Lucky Bunnies rule

Good afternoon my sweet Copic lovers. Hope we are all well. Sorry for the late post but I have been busy doing other things and I (oops) forgot but here we are with one of the Lucky Bunnies from The Greeting Farm. These can be purchased here.

Markers:

Bunny: W1, 3, blender, BG10, BG11, 23.

Balloon: R30, 32, 35

In other news - have we all seen the email about the Copic Colouring Day in Werribee on the 2nd of June. Make sure you check out the details.

mwah

Trace

Next installment of my Copic Journal

So the other week I shared with you my Red Hair Page out of my Copic Color Journal. So this week I have my brown hair page. Now I know there are heaps more brown hair combos, which I will do more on the next page, but for the time being this is one page done! So I am slowly getting there lol!

Make sure to keep checking back here on the blog and on our Facebook page for all our Birthday fun, you will not want to miss any of it! Can you believe that we are 2yrs old here at Mad For Markers, crazy huh!

Monochromatic Reds & Red Violets

This week to get in the spirit of the current challenge running over on the Challenge blog, I decided to challenge myself to see if I could colour an image only using markers from the Red & Red Violet families. I'm pleased to say that I did, and I'm pretty happy with how the awesome Greeting Farm Stamp - Madden turned out.

Copics Used

Skin: R0000, R000, R00, R01, R02, RV10 (Cheeks)

Eyes: RV91, RV95

Hair: RV02, RV04, RV06, RV09, RV19

Shirt: RV000, RV00

Belt: RV17, RV19, RV69

Arm Bands: R81, R83, R85

Pants: RV21, RV23, RV25, RV29

Shoes: R37, R39, R59, R89

For your shopping ease, here are the direct links to the sections of the Mad For Markers Store, where you can find all the above listed colours

Reds

Red Violets

Till next time,

Rach xo

I am Famous!!!

Ok so maybe not Famous, but pretty close...hehe! I was lucky enough to have 3 of my cards accepted to be published early last year and FINALLY yesterday the magazine was released and there were my cards.....YAY! I have to say that everyone was home when my son brought the mail in and so when we realized that it was THE magazine we ripped it open and of course there they were. There were high 5's going everywhere...hehe!

So below is a pic of them in the magazine.

And here are the individual cards

Copic Colors Used:

Ian

Hair - E50, E51, E53

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R20

Suit - E41, E42, W1, W3, W5, W7, W9, R22, R224

Flower - R20, R22, YG17, YG13, YG11

Anya

Hair - E79, E37, E35, E31

Skin - R02, R01, R000, R20

Dress- E43, E42, E41

Flowers - YG17, YG13, YG11, R20, R22, R24

 Copic Colors Used:

Hair - E79, E37, E35, E31

Suit - E44, E43, E42, E41, YG97, YG95, YG93

Skin - E000, E00, E11, R20

Flower - YG17, YG13, YG11, C1, C00

 Copic Colors Used:

Hair - E79, E37,  E35, E31

Dress - E43, E42, E41, E40

Vail - W1, W00

Flowers - R20, R22, R24, R02, R12. YG11, YG13, YG17

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R20

I have used the Anya and Ian 'I Do' set, by The Greeting Farm, which is currently out of stock at the Mad For Markers store, but if you drop Sammi and email she will be able to order you one in!

Now don't forget too that Sammi has some Gorgeous Australia Day Freebie Images that she is giving away, just drop her an email with the one that you want! Just have a look at our Special Australia Day Blog header to see which of the images you want!

So I hope all in Australia have a fantastic Australia Day and if your not in Australia have an Awesome day where ever you are!

Tutorial Tuesday :: Alicia colours Blush Babette

How I coloured Blush Babette (from The Greeting Farm using these Copic colours:

Skin: E00, E11, R20

Hair: YR20, E31, E35

Greens: YG03, YG23, YG00

Skin

1. Colour the whole face, arms and legs with E00.

2. Trace the shadows with E11.

3. Colour the whole face, legs and arms again with E00.

4. Add some R20 to her cheeks and then blend with E00.

Hair

5. Trace the outlines on the front section of her hair with E35.

6. Use a flicking motion to flick into the centre of the fringe leaving white spaces.

7. Continue the flicking motion with E31, going over the E35 and further in onto the white.

8. Continue the flicking motion with YR20, going over the E31 and further in onto the white.

Still leave a bit of white space not coloured.

9. Enhance the fringe by going back over the lines and dark flicks with the E35.

10. Follow exactly the same process with the two top sections of the hair with the E35, then the E31 and then the YR20.

11. Follow the same procedure for the long parts of her hair.

Leave white spaces where the light would be.

12. Add in some E31.

13. Add in some YR20.

14. Go back over the darker bits with E35.

Dress

15. Trace the pleat lines with YG23.

16. Go over the YG23 and further onto the white with YG03.

17. Go over the YG03 and further onto the white with YG00. Leave some white spaces.

18. Trace the dots in the bow and the hemline with YG23.

19. Colour the bow and hemline with YG00.

Socks and Shoes

20. Use tiny flicking motions with the YG23 on the outsides of the socks and shoes.

21. Use tiny flicking motions with the YG03 covering the YG23 and going further into the white.

22. Use tiny flicking motions with the YG00 going over both green colours, but still leaving a tiny bit of white.

Here she is finished and on a card!

Alicia xx

Miss Anya Garland #1

Good afternoon! I hope you are all having a great week and a LOVELY start to the new year! Hopefully 2012 will be a beautiful colourful year for all of us!! :)

I am trying to get on track for the year... one day I will be SUPER organised! lol.. how about you? Are you organised? I am in the middle of sorting out orders.. will be off to the post office shortly to send them off.. and then I will do some planning! HOPING to make this blog a little more active this year... what would you like to see here??

Before I go I would like to share this card with you - this week the NEW stamps from The Greeting Farm arrived! whoo and are now IN STOCK HERE! One of these is the new set of Miss Anyas ... Miss Anya Garland - this is one of them on my card below .. along with the heart banner from the Bantastic Clear stamp set - perfect together :D and then the sentiment is also a TGF stamp.. from the Spotlight kit :) I have a few matching cards underway so perhaps will share them soon too!

Copics used:
E00, E21, E11, RV00, R81, R83, R85, RV32, E23, E25, E27, E29, RV09 + opaque white

Ahoy there!

I love this TGF Oliver stamp, he is such a cutie! I haven't had a chance to use him for a while and when I was asked for a boys card recently I decided to pull him out and ink him up.

This was a card a made for a little boys 1st birthday. Apparently the Mother of the little boy who recieved the card was so happy with the card that she has framed it! Can't say that any of my cards have ever been framed...hehe! Well there's a first for everything!

Copic Colors Used:

Skin - E11, E00, E000

Hair - E29, E27, E25, E23

Clothes - B12, B14, B16, C1, C3

Boots - E37, E35

My card was colored Using Xpress It Blending Card and Copic Sketch Markers, all of which are available over at the Mad For Markers Store.

Princess Anya!

Last weekend we went to a christening of our friends little girl and my Hubby was lucky enough to be asked to be her Godfather. It was a really nice day! 

I just love this Princess Anya, she is such a cutie and I thought she would make the perfect Christening card!

Copic Colors Used:

Hair - E79, E37, E35, E31

Crown - YR24, Y17, Y15

Dress - RV10, RV00, 0, W1, W00

We currently have 5 12yr old boys over for my sons sleepover party and I can see it is going to be a long night....hehe! Hope you are all having a good weekend!

Showcasing some NEW stamps

Good morning! Today I am just popping on quickly to showcase some of the new stamps from the Greeting Farm!! First up we have Creeper Lulu! I do love the Creepers and Creeper Lulu is no exception! I love her hair!!!


Copics used: Skin: E000, E01, E11, E04, Hair: E31, 34, 35, 37, Clothes: V20, 25, 06, N6, 8 , 10
Paper: Xpress IT blending card, Kaisercraft - Magic happens 6x6 paper pad

and because today is my birthday for the second card I have used Birthday Anya II from last months release ... and ave added on some banner bits and sentiment from the clear banner set!


Copics used: Skin: E000, E00, E11, Hair: E31, 34, 35, 37, 77, 79, Dress: RV63, 66, 69, HUGE cupcake: R000, R81, 83, 85, E31, 35, 37 + blossom spica pen.
Paper: Xpress IT blending card, Kaisercraft - Magic happens 6x6 paper pad

I used V20 ink to dye the seam binding a light purpley colour!

Thanks for stopping by ... have a lovely day!!

Also.... just letting you know that our new challenge at the Mad for Markers challenge blog has gone live today... hop on over to see what it could be!!! :D

One for the Boys

As we celebrate Father's Day here in Australia today - I thought it was a good opportunity to honour the boys. I'm such a "pink" girl that I find creating masculine cards really difficult....but I have been challenging myself to step away from the pretty pink colour palette and work with some new ( for me ) Copic colours with "boy" things in mind ;)

This is my attempt into the realm of "manhood" a card based on the sketch I mentioned in yesterday's post. Once again, it is a digi stamp by Mo Manning called "Big Guy Grilling".

Copics Used:

Shirt - YG93, YG95, YG97

Shorts - B91, B93, B95

BBQ/ Hat - R24, R27, R29

Skin - E00, E11

Sausages - E33, E35, E37

Utensils - C3, C5, C7

Oven Mitt/ Packages - YR04, Y21, Y23, Y26

If you are wanting to try your hand at creating boy cards the Mad for Markers store has some great stamps for you to practise with...... such as My Guy Ian, Ahoy Oliver,Wild Sprouts Logan and don't forget Edward and Ryan.

Have a great day with your Dad and I look forward to seeing your "boy cards" in our upcoming challenges.

Chris xx

a Fairy Princess card

Good evening ...Today I uploaded lots of markers (restocks... still more to come in next couple of weeks) and NEW stamps from The Greeting Farm. There are some fun new stamps out so make sure you check them out HERE!!

I have made this little notecard (size = A6 card folded in half) using one of the new clear stamps from The Greeting Farm - the set I used is The Fairy Princess set - they are so very cute! Pretty small images so an easy job to colour them!! :D  There are three fairies in the set as well as some other stamps.. sentiments and crown/ butterfly!

copics used: Skin: E000, E01, E11, R83, Hair: E23, E18. E74, E77, top: R81, 83, 85, wings: R0000, R83, blossom spica, skirt: YG23, 63, 67

I have used Seam binding on the bottom.. and have pulled some thread through it so that it scrunches up nicely (thanks to Mel for that tip!!) I coloured it with R81 ink ... I am now selling light coloured seam binding in the store.. it's all "almost white" but there are three options - chalk white, white and oatmeal .... I have also decided to offer a "custom coloured" piece... so I will Copic it for you in your chosen colour... you can get yours HERE.

A Late Birthday Card!

So it was my twins birthday in July and this is one of my Girls cards! I just love these new Greeting Farm girls, they are just soooo adorable!

I have been seeing these banners everywhere and decided it was time I gave them a go! I was pretty happy with the end result and they are so easy to make. I had also seen a tutorial for making flowers from the Tim Holtz tissue tape so I wanted to have a go at those as well! It's always nice to try different things and even better when they work out like you had hoped!

Copic Colors Used:

Hair - E55, E53, E51

Dress and Shoes - RV29, RV25, RV23, RV00

Socks - BG72, BG70

Ground - W5, W3, W1, 0

Sky - C1, C00, B000, B0000, 0

Hope you find some time to color today!

Some Friday Fun

Good morning!!

.. so it's been a while since we had some proper Friday Fun.. well this Friday I am going to give you a couple of challenges - perhaps you might want to do them over the weekend??

## CHALLENGE no.1 - Colour an image that is stamped in "light ink"
perhaps you have already done this?? If so you'll know what I am talking about... on her Facebook group for Make it Crafty ... Zoe challenged everyone to colour an image that was stamped in "light coloured" ink instead of black... I've done a few attempts and some images are easier than others.... so I am passing this challenge on to you all... I'd love to see your attempts so leave a comment with a link to your work :)


I made this card with Sweet Thinking Mae from Some Odd Girl... I have just sold out of this stamp but I do have more gorgeous Some Odd Girl clear stamps in stock and am waiting on another delivery... unfortunately the postie/ customs must have liked these stamps as they did not arrive :( So will have to wait a little longer for a new lot to come!!

she has been coloured with Copics of course... colours : Skin: E000, E00, E01, E11, E04
Hair/ Eyes: E00, E30, E31, E34, Greys: T5, 3, 1, RedViolets: RV63, 66 + custom mixed RV64
(I needed a middle one to make smooth blending EASIER.. so I made it up in a bottle + empty marker!

My other creation I'm sharing is the first attempt at this technique.. this time on a Creeper from The Greeting Farm ... I have not recorded the colours here BUT I do know that once again I've used those RV60s lol! so......

## CHALLENGE #2 - Use your favourite Copic colour (mine at the moment is RV63/66)

Leave a comment with links to your work for challenge #1 or #2 (or both of them?) so that we can come and see.. I will be sharing some entries on next weeks Friday posting!! :D

Have a lovely colourful weekend!!!
Sammi
xx

PS. I forgot to mention bot images were stamped in Memento Ink - Angel Pink!

One for the Boys!

As I was looking through some of my cards I realized that I was out of Boy's cards, so I decided it was time to do one to keep in my stash! So of course I had to reach for my TGF Creepers, which are available in the Mad For Markers Store!

Copics Used:

Hair & Thongs - C10, C8, C7, C5

Jeans - B99, B97, B95

Shirt - YG99, YG97, YG95

Bonnie looking super cute

Good morning. Tracey here again with another card to try and inspire you.

Again this week I used the sketch for the challenge - go here to see the details but be quick as you only have a couple days left before the challenge ends. I used Miss Bonnie from the new Blush range from TGF. Again what a cutie. Can't wait to get my hands on more.

I thought I would try and do some pleats. It worked out really well and if you want to know how to do what I have achieved in this card go here and visit Zoe's blog. She has made a great video to teach how to do this. Thanks for joining us today.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 11, 04

Dress: BG13, 15, 18, blender

Hair: E49, 79, 74, 70

Socks: W3, W0, blender

shoes/dress trim: R32, 35, 37

Something Different!

I have something a little different for you today, I have been so inspired by all this Gorgeous Art Journalling that I have been seeing lately that I just had to have a go! And I have to say that I had soooo much fun doing this and I am definitely going to be doing more and considering that it is my very first page I am really happy with how it turned out. But of course I had to use my absouletly favourite stamps, TGF and of course my Copics....they are always close by....hehe!

Copics Used:

Hair - E57, E55, E53, E51

Dress, Shoes & Socks - RV00, RV02, RV04

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R22, R20

Hope you like my Art Journalling and are inspired to maybe give it a go yourself!

Babette is too cute

Morning everyone. Tracey here to show you (hopefully) some inspiration. I thought I would put together a card using this week's challenge - Sketch by Bron. I turned it on it's side to allow for the oval and Miss Babette. Aren't the new stamps by TGF so cute and, of course, are available from Mad for Markers but you had better be quick - I think they are running out the door.

So for this card I actually used the same piece of DP but because I don't have any other DP that matched I cut out the pieces in the 'puzzle' for the sketch and put it back together. I am my biggest critic so there was a lot more that I could have done with this card but this will certainly do for now. Thanks for looking.

Copics used:

Skin: E000, 11, 04

Hair: C10, C5, C1

Socks/Trim dress: E41, 43, blender, YG23 (top trim dress)

Dress: B0000, 21, 93

Blush Babbette!

Don't you just LOVE these New Greeting Farm Stamps! I think these new Blush Girls may become my new Favourites! 

Yesterday was my Twin's 5th Birthday and this is the card I did for one of my Girls and yes she is a Red head! A very fiesty one at that...hehe! I really like to make my cards with the right colored hair when it is for one of my kids! I think it makes it that little bit more special.

Copic Colors Used:

Hair - E08, YR07, YR04, YR02

Dress and Shoes - YG99, YG97, YG95, YG93, E50, E51, E53

Skin - E11, E00, E000, R22, R20

Ground - W5, W3, W1

Cloudy Background - W1, W00, B000, B0000, 0

Make sure to check out the new challenge over on the Challenge Blog! This fortnight we want to see your Pink and Yellow Copic Coloring!

Tuesdays Tute ... Colouring Easter Anya

Easter Anya is a stamp from The Greeting Farm . and is available to purchase in Australia for $9.50 from Mad for Markers... Here is a video I have taken of her being coloured with Copic markers... It is rather long.. just under 10 mins... and I took out the colouring of her hair to shorten it... I have done other videos on colouring hair.. but if you would like to see the colouring of her hair as in this image please let me know and I will upload it separately!

I hope some might find this helpful :D



Sammi
xx

Mad for Marker Monday News

Good morning everyone!! First of all THANKS to all those who played along with Thursday's fun game! Basically all the entries were spot on... perhaps I better make the next one a little harder. lol! Yes the card was from the lovely Alicia and can be seen HERE! The "random" winner of a small (A5) pack of the new 352GSM Neenah card is Jean McKenzie!

Happy Valentines day to all of you ...
much love from all of us at Mad for Markers!!!

so how about that news???

#1 - We are one of the sponsors this month for Let's Ink it Up Challenges ... Their challenge this month is LOVE/ Valentines... so why not hop on over and join in!!

#2 - Our crazy haired colouring challenge continues this week .. we'd love for you to join in :D and you can see the wonderful inspiration from our DT on the challenge blog

#3 - the 72 black wallets are back in stock.. I had a big box full arrive today!! they are listed in the STORE under "accessories"

#4 - is VERY EXCITING NEWS...

Mad for Markers is nearly one year old... can you believe it?? There will be some celebrations happening.. so stay tuned.

a year on we have decided to make a few changes and we have decided to start selling some gorgeous stamps for you to colour with your Copics ... We have signed up as a retailer of The Greeting Farm stamps and have ordered our first selection. Here's a little preview at some of the lovely stamps that are in our first order...