February 2012 ~ iCopic Lover

2/29/12

Tips and Tricks Wednesday - Blush Bonnie

I'm a day late with my iCopic post thanks to an internet connection snafu....but I have a card for you today featuring The Greeting Farm's image called Blush Bonnie. Bonnie is one of 111 The Greeting Farm images in the iCopic store...check them out, they are fun to color!

I colored Bonnie with the following Copic Markers: E49, E47, E44, RV55, RV17, E00 and E02.

Tip #1: When travelling, take some Washi Tape along to use for your own custom background paper!

I used two types of washi tape on this card to create a fun and colorful background. There are 96 Washi Tape items in the store...many of which are sets for some great variety!

Tip #2: Don't have the perfect color of flower for your project?! Color one with your Copic marker!

I colored a beautiful peach Prima with my RV55 to customize it for this card!

Tuesday Tips & Tricks: No Lines

10:07 AM thescrapmaster 9 comments

Hi everyone! Samantha here with another Tuesday Tips and Tricks.

Today I want to show you a fun technique I have seen used across the blog-o-sphere. I like to call it the No Lines technique!

So for this technique you will need a light, barely visible ink to stamp your image with. I chose to use Desert Sand Memento ink, shown below.

Stamp your image with the light colored ink, and then start coloring like normal! I had to pay extra close attention when coloring so I didn't go over the lines too much. The lines are so light that it is hard to see them sometimes.

I chose this Magnolia image from their Sweet Crazy Love collection, called Tilda Sending Love Letter.
Once the image is colored, the lines are just visible on some of the lighter parts of the image, and they almost disappear on the areas of the image which are darker. Here is a close up look at my coloring:

Also notice I added brown around the edges so there was no white on my image. It just made the image blend in with my card much better.

Here is my finished card:

I created my sentiment from this journaling card shape, plus a SP and Company sentiment stamp "you are" from the Mix n Match: Friends stamp set.

So add this technique to your bag of tricks! I hope you will give it a try and show us what you come up with!

iCopic Weekly Challenge #71

9:31 AM thescrapmaster 10 comments

Hi there! Samantha here! Welcome to iCopic Weekly Challenge #71. I am bringing back one of our most fun challenges!

The Challenge: Anything but a Card
Use your Copics on ANY project but a card! We know many of our wonderful customers are interested in more than card making so here is your chance to show us what you can do! Get creative with your Copics!

To join this week's challenge just add a direct link to your challenge project below. Projects are due on Sunday, March 4th 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! We will also announce our weekly commenting winner too (chosen at random from all the comments left on the blog this week, so be sure to leave us some love)!

We're adding a NEW RULE, because we want our challenges to be for iCopic customers and loyal fans . All challenge projects must be newly created JUST for the iCopic Challenge (if your post title or first couple of sentences is promoting a different challenge, then your project probably wasn't created just for us!). You may enter your project into additional challenges, but excessive challenge pile-ons (more than 7-8 additional challenges) will be removed and not eligible for our prize or top 3.

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

Design Team Member Melissa has a gorgeous project for your inspiration this week. Melissa decided to make a little packaging for a gift. So cute!!

Melissa used the following:
Stamping Bella Rubber Stamp - Lulu's Garden of Daisies
Copics - Skin: E00, E11, E13 Flowers: C1, C3, C5, Y32, Y35, E13, R21, R23, R25, R29

Now it's your turn! Link up your project below:

iCopic Weekly Winners #70

8:28 PM thescrapmaster 6 comments

Hi everyone! Samantha here with a bunch of winners! The animal coloring challenge was great! Your projects are awesome!!

The winner of iCopic Weekly Challenge #70 is . . . 5. Larelyn

Congrats, Larelyn! Please email us at info@icopic.com with the subject line "iCopic Weekly Winner #70".

Our commenting winner from the week is. . .
Alyce says:

Great tutorial, thanks so much! I just made my first one :D

Congrats, Alyce!! Please email us with the following subject line "iCopic Comments Winner #70".

The top 3 are. . .

32. Maria B.

15. Chrissyxx

7. eva

Congrats everyone!! Make sure to grab your brag buttons! See you back here tomorrow for another challenge!

Saturday Spotlight

8:11 PM thescrapmaster 4 comments

Hi there! Samantha here, with another Saturday Spotlight. Every other Saturday, we spotlight a project from one (or more) of our gorgeous customer projects from our Facebook page. Here is our spotlight:

Maria Cristina

Thanks for stopping by! We will have another spotlight in two weeks so keep uploading and sharing your projects on the iCopic Facebook page! We might just spotlight you!

Center Stair Step Card and tutorial

7:13 AM Sheri 10 comments

Hello friends! It's Sheri and today I want to share with a tutorial for a Center Stair Step Card. It's really a simple card to make,..it's just looks a little complicated.

First of all, you will need to trim a piece of card stock to 11 by 5.5 inches.

Next, place the long edge of the card stock into the paper trimmer, placed at the 1 inch mark.

Starting at the 1 inch mark cut to the 6.5 inch mark.

Flip the card stock over and repeat.

With a Score board, score at the 1, 2 and 6.5 inch marks up to the cut line.

Flip the card stock over and repeat.

Now, score at the 5.5 inch mark between the cut lines.

Fold the score lines.....

and have fun decorating!

For my card, I used the adorable Explore Tilda along with the Walking Cat.

Copics used:

E000, E00, E13, E21, E28, E25, E29, E31, E33, E34, E50, E53

R20, R22, R27, R29

YG000, YG63, YG99

Y13

YR20, YR23

B21, B91, B95, B97

W00, W0, W1, W3, W7

Additional Supplies:

Copic Airbrush Systems ~ Starter Set ABS-1N/ Aircan 180

Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

Tim Holtz Distress Inks ~ Antique Linen

Ranger Blending Tool

Thank you so very much for visiting! :)

Stud Muffin Basket

4:00 AM FroggieStamps 6 comments

Hi, everyone, Kelli here! Today I have a cute basket to share with you. For the little muffin and sentiment I used the Lawn Fawn - Love 'n Breakfast set and stamped them in Memento - Tuxedo Black ink. The box is basically 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" all the way around. You can do this with any size box, but I just wanted to be able to use 1 sheet of 8 1/2" x 11" card stock. I originally thought of this box and figured you could put one of those mini muffins in it, but I didn't have any, so I put a lemon in there for the pics for some color. This would be perfect to give that special guy in your life, with a muffin of course...not a lemon, lol! :)

For the muffin, I used Copics:
E29, E27, E25, E23 for the top
B26, B24, B23, B21 for the wrapper
C1 for the shadow

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great day! :)

Let's Make Bubbles!

4:00 AM Maire Gamber 11 comments

A big hello to all my friends in Blogland! It's Marie here and I am excited to share with you a card I created. I selected an adorable stamp called Mermaid Marci by La-La Land Crafts. The size of this stamp makes it perfect for cards or projects and the size is large enough that it makes it fun and easy to color with those Copic Markers!

Techniques:

Copic Alcohol Ink Markers
On paper blending
Tip to Tip Blending
Embossing
Quilling

Measurements:

11 in x 4.25 in. Score at 5.5 in. to make a finished card of 5.5 in. x 4.25 in.

Base layer: 5.25 in. x 4 in.

Top layer: 5 in. x 3.75 in.

Stamp: Mermaid Marci by La-La Land Crafts

Paper:

Cryogen for focal image

Turquoise card stock

White card stock

Designer paper from my stash

Ink:

Copic Alcohol Ink Markers - BG70, BG72, and BG75

Copic Opaque White Ink

Tumbled Glass Distress Ink

Broken China Distress Ink

Memento Tuxedo Black

Copic Skin Tones

YR0000, E11, R20, BG0000

Hair

E40, E42, E44

E40 is applied to the highlighted areas. E44 is used for the darkest shadow area. The mid-tone is E42. Take care to not over-blend so some of the streaks of hair remain for a more realistic look.

Starfish, top, fins and body

BG70, BG72, BG75

BG70 is used on the area on the area that reflects light. BG75 is used in the darkest shadow and blended out with BG72. Care is taken to avoid losing the highlights. The starfish can be treated like a "fold" in a dress in order to give it more dimension.

A pearl pen is used for the trim around the bodice. I let this dry for a few hours before resuming the card. One can choose to add this after the card has been assembled. I just like to do things the hard way ! LOL

This is a close up of the cute little image. Oval dies are used to cut the image and mat. Embossed the image while it is still in the die to give a great finish.. Tumbled Glass and Broken China Distress ink are sponged around the die. Start off the paper and lightly sponge toward your image. I lightly sketched some circles and colored them to look like bubbles.

BG70, BG72 and Copic Opaque White Ink

TIP: Steps for creating "bubbles".

A very small amount of the Opaque White was applied with a toothpick. I used a technique that Marianne Walker teaches for dew drops on leaves - except I did not use the darkest color for the bubble but chose to use my lightest color, shaded with the next darker color and then applied the white light reflection.

The card was assembled and quilled seaweed and foliage was applied. I quilled a seahorse to go with it but it was way too much! Sometime less is more!

I hope you enjoyed this card. It was fun and I was delighted with the way the bubbles turn out. Thank you for stopping by and don't forget to come back tomorrow and see what special treat Kelli has in store!

Hugs,

Marie

Tuesday Tips and Tricks: Pastel Coloring

4:00 AM thescrapmaster 5 comments

Hi everyone! Samantha here with this week's Tuesday Tips and Tricks. With Easter fast approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about pastel coloring.

Luckily, there are a bunch of lighter Copic colors, namely the 00s, 000s, and 0000s. I wanted to share with you how I create a pastel effect on my projects.

Here is a quick video tutorial showing you my pastel coloring technique:

The image I used is Marci With Bunny from La-La Land Crafts. This is one of their brand new releases. I thought this image was perfect for Easter.

Copic Colors Used:

Hair: Y000, Y00, Y21, Y23
Skin: E0000, E000, E00, E01
Clothing: YR00, YR12, YR14, G40, G43, R81, R83, and R85

iCopic Weekly Challenge #70

11:01 AM thescrapmaster 13 comments

Hi everyone! Samantha here with this week's challenge! This is the iCopic Weekly Challenge #70.

The Challenge: Animals
Color an Animal with your Copics and use it on a project: your animal can be a stamped image, hand drawn or anything else so long as it is colored with Copics! Show us your best animal coloring.

To join this week's challenge just add a direct link to your challenge project below. Projects are due on Sunday, February 26th 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! We will also announce our weekly commenting winner too (chosen at random from all the comments left on the blog this week, so be sure to leave us some love)!

We're adding a NEW RULE starting this week, because we want our challenges to be for iCopic customers and loyal fans. All challenge projects must be newly created JUST for the iCopic Challenge. You may enter your project into additional challenges, but excessive challenge pile-ons (more than 7-8 additional challenges) will be removed and not eligible for our prize or top 3.

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

The lovely Michelle came up with our sample project for this week using the following:
Stampavie's Penny Johnson Sweet Spring image
Copic Markers: W5, W3, W1, W0, E44, E43, E42, YG17, YG25, B45, B41, R43,
R20, RV10, YR16, Y38, Y35, Y32, Y17, Y15
Designer Papers: Prima Marketing

Link up your project below:

iCopic Weekly Winners #69

3:17 PM thescrapmaster 7 comments

Hi everyone! Samantha here with winners to announce!! You all really rocked the BG Family colors this week! I was blown away with all the talent. I was also really happy to hear how much fun you all had with this challenge. So here are the winners for this week:

Our iCopic Weekly Challenge winner for our IWC#69 is. . .

28. Laura

Congrats, Laura!! Please email us at info@icopic.com with the subject line "iCopic Weekly Winner #69".

Next up, our commenting winner. . . our winner is. . .

chrissy xx says:

February 16, 2012 11:27 AM

Just Gorgeous! LOve her hair.
Thank you for the Challenge.
Chrissyxx

Congrats, Chrissy!! Please email us with the following subject line "iCopic Comments Winner #69".

And last but not least, here are our top 3 picks of the week:

4. Paola

24. eva

9. ForgottenScraps

Congrats everyone!! Please make sure to grab your brag buttons from our sidebar (actually I think the brag buttons might be at the bottom of our blog now). See you back here tomorrow for a challenge you won't want to miss. Have a wonderful evening!!

Tilda with Daisy

12:01 AM Michelle Pearson 4 comments

For today's project I decided to go with another One Sheet Box decorated with a simple little tag to go with a birthday gift I'm delivering tomorrow. Who can't use a bit of chocolate on their birthday?!

I posted a tutorial to make on One Sheet Box recently....so I will direct you there for the directions.

For today's box, I colored Magnolia's Tilda With Daisy stamp with Copic Markers:
Flower/Dress BG49, BG45, BG70, B00, B0000
Hair E59, E57, E31
Skin E00, E02
Shoes W7, W5, W3, W1
Flower E38, E32, YG17, YG25

I used a K&Co tag I had handy, and added some white gel pen accents. I fussy cut Tilda and popped her up on foam tape for dimension. Some coordinating seam binding finishes my tag.

Tilda is one of about 103 Magnolia images! Lots of CHA goodness is arriving in the iCopic store...be sure to stop by and take a peek!

Michelle Pearson ~ Inspiration Blooms

Simply Anya!

4:00 AM Tracy Valure 8 comments

Good morning iCopic Lovers!! Tracy here with a cute, simple card to share. I've used Simply Anya by The Greeting Farm. She is so versatile and fun to color. I paired her up with some fabby papers. Kept it simple and sweet, perfect for any occasion.

Don't forget we have our weekly challenge going on! This weeks challenge is to use colors in the Copic BG family. You still have a couple of days to enter...so come join us! Challenge winner gets a $15.00 gift certificate to the store!

Here are the colors I used:

Hair - E70, E71

Skin: E000, E00, E11

Shirt: YR12, YR14, YR18

Skirt: BG000, BG01, BG02, BG05

Thanks for looking

Tracy Valure

Hot Cocoa For Two Treat Box

4:00 AM thescrapmaster 7 comments

Hi everyone! Samantha here and I want to share the little treat box & matching card I made for my husband for this past Valentine's Day. I think this would be a perfect little anytime treat box to share with a friend, family member, neighbor, etc.

It is a hot cocoa treat box, built to hold two hot cocoa packets!! I only has Nestle & Swiss Miss in the house, but both of them will fit this treat box. I am guessing other packets would fit in here also :)

To make this treat box:

Cut pieces of cardstock the following sizes: one piece at 3.5X12inches and two pieces at 5.5X3.5
(Scoring guides are at the very end of this post if you need a visual of the scoring). Score along the 12 inch piece at the following: 5inch, 6inch, 11inch. Fold along score lines. This piece will be the outside of the treat box. The outside of the treat box can be decorated as desired.
For both of the smaller pieces: Score along 3 sides (two sets of score marks on the 5.5inch side) at 5/8inch and 1inch. Trim off the corners where all the score marks cross and fold into 3sided "pockets". The front of these can be decorated with patterned paper like shown (patterned paper was cut to 3.25X2.25inches).
Attach pockets to box. Punch holes for twine. Fill with hot cocoa packets and tie the box closed with the Orange Divine Twine.