Merry Christmas!

Wishing all the Copic Junkies a warm and wonderful Holiday Season.
All coloring with Copics!
Kimm

Wings....

I had posted a Copic challenge that called for using something with wings....  here was my story that inspired the idea.

My little niece called me the other day to tell me that she lost her first tooth! She explained to me how she was going to put it under her pillow so that she'd get a 'buncha money' from the tooth fairy.



I have a set of stamps that include a tooth fairy so I decided to make a card to send to my niece Kyra (pronounced like Tyra) to celebrate the big event.
colors used:
B23 - crown, wand, petticoat, & shoes

V01, V12, V15 - dress

BV00 - Wings

Y21 - Hair

E00 & R20 - face

Stamps are from a retired CTMH set called Fairy Wishes



Bo Trommer

Copic Junkies Design Team Member

Carol's Give it Away Challenge

Carol's challenge this week was to color any image... any way you want and then give it away. Great timing as I was working on this image by Rubbernecker to give to my hubby for our anniversary.

Copic colors used: dress- N1, N4, N7, C0 and C3 for the white fur, golden halo- Y000, Y02 and Y21

Kimm

Connie's Snowpeople challenge

This is for the snowpeople copic challenge! I used B60, B63, R81 and a tiny bit of B21 for the snowpeople coloring. The sunny background used Y000 and R32... I did tip to tip marker blending to achieve the mid tone. This is a fun challenge... I hope you try it!

Kimm

Copic Junkies Challenge #4-SnowPeople

Welcome to the Copic Junkies Challenge this week!
I didn’t want to get into anything difficult this week before Christmas, but with all the talk about grays over the past week, I thought this may be appropriate:

Let’s talk about SnowPeople……snowforts……snowy trees….snowyhills….and how copics can help you give them dimension and colour. And best of all, what your grays can do with opaque white objects!

I use my C1 and BG10 copics to shade my snow. I admit that BG10 is a bit dark, but it’s what I have. Sometimes C3 sneaks in there, as you can see here……
I am not sure that I really like the C3 here, but it has its place. Marianne also has a post on using opaque white to recreate snow on your image after you colour. This is a copic product…I use gesso or acrylic paint, perhaps the opaque white is better but I am not going to buy it ;^)


I did not suggest this technique because I am good at it, but because I am practicing it myself and experimenting with what works, so feel free to share what you have learned and what you are doing!


Links to help:
Snowmen:Marianne's ilikemarkers
http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/2008/10/coloring-snowmen.html


Icicles: colouring icicles
http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/2008/12/coloring-icicles.html

Vintage Snowmen: Browns and shades
http://sherrie-cardcreme.blogspot.com/2009/11/lets-color-snowman.html
has a video attached….worth looking at!

Opaque White: After colouring, add it back in
http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/2008/07/opaque-white-adding-snow.html (the opaque white technique)

Shadows: http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/2008/12/shadows-part-8-shading-things-close-and.html
This post is for anyone still looking at the different grays and when to use them. I could not explain it any better than marianne has done here, so if you only look up one link, make it this one!

Judy's Blue and Purple challenge

Judy Jackson prepared a blue and purple challenge for the Copic Junkies yahoo group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/copicjunkies/ ). Here is my card for that challenge. In the main image I used BV01 and BV04 for the mittens and B24 airbrushed for the background. The other pieces are technique pieces from my stash... it all came together nicely for me:)
Kimm

Bo's Beach challenge!

It was delightful to take a break from all the Christmas cards I've been making to revisit this beautiful beach stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms and spend a little time on the beach! The background is a Spritzed (Copic) Stone from the current Technique Junkies Newsletter in BG05 and B63.
Colors used: sky- B0000, B60, B41, C00, sand- E50, E31, Y000 (just a touch), water- BG01, BG05, log- E31, E43, E47, shells- the earth colors used in the other elements plus R35
Thanks Bo for the challenge!
Kimm BT