Everafter - coloured pencil, masking

A girl and her dragon, a match made in heaven? My card features Newton Nook stamp sets with Koh-i-Noor pencil colouring and masking.

Putting It Together

I wasn't intending to do two dragon cards back to back, but the colour challenge at Inky Paws was calling to me and these two stamp sets were a perfect fit for it. Though, in a way, this is kind of a follow up on the dragon card I posted yesterday *laugh*

I don't know why green calls to me as a dragon colour, but it does. Teal, I thought, would be nice for a dress.

I decided I wanted to do some masking. I didn't clean my stamps from their last use (oops) and used a handy yellow pad to stamp both of the images on masking paper. I fussy cut both of them.

But, not just any masking, I wanted to have the princess between the dragon's head and tail looking like the dragon is curling around her. This meant a bit of complicated masking for one image to be both behind and in front of the other. I cut off the dragon's head, from the mask, and used two positions in my Misti to stamp the dragon twice, with his head stamped separately from his body.

• First stamping: The dragon with the head area completely masked. This put the tail as the top-most. 
• Second stamping: The princess with the dragon body masked but no masking over the dragon head area. This put the princess behind the tail and in front of the head.
• Third stamping: The dragon again with the dragon body and the princess masked. This put the dragon head behind the princess.

I need to clean my Misti door. I'm starting to get ink smudges in places I'm not stamping. 

I used Koh-i-Noor pencils on Bristol to colour the duo that I had stamped with grey for a "no lines" colouring.

I added accents with white and bronze gel pens, cropped the image with a stitched tag die, then added a hole and a bit of ribbon from my stash.

I added them to a black card base with a patterned paper background and a doily for a touch of feminine. I popped the tag up with foam mounting tape and added a sentiment and white enamel dots.

I kept the inside simple with another panel of the patterned paper stamped with a sentiment and topiary.

Supplies

Challenges

Inky Paws: Colour Challenge (white, green, teal, and yellow)
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Stitches
Crafter's Cafe: Tag
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper: Anything Goes
Outlawz Festive Friday: Anything Goes
Creative Moments: Anything Goes
Addicted to Stamps and More: Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-crafty: Anything Goes