Coloring Stampendous with Tombow

This whole week the design team at Stampendous will be sharing a bonanza in coloring with Tombow Dual Brush Tip markers. The Stampendous designers love to color. We really do! I think that's all we really want to do, so when we heard that Tombow was coming to color with us we were excited! On Friday we will all be in a Blog Hop together and there will be prizes! Details can be found on the Stampendous Blog.

(If you've been hopping with the Stampendous team throughout the week, this is a blast from the future. You are reading this on a Wednesday, but this link was live on Monday  So...)

Here is the finished piece!

I started this piece as a practice to get use to the coloring style and the markers were so rich in color and easy to lay down on the paper that I had to keep going. (If you think you've seen this Cherry Bird on my blog recently, you are correct. It's just a great stamp to color with lots of organic elements.)

I took full advantage of the Pen Techniques file that Marie Browning provided to the team for this image, so I will attempt to guide you through them all. 

You will see close-ups of this image I took before the glitter and Mica Fragments were added.

	The upper leaves were colored with 238 picked up onto 090 from the Blending Palette. The leaf tips were highlighted with 090. For shadow on the veins, 245 was diluted onto the Colorless Blender from the Blending Palette. Branches were colored with 969 picked up onto 603. In a few spots a direct coloring of 992  and 245 were done for contrast.
	The lower leaves use 238 on the Colorless Blender and highlighted with 090 sparingly. Same coloring for the vein shadow as on the upper leaves. Shadows were colored with 238 directly and a Blending Palette mix of 238 and 528 picked up on the Colorless Blender.
	This Cherry Bird is quite a bit of fun techniques. The head, cheek and tail color is 528 on the Colorless Blender. There are a few lines of 528 on the tail and head for details. The eyelids have a direct color of 553 and The beak is 925 on the Colorless Blender with 837 on a cleaned Blender in the corners. The body is 993 on a Blender with detail using the nib end of the pen. Wings were colored with 992 on the Blender and a second pass with 993 also on the Blender for some feather highlights. 969 on the Blender was used for shadow.
	The blossom colors are 772 on Blender from the outside of the petal to the stamen. The center is 990 on Blender first then 969 on Blender.
	For the writing, 603 on Blender was used until clean so each column would have a varying gradient.
	Leaves were glittered with Lime and Teal Micro Glitter over Tombow Mono Aqua Glue.
	Cherry Bird was glittered with Sunflower Micro Glitter. The blossom stamen were glittered with Pink Micro Glitter.
	The last Tombow technique on the card is using the Splash technique. To get it just right the image was placed underneath a clear acetate so 990 could be placed the right size for the paper. The acetate was sprayed with water and the image was placed face down onto the acetate. A second time with 969 just around the edges with the same technique and then a third time with 553 sparingly.
	Once the card was assembled, Red Mica Fragments were added with Tombow Mono Aqua Glue.
Tombow ABT Dual Brush Pens Used:	090 – Baby Yellow 238 – Dark Moss 245 – Sap Green 528 – Navy Blue 553 – Mist Purple 603 – Periwinkle 772 – Blush 837 – Wine Red 925 – Scarlet 969 – Chocolate 990 – Light Sand 992 – Sand