A day with Dave Brethauer from Memory Box!

Wow! What a fantabulous day today was! Teadub came to visit and we took a colored pencil techniques class from Dave Brethauer - the owner of Memory Box stamps! The class was at Paper Garden and it was a really good time. Saw lots of friends and generally had a perfect time. After class Teadub and I went for Thai food and coconut ice cream....yeah baby! I have lots and lots to share today so hang in there with me...

These are some of Dave's samples from all of his classes. He is a master of colored pencils and watercoloring. He has published card and coloring technique books that I have loved for years. His style is clean and crisp and vivid - really great! He is a very patient teacher. When he comes back to Sac-town next time I really recommend his classes!

These are my finished projects from class today!

If you can believe it this little red birdie is actually colored with ochre, brown, cream, light brown...and then red! We learned how to layer color upon color to give it depth and pop!

I wanted to make Dave, Teadub and Steph some Memory Box cards to hand out today at class. I got out ALL my Memory Box stash to be inspired...Do you think I like birds?? Heehee. Aren't the images great?

Here are my finished cards for today:

I first started by stamping the alphabet image over and over again on cream cardstock to make my own background paper. Haven't used the old stamp-a-majig in a LONG time! It's perfect...don't know why I don't use it more often.

I stamped the bird image using my tiny ink spots right onto the alphabet background. Then I cute the oval out with my nestabilities...

And, of course, the inside!

I hope you have enjoyed my post and I hope you're inspired. I haven't used my colored pencils in a long time and I was re-energized to get them out! Get out some old supplies and see what happens...