I’m so excited my Copic marker certification class is right around the corner! Next Friday I’ll be in Kansas City, learning from the master, Marianne. Yesterday’s card was done with Copic markers, but with the exception of the baby it was pretty much just colored in. I decided I better try something more challenging before the class so that I know enough about my limitations to ask good questions. One of the things I have to ask her about is the colorless blender. It did wonders for putting highlights back in the dress, but it also causes bleeding, so I’m sure I’m doing something wrong!

I tried to do the little girl’s dress in BV00, BV04 and BV08. But I found them too difficult to blend. So I ended up using BVOO as my base and shaded it with C3 and C5 in the grey family. Then I also used B32 in some of the very shaded areas of her dress. All in all I used way too many markers to list here, probably around twenty.

After I finished coloring the stamp (Stamps Happen: Collecting Sea Shells) I cut it out with Nestabilities. And matted it with purple from the DCWV Glitter Stack. I created the embossed background by applying Milled Lavender Distress Ink to the front of the Cuttlebug folder. The sentiment “Hello” is from Cuttlebug, I outlined it with a white Inkessentials gel pen.

Sweet and simple, well aside from the illustration which took me several hours last night!

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