Hello crafty friends and welcome to our new challenge at CAS Colours & Sketches. It’s time for sketch this time round – I rotated it, as one of the new ‘Tina’s bijou retro stamps’ from Clarity Crafts was the perfect shape! I decided to also pick up the tones from the moodboard at Just Us Girls

This is another nice and simple one, but I’ve got a key tip about the pencil colouring! I took a small square of the Amazonia designer paper, choosing a fairly muted piece, and stamped the banners image onto it with black Archival ink. I then coloured it with Pergaliner B pencils, just choosing two shades that complemented the designer paper. One of the things I find when colouring a larger area is that it can look a bit grainy, which is where the Dorso Oil came in! It’s designed for parhcment, but works perfectly on the designer paper and card as well. Just pop a little on a spot-on sponge, pick it up with a blending nib, and go over the shaded area – the oil will smooth out the pigment and remove the grainy appearance. Guess who forgot to take ‘before’ & ‘after’ pics at this point….

Anyway, having done that, I used a ruler and a Sharpie pen to add a border to my paper. I created a frame on a 5×5 card blank with a square embedder, then simply attached the paper into the centre, adding one of the ‘bijou retro sentiments’ to finish.

So do come on over to CAS Colours & Sketches and play with our sketch – there’s more fabulous inspiration from my design team-mates over on the blog to get your started!