Life Happens - Let's Texturize!

Hello all you Copic Lovers!  Marie here and I wanted to share two texturizing techniques today.  I am using this adorable stamp called Get Well Toby by Wild Rose Studio  I think this little guy is just so cute, and it is the perfect stamp to practice adding texture to your images.  

In the post iCopic Lover: Just For You I texturized Toby by using a "tapping" method with my Copic Alcohol Ink Markers.   Let me show you two other ways to texturize!

Color your focal image as you would normally.  Do not over blend.  You do not want to over blend.  You want to keep the texture.

 Apply rubbing alcohol to a small piece of wash cloth.  You can also apply Copic Colorless Blender Refill to the cloth and lightly dab the part of the image you want to texturize. Be very careful not to oversaturate your cloth because Colorless Blender is a "mover".  Contrary to it's name, the Colorless Blender is NOT a blender, but it moves ink from one location to another.  

If you get over zealous, your ink will run outside our lines.  Yes, it is the voice of experience talking here!   Dab the cloth lightly and you will be fine.  When you do this, stay away front he edges of you image to avoid the color from running outside your lines.  Try this with different types of fabric.   You will get a different look.  How about an old pair of jeans!   

The second method is to tap or  touch the tip of your Copic Colorless Blender Pen to your image you want to texturize.  Remember that the color will become lighter when it dries.  You can always go back and texturize the image again later if you want a more dramatic effect.  

 This is how Toby looks after I added texture.   In this particular example, I used the alcohol directly to a small piece of wash cloth.   You can see that it gives a more natural appearance to the fur.     

I lightly shaded the bandages with C3 and C0.  I shaded a little heavier than I would usually for coloring white.   As a nurse, I rarely see a bandage that stays "white" for 5 minutes after it's application.... so - need I say more!

I lightly shaded around the image with BG0000 and placed a few light dots of E000 and R20 and then blended again with  BG0000.  I grounded Toby with W3 .   

Thank you for taking time to stop by.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial on adding texture and please come back soon.  Don't forget to check out iCopic Lover Blog tomorrow for our Saturday Spotlight.

Hugs,
Marie

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Notecard Boxed Set

Hi, everyone!  It's Kelli and today I have a Valentine's Day / Love notecard boxed set to share with you!  I used the adorable Love 'n Breakfast set by Lawn Fawn and stamped everything in Memento - Tuxedo Black Ink.  I can't get enough of these cute little guys!  I made 6 cards, all are 3"x3".  I just chose different images and sentiments that went together.

Here is the box of cards all packaged up.

To make the bottom of the box, you'll first want to stamp your design before you score, cut and fold.  It's a lot easier that way.  This is the inside of the bottom so my polka dots are on the back.
The measurements are a little weird, but after some testing I found that these fit the best.
Here are the card stock measurements for the box:
Top:  4 3/16" x 4 3/16" - scored at 1/2" on all four sides
Bottom:  4 5/8" x 4 5/8" - scored at 3/4" on all four sides
Here you can see where you're supposed to make cuts (do this on both the top and bottom pieces).  You will just fold those little tabs in and glue them to form both the pieces (separately).  I cut a little angle on both sides of all the tabs because it helps give a cleaner finished product.

Here's a side view of the completed set wrapped in Cherry - Diving Baker's Twine.

For the top of the box I used some leftover plastic packaging, but you could definitely use a transparency or window sheet.  It's a little harder to score and fold, but the look is totally worth it.  I love being able to see through the box!  Since I knew the areas where I glued would be visible, I opted for glue dots because they are perfectly round and would give the cleanest look.  At this very moment it just occurred to me that I could have adjusted the measurements to make the clear top slide INSIDE the red bottom!  That would be an even cleaner look.  So, if you wanted to adjust the measurements you could make it so the clear piece slips inside the red instead of over it.  I'll have to try that next time!  :)

Here are the 6 cards that I put in the box.  I added some Glossy Accents to parts of the images on each card to add a little something extra since these are all one layer.
First we have, 'you're egg-cellent' and 'we go together' (like peanut butter and jelly).  The 2 pieces of bread don't come with the peanut butter and jelly outlines, I drew them on, but it was super easy.  Just outline a squiggly circle and then color it in.  The two little pieces of bread go best with the 'popping up to say' sentiment and the little toaster image in the set!  I think they make cute peanut butter and jelly guys though!  :)
Copics:
egg: YR15, Y35, Y15, N0 for white shading
bacon: R27 over E23, I didn't have any deeper bacon colored reds.
bread: E21 and E51
crust and peanut butter: E25 and E23
jelly: V15 and V12
bow: R27, R24 and R22

Next we have 'we go together' (like salt and pepper) and 'you're my stud-muffin'!
salt: C3, C1 and B21, B0000 for lid,
pepper: C5, C3 and B21, B0000 for lid, R27, R24 and R22 for bow
muffin: E27, E25, E23 for muffin top, R29, R27, R24 and R22 for bottom

Last but not least, 'you're my' (cup of tea) and 'i love you'!
teacup: V15, V12 and E25 and E23 for tea inside
hearts: R29, R27, R24 and R22

Thanks so much for stopping by!  :)

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Birthdays and Baseball....

Howdy!  Michelle here with a birthday card for a little baseball buff!  I went with a sweet LaLa Land image called Baseball Luca.  If you are a LaLa Land buff...there are 70 images available in the store and this one is ON SALE!!

I colored my little man with the following Copic Markers:  E44, E43, E42, E59, E57, E55, E37, E35, E21, E02, E00, B99, B97, B95, R89, R59, R29, 0 Colorless Blender.  For his hat I was going for a sueded cotton like some of the nicer hats are...so after shading I stippled it with my colorless blender to add the suede texture.

Just a simple card to wish a little boy a happy birthday!

Michelle Pearson - Inspiration Blooms

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Tuesday Tips & Tricks: New Copic Sketch Colors

Hi everyone! Samantha here, and today I am here to show you the new Copic Sketch colors! I have an up-close look at 6 of the new colors!

All 12 colors are available at iCopic so go shopping!!

In this video, I've colored samples using the following new colors: G43, G48, RV52, R56,  E89, and E84.



I hope this gave you a chance to see the colors a little better. I will be back next week with the other 6 colors.

 

Scrapmaster's Paradise

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iCopic Weekly Challenge #66

Welcome to another iCopic Weekly Challenge. This week we are on challenge #66. It's Sheri and I am super excited to be able to kick off this week's challenge with you!

The Challenge: BV Color Family
Create a project that features Copics from the BV, or blue violet, group! Purples seem to be one of the lesser used colors in crafting so let's give those BV purples some love this week!

To join this week's challenge just add a direct link to your challenge project below. Projects are due on Sunday, January 29 at noon PST. A winner will be chosen at random to receive this week's prize. The winner and top 3 picks be showcased right here on the iCopic blog Sunday evening! 

This week's prize is a special $15 gift voucher!

Now, here is my inspiration project for this week. If you're like me, the BV collection is a bit of an under utilized set.  However, once I started coloring, I found myself really loving them! Madden from The Greeting Farm is a fun girl, isn't she?  Perfect for a little BV hair, in fact!  Also, you might be able to see there is even a bit of BV04 in the airbrushed background.  

Normally I'm a pick-my-papers-first, color-second kind of girl, but this time I colored Madden first and picked out my papers afterwards. So much harder!  LOL. But, to help bring the papers together, I used a bit of Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Fired Brick around the edges...

and I think it worked. 

Thank you so much for visiting the iCopic Blog today and I look forward to seeing everyone's BV projects. :)

Hair: BV0000, BV000, BV01, BV04 BV11

Skin: E000, E00, E13, R20

Shirt: R000, R22, R27, R29

Pants: W0, W1, W3, W5

Shoes, C1, C3, BV000

Background airbrushed with C3, BV01

Add your direct link below:

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