Here is the third digital stamp for your use this holiday season. Remember to please direct people back to my blog if you decide to share this image on your social media outlets! Thank you!
If you would like to see the steps I used to color the holly check them out at this Topic In The Craft Room Tutorial over at Pinterest! HERE
I have another digital stamp for you today! A silly sheep for you all dressed up in a winter hat. You can make yours a holiday sheep or just a snow ready one!
If you would like to see how I colored him up you can check it out at Copic In The Craft Room. This is my finished wooly friend! If you decide to use the sheep and post it somewhere please share my blog as well so others can find the image and the information!
I pray you are spending this Holiday weekend with family and friends.
Happy Holidays to all my family and friends! Today and the next three Thursdays I have a holiday gift for those who love Copics and coloring. Today’s image is a pair of winter mittens. I created them fairly plane figuring that many would enjoy adding their own designs and patterns.
You can find the tutorial over at Pinterest Here
I colored mine very simply, but feel free to decorate! I would love to see your finished mittens. You can post them over at Copic In The Craft Room!
So a while back I introduced the Gasenfude pen from Copic. It is a nylon brush pen that has a rich black ink that is compatible with Copic markers. Yay! Since then I have been doing a lot of brush lettering practice with it.
If you have not yet heard we are introducing a hand lettering workshop for the 2017 season and I am trying to “brush up” on my lettering skills ha ha. The Gasenfude is a great practice tool for me because it takes A LOT of pressure control to get the lettering right. or at least somewhat presentable. Mine a certainly not perfect, but the Gasenfude is helping me get better!
I am thinking of trying to do a gratitude journal through November and only allowing myself to use the Gasenfude to keep me progressing and practicing!
Then I was TOTALLY inspired by both Jennifer Dove and Michele Boyer and there creative use of the Gasenfude pen. They both created images and colored them in with their Copics. Jen even shared the image she created with all her viewers (over at her blog linked above hint hint)
I figured what a spectacular idea so I created a small pile of 5 winter/holiday images that I will debate weekly at my blog and have a photo tutorial to go with each over at Copic In The Craft Room. Here is a sneaky peek of what I came up with.
Nothing fancy, just quick easy and fun. I love the varying thicknesses that the Gasenfude creates and the hand drawn look that it showcases on the images. So the first of these will debut Thursday November 17th and run 4 Thursdays in a row, yes even Turkey day. There might be a 5th just not sure if I am liking one of the images.
Any how just wanted to share my continued experiences with this new product from Imagination International, Inc. If you would like all the facts and figures on the product check them out at Imagination International, Inc. right HERE.
I do a lot of art. I mean a lot! It is my job, my hobby, my passion. What I realized is that all of it starts with the same product, a pencil! Wether I am finishing with watercolor, ink or of course COPIC I start with pencil. I spend hours doing sketch work for stamp ideas, layouts for scrapbooking, lettering and, card making. All of this work is done in pencil.
This past year when visiting Imagination International, Inc.’s home base in Oregon Marianne Walker steered me to the “best” pencil out there. She said I needed the best and that this pencil is the “ONE”.
After having worked with my Aristo pencil over the past year I have to agree, this pencil is the bomb!
Let me count the reasons I love my Aristo pencil:
It feels great in my hand and really is my go to tool. I use it to begin everything I do.
If you are interested in giving Aristo a try, check out their whole line of pencils at Imagination International, Inc. pick out the perfect pencil for you and don’t forget extra lead and erasers to boot!
