I practiced my copic coloring again – I’m a total beginner and really have a hard time staying within the lines though. Perhaps I should cheat and just thicken all the black lines of my digital stamps…but it seems like that would be giving up! I do know that I like the regular Copic markers rather than the ciao, because I like the small hard tip, instead of the brush tip. So, I don’t always want to have to cut out my colored images, but if I can’t stay in the lines it really does present a problem. So this time I tried coloring the background with my copic markers as well and creating variations with the colorless blender – which actually takes away color. In the end I distressed the little image a bit to go with my imperfect coloring. I think all in all it turned out pretty cute in the end! I realized also that my white gel pen creates a resist for the copic ink…interesting to experiment with in the future. I created this card for the digital tuesday challenge of using scraps. See all those scraps of paper to create the background – just stapled in place? Hope you like it!
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Great card! Very creative. You are doing great with your copics.
Oh, I love it Linda, the background is awesome!
I love your scrappy background!! The light colors with the bright blue looks great!
Stopping by from the Yahoo group to say this is so cute! Love the background and your coloring is great!
oh wow, love it. how’d you do that background?? it looks like a mist around the girl…. love it!!!!!!
Thanks so much everyone!
Micki – The background I colored in with copic…then I started swirling around with the colorless blender to make a weird mixed up texture…totally by accident!
I Just love your background and the contrasts you have created with your main focus.
Great job on this card! I love the outline around the image- and the card is perfect for the challenge!
Cute cute cute! When I want a smaller tip than the Sketch offers, I use Prismacolor or Bic Markers. You can also dab a little bit of colorless blender liquid (or alcohol based hand sanitizer – the gel kind) onto fabric like denim and then dab it onto your image to a create a neat textured background effect.
Love your colouring!
Thanks everyone and thanks for the tips Shannon. Pretty cool what we can do with markers!
I just love it, too! I love the way you all rally and give such great love and encouragement! I hope to tackle some coloring myself, but only have the Bic markits so far – and now my new Neenah paper (thanks, Micki!) Forward to victory!
Love your use of scraps. I don’t really use my Copics much now, I use my polychromos pencils more but I find that when I do colour with them, the paper that I use makes a huge difference and if I have a good paper my ink doesn’t bleed over the edges
Any HOT pressed paper is good becuase it is really smooth 
Thanks for joining us at Digital Tuesday this week.
Lora x