Playing with my copic markers 4 cards to share

When time permits I still get a chance to play with my copics and create some cards for my family and friends. I have learnt a valuable lesson this last month and that is that not all scraps of paper are safe in my little crafting area. I have a feeling that one or perhaps it was both of my grandbabies have taken my little hidden stash of papers with notes on them and used them to draw on. So I'm sorry to say that I don't have all the details for the cards listed below, however I will do my best to share what parts I do remember. *Smiles*

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My first card was created for my son-in-law Jamie who was turning 30. He was having a real problem with how old he felt he was getting and I thought that my digital stamp Roller Coaster was just perfect for the occasion. Making a male card is always a challenge, so I used the digital as my main focus to take up most of the card. I made the sentiment large and that only left me with a little bit of space to decorate down the side with a red knot, die cut flourish and a dream ticket.

Copics used to colour Roller Coaster: 

Background: B000, BG02

Jeans: B21, B23, B45, B95

Seats: E11, E17, E33, E37

Roller Coaster: V04, V06, V09, V12, RV52

Flames: Y00, Y38, YR7, R17, R24, R29, R59

Tracks, Hair, Hat, Pantie Bloomers: C0, C2, C4, C7

Skin: E30, E50, E53

Shirt: G12, G40, G43, YG03

Dress: R81, R83, R85, RV21

The inside of the card was keep fairly plain but I did make a big point of making the number stand out. I used the same colours from the roller coaster and flames (listed above) to colour the number in. I put dimensional magic over the flames to make them shine and add dimension. Jamie did like his card and I'm sure I seen a little smile sneak across his face with the inside.

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My second card I'd like to share today was created for a friend at work, she wanted a pretty card for her granddaughter's first birthday.

I created a step card so I had plenty of surfaces to play with and dress up with pretty flowers, papers, die lace boarder and of course pink diamante swirls. I used my own digital stamps Unicorn and the sentiment from Birthday Set 2 and they were coloured with copics. 

I adore the way that the first step of the card can have off the page elements, yet when it's closed it has the support needed from the underneath layer for easy posting and handling.

I totally cheated and used an already peel and stick for the little flowers and the butterfly. I left plenty of room for nana to write her own message to her granddaughter.

Copic list used for the digital stamp rainbow unicorn

I hope to be able to create these images with a list of the copics I used to colour the unicorn. If your on pinterest, I welcome pinning.

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Something a little different for my 3rd card, it's a singing cowboy. Again I've used one of my own digitals Cowboy Bathtub and the sentiment from the word art Live Life 1. I brought the epic 6 die cutting machine but it didn't come with any instructions. I used an embossing folder to create a frame but it embossed so deeply that it cut through the paper almost all the way. No problem, I pulled out all the little semi circles on the edge and it now looks like a postage stamp frame. It works for me this time, but I will have to experiment more to work out how to emboss better next time. My colour combination was blue and yellow and the only embellishments were the little brass brads, butchers twine and a gun charm.

To add the vintage rough look, Tim Holtz distress ink walnut was used on the edges and to highlight the raised embossed sections.

The inside was left plain using the same colours and the edges inked.

Copic list of colours used for the digital stamp Cowboy Bathtub.

Pinners welcome to pin and share the image above.

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The final card today was made for a friend at work who was not feeling well for a few weeks. I don't really know too much about her, except for the story she shared with me about her dog eating her thongs. I used my digital stamp puppy form Baby Set 1 and added in a pair of thongs all chewed up. The card was done in an easel style and most of the edges were distressed with a pair of scissors. 

Darlene's Puppy Card Details:
Digital Stamps: Nana Vic Baby Animals 1 ,Well Wishes NV_WA0026
Dies: Marianne Design CR1212
        Marianne Design CR1245
        Joy Crafts Vintage Flourishes 6003/0027
        Couture creations Victorian Squares #6 #5
Copics: R02, R85, E11, E30, E33, E53, BG02, W1, W3, W5, W7, B00, B23, B95, YR24
Stash: charms, flowers, ribbon, butterfly.

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Well that's it for today, I hope that you've enjoyed the cards that I put up. I will try not to be so slack and leave so long in between posts. I'm just waiting for a nice sunny day to get a clear photo of the projects that I made my granddaughters for Christmas.

A card for Laila's 1st Birthday

My little granddaughter is turning 1 tomorrow and her mum has been collecting little bugs for her. This pretty card is simple as I wanted the little hand painted lady bugs to catch her attention. I also had a chance to play with my new big shot and I cut out a window card with the scalloped dies, also some embossed frames. Doodling can be so fun and it's quick and easy to do and it's all I did to dress up the card with some stitching and free hand doodling around the frames.

A special card for a little girl turning 1

Inside of a birthday card

Laila's 1st Birthday Card Details
Digital Stamp: Birthday Set 2 NV_WA0015
Dies: Docrafts - Scalloped Square XCU 503015
         Joy - Vintage Flourishes 6003/0026
Punch: Fiskars small 6 petal flower
Lazer cut lady bugs
Chipboard thickers
Copic Multiliner 0.3
Card stock, Flowers, flatback pearls and floral paper from stash
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Below is the jewelry box that I also made as part of Laila's birthday gift. However it's raining today and I couldn't get a clear photo, so I will update with better photo and details soon. I just wanted to share what the card above is to go with.

Copic Kitten Card

 I created the 6 x 6 inch card below for a friend that is a cat lover and enjoys reading, for her birthday.

Details:

Digital Stamps: Kitten from Baby Animals 2 and Birthday ticket from Birthday Set 2

Flowers: Petaloo - Velvet Hydrangeas Violet item# 1272-205

Copics: Kitten YR31, YR02, YR24, R81, R83, YG06 Ribbon V04, V12 Books YR02, YR24, Y02, Y13, YG06, BG02, R22 Shadow C2

Die: Couture creations - Victorian Square #6 and #5

Punches: Sullivans - corner shell, Punch Bunch - sm ash leaf

Papers: Prima - Almanac Collection, cardstock

Ink: Dew Drop - Lilac

Stash: paper roses, gems and owl charm

Above is the royalty free image that I used in the background behind the kitten. Your welcome to grab it also by saving it to your own computer. Please credit the source of the illustration listed.

Source: Rev. C. Arthur Lane Illustrated Notes on English Church History (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1901)

Thanks for popping by and have a wonderful crafting week.

Easter Bunnies card for family

 An Easter card that I created for a couple of my children and the grandbabies for this upcoming Easter. I used my new digital 'Easter Bunnies' and took advantage of the coloured topper that is included with the set. I simply added a drop shadow behind the bunnies, moved them a little closer together so that I could fit them onto the egg shape. The egg was digitally created, coloured and printed out and was a breeze to cut out (considering my eye sight is still not the best). The lace hid any imperfections *Smiles*. As the bunnies appear to be looking up at something the little silver butterfly was added as a focus point for them. A small arrangement of flowers was added to the card in the same colours as the clothing of the bunnies. Finished of with a simple bow and the pearls in the corners.

The inside is fairly plain but I followed through with the egg design. I did have fun using the warp tool to alter the text to wrap around the egg. I dropped the same green shadow behind the text and used the same pattern as the egg on cover to fill the text. Hint: I only brought a meter of the blue ribbon and was able to create 2 cards with it. I did this by not wasting it behind parts of the card that were to be covered up with another layer. For example behind the eggs on the cover and inside it is actually 2 smaller pieces with only a tiny bit under the eggs, not a complete strip. Considering the cards would take up 4 x 15cm strips and I made 4 bows, if you do the math and not waste, it is possible. I even had 5cm to spare. *Smiles*

Details:

Kaisercraft - Paper, Reminiscing P200 Recollect

Portacraft - Self Adhesive pearls 5mm

Punch Bunch - Ash Leaf small

Die-namics - Leafy Flourish small

My Stash - Lace, Ribbon

Entering this card into the follow challenges:

• Bunny Zoe's Crafts - lace and pearls
• Created With Love - anything goes
• House of Gilli - anything goes with pastels
• Lexi's Creations - Easter
• Ooh La La Creations - four legged friends
• Paper Playtime - anything goes
• Sugar Creek Hollow - lace

Angel card

The very generous Shelly has supplied us with this gorgeous Angel digital stamp and sentiment for this round of the NEW CDAC Progressive FREEBIE Challenge. I had lots of fun making this birthday card, as I got to play with all the new dies and make some pretty paper flowers. I'm not happy with how bright the skin of the angel is as I'm a little rusty with the copic colouring and feel that it should have been tones lighter. Next time.

It maybe a little difficult to read the verse inside the card as I printed it out on paper that had a glossy texture to it and the ink seemed to bead. As I was going for a vintage feel, I let it be and thought it added character.

Card Details:
Stamp and Sentiment - Shelly's Images
Kaisercraft - Paper (Sweet Nothing Collection) and Ink (Vintage)
Die-namics - Leafy Florish Small, Flower Trio and Leaf Trio, Mini Royal Roses
Copics - E 000, 01, 84, 95   YR 24, 31   R 02, 22   B 000, 00, 93    G  43
The rest of the embellishments from my stash.

Challenges I am entering this Angel Card into are:
CDAC Progressive FREEBIE Challenge.

Baby Shower Card

I'm the luckiest Nana in the whole world with 5 healthy grand babies to date and 2 new baby grand daughters arriving this year. The first one is due in about 5 weeks and the next one end of May. Alyssa is celebrating tomorrow with a baby shower and this is the card I made for her. The digital stamp was inspired by the theme of her nursery, Woodland. This is their first little girl so I wanted to make it all pink and pretty.

Card Details:

Digital Stamp - Woodland Baby and Word Art from Baby Set 2 (coming soon)

Kaiser Craft rubon SB554 -White flower border

Studio 18 Acrylic Gems - Autumn Days

eksuccess Jolee's Boutique - Dimensional Stickers (the white ones with gems in center)

Dew Drop ink - cosmic copper and coffee bean.

Everything else came from my stash with names and details long forgotten.

The inside has a beautiful verse which I thought was so nice for a new baby girl.

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Lady Anne's Challenges - Anything Goes

Lady Anne's Challenges - Use a Stamp

Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes

One Stop Craft Challenge - Anything Goes

Through the Craftroom - Anything Goes

House of Gilli - Anything Goes Pink and Bling

Love to Create - Let's Celebrate

Thank you for stopping by and wishing you a blessed and happy week.

Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 card 3

This is my second card for the Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 with a theme: "Spring is Coming"
Colouring medium : Copic Markers and splattering the background.
Digital image provided by: Pattie's Creations
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How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work?
The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge.
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Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 card 2

This is my second card for the Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 with a theme: "Spring is Coming"
Colouring medium : Copic Markers and splattering the background.
Digital image provided by Lia Stampz
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How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work?
The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge.
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Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 card 1

This is my first card for the Progressive Freebie Challenge #13 with a theme: "Spring is Coming"
Colouring medium : Copic Markers done in a feathering technique.
Digital image provided by: Glitterbabe
Sketch provided by: Midnight Madness Challenge #136
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How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work?
The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge.
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Surf'n Santa Card

I am so excited to finally have found an Australian site that is all about copics. So far with my browsing and reading I've found it very helpful and mostly inspirational. Many tutorials to be read to improve your copic skills. But best of all links to where I can purchase copics so that I can build up my collection. I hope that you will pop over and check out Copic Oz.

ENTER THIS MONTHS COPIC OZ CHALLENGE FOR A CHANCE TO WIN THE SET OF NEW COPIC COLOURS

What's the Challenge?

This month is a colour challenge.  

Create a project (card, layout, off the page) using ANY of the Copic Marker Colours on the list above!!! (R46, R59, G40, BG53, BG93, BG96, E87, BV31, RV55, YR24, V20, V25)....or as close to as possible.

How lucky was I to stumble upon copic oz to find out that if I got a wriggle on I could enter their latest challenge. I'd only just printed out 'Surf'n Santa' to colour as a sample for the upcoming new digital image for my store and had him sitting there waiting for me to make a start on him. I was so pleased to discover that in my limited supply of copic sketch markers that I had 3 of the colours listed above. R59 (Cardinal) G40 (Dim Green) and YR24(Pale Sepia). I do think that Santa is a giving himself away with his holly covered board-shorts and his monogrammed initials on his tank top. I coloured him and then cut him out and pop dotted him onto the front of my card. I created the waves in the top corner by ripping the metallic blue paper, roughly curling the edges and layered them on top of each other. 

I still consider myself a novice when it come to designing cards but there is always one place that I head to first for inspiration and that is over my my mate Priscilla at her monthly sketch challenge.

Midnight Madness FEB Monthly Sketch Challenge #135 (MMSC135)

 Her design team with their amazing samples inspire me and kick my own mojo into gear to come up with something. As the sketch had 2 triangles to work with, I found that it was perfect to adapt to a folded card so that Santa also became apart of the inside design. I kept the inside simple with a small arrangement of hand picked shells from our golden beaches collected here on the Gold Coast. The Midnight Madness challenge also included a twist with a Valentines/Love themed creation and I think Santa's love of his favourite vacationing spot would count. Hence the blue heart.

Thank you to my daughter for taking the photo's for me in the daylight (I just don't get home from work in time to catch the natural light) and to Alex for a loan of his sandpit to act as the backdrop. I've never thought of taking an aerial shot before and was most impressed when I seen this one on the chip.

I am hoping to get the new 'Surf'n Santa' into my store this weekend along with the Easter bunny. I've also got 2 new word art sheets to prepare for My Store.
Thank you for stopping by and taking a look.

Easter Card

G'day to my friends and followers in blogland. This is my first post for the year of 2012 and I am well rested after veg'n out for the last 2 months. I've done nothing exciting in that time that I could say is worth typing about. Enjoyed a huge Christmas with family, read books and slept a lot.
After much encouragement from some of my friends, I finally kicked myself in the butt to get myself out of my lack of mojo, inspiration and self indulgent habits. I'm happy now to enter back into my world of cyber friends and share some more digital images with you this year.

To entice my mojo into creative mode I thought I'd try making some handmade Fimo carrots. Not to difficult and it only took me 2 hours to hand sculpt the carrots. They looked good enough to eat with their orange bottoms and green tops...well that was before I cooked them to set the Fimo. It should have only taken 10 minutes but somehow I got sidetracked and they were in there for about 20mins. *Sad Face* as I dare to show you what happened.

*Laughs* not much different than my real cooking attempts. Oh well, time to apply what I always preach to my student; There are NO mistakes only creative challenges! A couple of coats of white gesso and some paint and nobody would ever know. *Smiles*. See the end results of the carrots in the Easter cards I made below.

Easter Card (The Easter collection digital set is available for free for the month of February. You can pick it up by joining my group at Crafters Digital Arts Center. Please pop in and say hello we'd love to get to know you better.)

Inside of the Easter Card. I keep it simple letting the beautiful words from Helen Steiner Rice's 'An Easter Prayer' pass on a special message to a few of my special online friends. The sentiment is just one of 10 that will be available on my new word art sheet 'Easter 2'. So keep your eye out for the upcoming word art sheet appearing in my digital store.

If I'm going to make one, I might as well make 8 *Laughs*.

Thank you for stopping by and I'm looking forward to catching up with your sites and to check out what you've been up to.

Thinking of you Kay

The new sketch this week over at Midnight Madness was just perfect for a card I had to make this week for a lady at work that is not feeling very well. I used my own digital 'Doctor Jones' and used her favourite colours in the layout.

I kept the inside very simple as I knew that we all would be signing it and leaving Kay some personal messages of support and love. Even the back of the card had signatures all over it. The sentiments are all from my new word art sheet 'Spirital 1'

I'm also entering this card into the sketch challenge at Midnight Madness

Progressive Challenge CDAC project 6

This delighful little digital is called Olly in the Tub and was designed by Annie of Annie's Digital Art. (I will add the link to Annie's site when it become available). She is my last of the freebies that we were given in the Progressive Digital Challenge currently running at CDAC.
I remembered seeing where Jacq had written in my forum group that she would like a snow globe and as she is celebrating a birthday this month I thought this little digital would be perfect. The digital was printed out with the cirle around it and the snow globe base. I then coloured it with copics, added a glitter outter ring and flooded the area with 'Inkssentials' glossy accents within the top circle. It did take a while to dry as it was such a large area and I did apply the gloss very thickly. I hoped to achieve a snow globe appearance with depth. I had the cut out shape mounted with foam striped onto a larger piece of paper, which I then tore away when dry.
On the cover you will see I sewed on a triangle of blue lace to the top left hand corner to represent sky. The little butterfly is by the team at Petaloo from their 'Colour Me Crazy' range and it was also coloured with copics. Before glueing on the snow globe I added the little swing tag with my sentiment using twine. The little decorated corners with flowers will join in to completed the arrangement inside when it is folded up to stand.
The sky folds out of sight and the snow globe becomes the feature of the card when it is opened up and then anchored behind the Petaloo arrangement. I used 3 different peel and stick gold embellishment to enhance the bottom of the card. The little pink pearls were a finishing touch to the standing card.
When the card is opened up to reveal the hidden sections, this is where I added the lace again and my birthday wishes to Jacq. Enjoy your card Jacq when it arrives.