More Flowers with Stained Glass Greetings!
Hi friends! Happy Thursday! Please welcome very special guest Bibi Cameron back to our blog! Looking at the image below I could barely believe that this was her FIRST time using Copic Markers!! Talk about a NATURAL! Read on for more details below and enjoy!
Hello from the North of Scotland! I hope you are doing well. It’s Bibi Cameron here and today I’m sharing a very simple card design idea and my very first cards ever using Copics!! Can you believe that? I don’t know how I have survived for so long without Copics in my stash?
I did a bit of masking to stamp one of the beautiful florals from Summer Flower Stamp Set and the gorgeous sentiments are from Stained Glass Greetings stamp set.
I stamped all the images with Black Simon Says Stamp Ink, and I heat set it.
First I stamped the flowers and then I added colors using Copics. Once I finished coloring I stamped the big sentiment three times using the Tim Holtz Platform as I want it to be bold and sharp.
I love Simon Says Stamp Ink to stamp fine details as it allows me to stamp crisp and clean lines .. it is just perfect to avoid blotted or blotchy edges and once it’s fully dry it can be used with waterbased coloring products. Now that I have tried this I can say that it is awesome to use with alcohol markers as well.
So I’m a bit obsessed with green and reddish ( brick – wind) colors and I have lovely watercolor paints and water-based markers in these shades but I recently have been looking at Kelly Latevola chatty videos and she inspired me to order my first set of 36 Copic Ciao markers.
I got the Copic Ciao Markers Set B which includes reds and green colors, some primary colors and skin colors too! So it was a great solution because it was the one I could afford to give them a try.
I found that buying them in a set is better value for money than buying colors individually as I got a few Copic markers here and there but they didn’t seem enough to make anything much at all really.
So I was a bit worried about my Copic coloring skills ( none) although I had to stop worrying and then I did what I always do: relax and enjoy. I applied colors without thinking too much, laying down darker colors in some areas of the images and always in flicking motion.
I was having so much fun coloring these images that I quickly made a second card in blue-purple shades as well.
I also used SSS Wonky Rectangles Dies to die cut the panel and add a decorative stitched pattern on the edges created by this die and Deco Diamonds Background Stamp to stamp that beautiful geometrical pattern on an envelope which is a perfect match for these cards.
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These are very pretty! I love how they look. :) Great job!
Thank you :)
Well Bibi, apparently you have ‘some Copic skills’ as these are STUNNING! Well done!
Thank you lovely Teresa. Big hugs. x
The coloring is incredible!!!! And I love the little sequin accents
Thank you very much :) x Bibi
These cards are just lovely – beautiful job with the Copics! I have some and have not used them much but you have inspired me to get them out and give it a try!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!
thank you .. and get your Copics out…I used the blender pen to soften the seems between colours! I forgot to mention that.:) x Bibi
Wow these are just beautiful! I love the flowers paired with those stained glass sentiments. Very cool.
These are just beautiful! Can’t believe you never used Copics – you’d never know it! I love the gorgeous flowers, of course, but the stained glass greetings … one of my very favorites from SSS (I have
big greetings 1, which is very similar).
Such beautiful cards (someone will be very lucky to receive these), and I think your colouring is lovely and you shouldn’t stress about it.
Take care
Tracy
Very beautiful! Great job using your copics! I enjoy mine as well! Love your design as well!
These are gorgeous! However, the stamp is a hibiscus and not in this set… what set is it from?
Gorgeous card! I love how the flowers were coloured – beautiful!
Gorgeous coloring, beautiful cards, I love the layouts!
These cards are gorgeous! I love how you colored the flowers; beautiful job :)
I am in awe of these beautiful flowers – lovely work!
What stampset did you use ? there is not such a flower in the More Spring Flowers set …
But anyhow, your flowers are perfectly coloured and the result is VERY beautiful !! I love those cards very much.
WOW.. your coloring is amazing!
Beautiful cards..
Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous cards Bibi! Look at you rock the copics! Never would know that you were not a seasoned pro.
Your colours are amazing and the cards are gorgeous!
I LOVE how you colored the flowers so richly. I used to have some that looked like the red ones :)
love those stained glass greetings and what a wonderful job you did on the coloring! I still need lots of practice with that!
You are a natural, for sure! Love these!
The shading of the flowers is
gorgeous. You made good use of
your Copic colors. thanks for
sharing. txmlhl(at)yahoo(dot)com
Fabulous cards Bibi! Awesome coloring, I don’t own Copics but I love being inspired by fellow crafters. Way to go!
Oh wow! Flower colouring is simply breathless!!! Awesome cards!!!
Bibi, these cards are lovely. The stained glass words make such great card sentiments and your design for these cards shows them so well. tfs
These cards are absolutely gorgeous!
Great color choices!! I would never have guessed that this is a first Copic project, fabulous job!!
Beautiful and elegant!
Sweet! They just really make me happy when I look at them!!
love these beautiful cards – thanks for the ideas:)
Great cards and you did a fantastic coloring job! I love copic markers-so fun to color with!
Beautiful cards. The Copic coloring is amazing!
These are lovely. I have stayed away from Copics because of their cost. I do have some Zig markers and do get pretty good results with them. My girls are always asking about a gift. Maybe I’ll suggest a starter of Copics.
These remind me of Hawaii. I like the dark colors you used.
Gorgeous flowers!!
These are so pretty! Your colouring looks amazing!
Beautiful work on these flowers,,, your coloring details are so awesome, they look velvety !!
You did a great job of coloring these beautiful cards!
These are gorgeous. Totally impressed with your Copic use.
Beautiful cards! Your Copic coloring is impressive! I’ve had Copics for years and don’t color as well as you. Nice job.
You always provide wonderful inspiration!
Bibi this is incredibly awesome! It is almost hard to believe that this is the first time you used Copic markers, you are a natural talent, the blending is so great. I love the colour combination you used, so gorgeous. Thank you for showing these pieces of art.
Very lovely!
Beautiful flowers Bibi. They look like you have been Copic coloring for years!
Beautiful! You have inspired me to purchase some Copics to try!
The Copic coloring is bee-utiful. I’m a first time, second time, third time, etc. but my Copic coloring or any coloring is nowhere this quality.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
wow, theses are stunning!
These are beautifully colored and don’t agree with you in not having skills!! Your skill rocks!!!
These are gorgeous! Are you sure you haven’t used Copics before?! Lol! You’re definitely a natural. The flowers are beautiful in both sets of colors and the sentiments are perfect with them. Thanks for sharing these!
Gorgeous cards and stunning coloring!
Love the colouring, the cards are gorgeous. I’m a big fan of these stained glass sentiments – I have the Christmas one and absolutely love it! Maybe I should invest in the other one, too :-)