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Basic Copic Colouring Stage 4

Monday, July 5th, 2010

YAY – Basic Rosalie is almost done! Today we are just adding the final touches.
Let’s have a look back at what we have done so far:
 
First we added our base colour – using our lightest from each family we coloured in a circular motion.
Week 2 and we incorporated some basic shading using our middle [...]

Basic Copic Colouring Stage 2

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Instalment 2 – adding dimension.
Last week we left poor Rosalie looking very flat, like this:

Now that we have a base colour down, we are ready to start bringing Rosalie to life
 The next stage is to use the ‘middle’ colour from each chosen family to begin the process of developing shade. Shading should not [...]

Paper Roses

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

I thought I would show you how I made these rustic paper roses today.

Step 1: cut a 1″ strip from patterned paper.

Step 2:  fold lengthwise twice, or roll it up like shown

Step3 3: twist in opposite directions from each end so you end up with a spiral like below.

Step 4: prepare a base for your flower [...]

Is it okay for a grown woman to squeal?

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Because that’s what I did when I opened up an email from Nicole with this card in it! Is it not the most adorable card that you have ever seen?

Nicole has used the December A la Tarte which has that gorgeous Jenni Bowlin paper, a set of sentiment stamps, and those cute as cute can [...]