It's Been a Whole Year

Hey there,

I cannot believe I haven't posted in a year. All of last year I taught Copic Classes at a Scrapbook Store over an hour from my house and I just let everything else go. It got to be toooo much and not enough people interested so I stopped.

I just attended the Intermediate Certification class in St Louis last week and it has gotten me psyched again about coloring. I really like that there is more to learn with my Copics. So I am practicing my shadows and shading. Here is an image I colored after class to practice really using contrast on faces.

Of course, most images we color aren't big enough to get so many colors on but it is fun to play around with anyway.

I did her face all over with E000 and then shaded a little with E00. On the right side of her face I wanted it to be in deep shadow, so I used E11, E13, E15 and E04. I then added some BV00 around her face curve and above her eye. I also blended out some Y000 & Y00 around the nose area.

Bricks, Stones, Rocks, Sand & Pebbles Class

Wow! You will learn a lot of things in this class. Have you tried to color a brick wall yet? It looks so tedious. But after this class, you'll fly through it in no times. You'll learn to add a brick wall when your image doesn't have one. What about adding pebbles under an image? Sand? You will need the following Copic Markers for this class- E31, E33, E37, E42, E44, E53, E57, E77, W1, W3, W5, C3, YG91, YG93, YG95, G21 & C. Blender.

Some examples:

Image: Tiffany Doodles

Image: Bird's Cards Digital

Image: Unknown Rubber Stamp

Stay tuned for dates & times this will be offered at Daisy Lane Scrapbooking in Mattoon, IL.

Busy Busy Busy

Hey everybody,

Man, it's tough to take the time to Blog right now. I'm getting stuff ready for my classes and I'm going to New York from the 18th-27th of this month. I am making lot's of stuff using my Copics, but it's all for the class and not in Card form. I've had to make a swatch book just for the class as I really don't want a ton of people touching my own as it will wear it out too quickly. Then I made a smaller purse size for all those people who say to me "What are Copics?" I whip out my little purse sample book and show them.



I've been advertising in the newspaper, but also trying to send out personal invites to people whom I think will benefit/enjoy the class. It's really hard to let people know about the classes when you're not working from a Scrapbook Store Front. I've posted flyers everywhere I go.



I also made a Graduation Cake for a young friend of mine last weekend. Here is a picture of the cake.

Of course I used my Cricut. I made a template of the girl silhouette from the Beyond Birthdays Cartridge. I then used the Wild Cards cartridge to make the diploma, cap and words.

I put wax paper over them and used Color Flow icing to outline and then fill them in. They turned out really nice. My friends loved it.