Colouring Wild Sprout Elena using Grey Copics

Hi all, Susan here with my first post on the challenge blog as a Mad for Markers design team member. I am so excited to be here sharing my love of all things Copic with you! There are only a few days left to join in with the Grey Challenge so get your Copics out and have some fun with us!

I have used the new Wild Sprout Elena stamp from The Greeting Farm stamped on to X-Press It Blending Card and the sentiment is from the Creepin' Collection. I have feathered Elena's hair using V01 and C1. I had lots of trouble photographing this as the feathering wouldn't show up despite me travelling all around the house for a better spot! Anyway, I hope you can see the feathering in the photos below. I love how this turned out and I am really liking the violet and grey colour combination.

Here are some close ups of Elena's hair so you can see the feathering. I stamped her sunglasses, coloured them, cut them out and attached them using foam dots.

Copics Used:

Hair: V01, C1

Skin: E50, E51, R20

Clothes: C2, C3, C5, V15, V17

Sunglasses: V15, V17

Other Supplies:

DCWV Alphabet Stack paper, DCWV Nana's Kids paper, Frosted lace Stickles, Kaisercraft snow pearls, Prima flower, Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Versafine Black Onyx ink (for sentiment), Foam dots

Don't forget to stop by the Mad for Markers Online Store for your Copics, X-Press It Blending Card and  stamps from The Greeting Farm!

Have a great day!

~ Susan xxox

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Colouring with Greys

Hi Copic Lovers,

It is Alicia here today...my post is running a little late...it is due to the hectic-ness of my life...sometimes I am struggling to keep up!

I had a really enjoyable time making this card.  It was a special order for a lady who wanted a birthday card for her friend of hers who loves cooking.  This is my first time at every colouring a whole image in grey...well I added a couple of colours as well.  I was trying to go for a Sepia look like the photographs that also have little bits hand painted colour in them...do you know the ones I mean.  the really old photos.  I know my Mum has some really old ones with hand painted colours on them.

In my collection of Copics I have the warm greys and the cool greys so I went with the warm greys in this card.  The colours I used are:

Greys: W-1, W-3, W-5, W-7

Other colours: R20, E35, E33, E31, R29, R59

This was a really fun challenge! 

I recommend you have a go!

I loved it.

Thanks for looking and happy colouring.

Alicia xx

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Going Grey......Pretty Cool!

Hiya! Teresa here with my first ever post for Mad for Markers.

In the current challenge, we're getting you to use your greys. I LOVE my greys, and my favourite thing to do with Copics is to make an image look like a photograh.  I discovered that using cool greys creates a black and white photo look, and using warm greys creates a sepia photo look. 

I've used my warm greys (W1, W3, W5 and W7) to colour Edward in here:

This looks so much harder than it really is.  I always start by colouring the skin with my very lightest marker, hair and clothing with the next lightest, and then build up from there.

Here's a full pic of the card I made with Collage Press papers:

The stamps came out of a set from The Greeting Farm called Roll Call.  I'm sure if you ask really nicely, Sammi will order one for you :) Click here to contact her.

I hope you're getting loads of inspiration from the design team to create your own grey masterpiece. Don't forget to link your creation so we can all go and take a look. The inlinkz button is in the right sidebar of this blog. You've got until next Sunday (15th May) to enter.

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Baby Boy!

I just love coloring with my Grey's. I love the whole Old Black and White photo look that you get from doing your image all in Grey's! I tend to mostly use my W Greys when I'm doing this, mostly because it still has a little bit of the warmth still there.

So here is a card I made for a friend who was after a baby card! I just Adore these Webster Papers, they are so Vintagey!

Copic Colors Used: 

W9, W7, W5, W3, W1, W00

My card is colored using Copic MArkers and Express It Blending Card, all of which are available over at Mad For Markers!

So what are you waiting for, get coloring with your Greys, it really is just sooo easy and I guarantee you will become addicted to this way of coloring!

Now M4M's have now changed our Challenges from 4 weeks to only 2 weeks, so you have one more week to get your entry in. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

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New Challenge

Hi Everyone

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

This week we have started a new challenge - GREYS!

I must admit that I was really excited when this challenge was posted as I just love the 'N' family of Greys.

This week I have decided to share 3 cards with you.

Copics Used:

Skin: E0000, E000, RV00

Hair: E71, E74, E79

Dress: N0, N1,N2,N3,N4,N5,N6, RV32, RV34

Shoes: N0,N1,N3,RV32, RV34

Splotches: N5, RV34

Flowers: RV32, RV34

Stamps Used: The Greeting Farm (Jill & Splotchy)

Copics Used:

Skin: E0000, E000, RV00

Hair: N0, N1,N2,N3,N4,N5

Top & Bow: R81, R83, R85

Pants: B91, B93, B95

Flowers: R83, R85

Stamp Used: The Greeting Farm (Abbey)

Copics Used:

Skin: Eoooo, Eooo, RV00

Hair: N0.N2,N4, Glimmer Glaze Icicle

Clothes: N3, N5

Shoes: N0,N2,N4,N6

I can't wait to see what you all create.

Don't forget to stop by the Mad for Markers Online Store for all your Copic needs & the new Greeting Farms Stamps released yesterday.

Until next time

Melissa

xxxxx

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New challenge.. colouring with GREYS!!!

Good afternoon Copic lovers... it's time for a NEW challenge and time for some changes... we have a new team of Designers... some old and some new AND we are moving to fortnightly challenges... so every 2nd Sunday you will find a new challenge here!

This challenge we would like you to colour with Greys!!

now this is open to your interpretation..
you might like to colour the whole image in Greyscale.. giving it a black and white/ sepia feel.
or you might want to just have some areas of your image coloured grey
or you might want to use greys in amongst your colour, adding shadow.


Here is some inspiration to start you off... in this card I have used all the different Grey families (I left a couple of the Ws out of the picture .. oopsie) .. can you guess which grey (C, W, N and T) is used in the different areas ... Hair, Skin, Pants, jumper??

The stamp is Noah from the Creepin Kit (from the Greeting Farm) ... which is all sold out here at M4M again... if you want one ordered in please let us know.

Please link up your creations in the right sidebar --}

This fortnights winner will win a colouring book...to "finally" be released in the next week!

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