This card is for the colour challenge found HERE and the sketch challenge found HERE on Split Coast Stampers and also for the 30 day colour challenge on "The Daily Marker" blog found HERE . My middle daughter loves owls and so this is the perfect birthday card for her, I'm frantically trying to get all the birthday cards done that I will need while we are away overseas.
I wont go into quite as much detail with the making of the card this post but the previous post does explain a lot, instead I'm going to focus on a couple of things.
I wont go into quite as much detail with the making of the card this post but the previous post does explain a lot, instead I'm going to focus on a couple of things.
If using a colour challenge to choose the card colours for a card you have to decide in what order or in which way you will use these colours
For me this largely depends on whether I am going to be colouring images or stamping without colouring.
The colour challenges I normally follow are the SCS challenges and one of the positives to these challenges is that there is a gallery of other members cards for each challenge so if you are stuck you can have a look at what other people do.
For this challenge the colours were SU So Saffron, Smokey Slate and Soft Sky. The colour names are only a guide so that you know what colours to use but what it means is a soft light yellow, a soft light grey and a soft blue with greeny undertones. I have also used two sets of SU DP they being "All Is Calm" for the Soft Sky spotty background and "Watercolor Wonder" for the stripes.
For me this largely depends on whether I am going to be colouring images or stamping without colouring.
The colour challenges I normally follow are the SCS challenges and one of the positives to these challenges is that there is a gallery of other members cards for each challenge so if you are stuck you can have a look at what other people do.
For this challenge the colours were SU So Saffron, Smokey Slate and Soft Sky. The colour names are only a guide so that you know what colours to use but what it means is a soft light yellow, a soft light grey and a soft blue with greeny undertones. I have also used two sets of SU DP they being "All Is Calm" for the Soft Sky spotty background and "Watercolor Wonder" for the stripes.
The next step is to choose the Copic markers or any other markers or colouring accessories.
I'm very fortunate because I have all of the Copic colour range and have a swatch booklet with all the colours put into it.
When choosing colours I use this booklet by taking the card I am trying to match and holding against the colours in the swatch booklet. I normally try to match the middle colour of my Copic markers to the card colour then choose a darker colour fro the shading and a lighter colour for the highlights as I have mentioned din previous posts
I'm very fortunate because I have all of the Copic colour range and have a swatch booklet with all the colours put into it.
When choosing colours I use this booklet by taking the card I am trying to match and holding against the colours in the swatch booklet. I normally try to match the middle colour of my Copic markers to the card colour then choose a darker colour fro the shading and a lighter colour for the highlights as I have mentioned din previous posts
Of course it is not always possible to get the exact colour matches and I don't loose a lot of sleep over this just try to get as close as you can.
With this card I had trouble matching the soft Sky colour. It's not too bad but not quite the colour I wanted.
This leads me onto the need to do a swatch of the colours you have chosen.
With this card I had trouble matching the soft Sky colour. It's not too bad but not quite the colour I wanted.
This leads me onto the need to do a swatch of the colours you have chosen.
Once I have chosen the Copic colours I take a scrap of the card I am going to be blending on (normally X-Press It blending card) and lay down a square of the lightest colour I then take the darkest colour and put a strip of this over the first colour I then blend this colour with the middle colour I have chosen and again blend this colour out with the lightest colour.
There are two reasons for doing this;
1 it shows me how the colours will go down and look and whether I might need darker or lighter colours or even maybe more colours to get the right shading gradients.
2 often the colour numbers you have chosen are not sequensal but it is difficult to tell the difference by looking at the cap colours. I write the marker number next to the colour on the swatch with a little arrow pointing to it. It is hard to see in the photo but for example the blue colours for the hat are lightest to darkest BG000, BG53, BG45.
There are two reasons for doing this;
1 it shows me how the colours will go down and look and whether I might need darker or lighter colours or even maybe more colours to get the right shading gradients.
2 often the colour numbers you have chosen are not sequensal but it is difficult to tell the difference by looking at the cap colours. I write the marker number next to the colour on the swatch with a little arrow pointing to it. It is hard to see in the photo but for example the blue colours for the hat are lightest to darkest BG000, BG53, BG45.
This is just an image of my favorite tool the SU Stamp-a-ma-jig, in this car I have used it to position the main image the little greeting on the front of the card and also to over stamp that greeting so that I could clear heat emboss this greeting and the greeting inside the card as well.
Supplies and accessories used for this card are;
Stamps; Art Impressions Whoot UMM4122, SU Owl Together Now, SU On Your Birthday.
Papers; X-Press It blending card, SU Soft Sky, So Saffron, Smokey Slate.
Inks; SU Soft Sky, Memento Tuxedo Black, Versa Mark Watermark.
Copic Markers; Body / feathers = C0, C-3, C-5, C-7. Branch = Y13, Y17, Y19. Hat = BG000, BG45, BG53 Eyes = 100 black
Other accessories;
SU Dimensionals foam mount, double sided tape, SU Crystal Effects (on the eyes), Signo uniball white (for highlights on eyes) Scotch Magic Tape. Tim Holtz sponge applicator and sponge (for around main image and also greeting on front of card). Sequines from the SU Watercolor Wishes Card Kit.
This completes this blog, hope you have enjoyed your read and I have inspired your in some small way
For further information or to see other cards I have made why not pop over to my gallery at Split Coast Stampers
margscardcrazy
Cheers
Marg
Stamps; Art Impressions Whoot UMM4122, SU Owl Together Now, SU On Your Birthday.
Papers; X-Press It blending card, SU Soft Sky, So Saffron, Smokey Slate.
Inks; SU Soft Sky, Memento Tuxedo Black, Versa Mark Watermark.
Copic Markers; Body / feathers = C0, C-3, C-5, C-7. Branch = Y13, Y17, Y19. Hat = BG000, BG45, BG53 Eyes = 100 black
Other accessories;
SU Dimensionals foam mount, double sided tape, SU Crystal Effects (on the eyes), Signo uniball white (for highlights on eyes) Scotch Magic Tape. Tim Holtz sponge applicator and sponge (for around main image and also greeting on front of card). Sequines from the SU Watercolor Wishes Card Kit.
This completes this blog, hope you have enjoyed your read and I have inspired your in some small way
For further information or to see other cards I have made why not pop over to my gallery at Split Coast Stampers
margscardcrazy
Cheers
Marg
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