Countdown to Christmas at LEJ Designs

Hello, All

Time for a lovely new challenge at

LEJ Designs.

We are having a 

Countdown to Christmas

theme and hope you will share 

your creations with us this week. 

There is  a freebie on LEJ Designs, too. 

 

He will only be free for a limited time so why not pop over and capture:
 Mozpoz Santa Claws?

I have made a hybrid project this week, using the image:

Choir Boy

by 

LEJ Designs

For anyone new to that expression, it simply means I have combined paper techniques with electronic techniques.

My colouring is by hand using Promarker Pens and Flexmarker Pens but I have used masking techniques with a single chorister to produce a full choir on two levels using Craft Artist Professional 2.  
It has just dawned on me that I had not set my scanner to a high enough resolution, d'oh! 
I would love to get proficient enough with Craft Artist to colour in digital images inside the programme but I have  a feeling those days are far away yet.:)  Although I am able to change the colour of a blank image!  Who! Hoo!
The setting I achieved by using embellishments from digi kits and playing around with them a lot . I added one background from a digi kit too. 
 (Altered art the digital way? Interesting idea!)

Love and Peace, 
Vee xx  
I am adding this later in the week as I have been told by a couple of friends that I have not left enough information for people interested in digital work. 
I have to say an expert will probably have a laugh at how 
I get to my end result as everything I do 
is a bit hiss and mit (lol!)
So here goes.
I masked the boys because when you buy a digital image from LEJ Designs you get three versions; the jpeg, the clear background png and the totally clear png.
I used the clear background as that lets you put them closer together without having to worry about the backgrounds. I coloured one boy first using promarkers but did not colour his hair and skin.
I scanned him in and copied several times and grouped them into a choir. I made the alter rail from a small metal gate embellishment I just pulled and resized cut and stretched and copied until it resembled a rail. The pew was a very, small dark  wooden bench I recoloured it, resized it and cropped it and then placed it so that the boys would somewhere to stand and sit.
The screeen at the back was smaller and I copied it and grouped them together and resized, recoloured and sent to back to be a backdrop to the boys. Then I added a neutral background from a digi kit.
The three embellishments I think I found in one of the steampunk digi kits and the background I am not sure but it is quite neutral and may even have been from a free kit.
Once the scene was set and I had my choir  I printed it out and coloured the skin and hair differently for each boy using promarkers.   I then scanned it back in and at this point I should have used a higher resolution as I lost a lot of the detail from my colouring. Of course anyone who has sussed out how to colour in Craft Artist is  colouring inside the programme but  I am not sure how to do that properly and I actually love colouring with my promarkers so it suits me.
Once everything was scanned in I cut around the heads and necks and pasted them onto the original choir group, resizing to get the best fit and that was that. 
I am totally convinced there are a dozen ways to do it better but that is what I did. 
I hope that helps.
Vee xx     
    

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The first randomly drawn winner will win 4 digital images
of their own choosing from 

LEJ Designs

The second randomly drawn winner will win
a $12 voucher from

A day for Daisies

 
Each week there is a special draw for entries using an LEJ Designs image and the prize this week is
TEN digital images from LEJ Designs.
(And there is a freebie on the web site! You do the math!)
 

Love and Peace, 

Vee xx 
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Challenges I would like to enter:

Christmas at Cards Galore Challenge Blog (1st entry)

Vintage Christmas at Craftymess Challenge Blog (1st entry)

 Christmas (No red or green) at Celebrate the Occasion


Anything Goes at Lady Anne's Stamp Challenge 

Christmas Time at DCC and Friends (1st entry)