Probably the easiest ones to color were the black and white "tuxedo" cats. For all of the cats, I mostly used my pastel chalks. The ones I have are a set of 48 from "The Stencil Collection". I love that they are erasable when you first apply them, but set within 10 minutes or so. And I like the ease of use.
For this black and white cat, I started by stamping a black image on white card stock. Using the chalks, I started by coloring the nose & inside of the ears with pink. Then I added a dark grey - almost black color around the face and body, leaving plenty of white showing as you can see. I then added black chalk where the lines were on the cat and other places I wanted to be a bit darker (like where one part of the cat would create shadow on another part).
For the eyes, I combined 2 Smooch inks (Green Apple, & Gold Lame') by putting a few dots of the green and then blending with the gold. I used a bit of pink Smooch ink for the nose.
I found it looked best if I then went over the lines with a fine-line black felt-tip marker. (Sharpie's works fine for this.) The head, body & bow are just sitting loosely at the moment, but I had to see what they looked like. Won't this make a fine addition to a card?
Here are a couple more black & white cats.
"Peeking" Kittie
Left-facing Kittie
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I'm hoping you will be using these in some cards or scrapbooking layouts this week and will post pics soon!
Cute kittens! I appreciate the tutorial type post! It's great to see what other steps and techniques other crafters use!!!!
great coloring Cheryl! Love these cats!!!
Thanks to both of you. You make taking the time to post worth it! :)
I had fun with these. I figured I'd best do a bit of a tutorial on them for two reasons: 1) I figured others might appreciate it, and 2) I wanted to remember what I had done!!!! :)
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