I could do with a laugh!

Sometimes life gives you lemons......sound familiar?  Well I don't know about you but I could do with a laugh at the moment.......so here's a goofy man with balloons on his head to put a smile on your face!

I haven't played with my pencils in a while and it was really nice to use them again!  And this happy chap reminded me that we used to have modelling balloons when my son was small and believe it or not I could actually make a balloon dog - hee hee,  you did need a little imagination sometimes to work out it was a dog, but hey Ben didn't seem to mind!

Well, short and sweet today - I'm off to the vets with our Westie for her annual check-up and jabs!

Happy Colouring

Happy Birthday Dad

Hello there, I have a clean and simple card
with a bit of a twist!

This was for my Dad's Birthday....

As you can see, quite a simple image on the front
but when you open the card.......

The old chaps bum has bit of a wiggle

thanks to the assistance of a wobble spring!

(the stamp set came with a spring but you can also buy them separately)

Art Impressions - Bummer Set

MFT Die Namics Blueprint 15 die

Memento Ink Tuxedo Black

Copics -

Sign: B12, C3

Shirt: B0000, C00, C0, C1, C2, C3

Skin: E0000, E000, E40, E41, R20, V20, W2

Trousers: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44

Socks: W00, W1

Shoes: E21, E23, E41, W1, W6

Have fun with your Copics.... I certainly did with this one!

Tips on how to add a little interest to your colouring

This is my first tutorial for Copic Europe and I wanted to share some of the ways I

"play" with Copics.......

So I have a little montage of ways you can add a bit of fun to your colouring!

Lets start with a simple stamp

I have used

Say it Loud! by Art Impressions

It's OK like this, but a bit boring don't you think!!

So to jazz things up a bit I started by stamping it out on Copic suitable card stock using 

Memento Angel Pink, so that I could use the no lines technique

and cut it out using a stitched circle die by Lil'inker Designs

Now I started by creating a background using my "Squiggly Wiggly" method!

Basically you start with your base colour, in this instance B0000 and cover the whole area using the standard Copic circular motion.

You then add squiggles of a darker shade, in this case B000, going over it with the lightest colour to soften the squiggles if necessary. 

Don't get heavy handed with this, light, delicate squiggles work best.

 I finished with a layer of B00 squiggles, softened by B0000 applied in a circular motion as before.

A - B0000 applied in a circular motion

B - B000 squiggles applied to three quarters of box, softened with B0000 

C - B00 squiggles to top left of box

D - Squiggles softened with B0000 applied in circular motion

This technique works best with the palest shades in any of the colour families.

It gives a soft textured almost fluffy appearance to a background and I use this method regularly when I am colouring skies!!!

Now the real fun begins.......

time to play around with your image!

I started by giving each word a 3D appearance, achieved by simple shading, but hey, it's still a bit boring and I like to have fun when colouring.....

I'll show you a close up in a minute, but here is a list of the colours I used for each word

SING: B21, B23, B24, B26

DANCE: B01, B02, B04

LAUGH: B91, B93, B95, B97, 0

LOVE!: B12, B14, B16

shadows applied using N1, N2, N3

DANCE: random dots applied using darkest colour B04

LAUGH: spots created using 0 to remove colour 

LOVE!: Stripes drawn using B16 and B14 mindful of the 3D colouring

I hope you have found this tutorial interesting and whether you try colouring a Squiggly Wiggly background or add a pattern to your images, above all have fun when using your markers!!

Happy Colouring

Is your cake beginning to look like this?

Oh, when I saw this image I knew I had to get the stamp.

I had such fun colouring it!

Art Impressions - Deep Breath Birthday

Coloured in Copics, enhanced with Caran D'Ache Luminance pencil

Copic Airbrush

Isopropyl and detail brush (for bubbles)

Background: BG02, B04, YR21, BG13, Y00, E41, E43, BG11, E53, E55, W1, W2

Bubbles: BG0000, BG000, N1, Y0000, E00 

Fish Body: BG000, B00, BG01, BG02, N1, N2, N4

Fish Face: Y23, YR31, YR21, Y00, R11, W1, W2, W3, RV32, RV34

Fish Eyes: B0000, B000

Fish Hat: B41, B45, BG11, BG13

Cake: E13, E11, E25, E29, YR30, E50, E81, E41, E43, E31

Candles: B21, B23, B0000, T3, T2, Y32, Y38, YR15

Plate: B60, B63, N3

Hope you all have a great weekend

Hugs

Without Words Challenge for April

With a little bit of help or should I say hindrance from my puppy Pip

here is my latest creation for 

Without Words

The theme this month is

Gentlemen Only

This image was such fun to colour and unusually for me I chose to cut it out and mount it

and I am rather chuffed with how it turned out.

SUPPLIES

Golden Oldies by Art Impressions

Sentiment stamp by Art Impressions

Copics

DPs by Craft Creations

Fence & Polaroid die

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