Polar Dreams

Hello everyone! It's Delphine here today to share some colouring inspiration, with a cute polar bear and his penguin friend, and a bit of airbrushing. The stamp set I'm using today is called Star Gazing Friends by Penny Black.

  

First, I masked my image to airbrush my background.

I wanted a purple-tinted background, so I picked BV08, V09 and V15. I started by airbrushing BV08 following the edges of my card, then filled in the space in the middle with V09, then V15 and I went back with a bit of BV 08 at the end to darken the edges a little. 

Next, I coloured the bear in Warm Greys - W0, 1, 3 , 5. For the penguin, I used C1, 3, 5, 7, 9. As you can see, I left a very thin white line on the edges of my penguin, for the next step.

To make the penguin's grey more bluish, I added B45 in the white spots I left in the previous step and over the lighter grey parts. 

For the bear, I decided to enhance the fur using a white gel pen, and drawing little white hair, as I saw the super talented Jane Box of Colours once do. And no more Copic on the bear once gel pen is applied to avoid ruining the nibs!

I then added shadows to the snow, using BG000 and V20.

I stamped a sentiment, then stamped 3 stars from the Star Gazing Friends set and covered them in gel pen - and voilà! 

Thank you very much for stopping by, have a great day everyone! 

Delphine xx

It's snowing!

Hello everyone! It's Delphine here today! I am completely in Christmas mood right now, so I'm sharing a Christmas scene today - I just like making these so much! 

For this tutorial, I'm using a cute stamp by Penny Black called Hopping By, my Copics of course and my Airbrush.

Step 1: I prepared my card for airbrushing. I stamped my rabbit in Memento Ink on my card, covered it with a blue mask, covered the edges of my card with washi tape and added a hill.

Step 2: I airbrushed my background, using RV66, RV55, V15 and RV11.

Step 3: I stamped trees and a branch (by Penny Black too) to add a bit of interest to my background.

Step 4: I then coloured my main image, the rabbit, in Copics.

Step 5: I added all the details that can make a difference :) I coloured the snow in Copics and added white acrylic paint to my trees and for snowflakes. 

Here is a close up of my image and all the Copics I used:

Rabbit: E40, 41, 42, R20, W0, 1, 3, 5

Scarf: R35, 37, 39, W5

Presents: R35, 37, 39, YR00, 02, RV11

Tags: E40, 41

Background: RV11, 55, 66, V15

That's all from me today! Thank you very much for stopping by, have a great day! Hugs,

Delphine xx

Love at Christmas

Hello everyone! It's Delphine here today to share some Christmas inspiration. I picked an adorable stamp by Penny Black, called Nose to Nose and decided to have a play with my airbrush.

I masked my stamped image to protect my bears and created a hill with Post-It notes. I did not go to the trouble of cutting the mask between my bears because I had in mind to draw a background after airbrushing.

Above, you can see what it looked like, once the airbrushing was done. I used B02, BG15, BV34 and a bit of V01.

I removed the masks, and then realised that I really liked the look of the sky and should not draw a background on it... so, more masking, this time to do the space between the bears lol!

I used B02 and BG15.

I then coloured the bears. I used W0, 1, 3, 5 for their fur, C5, R35, 37, 39 for the red scarf, and RV63, 66, 69 for the pink one.

Next I added a bit of C2, BG000 and B00 for the snow (yes, white always needs to be coloured a bit!). I also added some stickles on the ground and white acrylic paint with a Molotow marker for the snowflakes.

Bears: W0, 1, 3, 5, R20

Red: C5, R35, 37, 39

Pink: RV63, 66, 69

Sky: B02, BG15, BV34, V01

Using two rectangle dies, I created a frame for my cute pair.

Thank you very much for your visit, have a great day! Hugs,

Delphine xx

The Seven Dwarfs

Hi Copic fans.

Occasionally you will work entirely in the wrong order. I've also done once again this time. In itself not a problem, you just deliver yourself a lot of work. When I bought this Seven Super Funny Dwarfs by Mo Manning, I printed them directly on Perfect Colouring Paper because I wanted to colour with my Copic Markers. During the colouring I had the idea to combine this with Gem-Tangles.

Probably, you have seen all kinds of versions of Gem-Tangles on the Internet recently.

Diny Sprakle hasshown us how you can do this with Copic markers or colouring pencils. But I wanted to go one step further. I wanted to incorporate letters instead. The letters and gems are drawn with a black Copic Multiliner 0.1mm and the fracture lines with colored Copic Multiliners.

The characters are made with a Letter Mask from the brand Dutch Doobadoo.

 After I was finished with colouring, I had a problem ....... what to do as a background? Luckily my husband had great idea ......why not a cave with diamonds?
 

 So I drew a few rocks, cut out and decorated them with modeling paste and let it dry overnight. I have them tinted with the Copic Airbrush. But still I'd not got the effect I wanted.

  So I thought I would go and see if I could find something that looked like diamonds. Fortunately, I found out that I still had some Ranger Stickles.That was just what I needed for a glitter effect. But when finished, it was still not to my liking.

 

Then the rest of the project should also receive a rocky appearance. First I placed a basic layer on my paper with the Copic Airbrush. I ripped white tissue paper into pieces and applied to the paper with Glazing Medium.  After drying, I have brought all tinted back with the Airbrush. By now you'd think you have what you want. 

 Fortunately there are more products I like to work with. So I added some depth with a few brown colours of Pan Pastel.

Finally, I could start building my project.

First I got the rocks and letters glued in place. Then I made a lot of little gems to bring back the colours of the gems in the background of the project. These colours I would have used on the dwarves but those details are so small that they do not stand out. By applying all those little blue and green gem it was still a beautiful whole.

These are all the colours I used :

Background with Airbrush:

Y26 - E07- E25 - E34

Dwarf on beer barrel:

Skin: E000 - E00 - E11 - E13 - E93 - R20

Beard: E35 - E37

Blouse: E31 - E33 - E34

Pants: B91 - B93 - B95 - B97 - B99

Socks: B24 - YG95 - YG97

Boots: E84 - E87 - E89

Mug: C1 - C3 - C5 - C7

Dwarf with green hat:

Skin: E000 - E00 - E11 - E13 - E93 - R20

Beard: W00 - W1 - W3

Vest: E43 - E44 - E47

Green Parts: YG93 - YG95 - YG97 - YG99

 Blue Parts: B21 - B23 - B26 - B28

Mug: C1 - C3 - C5 - C7 - R05

Dwarf with red hat:

Skin: E000 - E00 - E11 - E13 - E93 - R20

Beard: W00 - W1 - W3 - W5

Reds: R35 - R46 - R59

Blue tones B23 - B24 - B26 - B28

Yellows: Y38

Browns: E42 - E43 - E44 - E47

Dwarf with pick axe :

Skin: E000 - E00 - E11 - E13 - E93 - R20

Beard: E33 - E35 - E37

Helmet: C3 - C5 - C7 - Y11 - Y38 and E41

Jack: E08 - E35 - R59

Pick axe: C3 - C5 - E42 - E43 - Y09

Greens: YG93 - YG95 - YG97 - YG99

Browns: E25 - E27 - E29

Coins: Y38

Greys: C1 - C3 - C5 and W3 - W5 - W7

 Plump Dwarf

Skin: E000 - E00 - E11 - E13 - E93 - R20

Beard: C0 - C1 - C3

Upper: E84 - E87 - E89

Underwear: E33 - E35 - E37 - 0

Boots: E84 - E87 - E89

Pants: YG93 - YG95 - YG97 - YG99

Bracelet: Y35 - Y38 - R39

Mug: C1 - C3 - C5 - C7

Dwarf with big bag

Skin: E000 - E00 - E11 - E13 - E93 - R20

Beard: C0 - C1 - C3

Vest, bag and bracelet: E33 - E35 - E37 - E39 and Molotow Metallic Gold

Hat: B21 - B93 - B97 - B99 - E33 - E35 - E37 - Y38 - Y35

Pants: B93 - B97 - B99 - Y28 and molotow Metallic Gold 

Boots: W3 - W5 - W7 - W9

 

Seated Dwarf:

Skin: E000 - E00 - E11 - E13 - E93 - R20

Beard: E07 - E09 - E29

Blouse: YG93 - YG95 - YG97

Pants: B91 - B93 - B95 - B97 - B99 - E44 - Y38

Boots: E84 - E87 - E89 and W5 - W7 - W9

Bracelets: Y32 - Y35 - Y38 - R27 - R59

Mug: C1 - C3 - C5 - C7

Finally, the colour combination of text and gems:

Blue gems: B21 - B23 - B24 - B28 - B39

Green gems: YG01 - YG03 - YG25 - G09

Text: R29 - YR14 - YR16 - YR68

The lines are put with Molotov White.

I hope you have read this post with pleasure.

Until next time.

 

CAS Airbrushing

Hello everyone! It's Delphine here today to share a CAS card with simple airbrushing. I love the look you get with the airbrush and it is a nice simple way to add colour to your backgrounds. 

I used an image (and sentiment) from the MFT Beary Special Birthday stamp set which I coloured with my Copics then cut out. I cut a rectangle the size of an ATC because it's a format I like and airbrushed it using different Copics starting from the bottom of the rectangle. I then put my image and sentiment on foam squares for a bit of dimension and added a few Papermania Dots. 

Bear: E25, 27, 29, 40, 41, 42, 43, R20

Red: R35, 37, 39, 89, T5

Gold: E33, Y11, 21, 26

Background: Y15, YG05, YR61, V04

Thank you very much for your visit, have a great day! Hugs,

Delphine xx

Spooky Birthday

 

Hi Everyone, it's Faye here today :)

With Halloween nearly upon us, I thought it would be a good time to colour a Witch. This rather gorgeous one is from Tiddly Inks and she insisted I give her a dark Airbrushed Background to stand on. She had her cauldron with her at the time, so I thought it best not to argue. 

Normally when I Airbrush, I cut a mask out of scrap paper, attach it to my image and then spray happily away, before removing the mask. However, this time, I had a go with Masking Fluid, which I have wanted to try for a while. It was probably easier to use than cutting a mask, but I did find it damaged the fibre of the card when I rubbed it off, and I had to be careful when I coloured after.

And one more thing. If you have a white desk, make sure you fully cover it with paper, before you Airbrush with T5. Just sayin'.

So, after I doodled a border and some cobwebs, I thought I was all done, took my photo's, edited them and then I was looking at the card. Yes, I thought, it really would look much better if I added some white Gel Pen to those cobwebs...

See, told you!

Markers Used...
Background/ Ground; T3, T5, T7
Skin; E000, E00, E01, E11, E71
Hair; YR12, YR14, YR18, E08, E29
Green; YG21, YG03, YG17, YG67
Purple; V12, V15, V17, V09

Thank you so much for stopping by. Have a great day.

I'm not so tough

 Hi everybody.

I had a digi lying around of a cool teenaged girl all coloured and ready to use and thought she would look great with this background stamp form the brand Indigo Blue.

Here is a close up of the image. I used the following Copic Markers to colour her:

Skin: E000-00-04-11-C1

Eyes: E25-27

Lips: R29

Hair: R35-37-59 and 110-C4-6-8

Black shades: 110-C4-6-8-10

Grey shades: N1-3-5

Red Shades: Hair: R35-37-59-89 

The background is done with the Airbrush and a stencil from brand Memory Box.

I used the following Copic Markers for the background: B04 - B14 - YG03 - YG09

Thanks for stopping by!

Wishing you a colourful day! 

Crafty hugs, 

Time

Hi Everyone, it's Faye here :)

Today, I thought I would share a card using this beautiful image from Polkadoodles. I love her big watch. I thought she would look great with an Airbrushed background... you don't have to ask me twice to start squirting ink everywhere!!

I built up quite a lot of layers of ink on the background for a lovely smooth coverage. I didn't catch a good photo of that. By the time I finished, the ink was quite tacky, so I grounded her with a black pencil, as I did not want to over saturate the ink and make a sticky mess.

Then to finish the card, I just doodled a border, which as you will probably know, is my usual style.

Copics Used...

Skin; E50, E00, E11, E71

Hair; E31, E34, E55, W3, W5

Ground; 100

Background; T2, T3, T5

White; T0, T1, T3

Gold; Y23, Y26, YR23, E33

Turquoise; BG53, BG57, BG18, T5

Thanks for stopping by... Have a great day.

Faye xx