Hi everyone! Samantha here with another Christmas project for you!

This card features an image from The Greeting Farm Christmas Sweeties stamp set. Isn’t that little man so cute!?

I used the following Copic colors for my card:
YG23, YG06, R27, R29, E00. E33. E35. and E37.

We promised our followers some great new product introductions this month and we certainly wouldn’t want to disappoint! Our two most popular rubber stamp Lines have just gotten bigger. From The Greeting Farm, Miss Anya and Ian are now available in new designs and we also have some new seasonal/scenic stamps to ring in the holiday card making season. Come meet our newest characters from CC Designs. Stampavie Stamps is the newest addition to our stamping family, Stapavie offers some of our favorite Christmas stamps and we are thrilled to be offering them now on iCopic.com.

The way we see it, stamps can be used to make gifts or given as gifts, so if you need some inspirations for holiday cards, come check out our newest character and holiday additions.

On that note, we want to Wish everyone a Happy Columbus day, and if you’re one of the lucky few who will be having a 3 day weekend and no plans for the extra day off, be sure to enter our Copic Challenge, get in the spirit of Columbus and explore your creativity!

I know we haven’t even celebrated Halloween yet, but I am enjoying my Christmas Card making so much!!

Look at this cutie:

I colored him in with the following Copic colors.
For the Skin: E00
For the Belt buckle: Y38
For the red clothes: R27 and R29
For the hair: Y11, Y15, and Y21


Samantha’s Copic Tips:
*REDS: I have had a lot of difficulty blending reds and so I have experimented a bit to determine what works best for me. Are you ready to hear my secret? OK so when laying down the first layer of red, I use my lightest color and use a VERY LIGHT TOUCH, I lay down just enough ink so that the area looks red, but I do not saturate the paper. Then again, I go in with a very light touch with my darker color. When blending, I continue to use a light touch, taking care not to lay down too much ink. With reds, a little bit of ink goes a LONG way.


*Think about your image: When deciding what areas of the image need to be darker vs lighter, think about the image as if it were a 3D image. If someone is wearing a hat, chances are, there is going to be a natural shadow given off by the brim of the hat. So I thought about that and decided to make his hair darker near the hat. So before you color, take a moment to just think about where the natural shadows might be.

Let’s see your tricks and get a chance to win a Copic Treat!

Ah it’s that time of year, the air is crisp, the kids are all on candy overload and we want to give you a chance to win a treat using your Copic tricks! You’re never too old for treats! But before we get into details about Challenge 5, we want to congratulate Challenge #4 winner #11 Laurel Beard and her beautiful Butterfly creation which really sent us into fall mode!

Challenge #5 is Halloween themed! Use black, orange and purple to create something spooktacular for you chance to win 2 Pink Cat Studio Stamps !and 1 Dew Drop Ink Pad Set of 12. Please be sure to follow each step as incomplete entries will not be eligible.

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 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 starts Friday, October 1st and will end on Thursday, October 14th. The winner will be chosen by the True Random Number Generator.

And here is a little bit of inspiration for you!