Featured Stamper and More Copic Coloring

Today's Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers is Jacquie J, who has a wonderful gallery.  A technique she used on several of your cards was inlaid die cuts, and I chose one of them to CASE for my card.  Here is a link to her card, and her is my version.

I stenciled the burlap for my background with Ranger Tea Dye.  I cut the "happy birthday" words from the contrasting colors and laid them aside.  After I placed the dies on my stenciled piece and cut them out, I pulled the words from the dies but left the little spaces (in the a's, p's, d's, y's and the b) remain in the dies.  I taped across the openings in the panel with Scotch tape and laid the words into the open spaces.  Then I laid the dies (with the little spaces still in them) on top of the words and pushed them out with a paper piercer.  They were exactly over the empty spaced and filled them up quite easily.    To make sure my brads would match the colors, I just punched out six circles with a hand-held punch, adhered the circles to the card, and put a little Glossy Accents over top.

I also have another Copic-colored ballerina from Friday's Copic coloring class.  I wanted to try to do a darker skin tone on this one.

I found a color combination for black hair, which I really liked -- B41, C5, C7, and 100.  I'm going to have to remember that one!

More from Day 5 Copic Class

We had two practice sheets in yesterday's Copic class -- one of just face and hair, and the second one a sweet little ballerina to give us practice on coloring clothing also.  This is my practice sheet for the ballerina.

I loved that red hair combination so much that I made a card for today's Inspiration Challenge on Splitcoaststampers.  The inspiration site was The Christmas Tree Shops.  As I was looking through the site concentrating on colors, I found this plaid tablecloth.  Here's my card:

Copic Class Day 5

Today's Copic coloring class was one of the things I was definitely looking forward to -- coloring faces and hair.  I've seen some awesome highlighting in hair that I just could not figure out.  After watching today's videos, I have a better handle on creating those highlights.  I still need lots of practice, but I'm happy with my beginnings.

We had another sheet on which to practice -- this time including clothing.  I'll get to that one tomorrow (we have the weekend off!).

Day 4 Copic Class

Today in the online Copic class we got into directional and non-directional shading.  I had never really used the directional shading technique and found that I really like the way the image looks.  I'm going to have to practice some more because I was really impressed with the images colored by Sandy Allnock, who is a wonderful "colorer" !!!  Here's my first practice sheet.

And a card I made with one of the images:

Copic Class - Day 3

Our lesson today for the online Copic class was shading using gray markers.  Very interesting -- I hadn't thought about that before.   Here are my practice sheets.

Some of these combinations worked better than others.

Copic Class - Day 2

Today on our on-line Copic class we learned some blending tips -- Feathering, Tip to Tip, and Acetate (or acrylic block) use.  Again our homework was to practice.  I made notes on my practice sheet so that I will know exactly what I did.

I am so enjoying this class.

On-Line Card Class - Day 1

While I have been using Copic markers for a while, I am mainly self-taught and thought I would like to take a class to help me improve my skills.  When I saw a link to Online Card Classes, that seemed to be the most economical choice for me.  Today was our first day -- the lesson plan was Blending Basics; and our homework was practice, practice, practice!!!  Here is my sheet for today:

This is a two-week class, and I'm looking forward to the rest of the videos and worksheets.