Using masculine colours with girly images.

good morning everyone! I have been a bit slack this week...i usually have my post all ready a few days before but today i am posting today at 9:15am!!! It has been a busy few weeks and i have been getting behind with everything!
Right, now my head is screwed on the right way i can share with you all out there in blogland.
Masculine colours. This was a hard one for me as i do not really have many boyish images. I have 2 girls and my hubby has 4 sisters so there is not really much need for them in my house. so i went through my collection and found a Greeting farm image called Thursday and thought she would be perfect to colour.
Here are the colours i used.

I managed to get a bunch of greens and browns which together are quite boyish and make a great "camo"look.
then i coloured thursday in.

Once she was coloured i wanted to make a general card with her but still keep the masculine colours.
so i grabbed some my minds eye papers from the out of the blue collection and created this card.

I also used a fence die from my favorite things, and the sentiment is a sticker i got from EAD designs.

All the copics can be purchased from Mad for Markers and the greeting farm image can also be available from there too.

I just love that image it reminds me of my daughter Zoe, she is a real tomboy!

On another note i would love to share with you a funny story about my daughter, i have written a blog post about it on my blog a day in the life of osiris and loki ...it involves scissors and hair! and i am sure that you ALL out there can totally relates to this tale.!
Well i hope you enjoyed my card today, and do not forget to join us and enter the challenge. you can find it on the right sidebar.
I cannot wait to see what you create!

Tara:)

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Coloured Ribbons and pearls...

Hi everyone,
I have made a card for my bro as he turned 21 yesterday!!
You dont have to just use your copics to colour images you can also use them to colour your embellishments, ribbons and heaps of other things...

I coloured the ribbon and pearls using YG41...

Here it is...

Have fun with the challenge, Hugz ashlee

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Masculine Colours continued!

It's the final week of the Masculine colours Challenge here at Mad for Markers and I can't believe....this month seems to have flown by.

This week I have used The Greeting Farm CC Saturday and grubbed it up like a boy would.

Copic Colours Used

Hair - E31, E33, E35, E37

Skin and cheeks - E50, E51, E11, R20

Shirt -Y26, Y28

Jumper and Shoes - YG61, YG63

Jeans, Eys and Plate - 95, B97

If you want to know anymore details about my card you are welcome to check out my blog here

CC Saturday and all the copics can be purchased at the Mad for Markers store.

Happy Crafting
Sam xx

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Happy Day

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to another wonderful Friday here at the Mad for Markers Challenge Blog.

We are continuing along with the 'Masculine Colour' theme this week.

There have been some great entries again this month, but there is still time to enter.

 Stamp: OA-Happy Day (The Greeting Farm)

Copics Used:

Skin: E11, E30, E00, RV00, R81, Copic Opaque White

Hair: E000, E31, E34, E25, E27, E29, E47

Clothes: BG53, BG57, C3, C5, C7, B91, B93, B95, B97

Mad for Markers is hosting a couple of great colouring events.

Please check out the store for all the details.

2nd June - Colour Day in Werribee, Melbourne

16th June - Project Class with Irina Blount from LaLa Land Crafts.

21-23 September - Annual Mad for Markers Copic Colour Conference

Until next time

Melissa

xxxxx

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Skater Ian

Hi Everyone!

Susan here with some MASCULINE COLOUR inspiration for you.

I have used the Skater Ian stamp from The Greeting Farm.

Available {here} at the Mad for Markers Online Store.

Copics Used:

Skin: E51, E11, E13, R20, YR01

Hair: C9, C7, C5, C3, C1

Jeans: B0000, B97, B95, B93, 0

Shoes: C1, C3, C5, C7

Shirt: YR01, YR04, YR07, B93

Skateboard: B91, 0

Ramp: C9, C7, C5, C3

Copics Used:

Skin: E50, E51, E11, E13, R20

Hair: E40, E42, E43, E44, E47

Jeans: B0000, B97, B95, B93, 0

Shoes: C1, C3, C5, C7

Shirt: YR01, YR04, YR07, B93

Skateboard: B91, 0

Ramp: C9, C7, C5, C3

Keep checking back for more inspiration from the talented DT.

Happy Colouring!

~ Susan xxox

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Getting masculine at Mad For Markers

Remember this month at Mad for Markers we want you to use your 'masculine-coloured' Copics... 

Here's another version of  CC Sunday for you :-)

Copics: B00, B02, B95, B97, B99 C1, C3, C5, C7, 
E000, E00, E29, E33, E35, E37, R000, YG23, YG63

Image: CC Sunday by The Greeting Farm

Papers by Kaisercraft.

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Manly colours for a little boy

Hello there everyone!
I hope you are enjoying your first week of out new challenge. This one was a hard one for me as i do not really have many manly images....i have 2 girls so not really much need for them i suppose! Anyway i finally found something to use for masculine card.

I used the Greeting farm build a ones-ie for boys clear stamp set and coloured with several copics shown below

I then used several Fiskars border punches and some kaisercraft papers.

lastly i used some bobbly eyes to finish off the little monster and a sentiment sticker.

If you would like to have a go at this challenge check out the right side bar and add a card!

Tara:)

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A card for you...

Hi everyone,

Its a Masculine challenge here at Mad for Markers..

Copics used :

Copics used on elfy...

R20,E000,E00,E11,E13

YG11,YG13,YG17

Y00,Y04,Y08,Y17

BV20,BV23,BV24

YG61,YG63

E27,E29,E30

Y21,Y26,Y28,YG97

 

Here is my card..

Hope you like it...

Cant wait to see what you create for this challenge

Hugz Ashlee



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Big Day Tobie - Masculine Colour Challenge

This month we at Mad for Markers are running the challenge of Masculine colours and I can tell you now mine don't usually get a workout.  

I have used SOG 'Big Day Tobie' for my Inspiration to you.

Copic Colours Used

Hair - E33, E35, E37

Skin and cheeks - E50, E51, E11, R20

Shirt - C0, C3

Vest and Shoes - YG61, YG63

Jeans, Eys and Plate - B41, B45

Cake - E30, E31, E35, E37, B45, YG63, Y15, R27

If you want to know anymore details about my card you are welcome to check out my blog here

Big Day Tobie' and all the copics can be purchased at the Mad for Markers store.

Happy Crafting
Sam xx

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Masculine Ryan

Hi Everyone,

I hope everyone is well!

This week we started a new Challenge ..... MASCULINE COLOURS.

For today's inspiration, I have used Ryan from The Greeting Farm on canvas paper (for texture).

I hope you can draw some inspiration from it.

We love to see what you create, so please join in this challenge.

Copics Used:

Skin: E11, E30, E000, RV00, R81

Hair: E000, E31, E34, E25, E27, E47, E59

Clothes: R35, R37, R39

Mad for Markers is hosting a couple of great colouring events.

please check out the store for all the  details.

2nd June - Colour Day in Werribee, Melbourne

16th June - Project Class with Irina Blount from LaLa Land Crafts.

21-23 September - Annual Mad for Markers Copic Colour Conference

Until next time

Melissa

xxxxx

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One For The Boys

Hello to all our Copic followers.

Firstly I would like to start off my post with announcing that I will be stepping down from my position on the Mad For Markers Design Team. It is with great sadness that I have to do this however with greater work commitments I am slowly running out of time to meet deadlines and I believe this is unfair to all involved. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time on the Design Team and would like to thank all the followers who have left lovely comments about my creations. It is so nice to see so many people following the inspiration we bring to you weekly. I wish the current Design Team all the best for the future and I will definitely be popping in from time to time and hopefully will find a little "me" time to complete a challenge here and there.

Now onto my Inspiration.

This week is the start of our new monthly challenge. This month it is all about the Men and Boys. We would like to see you use Masculine colours on your creations. Remember it doesn't have to be a card, it can be anything you like.

This week I have had the pleasure of colouring the very cute Boots. He was so nice to colour, all be it a little hard with all his wrinkles!!!!

Copics Used:

E70, 71, 74, 77, 79.

R81 (Just a little for his nose and ears)

Check out the Blog daily for lots of inspiration from the Design Team.

We also have a couple of great colouring events on our calender. Check out the Shop for all the details.

2nd June - Colour Day in Werribee, Melbourne
16th June - Project Class with Irina Blount from LaLa Land Crafts
21-23 September - Annual M4M Copic Colour Conference

Thanks for dropping bye, and don't forget to start colouring with those dark male colours....

Mel B

xxx

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Ian

Hi Everyone!

Susan here with some MASCULINE COLOUR  inspiration for you.

I have used Oh Boy! Ian from The Greeting Farm and coloured him in using the following Copic colours...

Skin: E50, E00, E21, R20

Hair: E30, E31, E34

Jeans: B02, B04, B06

Shoes: C5, C7

Shirt/T-Shirt: C3, C5, C7, G00, G12, G14

Keep checking back here all month for more inspiration from the talented DT.

Happy Colouring!

~ Susan xxox

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New Challenge - Masculine Colours!

This month at Mad for Markers we want you to use your 'masculine-coloured' Copics. 

Think browns, greens, blues, greys...  no pinks or purples...

Image: CC Sunday by The Greeting Farm

Copics: C3, C5, C7, E18, E29, E35, E37, E50, E51, E57, E59, Y28, YG23, YG63, YG67

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Winner of Our April Showers Challenge

Hi Copic Lovers,

Thank you to all our talented entrants in our April Showers Challenge.

Our lucky winner this month is Blankina!

With her gorgeous Greeting Farm image.

Blankina if you would like to email me I can send you your well-deserved Blinkie!

Here are our amazing entries for the April Showers Challenge...

1. Rina Fashionista	2. Dee	3. Kasey ~ in Oz
4. Hazel	5. Rose Andrew	6. Sassy Raggedy
7. Maria Therese	8. Blankina	9. Katie Tate
10. Shelby	11. Craftin Suzie	12. Fiona-Kate
13. Elizabeth H.	14. Deonna B	15. Hazel
16. Pat K.	17. NanaConnie	18. montygonza
19. Gretchen	20. Sassy Raggedy

Our new challenge begins tomorrow so come back here for more inspiration and a fresh new competition!  We love seeing your awesome work!  It is so inspiring to us and gets the colouring juices flowing!!

Alicia xx

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Star Wars and M4M

May the 4th be with you!

Today's my day for another M4M post so I thought I'd share with you something I was working on when I did my Certification and a sneak peak for the new challenge starting on Monday....

I haven't coloured many La-La Land images but I really enjoyed colouring this one at Certification and so I'm looking forward to the Sydney project class June 16th which Irina is teaching (you can find more details here):

Clothes G21/G24/Y28, Boots E33/35/37/47,
Hair E31/33/35, Skin E50/E51/RV10/RV13, B00

And for Monday's sneak peak:

Can you guess what the challenge will be?

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April but not showers!

Hello there everyone!
Today i am going to share with you a card i created for ...well not really this challenge but as we are now in may we have a kind of free week..plus i have run out of wet images to colour!

I have used for this card a some odd girl digital image but if you go to Mad for markers they have a MASSIVE range of Some odd girl stamps to purchase.

I just love this image! plus to top it off and get a great background i used my new fiskars interchangeable border punch. it is meant for ribbon but i thought it made a great lattice background. you can check out how to do this here.
And here are the copics i used!

The challenge is almost finished now so if you do not get a chance to enter ,never fear next week we will have a new challenge for may!

happy colouring
Tara:)

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Hi everyone,

Our april showers challenge has now finished and voting will start soon,

I have a little ard here to show you using a cute little cupcake fairy,

coloured using copics of course!!

Here it is...

I hope you like it...

and remember to come back and check out our new challenge..

Hugz ashlee



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