Another Easter Card! Yay!

Hiya Friends!! Well, I was bit more patient coloring this image. LOL! There's days when I'm really impatient and it shows in my cards! Anyway. . .I found a great way to help me with my blending with Copic markers.

My only "gripe" about Copic markers is that it takes a bit of time to color, blend, etc to arrive at a result that I want. I hate having to use 3 to 5 different markers to create the shades and highlights. That's when I get impatient.

So. . .to help me in the process. . .I watercolored the image and I then colored over the image with my Copic markers. This provided me the different shades without having to use all the different shades of Copic markers. It took only one color of water based markers (with an aquapainter) and 2 shades of Copic! Yay!

If you plan to do this, be sure your watercoloring is dry. Never, ever allow any other medium to mess up your Copic markers!! Those babies are expensive. LOL! To create the highlights, I used acrylic paint. Call me lazy! It's much faster to highlight with the acrylic paint! LOL!


Here's a side angle of the card. I don't know if you can see it but the animal images are 3D because I cut the image out and applied foam tape to "pop" it a little.

I love making my cards 3D. . .it cost more to mail them but it's so fun!

Anyway, the image is by Whipper Snapper. I love, love, love Whipper Snapper. They have the cutest images! The sentiment is by Hero Arts.

The background flowers are by CTMH "Rustic Flowers". I drew in the stems and the leaves. Don't forget to stop by my Close to My Heart website to my right sidebar if you want to take a look at their stamp sets. You can shop online through my website.


Anyway. . .I cleaned up my craft room last night. It looks better today! It actually didn't need much cleaning. I just needed to put away a bunch of things that I piled on top of my desk, vacuum the floor and wipe the table. It only took about an hour to clean up. Wheww! It wasn't so bad afterall!

Until later, folks!!