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Posted on February 6, 2015February 6, 2015 by Michelle — 26 Comments

A Colorful Copic Welcome!

It’s our pleasure to welcome Jennifer Dove to the Copic Fine Art Teacher Team!

What exactly is the Fine Art Teaching Team and what will Jennifer be doing with Copic? Well, the Fine Art Teaching Team is made up of a number of professional artists and instructors who travel across the country demoing and teaching at fine art stores and art schools. Jennifer has already been busy booking demos and classes in her area!

Jennifer has been using Copics since 2010 and her passion and enthusiasm are apparent to everyone she works with. As an artist by nature, Jennifer is currently busy teaching Copic Boot Camp retreats, working on her own DoveArt Designs stamp line, and designing in mixed media, jewelry making, card making and altered arts. She also has a number of video classes available with Annie’s Publishing. She is very excited to be adding this new teaching venture into her line-up.

We know that Jennifer will ROCK THE SOCKS OFF of those art schools and stores and we are so thrilled to be able to welcome her to the Copic teaching family.

To see more of Jennifer’s work, check out her blog at just4funcrafts.blogspot.com
In celebration of Jennifer’s joining us, we want to give YOU a chance to celebrate too. Our current Papercrafting Teacher Team has joined up for a welcome hop and we are EACH giving away a Copic T-Shirt to one lucky winner. Make sure to add a comment on this blog post to be entered to win. I will cut off entries midnight Eastern Sunday, February 8th and will announce the winner Monday evening!

Visit the blogs below for your chance to win & make sure to stop by Jennifer’s Blog and give her a big welcome!

Lori Craig
Jennifer Dove
Michelle Houghton <<<YOU ARE HERE
Cindy Lawrence
Debbie Olson
Colleen Schaan
Sherrie Siemens
Marianne Walker

And here is a little Copic fun to send you on your way. I created this card this past week with the color challenge #14 over at My Favorite Things.

Supplies: cardstock; Bazzill Basics, doily; Bo Bunny, image; My Favorite Things, sequins; Jenni Bowlin, ink; Copic C3, (colors used E35, E37, R000, R01, R20, YG000, YG01, YG13, B60, B63, B66)

Hope you have a happy, colorful weekend!

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Michelle — 1 Comment

MFT Sketch Challenge 212 – Closing in on Seattle Copic Workshops

Well I figured I would keep coloring while I was n a roll so here is another card I completed for the on-going challenges over at My Favorite Things. This is my interpretation of this week’s sketch challenge:

I kept it pretty simple today, to me the fun part was using the acorns to form my scallop at the bottom edge. 🙂 Supplies: cardstock; Bazzill Basics and American Crafts, ink; Memento (Rich Cocoa) and Copic (YG61, YG63, E50, E53, E55, E57, E59), burlap banner; Little Yellow Bicycle.

We are coming down to wire for my Copic Workshops in Seattle. If you or anyone you know live in the area and would like to join me for a half day, full day or even two full days of coloring fun make sure to get signed up NOW before it is too late.

Happy Coloring!

Posted on January 20, 2015January 20, 2015 by Michelle

Flat Geometry

I had a great time playing with my latest challenge over at Get It Scrapped. A group of us each created a page with an image made out of “flat geometry”, a current trend in design. Basically we are trying to show dementia and form with two dimensional geometric shapes. I decided to add a rocket using flat geometry to my layout that was leftover from sprig break of 2013. I am back tracking and trying to fill in some gaps in my scrapbooks and maybe get a little caught up even. It is a lofty goal even if it remains just a goal. Here is a close up of the rocket:

I colored strips of paper using Copic markers so that I could get a nice value range in my blue hue, then I cut them all into triangles and quadrilaterals, leaving them in little piles of similar color. I sketched out a rocket shape on a scratch piece of cardstock and cut it out then glues all my little pieces onto the rocket base, filling it in. I tried to use value cues to show the cylinder shape of the rocket body, and the cone of the nose. You can see the flames that I created on the full layout below:

Blast Off by Michelle Houghton | Supplies: cardstock; American Crafts, patterned paper; Pink Paislee, Heidi Swapp and SEI, letters; Pebbles, ink; Zig and Copic

I had set all the papers aside with photos a while back so I had supplies I was hoping to use already to go. The rocket was the perfect piece to tie it all to gather with a wonderful unique handmade touch!

Check out all the flat geometry looks HERE

Happy scrapping!

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Michelle — 1 Comment

MFT Color Challenge #13

Yep I am still having fun here with coloring. These are such easy fun challenges at My Favorite Things, I can see myself coming back for more of these 🙂 Besides it get’s me building up my card stash which is always a good thing to have on hand. The color challenge gives us 4 colors we need to incorporate on a card. The image I colored and added to my card is really just for fun. the little raccoon really has nothing to do sentiment, but he is too cute!

Supplies include: cardstock; Bazzill Basics and American Crafts, twine; American Crafts, stickers; Bo Bunny, embossing folder; Cuttlebug, raccoon image; My Favorite Things, ink; Copic, C1, C3, C5, C7, C9, E93

Happy coloring!

Posted on January 19, 2015January 17, 2015 by Michelle — 1 Comment

MFT Challenge 211

I was invited to check out the My Favorite Things Challenge blog this past week. They run regular sketch and color challenges for card and stamping fans. You could most likely translate the challenges into other crafty pursuits as well. I figured I am in a coloring, crafty mood why not? Besides a very dear friend of mine is having a baby shower and I would love to make a special card for her as I know she will be appreciative. Here is the tag I made using the current sketch at MFT.

I do not have any shape die cuts so I just eyeballed the oval and the tag but I don’t think my wobbly lines show too bad :-). Supplies for the tag include; cardstock; Bazzil Swiss Dots, patterned paper; Graphic 45, flowers and trim; American Crafts, stamp; My Favorite Things, ink; Memento and Copic.

The flowers are hand colored to match the patterned paper I used Copic markers in R20 and E93. Here is a close up of the fox and a list of the colors I used:

E11, E13, E15, E17, E19, E49. I used Memento ink in Rich Cocoa to stamp the image and even double stamped to keep the lines light and hopefully invisible after I colored. The E49 I used was to go back over the little nose and eyes. I know this is a unique image to use for a baby shower gift but the new arrivals last name is “Fox” and the beautiful mama LOVES her foxes so the image could not be any more perfect!

Thank you MFT for the inspiration.

Happy coloring!