Feathered Friends tutorial and a giveaway!

In July, Alicia, Jessica and I were lucky enough to go to the Copic Certification class in Milwaukee where we became a "Certified Copic Instructors." I had a great time playing with some of the other types of Copic markers, pens and tools that I had never had the chance to try before.

Marianne, the instructor was lots of fun and demonstrated some techniques that I hadn't seen before. One of them was using something she called "nasty rags." LOL! I didn't know what to expect. But once I saw it, I knew I had to share it with you!

Instead of "Nasty Rags,"    I'll call this technique "Adding texture with colorless blender solution."



If you look closely at the owls, they've been colored with Copic markers but they also seem to have feathers!

Here's how you can create this same look on your cards.

First, stamp your image. In this case, I used the two owls stamp from "Owl always love you." I stamped them using a Black Memento Ink Pad.



I used three colors of Brown to color my owls, E31, E35 and E37. I began with my lightest marker, E31 and colored the bellies of the owls.



Next, I colored E35 outside of the lightest brown.




And then, finally, I added the darkest brown, E37 to the edges.



Then, I went back to my lightest marker again and colored, starting at the center and working my way all the way to the edge to blend the three colors together.



Once I blended both owls, I cut a tiny piece off of a wash cloth. Then, I squeezed some of the colorless blender refill onto the cloth.



I gently placed the piece of wash cloth over the owl and pressed lightly in the center of each owl's belly.



And here is what it looked like when it dried.



See how feathery they look?

And here is a close up of my finished card.



Card details:
Stamps: Owl always love you, Whatever Floats your Boat(greeting) 
Card stock: Stampin' Up Really Rust, Whisper White and Basic Black
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey Ambrosia
Other: Copic Markers, Copic Colorless Blender Refill, Nestabilities Tags Trio, Basic Grey Brads (Archaic,) Bling and Dazzle Screw Brads, EK success Curved Corner punch, Metallic Rub-on paste(on tag)

Would you like a chance to win a Copic Colorless Blender refill? Leave a comment here and I will randomly pick a winner on Tuesday.

I hope you enjoyed tonight's tutorial. I'll be back with more soon!
Hugs,
Gina K.





Posted by Gina K at 8/24/2008 6:58 PM
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