Copic Colouring Techniques for Cardmaking Class

1. Copic Colouring Techniques for Cardmaking Class: Hello and welcome to cope it. Coloring techniques for card makers. I'm Cheryl and I am teaching this class. Copic markers are one of my favorite ways of coloring and images when I'm making cards. Now, I'm using kopecks in this class and you could use other alcohol markers as well. I know there's others on the market. Kopecks are the ones that I've always used. And they were out before some of the other ones. So they're just what I stick with, but you can absolutely use other more. Let's go take a look at what we're going to cover in this class. These are the three cars that were going to be creating in this class. We'll start with the first one is fairly flat. We're just using two different shades of each color in order to blend. And I'll show you how to do that with that one. And I'll also show you how to get a little bit of shine and dimension with an added product. For the second one, we're going to level it up. We're going to use three different colors for our shading and just get a bit of a deeper shading with your coloring. And then I'll show you how to add some glitter to your furious to make them sparkle. In the third card, we're going to combine all the techniques that we've learned in the first few cards. We're also going to add some extra dimensions. So we're going to color some extra images, pop them out a little bit and get a lot of dimension in our cart. We're also going to color some embellishments to coordinate with the card as well. Now like I said, I'm using Copic markers for this class. Every color that I'm using will be listed on the supply list that is with this class. And those supplies are linked to where you can purchase them. And like I've said, I'm using kopecks. Other alcohol markers will work as well. And then if you chose not to do fairies, you could use other lined image stamps as well. You just want to pick an image that is, has got some good area to color in. Now, let's go start coloring. 2. Lets talk about Copics: Alright, so before we start coloring, Let's talk about kopecks a little bit. So Copic markers are alcohol-based markers. The ones that I'm using in this class or chose. They also have sketch, an original. Original has different tips to them, but the sketch has the exact same tips as they chose. The only difference is the pen shape. The chow is our circle. And the sketch, I have an oval shape to them so they don't roll on your surface. And they also hold a lot more ink. So these ones here have a chisel tip as well as a brush tip. For the most part, it's the brush tip that I typically use when I'm coloring. There's a few techniques in a few different things that I'll use the chisel tip for. But for general coloring, I don't really use the chisel tip. Now the nice thing about the capex is you can get refills to refill them. And typically if I'm in the middle of coloring, I will just drugs ink on the different tips to suck it in so that I can continue coloring. If I'm not going to be coloring for awhile, I will pull the chisel tip out and I will put some ink in the center. And if you look online, there's someone that has figured out exactly what the weight of each pin should be when they're full. That's an easy way to know how much ink so you don't want to put too much in there. I typically will do tend to 20 drops depending on how dry it is. And then if my tips are super dry, I'll also put some on the tips of the pin. Know I only pull out the chisel tip because the brush tip, there's a little core in there and sometime in it. So this is a lot squishier. This is the chisel tips a lot more dense. And sometimes if you pull on the brush tip, you'll just pull the outside part off of that core and you'll ruin your tip and you have to replace the tip. Now speaking of replacing tips, the nice thing about kopecks is that if you have a tip that goes bad and the odd time that does or breaks down. And if you do a lot of coloring, that's possible. You can get replacement tips for your pins so you don't have to throw a pen away because the tip has gone funny or broken down or whatnot. They last a long time. They're really, really good qualities, but sometimes it does happen. So it's really nice to know that you can refill the ink and the *** in the pins. And you can also replace the tips so it makes it more economical. They're definitely more of an investment to start. But compared to diabase markers, they will last a lot longer. And in the long run they end up being more economical because you can refill them. Now for stamping. And this refill here is an old-style they've done the packaging, so the new ones are a little bit different. The refill inside is exactly the same for stamping. If I'm just stamping and then coloring, I'll use Momento, tuxedo, black or whatever color. If you wanted to use a color, I typically will just do black. If you want to emboss your images. I like to use brilliance graphite, black, and then clear powder. You have to use clear powder because the alcohol in the marker will start breaking down that embossing powder. And you don't notice it with the clear powder. But if you're using some colors, it can start to streak in your project. If you're wanting the embossing to look like a color, you can use a color of brilliant sink and then emboss it with the clear powder and get the same effect that way. But this is the one I use for embossing with it. Now speaking of ends, one of the pens that has a clear top cap is called the colorless blender. This is not how you blend two colors together. To blend two colors together, you take a light color and we'll get more into it as we're coloring and images. You take the light color. You add some shadow with the dark color. And then you go back with the light color. And I use a circular motion rate where that light and dark meat and then use that light color over the whole thing. That is how you blend two colors together. And this is just quickly done so it's not colored beautifully. To remove color, you're going to use the colorless blender. Now, I've got a dark, darker red here with the dark colors. It's not going to remove it completely, but it's kinda faded enough that it's not nearly as noticeable. So if you happen to color outside the line or whatnot, this is how you can help fix it. So for this, I definitely use the the chisel tip on my marker and you can see how that's changed the color there. So I will use my chisel tip to color it over the color Over the ink that has gone outside the lines or wherever you want to remove it. I will do that. Let it dry completely and you can tell when it's dry, when the paper is completely dry. So I can see with a wetness of where the paper is wet still. From the marker you need to wet tilt, wait until it's completely dry because if you keep doing it while it's wet, it's just going to make that area bigger and bigger. It's like the it's it's almost like a thing of water. It'll just keep going out and out note. And if you want to remove a color just in a certain area, you need to do this, let it completely dry. It's not totally dry, but I think it's dry enough that I can you're gonna do it again. You can see how that's got less color than that there. So it does take some patients to fix an area that happens to have color that you don't want. But you can get it light enough so that it's not nearly as noticeable. Lighter colors you can pretty much remove totally. There may be just the odd little bit, but typically the person that notices most is the person that's doing the coloring or the creating. So just remember, the colorless blender doesn't blend, it removes color. So now that we've gone over those few basic things, I'll see you in the next video and we will start coloring and image. 3. Find Joy in the Ordinary Card: Colouring Part 1: So for the first card, we're going to do this little image here. So I've got my stamp here. I'm just going to stamp on this scrap that I was using for the earlier video. I've already got my image stamps. I like to stamp it and then let it sit for about ten minutes or so so the ink is completely dry. I don't want a chance that the ink hasn't totally dried yet and possibly smear. It. Makes sure that you've got ink over your whole thing. Once you put your image where you want, I like to hold it in the center and just press gently around to make sure that I have a really good clear impression. And there we go. So this isn't going to go to waste. I'll color it and use it for another project. But like I said, I like to make sure that my ink has a really good chance to completely dry before I do anything with it. Now the first thing I'm gonna do is not actually even coloring. See how I've got this gray around the outside. I like to do that. It's kinda like a full mat. I'm gonna do that on a scrap piece of paper. Now the reason I like to do this ahead of time is a very, I'd chance that your marker slips and you have to re stamp your image. Better to do it now, then once it's completely covered. So I'm using the long side of my chisel tip. And I'm most of the pressure is going off of my piece. And I'm just running it alongside the paper. If your paper is heavier, you'll have an easier time with this. If it's lighter, That's when it's got a better chance of slipping. But it's a great way to add the illusion of a mat on your image without needing another piece of card stock. And it also just makes it pop up off of the Greenpeace in my opinion. Alright, so let's get that scrap piece of paper back again. I like to color with a scrap piece of paper underneath because you'll see here, your ink will go underneath it, soaks right through the paper. It's meant to do that. It's supposed to do that by having a piece of paper underneath. You have somewhere for that to go. It's not going to go onto your surface and then have the possibility of absorbing the ink. Because if I, if it sinks into the paper or onto the surface and I've moved it and say I'm coloring with yellow and I've got green underneath. There's a chance of rehydrating that green. I want to make sure that I'm on a piece of paper and I typically try not to move my image as I'm coloring it. The very first layer of color I put down. I'm just kind of light. It's almost like I'm using little feather strokes. It's very, very light. It's a very small amount of ink. There's not gonna be a whole lot that goes through. I'm going to use my darker gray. And all of the colors that I'm using will be listed on the supply sheet. I'm just adding the darker color where I want to have the shadow where I want it to be a little bit darker. And typically that's when it goes behind something. When I'm coloring, I'm kinda pretending that the light is coming from the top here. Now I'm going to in a circular motion, I'm just going right where that light in that dark meat. Then I'm going over the whole thing again. These are fairly small areas. I'm usually pretty light handed with it and I'm just going to these little water droplets. I turned them this color as well. Just to give them a little little bit of color. I think I've got them all. I'm going to need this one later. Alright, now let's do the mushroom on her head. I've got the lightest color. This one is like a grayish or gray brown or gray beige. But I thought it was perfect color for a mushroom. It's one of the neutral colors of copic is W. This one is W1. It's a warm gray. But I thought it was perfect for the mushroom. So for these ones, I'm just using two colors or two shades. When I'm doing my shading. In some of the future cards, I'm gonna do 33 shades of a color. Sorry, I'm having a hard time coloring. At the same time. It's actually kinda funny. Alright, so I've got my darker in there. And now I'm gonna go back a little circular motion. Just blend between the dark and the light. And then go over the entire thing by using two colors to blend for. When you start, it's a little bit less intimidating than three colors to blend. But once we get to that, and I think it's I can't remember whether I did the three colors in the second card with the card. It's not too hard, but it'll just give you a deeper shadow. So for the underside of the mushroom, I'm using the medium gray and then the darker of the warm grays. Just so that that's a little bit darker than the top of the mushroom. I'm going to do the darker color right where her hair is beside the bottom of the mushroom there. And then go back with the medium color. Blend between the medium and the dark. And then go over the whole thing. And you'll find when you go over the whole thing, it just darkens the entire color. And it just deepens that. Alright, so we're gonna do the same on these tiny mushrooms here. I'm gonna do the lightest up the warm grays. Then the medium tone. This is one of those things that it seems like it's so much harder when you're when you're new to it. But as you get used to it or there's a pattern to it. So when you're blending with two colors, it's light dark, and then back over with the light with three colors. It's light, medium, dark, medium light. But you'll see with just the two colors, you get a decent amount of shading in it. I'm just going to do the medium and the dark with the underside of that mushroom. There's really not a whole lot of area to blend. We still do it anyways. Alright, now I've got some browns here for her hair because there's not a whole lot of area for her hair. There's not really a whole lot to do shading with, but I will still add some dark areas closer to where her hair goes behind her face. It's funny how just a tiny little bit of a darker color just gives it more depth, more interest. Next, we'll look a little bit more realistic. And I just realized that I missed this part of the wing here. The nice thing about cope x2 is if I wanted to go back into this mushroom, say I wasn't as shaded as I wanted it to be. I can absolutely go back into it. It's not a one and done. When you're working with dye markers, you are very conscious of how much time you're coloring on that image because sooner or later that paper is going to start to peel and to break down. That doesn't happen with Copic markers. 4. Find Joy in the Ordinary Card: Colouring Part 2: Okay, there we're now I'm going to do her skin. I'm just using this as E0 and y12. Very, very pale. I'm not adding a lot of color or a lot of shading to her skin. I have another class on here and it's Copic tips, tricks and techniques that goes cover skin a little bit more as well as gifts. Different color choices to get different skin tones for different ethnicities. The other thing you can go online as well. There's a lot of different information about kopecks online to get different color combinations for different skin tones, which is great, as well as different hair colors because there's so many different hair colors as well. I just did the darker part on the outside. Underneath her chin, underneath her arms here. A little bit where her shorts meet her legs or her outfit meets her legs and a little bit underneath her boots there. Now let's do her little outfit. So lightest color of green. Now, there's a thick gray line there and then there's none here. The thick gray line is this brush side. And it's I always get it mixed up in my head that that should be the chisel side. But it's not. But for some reason I always do the cap from the chisel side first. And I've been using kopecks for over 15 years. I want to say it's probably closer to 20 years now. And I still do it. There we go. Add a little bit of shadow with the darker green. There is an image there to show the brush or the chisel side. So often you'll see me rolling it around and I'm looking for that image. Put a little bit of darker areas in the creases of the fabric. Now, as I said before, with the coloring or with the using the colorless blender to fix. I was talking about how if you color over and over the same area, It kinda goes out. I keep that in mind while I'm coloring as well. If I'm heavy handed with the marker is just adding more ink to the paper and it's gonna go outside the lines. So I'm careful to be fairly light handed with it, especially when I'm coloring smaller areas because I don't want that ink to go outside the lines. Now the other thing that is fabulous with kopecks, similar to using the colorless blender to remove color when you take an opposite color or a different color from what you've just colored. Fur in this instance, I'm just using the, doing the polka dots on her skirt or on her little Ron per thing. By tapping down that marker, I'm getting little yellow dots and it's pushing the green away. So I see yellow, I don't see yellow-green. So you can play with the markers and get some really, really pretty looks out of them. You can do the same with say the chisel and create bricks. You can use chisel and stamping it onto a different color and it moves that color and creates the look of bricks. Little last thing I want to do for coloring, and I'm using all three of the warm grays, is I'm going to give her a surface to be standing on. Otherwise, it kinda looks like she's floating in the air. So I am using a bit of a circular motion. I don't want this to necessarily be like a line. I'm trying to give it some shadow, give it just a little bit of movement. So I did the lightest color first, medium color, and then I'm just going to go in with the darkest color in the middle of it. And this is a great way to kind of practice with those three colors. Now I'm going with a medium color back over to blend it out. And then I'm gonna do the light color and blend it out further. And kopecks take a little while to dry. So you may notice you're not really super happy with something while you when we've just finished coloring it, let it sit and dry because often in the drying time it continues to blend. It'll just look nicer once it's done and once it's dried up. Alright, very last thing and you might not even be able to see it. I've taken my lightest gray C1 and I like to outline my markers. And this is something that people don't actually see until you pointed out to them. But what it does is it gives it a little bit of a shadow and it just makes your image to jump off the page a little bit better. So I use the brush tip and you don't have to be perfect with this at all. That I just outlined the image. And when I say you don't have to be perfect, perfect with this at all, your brush tip is going to have a little bit of flexibility to it. It might be a little bit wider in some areas and lighter in some areas. That's fine. Like I said, this is such a light color that most people don't even notice it until you've pointed out to them. And I've done many COBIT classes and worked in a store where I had a lot of samples and would regularly need to point it out to people because they would ask about something or whatever. And it wasn't until I pointed it out to them. They even noticed. Alright, so our images color, I'm going to let them dry for Letter dry for a few minutes. And then I'll see you in the next video and we'll put our cards together. 5. Find Joy in the Ordinary Card: Assembly: Hey occurred has dried and we're ready to glue it together. So I've already got my pieces cut and ready to go. The measurements for these will be on your supply list. This one here, it goes up a little bit, leave some room for a sentiment to be stamped on the bottom. And in all honesty, the reason there's that space is because when I was doing my sample, how I was talking about the outline for this and how it's better to do it at the beginning because you might accidentally have your markers slip and color in. Well, that's what happened. So I ended up cutting a piece off. And then using this for the sentiment on the bottom. All about creative problem-solving. Alright? So I'm using a white ink pad to color on there. I'm going to put some magnets down here so that my card doesn't move. Just that the off chance that I have to stamp it a second time. If by chance when you're inking your stamp, you see it go around the edges of the stamp. Then wipe those off before you stamp it because there's a good chance you're going to transfer it to your card. So this one here, I'm actually going to do it twice just so that I get a little bit of a darker white there. This is a white dye ink. You could use a white pigment ink too. I just wanted I didn't want it to pop out too too much, but I did want to be able to see it. So I stamped it twice. Now, very last step. With Copic markers, with the alcohol markers, you can put things on them and that ink is not gonna go anywhere. So I'm taking some Glossy Accents and I'm just going to put it on my little raindrops to give them a little bit of shine and dimension. And it's not going to change the color underneath them. I mean, this one, I don't have a lot of color underneath it. But you could go over to different colors in the same amount or in the same thing of Glossy Accents. And it's not going to affect the colors in any way, whereas die markers that sometimes changes it. So there we go. Our card is done with these wet Glossy Accents. You want to set it aside to dry and don't touch it for a little while. 6. Never Stop Exploring Card: Colouring Part 1: So this is the card that we're going to create for the second one, I've already got my image stamped, grabbed my piece of paper here to go underneath, and we are going to do color blending with three colors. So first I'm going to go in with the lightest of the colors and just create a base layer of color. If I wanted to, I could do all of the light colors for all of the mushrooms at once and then do the shading at once as well. But I tend to like to do one image at a time to make sure that I don't miss any steps. Now we've got the medium color and now let's go in with the dark color. Just darken that sheet a bit or shadow a bit. Alright, now we go back in with the medium color and rate where the medium and the dark meat. We're going to blend with the medium color and not with the light color. First blend where the light and the media meet and then go over the whole thing. And then same here. Like I said before, it will continue to blend as it dries. Now, I did go out of the lines here, so let's go grab our colorless blender a little bit there. Let it dry completely and I'll continue to color while I'm waiting for that to dry. It really depends on the image. Sometimes I'll just leave it because if the color that I happen to make that mistake is light enough when I go and color around it with the light gray, sometimes that's enough to hide it. But typically if it's darker colors, I will go in and fix it. It's especially easy if you're in the middle of coloring because you can occupy yourself with coloring the different parts of the image while you're waiting for that to completely dry. Anytime you go behind something, there's a shadow there. So I've got the shadow right around that tiny mushroom then. And then also at the bottom, once again, I'm pretending that the light is coming from above. The shadow is in the inside here. Read up there. Technically there doesn't necessarily need to be one there, but I always tend to join them together. Let me go now with the medium one. And these images are small enough that does circular motion. There's not really enough room to do it. So you'll see sometimes I don't even do the circular motion. I tend to do it with the lightest color, just because that is usually the whole image. We go. Red color is done. Now let's do the green for her wings. And the fun part about fairies is the sky's the limit really, when it comes to colors, you can have fun with it. You don't necessarily have to color everything the same. Exactly that I'm doing. You can just have fun. Now I didn't do too much for shadow, for these little palm palm things just because they're so tiny. Darkest of the greens right behind her back there. The difference between doing shadow with one color or two colors is really personal preference. Some of these areas are just so small that it doesn't even, it's not even really worth it to go in with a third color. Then for her hair, I'm giving her some blonde hair, but I'm only doing two colors because there's just not enough area really to do. Three. Really. This is quite a yellow blonde, but I was trying not to do them all brown here. I tend to do brown hair simply because it's a little bit more natural than some of the blonde yellows. Alright, now let's do her skin. I realized I just miss this area of the mushroom. Just did a quick jerk in the medium color basically because it's behind her. It would be darker. I'm assuming it's history. A little bit of shadow by her hair, my chin, I'm in the arms again. You'll find that coloring with alcohol markers are pretty forgiving. And the more you practice, the more you get to know how much ink to put down. How much is too much. Even take a little bit of the pink and lightly dab the cheeks to give her a little bit of a rosy cheek. You have to make sure that the color you use is quite light though, because sometimes it ends up just looking like dots on the cheeks. All right, let's go back and just add a little bit more blender because that's completely dry. I realized that I forgot to do the outline. And like I said before, I usually like doing it before actually coloring the image in just at the off chance that there's a bit of mistake. You have the chance to Marie stamp. 7. Never Stop Exploring Card: Colouring Part 2: But that worked out. Okay. Alright, now lastly we're gonna do a little shorts and the ground. The ground, they do it exactly the same as the other one. I don't really want lines. I just kinda use a circular motion. You could, if you want, completely color the whole background, give it a sky, give it some grass or whatever. I wanted the focus to stay on the image, so I chose not to. But it is your project. If you want to color in the whole back on, you absolutely can. And go back with the medium color. Blend the dark one out just a little bit. And then with the latest no shorts, little bit of shadow where the pooled is there. And then on the bottom, I've seen tutorials where some people, rather than do the light medium, dark medium, light. They just do the dark, the medium and the light and have beautiful results. I've always been taught and doing it this way. And so that's what I always do and I'm quite comfortable. So you'll notice that is quite a bit lighter. I could take the time and make it even lighter, but I don't think it's actually even going to be noticeable or very noticeable by the time I go and do this with the latest if the grays. So I'm just going to leave it I don't outline the ground part just because there's not really an outline to that. You can see how very simple and how quick it is to outline it, but it just it just makes it pop off the page a little bit. All right. There she is done being colored. I'm just gonna wait for a moment for all the ink to dry. And then I'll see you in the next video and we'll put the car together. 8. Never Stop Exploring Card: Assembly: Our image has sat for a moment and completely dried. Now let's glue or layers down. So first though civil coral layer, and then the green one, and then the image piece. But you see how much ink went through the back. That's when it's nice to have that scrap paper underneath to suck up any of that ink if there's excess. I know there's so many people when they're new to capex, they panic that it's gone through the paper. It does that. It's supposed to do that. Nothing to panic about. Alright, I'm going to actually, I'm going to open this up just to make this a little bit less thick. I put my magnets down to hold it in place. Got another small sentiment here that I'm going to put down. Make sure your stamps are clean when you're putting them down like this because we don't want to be transferring ink while we're positioning it. Going to use the same black that I used for stamping the image? Once again, if you get anything on the outside of the stamp, make sure to wipe it off before stamping. Otherwise you're gonna get something like that. Just little ink mark that you can't remove. There we go. Let's move this out of the way. We're going to add one more element to this. So last time I added glossy accents to the raindrops. For this one, we're going to add some stickers to her wings. Just to make them a little bit sparkly, make them a little bit pop. I always love doing that because especially with coping projects, because I know the ink is going to move as well as the fact that it just adds a little different layer of texture to it. I'm just going to add it to the love poem pumps do because why not? I didn't do it on the sample, but why not? I'm going to set that aside to completely dry. It does take a little bit for it to dry depending on how much you add. And then once it's dry, it reduces in volume. But you get left with the little sparkly their associates and sparkly wings. I'll see you in the next card. 9. Fairy & Snail Card: Colouring Part 1: So this here is our third card. So we're going to build from the techniques that we've learned. We're gonna do a little bit of coloring with or shading with three different shades of the same markers. But then I'm also gonna show you a different way of blending colors. And this works especially if you have two completely different colors rather than shades of the same color. We're also going to color this image multiple times and then layer it up and pop it up just to give some extra dimension to the card. So I'm only going to color it one time onscreen, the other two times, I'm going to color it off screen. That way you're not watching me do the same thing over and over again. Technically, two of them need to be colored completely in the third one. The third layer is just this top of the mushroom and then this flower. So technically you could just color just the top of the mushroom and just the flower and the leaf and stem or whatnot. I typically want them doing this technique will color completely, and then I will choose my favorites as to which ones to color or to cut. But your choice if you don't want to color three images completely, you absolutely don't have to. I typically love just sitting in coloring. I find it very therapeutic, very mesmerizing. So I really like doing it. So I don't mind coloring something incompletely three times. For this, I'll probably just be coloring the mushroom and just the flower just because I'm already doing, going to be doing to completely. But your choice. Alright, so first of all, we're gonna do the top of the mushroom cap. This is exactly the same as the last mushroom with the three colors for shading, the only difference is this one has little warts or whatever you wanna call it on the top of the mushroom. So I am going to avoid coloring those. You could color them in and we're gonna be using a product on top of it that is opaque so you could color it in. But I just typically don't. It doesn't take much to go around it. And technically for the first two layers, you can go right through it because you're not actually going to see it. I'm just going to realize what it was. So this is the bottom layer, It's totally covered. So I'm just gonna do the whole thing. Technically don't even need to do the shading and this one simply because it's covered twice, but I'm gonna do it anyways just so that you can see it. I know some people when they're doing things like this where they're layered, they don't even bother coloring the layers underneath. I always do because it bothers me when you can see the line of the image underneath that is not colored. But it's entirely up to you. In my opinion, it's very good practice for coloring, but if you really don't like it or don't want to be doing the same thing. You don't have to. It's one of those things that's completely a personal preference. For this one, I'm just flicking the color up to blend it up a little bit. Technically, I didn't need to do the, the medium and the light color on this ring around. I just did to blend it up. I'm just flicking it up same as I did the other layer. That will do it completely. Ready, go with the same color. We're gonna do a flower. Obviously. I mean, you see, I'm putting the colors that I'm using on the supply list. You can absolutely swap out the colors. When I chose colors, I typically chose them two dash three numbers apart. So I've got our 32 or 3537. That's the general rule for picking colors is in the same color. Family two to three apart. Especially when you're starting out once you've gotten used to that system and get familiar with your colors, you can break the rules and change which colors you want to put together. But for beginners, it's a good system to follow is just a couple of numbers apart. That way, you know, you're not going to have colors or shades that class would clash with each other. There we go. Or flower is done. Now let's do the wings here. So for the wings, we're doing two opposite colors. So I'm doing the pinky brownie color to the yellow to blend two opposite colors. You start with the top, flip down, and then I start with the bottom and then flick up. And those colors start to blend in the center. And then I go back and do it again. You can do this as many times as you want. I typically do two to three. I find as good. But as those inks dry, they blend even more. I'm gonna do the same thing for the dress, but I'm gonna go from yellow at the top and green at the bottom. Then for this one I am going to go, well, I ended up grabbing the medium shade if the greens, but I'm gonna do a little bit of the darker yellow on the top. This isn't the one that I actually know. I'm not gonna do that on the bottom just because I have the darker color as my stem. I don't really want it. I want it to pull or to pop out. I don't want it to blend into the color of the dress. I'm gonna go back with a lighter yellow it down. Try this with different colors because it's just fun. A fun way to blend colors together. And you get some unexpected blends between two colors, doing it that way. Alright. You do the rest of the leaf and stem here. I always love that you can go back in and go over it again if by chance you missed a detail. I love knowing that I can keep going over the same area over and over. My paper isn't going to start to break down and pill. Alcohol markers are definitely my favorite for coloring for that reason. Now, having said that, there's other alcohol markers on the market, the only ones that I happen to own our kopecks. But the other markers will work very similarly to this. I ended up or I had kopecks when some of the other ones came out. So I've tried them at trade shows and stuff like that, but I was happy with what I had. I've kept with that. But you can absolutely do these same techniques with other brands of markers at alcohol markers. Let me clarify that because diabase markers work a little bit different. I didn't want it. That was not supposed to be the mushroom that we're supposed to be her skin. That's okay. I find coloring. These are perfect for like you put a little movie on and then just sit there and color to your heart's content and you be amazed at how quickly time passes when you're just just coloring. So when I'm doing this skin especially I tried to keep it very light because I don't want it to get too dark and saturated with color. Because sometimes, especially with these colors, attempts to look a little bit peachy. It sometimes. 10. Fairy & Snail Card: Colouring Part 2: Let's do the correct color. Then the medium shade back and blends the medium with the dark. And then finally the medium with the light, or the light with all of them. We go, Let's do a little boots. I'm going to do the little ground around them too. While I'm doing the boots. While I'm doing it might as well do the snail shell. With a snail shell, I do it at the bottom, keeping track of the light source. And I also do it where those swirls of the shell meet out a little bit of shadow in there. Man will deepen the shadow. You can see on the first couple layers, I'm not super, super careful because I know that I'm gonna be going back over it. I don't wanna get too much ink in there. A little bit more careful when I do the final layer because that's going over everything. It's blending everything in place. There we go. And last but certainly not least, I know it's not really a normal, solid color, but I wanted to add another copy, yellow in there, which is interesting for me since it's not my favorite color. Just tied in the colors from the little girl's image. This a little bit more. Alright, so this is done. I'm going to go off screen and I'm going to color this image completely. And then I'm just going to color the top of the mushroom and the flower. And I forgot to say, Oh no, that's, that's just got two layers. That was confusing myself for a second there. So I'll see you in the next video and we will start assembly. 11. Fairy & Snail Card: Assembly Part 1: Alright, so our pieces are colored and ready to go. I need to do the detail cutting still. But before I start that, I wanted to show you how you can customize embellishment colors. So this is one of the reds that I used on the mushroom. I just have some pearls here. I do at wallets on the sheet and I do this with ones that have a sticky back to them. If you have loose ones, it's a lot harder to try to hold them in place while you are coloring them. So I always do it with adhesive fact ones. You can also do it with breads. You can do ribbons to color match your project. The only thing with ribbons is if you're tying a bow, you kinda have to tie it while the alcohol ink is wet because when the ribbon dries, it ends up being quite a bit stiffer than it was without the alcohol ink coloring on it. So just be forewarned of that. Alright, we got those pieces down. Now it's time to what? I'm going to speed up the cutting here so that well, just because cutting is like watching paint dry, really speed it up and see you in a moment. Alright, or pieces are cut out. You'll notice that I cheated with that one rather than poking the scissors through, I cut through it. Yes. I cut I poked through and cut those bits out there. It's annoying to do, but it looks so much better when it's done. So let's start gluing these on. I use foam pop dots. I like to use ones that are fairly thin. Because I wanted to mention to this, but I don't want the car to end up being like a half an inch thick. These ones, the tops are fighting with me. There we go. And then it's like it's just piecing because you're just matching the pattern exactly where it is on the card. And why such a large piece like this? I do like to put a lot of them on there so that it doesn't cave on some parts of it. Press them down first and then let's take these backings off. Kind of necessary to have nails to take these backings off. It makes it easier for sure. If you don't, then just take a pair of tweezers and that will help you pull the tape backings off as well. Alright, and then I do like to put a little tiny dab of glue where this stem is, and I'll show you what I do with that in just a second. Alright, so once again, this gets glued exactly over top of the image. I like to hold this down. It just gives it a little bit of a flow to it. Then I do a similar thing with the top of the mushroom. I'll put the one flipped and stuck to me. I'll put the foam dots in the center. And then I'll put some glue on the sides to flatten that. And it just so this is glued to the second layer, it just gives it a little bit more curve to it. One of those things, It's not absolutely necessary, but I just liked the way it looks. I think it gives it more interests. And hold that down for a second. So what does glue down? And then I do the same thing with this stem from the flower here. Just a couple of Pop-Tarts to hold it up. And then I'll put some glue. Sorry, half a sentence there. Put some glue on the end of the stem here to glue it down. There we go. 12. Fairy & Snail Card: Assembly Part 2: Alright, or pieces are cut out. You'll notice that I cheated with that one rather than poking the scissors through, I cut through it. Yes. I cut I poked through and cut those bits out there. It's annoying to do, but it looks so much better when it's done. So let's start gluing these on. I use foam pop dots. I like to use ones that are fairly thin. Because I wanted to mention to this, but I don't want the car to end up being like a half an inch thick. These ones tops are fighting with me. There we go. Then it's like it's just piecing because you're just matching the pattern exactly where it is on the card. With such a large piece like this, I do like to put a lot of them on there so that it doesn't cave on some parts of it. Press them down first and then let's take these backings off. Kind of necessary to have nails to take these backings off. It makes it easier for sure. If you don't, then just take a pair of tweezers and that will help you pull the tape backings off as well. Alright, and then I do like to put a little tiny dab of glue where this stem is, and I'll show you what I do with that in just a second. Alright, so once again, this gets glued exactly over top of the image. I like to hold this down. It just gives it a little bit of a flow to it. Then I do a similar thing with the top of the mushroom. I'll put the I wanted to flip ten stuck to me. I'll put the foam dots in the center. Then I'll put some glue on the sides to flatten that. And it just so this is glued to the second layer, it just gives it a little bit more curve to it. One of those things, It's not absolutely necessary, but I just like the way it looks. I think it gives it more interests. And hold that down for a second so it does glue down. And then I do the same thing with a stem from the flower here. Just a couple of Pop-Tarts to hold it up. And then I'll put some glue. Sorry, half a sentence there, but some glue on the end of the stem here to glue it down. There we go. Alright, last steps are to add the remaining details. So I'm going to cut through the adhesive strip. This is already space, so I'm just gluing it straight down. For the little warts on the mushroom. I've just got some Nouveau drops. This is a white one, so it's just going to add dimension is going to make those dots draw glossy. Just give the mushroom a little bit more life, a little bit more interest, a little bit more dimension. So sometimes there's a little sticky string at the end of this. If you lift it straight up, that usually detaches and it just goes right onto the job that you just put there. If you happen to go like this, then sometimes you'll get a little string that goes to the side. I just get into the habit of lifting straight up. Now let's give her some shimmery wings. My opinion, fairies needs shimmery wings. There we go. I'm also going to add a little bit of shimmer to the stamen on the flowers, but I want to give them a tiny bit of color underneath. Just a dotted yellow there. And then for the snail, Let's make us shell shiny. I put it all over a shell. I didn't put it on his body. And then let us give them a little bit of a slime trail underneath and behind them there. So there we go. We're going to set that one aside completely to dry. And once it's dry, this is what you have there. So some 3D dimension popped up plus the dimension from the sticklers, the glossy accents and that sort of thing. 13. Copic Colouring Techniques for Cardmaking Class Thank You: Thank you so much for joining me for cobalt coloring techniques for card making. I hope you enjoyed learning the different techniques and it's inspired you for some future projects. Now remember I use Capex in this class, but you can use any other alcohol marker as well. And any line stamp image will work instead of the furious. If you want to do something a little bit tough to see you back in class soon. Please take a moment to review the class. It's very, very helpful. Have a great day.