Make It Monday #30: Colored Pencils

Everybody is crazy over Copic markers, but we're kickin' it old school today with a video on colored pencils. Let Jennifer show you how inexpensive, blendable, and impressive projects can be using this coloring medium.

Stills of Jennifer's project:

If you are joining along this week, here are the details concerning the Make It Monday Challenge.

–A new Make It Monday Challenge & video will go up every Monday morning at 9am EST.

–Create a project utilizing your take on the challenge. Your project must use at least one Papertrey product and feature the use of colored pencils.

–Post your project on your blog, in your gallery or on any other photo-hosting site (such as photobucket or flickr).

–You will have until 7am, Monday, September 5th, to add your link to the list to be eligible to win. And you can enter as many times as you like.

–We will be tweeting and posting on our Facebook page every night (between 5-9pm EST) highlighting a Featured Project. These tweets/Facebook postings will just be a shout-out regarding projects that caught our eye. The tweets/Facebook postings no longer have any special merit regarding the actual contest.

–One randomly selected winner will be chosen from ALL the entries on Monday, September 5th, after 7am. The winner will be posted here on this blog post, on Twitter and Facebook. The randomly selected winner will get to select a FREE Papertrey stamp set of their choice!

Good luck to everyone and we look forward to seeing your projects!

EDITED TO ADD RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER:

Congratulations, Karen Flores! Please be sure to email customer service with your free stamp set selection and your shipping information! And thank you to everyone else for playing along! There were truly some beautiful creations shared this week!

Join the discussion 61 Comments

thanks for the great tutorial. While i would love to have copic markers it is just not in the budget yet, so I appreciate this.
Just wanted to say that I could barely hear Jennifer even with my volume all the way up…the music was plenty loud though.

Jennifer! This is so pretty. I loved the video. But next time could you please adjust your volume levels so your voice is louder? I could hardly hear you with the volume on my laptop all the way up. Otherwise… great job!

Great tutorial, Jennifer! Thank you so much. I love my pencils, and before Copics, they were my go-to medium. This makes me want to go BACK and use them MORE! (and I too had difficulty hearing the video). THANKS!! 😀

Thanks for the great video, Jenn. I haven’t used my PC pencils in a long time and you inspired me to get them out and color away. Actually PC pencils is my true love as I feel I can control it better than Copics but I use my Copics more often as it seems to go faster. Thanks.

If anyone has any experience using Windows Live Movie Maker and dubbing narration successfully, I would LOVE to hear from you. I’ve purchased two different microphones and neither is giving me the results I’d like. If you have tips for that, please let me know and I will give them a try. I’m sorry for the trouble with the sound – if you have headphones, it might help.

BABY OIL PURPOSE – Because the volume was so low, I didn’t hear the reason for using baby oil, but figured it helped to blend by watching your video – BUT I DO HAVE QUESTIONS #1 Does the baby oil leave a film on your cardstock? #2 What about bleeding through your cardstock, any problem with that? #3 What type cardstock did you use?
THANKS SO MUCH

Wow! So very pretty and so very my colors!! Jennifer you did a fantastic job with the colored pencils.I was quite convinced I was going to jump on the Copic bandwagon since my dh said I could, but watching this video using the colored pencils is giving me a moment to pause and possibly reconsider…maybe a good set of colored pencils are more me:)

Hi! Lovely card, beautiful coloring. I wish I could have successfully heard Jennifer on the tutorial video. I had to strain so much and was only getting bits and pieces so after a few minutes, I stopped watching it. Drats! Any way to techno-fix that on your end? I so love Jennifer’s videos because she presents them so comfortably and is so matter-of-fact and thorough. I certainly appreciated the effort. 🙂

Beautiful project! Unfortunately I was unable to hear it as the volume was so low but I did have the volume on my computer on high. Could this be redone so that we could get all the instructions for the technique? I did notice that someone else had the volune problem also. Corrine Ann

The card is beautiful. The sound was not good at all. What type of pencil or tool did you dip into the baby oil to use on the design after applying the colored pencil shades? Couldn’t hear it. In fact, I gave up at this point. However, I’m really interested in this technique. Thx!

As much as I love my copic markers I also like to keep fresh on other coloring options. The card was very pretty and very nicely shaded. I’m loving the MIM tutorials and often go back to check out previous videos. I’m sorry that this one was especially hard to hear because she obviously put a lot of effort into this project.

Very interested in this video, like other buying Copics (which I would love) isn’t in the budget. I could not hear the video which unfortunely left the video pretty much worthless. Using colored pencils would be a good alternative and would consider making this purchase – if I knew what she used!

I love this card and the technique with baby oil is really cool – who knew? The sound was very difficult though – I had the volume turned all the way up and really couldn’t hear the commentary. I paid close attention though and am sure I can do this! Thanks so much!!!

Lovely card. I watched it at least a dozen times trying to get which colored pencils you used.What are they?
It’s very hard watching a silent video. And you-tubes take forever. I get 5 seconds of movement, then about 30 seconds or more of nothing. It takes over 30 minutes to watch this video.
It would be very useful if you could list the supplies used on this blog after the “stills” of each project. I sincerely love your Make It Monday projects. It would just be nice if we could hear them. Thanks!

In my last comment, I asked what pencils were used. I know they’re Prisacolor. What I want to know is what number and names were they. The supply list went way too fast, couldn’t get the colors. (The only fast thing on you-tube). Sorry, I don’t mean to complain, you gals are really great!!

First time entering. Bought PTI stamps & am now using them. Entered a Hawaii scrapbook layout. Used 1 PTI clear stamp “road trip” and a free digi image that I used pencil colors. Hope I read the challenge correctly that you have to have at least 1 PTI product which I do & use pencil colors so I hope that you do not have to use pencil colors on the PTI product since mine is a stamp that I ink stamped.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”http://CreatedbySunshineHoneyBee.blogspot.com

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