A Royal 88th Birthday

Hi All,

First would like to wish my MIL who is here with us a the moment a Very Happy 88th Birthday today!! It has been a week of celebrations as our DD was 15 on the fifth and she had a lovely weekend partying, we will be taking granny out for chinese tonight to celebrate.

Today I have used the gorgeous Royal from Some Odd Girl available from the store here, she comes with a crown, sentiment and banner stamp.

 

The inside, kept if fairly simple as Margaret's eyesight isn't what it was

 

I used my MS Butterfly punches for the border, coloured cream pearls with Copic R83 and glued them to the centre of the butterflies and flowers.

 

 

more photos and details over on my blog here

 

Copics used

Dress R81, R83, R85, R89

Hair - E31, E33, E35, E37, E39 and Spica Chocolate

Skin etc - E000, E00, E01, E11, E33, E37, R20, R83 and Spica Red

Copics and Spicas, double sided tape, mounting foam and a huge selection of stamps, papers, digi images are all available from our Mad for Markers Store.

We would love to see your entries into our new challenge using multiliners in your creations here

 

Thank you for stopping by, happy crafting and have a lovely weekend, take careX:)

Hi all, hope you are all well, for my inspiration this week, I have used Deck the Halls Tobie, from Some Odd Girl and she is available from the M4M Store here. This is a fantastic set, it includes Tobie, two stockings, two sentiments, a cute reindeer, candy cane and bell.

A closer look at stamped and coloured stockings using my copics lol! Then versamarked the coloured image and sprinkled with Embossing Powder Sparkle.

 

Copics and Spicas, double sided tape, mounting foam and a huge selection of stamps, papers, digi images are all available from our Mad for Markers Store.

Mad for Markers Spring Sale all of September

All our Copic Sketch Markers have been reduced by 15%

and Copic Ciao by 8%

 

You still have time to enter our challenge using copic colours from G and YG family

New to Mad for Markers

Saturated Canary Rubber Stamps and

new Digi Designer Ardith Trump "When the Crow Flies"

and finally Flourishes Stamps

 

Finally

 

We also wanted to share this fundraiser that Krista from Saturated Canary has going to help raise funds for -

I had never heard of this illness and am truly blessed that I can give my two children hugs all the time.

She has this cute SC Baby image for sale full details here on her blog here

 

Thank you for stopping by, happy crafting and have a lovely weekend, take careX:)

 

 

Glittered Tiny Baker Tia Magnetic Cupcake Post It Holder and Mad for Markers Spring Sale and new images in store

Hi all, hope you are all well,

For my inspiration this week I have used Tiny Baker Tia, from Some Odd Girl and she is available from the M4M Store here and created this magnetic cupcake Post It Holder.

On the fridge

Gin and I learn't this technique at Paperific, I stamped and coloured using my copics lol! Then versamarked the coloured image and sprinkled with Embossing Powder Sparkle.

The sentiments both available with this set were stamped with ink then added embossing powder tinsel and heat set

Copics, used as well as a huge selection of stamps, papers, digi images are all available from our Mad for Markers Store.

New to Mad for Markers

Saturated Canary Rubber Stamps and

new Digi Designer Ardith Trump "As the Crow Flies"

and finally Flourishes Stamps

Copics used

Skin, Eyes & Hair E00, E01, E11, E23, E25, E27, R20, RV02, B24, B26

Clothes BV00, BV01, BV02, BV04, YR02, C00, C01, C02

Everything else E81, R29, RV02, RV23, RV25, T1

Don't forget to check out Sammi's New Online Copic Club full details here

We would love to see your entries into our new challenge using copic colours from G and YG family

Thank you for stopping by, hope to catch up with you all soon, happy crafting and have a lovely weekend, take careX:)







Tiny Baker Tia Magnetic Bookmark

Hi all, hope you are all well, all good here, Morgan enjoyed his camp, got wet and had to relocate because of the rain, but came home happy! We are still keeping busy and just wondering where did August go!?!?

For my inspiration this week I have used Tiny Baker Tia, from Some Odd Girl and she is available from the M4M Store here and created this magnetic bookmark.

 

I have used copics and kindyglitz for added sparkle.

 

inside to show the magnet and birthday sentiment

Bookmarking the page of this yummy recipe

Made this above on Sunday as I was given a bag full of lemons from a neighbour earlier in the week, doesn't look quite the same and as you can see my poor deprived DH cut a slither before I got chance to take the photo lol! Made extra Lemon Curd for him to put on his toast for breakfast! Been a while since my lot fought over cake, they had this one divided equally between them lol!

Copics, spicas, multiliners used as well as a huge selection of stamps, papers, digi images are all available from our Mad for Markers Store

Copics and Spicas used

Skin & Hair E0000, E000, E01, E23, E25, E27, R20, W10, Spica Baby Blue, Chocolate

Clothes B0000, B000, B00, B02

Everything else E50, E53, Y02, Y06, Spicas, Clear, Lemon, Lipstick, Orange

 

Don't forget to check out Sammi's  New Online Copic Club full details here on Sammi's post with an AWESOME video

 

Fantastic to see all the gorgeous creations this month, new challenge starting soon.

 

Thank you for stopping by, happy crafting and have a lovely weekend, take careX:)

Tia Christmas Card using spicas and our new Online Copic Club

Hi all, hope you are all keeping well, all good here apart from the cold bug.

Today for my inspiration I have used the cute Warm Wishes Tia from Some Odd Girl available here and created this Christmas card, this is my first go at crocheting a Snowflake, fairly pleased lol! The sentiment I made using shrink plastic.

I have used spicas to add a zig zag pattern to the hat and tights as well as for colouring the skirt, pressies, bell, bracelet and adding highlights to her hair.

Copics and spicas used

Skin - E000, E00, E01, E11, R20

Hair and Eyes - E31, E33, E35, E37. W10

Clothes - V12, V15, V17, RV10, RV21, RV23, RV25

Spicas - Lavender, Lilac, Pink, Blossom, Gold, Red, Olive

Copics, spicas, multiliners used as well as a huge selection of stamps, papers, digi images are all available from our Mad for Markers Store

We would love to see your creations in our Mad for Markers Anything Goes Challenge

For some exciting news Sammi has just started a New Online Copic Club full details here on Sammi's post with an AWESOME video

Thank you for stopping by, happy colouring, take careX:)

WOO HOO 500 posts! Celebrating with The Gorgeous Royal

WOO HOO this is our 500 Post!!!  So how about a little giveaway I have a copic compendium Volume 3 from Mad for Markers to giveaway to a lucky commentator on this post, you have until 1st August to enter, I will announce the winner in my next post.

Hi all, Hope you and your families are all well.

Today for my inspiration I have used the gorgeous Royal from Some Odd Girl available from the store here, she comes with a crown, sentiment and banner stamp all of which I have used.

I had a lots of fun creating this card, tried a few new things to me, including lots of pearls and flowers.

I stamped Royal using Lulu Lavender Memento, then I outlined her dress with my new Multiliner 0.3 PURPLE (a wonderful gift from a lovely friend, thankyou). I thought it would be fun to have pink hair with added pearls (like those fancy pins you get for your hair), I slit her hair to place the crown coloured with spicas and added special effects. I also used the sepia multiliner to outline some of the face and black multiliner to the eyes and lashes (which were a fiddle to cut round lol). Sprayed her with Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer mist. Added pearls to the birds and flowers.

The banner was stamped with Lulu Lavender Momento ink and black memento for the sentiment.

One of my first tries at crocheting a flower, the pearl flower and butterfly are made using a template. 

Copics, spicas, multiliners used as well as a huge selection of stamps, papers, digi images are all available from our Mad for Markers Store

Skin/Face - E000, E00, E01, E11, R20, E33, E37, multi liner Black and Sepia, Spica Lavender
Hair - RV10, RV11, RV13, RV14
Dress - V01, V12, V15, V17 and the new multiliner Purple (part of the brights set available here)
AND the colourless blender for correction and to blend out some of the colour in the dress and hair
BV08 and RV14 to colour some of the cream half pearls to match.

We would love to see your creations in our Mad for Markers Colour Challenge to use either B, BG or BV or all if you wish.

Thank you for stopping by, happy crafting and have a lovely weekend, take careX:)

A very Purple Birthday!

I have a friend who just LOVES Purple! You know who you are...hehe! Anyway it was her birthday on Saturday and this is the card I made for her!

I have only just discovered the Gorgeous "Some Odd Girl Stamps" and I just love this new girl, 'Royal'. She would have to be my new fav stamp, isn't she just Stunning in her lovely Ball gown! You will definitely be seeing more of this girl!

Copic COlors Used:

Skin - E13, E11, E01, E00

Hair - E27, E25, E23, E21

Dress - V09, V17, V15, V12

I have colored my card using my Copic Sketch Markers on Xpress It Blending card, all of which, including the 'Some Odd Girl - Royal' stamp are available from the Mad For Markers Store.

Pretty in Pink!

Ok So not too sure if I have said this before, but I LOVE PINK lol! So it's not too hard to believe that my next Smash page in my Copic Color Journal is another Pink Combo page! Can you ever have enough Pink Combo's! I think my favourite is the hot Pink Hair with the soft pink top.

All of my colored images in my Smash Book are colored using my Sketch Markers on Xpress It Blending card. 

If you don't have a Copic Color Journal I strongly suggest that you get one to keep all your color combos in, it doesn't have to be all nice and pretty, it can be just colors jotted down in a note book. But just having those notes to go over when you are trying to remember that color combo you tried last month and really loved, makes it that much easier. If you have one I would love to see it, leave me a link in the comments as I would love to have a look!

Tiny Baker Tia Ear-rings

Hi all, hope you are all well, today for my inspiration, I would like to share these cute ear-rings using Tiny Baker Tia, to fit in with our new Challenge over at the Mad for Markers Challenge Blog anything but a card/scrapbook page.  As you know I just love her, she is so cute and from Some Odd Girl and is available from the M4M Store here.  I made them using shrink wrap, this is a fun technique.

Copics Used

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 new Mad for Markers anything but a card/scrapbooking page Challenge

and don't forget

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

Thank you for stopping by, happy crafting and have a lovely weekend, take careX:)

Time for Some 'Royal' Treatment!

I just LOVE this 'Some Odd Girl' Stamp 'Royal'. She is just the most perfect stamp for practising those pleats and folds. I have to admit that I have colored a few up of late, you know what they say, 'Practise makes Perfect!' LOL! I think I'll keep practising!

Copic Colors Used:

Hair - E79, E37, E35, E31

Dress - R83, R81, RV00, R000

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R20

Eyes - G00, G000

Now don't forget that if you are in the Sydney area on Saturday, Mad For Markers is hosting the very Talented Irina Blount from La-La Land Stamps and she is doing a Fabulous Project Class, you will not want to miss it! I for one am flying from Melbourne just for the day to do the class, it is going to be heaps of fun!

For more details click here!

Tiny Baker Tia Apron

Hi all, hope you are all well and safe, especially those of you who have had stormy wet weather. 

Today for my inspiration I have used Tiny Baker Tia, to decorate this apron, to fit in with our new Challenge over at the Mad for Markers Challenge Blog anything but a card/scrapbook page. I just love her she is so cute and from Some Odd Girl and is available from the M4M Store here.

Modelled by Rosanna

 Copics etc used

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 new Mad for Markers anything but a card/scrapbooking page Challenge.

JUST A REMINDER

IMPORTANT DATES

Rosanna and are super excited as Sammi has the lovely Irina Blount, LaLa Land Crafts taking a project class in Sydney (16th June) details here.

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

Tiny Baker Tia scrapbooking Page

Hi all, hope you are all well, where is the year going!!!  Today for my inspiration I have had another go at a scrap booking page, this is the day before Rosanna's 11th Birthday (she is now 14, way behind lol), with her Aunty Jen and her granny (Jen's and Edward's Mum) when they were here on holiday. As you can image it was a very special cake.

I made this page using Tiny Baker Tia, I just loove her she is so cute and from Some Odd Girl and is available from the M4M Store here. She comes with two sentiments I have used 'just so sweet'.

A closer look at the spicas, special effects, dazzling diamonds glimmer mist, I also made a frame of SU blue glitter around the photo, for extra sparkle!

Copics, spicas and multiliner used

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 Masciline 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 guess what 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.

Thank you for visiting, happy colouring and have a lovely weekend, take careX:)

Mooey Wobbly Topper Slippers

Hi all, where is April going, hope you are all well, we have been super busy at work, so not had too much time to play lol!

For my inpsiration today, I would like to show you this cute fun image 'Mooey' from Some Odd Girl and is available from the Store here. I spotted these slippers on the way to get the groceries and the idea popped into my head to make these wobbly toppers, I have used velcro to fasten them on.

I reversed stamped the image, coloured using copics and lots of spica, though it was hard to get a photo due to them being laminated

a closer look, couldn't get a picture of their heads wobbling lol!

Copics and Spics used

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 April Showers Challenge. To colour something to look Wet.

IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

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

Thank you for visiting, happy crafting and have a wonderful weekend. Take careX:)



New SOG stamps

Good morning!! The latest release of Some Odd Girl Stamps arrived to me this week! whoo hoo!! so I've been colouring .... and today I want to share with you my new fav... Thank You Mae - she is now in the M4M store along with the new Gwen and Kaylee sets HERE

Materials used:
Doiley .. and some ephemera from my TGF Heart Journaling prize... including a piece of stripey wallpaper! Who would have thought??
Copics used:
Skin: E000, E11, E13, RV10
Hair: E13, E25, E27
Pinks: Rv52, RV55
Top: T0, T2


In my 2nd card... I decided to give Mae some glasses... as I thought she'd look super cute with them on.. so I drew on a pair using a 0.1mm multiliner

Materials used: Paper from my stash - Magnolia butterflies + (the purpley paper was called Samantha but I cannot remember the company.. oops!) + embroidery thread
Copics used:
Skin: E000, E21, E11, RV10
Hair: E33, E35, E37
Top: BV01, BV11, Cardy - RV10, T0
Skirt: B00, B12, B14

Monochromatic Tiny Baker Tia

Hi all, hope you are well, today for my inspiration I would like to show you this cutie Some Odd Girls Image 'Tiny Baker Tia' available here from The Mad for Markers Store and to keep in with our New Monochromatic March Challenge I have coloured her in shades of brown. 

I made this card for My DH whose Birthday is today, he has a sweet tooth and loves homemade baking, so with a little imagination, imagine a slimmer, younger me lol presenting him with a cupcake lol!

I placed one of the sentiment from this set on the inside

A closer look at the spica and special effects

Copics and Spicas used all available from Sammi along with the double sided tape and mounting foam

Don't forget Mad for Markers is celebrating it's 2nd Birthday, with giveaways on our facebook page each day, so what you waiting for come and join in the fun.

We would love to see your creations over in our Monochromatic March Mad for Markers Challenge.

Also don't forget our Birthday Blog Hop on the 22nd March, you still have a few days to put your name down to take part, see the top left sidebar.

Thanks for visiting, happy colouring and have a wonderful weekend, take careX:)

Some Odd Girl Bliss!

I am running a little late with this post...sorry! I started to post this last nite, but I had a really bad headache so didn't finish my post till now. So my photo is not the best as it was taken last nite and I also found that one of the kids has dropped a dob of glue onto her dress, hence the shiney bubble on her dress lol! Gotta love them sometimes!

Anyway this beautiful girl is one of the 'Noveau Odd Girls', Bliss. She is just adorable and great to color if you want to practice those folds with. She is available from the M4M store!

Copic Colors Used:

Dress - C8, B99, B97, B95, B93

Skin - E13, E11, E00, E000

Hair - E18, R46, E08, YR14

Flowers - YG17, YG13, YG11, R89, R85, R83, R81

Getting in the Birthday Spirit....

Good afternoon Copic Lovers.... to get in the spirit of the birthday celebrations that have just kicked off for Mad For Markers this week, I thought I would use a birthday themed image this week. I just couldn't go past Tiny Baker Tia and her cute little cupcake with a cherry on top. To colour in the cherry on top.... I couldn't go past the gorgeous new R56, which is one of the new colours only released a couple of weeks back.

Materials Used

Odd Girl Stamp - Tiny Baker Tia

Mad for Markers Copic Journal

Copics Used

Skin: R0000, R000, R00, R01, R02, RV000

Eyes: BG10, BG11, BG12 & Opaque White

Hair: E43, E44, E47

Clothes: RV0000, RV000, RV00, RV02, RV04, T3 & T5

Cupcake: R56, E23, E37, E39, N3, N5, E70

Don't forget to head on over to the Mad For Markers store for all you Copic needs. Be sure to also check back each day here on the blog, and our Facebook page to see how we are celebrating our 2nd Birthday... you never know you might just win a little something ;-)

Till next time,

Rach xo

Tuesdays tips

Hello everyone! No tutorial to share today ... but a couple of tips from me... I have done up a little journal page to show you the difference in colouring the same image.. from a basic approach to a more advanced approach! I've used my new Birthday Mae stamp.. another gorgeous image drawn by Kristy Dalman of Some Odd Girl Stamps! This beauty is now available in the M4M store HERE!



So anyway... my tip is (as I have said before) that it's a great idea to keep a journal of the colours you like on an image... This goes one step further and shows the different levels of colouring the same image..

My Beginner approach is using only one colour/ marker for each colour on the image... some level of shading created from layering the one colour on top of itself.

My Intermediate approach is using a number of (2-3) colours within a colour family (eg. E31, E33, E35) to create more depth in the shading.

Mu advanced approach is using markers from a 'higher' colour family in order to create more contrast in the shading which creates much more depth and thus more interest and the image has more dimension.

Always

Tracey here for another Friday. What an awesome day we are having here today - at least we are supposed to. The sun is shining and it is nice and warm. What everyone wants when it is Summer.

Have we all got our Valentine's cards done. I have only done a couple - I only need to give one out to my darling hubby. I try and make love cards so you can give to friends as well.

Today I used 'In Stitches Tia' stamp - she is available as a set here. She is great to colour. Have a wonderful day - and weekend.

Markers:

Skin: E000, 00, 11, 02

Heart: R22, 24, 29, 59

Pants: C5, 7, 9

Hair: E31, 34, 35, 39

Top/shoes: R81, 83, 85, 89

Crushin Gwen

Good morning! Just thought I would show you another of the new Valentines stamps from Some Odd Girl!! This is Crushin Gwen... you can buy her now from the M4M store HERE!

What colours did I use??
Well.. I didn't record the browns sorry.. I'm sure there are some E20s, E30s and E50s though!
Skin: E000, E01, E11, RV00
Dress: RV00, RV63, RV66

Hop on over to our challenge blog for some NEW colour combinations from the DT and to link up your own "new colour combinations" for the year! :D