JustRite Friday Challenge #36 - Color Challenge

This week there is a color challenge at JustRite Inspiration.  Wouldn't ya know my project last week had these very colors?!?  Oh Well!!  I got to practice coloring with my Copics some more and the stamp I chose this week was the one I was most nervous about getting right.  Here are the colors:

I had the Nutcracker from JustRite's VintageChristmas 3-1/4" set staring at me for weeks and, like so many others, I wasn't exactly sure how to go about coloring him.  I tried to stay as much with the color scheme as possible but some of his accessories just HAD to be gold I thought! 

I started out by heat embossing the entire image in black.  (I didn't realize that Copics don't play well with it??)  I should have kept track of all the colors of Copics I used but I'm still new at this.  I do know that I used E50 Eggshell for most of the hair as well as the entire background since I didn't have any ivory paper for coloring on.  I also added in some W3 and W5 and made his mustache a little darker.  I used R29 & R89 for his jacket and several colors on his hat because I had a hard time making it look right.  The gold tassles and buttons has some Y18, I think, as well as the pearls on the poinsettia.

I also heat embossed the red border with black and added gemstones to all the stars and outlined the center with black Stickles and placed on top of a Spellbinders Pinking Circle to match the ones in the background paper.  For my handmade embellishments, I used Spellbinder's Nested Poinsettia and added some pearls in the center that I colored to match the gold on the nutcracker.

Next, I had a scrap piece of ribbon that resembled the background paper and colored it red with R29 to match.  The bottom punch is my new giant EK Success border punch.  TFL!!