You make me happy when skies are grey...

Good Morning everyone,

I hope you are enjoying the Easter break, 

it's Sue here today sharing a rainy day card with a great Copic technique.

I thought I would try a technique with Copic refills and stencils that I have used previously with Distress Ink pads and stencils!  I am really pleased to say that the technique works really well with Copics!

I have put together a tutorial to hopefully show you how you can also achieve such a fun background.

Here are the goodies you need.  You can see that the first thing I did was to colour and cut out the beautiful Stamping Bella Tiny Townie - Rachel loves the Rain.  Make sure you put her somewhere safe while you get inky with your background!

It is important to work swiftly with this technique because the ink dries quite quickly so open all of your refills before you start and tip some colourless blender into your spritzer bottle.

Randomly dab some rows of tiny dots of ink from the Copic refills onto your mat so that you have covered an area roughly the same size as your stencil.

Working quickly, give the ink one fine spray of colourless blender and press the stencil onto the inky mat.

Place the stencil 'ink side down' onto your piece of card

and gently tap the stencil all over with a piece of tissue paper.

Carefully lift the stencil away from the card, this is the effect you will see - isn't it pretty!

Finally, clean your work surface and stencil with some Copic Cleaner.

Here is my finished card.

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial.  It would be great if you could try this technique and show your cards to us at Copic Marker Europe on Facebook.

To find us just follow the link

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Copic Marker Colour Combinations

Skin V20, E00, E000, E0000

Hair E50, E31, E33, E25

Clothes RV95, RV93, RV91, BV29, BV13, BV02, BV31

Puddle W5, W3, W1

Grass YG67, YG63, G21

Copic Marker Refills for Background

B91, BV11, R81, 0 Colourless Blender

Other Ingredients

Stamping Bella Tiny Townie Rachel Loves The Rain Stamp and Die from Dies To Die For

MFT Paper 6 x 6 Pads - Roses All Over & Hearts and Stripes from Dies To Die For

Die Namics Stitched Rectangle Frames from Dies To Die For

Make It Colour Blending Card by Elaine Hughes (Marker Geek)

 Memento Ink pad in Black

White Posca 1mm Pen

Stix 2 Foam Pads

Thank you for popping by.

Happy Copic colouring!

love from

Sue...xxx