Today we add a few details to our ‘Advanced Rosalie’ using a few other Copic products that I love, and that you can get in your next Copic Club Add on available next week.

The MULTILINER:

• Pigment based

• Archival/acid free

• Water and Copic proof

• Available in disposable or refillable

• Disposable comes in 9 sizes/5 colours plus black

• Refillable comes in 10 sizes/12 colours plus black

• Refillable also has replaceable nibs – including 0.03 thickness – the finest pen in the world!

The Copic multiliner is the ideal pen to use with your Copic colouring. It’s fabulous for journalling or writing sentiments but it is also water proof AND Copic proof, so it will not bleed when you colour over it with your markers. The perfect addition to your collection!

A great way to use the multiliner is to ‘fix’ mistamped images. If you don’t get a perfect impression, you can touch up your image with the right sized multiliner. Copic multiliners are available in several different nib sizes, so you are bound to find the perfect match for your stamp line thickness. The great thing about this is that you don’t waste paper re-stamping, and you can be sure that your lines won’t bleed when you colour over them.

You can see below how I mistamped my Rosalie’s feet, so I selected the 0.3 multiliner as a good match for the stamps original lines, and drew in the shoes myself.

My other favourite thing to do with the multiliner is to add personal touches to my stamped images. Below you can see how I added a few leaves to Rosalie’s roses. This allowed me to incorporate a bit more green into my image as I was feeling it a little pink-heavy.

Try giving her an extra button, more freckles etc.. You can use your multiliner to add a basic floor line, or something more adventurous like grass blades. Try adding patterns like checks and florals to fabrics, mimic a pattern from the paper you plan on using in your project for a perfectly coordinated look! And if you match the line thickness of the original stamp with the right pen width, no one will ever know!

 The ATYOU SPICA:

• non-toxic

• water based pigment ink

• Archival/acid free

• filled with micro glass flakes

• twice the writing length of most glitter pens – over 300 metres!

• Available in 13 colours

 The Copic atyou Spica (Speekah) translates loosely to ‘Gosh! Stars!’ and once you colour with them you can see where this name comes from! They produce a subtle shimmer that is quite unlike any other similar product.

Tiny flakes of glass are suspended in ink. Available in several colours, including clear. The clear pen is truly a transparent ink, perfect for adding shimmer to any part of your colouring regardless of what colour is underneath. They have a unique tip which doesn’t clog like a gel pen does. You must store your Spicas horizontally though, to ensure the glass flakes remain evenly distributed.

Use yours to add some shimmer to Rosalie’s sash, buttons and hair ribbon. (Hard to capture here)

Finally add some detail with a white gel pen.

Highlight the tops of the roses where the light hits them, do the same for her rosy cheeks and a touch of shine on the tips of her shoes.

Here is Advanced Rosalie now - and she is almost complete!

Don’t forget to enter our Copic Colouring Competition!!