And, welcome to a new Copic Creations challenge.

Today’s challenge is Saturated Colors.   If you’re unfamiliar with this term, here are a few places you can check out to learn a little more …

http://beverlygilbert.blogspot.com/2009/03/are-you-saturated.html

http://www.colorcube.com/articles/theory/glossary.htm

http://www.voiceofcolor.com/en/aboutcolor/color_theory/vocabulaire/

Here’s a quote from an amazing artist, Beverly Ash Gilbert  on  Saturated Colors.  “Saturation is the purity, intensity, brightness of a color. Saturated
colors feel alive … ”    And a Saturated Color wheel from her blog:

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Our awesome sponsor this week is the awesome Belles ‘n Whistles!!

Belles ‘n Whistles is an internet shop located in beautiful Hawaii, on the island of O’ahu, featuring the tremendously gifted Elisabeth Bell and her wonderful images.

Belles ‘n Whistles is pleased to offer Elisabeth’s wonderful images as sparkling clear photopolymer stamps, manufactured in the United States.  The sparkling clear stamps are of the highest quality and are ready for immediate use!  I think you’ll find that the delightful images will make priceless editions to your stamp collection.  Truly, these are “Stamps that tickle the heartstrings!”

Our prize this week for one lucky participant will be a $25.00 Gift Certificate from Belles ‘n Whistles!!!

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Our In The Spotlight designer from our last challenge ~ Coloring Fur (or feathers!) with a Twist, is from one of our favorite Copic artists Jennie Lin Black …

I love it!!   Gorgeous coloring Jennie and perfect colors for this challenge.  Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

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We’re so happy to announce the VERY lucky winner of the Copic Creations Challenge No. 58, chosen using Random.org …

No. 6 ~ Jac of Jac’s Playground

You’re a very lucky lady Jac!   You’ve won a $10.00 Gift Certificate from the Stamp Fairy.com AND a FREE seat to a class of your choice at My Creative Classroom!!

Please be sure to send your contact info to mgiemza@charter.net.

A huge thank you for the entire team to the Stamp Fairy.com and My Creative Classroom.

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 59 GALLERY

CHERYL VALADEZ

A Pen Friend

shirt – R29, 22, 20, jeans – B23, 21, 01 hair – E15, 13, Y21, Y00

JAMI BOVA

Beary Big Hugs

KAREN WITTER

Little Eden

B23,24,26,28; E17,25,27,29

KATIE COTTON

Patches ‘n Braids

R30, R32, R35, R39, BG10, BG15, BG18, YR18, YR12, YG63, YG67, BG0000, Y21, YR23, E25, E21, E00

MARY B. GIEMZA

Sweet Apples

YR23, 24, 31;  BG70, 72;  B32

ROSE CRAWFORD

Storytime

WENDY RAMLAKHAN

Planting Some Love

We’re so happy to have you joining us today … and, we think you’ll be glad you did!

But you’re probably wondering what exactly is COLORING FUR … with a TWIST?!

Here’s a BIG hint ~

Hopefully, you’re familiar with these guys! 

Well, that’s our TWIST – Copic coloring of FUR with BRIGHT colors … not your usual BROWN bears!!

Fun, right?  hehehe

If you would prefer to color your fur using Brown Copics, that’s okay too – we’ll still let you play along!   No worries.

You’ll just have to page down to see the GORGEOUSLY colored sample cards from the Design Team today, in a wide array of Copic colors.

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We’re also SUPER excited to share the news that we have TWO fabulous sponsors this week!!!

The awesome Design Team sample images have been provided by the Stamp Fairy.com, home to some of THE cutest digital images around.   I hope you’ll take a few minutes to pop over to visit the Stamp Fairy.com to check out these cuties and do a little shopping too!

AND

Our SECOND sponsor is  …

My Creative Classroom is an online arts and crafts learning center.  Their interactive and in-depth courses are instructor led and filled with wonderful projects and techniques to help you get the most out of your supplies.

This fall MCC will be offering over 100 courses. From the Cricut to Primas to mixed media to rubber stamping to scrapbooking we have something for everyone. Don’t miss out on some wonderful classes starting in September and continuously opening through mid-December, including:

• Cricut,  Imagine 101
• Die  Cutting with Spellbinders
• Art  Journal, Handbound!
• Fabric:  What, How & WoW!
• Christmas  Card Boot Camp
• Focus  on Photos
• Scenic  Stamping
• Bind  it All 101

The BEST part is the PRIZES we have for one VERY lucky winner this week …

1.   A $10.00 Gift Certificate from the Stamp Fairy.com

AND

2.  (from Kim of MCC)  “We are excited to be sponsoring the Copic Creations Challenge blog. You can view our entire class list on our website at My Creative Classroom. You can also view classes on our Facebook Page too!

One lucky winner will receive a free seat to a class of their choice…..Good Luck!”

How Exciting!!!   Pretty cool prizes!

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Time for our In The Spotlight designer this week … always a tough one!  

But even tougher than normal since we received such amazingly gorgeous PINK entries for our last challenge.  

Thank you ALL for playing along with us – you’re all Copic Goddesses! 

We just couldn’t help ourselves and had to spotlight this PINK pink pink adorable ostrich from

Elizabeth of  Warm Harted:

Thank you Elizabeth for sharing this gorgeous guy with us … YOU definitely deserve to be “Strutting YOUR stuff”!   

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We have a winner!!   The Copic Creations Challenge No. 57  randomly chosen winner is …

No. 26 ~ Ginny of RubberMAD

HUGE congrats Ginny!!   Please contact us at mgiemza@charter.net with your mailing address so we can forward this to Susana’s Custom Art & Card Design.

Very special thanks to our one of our favorite Copic Creations Friends, Susana of SCACD for your sponsorship of our challenge once again!

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Tutorials:   No NEW tutorials this week – but, feel free to check out these from a previous Copic Creations COLORING FUR challenge HERE.  We’d REALLY love to see your fun, bright furry creations!

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 58 GALLERY

We have a VERY special guest designer joining us this week – Gerda owner of the Stamp Fairy.com!!    Here’s her adorable Bear:

GERDA

CHERYL VALADEZ

Barry Spooks Bats

BV04, BV02, BV01, BV00, V000

JAMI BOVA

Barry Balloons #2

RV02, RV04, RV06, RV09, RV19

KAREN WITTER

Lenny Music 1

E31,33,27

KATIE COTTON

LILIAN TAN

MARY B. GIEMZA

Barry Halloween 3

R35, 37, 39, 89;  T3, 5

ROSE CRAWFORD

Chubby Halloween 5

V91, V93, V95, V99 using Colorless Blender and Nasty Rag Techniques

SUZANNE DEAN

Chubby Fall Lenny

C9,7,5,3,1

WENDY RAMLAKHAN

Can you believe it??!!  September already!!

We’re back with another fun Copic Creations challenge for you.   Today we’d love for you to show us your PINK Copic marker skills!   It’s hard to believe, but all this time doing challenges – we’ve not covered our favorite “girlie” color.  Although, it seems some of the boys are finally seeing things our way and a few pink shirts are sneeking into their wardrobes. 

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We’re sooooooo happy to tell you that one of our ALL-TIME favorite sponsors is back!!   Our dear, sweet Susana of Susana’s Custom Art and Card Design is our very special sponsor today.

And, we are thrilled to be featuring the exclusive to Susana’s store, recently released … Elisabeth Bell The Peekers #2 Collection!   The Copic Creations Design Team has pulled out their PINK Copics and colored these cuties just for you! I know you’ll love each and every one!

But, in case you didn’t know, Susana’s Custom Art and Card Design carries LOTS of other crafting and art supplies.   You’ll definitely want to stop at the store to take a “peek” at Susana’s huge selection of the latest and greatest goodies!

Sooooooooo, what’s the prize today, you may be asking ….

One lucky participant will win the ENTIRE gorgeous collection of Elisabeth Bell’s Peekers #2 Collection!!!!

Woooo hooo!!    How cool is that?!

 PLEASE NOTE:   You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until September 14th, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on September 15th.

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We’ve picked our In The Spotlight designer for this week from all the amazing BG Blue Green creations.   Not only has our pick this week done a fantastic job on using those BG Copic markers, check out this awesome puddle from

Delphine of Delphine’s Place!!  

OMGoodness, what an amazing Copic Creations …

Thanks so much for sharing this Delphine!  I think you need to do a tutorial on how you did that awesome puddle!

Please feel free to grab our  In The Spotlight blinkie.

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And the lucky winner of our Copic Creations Challenge No. 56 is …

No. 49 ~ Kate of Downrightcrafty

Congrats Kate!!   Please contact us at mgiemza@charter.net with your email address so we can forward this to A Day For Daisies.

Special thanks to A Day For Daisies for their wonderful sponsorship of our challenge.

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Tutorials:   No tutorials again this week – just have fun with your PINK Copic markers!

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 57 GALLERY

CHERYL VALADEZ

Bubble Bath Peeker

Hot pink tub:  RV29, RV25, RV23, RV21  Bubbles:  R20, R11

JAMI BOVA

Secret Garden Peeker

BG000, BG11, BG13, BG93, BG96, BG99

KAREN WITTER

All Peeked Out Peeker

R00,20,81,83,85,89

KATIE COTTON

MARY B. GIEMZA

Mama’s Purse Peeker

R000, RV000, R11, RV10, RV11

ROSE CRAWFORD

Sweet Cheeks Peeker

R0000, R00, R02

SUZANNE DEAN

Bubble Bath Peeker

R21,R20,R11,R00/C9 thru C1

WENDY RAMLAKHAN

Today, we’re featuring the very cool BG (blue green) Copic markers.   Copic has so many different tones of the BG markers – starting with the very light teals, all the way to the darker, almost gray shades …  it’s pretty amazing to see the sample cards below and realize that they were all colored using BGs.   You’ll be blown away by the DT cards once again!!

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We’re VERY excited to welcome a new sponsor this week!

I KNOW, if you don’t already, you are definitely going to LOVE this company …

When I first came across the images from A Day For Daisies, I immediately loved each and every one!   The hardest decision was which to color first!!

All of the over 1000 images have been personally illustrated by the amazingly talented Tammy Thompson, owner and mastermind behind A Day For Daisies.

Offering the very best quality of digital stamps,  A Day For Daisies provides fun and whimsical digital images to aid in the creation of your pretty things! Perfect for, card making, scrapbooking, digital layouts, jewelry, embroidery, candle making, clothing, tiles, invitations, any project on your list!

We hope you’ll take a minute to pop over to either the store, the challenge blog or Tammy’s Etsy shop to take a peek at these gorgeous images.

This weeks prize for one lucky participant, from A Day For Daisies, will be …

a $12.00 Gift Certificate for your choice of images from A Day For Daisies!!

PLEASE NOTE:   You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until August 31st, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on September 1st.

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Time to pick our In the Spotlight designer from the participants for our last challenge ~ Landscape Design.

Each and every one was GORGEOUS!!    Thank you ALL for joining us.   We had to share this beauty featuring an image from our sponsor last week ~ Lili of the Valley by

Nicoletta Porcu of I Love Scrapbooking

Awesome “Landscapping”  Nicoletta!!   Thank you for sharing this with us.

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We’ve also picked our lucky winner from our last challenge using Random.org:

No. 27 – Renata of Renata’s Designs

Congratulations Renata! Please contact us at mgiemza@charter.net with your email  address so we can forward this to Lili of the Valley!

MANY thanks to Lili of the Valley for sponsoring our challenge once again!!

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Tutorials:   No tutorials this week – just have fun and be sure to use your BG Copic markers!

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 56 GALLERY

CHERYL VALADEZ

Mermaid

Halo – BG01, BG0000 Tail – G21, BG23, BG10, G20

JAMI BOVA

Birds for Bree

BG000, BG11, BG13, BG93, BG96, BG99

KAREN WITTER

Sarah

KATIE COTTON

LILIAN TAN

MARY B. GIEMZA

Music for Me 

BG70, 72, 75, 78

ROSE CRAWFORD

Happiness

BG70, BG72, BG75, BG78

SUZANNE DEAN

Tender Thoughts

COMING SOON!

WENDY RAMLAKHAN

This week we’d like you all to be Landscape Design Artists … using your Copic markers of course!  Please add either some grass, bushes, a walkway, flowers, a pond  …  any background scenery you’d like.

Since everyone LOVES this company almost as much as we do, we’re having them back as our sponsor once again!!

A warm welcome back to  Lili of the Valley!!!

Stop by to see all the newest images!

And, we suggest you hop over to the LILI of the VALLEY store to take a peek at these ADORABLE new Christmas images!   It’s never too soon to start on all of those holiday cards.

This weeks prize for one lucky participant from LOTV will be a . . .

PLEASE NOTE:   You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until August 14th, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on August 15th.

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The most difficult part of this challenge blog is choosing our In The Spotlight designer from our last challenge …  but, since we must, this week we’d like to share this amazing Copic Creation with you ~ from

Sandy G. of Sandy’s Space

Gorgeous pastel coloring Sandy!   Thanks for sharing this.

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We’ve also picked our lucky winner from our last challenge using Random.org:

No. 56 – Rene of Simply Cute

Congrats Rene! Please contact us at mgiemza@charter.net with your email  address so we can forward this to Sparkle Creations!

MANY thanks to the awesome Sparkle of Sparkle Creations for sponsoring our challenge!!

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Tutorial sample links:

Special thanks this week to …

Marianne Walker, I Like Markers ~ Water in a Pond,  Pebbles on the ground, Simple bushes, Drawing Grass

Kim Costello, PaperBabe ~ Grass Coloring Tutorial

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SPECIAL NOTE:   We’re asking your help for LOTS of prayers, good thoughts & well wishes  for our own wonderful Heather Gilfoy Bond of the Copic Creations Design Team, who has been dealing with some personal health issues recently.   We’ve heard she’s doing better, but still unable to join us for an undetermined amount of time.

We miss your smiling face and always gorgeous Copic creations Heather, but will be here for you when you’re ready to return home to us!   We love ya girlie!!

COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 55 GALLERY

CHERYL VALADEZ

ground – E37, E31, E50  grass – G94, G24, G21, G20

JAMI BOVA

KAREN WITTER

KATIE COTTON

YG97,  YG95, YG93, YG91, G40, G82, G28, Y21, YR24, E21, E25, E27, E00, C3, C5, W4, N2, G99, BG70, BG72, E43, E44

MARY B. GIEMZA

Grass – YG03, 11, E31;   Sky – C0, 1, 2, B41, 91

ROSE CRAWFORD

WENDY RAMLAKHAN

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on August 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner of today’s challenge.

We’re turning it down a notch today with what some might consider a REAL challenge!   We’d like to see your PASTEL Copic colored creations.

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We also have another FABULOUS sponsor this week!    We’re excited to welcome SPARKLE CREATIONS to our Copic Creations star-studded sponsor list!

If you haven’t visited Sparkle Creations yet, we strongly encourage you to take a peek!   You’ll find an awesome selection of super ADORABLE rubber stamps, perfect for all your stamping/card making occasions.   Sparkle, (yes, that’s her real name) the very sweet owner of Sparkle Creations has graciously supplied each Copic Creations DT member with one of her awesome images.    Be sure to check out these amazing creations below!

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Our fantastic prize package this week is two rubber stamps from Sparkle Creations ~ Swimming Lucy and Surfing Oliver!

PLEASE NOTE: You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until July 31st, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on August 1st.

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We’ve picked our In The Spotlight card from our last challenge … this weeks featured designer is

Sarah of Serendipity Stamping

Gorgeous Copic coloring Sarah!   Of course, we’re very partial to the adorable La La Land image too.       Thanks for sharing this with us.

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We’ve also picked our lucky winner from our last challenge using Random.org:

No. 6 – Glo of Scrap and Card

Congrats Glo!! Please contact us at mgiemza@charter.net with your email  address so we can forward this to La La Land Crafts!

A second winner was chosen to receive a package of Cryogen White cardstock from the Paper Temptress!!

Last, but not least …

No. 33 – Kina Nunziante

Congrats to you too Kina!   Please send me your mailing address to forward to the Paper Temptress.

Special thanks to the awesome La La Land Crafts for sponsoring our challenge and, of course, the Paper Temptress for the awesome monthly cardstock prize!

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No tutorials are being provided this week ~ The sky’s the limit . . . as long as you use Pastel Copic colors! 

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 54 GALLERY

HEATHER GILFOY BOND

Broomstick Lucy

V0000, 20, 25~G0000, 01~Y0000,E30

KAREN WITTER

Sweet Treats Emily

R20,00,0000,V000,1,5,9

KATIE COTTON

Turntable Josh

MARY B. GIEMZA

 Rollerblading Chloe

BG10, 11, 13;  YG11;  T1, 3, 5

ROSE CRAWFORD

Scooter Chloe

SUZANNE DEAN

Cocktail Emily

V17,V15,V12,V000/Colorless Blender/YG67,YG03,G20

WENDY RAMLAKHAN

Due to some technical difficulties, the DT card photos were not showing up in this mornings post!!    

It’s all fixed now – hopefully, you will have an opportunity to stop back to take a peek ~ you won’t be disappointed!   

Thanks for your understanding.    

We’re hoping, for those of you in the USA, that you’re enjoying the start of a long, relaxing holiday weekend!

Thank you to EVERYONE who was able to play along for our DOODLES challenge – Amazing art work, each and every one!

Our challenge today was a special request from one of our loyal followers, Jen Stutzmanrn~ Coloring White Articles of Clothing with your Copic markers.   This can actually be a little tricky;  But, hopefully, this post will provide some assistance to you, along with a few great tutorials found below.

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We’ve also got ANOTHER awesome sponsor for you this week!!

We’re SUPER excited to welcome La La Land Crafts to our Copic challenge family!!

As you can see from the above logo, La La Land Crafts is home to the ADORABLE Marci and Luka collection of stamps.   I hope you have time to take a peek at ALL the wonderful images from La La Land – it will definitely be worth your while!   The sooo very nice Irina, owner of LLL, has graciously provided each Copic Creations Design Team member (a/k/a the Copic goddesses!) with an image from La La Land.   You’ll definitely want to check these out ~ They are the best of the best, IMO!

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What’s the prize this week??!

A $25.00 GIFT CERTIFICATE TO LA LA LAND CRAFTS!!!!

Woooooooo Hoooooooooo!

PLEASE NOTE: You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until July 14th, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on July 15th.

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We’ve picked our In The Spotlight card from our last challenge … this weeks featured designer is

Sarham of Sarham’s Little Corner.

WOW, talk about GORGEOUS Doodling!   It’s really hard to tell that the doodles were added and not part of the stamp!!

Really awesome work Sarham! Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

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We have FIVE lucky winners this week ~ all picked using Random.org, for Challenge No. 52:

No. 41 – Isha of New Ideas

No. 13 – Dee of Dee’s Designs Blog

No. 29 – Darling Ho of Handmade by Darling Ho

No. 6 – Cheri J. 

No. 1 -Jenny Black of Inky Hugs

Congrats ladies!! Please contact us at mgiemza@charter.net with your mailing address so I can send your prize package to you!

HUGE thanks to the VERY generous Penny Black for sponsoring our challenge.

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Tutorial sample links: 

Special thanks this week to …

Suzanne Dean, Scrapbitz  ~ Coloring White Objects

Samara Gugler, Hybrid Artist ~ Coloring White (part 1)      Coloring White (part 2)

Marianne Walker, I Like Markers ~ Coloring White/Transparent Things

Crissy Armstrong, Crissy’s Art & Heart ~ Santa with Copics

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Special note:   Suzanne Dean was not able to join us this week … but she asked the amazingly talented Copic artist Mindy Baxter to take her spot!!    Her adorable Marci card can be found below.   Thank you so much Mindy for filling in this week.

COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 53 GALLERY

MINDY BAXTER 

Marci with Flower

CHERYL VALADEZ

Jesalyn

Dress and Shoes:  C3, 1, 0, and BG10

HEATHER GILFOY BOND

Dress Up Marci

JAMI BOVA

Chef Marci

KAREN WITTER

Doctor Marci

N1, Colorless Blender for the Lab Coat, N1,R0000, CB for the Gown

KATIE COTTON

Summer Luka

MARY B. GIEMZA

 Scout Marci

T1, 3, 5;  Bv31

ROSE CRAWFORD

Formal Luka

B21, C3, C5, 0

(Be sure to stop over at Rose’s blog for ANOTHER special LLL card!!)

 

WENDY RAMLAKHAN

Cheerleader Marci

C3, C1, BG0000

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on July 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner of today’s challenge.

Participant Card:

 

Kina Nunziante

 

We’re happy to begin our THIRD YEAR with a  super fun challenge for all you doodlers out there (this is for those of you who just can’t resist filling a  page with flowers, hearts, etc. while talking on the phone!)) ~ we’d love to see your creativity flow by adding some DOODLES to your card or project.

You can use your Copic multi-liners, spica glitter pens, pencils or even your Copic markers!    We’ve rounded up  several links to Marianne Walker’s blog showcasing lots of DOODLING options below under TUTORIALS.

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We’d like to welcome a SUPER exciting sponsor this week ~

the one and only PENNY BLACK!!        Pretty exciting, huh?

I’m sure you’re all familiar with Penny Black products, they carry some of THE cutest, most memorable stamps and LOTS of em!   I hope you have some time to hop over to their website to explore the creative world of Penny Black and see for yourself why their rubber stamps, stickers, beautiful papers for Scrapbooking, Cardmaking and Stamp Crafting are everyone’s favorites.

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PRIZES??   . . .    you ask?!!

Why yes, we have plenty!!

The VERY generous Penny Black has not only supplied each DT member with a set of stamps to use for this challenge  …  they’ve also sent along LOTS of stamps as prizes for our awesome participants!   Woo Hoo!!

We’ve divided the prize stamps into FIVE packages.   On June 30th we’ll pick FIVE lucky winners, to be announced on our next challenge post on July 1st!!

***IMPORTANT – Penny Black has asked that in order to be eligible for a prize, all participants sign up to join the Penny Black Club.  But, I don’t think you’ll mind ~ since as a club member you will be entitled to the following benefits:

• First peak at New Releases
• Blogging Events
• E-mail newsletter
• New Card and Scrapbooking Ideas
• Card Ideas with step by step instructions

You can sign-up for the Penny Black Club HERE.

PLEASE NOTE: You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until June 30th, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on July 1st.

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We’ve picked our In The Spotlight card from our last challenge … what a tough decision once again!    How could we pass up this amazing scene created by Tracy Payne of Crafteezee:

All I can say is WOW, wow, wow Tracy! Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

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We have a VERY lucky winner of LOTS of prizes ~ picked using Random.org, for Challenge No. 51:

No. 2 – of Denise Coulter of LaLa’s World

Congrats Denise!!  Please contact us at mgiemza@charter.net with your email address to forward to ALL of our awesome Blogoversary sponsors!

We’d like to extend VERY Special thanks to all of our wonderful TWO-YEAR BLOGOVERSARY sponsors ~ we couldn’t have done it without you!!    You’re all awesome!

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Tutorial sample links:

http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-03-23T15%3A00%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7

http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/2008/07/drawing-grass.html

http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/2008/07/doodling-with-super-brush.html

http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/2008/12/cross-hatching-part-1-multiliners-pen.html

http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/2009/01/cross-hatching-part-2-basic-technique.html

http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/2009/01/doodling-with-super-brush-blob-fish.html

http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/2009/04/coloring-rocks-part-1-pebbles-on-ground.html

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 52 GALLERY

CHERYL VALADEZ

Used Copics to create dotty background and base under pots.  Used Multiliner to create flying insect and trail.

HEATHER GILFOY BOND

Fine liner used to draw dragonfly, Pencils used to five my bear a curly coat

JAMI BOVA

Hello Friend

doodled the butterfly trails

KAREN WITTER

By the Cartful

0.2 Multi-liner

KATIE COTTON

Bride & Groom

Dots of copic markers around image, added spica and gelly roll pens to dress to create bling,

and multiliner to doodle edge

MARY B. GIEMZA

 A Rose

Spica red pen to make swirly-q’s on dress and border

ROSE CRAWFORD

Amongst the Stars

Copic Doodle Stars Border

SUZANNE DEAN

About Town

used multi-liner to doodle shading on car, tires and create road effect

WENDY RAMLAKHAN

Good Game

Copics & Colorless Blender used to create pebbles and grass

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on July 1st for our next challenge and the announcement of the winnerS of today’s challenge.

Now, we’d like you to sit back and relax – grab your favorite beverage and you’ll see just exactly what a party this is going to be!    We’ve contacted all of our FABULOUS sponsors from the past year and here’s the list of prizes up for grabs this week:

BUGABOO DIGI STAMPS –  Five digi images

CRAFTY SECRETS – (Our awesome sponsor today)  – prize to be added.

LILI OF THE VALLEY –  £20.00 Gift Voucher

MAKE IT CRAFTY – A ten-pack of Make it Colour Blending Cardstock, 2 rubber stamps & 4 laser cut embellishments of your choice

OUR CRAFT LOUNGE – One stamp set of your choice

PAPER TEMPTRESS – A $25.00 Gift Certificate

PRAIRIE FAIRY DESIGNS – Five digi images

SUZANNE DEAN – One Copic Class from Color Me Creative Classroom & a One-Year subscription to the magazine Through the Craftroom Door

THE GREETING FARM – Twirl Anya rubber stamp

TIDDLY INKS – A $10.00 Gift Certificate

TIFFANY DOODLES – Five digi images

WHIMSY STAMPS –Wee Snippet & Thunder Lizzy from Crissy Armstrong;  Star & Rock Chick from KennyK;   Everyday Mini Postage Stamps & Party Mini Letter Seals from Raindrop Echo Designs; AND five free digis of the winner’s choice  (A $59 retail value!!)

How’s that for WOW!!   

But wait, there’s even MORE … if you hop over to the Copic Creations Design Team blogs, you’ll find some surprise blog candy being given away there TOO!!     All the details on those prizes can be found on the team member’s individual blog.   Better grab a refill on that beverage!!  

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Our challenge this week sponsored once again by the awesome store Crafty Secrets, is Copic Distressed/Vintage cards or projects.   We’d LOVE to see your entry and give you a chance (or two) at winning ALL these amazing prizes!!

We’d also love for you to take a peek at the Crafty Secrets site ~ you’ll definitely be in for a treat when you peruse the amazing selection of vintage paper art and clear art stamps.    While you’re there, be sure to check out the Gallery of gorgeous vintage projects.   Each Copic Creations Design Team member has colored an image from Crafty Secrets which you’ll find below.   Yep, they’re amazing as always!!  

PLEASE NOTE: You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until June 14th, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prizes; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on June 15th.

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It’s time again to pick our In The Spotlight card from our last challenge.   It looks like YELLOW received lots of love!!  Here’s one gorgeous submission from Liza of Pink Candy Stripes.

Way to go Liza ~ Your YELLOW Copic coloring is beautiful!   Please feel free to grab out “Spotlight” blinkie from the sidebar.   Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

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We have a winner, picked using Random.org, for Challenge No. 50:

No. 40 – Pat Pearson of PJ’s Place

Congrats Pat!  Another gorgeous YELLOW creation.   Please contact us at mgiemza@charter.net with your email address to forward to Paper Makeup Stamps.   Special thanks again to Katie Cotton of PMS for sponsoring our challenge!!

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Tutorials:  

Special thanks this week to …

Suzanne Dean, Scrapbitz  for the following video tutorials:

 Copic Video 19–Coloring with Copics to look like Distress Inks #1 (colors, skin)
–Copic Video 20–Coloring with Copics to look like Distress Inks #2 (skin, hair)
–Copic Video 21–Coloring with Copics to look like Distress Inks #3 (clothing)
–Copic Video 22–Coloring with Copics to look like Distress Inks #4 (accessories)
–Copic Video 23–Coloring with Copics to look like Distress Inks #5 (blues, greens, different hair)

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We’ve got some MORE awesome news to share with you ~ We’re privileged to have WENDY RAMLAKHAN joining the Design Team at Copic Creations!!   Wendy is a super sweet, amazingly talented Copic artist that we are sooo happy to have on the team.   I hope you’ll take a minute to stop by her blog to welcome her aboard.    I KNOW you’ll be blown away by her Copic Creations!

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 51 GALLERY

CHERYL VALADEZ

birds- B52, C1, E50 branch- E37, 35, 31 shadows-C5,3,2,1,0

HEATHER GILFOY BOND

E30, 31, 34, 70 & 0

JAMI BOVA

E000, E01, E21, E43, 53, W1, W3, RV10, RV11, RV13 and 0

KAREN WITTER  

KATIE COTTON

MARY B. GIEMZA

ROSE CRAWFORD

Black (T9, T6, T0), Chrome (C1, C3, C5)

SUZANNE DEAN

E44,E43,E42,E40/Y26,Y23,Y21/Colorless Blender

WENDY RAMLAKHAN

We hope you will join us for this special challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on June 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the VERY LUCKY winner for this challenge.

 

Participant Card:   (no blog)

 

Today we are featuring an often neglected Copic color ~ YELLOW!!    There certainly are enough Y and YR Copic color choices, yet it seems to be one of the least used colors.   Poor YELLOW.

 Well, we hope to change your feelings about YELLOW today!   Below you’ll find some amazing creations from the Design Team, showcasing their favorite YELLOW Copic combinations.  Yes, you will be amazed at their work!

We are also welcoming back one of our favorite sponsors ~ Paper Makeup Stamps, owned by our own awesome DT member Katie Cotton!    Here’s a little info about Katie and PMS:

Katie has been stamping since 2006 but paper crafting for much longer.  The first moment she had rubber in her inky fingers, she knew that one day she’d like to start her own company.  3 short years later, her visions are coming to a reality.  The company prides itself on a “have it your way” attitude offering stamps bare or mounted, and many in various sizes.  All suggestions will be taken to heart as the customers are the core of this company.

How the name came about

While stamping, scrapbooking and other paper crafting are Katie’s major hobbies, she is a professional makeup artist by trade.  When she was first thinking of what to call her company, Paper Makeup was first to come to mind.  After using it as her blog title for nearly a year, she couldn’t decide if she should choose a new name, or stick to one near and dear to her heart.  Since so many knew her as “Paper Makeup”, it won out and Paper Makeup Stamps was born!

We hope you’ll take some time to check out her store – you won’t be disappointed!    All the YELLOW sample cards from DT feature an image from Paper Makeup Stamps.

Soooo, what’s the PRIZE this week you ask … 

A $20.00 Gift Certificate to the Paper Makeup Stamps store!!

PLEASE NOTE:   You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until May 31st, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on June 1st.

Don’t forget to stop back on June 1st for our HUGE TWO-YEAR BLOGOVERSARY BLOWOUT!!   You won’t want to miss this one … we have a TON of prizes lined up this celebration!!   

It’s time again to pick our In The Spotlight card from our last challenge … we  were ALL very impressed with these gorgeous clouds from Marie of The Joy of Cards:

Awesome Copic clouds Marie!   Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

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We have a winner, picked using Random.org, for Challenge No. 49:

No. 7 – Leanne Elliot of Banking on Crafts

Congrats Leanne.  VERY lucky for your first time joining us!    Please contact us at mgiemza@charter.net with your email address to forward to Lili of the Valley.   Special thanks again to Lili of the Valley  for sponsoring our challenge!!

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Sorry, no tutorials today since we are featuring a color.

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We’re sad to say that this will be Asela Hopkins last challenge with us!   Asela has been with us since the beginning and always such an inspiration.  Unfortunately, she’s taking a little vacation from crafting for awhile.   We will miss you Asela – You’re the BEST!!

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 50 GALLERY

ASELA HOPKINS

Francesca the Cat

Y11, Y15, YR23, RV10, RV21, R85, YG11, YG67

CHERYL VALADEZ

Moody for Flowers

Top Y06, Y00, Y000 and Gold Trim Y26, Y21, Y00

HEATHER GILFOY BOND

Moody for Art

Y0000, Y11. Y30, Y28

  JAMI BOVA

Moody for Dragonflies

Y11, Y15, Y19, Y21, Y38, YR23, YR24

KAREN WITTER

Moody for Reading

YR21,23, 24, Y15,17, Y000,02

KATIE COTTON

Lea Fairy

Hair: Y21, Y26, YR30, Dress & Kite: Y32, Y35, Y38, Wings YR30, YR31

MARY B. GIEMZA

Celest Fairy

Hair – E50; YR24, 31;  Wings – Y11, 17, 26, 28;  Moon – Y000, 00, 08, 11, 13

ROSE CRAWFORD

The Heart Fairy

Y13, Y15, Y19, Y28

SUZANNE DEAN

Moody for Rock

Gold-YR24,YR23,Y15,Y11,Y00/Yellow-Y13,Y11,Y000

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on June 1st for our TWO-YEAR BLOGOVERSARY and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.

Edited to correct the link to Dana Christiansen’s Copic Tutorial video using Reinkers!   Sorry about that Dana. 

Happy May Day!   Thank you for stopping in today ~ we hope you’re having a great weekend.

We’ve got a new challenge for you this week . . .  COLORING SKY and/or CLOUDS using your Copic markers.    This can be either coloring directly on your paper with Copics, or if you’re lucky enough to have one ~ using your airbrush system, or even a slightly different technique using Copic reinkers, which you can check out in our tutorial section below.

Thanks to everyone who was able to join us for our FAVORITE PAPER challenge and letting us know what your favorite paper is.    The results were very interesting!    It looks like Neenah was a definite winner.    You can view the final numbers on the original Poll here, just click “View Results” at the bottom.

**We’d love to give YOU the opportunity to try some Cryogen White paper from the Paper Temptress  …  Please check out our special announcement below!**

We’re super excited to announce that one of our all-time favorite sponsors is back!!   The awesome

Lili of the Valley!!

Lili of the Valley has over 200 unique (and adorable)  rubber stamps, and lots of Papercrafting Images too.   They have recently launched new Additions & Sentiment Stamps  and 20 brand new Die Cuts!    You can check them out here.

Our Design Team have all used LOTV images for their always amazing SKY/CLOUD sample cards below.  We hope you will be inspired to join us for this fun challenge.

This weeks prize for one lucky participant from LOTV will be a . . .

PLEASE NOTE:    You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until May 14th, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on May 15th.

Time for the always difficult task of picking our  In The Spotlight card from our last challenge!   We did find this truly awesome creation from Renata of Renata’s Design:

Wow ~  Simply amazing creation, and wonderful Copic coloring!   Thank you for sharing this with us. I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

Our lucky winner, picked using Random.org, for Challenge No. 48 is:

No. 56 – Linda P. of  Payne Holler Cards

Yay Linda, congrats!   Please contact us with your mailing address to forward to the Paper Temptress.  Special thanks again to the VERY generous Patricia of the Paper Temptress for sponsoring our challenge  …

**But wait, as we mentioned, we have a SPECIAL announcement!    Patricia of the PT would like to offer

20 Sheets of Cryogen White paper to one lucky participant  EACH MONTH ~ starting this week!!

“Elegant, yet subtle iridescent finish with a subtle sparkle when you “flip” it.

Copic coloring cardstock with that “Wow” factor!

Copic and prismacolor markers work beautifully with this paper keeping the iridescent finish while adding rich color.”

How cool is that?!

So, our first winner of 20 sheets of Croygen White paper is:

No. 2 – Annie of ink’n’rubba

Congrats Annie!   Please contact us with your mailing address to also forward to the Paper Temptress!

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Tutorials: 

Special thanks this week to …

Annika Ryan, Another Messy Crafter ~  Coloring Sky with Copics

Dana Christiansen, Dana’s Inspirations  ~ How to Create Backgrounds & Clouds with Copic Markers  (For sky using Copic Reinkers, go to 6:43 of  Dana’s video)

Kathy Jones, Copic Oz ~ Nothing But Blue Skies

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Today we are bidding a fond farewell to our longtime teammate, the amazingly talented Jane Wetzel!    We’d like to take this opportunity to thank her for each and every amazing project she has shared here.   We all love you and will miss you!      

We’d also like to introduce you to the newest member of our Design Team ~ the super talented Cheryl Valadez!   Cheryl is a fellow Copic lover who has been a participant for our challenges for quite awhile.  You can also read all “about Cheryl” in our About Us section of the blog.   Welcome aboard Cheryl ~ we’re so glad you’re here!

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 49 GALLERY

CHERYL VALADEZ

B00, B02, C00, C1, C3, C5

HEATHER GILFOY BOND

B0000, B00, B02, V0000 & C01

JAMI BOVA

B000, B91, C1, 0

KAREN WITTER

B0000, B000, B00, C0, C1

KATIE COTTON

MARY B. GIEMZA

BG000, 01, 70;  C0, 1

ROSE CRAWFORD

B91, B14

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on May 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.

It seems whenever you come across the subject of Copics on message boards, craft sites, etc. there are always numerous discussions on “what’s the best paper to use when coloring with Copics“.   Well, we’d like to hear from you on this!  

Below you’ll find a poll with the most popular papers available for Copics … please take a minute to let us know which is YOUR favorite.

Our Design Team was recently introduced to the newest paper in the Copic blending family ~ Cryogen White cardstock from our awesome sponsor this week … the Paper Temptress.

Here’s what Patricia (THE Paper Temptress!)  has to say about Cryogen White:

Elegant, yet subtle iridescent finish with a subtle sparkle when you “flip” it.

Copic coloring cardstock with that “Wow” factor!

Copic and prismacolor markers work beautifully with this paper keeping the iridescent finish while adding rich color.
The preferred specialty copic cardstock of Copic instructors! This is what a copic instructor said “”I am using Cryogen White now, love it…..it’s a mix between a smooth paper & and some with tooth too—lite iridescent too, really pretty and easy to use!”

Laser and ink jet compatible

Acid Free

8.5 x 11 and 12 x 12 ….Available in both 89# Cardstock and text weight.

Be sure to check out the awesome Heavenly White since it is also highly recommended by copic instructors also.

If you’ve not yet visited the Paper Temptress store, you should definitely check it out.    You’ll find an amazing variety of every type of paper to fulfill your heart’s desire! 

No matter what color, weight, or type of cardstock and now ribbon you want, you will ALWAYS find it at PaperTemptress.com!

The VERY generous Paper Temptress has supplied each member of the CC Design Team with a package of fabulous papers for our challenge today.   All the GORGEOUS samples below have been created using Cryogen White cardstock and other various papers carried by the Paper Temptress.   The consensus is WE’RE IN LOVE!!

Sooooooooooo, how would YOU like to try some of these awesome papers from the Paper Temptress (including Cryogen White)?!     Our prize this week for one lucky participant is . . .

 A $25.00 Gift Certificate to the Paper Temptress store!!

PLEASE NOTE:    To be eligible for the prize draw be sure to mention in your post what YOUR FAVORITE PAPER is.  You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until April 30th, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on May 1st.

Time again to pick our In The Spotlight card from our last challenge … definitely not an easy task!   We were, however, blown away by this VERY creative 80th birthday cake/card by Craftilicious:

What a lucky 80 year young recipient of this card!   Gorgeous work and thank you for sharing it with us.  I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

Our lucky winner, picked using Random.org, for Challenge No. 47 is:

No. 17 – Shanna of Shanna’s Designs

Congrats Shanna! Please contact us with your mailing address to forward to Crafty Secrets.   Special thanks again to  the awesome Sandy of Crafty Secrets for sponsoring our challenge!!

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 48 GALLERY

  ASELA HOPKINS

  HEATHER GILFOY BOND

 

   

JAMI BOVA

 

 

 

 

JODI-ANN LEE

 

 

KAREN WITTER

 

 

KATIE COTTON

  

LILIAN TAN

 

MARY B. GIEMZA

  

 

 

ROSE CRAWFORD

 

 

 

SUZANNE DEAN

 

 

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on May 1st for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.

IMPORTANT UPDATE:     Due to some unforseen difficulties, we’ve had to postpone our TWO-YEAR anniversary celebration to JUNE 1st! We’re VERY sorry about this, but GUARANTEE it will be worth your wait!!

So far, here’s the list of sponsors lined up for our June 1st Blogoversary Party:

~ Prairie Fairy Designs ~

~ Tiddly Inks ~

~ Whimsy Stamps ~

~ The Greeting Farm ~

~ Paper Makeup Stamps ~

~ Color Me Creative Classroom ~

~ Through the Craftroom Door ~

~ Tiffany Doodles ~

~ Make It Crafty ~

~ Bugaboo ~

~ Our Craft Lounge ~

to name just a few, with more to be added! AND, several of the CC Design Team members will have prizes on their personal blogs too.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled challenge!   Since we’ve had to postpone our celebration, we’ve decided to make today’s challenge a SUPER easy one – YOUR FAVORITE COPIC TECHNIQUE.

We also have a FABULOUS sponsor for this challenge!!    We’re super excited to welcome CRAFTY SECRETS to our Copic Creations star-studded sponsor list!

Crafty Secrets has an awesome, and one of the largest, selections of vintage and retro images from their Clear Arts Stamps to their Heartwarming Vintage Collection of Image Booklets, Creative Scraps, Stickers, Paper Pads, Cotton Scraps and kits.    They currently have over 75 themes (and growing) in our Clear Art Stamp Sets!   Paper artists love the detail and creative possibilities of these high quality photopolymer USA made stamps.

Crafty Secrets is committed to high quality, great service and sharing inspiring ideas!   Be sure to check out their large variety of themes from Babies, Birds, Cooking, Family, Fairies, Garden, Girlfriends to Holiday and Seasonal designs for card making, paper arts, scrapbooking and keepsakes.

And Crafty Secrets will be providing one VERY lucky winner with some stamps of their own!!

How cool is that?!!    AND, the Copic Creations Design Team have all used Crafty Secrets stamps for their gorgeous samples found below ~ generously supplied by Crafty Secrets!  You won’t want to miss these amazing creations!!

PLEASE NOTE: You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until April 14th, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on April 15th.

Once again, we had some amazing entries for our last challenge!  Thank you ALL for joining us. We’ve selected one of our favorites for this week’s “In the Spotlight” designer:

This gorgeous creation from Tracy Payne of Crafteezee …  

Wow, beautiful BLUES Tracy!  Thanks for joining us.   I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

We have a winner! Picked using Random.org, the winner for Challenge No. 46 is:

No. 22 – Gramma Carma of Gabbing with Gramma

Congrats Carma!   Please contact us with your mailing address to forward to Sugar Nellie.   HUGE thanks to Sugar Nellie for sponsoring our challenge!!

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 47 GALLERY

  ASELA HOPKINS

  HEATHER GILFOY BOND

 

 

JAMI BOVA

 Coloring on different type of paper (colored paper)

 

 

  JODI-ANN LEE

feather blending technique

 

  KAREN WITTER

  KATIE COTTON

 

  LILIAN TAN

Copics with colored pencils

 

MARY B. GIEMZA

outling image

 

 

ROSE CRAWFORD

 

Make a Scene

 

 

   

   SUZANNE DEAN

Used E44 thru E40 for sepia/monochromatic tones

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us.   An Inlinkz form has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on April 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.

…  No, not THAT kind of blues!!    Copic maker BLUES!   

Today, we’re featuring various shades of BLUE as our challenge for you.    As you can see from this Copic color wheel, there are definitely LOTS of BLUES (B, BV & BG) to choose from.

Our sponsor this week is one that you may be familiar with …  the one and only

SUGAR NELLIE!!

Sugar Nellie is a small Scottish Stamp Company with a variety of designers each with their own unique style. Since starting in Autumn of 2007 they have been overwhelmed by the response of crafters worldwide to their stamps. 

They have an amazing selection of some of the most adorable images available.   They also now carry a great selection of digi images too for anyone looking for some  instant gratification!  

We’re also SUPER excited to announce that one VERY lucky participant this week will have the chance to win …

FOUR stamps from Sugar Nellie!

PLEASE NOTE: You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until March 31st, 12:00 P.M., CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on April 1st.

We had some amazing entries for our last challenge!  Thank you ALL for joining us. We’ve selected one of our favorites for this week’s “In the Spotlight” designer:

This gorgeous creation from Lina of Lina Scraps …  

Awesome Copic coloring Lina, and that lace is perfect!!  I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

We have a winner!   Picked using Random.org, the winner for Challenge No. 45 is:

No. 30 – Lynne of  Ruby-dooby-doo’s Stampin Spot

Congrats Lynne!   Please contact us with your choice of four digi images from Crafts and Me, and your email address.

Special thanks to Crafts and Me for sponsoring our challenge!!

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Tutorials:    No specific tutorials for this challenge … but here are a few of the CC Design Team’s favorite blue combinations:

If Copic only made 3 blues, I’d want them to be B91, B95 and B97. I use those 3 blues, in some combination, on nearly everything from sky, water, clothing, animals, baby stuff, etc.  These 3 blues are definitely my “go to” Bs. (I sure am glad that there are more choices though!!!) ~ Rose

I’m with Rose on this one the B90’s are my favourites, a light, a dark and one in between!! ~ Heather

My favorite “blues” are actually blue-greens (BGs).    I often use BG000, 72, 75  … and now the brand NEW BG70 too! ~ Mary

For your convenience the Design Team have included the specific blue Copic colors used for their sample cards below featuring Sugar Nellie images.     Each card is STUNNING!!

***VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:   Our next challenge, on April 1st will be our TWO YEAR Anniversary!   We’ve been busy planning and really hope you can join us!   LOTS of prizes will be up for grabs – you definitely won’t want to miss this one!    

 

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  COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 46 GALLERY

  ASELA HOPKINS

B0000,B00,B12,B93, B97, E00,E21,R20,E31,E35,E37,E49,YG03,YG67 

  

 

 

  HEATHER GILFOY BOND

 B0000, B21, 23, 24 & 29

 

JAMI BOVA

B01, B91, B93, B95, B97  

  

 

  JANE WETZEL

B00,01,02,05,18,28  

 

  

JODI-ANN LEE

B26,34, and 37

 

   KAREN WITTER

 B32,34,39; B93,95,97,99

  

 

KATIE COTTON

 

  

LILIAN TAN

B000, 00, 01, 91, 0

  

 

   MARY B. GIEMZA

BG000, 70, 72, 75, 78;  T0, 1, 3 

 

 

      

 

ROSE CRAWFORD

 

 

  

   SUZANNE DEAN

B99,B95,B91 for the blues along with Colorless Blender

 

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us.  An Inlinkz form has been included below.

Please don’t forget to stop back on April 1st for our TWO-YEAR Anniversary celebration and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.

 

Since we’ve covered COOL and WARM colors for the past two challenges, we thought it would be fun to combine the two this week and feature COMPLEMENTARY colors!    Complementary colors are found on the opposite sides of the color wheel.   

We know you’ll LOVE our sponsor this week!!   We’re happy to welcome the awesome online craft store, Crafts and Me  to our Copic Creations family!     If you are not familiar with this company, you really MUST take a peek at all the fabulous products and stamps carried at Crafts and Me, we promise you won’t be disappointed!

Crafts and Me  is a small family owned craft business ~ Mom, daughters and young granddaughters!   Their aim is to give you the best customer service possible, and to treat their customers just as they would like to be treated themselves.

They are also home to some exclusive, GORGEOUS digital images that can be found HERE.    You’ll see several of these beauties colored by the Copic Creations Design Team below.  (I don’t think I need to mention that you’ll be amazed at their wonderful creations!!)    The images were graciously supplied by Crafts and Me.

We’re also SUPER excited to announce that one VERY lucky participant this week will have the chance to win …

FOUR digi images of your choice from Crafts and Me!  

PLEASE NOTE: You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until March 14th, 12:00 P.M., CST to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on March 15th.

Once again, we were blown away again by all the amazing entries for our last challenge!   Thank you ALL for joining us. We’ve selected one of our favorites for this week’s “In the Spotlight” designer:

This awesome creation from Carolina Girl of  Creating in Carolina    . . .  

 Truly gorgeous coloring Carolina!!    I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

And, now for our VERY lucky winner from Challenge No. 44, picked using Random.org:

No. 7 – New York Debbie of Coastal Creations

Congrats Debbie!  Please contact us with your email address for us to forward to Bugaboo Stamps.

VERY Special thanks to Bugaboo Stamps for sponsoring our challenge!!

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Tutorials:   As we mentioned, our last two challenges have been WARM & COOL colors.  So, please refer to this link for information and tutorials on these two color types HERE.

We have added some additional sample color wheels showing our current WARM & COOL color combination challenge or COMPLEMENTARY COLORS:

Please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions.

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*** We’d like to take this opportunity to introduce you to the newest member of our Design Team ~ the amazingly talented Rose Crawford!   Rose is a Copic Certified artist who has been a participant for our challenges from the beginning.  I think you will enjoy seeing her creations here and if you pop over to her blog, In Rosie’s Book, you’ll always find lots of VERY helpful hints and tips for coloring with Copics!   You can also read all “about Rose” in our About Us  section of the blog. 

Welcome aboard Rose ~ we’re so glad you’re here!  

COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 45 GALLERY

  ASELA HOPKINS

 Poppy

E00, E21, Y11, Y15, Y17, RV10, 0, V0000, V12, V15, V17, YG23, YG67 

 

  

   HEATHER GILFOY BOND

Hidden Treasures

B00, B21,23,&27 : Y0000, 23, 61,68, E31,35  

 

JAMI BOVA

Dusk

 E000, E01, E21, E41, E13, E17, E18, E93, B000, B01, YR01, YR02, YR04, YR07, W1, W3

    

JANE WETZEL

Poppy

 BOO,02,05.16,18 YR01,04,07,18

  JODI-ANN LEE

Ladybug Love

  KAREN WITTER

Noon

V01, 04, 09; YG13,17, 21, 25; BV01, 02, 04, 08; Colorless Blender

  KATIE COTTON

Heart of Ice

LILIAN TAN

Shey

YR61, 65, 68, 0, BG000, 10, 11, 13, 15, 18, C1, 2, 3, 5

   MARY B. GIEMZA

Forever Rose

  ROSE CRAWFORD

 Tea For Two

  

 

    SUZANNE DEAN

Ladybug Love

I used grayer versions of red & green (so it’s pinks and soft greens) YG25,YG01,YG000/R89,R85,R83,R81

 

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on March 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.

  

 

Our awesome sponsor this week is Bugaboo Stamps ~ home to some absolutely adorable digital images.  Here’s a little bit about Jodie,  the illustrator and owner of Bugaboo Stamps:

“I have been designing graphics for 7  years, mostly for those who digitize, and now venturing into this new idea of stamps. I love to draw and love to see were my designs go and how they are used.   I find making people smile with my graphics very rewarding!   When you live in a tiny Saskatchewan town, sending your images to Iceland, the Netherlands, Africa to name a few is very exciting!  For many many years I drew mostly cutesy kids graphics you’d find on baby or kids clothes, alot of which you’ll find here. But my latest passion is my cranky old boots….Stella , Margaret and the Gals who came after them.  I just LOVE to create them.”

I hope you’ll be inspired to join us for our WARM colors challenge after seeing the Design Team samples below.    Bugaboo has graciously provided images for the Design Team to showcase, and as always, they’ve done an amazing job!  

Our prize for one lucky winner will be  …

 7 (Seven) Bugaboo Stamp images of your choice!

PLEASE NOTE: You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until February 28, 12:00 P.M., CST to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on March 1st.

We were blown away again by all the gorgeous entries for our last challenge!   They were all VERY cool!       Thank you for joining us.  We’ve selected one of our favorites for this week’s “In the Spotlight” designer:

This gorgeous creation from Nina of  Nina’s Kreative Roteloft . . .  

Wow!!  Thank you for sharing this with us Nina ~ a true work of he{art}!   I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

 

And, now for our VERY lucky winner from Challenge No. 43, picked using Random.org:

No. 73 – Cazza of Cazzaroo Crafts

Congrats Cazza!  Please contact us with your email address for us to forward to Lili of the Valley.

VERY Special thanks once again to the awesome Bev of Lili of the Valley for graciously sponsoring our challenge!!

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Tutorials:   Our last challenge included links to various WARM & COOL color articles and samples, please check those out HERE.

As always, please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions.

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 44 GALLERY

  ASELA HOPKINS  

Skelekinz baby 

E00,E21, Y21,YR23,0, R02, R46,R59,W1, W3, RV21,RV34,B24, BG05  

 

  

  HEATHER GILFOY BOND

Decon with Heart

YR00,02,04,07:V000,o4,06,09:Y0000,E31,33,34,74,79  

 

  JAMI BOVA

Crafting Dottie  

E000,E01, E21, E93, E42, E44, E47, E49, YR21, YR23, R14, R27, R89, Lipstick Spica, Gold Spica

 

  JANE WETZEL

Ava Heart

R24-27-29 W3-5 Y21-YR21-23-24-11 

  

  

JODI-ANN LEE

Summer Dog Pool

E31,35,37,B000,02,04,Y11,13,19,35

  

  KAREN WITTER

Fireman Cat

R22,24,27,29; N2,3,5,7; G63, 67,20

 

 

   KATIE COTTON

Scarlette Occassions ~ Presents

E09, E08; R30, R32, R37, BG11, BG32, YG21, YG25, E25, E27 … 

Please hop over to Katie’s blog for information on warm blues, warm greens, etc. 

 

  LILIAN TAN

Flower Bears ~ Sunflower

E30, 31, 33, 35, 37, R20 (cheeks and ears), Y13, 15, 17, 26, 0

  

  

MARY B. GIEMZA

Bugaboo Brats Cheerleader Girl

R02, 08, 14, 17, 20, 24, 27, 30 

 

SUZANNE DEAN

DOTTIE Celebrate

R29,R24,R22,R20/C9,C7,C5,C3,C1 

  

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on March 1st for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.

 

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 Our challenge this week is focusing on the COOL Copic colors as shown on the partial color wheel below:

COOL colors

We’re also super excited to welcome this week’s sponsor!   One of  THE most popular (and COOL!) crafting companies around, Lili of the Valley!! 

Laila Ansbergs started Lili of the Valley in 2004 and it has grown since then to be a well respected and much loved company in the crafting world.  Joined by her friend Lisa Barnes, the business has expanded and Lili of the Valley now works with other artists to bring you a wide range of gorgeous designs, both for stamps and die cut designs. Lili of the Valley Ltd popularity continues to grow as crafters from around the world discover the company’s lovely designs.

I know you’ll be inspired to join us after you take a peek at the amazing LOTV images colored in COOL Copic colors by the VERY COOL Copic Creations Design Team!    The four new fairy images were graciously provided by Lili of the Valley.

Our prize for this week’s challenge will be a …

 

 How cool is that?!     And, if you take a peek at their brand new images, I KNOW you’ll want to join us for a chance to win this awesome prize!

PLEASE NOTE: You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. You will have until February 14th, 12:00 P.M., CST to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on February 15th.

WOW, wow, wow!  What a fantastic turnout for our last challenge!!  Lots of NEW toys and techniques were shared with us!    Thank you everyone.   I can’t tell you how much we appreciate your entries.    It was tough once again, but we’ve picked one of our favorites for this week’s “In the Spotlight” designer.

 This amazing creation from Giovanna Irde of  Le piccole cose di Giò . . .  

Thank you for sharing this with us Giovanna.  What an awesome design idea!   I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

 

And, now for our VERY lucky winner from Challenge No. 42, picked using Random.org:

No. 134 – Genevieve of Enjoy the Little Moments

Congrats Genevieve!   Please contact us with your email address so we can forward this to our sponsor.

VERY Special thanks once again to Roberta of  Prairie Fairy Designs for graciously sponsoring our challenge!!

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Listed below, are LOTS links/tutorials we’ve found to help with this challenge for COOL colors ~ (most include information on WARM colors also … if you study hard, you just might be prepared for our next challenge!!    hint, hint!   :D)

As always, please don’t hesitate to ask if you have  any questions. 

Special thanks this week to … 

Marianne Walker, I Like Markers ~   Warm and Cool Shadows 

Make It Colourful challenge Blog, by Zoe McGrath ~Warm or Cool Colours 

Wikipedia, Color Temperatures

Graphic Design, Warm and Cool Colors

About.com, Color Theory Lesson ~ Warm and Cool Colors

Adam 2009, Video ~ Warm and Cool Colors

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***On a sad note, we are bidding farewell to our longtime teammate, the amazingly talented and soooooooooo very nice Cheryl Rowley!    Cheryl, who has been such an inspiration to us all, has decided to step down from the team due to her busy schedule.   We’d like to take this opportunity to thank her for each and every amazing project she has shared here.   We all love you and will miss you!      

COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 43 GALLERY

  ASELA HOPKINS

 Candlelight

 E00,E21, YG11,G07, YG06,B0000,B00,B12,B93,C00,C01,C03,C05,C07,0 

  CHERYL ROWLEY

 James Bear – In the Snow

  BG10, BG15, BG49   

   HEATHER GILFOY BOND

 Freedom

 B0000, B91 – G0000, G21 – YR0000, E00 – Y0000, E40, E41

   JAMI BOVA

 Little Girls – Swing Time

  JANE WETZEL

 Destiny’s Moon

 G000-2-3-7-17 BV00-04

  JODI-ANN LEE

 Mirror, Mirror

 C3,5,7,9,BV000,01,13,20

  KAREN WITTER  

Destiny’s Moon

YG63,67,BG32,45,49,Y0000,Y00,02,BG0000, Blender

    KATIE COTTON  

Winter Bunnies

    KATIE COTTON

Blue Haze

   LILIAN TAN   

Lazy Afternoon  

B-000,0000, 91, 93, 95, 97, 0 G-000, 0000, 21, 24, 28 

  MARY B. GIEMZA   

Fairies – On Tiptoe  

  SUZANNE DEAN

New Hat

 YR12,YR01,YR000,RV14,RV13,RV10,YG25,YG03,YG000,C3,C1,C00

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on February 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.

Participant Kina Nunziante Card

 

We’ve also got a NEW sponsor this week too!  We’d like to welcome Prairie Fairy Designs to our challenge blog.    If you’ve not visited their store yet, you’ll definitely be in for a treat.   They carry some really adorable images.    Each Copic Creations DT member has been provided with a PFD image and, as you’ll see below, they’ve done an awesome job once again!

 

Our prize this week generously supplied by Prairie Fairy Designs is

FIVE digial images from Prairie Fairy Designs

 PLEASE NOTE:    You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project.   You will have until January 31st, 12:00 P.M., CST to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize;  The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on February 1st.

WOW!   We were really blown away by the number of entries for our SPARKLE challenge!!   EVERYONE did such an amazing job at adding sparkle and shine to your wonderful creations!   Thank you ALL for joining us.   We’ve picked one of our favorites for this week’s  “In the Spotlight” designer. 

This gorgeous card from Debra James of  Debra’s Inky Fingers   . . .  

Thank you for sharing this with us Debra!    I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

 

 And, now for our  VERY lucky winner from Challenge No. 41, picked using Random.org:

No.  113 – Renkata of Scrap and Stamp with Friends 

Congrats Renkata!  Please contact us with your mailing address so we can forward this to our sponsors.

VERY Special thanks once again to Kellie of Just Rite Stamps and Marianne from Copics for graciously sponsoring our challenge!!

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No tutorials this week again since this isn’t a Copic specific challenge.    Please don’t worry, our next challenge will be geared to all you Copic lovers out there!      

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  COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 42  GALLERY

   ASELA HOPKINS

 The Geisha

E00,E11,E21,R17,R59,BV17,V06,V12,YG03,G28,YR31,YR23,W5,W3,W1.W00,E71,E47,E49,0

 NEW:  stippling of grays in the background & I added violet for the shading of the red

  CHERYL ROWLEY

Gerry’s Birthday

  R32, R24, R35, R37, YG21, YG05, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9

NEW: 

  HEATHER GILFOY BOND

Nurse Gillian

C00-C7- R20,22,27- E31,33,YR07& E77

NEW:  1st time using plasters and bandages on card

  JAMI BOVA

Dandy Ducky

W1, W5, W7, Y13, Y15, Y19, Y38, YR02, YR04, YR07, R14, R27, R89 

 NEW:  red and yellow Viva Decor Pearl Pens and the little white clothespin

JANE WETZEL

Lazy Boxer Beary

B00,32,34,G40,82,94,E00,33,34,35,37,93

NEW:   Spica glitter pens ~ sky blue & gold

   JODI-ANN LEE

Twinkletoes

E000,00,31,37,50,53,BG000,10,11,C1,3,5,7,RV000,R81,83,85

NEW:  Flowers

  KAREN WITTER

 Morley Dancing

  BG10,72,75(Scarf)-Y21,23,16,28,E07(Sweater)-E40,41,43,37(Body)-E50,51,53,55,57(Antlers)-E11,15,17,Blender (Tops of Shoes)-N1,Blender(Snow)-W3,6(Soles of Shoes)-E000(Cuffs on Shoes)

NEW:   Flower Soft & “twine” on the label

   KATIE COTTON

Sorry Roocat

E19, E17, E15, E13, E11; W1, W3, W5,; R01, R11 

NEW:   Camera!

LILIAN TAN

Cherry Blossoms  

0 RV – 000, 00, 09 B – 000, 0000, 21 E – 71, 74

NEW: 

MARY B. GIEMZA

Lenny

SUZANNE DEAN

Morley Dancing

BG72,BG10,E29,E25,E31,E50,E51,E53,C5,C3,C1

 NEW:  Used Copic refill inks to paint his boots/antlers

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us.   An Inlinkz form has been included below.  Please don’t forget to stop back on February 1 st for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.  

I’m feeling like a broken record here, but we have ANOTHER awesome featured sponsor this week  ~  We’re thrilled and honored to welcome Just Rite Stampers® to our Copic challenge blog!!    Woo hoo!    

 Just Rite Stampers®  has a huge collection of Christmas and holiday stamp sets available, and the best part is they are all ON SALE right now!    Their entire collection can be viewed here.   In addition to stamps for any occasion, they also offer Copic Sketch markers which may be purchased as singles, trios or quads!   They have a great 2-page reference guide you can download here.  

To help inspire you for our SPARKLE challenge, the VERY generous Kellie Fortin of Just Rite Stampers®  has provided each member of the DT with a set of their newest holiday images.   You’ll find these truly amazing creations below.

We’re taking a little break for the holidays and will return in one month with a new challenge on 1/15/11.   So, we’ve got an extra special prize package for one VERY lucky participant this week!   Are you ready for this?   

From Just Rite Stampers® . . . 

The following two Just Rite cling stamp sets and mini binder storage box!

 

 

 

 AND from Marianne Walker at Copic Markers . . .  a  Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen Set

  

 

How cool is that?!?

PLEASE NOTE:    You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project.   You will have until January 14th, 12:00 P.M., CST to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on January 15th.

We received some wonderful submissions for our last challenge.   It’s so great to see all the SUPER talented Copic artists joining us!   We’ve picked one of our favorites for this week’s  “In the Spotlight” designer. 

This simply adorable Tilda image from  Marilyn of One Stamping Fool   . . .  

Thank you for sharing this with us Marilyn!    I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

 

In our winner’s circle, chosen using Random.org, we have TWO lucky winners this week!  

A $15.00 Whimsy Stamps Gift Certificate goes to 

No.  14 – Delphine of Delphine’s Place 

~ AND ~

Five free digi stamps from Whimsy Stamps  to

No.  29 – Carol of CraftinGranny’s Card Shack 

Congrats ladies!  Please contact us with your email address so we can forward this to our sponsor.

VERY Special thanks once again to Denise of Whimsy Stamps for graciously sponsoring our challenge!!

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Sorry, no tutorials this week since this isn’t a Copic specific technique and we’re pretty sure you all are experts at adding some SPARKLE and shine to your projects!!  

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  COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 41  GALLERY

   ASELA HOPKINS

 Whimsical Christmas

  CHERYL ROWLEY

Christmas Ornament

  HEATHER GILFOY BOND

Christmas  Treasures

  JAMI BOVA

Groovy Snowman

  JODI-ANN LEE

Old Fashioned Christmas

  KAREN WITTER

 From Our House

   KATIE COTTON

Vintage Christmas

LILIAN TAN

Old Fashioned Christmas  

MARY B. GIEMZA

Hearts Come Home

SUZANNE DEAN

Christmas Ornament

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below.  Please don’t forget to stop back on January 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.  

PARTICIPANT CARD:

 

We have a SUPER fantastic sponsor this week!    We’re thrilled to announce that Whimsy Stamps will be sponoring our 40th challenge!!    The wonderful and so very nice, Denise of Whimsy Stamps has graciously supplied the DT with images for today’s challenge ~ I know you’ll be in awe of the cards from these amazingly talented ladies! 

 This week’s prize from Whimsy Stamps will be . . .  not one,

but TWO PRIZES for TWO lucky winners!!!    Woo hoo!  

 

~ AND ~

 

PLEASE NOTE:    You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project.   You will have until December 14th, 12:00 P.M., CST to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on December 15th.

We were blown away by all the wonderful entries for our last challenge!   All gorgeous Copic creations!   We’ve picked one of our favorites for this week’s  “In the Spotlight” designer. 

This beautiful Paper Pieced card by Carole of Apples & Pears  . . .  

 Thank you VERY much Carole for sharing this adorable Tilda with us ~ I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

We have a winner!! Chosen using Random.org, the lucky winner of a $15.00 Gift Certificate to

Tickled Pink Stamps is

No. 1 ~ Dana of Dana’s Inspriations

Congrats Dana!!  Please contact us with your email address so we can forward this to our sponsor.

Special thanks once again to Kellie of Tickled Pink Stamps for sponsoring our challenge!!

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Tutorials:

Listed below are some tutorials we’ve found to help with this challenge.  As always, please don’t hesitate to ask if you have  any questions. 

Special thanks this week to … 

Suzanne Dean, Scrap Bitz ~

Video Tutorial – Coloring of Clothing, Shading & Highlighting 

Lisa Futch, Creative K9s ~

Video Tutorial – Making & Using a Lightsource Template

Marianne Walker, I Like Markers ~ 

Light from a Single Point 

Light from a Candle

Light from a Candle (Part 2)

Shading & Cast Shadows

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 40 GALLERY

  ASELA HOPKINS

Touched by Love

Light source is straight ahead/front

E00. E21. Y21. YR23, E37. E31. E33. YG00. YG95, G99, B0000, B00, B05, G0000, G000, G00, G02, R20, R17, 0

  CHERYL ROWLEY    

Christmas Cupcake

Light source from upper right 

HEATHER GILFOY BOND  

 Little Christmas Angel

Light source from top center

G0000, 00, 21, 24 : R20, 24, 27 : E70. 71. 74. 79, Y0000 & E31

   JAMI BOVA

Teddy’s First Christmas

Light source from upper left

JANE WETZEL

Christmas Tree

Light source from upper right

JODI-ANN LEE

Leap of Joy

Light source from upper right

KAREN WITTER

Holly Cheer Cocoa

 Light source from upper left

   KATIE COTTON

 Caroling Snowmen

Light source from upper left

   LILIAN TAN   

  Cuddle Dragon

MARY B. GIEMZA

Touched by Love

Light source from upper right (star)

    SUZANNE DEAN  

Christmas Cocoa 

Light source from upper right

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. An Inlinkz form has been included below. (Yay, it now works on WordPress blogs!!) Please don’t forget to stop back on December 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.  

We’re on a roll with awesome sponsors too!   This week we’re showcasing the very cool Tickled Pink Stamps, brought to us by our awesome sponsor, Kellie Winnell ~ Tickled Pink Stamps, Australia’s No. 1 Stamping Supplier of Everything Cute, Quirky & Pink! 

Kellie, the owner of Tickled Pink Stamps, has supplied each DT member with a TP  Lil Lolita or Lil Lad image from this awesome collection for today’s challenge.   I know you’ll be blown away by the amazing creations!!    I hope you will check out these fun images ~ you’ll love them!   

Our prize today for one lucky participant is a

$15.00 Gift Certificate to Tickled Pink Stamps

 

PLEASE NOTE:    You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project.   You will have until November 30th, 12:00 P.M., CST to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on December 1st.

Each and every entry from our last challenge was soooo awesome!!   Thank you ALL for joining us.

This week our In The Spotlight pick for our Browns/Make a Scene challenge is this absolutely adorable card from Ruby of And That’s All She Wrote . . .

Thank you VERY much Ruby for sharing this gorgeous creation with us ~ I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

We have a winner!!   Chosen using Random.org, the lucky winner of your choice of three digi images from AND a set of Earth tone Copic makers from Make It Crafty is . . .

No. 26 ~ Shannon from Hoppy Creations

Congrats Shannon!!  Please send us your choice of images and your mailing address.

Special thanks once again to the VERY awesome Zoe of Make It Crafty for sponsoring our challenge!!

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Tutorials:

Our challenge is shading those paper-pieced images.   Once again, we don’t have specific tutorials for this, but have covered basic SHADING in a past challenge which includes several tutorials.   You can find this information here . . .

Shading on or around images

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 39  GALLERY     

ASELA HOPKINS  

 Lil Birthday – Luca

Yellow- Y21, YR23 Red-E08,R29 Brown -E71,E57, E29

   HEATHER GILFOY BOND   

Little Lolita 80’s Sookie

Blue C00,1,2,4,5 Peach E31

   JAMI BOVA  

Lil Lolita Willow

C3 and C5 for shading

   JANE WETZEL  

60’s Willow

C1,2,3,5

   JODI-ANN LEE   

60’s Ivy 

   KAREN WITTER   

  20’s Evie

 YG21,YG25 for Dress; E27,E29 for Hat; E43,E44,E47 for Hatband 

   KATIE COTTON   

  Lil Christmas Lolita Lilith

   MARY B. GIEMZA   

Lil Lotita – Ivy

T1, 3 & 5 for Shading of Pink DP

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us.   An Inlinkz form has been included below.   (Yay, it now works on WordPress blogs!!)   Please don’t forget to stop back on December 1st  for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge. 

Our main challenge is tackling the many (E – earth tone)  BROWN Copic colors, and/or a secondary challenge of MAKING a SCENE!    (Our sponsor this week offers some fabulous digi images to help you out with this part.)  

We’d like to warmly welcome this week’s awesome sponsor,  Make “it” Crafty, an online craft store and papercrafting community created by the SUPER talented and VERY sweet Zoe McGrath!!  

I hope you have a few minutes to take a peek at all the features available at the Make it Crafty site.  You’ll find everything you need for papercrafting, including all the most popular supplies, some very cool scenic digital stamps to create a scene with your favorite character stamps, and some very helpful video tutorials showcasing Copic coloring, various other techniques and how to use digi images in MS Word.  

The fabulous prize package this week from Make It Crafty for one VERY lucky participant will be . . .

A set of Earth tone Copic Ciao Markers ~ E43, 47, 49

AND

Your choice of THREE Make “It” Crafty digi images!!

PLEASE NOTE:    You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project.   You will have until November 14th CDT to post your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on November 15th.

Each member of the Design Team has used images provided by Make “it” Crafty  for your inspiration.   We were also VERY lucky to have one of the MIC Design Team members, the Copic master – Mag of Mag’s Little Things join us with an awesome example of combing these wonderful digi scene images with some of our very favorite character stamps from Magnolia!

We really enjoyed seeing everyone’s awesome blender pen tips and tricks submissions for our last challenge and learned LOTS of new ideas too!   Thank you ALL for joining us.   

This week our In The Spotlight pick just happened to use images from our sponsor this week!    We couldn’t resist featuring this amazing creation from Annika of Another Messy Crafter . . .

hehehe   A definite creative masterpiece!   Thank you Annika for sharing this wonderful card with us ~  I’ll be in touch with the code for our In The Spotlight blinkie.

AND, we have a winner!!   Picked using Random.org, the lucky winner of your choice of FIVE digi images from Pink Cat Studio is . . .

No. 34 ~ Gena from G&G Premade

Congrats Gena!  Please send us your choice of images so we can forward this to our wonderful sponsor!

Thanks again to Melissa of Pink Cat Studio for sponsoring our blender challenge!!  

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 Tutorials:

Since our main challenge is using the MANY available Copic earth tones ~ BROWNS, we do not have specific tutorials listed today.   However, if you’d like to refer to some previous challenges we’ve featured using browns, you may want to check out these for Copic coloring of …

Brunette Hair

Wood

Fur

For our secondary challenge MAKING A SCENE, Zoe of Make it Crafty has done an awesome video tutorial to show how to use multiple digi images, including a digi sentiment to your cards on her Learning Community blog:

Zoe McGrath,  Learning Community for Crafters ~

Video Tutorial – How to Use Digi Stamps in MS Word

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COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 38  GALLERY     

  MAGALI A.  

Open Window & (Tilda & Edwin)

ASELA HOPKINS  

  Fairy Tree House & Magical Sapphire Fairy

Browns- E50, E51, E53, E57

  CHERYL ROWLEY    

Old Oak Tree

E31, E42, E35, E25, E29, E49 

   HEATHER GILFOY BOND   

Fluttering Sapphire Fairy & Whimsical Log

   JAMI BOVA  

Old Oak Tree & Crooked Picket Fence

   JANE WETZEL  

Open Window

   JODI-ANN LEE   

Mushroom House 

   KAREN WITTER   

   Whimsical Log

   KATIE COTTON   

  Mushroom House

   MARY B. GIEMZA   

Fairy Tree House & (mini fairy Tilda)

     SUZANNE DEAN  

Boot House

literally every E shade was used along V’s & RV’s 

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. A Mister Linky has been included below.  Please don’t forget to stop back on November 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.

**PLEASE NOTE:   We just found out that inlinkz now works with WordPress!!  Yay!   So, as of today — WEDNESDAY, 11/10/10 – please use this form to add your card.    There is no need to resubmit previous entries from the Mister Linky form – we’ll be viewing both formats when choosing a winner.    Please let me know if you have any problems!!     Thank you ~ Mary

A few months ago we asked for your suggestions of challenge techniques you’d like to see covered here . . . this week we are featuring an idea from Tanya Rudd ~ Colorless Blender Techniques.   It’s pretty amazing what you can do with this magical marker . . . lots of cool tricks and techniques, as you’ll see in our tutorial section below.

As a special thank you to Tanya for this awesome suggestion, we’d like to send you a $20.00 gift certificate to 7 Kids College Fund  to possibly enhance your Copic collection!  

Believe it or not, we also have ANOTHER fantastic sponsor this week!   Pink Cat Studio!!  

Pink Cat Studio has some of THE most adorable fun and whimsical images for ALL occasions, available in both rubber and digi format.   You really should take a peek at these cuties!    We were thrilled that Melissa from Pink Cat Studio generously provided each Design Team member with a digi image for your inspiration!

Our prize this week for one lucky participant is a 

Your choice of FIVE adorable digi images from

Pink Cat Studio!!