A Special Friend

I am still learning how to colour in with various mediums and I alternate between my few pens and few pencils but I very rarely feel I have done a good job. I actually find it very difficult. However,when I received my prize from Sketching Stamper I knew I would have to try harder to achieve a modicum of success. This is the result with the Sketching Stamper image called "On the phone".

You are probably thinking "That is very brown !" Well obviously it is and I think I have over done it a bit but I wanted to follow a few challenges. One specified Chocolate as the colour and the other Monochrome so that is why this design came about as it has.

As you can see I made an easel card mainly because I haven't made one for a while but I also thought that the image, which is quite big, needed a design that would allow room for embellishments. The papers are from Polka Doodles Cd Sundae of Seasons and the sentiments from my stash.

The close-up shows my colouring (don't look too close please) done this time with Copics. I paper pieced the dress and her hair band and added one of my hand made flowers to her shoulder which I thought was quite fashionable (Is it ?). I added 3 flowers that I punched with a Martha Stewart flower punch from the scraps of papers that were left over.
I am daring to enter this card into the following Challenges :
1.Polka Doodles week 7 - Chocolate
2.Stampin for the Weekend Challenge 4 - Monochrome ..
3.Totally Paper Crafts 54 - Do it with Digi's
4.Creative Card Crew - Friendship
5.Rainbow Lady's 140 - Use something from a CD
6.Phindy's Place 43 - Monochrome