iCopic Color Challenge #15
Hi everyone!!
Today, we have a lovey dovey color combo for you! I can’t wait to see what you all create for this one.
As always, to enter, follow these easy steps:
1. Become a follower of our blog, if you aren’t already.
2. Post your original creation with your entry and the link back to iCopic’s Color Challenge on your blog. You can make ANY type of project that includes the use of Copics: greeting card, scrapbook page, altered art, 3D project, illustration, etc. Anything goes as long as Copics are used!
3. The colors need to be as close to the challenge’s color theme as possible.
The challenge will end on Sunday, February 6th (Noon EST). The winner will be chosen by the True Random Number Generator.
Here is the color combo:
And the winner for Challenge #14 is Mindy BaxterV (Card #5). Please email us (info@icopic.com) your shipping address, thank you!
And here is a gorgeous inspiration card made by Linda:
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Color Challenge Oliver ~
Hi marker friends! It’s Alyssa here to share a little color challenge card with you today. The iCopic color challenge for this week is a fun one – blue, teal and moss green! Yummy masculine colors!
One thing that helps when building a card is having your color scheme in mind – whether it’s a color challenge that inspires you or some beautiful patterned paper. I chose to use some Basic Grey Oliver papers with The Greeting Farm’s Oliver stamp that you can find in the iCopic store here.
Oliver’s jeans aren’t messed up! I added a little swipe of E33 to his knees to show that he likes to get a little dirty when he plays! I wanted one of the dinosaurs to coordinate with the paper that was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. I colored the one Oliver is holding with G82 (new in Ciao!) and G85. Once it was colored, I dotted it with the colorless blender to give his *skin* some texture. For the little Triceratops, I didn’t have a brick red color Copic. I added some E18 (new in Ciao!) over the R39 to warm it up. Here’s a close up
I hope this gives you that extra push to play along with the color challenge! The prize this week is 4 Copic Ciao markers of your choice!! Go to this post to find out all the details and get in on some fun. Thanks for stopping by today! 
lyss
COPICS USED:
B91, B95, B97, BG15, BG23, BG49, C3, C5, C7, C9, E000, E00, E11, E18, E33, G82, G85, R20, R39, R59, W3, W5, W7, 0 Colorless Blender
Be Mine, Valentine
Hi Copic Fans! It’s Linda here to share a valentine card with you. For my card I chose Swiss Pixies Laying Nora by C.C. Designs. You can find Laying Nora and other C.C. Designs HERE at iCopic.com. My sentiment is from SP & Company’s ‘Artsy Heartsy’ stamp set.
Here is how I cut the heart-shaped card base using a Spellbinder Nestabilities. This technique will work with other Nestabilities shapes. The key is to extend the die beyond the fold line in order to create hinges. The hinges hold the card base together.
After I cut my card base I cut a larger scalloped heart in the dotted purple paper to make the front of my card. Since I was using a brad on my flower I adhered a second scalloped heart to the front one to hide the brad prongs.
Copic markers I used:
E00, 11, 25, 29
Y11, 13, 15, 35
V12, 15, 17
R20
Recipe:
C.C. Designs ‘Laying Nora’
Memento tuxedo black ink
SP & Company ‘Artsy Heartsy’
Cryogen paper
Martha Stewart border punch
Papertrey Ink die
Nestabilities
Flowers, paper, brad from stash
Quickutz tag die
Stampin’ Up cardstock
Thanks for stopping by. Don’t forget to check out Color Challenge #14. When you have finished your creation link it to the blog for a chance to win a prize. You know you like prizes!! Have a great day! LindaC
Rain or Shine Card
Hi everyone! Wanda Here! That means it must be Wednesday! Hope you are having a great week so far. I have a bright and cheery card for you and some tips and techniques. This is a classic example of coloring something shiny and using a light source for your shading. I hope you enjoy this tutorial today! This was such a fun card to color.
Here is a close up of the finished coloring of the umbrellas…You can see that my light source is coming from the right and hitting all the umbrellas on the top right side of each image. This is a great way to make your coloring eye appealing and realistic – by using your light source uniformly. Also, this extreme use of shading makes the items appear shiny and and like they are reflecting the light.
I used three colors for each umbrella, keeping in the same color family. Here you can see that I’ve left the white space on the yellow one and am getting ready to fill it in with a very light yellow.
I used ALLL those colors!
Here’s a peek at the back of my image. You can see how much color there is on the paper…it’s soaked. That is why the image is so dense and yummy. Keep coloring…don’t be afraid to do too much.
If you look at this super close up, you can almost see exactly where I laid down each of my three colors for each umbrella. I started with my middle color, then put on the darkest color and then finished with the lightest color to blend it all together.
