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My February Challenge 2021

lucyjacksonsmiles — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 18:11:18 +0000

For a number of years now I have been taking part in 28 Drawings Later: Creativity Every Day In February challenge on Facebook.
It is an amazing challenge and fills my February Facebook feed with wonderful artwork from absolutely fabulous people and this year has again been amazing.
Here is my effort for 2021

My 28 Drawings 2021

My colour your own cards are in the shop now available as a pack or as a PDF to print at home.
https://www.lucyjacksondesigns.co.uk/shop/#!/products/colour-your-own-cards-floral-pack-bonus-mothers-day-edition

If you would like a look at what everyone else has created you can find them in the Facebook group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/28DrawingsLater
Lots of the artists participating have posted videos of their journey through the month, there are some utterly fantastic compilations.

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Colour Your Own Cards

lucyjacksonsmiles — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:18:20 +0000

Today I launched a new product, a pack of colour your own cards.

What better time to send a card to someone to let them know you are thinking about them! This isn’t just any card this is a card that you’ll have spent your time colouring, perhaps adding a little embellishment!
Who wouldn’t want to receive such a lovely piece of uplifting mail?
Its a win win you can have a relaxing colouring session let your mind wander and destress and then someone receives your lovely card and message.

The cards are A5 size so not too many tiny details, they are blank inside so that’s a whole A4 size space you have on the inside if you have more than just a little message!

Colour Your Own Cards – BONUS Mothers Day Pack

The pack is a set of five in a floral theme featuring prints of hand drawn artwork on lovely ivory card with matching peel and seal envelopes.
They are available as a physical pack for £10
or as a print at home PDF for £4.
If you are going for the pack you can use code MUMSRULE for free shipping until 8th March 2021.
You may be looking at the image and saying, but Lucy there are six cards!
Yes there are, for the launch we have a bonus mothers day card in there too.

In my Live Facebook launch I started to colour the Mothers day card, I was using Faber-Castell Colour Ecopencils and here is the finished result.

You can view the launch video with some colouring here https://fb.watch/3TDN1ACpiF/
and some speed colouring here, i didn’t colour it really fast i increased the speed of the video!
https://fb.watch/3TE-nRq_PT/

I am planning a few more live colouring videos on Facebook in the next week or so, in each I will colour all or part of one of the cards using a different medium. The next one will be on Sunday 28th February at around 11am.

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Spooktacular Competition Time

lucyjacksonsmiles — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 14:31:40 +0000

I have been holding on to an extra case of 72 pencils for almost a year and not sure what to do with them.

Why?

I love to draw and colour. If you follow me on Facebook you might have seen some of my drawing and colouring videos.

Last year I treated myself to a 72 set of Castle Art Supplies Premium Soft Touch Coloured Pencils. I love these and have used them in a few of my videos. I’ll pop some links in at the end for them. (Not affiliated in any way)

I chose the 72 set in a wallet and when they arrived I started to have a play around with them to see what they could do. As I tried out the colours, as you do when you get a new set of pencils, I noticed that there was one missing, well there was a duplicate, I had two of one shade of purple and one colour missing. I sent an email to the customer services department asking if they had open stock (single pencils) and if they would be able to send me the missing one. The very lovely lady from Castle Art supplies said that they didn’t have open stock but very kindly sent me another set of pencils and told me to keep the ones I had.
I have been keeping a hold of these since then, thinking about what to do with them and I think this would be a nice thing to do:

Halloween Colouring sheet

You may have already seen the free Halloween colouring sheet download on the site. I thought it would be a good idea to turn this into a competition.
I’m going to run this over on my Facebook page where I can add them all to an album so that everyone can see each other’s fab colourings.

This is open to any age group, adult colourists like me, teens or kids, to any colouring ability or style, whether you like to colour inside the lines or not! Colouring is for everyone and is such a good way to relax and destress, there are so many articles on this. If you haven’t coloured in a while or since you were a kid, why not have a go now, you don’t need expensive supplies to have a go and any pencils or pens will do.

I have three tips to get you started:

1. It can be daunting to begin with, so if you get the fear, pick one small thing to start, it could be one pumpkin or one roof! Take it from there one little bit at a time.

2. You don’t have to do it all at once, the competition is running for a few weeks, you can do a little at a time.

3. Do it your way, there is no right or wrong way to colouring, your way is your right way. Use just three colours or use them all.

I said three tips but I actually have four:

4. Enjoy it. Have fun with it. If you do it all in one go or if you spend a few minutes each day, have fun.

How do you enter?

You can download the Spooky House colouring sheet in the shop section to print at home, it’s free.
When you have coloured it, take a photo of it or scan it and send it to me via:
Facebook messenger Lucy Jackson Designs
or via email to spookyhouse@lucyjacksondesigns.co.uk

The entries will all be added to an album on my Facebook page, though you don’t have to be on Facebook to enter.
The competition closes on 5^th November remember, remember! This gives anyone who wants to do this as a Halloween activity the chance to get them coloured and sent in.
The winner will be drawn on 8th November.

You do have to be in the UK though, due to shipping costs of sending the pencils to the winner.

My sample is coloured with markers

Links
Video of me using these pencils to colour my yellow rose, drawing starts at about 3 mins and colouring starts at 7 mins.
Rose follow up video

These are the pencils up for grabs Castle Arts Premium Soft Touch Coloured Pencils
(this set has 2 38’s Purple Lake Deep)

The Prize, 72 Set of Castle Arts Premium Soft Touch.
(71 colours, 2 x number 38 Purple Lake Deep)

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