Dynamite!
Hello to all our Blogging Friends!
Marie here with a card I created using the adorable stamp called “Zumba Chick” by Saturated Canary.
I love this image! It gives me an opportunity to try out one of my new ethnic hair colors and skin tones.
I hope you like this too.
Copics Used:
Skin Tones: E50, E42, E43 and E44
Hair: E21, E34, E47 and E49
Eyes: YG 63 and YG95,
Clothing: BG70, BG72 and BG75
Shoes: C0, C1, C3
Background: C0, C1, BG000, YR000, Colorless Blender.
Other:
The paper I used for my focal image was Cryogen by Curious Metallic
and the image was stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black.
This paper works great with Copics and the ink is safe for your maker nibs!
This is a good sized image so I didn’t want to add alot of embellishment.
And sometimes – it is great to have a simple card that goes through the mail without extra postage!
I was going to add some really great buttons that would coordinate with the beautiful blue-green paper but
the more I looked at it, the more I realized it should just be simple and let the image truely be the focal part of the card.
I hope you enjoyed my card and that everyone is having a great week and thank you for stopping by!
MarkerPOP! + Tiddly Inks Blog Hop Winner
Hi, everyone! Thank you so much for joining in the blog hop fun! We love and appreciate all your comments!
The randomly chosen winner of the Tiddly Inks stamp set came from Amanda’s Blog and it is….
Cecilia Reyes – “love this happy bee… So adorable card!”
Congrats, Cecilia! Email info@markerpop.com with the subject line “MP + Tiddly Inks Blog Hop Winner” and your mailing info.
There are a couple more blog hop winners posted over on the Tiddly Inks Blog so don’t forget to check over there to see if you’re a winner!
Paper Piecing
Good morning! Tracy here today. It’s tuesday so that means I will be showing some tips and tricks. This week I thought I would demonstrate paperpiecing. I LOVE this technique. Especially for a large image like the one that I will be using. You don’t have as much coloring to do and just need to do a bit of shading on the patterned paper. I find that 6×6 paper pads are the best to use for this because of the size of the patterns.
First you want to stamp you image onto your paper of choice. I used Uptown Girls Bianca Loves Her Big Cake by Stamping Bella. These are large images and are fantastic for paperpiecing!
Notice when I stamped the image part of the dress did not stamp out. I didn’t restamp it or fill it in because the dress is what I plan to paper piece and you won’t even see that.
Reink up your image. I don’t ink the entire image, I just usually try to get it on the area that I need to stamp out only. That way I am also not wasting other portions of my patterned paper.
Stamp you image onto the patterned paper of choice. As I said before, small patterns are best.
Before you cut out the image, do you shading and highlighting. You can do this after you cut, but I find it easier to do it beforehand.
Cut out the dress.
Color ALL of your image and then add your paper pieced dress LAST. Otherwise you may have problems getting the ink in areas close by or shading those areas. After you image is all colored glue down your paper pieced item.
Here is the final image all colored and put together.
The other supplies that I used were:
Patterned paper – Fabulous by Simple Stories
Sentiment – Bold Sentiments (Bday) by SP & Company
Image – Uptown Girl Bianca Loves her Big Cake
Cardstock – Candy Bar and Candy Necklace by Bazzill Cardshoppe Cardstock
Thanks for stopping by!
Let’s HEAR Some Music!!
Hi everyone!!! Tina here with your “Inspiration” posting!!! I’m in the mood for some sounds!! How about you??? Let’s get inspired by what moves you when it comes to music! For me, that’s any instrument my kids play and well, there are a few!!! LOL My son not only plays piano and clarinet, but also the saxophone! My daughter plays piano, trumpet and drums so I have LOTS to pick from!
Today I chose an adorable image my La La Land Crafts, “Saxophone Luka”. I used my Copic Sketch markers to color him in and then cut him out My musical paper is from Carta Bella, “So Noted”… love this whole pack!!
I added a few simple paper roses which I colored by using Heidi Swapps Color Shine, “Mustard” and Mr.Huey’s “Overdue Real Red”. These are my absolute favorites in red and gold/yellow. I added a little rhinestone flourish to give the effect of sounds coming from my sax as well.
I hope you can find some inspiration for a little creativity in sound today. Whether it’s country, instrumental or rock… I think we should all have a little piece of music in our hearts that we can lose ourselves in.
Have fun sharing your musical inspiration and as always, we thank you for stopping by MarkerPOP! today!! Don’t forget to check out all the fabulous new arrivals!!!
Have a great day!!! *HUGS*
Copics I used: