Oceanna: Copic Coloring

Hello Crafters! 

For today's post I'm working with the new Oceanna stamp. It's part of the April release and I think she's just beautiful! 

I'm always drawn to Mi Ran's stamps. Which stamps do you gravitate toward? 

I started by stamping the beautiful mermaid in Copic safe ink. 

I used distress ink to lay down a base color for both the water and the sand. This cut down on how much copic ink I had to put down to build my background scene. 

I used my copics to create some wavy lines to add a few details as well as the base coloring. This is something I'm still practicing as I usually prefer to add details with my white gel pen. I added some bubbles into the water and then highlighted them with a sparkle pen. 

While I was priming my sparkle pen I was a little over zealous and a *huge* drop fell onto my background. No worries, a few rocks covered it right up. haha! 

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

If there's something you'd like to see in the future please let me know :) 

xoxo

Kelly 

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Snowman With Love

Hello Crafters! 

It's Kelly here and this is my first time posting on the Whimsy Blog. Exciting!! 

This month's challenge is "With Love" and the brand new stamp Snowman Love is pretty much a perfect fit, 

I knew right away i wanted to put these two love birds in a shaker card. They just look like they belong with snow (or glitter) falling all around them :) 

I put together a video showing how it all came together. 

Even though interactive cards aren't really what I gravitate toward sometimes it's worth all the work. This time I definitely think it was.   

The Copic colors I used are C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, R32, R35, R29, R59, Y19, YR04, YR09, YG01, YG03, YG17, YG67, V12, V04, V15, and V09.

Thanks so much for visiting and I do hope you'll join us in the challenge. You don't need to use a Whimsy image (though we love it when you do) and you could win $15 in Whimsy Cash to the store!