A New Challenge at Copic Creations

Hello!  Welcome back!  Today we have a new challenge at Copic Creations and I know you'll want to play along.  This time we're working with techniques for coloring fur, but there's one tiny catch...we've chosen to use non-traditional colors.  Remember the popular Care Bears from the 80's?  Of course, if you want to stick with the browns and grays, then feel free to do so, but we thought this was much more fun ;D

There are 2 exciting sponsors this week...Stamp Fairy and My Creative Classroom.  Visit the Copic Creations Challenge blog to see the details.  While you're there, take a look at what the design team came up with for this challenge.  I think you'll agree, we had a good time, LOL!  

For my card, I used an image by the Stamp Fairy called Barry Spooky Bats.  I think he is so adorable and goes right along with my crazy need to make Halloween cards right now.  To create Barry's fur I used BV04, BV02, BV01, BV00, and V000 to color the image and then went back in with layers of the same colors creating little dots to add texture.  I really like the way the image turned out.  He looks like a stuffed teddy bear with fur a bit on the fuzzy side.  Among the DT members, everybody's fur techniques turned out completely different, which is very cool.

This is such an easy and fun challenge, won't you join us?  Come back tomorrow, I've got something different up my sleeve and an announcement.  Until then, stay crafty!     

A New Challenge at Copic Creations! White Clothing!

Hey, everybody!  Welcome to July!  Is it just me or is this year zooming along really fast?  One minute I'm watching 'em countdown the dropping of the ball in Times Square on TV (yes, we are that boring) and the next we're whipping out the red, white, and blue, and cranking up the BBQ grills (yes, we have more than one).  We are literally half-way through the year.  At this rate, Christmas will be peeking around the corner at me, with it's blood-shot eyes (my version of Christmas is exhausted!) waiting to get some attention.  UGH!  Why do I already feel like I'm behind?  

Well, now that I've thoroughly depressed everyone...LOL...let's move on to the new challenge at Copic Creations.  This week's sponsor is La La land Crafts and they are near and dear to my heart ;D  For this week's challenge we are asking that you use your Copics to create a white piece of clothing.  

I love creating the illusion of white.  If you leave an item devoid of color, it just looks flat, but the addition of gray to mimic shadows, and the addition of a very pale color to capture light really gives white objects dimension and life.  For my card I colored Jesalyn and opted to leave her dress and shoes white.  I added C3, C1, and C0 to give areas of her dress shadows and I added BG10 to add glints of light.  The BG10 gets lost in the photos, but trust me, it's there.  I hope you'll join the challenge this week at Copic Creations and show us what you can do with white.  

Please swing by the blog and check out what the DT has been up to.  They have really worked their magic with this challenge and the cards are AMAZING!  You won't want to miss them ;D 

Join me tomorrow and I'll share another Bombshell mermaid card with you.  Until then, stay crafty!