Inktense Pencils

Hello crafting friends!

Have you ever used Inktense Pencils?

I had only heard about them from a couple 

of my friends, but had never tried them.

When I was visiting my friend, Mary, a couple weeks ago, 

I had a chance to give them a try.

I have to say that I did like them, I found that

they blended out pretty easily.

I did find some colors seemed to blend easier than

others did.
Here are the images that I colored with the

Inktense Pencils.

This was the first image I colored.

I'm really not too crazy about how the bird

turned out, but I do like the flowers.

It was all an experiment in how to use them

as well as what the colors were like.
I had to keep that in mind.

I then colored this rose.

I liked the results I got on the rose, but

had some difficulty on the background.

I don't think they are really meant to cover

a large area, so I needed to fix that.

I ended up cutting a mask to cover the rose

then I used some Distress Inks on ink blending

tools to make the background a little more acceptable.

I'm still not crazy about that background, but I'll

be trimming it down anyway, so most of it won't

show.

I then colored these roses, covered them with

masks and inked the background.

I'll have to see what I can come up with

to use these images.

As I said, it was an experimentation,

I had a lot of fun playing with these pencils.

Honestly, I won't be investing in any
Inktense Pencils, not because I didn't like

them, but because I really love 

water color crayons and I also

have a nice set of colored pencils and 

like to use them with Gamsol for blending.
I'm pretty sure I have some water color pencils around 

somewhere in my craft room too.

I just can't justify spending the money on them,

when I have other mediums that I can use.

Thanks for stopping by today,

come back again soon,

you never know when you might see

what I did with these images.

Until then, Happy Crafting!