Copic Style Watercolours

I was playing with a stamped watercolour technique using my Distress inks recently and thought I would try the technique out using my Copics.  It created a lovely soft image.

Firstly I coloured my image (Hero Arts) with a selection of Copics, it didn’t matter if I was quick or the ink dried, the next step reactivates it.  I spritzed my X-Press It cardstock with some rubbing alcohol and then quickly stamped the image. 

As you will see from the close-up, the image isn’t quite distinct, more watercolour like.  I find the technique can be a bit hit and miss, sometimes it is more ‘watery’ and sometimes the image is too indistinct to use but mostly it works well.

A solid image works best and this one is perfect as it is just about impossible to ink so many colours using a stamp pad.

Spread Your Wings

It is challenge time again and this month the challenge at Inkurable Stampers was to use paint!  I love playing with paint and what a better reason to use my newly purchased Viva Precious Metal Colour!

The card uses a 14 cm square white card base.  The strip on the left is punched with a Martha Steward punch.  The pale blue cardstock was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.  The circles were punched from scrap, the flourish ones were punched from some gorgeous embossed ‘wedding’ paper that I sponged with Distress ink to give a bit of colour.  The words are from Darkroom Door Love Birds set.

The birdcage is die cut from chipboard & painted with Viva Precious Metal Colour (cinnamon) and backed with a piece of textured velum.  The bird was painted with Distress Crackle Paint in broken china.  I rubbed the wing over with a bit of the matching ink before coating with Glossy Accents.  If you look closely the branch and the birds legs are painted two different browns in the Crackle Paint – I find it defines the legs a bit.

Accordion Fold Birthday Wish

Ages ago I did a class on accordion fold cards and as I am about to give this one away I thought it a good time to share.

The card is made from a 10cm wide strip of A4 length cardstock, folded into an accordion.  Before folding I stamped the Autumn Leaves floral flourish and coloured in a few places to highlight the flowers.  The greetings are Hero Arts.  The card band was made by embossing a strip of cardstock with the Cuttlebug & wrapping it around to fit.  The Happy Birthday greeting was popped on the front and then it was done. 

January Copic Oz Challenge

This month Copic Oz is running a Summertime challenge.  We are to use yellows and greens and create something Summery.
I chose to use this cute Magnolia image.
Colours used:
Hair/skin – E51, E33, YR14, YR24
Dress – BV02, Y02, Y04
Tulip/socks/bow – YG05, G07, Y17, Y35, Y38, YR16, YR68
Colourless blender was used with tip to tip colouring of the prune colour on the dress.
Embossing is done using a Cuttlebug Jamara plate & die cuts are Spellbinders.

Copic Play

Lately I haven’t had much time to play with my Copics so I made a special effort at the weekend. 

Stamps:  Darkroom Door, embossing folder:  Cuttlebug, punch: EK Success, die cut:  Nestibility.

Welcome Baby

My cousin had a baby recently and this is the card I made to welcome the new addition to our family. 

Medallian Cards

 

The last few weeks seem to have been so busy with the run up to end of term. Thank goodness we now have 2 weeks of school holidays!

Lately I have been playing with the Spellbinders pendant dies and have mastered the medallian style cards. These are so much fun to make.

Spread Sunshine

 

I made this card recently using the selective Cuttlebug technique. Quite easy once you get the hang of it!

Inkurable Challenge

Last weekend I was following the happenings at Inkurable. Sarah's first challenge was to create a birthday card using a Pagemaps sketch. Once I found the Pink Paislee paper the rest was easy - a blue/silver colour scheme and butterfly embellishment.

The greeting is Hero Arts, the frame Urban Lily, the scallop Collections and it got put through the Cuttlebug swiss dots folder. I also used the writing embossing folder for the background and highlighted the words with a little ink. The patterned paper was distressed a little and edges painted with a bit of silver paint.

This isn't a great close up of the butterfly but I think you will see the silver around the edges and the distress crackle paint on the inside of the wings. The shape is grungeboard. I was quite pleased with the overall effect!

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Darkroom Door Swap

Well Rachel is about to sort and send her swaps for the first Darkroom Door swap so I thought I would share my contributions. We needed to do an ATC or a card utilising the fabulous DD products (http://www.darkroomdoor.com/). The first is my ATC, using the Wildflower stamps.

And here is my card entry. It is my take on the Cuttlebug Collage technique described by Annette in her blog http://goannafive.blogspot.com/. The picture doesn't really do justice to the textures and the pearlescence of the copper sections. The card was made using the DD Venetian Vol 2 plate. The face image was stamped with Stazon on a transparency and overlaid over the map image. I was quite pleased with the effect.