Me and My Galaxy Dragon

I shared a photo the other day on instagram of a dragon from the Mama Elephant Me and My Dragon stamp set, which I’d coloured to be a galaxy dragon. I used Faber Castell polychromos pencils to do this. I’ve done plenty of distress ink galaxy backgrounds before, but never tried using colouring pencils so it was a bit of an experiment to see if I could get the look I wanted.

If you’ve ever made a distress ink galaxy before, you’ll know that it can look kind of a mess until right towards the end, when you add the black ink and stars. I discovered it’s pretty much the same with coloured pencils!

I’d stamped the dragon image on white cardstock and cut him out. I then began by adding a very light layer of blue and purple pencil to the image. I didn’t colour in everything, instead I added areas of colour around the image. Kind of how I do with distress ink galaxies. I don’t use any blending solution for my pencil colouring.

I carried on doing this, adding darker blue and purple pencil colours and adding some stronger areas of colour in places. At this stage, it wasn’t looking like much of a galaxy. It’s not until you add the grey and black pencil around the edges that it starts to look much better. I finished the dragon by adding some white gel pen details for stars, and some black gel pen for his eyes.

To make this into a card, I coloured a couple more images with pencils. The girl is from the same stamp set as the dragon, and the cake is from Mama Elephants Dragon Wishes stamp set.

I die cut three Mama Elephant Polaroid frames from black card and once from white card. I white heat embossed a greeting from the Dragon Wishes stamp set on to one of the frames, then layered the black frames together. On the inside piece of the white frame, I added some ink blended clouds, created with the MFT Mini Cloud stencil. I intensified the blue with coloured pencils.

I added the frames and inside piece to the card, then the images on top with foam tape. I finished the card by stamping some yellow stars and adding some Pretty Pink Posh clear sparkling sequins.