It's a bubble gum kind of day

I felt like giving ya'll a two-fer. You get to see two previews of the same image. She is such a fun image to play with. For the first card you get to see Sweet Bubblegum as a whole. I used the Digital Tuesday sketch and the Papertake weekly challenge of using colors that represent a season. Somthing about oranges and blues just make me think of summer. The sentiment in the bottom right corner is from PTI and used for a nice subtle note. I covered the bubble in CE to give is a shinny look that bubbles tend to have. I'll talk more about the coloring behind the bubble gum when I tell you about the next card.

Now for my two-color card. I wanted to show you how you can take part of a digi stamp and use it. For this card I used only the top half of the image and then used my circle nestie to cut it and the border out. I guess I was in a 'blue' mood when I made this one since that's my main color. The challenges I used for this card is: 2 sketches 4 you, the CAS challenge over at SCS (use bling), and last weeks My Time to Craft of using something old or forgotten (my clear circle epoxy stickers over the word 'gum' and the bubble). On the sentiment strip I just used my ruler and drew the lines with my SU! turquoise marker. I colored a circle over the word gum using RV000 before I put the circle sticker over it to add to the gum feel. How I colored the bubble part is explain below.

Behind the Bubble: First I colored the face as I normally would: E50, E51, R20 (the lips). Then I colored the part of the shirt showing behind the bubble with B01 (the medium color I used for the shirt). The tirck I learned from I Like Markers is to NOT color to the edge, so I didn't color to any part of the face or shirt that touches the edge of the bubble. After I did that I took the RV000 copic and colored in the bubble (over the colors that overlaped) to the edge. I really like the end result as it looks like a real bubble.