Even Pink Elephants Love A Good Chai Tea...Coloring Pages!

Hello Saturday!  We have a rainy morning going on here, so it's really the perfect day to break out the colors and play with new coloring pages.  (I've also been informed that they also would make great stitching patterns for any embroidery enthusiasts out there).  Here's a very special Morning and Night rendition of Color Your Saturday for you today, featuring some pretty pretty and FREE background papers made by my very talented friend Kristin Dudish.  She offers free collage papers every Friday for anyone to grab and play with, and it was super fun adding her textures and designs to my digitally colored version of the coloring pages for this week.  See how they adds extra cuteness to the elephant's bow, spots, and toenails and  created a soft mosaic feel to the sky in the background.

I like to think that these two meet for a Saturday morning brunch each week to catch up on all the jungle gossip.

 

In the second one, I used a star pattern from Kristin's stash and created a sweet nighttime scene my little koala bears.  I think its obvious the little one doesnt want to go to bed and is trying to hide from Mama.  It wont work little guy,  Mama always wins in the end.

So those are my versions, and it's time for you to create your own! Just click on the images below to view it in a larger size and save to your desktop.  Then you can either color digitally, or print out the images to color with whatever medium suits your fancy today.  Dont forget to pop by Kristin's page and grab a few fun papers to play with as well.  Remember these are only for your own personal use, you are welcome to share them online, just please link back to my site.

I'd love to see what you created with these latest pages! Share links on this thread, if you post them up somewhere, and if you missed any of the past pages, check out the PRINT tab at the top of this page.   Happy Coloring Everyone!

XO, HARMONY

The Nearsighted Fox and The Fashion Forward Turtle.

Happy Saturday!  Time for a new coloring book challenge!  I hope you have your favorite coloring tools ready to play today, because I have two new coloring book pages to share with you.  The idea behind this activity is to just play.  Have fun and remember how much you loved coloring when you were a child.   Let your imagination go wild, color outside the lines, make a pink sky, color the trees purple! Create stories for the characters as you go along, and make them come alive.  Just click on the image and then save to your computer.  You can color digitally, like I did here in my examples, or print off to paint, draw, scribble all over.  Please keep to the honor code of using my images and not reproduce, alter, or use in anyway other than your own personal use.  Have Fun!

 Coloring Page #3

Coloring Book Page #4

If you missed the first 2 pages in the series, you can find them under my PRINT Tab at the top!  So here are my versions of this weeks color challenge.

 This is Sally the Fox.  She is a shy little gal, and a bit nearsighted.  She needs to update her prescription on her spectacles, but keeps forgetting, and so will often bump into the trees as she takes her morning walks through the forest.  BUMP! Here come the leaves tumbling down on top of her.

This is Mortimer the turtle and his best friend Pickles.  Mortimer has a flair for fashion, and is a typical turtle, slowly taking his time to enjoy the sweet flowers along his path.  Pickles the song bird doesnt mind.  He loves his slow Saturday walks with Mortimer, just gives him lots of time to practice his singing along the way.

I'd love to hear your imaginative versions of the stories this week, feel free to post in the comments here and share links your colored pages here too!

Dont forget that I am having a big Sale in my Etsy Shop through Monday in celebration of the 3 day weekend and Back to School redecorating time.  Stop by HERE and check out my SALE section with lots of reduced prices on original works and artsy jewelry.  Then use code LABORDAY to get an additional 15% off everything.

I hope you have a wonderful colorful day!

XO, HARMONY

Color Your Saturday! Free Coloring Pages for You.

Who loves to color?  Come on admit it, you never outgrow the joy of opening a new pack of crayons and filling in the shapes and lines of a coloring page.  It's downright therapeutic!  My son is constantly asking me to draw images for him of various things, and then we color in the pictures together creating a wild story of adventure for the character as we go along.  Honestly, I cant tell you how many times I find myself happily finishing the picture alone as my son's attention got distracted elsewhere, but I just can't stop my rhythm of soothing finger strokes filling the white page with happy colors.  Join us each Saturday with your own crayon pack!  I will be uploading two new coloring page creations each week for you to download, print off, and make them your own creation of color and imaginative adventure.  Just click on the image to see a full scale size and then copy and paste to your desktop.

*DISCLAIMER: I do ask that you honor and respect my work and only use these images for personal use.  This means if you decide to share the image on your own blog or site that you credit back to me, and not use the image or copy in any way for a product that you make and sell.  They are my gift to you, to brighten your weekend, so please use respectfully.  

So let's get started.  Here are the first 2 coloring pages for you to play with this week.

I thought it would be fun jump start you with my own version of each story.  BTW: Digital coloring is seriously just as fun and therapeutic as a crayon box, and you have a million colors at your fingertips.  Its a great exercise in learning about color combinations.  

So first up is Silly Simon the Blue Whale.  You see he is a Blue Whale that was born Yellow, but he really likes being different than all the other whales.  He also loves to get into mischief.  Cant you see that smirk on his face and twinkle in his eye.  He's up to something.

Next is the Fluffers Family.  They went sailing one Sunday morning when they caught a glimpse of a very rare yellow colored Blue Whale.  (Hmm, I wonder who that was?) They chased the large creature across the ocean trying to take it's picture, but then when they finally caught up, little Billy Fluffers got too excited and toppled into the waves.  The Whale swam off, and the Fluffers Family never got their picture that day.

I'd love for you to share your finished colored pages and stories in the comments of the post each week.  What adventure can you create for a very unique whale and a boat full of bunnies?  I cant wait to find out!  Have a colorful and restful Saturday.

XO, HARMONY