Make a wish!

Hello from Italy again, copic-lovers!

Franz here with all of you to share another copic creation.

I love Mo's images very much, i think they are just adorable and funny, so i went with one of them this time and i chosen this lovely girl blowing dandelion clock.

♥

I used my favourite colour combo again on her hair trying to get separated the single strands.

 
Her t-shirt is white, but i added some shadows with my cool greys: C0-C1 and C3 to give it more dimensionality.

Papers are from My Mind's Eye and Maya Design, sentiments from Stempelglede, love them so much!

I added a little Magnolia Tea Tag and i printed on it only the word "Dreams" from a Stempelglede rubber stamp:

This is my card recipe:

Image
Mo Manning - “Make a wish”
 

Papers:

Maja Design and Maja Design Patterned Papers

Kraft Bazzill cardstock
 

Materials:

Lace

Ribbon

Cheesecloth
Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers
Make it Crafty perfect colouring paper

Versafine Ink Pad “Vintage Sepia”
 

Tools and Dies:
Sizzix Big Shot

Seewing Machine
Magnolia "So wrapped lovely" die
Magnolia "Tea Label Tags" die

Copics:

Skin:

E0000-E000-E00-E11-E21 + R000-R00-R20 for cheecks

Hair:

E21-E25-E29-E49

T-Shirt:

C0-C1-C3

Skirt, Heart Decoration and shoes:

R00-R20-R17-R27-R29

That’s all from me today!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Franz♥

Spring is in the air...

Hello Copic Lovers! It's Delphine here today to share the card I made, a little card with lots of grass and a bit of sunshine... Yes I am now waiting for spring!

I used the adorable Marci With Bunny, stamped her with Adirondack Cloudy Blue Ink to make a "no (black) line" image, and coloured her and the whole background with my Copics. Once everything was coloured I added the facial features in pencil. I added a Make It Crafty Chipboard Corner coloured with my E59 Copic, and a few pearls. Here is a close up and the list of Copics I used...

Marci: Skin: E0000, 000, 00, 11 + pencil

Hair: E41, 49, 55, 59

Outfit: BV000, 00, 02, 04, 08, R32, 35, 39

Roses: R32, 35, 39, G28, YG03, 17, 67

Rabbit: R20, W0, 1, 3, 5

Grass: YG13, 17, 63, 67, 91, 95

Sky and clouds: BG0000, BV20, C00, 0, 1

Thank you very much for your visit, have a great weekend! Hugs
Delphine xx

Next week it 's Valentine's Day

Hello, 

normaly I am not so into Valentine,
but these lovely Magnolia stamps forced me to make a Valentine's card.
I made this one for somebody I am very fond of.......

I found a tutorial about this "swing card" on the blog of Norma
You can find it here

So cute to make and you can place 2 images and some texts on the panels.

This card is difficult to catch on the picture. This is the opened look.

I have used cartdstock from my (large) stock.
the flowers are made with a die of Crealies. The swirls are made with a Vintage Border die of Joycraft/Noor-design. The deigner, my friend Joland made on special request the border ends mirrored, I am glad she is some one who listens to us crafters.

on the central panel, there is place for some sweet words

I used these Copic Markers

Skin  E000-00-21-11-R21

Hair E40-42-44

Cloths:

W0-1-3-5

BG000-10-13

Red: R43-46-59

GreyC1-3-5

I hope you appreciate this card

Groet Diny

Special Baby Card

 Hello, dear Copic fans,

today it is me, Barbara/Kreativmonster, for you and I want to show you a special card I made for the parents of a newborn child. The young father is a big fan of rock music, so I thought that this image is just perfect for the birth of their son.

The image is "Biker Babe", a digital from Mo Manning and I really like it very much.

Of course, you can not make a card with traditional baby-boy-colours when you use this kind of image, so I choose papers from WeRMemoryKeepers that look like a t-shirt and a lumberjackshirt.

To make the babe's jeans look used I worked on it with the Colorless Blender.

Here is a close-up of the coloured image:

As always with my baby-cards, the inside is decorated, too:

Because there are several baby bottles in the image, I added a little baby bottle charm. The ribbon is very thick, so I had to fasten the bottle with a piece of  unwaxed silk floss I had coloured with B79.

These are the Copics I used:

Skin: E50, E51, E53, E02

Tattoo: R20

Shirt: T1, T2

Jeans: B39, B79, Colorless Blender

Baby bottles: T1, T2

Teat: E97

Sunglasses: E97, E33, E35, E37

Shadow: T2, T3, T4

Shadow around image: B0000

I hope, the young couple likes the card and you do so, too!

Big Hugs

Barbara/Kreativmonster 

Lilliana

Hello all Copic fans!

Kjersti here today, and I have another Saturated Canary card to show you 

- I really love the SC design:)

Here in Norway we still have winter, lots of snow and it's very cold 

- wonderful crafting weather.

 

 The SC image is called Lilliana, the DP's are Pion Design, from the beautiful new collection Alma's Sewing Room, and the sentiment from Norsk stempelblad says "Have a nice day"

 

Colours used:

Hair - E19,E08,YR14,E59,W9

Skin - E13,E11,E21,E00,E95, lips R27,24

Green - E89,E87,E84,E81,YG91

Purple - V17,V15,V12,W1

 

 

Wish you all a nice day - thanks for stopping by!

Hugs Kjersti:)

Coloring wood

Hello there Copic fans!

It's Keren here, in this Sunday morning, with a new copic creation.

 For this project I used the digital image "A little birdie told me".

The girl in the image is leaning over a big wood windowsill, 

so I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to show you how I color wood.

I choose a bunch of browns E40, E42, E44, E47, E35, and start coloring...

With my E40  laid my firs layer, coloring all the wood area.

Than with my E42 I laid some strokes of color over the wood Lines.

And did the same withe my E44, 

I also colored the areas I wanted to be darker or for shading.

I made everything even by coloring again with the E40, to combine it all together.

And laid some more strokes of color with E44.

And with E47.

And with E35

If your page getting too wet with ink, let it rest for awhile, before adding more layers.

You can keep adding more layers until you are satisfied with the outcome.

On top of everything I flicked over with my E42. 

Here is the complete colored image and my card.

 

Copic's:

Face: E0000, E000, E00, E21, R20
Hair: Y21, 23, Y26, Y28
Clothes: R81, R83, R85, R89
Windowsill: E40, E42, E44, E47, E35
Background: BG70, BG72, BG75, BG78
Bird: YG00, YG21, YG23, YG25, BG32, R05

I hope you're inspired by visiting our blog
   I wood love to read your comments

Pennant Card...

Hello there everyone!

Åsa from a snowy Sweden here today.

I really like pennants, in all shapes, so today Im going to show you a card in the shape of one.

I´ve used red and white dotted papers from Jillibean Soup together with kraft and white cardstock.

I´ve used my Spellbinders to cut out the shapes around the image.

The image is a stamp from Sweet Pea Stamps.

I´ve colored her with the following copics:

Skin: E21-11-00-000-R20-11

Hair: E18-15-13-21-33

Leafs: G21-BG96-BG99

Flower: R59-37-35-29-W5

When I color skin I always color from dark to light, and then end with the cheeks.

When I color hair I usually do the opposit, I color from light to dark.

This makes more contrast in the hair, and I like that.

Have a wonderful Weekend!

Hugs, Åsa

...never fade

Hi dear Copic Lovers,

Today all the snow's melted and it looks like spring outside :) only thing missing are the flowers! So that's why, to make my card, I've chosen the sweet sentiment about friendship "Friends are flowers that never fade".

I've coloured this hyper cute Mo Manning Image with following Copic Sketch Markers:

Skin: E0000, E000, E11, E13, R22 (for the cheeks)

Boots/Shirt: R00, R02, R05, R08, R29

Skirt: G20, G21, BG11

Dog/Hair: E50, E51, E53, E55, E57

Shadow: W00, W0, W2

Wish you such friends that never fade...
Love,

Angie

Best Friends

Hello Dear friends,

Today I have made a Easel Card for you

with a digital image from Cuddly Budly.

They have nice and sweet images

My basic paper is Straw Cardstock from Bazzil.

The color from this paper match very good by so many dessin papers.

It's one of my favorite cardstock at the moment.

The dessin paper is from a paperstack from Basic Grey "Serenade"

I used different dies for the label and swirls.

The butterfly's are from Stampin'Up and de flowers from

Wild Orchid Crafts.

After coloring with the markers I make the sky with decoration chalk

with glitter. You can't see it on the pictures bud believe me, the image shine very well.

And off course I have colored with Copic Markers.

Big dog: E43 E41 W5

Small dog: E55 E33 E53 W5

Doll: W5 W3 W1

Jacket: YG67 YG63 YG61

Ground: W3 E41 E33

I hope you're inspired with my card, and I love to read what you think about

this creation.

 Thank you

Casting Down

Hello copic-fans!

Franz from Italy again to share another of my projects.

I wanted to use a "Craft and Me" image for a long time and finally I chose this one for today's post, she's called "Casting down".
I think she's so romantic and charming, love her dress and all those hearts blown away, I'm a romantic girl, what can I do?!!

Her hair is coloured up with my usual and favourite brown colour combo: E21-E25-E29-E49.
I was inspired to use BV copics for her dress, tried to give dimensionality to it, using the darkest tones on the parts that I think are behind her legs (I mean the back of her skirt).
To achieve this I finally added little touches of black too; I love using it sometimes, but have to be very carefull not to spoil the result at the end!

This is a close up of the image, I used BG and BV colours on her wings; they are transparent, so I mixed colours from the different families on some parts, where they overlap:

♥



 

I’ve used papers from “Pion Design" design this time, lot of flowers and some fab little swirls from Prima, I love them!

 

This is my card recipe:

Image
Craft and me - “Casting Down”

Papers:

Pion Design Patterned Papers

French Vanilla Bazzill cardstock

Materials:

Prima Mini Swirls - "Say it in Cristal"

Guipure Lace

Cheesecloth
Ribbons and flowers
Make it Crafty perfect colouring paper

Versafine Ink Pad “Vintage Sepia”

Tools and Dies:
Sizzix Big Shot

Seewing Machine

Copics:

Skin:

 E0000-E000-E00-E11 + R000-R00-R20- for cheecks

Hair:

 E21-E25-E29-E49

Dress:

  BV0000-BV000-BV00-BV01-BV04-100

Hearts:

  BG01-BG000

Wings:

  BV01-BV0000-BG01-BG000

That’s all from me today!

A big hug everybody,

Franz♥

New Blog lay out

Hello dear friend, 

Today I have published our new blog design.

Our talented designer Wenda had made

a very beautiful card for us a few weeks ago.

I have used her lovely card to create this new background.

I hope you love our new look as much we love our new look.

Please let us know if you love it (or not)

Big Hugs

Design Team

Copic Marker Europe

Sweet Pea Digi Stamp

Hello Copics fans how are you all? Vicky here today with my first post of 2013.

Today I have used a Sweet Pea digital image by Karen Middleton. Now my most favourite things to colour are faces/skin & hair..........I can totally relax when colouring hair its the one things that never stresses me out. I love Sweet Pea images but its been sooooooooo long since I have coloured one, so here is a beautiful lady for you............

This is 'Tara', isn't she so pretty. I kept the papers light as I wanted the image to be main focus.

I coloured her in the same colours the artist did but I didnt do her hair as light.

Colours I used are...........

Face - E13, E21, E00, E000, E0000 & R20 for the cheeks & R85 for the lips.

Hair - C9, C7, C5, C3, C2, C0

Leaves - YG97, YG93, YG91 & used the blender to lighten in places

The background I used G000 & the blender pen again to make it faded in places.

I then added White Liquid Pearls to the berries.

She was then matted onto a Spellbinder die-cut in grey card which I also dabbed with white Gesso.

I have used Pion Papers, I love these papers, lovely lace, scalloped pearls & some gorgeous flowers on top of some Memory Box die-cuts. I kept the flowers in neutral tones again to let the image shine out.

This card seemed to flow together so nicely & the image I really enjoyed colouring. If like me you love hair & faces then Karen Middleton & Hannah Lynn do wonderful images for this kind of colouring. They are fabulous if you want to practice hair colouring as well as skin colouring & shading.

Thank you for stopping by.

Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

New Copic Instructors

Hello, 

I know I am very late with this announchment, but better now than never.

On Wednesday the 14 of November we had a Copic Instructor Class with 12 people, I was assisted by my Instructors Keren, Doreen and Barbara.

On Tuesday the attendees already followed classes from the European Copic Colouring Program. 

On the Instructor Class, one day later,  they al had the task to give a brief explanation of a certain "Copic Topic".

 Laura from Finland is explaning us how she colours hair.

After completing the class we now have 9 new Copic Instructors. The European Copic community is very happy with them.

 Laura, Maria, Yvonne, Alix, Isabelle, Magali, Manuela, Heidi, Helena congratulations!!!!

If you want information about classes, certifications a.s.o. please get in contact with your Regional Instructor, the emaillink is on the left side of this blog.

We now have one or more Instructors in:

Norway, Finland,  Sweden, Danmark,  the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switserland, Israel and the Middle East.

On Thursday we had a very interesting Conference wit all the European Copic Instructors, who were able to come. Wetalked a lot and made plans for the upcoming year, completed the European Coloring Program.

We already set the date for the next Conference in 2013. 

On the 13 November there will be an Instructor Class in Wiesbaden Germany. 

Application only by invitation of the Copic-distributor of your country. 

With the 19 Copic Instructors we hope to inspire and help every Copic-lover in Europe and Israel and the Middle East.

Greetings Diny

Copic Ambassador and Instructor Europe