Happy Card Maker

Monday, November 30, 2009

Here is a quick Copic Tip;
If you are using your normal paper with your Copic marker, and the ink is bleeding outside the image border, "What Do I Do" ?

More than likely, due to the moisture that your CS has picked up, is the problem. Use you craft iron to drive the moisture out of the CS, this should solve the problem.

Still in the Christmas theme, here is a card that I made over the weekend. On this card, "Tilda with Presents", I use some T3 Toner Grey to give more depth to the dress on the left side. The Christmas trees in the background were embossed with silver glitter embossing powder. Tilda of course was popped up to give some depth.

It's a quick card and in the minimalist style that I prefer. The colors used for the card are listed below.

Face; E0000,E000,E00,R20 Socks; B00,B01,B04 Holly; G07,G09 Hair; Y23,E35,YR23 Dress; RV00, RV02,RV04, T3

I think that it is very gute card and quick to make. Now I only have 32 more cards to make. I had better get busy.

Have a GREAT DAY!!!

Bob L.

Friday, November 27, 2009
Today I wish to talk about understanding color matching.

First thing that you need to do is go to the Copic Marker Site and down load the Copic 334 Color Wheel. Please print it on the same type of cardstock that you normally color on, it seems to come out with a better rendition of the colors.

Starting from the outside of the wheel on the BG(Blue Green) section, the BG01-BG09 all have the same saturation of Grey added to the color. This holds true for all of the color groups.

As you move to the hub of the color wheel, more Grey to the color. So when you get to the hub in the BG color group, the BG91-BG99 has the most Grey added to the color. These colors appear to be darker.
Here is a little sample chart using BG02-BG07 and G02-G07;

So with that said, if you stay in the same circle of the wheel, the same amount of Grey has been added. Your colors will match.

If you are using the same color combination of colors as the chart above, but wish to make the shadow deeper add Grey to that area and blend it in with you darker color. I use the T series (toner Grey)

Use the color wheel it has helped me a lot.

Have a GREAT DAY!!!

Bob L.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009
I recently attended the Copic Certification Course in Columbia, SC at "The Stamping Place" There were about 35 students attending, The course was presented by Sally Lynn McDonald who was very informative and interesting. We learned a lot about the Copic Marker System. Now all we have to do is practice what we learned.

One of the techniques for blending that I found interesting was, The Flick Blending method.
It's hard to explain in words, so I have made a short video of the technique. Here is the Video;