January start to finish card

Hi!
I thought yesterday would be a good day to get back to the start to finish series and with just a couple of setbacks I eventually finished the videos. For a better look at the card it can be found on my blog.

The first video covers coloring TGF Cheeky Rockabilly's skin.

Second video is coloring her outfit.

In the third video I had my first setback.

The fourth video is putting together the card.

Hope you enjoy!

Coloring up Fairy Paprika

I thought li'l Paprika with her braided hair could make a nice video. This first video covers the coloring of her skin and hair.




The second video covers the coloring of her dress and wings. The finished card can be seen on my blog tomorrow morning, March 7, along with a chance to win a Paprika stamp and card kit of your very own. Thanks for watching!

Annabel the Mermaid

I've had a request for coloring a mermaid but thought it would have to wait until closer to summer to do since my card making mood usually falls in with the seasons. But when I got this cutie in the mail, I just couldn't resist inking her up, so today is the day for a mermaid video! I'm sure there will be more to come with the warmer weather. ;-)
Card uses Annabel the Mermaid by Crafty Sentiments Designs.
The finished card can be seen here.

part one is the skin



part two is her hair



part three is her tail

Dee Dee is getting ready for some winter fun...

I had a question about coloring Wild Sprout Dee Dee with a dark skin tone, and I thought li'l Dee Dee would be fun on a Christmas card! So here are two videos with Dee Dee, the first one is the coloring of her skin and hair and in the second she get a winter coat with a little help from Wild Sprout Camille.

When I finish the card with Dee Dee I will post a link to it in this post below the two videos.
I have gone back through my prior video posts and added links to the finished cards and will continue to link videos to cards as I complete them.





The finished card can be seen here.

Coloring with Carisa!

Hi there! Today we have a couple of videos from the fabulous Carisa! I love her work and when I saw that she was doing videos I knew she would be a great addition to the Color Me Copic blog! So let's give Carisa a big warm welcome!

In Carisa's words taken from her blog
Now, I have to admit, I have shied away from doing these b/c I feel like there are plenty of copic coloring tutorials out there but I suppose I add my own spin to it. ;) Thanks to my friends who have encouraged me and been so supportive. The main thing I can stress is you can watch video after video on "how to" color, but you just gotta dig in and practice on your own. Just have fun with it - try new things - color until you are happy. :D

So, here you go. The first video is a skin tone coloring - my most used skin tone combo using E0000, E000, E00, E11, R22, R20, R01. In this video I had my tripod pretty high and I guess I tend to whisper when I'm talking to an empty room, LOL, so I'm going to work on that for future videos.

In this second video I'm coloring hair using a fabulous red color combination YR04, YR07, YR09, R29.
I do move the camera about 3 mins into the video but my hand is sorely in the way a lot. Gotta figure out how to fix that since that is how I hold my markers. LOL

coloring skin - dark

Here's the last of three videos on my coloring combos of skin.

coloring skin - medium

Here's video #2, my usual suntan/medium skin tone.



Finished card can be seen here

Coloring skin - light

Hi there!
I had some requests for how I color the skin on my images so here is the first of three little videos.



The finished card can be seen here

It's not easy being green...

well, why stop at just one Halloween image today! Here's Swiss Miss Witch Brigitta that I've decided to go all witchy on and give her light green skin with beautiful dark green hair! Elphaba eat your heart out! ;-)



The finished card can be seen here

A not so 'wee' coloring video

Hi again!
Had some requests on how I colored my mason jar lids and I thought I would go ahead and tape the whole process. I broke it down to two videos and this first one is me coloring up Fairwee Josie...I just made it in under the 15 minute mark, so be forewarned! :)



The finished card can be seen here

Coloring video by...Kelly Booth!

If you are out and around in blogland, you've most likely seen Kelly Booth before and she is our fabulous Guest Contributor today! She's made a fab video on coloring in faces and doing "makeup" on your stamps.

It's also time for another challenge! This time around we are being sponsored by the fabulous Sammi from Mad for Markers in Austrailia!  Sammi has offered up 2 packs of the NEW Xpress IT blending card (20 sheets cut to A5 size), so this time around we'll have TWO winners and each winner will get a pack! Xpress It is just recently available to us in the US but we've already been hearing raves about it from those who are lucky enough to have used it already.  Now, onto Kelly's tutorial! (Challenge details below)

Kelly Booth

Blog: Lovin The Life I Color

Hi My name is Kelly Booth I currently live in Northern California with my husband and dog Xenia. We will be moving to Arizona next month  to be closer to my Grandchildren and my girls.  I have always loved to color and paint. I discovered Copic Markers a little over three years ago and have not turned back since.  I was able to get Copic Certified last year and hope to  take the intermediate Certification when it comes around.  

Here's Kelly's fabulous video, thanks SO MUCH for sharing with us all Kelly!

Images by: The Greeting Farm



Challenge Fine print:

Make a project using Kelly's face/makeup coloring technique
New creations only (we check)

You can use any stamps you'd like (just make sure it has an animal, obviously)

Link it up here by November 5th

Winner will be chosen by random.org

DT will pick some of our favorite creations to showcase

Thanks for joining us!
~The CMC Team~

Skin Colors - by Mary Giles

Welcome Mary Giles, our Guest Contributor this week!  She has graciously agreed to share her skin color samples with us today.  Stayed tuned later this week for for hair samples, they are great!
These give you a good idea not only of what colors she uses but how they look when colored.

Mary Giles 

Blog: A Latte Inkin' Fun

I got started with copics about two years ago and I bought my first 12 at Dick Blick in Ohio. I was just getting into coloring images and all I had were regular markers. I was really amazed at the creations I had seen with copics and being a gadget girl I had try them for myself. It was love at first stroke, but it did take quite awhile for me to become comfortable with them and a lot of reading and studying other people's projects. I really love how copics blend and the shading details you can get from them is fabulous. Plus you can get images done pretty quick.

 Image: The Greeting Farm (Ebony)

Skin Tones

Our personal skin tone favorites:

Traci:

African American – E57,E59,E49
Caucasian – R00,E00,E11
Latino/Asian – E00,E11,E13,E15

Rachel:
African American – E37/35/33
Caucasian – E11/00/000
Latino/Asian – E13/11/00

Amy:
African American – E31, E34, E37, R22
Caucasian – E000, E00, E11, R20
Latino – E30, E21, E33, R20
Asian - E50, YR000, E51, R20

Kim:

African American – E57, E74 (dark blend), E35 (light blend)
Caucasian – E000, E11, E13(dark blend), R20 (blush)
Latino/Asian – E13, E35 (dark blend), E21 (light blend)

Elaine:

African American – E25, E27, E21, E13, E11, E02, R32 (blush)

Caucasian – E0000, E000, E00, E11, R20, R21, R22 (blush)