Whimsy Stamps Build A Castle Die Set - or - Mother Of Dragons!

 Hello friends and Happy Tuesday!

April is true to form and like every other month recently is rushing away - or perhaps I'm just old and time is speeding up...  o-:

Today with have a super new release of wonderful

Whimsy Stamps Goodies!

I could hardly stop myself crafting with them and over the next few days have three cards to show you!

The first, made with the 

Build A Castle Die Set

is my own favourite...

(I was thinking Game of Thrones thoughts when I made this one! (:

This was great fun to make and very straightforward.

I used some fabulous Lindy's Stamp Gang Magic Powders to create the background and die cut the inky card with the Slimline Card Builder Die.

I then die cut the Build A Castle Die in black card and created the silhouette as shown by trimming the pieces down to fit along the bottom of the card.  I love this die - I mean who could resist the windows and teeny tiny flags - not to mention those a-ma-zing dragons!

Once I had lined up the design I fixed it in place and stamped that perfect sentiment from the 

Magical Birthday Wishes Sentiment Set.

Finally I layered the design onto a piece of black sparkle card.

Mother.Of.Dragons!

Ingredients from Whimsy Stamps

Build A Castle Die Set* 

Slimline Card Builder Die Set*
Magical Birthday Wishes Sentiment Set*

Thank you for popping by today - stay tuned this week for some more Whimsy Stamps gorgeousness!

...take care of yourselves and happy creating

from Sue...xxx

 

Other Ingredients

Watercolour Card*

Lindy's Stamp Gang Magical Powders - Haunted Halloween*

Black Card and Charcoal Black Pure Pearl Sparkle Card from Papermill Direct

Ink on 3 Blackout Hybrid Detail Ink Pad

Misti Stamp Tool

Gemini Jnr Die Cutting Machine*

Collall All Purpose Glue*

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I only work with products I love and my opinions are my own.

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Glitter and magic...xxx

Good Morning everyone,

It's Sue here today with something sparkly!

Last year I was asked to do a fun feature for the UK craft magazine, Making Cards.

I was asked to colour on glitter with my Copics!

This was such a fun technique I thought I would share it with you all.

Here is a photo of the ingredients I used to complete this super technique.

I stamped the image on to card with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.

Then I used a piece of double sided adhesive sheet to completely cover the card.

I generously sprinkled glitter all over the card until it was completely covered and shook off the excess.

Then I rubbed my finger in small circles all over the card to firmly fix down the glitter.

This is the effect you will have.  (Isn't this gorgeous! Don't be tempted to stop here though!  It's time to get your Copics out)!

I then started to colour this sweet image using my Copics, starting with R83 to map out my darkest area.  I coloured on the glitter in exactly the same way as usual to blend the colours and create light and shade.

The only thing I was careful with was to make sure I stopped colouring just inside the outline of the image so that the ink did not bleed into the glitter outside the image.

You will may see little bits of glitter sticking to the nib on your Copic marker.  Don't be worried by this, it is not a problem.

I simply swooshed my nib in a little pot of Copic Cleaner and dabbed it dry on a piece of paper towel.

I carried on colouring with markers R59, R85, R83, R81 until I had finished the first piece of my image, this sweet unicorn's mane.

I carried on colouring with Copics, I was really careful to stop colouring just inside the outline of the image to prevent the colour bleeding into the glitter outside.

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial.  It would be great if you could try this technique and show your cards to us at Copic Marker Europe on Facebook.

To find us just follow the link

HERE

I coloured this pretty unicorn with some of my favourite Copic colour combinations

Mane and tail - R59, R85, R83, R81

Unicorn body - W5, W3, W1

Horn - B95, B93, B91

Ground - W3, W5, W1

Background - BG01, BG000, BG0000

Other Ingredients

from Dies To Die For

Stamp - The Greeting Farm - Magical Day

Rainbow and Sentiment from - MFT Magical Dragons

Banner - Lawn Fawn - Bannertastic

Dies - Whimsy Hand Stitched Nested Rectangles, 

Die-namics Stitched Rectangle Scalloped Frames

Lawn Fawn - Lawn Cuts Bannertastic

Sequins - Taylored Expressions Hello Happiness

Thank you for popping by.

Happy Copic colouring!

love from

Sue...xxx