Sunday, July 10, 2011

Bloomin' Fun!

Had a chance to play around with another die from my Cottage Cutz collection that has been collecting dust. Gotta be in the mood to do a lot of layering and chalking to work with these! This time around however, instead of using chalks, I decided to try using my copics to add color and shading.
Saw that a lot of the design team members over at the Cottage Cutz blog are doing this and acheiving beautiful results so I wanted to give it try. A few of the ladies use only white cardstock to cut all their pieces then use their copics to color everything in. I tried this with the mouse, since I wanted her to have a lot of white highlights, but used colored cardstock for everything else, using copics to add shading. I made the mistake of choosing Bazzill Bling to do the mouse, as I found the textured surface made it harder for me, a beginner level copic user to blend the colors nicely.   
Blending went a lot easier with the smooth surfaced cardstock I chose for the flowers. For the leaves and stems I went back to chalks, mostly because I didn't have the right green shades in copics. In comparison, I liked the final results with the copics, I just need to get better at using them. Chalks are messier, but easier to blend and a little more forgiving.
Each of the pieces were cut several times so I could do lots of layering for this sliding pop-up birthday card for my sil.Used Nestabilities Labels 2 die for the background and tiny ladybug is from the Just Because Cards cartridge. A time consuming, but fun to create card...LOL, this really ended up being a FAT card!


7 comments:

  1. love the card! and all its beautful layers and copic coloring. I just got a new batch of copics and cant wait to use them! TFS!

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  2. Love the bold and colorful card. The layering has such a nice effect too.

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  3. oh gosh, Eunice... u have soooo much patience!!!! love it... i wouldn't be able to do a project like this. u did awesome, girl!! hugs, Jen

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  4. What a sweet card.
    Great coloring with your Copics, Eunice.
    PJ(Jessie Adams)

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  5. Another fabulous card Eunice. Love the pretty sunflowers and the cute mouse!

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  6. OMG Eunice this card is adorable and that mouse is just too stinkin' cute! What a fabulous job coloring her with your copics and the sunflowers are so real looking.

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  7. what a cute card! love the layers and pop ups for the flowers and that cute mouse! sweet idea! hope you have a wonderful weekend!

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