Double doggies for Daddy's

I have been a busy bee over the last couple of days........making duplicate Father's Day cards.

A little while ago I saw an amazing card made by Tammie Edgerton, One Happy Stamper who in turn had been inspired by Sandy Allnock and I knew that at some point I had to give it a go myself!  Thank you ladies - you rock!!!

Now I am still a rookie using a Misti and I am sure there must have been an easier way of doing it......but I just could not get my head around how to print the reverse dog (his face) so that it fitted perfectly on to the front one when sandwiched together!  If anyone has an idiots guide as to how to do it please please send me a copy, this idiot would be oh so grateful :)

Here are the 2 fronts.....not too dissimilar, one pooch is a tad darker than the other but hey apart from on here the cards are never going to be seen side by side!

And as for the inside image that caused me so many issues:

As you can see the little pooch got a tad creative himself and used his beloved stick to write my Dad and Father in Law a little message on the fence!

The back page was coloured using a Copic Airbrush with some Isopropyl alcohol on a sponge to sort of create clouds, not that you can see them too clearly in this picture.

Oh and here is one last picture, showing both front and inside, well these cards did give me major brain strain, so why not!!!

COPIC COLOURS:

Background: B00, B01

Dog: E23, E57, E25, E27, E29, E21, E11, E13, E23, E00

Nose: W2, W6, W8

Collar: R27, R89

Ground: E30, E31, E34, E43, W4, W5

Bowl: R22, R27, R89, E18, T8

Kennel: W5, W6, W8, E70, E71, E74

Bone: YR30, E81

Fence: E40, E41, E42, E81, E84

Stick: E70, E71, E74

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: MFT You make my tail wag

Paper: Personal Impressions Premier Quality Smooth White Card, Bazzill base card

Colouring Medium: Copic Markers (colour list above)

Tools: Spellbinders Grand Calibur, L'il Inker Stitched Rectangle die, Copic Airbrush, Misti, Souffle gel pen.

Size of card: USA A2

Hope you liked these, and for all Dad's out there, may I wish you all a very Happy Father's Day!

Watch out, watch out there are fairies about!

It's time for another Tiddly Inks Challenge

Fairy Happy

I had such fun colouring that lovely, zingy red hair!

Tiddly Inks - Thanks fairy much
Magnolia - Sunflowers
Die - L'il Inker
Paper from stash
Copics -
Skin: E0000, E000, E41, V20, R20, B93, B95, B97
Flower: YR20, YR21, YR24, YR27, E37, Y23, Y26, Y28, Y35
Wings: G0000, G000, G00, YG0000, T0, T2, T3
Dress and Shoes: G12, G21, G40, YG67, T2, T4, YR24, YR27
Hair: YR20, YR21, YR24, E35, E37, E49
Background: E50, E51, E53, E55, E57, W7, Y0000, YG0000, YG00
Enhanced with coloured pencils

For more inspiration and details of where you can post your entries
please click HERE

Sadly, this will in fact be my last Tiddly Inks Challenge for a while as I am taking a little break.
I have had a wonderful time with Christy, Lou and the girls - thank you so much for having me xx

Happy Colouring

Growing old doesn't mean you have to grow up!!

This is a special post for me as it is the card I made for my son Ben who turned 20 at the end of August!!!

and I thought it was perfect for our new challenge over at
Without Words

"For the Boys"

I had rather a lot of fun colouring this one, especially with the transparent water tanks!

Blast by Mo Manning

DP - My Girl by American Crafts

Stitched die - Lil Inker

Inside sentiment - "You're never too old to do goofy things."

Copics:

Ground: YR30, E50, E81, W0, W2

Kid: E0000, E000, E00, BG70, R20, V20, B12, B14, W8

Shorts: YR20, YR21, YR15, YG23, BG01, N0, N1, N2, B41

Orange Pistol: YR20, YR21, YR23, YR27, E23, Y13, BG0000, YR30, BG01, B12, B14, B45, W5

Hair: E43, E42, E41, E51, E44

Shoes: YG21, YG23, YG25, W2, W4

Blue Pistol: B01, B12, B14, B52, BG000, BG01, W0, W2, YG21, YG23, YG25, YR20

enhanced with coloured pencils

As usual we have a wonderful sponsor offering a prize for the winning entry

and this month it is......

So for your chance to win please enter your

clean and simple creations

HERE

(it is also where you will find more inspiration from my teamies)

Crafty hugs

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