Faerie Marci in the Garden

Hi all, hope you are all keeping well, for my inspiration this week I would like to share this one layer card using this beautiful image Faerie Marci, from LaLa Land Crafts and is available from the M4M Store here. I have wanted to try and make it look like she is fluttering around in the garden, I originally wanted to colour a little pond but a little to ambitious for me lol! Maybe in a year or two lol!

Two closer looks to show the added spica, couldn't show it all with one photo lol!

This one shows the her tight, shoes and some of her wings better

Copics and Spicas used

Grass and Flowers - YG03, 05, 06, 07, 09, 11, BV04, Y19, Spicas Lemon & Lavender

Sky - C00, C1, B000, B00

Hair - E15, E18, Y21, YR12, YR14, Spica Gold

Skin - E000, E01, E11, R20, Spicas Blossom & Red

Dress - BV01, BV02, YR00, YR02

Wings - V000, V01, BV000, Spicas Lilac, Blossom

plus Spicas Gold, Orange & Lavender

Copics, spicas and a huge selection of stamps all available from our Mad for Markers Store

We would love to see your creations in our Mad for Markers It's Raining Men Use Masculine Colours Challenge.

JUST A REMINDER

IMPORTANT DATES

Sammi is coming to Werribee in Melbourne (2nd June) for a copic colouring day details here

Rosanna and I are super excited as Sammi has the lovely Irina Blount, LaLa Land Crafts taking a project class in Sydney (16th June) and as you know we are going WOO HOO! Details here.

Copic Colour Conference 21st-23rd September in Sydney full details here, Rosanna and I had so much fun last year.

Check out this fun promotional video Sammi has made for The Copic Conference

Thank you for stopping by, enjoy the rest of your week, take careX:)

Saturday Sharing

Happy Weekend Copic Lovers,

I am having an extra long weekend thanks to the public holiday, for Australia Day. Our national day of celebration, has left me feeling a little patriotic. I have spent the last couple of days, colouring up all the Aussie images I have in my collection, a couple I am sharing with you today.

This is Digger Marci, she is a relatively new release from La La Land Crafts Stamps - designed especially for us Aussies.

Copics Used:Skin -E11, E01, E000/Cheeks RV42

Hair - Y21, Y23, Y25, YR23
Boots - E31, E33, E35

Shorts -YG97, YG95, YG93

Top - YG95, YG91

Dog Tags/Socks - W1, W3, W5

Flag - B18, B16, B12, R27, R24, R22

I used a white gel pen for the stars and the outline of the Union Jack.

I also made a discovery when colouring this image and I want to share that today too :)....just in case it had slipped your attention, as it had mine! When I opened the packaging of my Digger Marci stamp, I noticed there was a  "bar-code" on the back that said "scan for Copic Marker colours used". I have often looked at the packaging image and wondered what colours were used and if I could reproduce the same look.... and well, now I can! - how cool is that?  All you need to do is download the QRReader app to your iphone ( it is available in android as well ) scan the code and up pops a document with the list of Copics used....isn't technology wonderful?!

...so next time I colour my Digger Marci stamp, I can refer to this reference and experiment with some colours I may not have, necessarily chosen -  love this option! * Please note - not all the packaging of these stamps have this option, but you will find most of the newer releases, do have this feature.

Our own wonderful "Boss Lady"- Sammi here at Mad for Markers created some fantastic Australia Day Freebies to share with you -

....and I just couldn't wait to colour the Aussie Gal and Mr Cool Ray. I saved the images emailed to me, in a word document - resized them to fit on my card, then printed them (on my home printer ) onto some X-Press IT A4 Blending Card

Copics Used:Skin -E11, E01, E00, E000/Cheeks RV42
Eyes - B12, B16
Hair - Y21, Y23, Y25, YR23
Dress/Shoes - B12, B16, B18, R27, R22
Sun - YR23, Y23, Y21, B16, B12
again, I used a white gel pen to add detail and the sentiment was also printed on my computer.

We would love to see your creations using these Aussie images - feel free to share them on our Facebook Group Page and while you are there, remember to send Sammi some love.

Happy Colouring,

Chris x



Something new...

Good morning Copic lovers, Rachael here for today's post. After some nice celebrations yesterday to celebrate Australia Day, the weather has turned completely miserable, but it is the perfect colouring weather. With the current challenge over on the Mad For Markers Challenge blog, I decided to challenge myself too and try a couple of different colour combinations. My Mad For Markers Copic Journal is just perfect to trying new colour combinations and also a great place to keep a list of new colour combinations I may stumble across blog hopping. Today I'm sharing two new combinations, one for blonde hair and one for skin. I'm really loving the blonde hair colour combo... think I will be using this one again.

Stamp: La La Land Birthday Marci

Mad For Markers Copic Journal

 I hope that I have inspired you to give it a go, if I have leave a comment and I will pop on over to your blog and check it out.
Till next time, happy colouring
Rach xo