Mondays with The Stamp Spot

Good morning! There is a NEW CHALLENGE on now!! Christmas in non-traditional colours .. we'd love you to join us HERE! :D THANKS to all who played along last month the entries were all outstanding!

Today I am sharing with you a card I made for The Stamp Spot... it's a Stamping Bella creation ... using Ketto mismatch.

Marcia has a nice selection of Stamping Bella stamps in her store as well as lots of other awesome stamps from some of the best stamp companies around... so pop on over and have a look - The Stamp Spot store

Colours used: R81, 83, 85, 89, E33, 35, 37, E000, E00, E11, multiliner

a little masking for Wednesday

Good morning!! Today I am sharing with you a card I made with the Greeting Farm's brand new "Lounge Anya" set that I got from Marcia at The Stamp Spot YESTERDAY! :D
So I got stamping and masking and created this....


I thought it might be good to show you a little tutorial on masking.. using the Mask-It that I have in store (from Xpress IT) That's how I get the layered effect of the girls standing in front of each other. So I have done up a little tutorial and if you click on the picture below you should be able to see it large enough to read.
The MANY Copics I used are:
Anya1 - hair:E50,51,53,E11, Face: E0000,E000, E00, E11, R11, Clothes: C1, C3, C5, B12, 14, 16, E40, 41,43
Anya2 - hair: E15, 17, 18, 77, 79, Face: E11, E13, E15, R83,85, clothes: R81, 83, 85, 89, E40,41,43
Anya3 - Hair: E31,33,35,37, Face: E000,E00, E11, Clothes: R24, 27,29, B12, B91,93,95, W3,5,7
Sky - ABS - B14, 16 + B12 over the top
Grass - ABS - YG06 + YG03, 06, 63,67, G85, 99 over the top

THE STAMP SPOT

Good morning Copic lovers, did you know that Marcia at The Stamp Spot has a DT call on and is looking for people who LOVE colouring .... click the ad below to read more...Speaking of The Stamp Spot... here is a little card I made for a friend using a wonderful stamp that I received from Marcia ... Isn't she the sweetest! She is a My Favourite Things - Pure Innocence stamp ... available HERE!


The funky bubble paper is some Origami paper my little sis bought back for me from Japan... isn't it awesome! The Copics I used are: Skin E000, E00, E11, R81, Pinks: R81, 83, 85, green: YG03, YG06, pants: B91, 93, 95, sky/ backround: B0000, B000, Hair: E50,51, 53, E31


ALSO .. there is a NEW CHALLENGE and a NEW DT call over at our shared challenge blog ...
THE LOLLIPOP LADIES - why not pop on over!

Marcia's mid week inspiration!

Today I am sharing Marcia's card that she has made for our Digi challenge with materials from her Store ... THE STAMP SPOT - Pop on over to see their new looking store.. they just had a wonderful makeover by the gorgeous Shell at Something Sweet Designs.

The image is a digi from The Greeting Farm.. isn't she sweet! We are looking forward to seeing you all enter our challenge this month!!! :D

AND don't forget about our Design Team call.. it could be you!!

Materials
Digi Image from The Greeting Farm
Paper: My Favorite Things
Copics: Hair: E49, E47, E44, E43, E40 ……. Skin: E00, R20, E51 …… Dress: G21, G23, G25 …. Other: Y02, Y04

Happy Monday

I'm a bit slow today... but I wanted to share with you a card I made for The Stamp Spot.

The image is a stamp Marcia has in store from My Favourite Things ... so very sweet!
I coloured her with Copics of course - but I used an aquapainter filled with blender solution to spread the colour further... kind of like waterpainting.. will be telling you more about that later on in a tutorial coming soon! Oh, and the doiley was also coloured with Copics - Airbrushed!!

Marcia has some exciting things happening at her store THE STAMP SPOT .. such as a redesign and more fun things too... pop on over to her blog to find out more!

Here at Mad for Markers our Colouring Pink challenge continues.. look forward to seeing more fabby pink colouring!!

The Stamp Spot

Good morning everyone, I hope that you had a good weekend!
We have one week left of our colouring white challenge... so get your entries in.

Today I am sharing a card I made for The Stamp Spot using a beautiful Stamping Bella image and some gorgeous papers that Marcia is selling in her store


Want to win a little prize?? Guess the colours used... anyone can do this and the most correct will be sent a little prize ... DT can also enter if they like.

Some Monday inspiration from Marcia at The Stamp Spot

Good Morning!! I hope that you all had a great weekend and hope you managed to get some colouring done! :) Well today we have a great start to the week with another Gorgeous creation from Marcia at The Stamp Spot

Marcia has used a lovely stamp she has available in store... Lily: Magic Fairy and you will also find the lovely doiley and range of beautiful papers and embellishments! the main colours used on this image were....
Dress: B97, B95, B93
Toadstool: R39, R37, R35, E37, E35
Grass: G23, G20

Thanks for dropping in and PLEASE scroll down for some Colouring white inspiration... and why not enter this challenge yourselves. Just link up your entries in the sidebar!

ATC Make and Swap challenge...

This challenge is now CLOSED!! THANKS to all those who participated and stepped out of their comfort zone to make an ATC - we're so glad to hear that many of you enjoyed making ATCs.. we might have to do another ATC swap some time :D DON'T FORGET to mail your ATCs in to me (Sammi) so I can swap them!

And now for the DT top 3 picks...

feel free to display our top 3 badge on your blogs :D
We will be in contact about GDT positions.

Vicki

Leonie

Belinda

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Just thought I'd give you a little sneaky peek at a card made by Marcia.... she has lots of gorgeous new stamps in store now... including Stampin' Bellas! YAY!!!

To see the full card pop on over to The Stamp Spot blog and to see all the wonderful new stamps + heaps of other awesome crafting goodies head on over to The Stamp Spot Store!!

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ATC entries...

Send your ATCs to Sammi
PO Box 445, Kingsford, NSW, 2032

Scrappin' Saturday

Well It has been a long time since I have done any scrapping... but I wanted to show you how you can incorporate Copics + Scrapping... There are 3 ways I have done so in this layout... which is based on this week's Sketch over at The Greeting farm blog.

I have used Copics on the Miss Anya stamps...although these ones are a printout of the card that we gave to Lain on her birthday .. I just wanted to include them on this layout as well so I printed out the pic of the card and cut them up.... I also have used Copics on the ribbon (BV13) and on the flowers (BV13, BV00) and I used a Copic Original marker with the fine tip to journal (V09), the extra dots on the page were drawn with a multiliner (0.5). I was a bit scared getting back into a scrapbook page after such a long break but I think I might be catching a bug here...

STAY TUNED for more SCRAPPIN' SATURDAY news coming soon at Mad for Markers.... and Don't forget to pop past THE STAMP SPOT for all your Scrapping items - to go alongside your Copics :D

***Our challenge "make and swap an ATC" continues this week! We'd love you to join us ***

More Monday ATC inspiration.

Marcia - our lovely partner from The Stamp Spot has made this gorgeous ATC to share with us!
Marcia and Sue both were able to attend Certification in Perth on the weekend (so watch out for classes in Perth soon!) and she's already putting her new skills to work here.... using vellum!

Marcia stamped up the angel (available from TSS) on vellum with memento ink, turned her over and coloured her up from there. Then turned it back over and stuck it onto white card with eyelets. Pretty effective isn't it!

Colours:
Wings: B01, B02, B10
Dress: R81, R83, R85
Hair: E31, E37
+ clear spica pen

now it's your turn.... You can link up your entries in the sidebar -->

The winner this challenge will be our Next Guest Designer for our next challenge :) And actually everyone is a winner this time as you will all receive an ATC back in the mail at the end of the challenge!

our challenge continues....

Good morning, Today I have a card to share with you that I made for the Stamp Spot.. all the materials used are available from The Stamp Spot store :D This card does fit in perfectly for our current challenge as I changed the colour of the lace ribbon with Copics... yup - I airbrushed it!!


We'd love to see you enter our current challenge and as you can see it can be as simple as colouring a ribbon! :D Also pop on over to THE STAMP SPOT for all your other stamping and scrapping needs!!

Sheriff Ian from The Stamp Spot

Good Morning ... Today I would like to introduce you to Sheriff Ian ... he is one of the wonderful stamps from The Greeting Farm which Marcia has in stock over at THE STAMP SPOT!
I've coloured him in with Copics of course... using a 0.05 multiliner to give him a couple of freckles! The colours I used are:
Skin: E000, E00
blues: B93, 95, 97
browns: E31,33,35,37
buckle and star: Y28
red: R27, 29

POP on over to The Stamp Spot for all your stamping and scrapbooking needs.. there are some yummy products there at the moment!!

Marcia does shades of Orange

We have another card from the wonderful Marcia over at the Stamp Spot!
Just look at these shades of Orange... isn't it gorgeous!!



Marcia used the stamp "Stella" which is a stamp by The Greeting Farm and is available in Australia through The Stamp Spot store - HERE!

Colours Used are:
Skin E00, R10, E51
Hair E57, E37, E35, E33, E31
Dress Y38, Y17, YR21

DON'T FORGET our combined candy with The Stamp Spot
and you still have this week to enter this current shades of one colour challenge... post your entry in the sidebar ---}

Colouring Brunettes - Dark -> Light

I have put together a couple of tutorials on colouring brunettes. I am not Copic Certified, this is just the way I like to colour hair in :D These are the colours I prefer at the moment:
E37, E35, E33, E31


I start with the darkest colour (E37), colouring the parts of the hair that would have the least light hitting it... the part and around the edge of the face/ neck. I like to go around the outside edge too. I leave sections in the middle for the lighter colours (and highlights).



Then take the next colour in the list (E35) and colour in small circles, over the top of the darker colour and outwards on the white.



Then move on to the next colour (E33) and do the same... colour over the colour already laid down + a bit more of the white.



then take the lightest marker (E31) and do the same again .. small circles, blending into the colour already laid down.

I then work my way back up again... adding a bit more colour to make it darker/ blend it in more. So back to the E33...


and up to the E37

It's not quite blended in as much as I'd like so I go back the other way again... This could go on for a while... I go up and down, back and forward till I'm happy with the final result. So in this case... E35

I then jump back down 2 colours to the E31

and then the blender pen to push the colour back in where I've gone outside the lines and also just to remove a little of the colour where the highlights are.... I just go over those sections with very light circles OR sometimes just a quick brush stroke across!

and Voila!! A Brunette!!


The stamp is Miss Anya from the Greeting Farm's Rain, Snow, Shine Anya. I purchased these here in Australia at the Stamp Spot :D