blue, White

Wow, beautiful colours and amazing makes!

The Design Team have certainly had some fun using their Lyra Rembrandt Polycolours!! 

We really hope you'll join in the challenge with us and come back regularly to join in the fun - we will be here every 2 weeks so we can't wait to see what you enter - just use Thumblinky below!

The winner of our Week 2 challenge will be announced on the next post on 10th October....

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Wk 2...B=BRIGHT, The Pencil Case Crafting Challenge

Welcome to the 2nd Crafting Challenge here at The Pencil Case!

Our lovely Design Team members are all here to show you how amazing 

Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour Pencils are and to show you some fun ways of using pencils along the way!! 
THE PENCIL CASE FACEBOOK GROUP IS HERE - PLEASE JOIN US! We have some loovely people in the group and we are learning about pencils together so it's a great platform to learn and share together!

WATCH ON CREATE AND CRAFT TV 

18TH SEPTEMBER, WITH NIKKY HALL

Nikky will be showcasing all about these amazing pencils and showing how to use them with your other mediums to get some amazing results so tune in to see some great techniques and education! We've put together a special kit using some of our favourite tools so don't miss this show!

You can watch on Sky 674, Freeview 36, Virgin 748, Freesat 813 or watch online HERE live or later by viewing the programme in the schedule.

The Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour oil based range of pencils have been around for many years and are tried and tested Artist's Quality LIGHTFAST pencils which you will love! They have always been quite difficult to get hold of here in the UK but Premium Art Brands are now the UK Distributor for this great range - and we're here to show you how lovely they are!

The Lyra Splender Blender is reknowned as being the best pencil blender available and is widely used by Artist's with other brands of pencils too...

These great pencils are really smooth and buttery in texture and consistency and offer a fantastic range of bright, vibrant colours which blend really easily and work on a fantastic array of different surfaces. 

They are German manufactured which means superior quality to many other well known brands and being high on the Lightfast Scale means that unlike many other brands you can be assured if you colour an image with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour the image wont be all faded in 2 days from sitting on a windowsill - UBER important to us as crafters! 

The points stay much sharper than many other pencils and they have fantastic quality leads which are water resistant and don't give wax build-up to give you that 'blooming' effect many other pencils are synonymous with. 

Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour will also combine with your other oil-based pencil brands too, expanding the range of colours you might have in your collection.

Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils are available from 

Jacksons Art 

and other good Art & Craft stores across the UK.  

If you are a retailer and would like to stock this product please contact us HERE.

So let's get to the challenge....

This week we are sponsored by the fabulous

So make sure you go over to their lovely Digi Store for some great images to colour in! 

Prize $12

This week our challenge is

B = BRIGHT

This can be bright colours you've used, bright papers, whatever you wish so long as the make is lovely and bright in colour! Easy peasy!

So you can enter the challenge with ANY project you like as long as you coloured it with a medium
(pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like) - our only other rule is that you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 26 SEPT AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST

Prizes: You can win a $12 voucher for the Sponsor's digi store, who are our sponsors for this week - we will choose a winner via Random.org

We also have a set of 12 Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away - to win this you need to be in the UK so please add UK next to your name in your entry. Again we will choose a winner via Random.org

Nikky...Unfortunately I havent been able to make a full project this week, but it's all about the colouring, right? This image was actually the first one I coloured with my Rembrandt Polycolour 2or 3 months back when I first got them and it blew me away with the vibrancy of colour...

There are a few things I'd change about it but for me the first time you pick up a new tool to use it the results are always really important for me so I wanted to share this with you. This image is also on a really smooth paper (my 160gsm Ultimate Graphic) which doesnt have too much tooth but it still produces amazing results which is testament to the quality of the pencil. I can't remember all the colours I used unfortunately as I didnt write them down at the time stupid me *bashes self around face with a wet fish*....(image Oddella from Polkadoodles).
I really hope you can join me on Create and Craft on Thursday where I'll be able to show you more in the flesh! The biggest thing I love about any kind of pencil is the texture - if you want smooth you can use a marker but to really add depth and major texture use a pencil and for me, I think that makes great results more achievable, especially if you are a learner and less confident or struggle with your blending.

Scatty Jan  Ohhhh lovely challenge Bright Colours . I decided to make a little bag which I cut on my portrait . I then coloured up the wonderful digi from the Serenity Collection from Polkadoodles She is a dream to colour up using the pencils . I finished off adding Glamour dust to her wings for a little sparkle.

The colours I have used are

Skin 032/092/032/094

Blues 53/554/55

Pinks 28/29/93

Cara - I love love love bright colours and these pencils are so vibrant it makes this challenge a breeze! I used this chance to stretch out summer a little longer and make a very sunshiney card!

Colours used:

Skin: White, Burnt Ochre, Venetian Red, Van Dyck Brown and Rose Carmine

Hat: Burnt Ochre, Raw Umber, Van Dyck Brown

Hair and Skirt: Burnt Ochre, Ochre, Dark Orange, Light Orange

Shoes and T-Shirt: Black, Viridian, True Blue

Yvonne - Hello there everyone! I have been having so much fun with these pencils and I decided for my 'bright' challenge I would go for the pinks, you can achieve really deep and pastel tones with these pencils and for a lover of all things pink - that's a huge tick box for me! I coloured Serenity Fairy Kisses from the Serenity Collection.  

I used the following pencils:

Skin: 32, 89, 92

Hair: 83, 87, 76

Dress: 29, 28, 27

Flowers & Butterfly: 47, 48, 44


Susan - This is the image I started earlier and have just finished her . Wandering Star from the new collection Frosted Winter.....I am just loving these amazing Pencils!....

Pencils I have used

Skin - Venetian Red ,Burnet Ochre ,White ,Rose Carmine ,Van Dyke Drown

Hair - Cream ,Van Dyke Brown

Clothes - Light Blue ,Paris Blue ,Prussian Blue

Pink Madder Lake ,Rose Madder ,Light Carmine ,Rose Carmine

Boots , Van Dyke Brown ,Dark Sepia

Lou: For the bright challenge I have used a Saturated Canary image coloured of course with my pencils. Colouring the image was a breeze and am amazed at how sharp my pencils remain even after using them over and over again!

 

 The colours I used were:

Skin - white, ochre, gold ochre pale geranium

Hair - dark sepia, van dyck brown, black, white

Dress - Moss green, light orange, light blue, dark carmine, canary yellow

Boots - moss green, olive green, black

Balloon - light orange, white

Wow, some stunning work!

The Design Team have certainly had some fun using their new Rembrandt Polycolours!! 

We really hope you'll join in the challenge with us and come back regularly to join in the fun - we will be here every 2 weeks so we can't wait to see what you enter - just use Thumblinky below!

THE PENCIL CASE FACEBOOK GROUP 

IS HERE - PLEASE JOIN US!

The winner of our Week 1 challenge will be announced next Saturday....

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Wk1 A = Anything Goes Craft challenge at The Pencil Case

Welcome to the brand new Crafting Challenge here at 

The Pencil Case!

Our lovely Design Team members are all here to show you how amazing 

Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour Pencils are and to show you some fun ways of using pencils along the way!! 

THE PENCIL CASE FACEBOOK GROUP IS HERE - PLEASE JOIN US!

This oil based range of pencils have been around for many years and are tried and tested Artist's Quality LIGHTFAST pencils which you will love! They have always been quite difficult to get hold of here in the UK but Premium Art Brands are now the UK Distributor for this great range - and we're here to show you how lovely they are!

The Lyra Splender Blender is reknowned as being the best pencil blender available and is widely used by Artist's with other brands of pencils too...

These great pencils are really smooth and buttery in texture and consistency and offer a fantastic range of bright, vibrant colours which blend really easily and work on a fantastic array of different surfaces. 

They are German manufactured which means superior quality to many other well known brands and being Lightfast means that unlike other brands you can be assured if you colour an image with Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour the image wont be all faded in 2 days from sitting on a windowsill - UBER important to us as crafters! 

The points stay much sharper than many other pencils and they have fantastic quality leads which are water resistant and don't give wax build-up to give you that 'blooming' effect many other pencils are synonymous with.  

Rembrandt Polycolour will also combine with your other oil-based pencil brands too, expanding the range of colours you might have in your collection.

Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils are available from 

Jacksons Art 

and other good Art & Craft stores across the UK.  

If you are a retailer and would like to stock this product please contact us HERE.

So let's get to the first challenge!

This week our challenge is

A = ANYTHING GOES

So you can enter the challenge with ANY project you like as long as you coloured it with a medium 
(pencils, markers, inks, paints, whatever you like) - our only rule is that you can only enter twice!
CLOSING DATE: SAT 12 SEPT AT NOON GMT - WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING POST

Prizes: You can win a $10 voucher for the Polkadoodles digi store, who are our sponsors for this week - we will choose a winner via Random.org

We also have a set of 12 Lyra Rembrandt Polycolour pencils to give away - to win this you need to be in the UK so please add UK next to your name in your entry. Again we will choose a winner via Random.org

So let's see what the team have made!

Nikky...I am so excited to be able to show you this fab range of pencils. I've been using a couple of other brands for years and I have to say that these exceeded my expectations considering the price of them - high quality for a low price and that's a winner in my book! So it was always a bit of a given that I was going to fall in love with these, wasn't it!

If you want to see more about the Rembrandt Polycolour range you can see a little short video I made just to show and introduce you to them here

I made a different image for this challenge but then I was playing around the other day with some ice effects and I thought I'd use this instead for my first make because it really shows you what you can do with these pencils I think....I have to thank Alyce Keegan for inspiring me with the ice, I was just doodling and wanted to make a kind of ice sculpture effect so it was a little weird! When I came to make the card I decided to cut the image out and bend the flower backwards, so this card is actually an easel folded although you can't really tell. I was so pleased I cut her out because it made the whole thing really 3D, goes to show what a little cutting can do....

The image is from the Polkadoodles Octavia Frosted Winter collection HERE.
I am ashamed to say I got so carried away with my colouring that as usual I forgot to write the colours down, shame on me! I actually coloured this on our 160gsm Ultimate Graphic paper which is very smooth but not quite super smooth. It just has enough tooth for me but I am definitely playing around with different papers and board to get different effects. If you don't understand what 'Tooth' means - it's the amount of layers of fibre within the paper - the more layers you have the more pigment you can lay down...think of it like little cells that have to absorb the colour - so the more cells and layers, the more colour you can lay down. Lots of people love watercolour board but this gives you loads of texture so just play around and find what YOU like, there is no right or wrong!
What I love about these pencils is the lumosity and vibrance of colour - the ice actually looks transparent here and believe me it's not, it's just the turquoises and blues on white card...

From memory I know I used: skin - medium flesh, brown ochre, rose madder lake, van dyck brown
Hair and Coat: the 3 purple tones that are actually more red!
clothing: the aqua colours - turquoise, peacock blue etc
boots and fur: blue violet, violet and aqua/turquoise

Caroline...I used an image called Shining Spines from the Polkadoodles Octavia Frosted Winter Collection - all the backing papers are also from the same cd....

 The pencils handle like a dream, im very new to pencils so was thrilled to be part of the team and have found them easier to use than a lot of other brands on the market as they seem to blend easier.

Colours used: skin: burnt ochre, pulled in with blender pencil and tinge of light carmine

hair: raw umber and gold umber

clothes: true blue, light blue, dark carmine, light carmine, silver grey

hedgehog: van dyck brown, gold ochre

Scatty Jan For my first project I have coloured in the lovely Serenity Stardust you can find her in the Polkadoodles store here .  I am so pleased to be on the DT for The Pencil Case, we have all had lots of fun trying them all out and coming up with new colour combos. They really are wonderful pencils that blend very easily. I am so looking forward to sharing more of my projects with you....

The colours I used are: 

Skin 030/092/094/031/084

Hair 080/082/083/076

Reds 021/018

Blues 47/49/51

Moon & Stars 002/007/006/008/009/087

Susan ....I was over the moon when Nikky asked if I would Like to try these amazing Pencils and be part of a new Design Team - of course I said yes!  They really are a dream to work with and so creamy and vibrant ,they layer and blend beautifully. I have been using different brands of pencils for about 6 months now, and spent a fortune on them, just wish I had chosen these from the start ! This image is Frosted Fox from the new Frosted Winter Collection , I have coloured on Smooth Watercolour Card..... 

 Lyra Pencils Used

Skin- 32 ,31 ,76

Hair 76 ,75

Scarf -89

Dress 68,77,74

Fox - 90 ,80 ,76

Yvonne - Hello everyone! Well I cannot tell you how amazingly happy I am to be here in this Design Team sharing with you all my new love - which is of course these amazing pencils! For our first challenge I combined my new love with an old love and used the gorgeous Serenity Collection, which is available as a Digi Download or as a CD-Rom. I used 'Joyful' which you can get here as a single digi stamp.  I made a shaped card and I went die happy with some dies and added some flowers. 

I used the following pencils:

Skin: 32, 89, 92

Hair: Black, 97, 41, 43, 96, white

Top & Flowers: 29, 28, 09

Skirt: 46, 43, 41

Butterfly's: 43, 41

Cara  - Hi, its so great to be here and working with these amazing pencils! They are a joy to work with and I am super excited to share my ideas on using them with you!  Here is my first project using the super sweet Mermaid digi stamp by Polkadoodles.  I decided to try my pencils on Kraft card and I also drew bubbles with my pencils to create an underwater scene, I hope you like the results.

The pencils I used were:

Skin: White, Burnt Ochre, Venetian Red, Rose Carmine

Sea and Bubbles: White, Light Blue, Prussian Blue, Apple Green, Burnt ochre

Hair and tail: Apple Green, Sap Green, Viridian

Lou: Hi everyone, I'm also very pleased to be here too especially as I am a crafter who prefers to colour with pencils and was ecstatic to be asked to use the Lyra pencils. I was blown away with the results and how easy it was to blend with the pencils ... minimum effect which is right up my street! I have used one of the Polkadoodles Ickyink Art Images, Oddella Twig for my card ...

I have used the following pencils: -

Skin: Ochre, gold ochre, venetian red, white, light grey

Eyes: light blue and true blue

Hair: black, medium grey, dark sepia, GraphIt white shake pen

Dress: Blue violet, Light colbalt, medium grey, white.

Tights: black, medium grey

Boots: Van Dyck brown and dark sepia.

Wow!! The Design Team have certainly had some fun using their new Rembrandt Polycolours!! 

We really hope you'll join in the challenge with us and come back regularly to join in the fun - we will be here every 2 weeks so we can't wait to see what you enter - just use Thumblinky below!

THE PENCIL CASE FACEBOOK GROUP 

IS HERE - PLEASE JOIN US!

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