iCopic Lover

Hello everyone! Samantha here, bringing you another festive Copic creation. It is starting to cool down here in Tennessee and when it starts getting cooler, I go into holiday mode! Here is another holiday card for you (and I will be back with others soon too!)




So for the little girl, I wanted to do something a little different since all of my card had a distressed/vintage type feel to it. I did a little experimenting and found something that I thought worked really well.

I colored in the little girl image with my Copic Ciaos (exact colors are listed below) on my normal white cardstock ( the new X-Press IT Paper is my FAVE) and then cut her out with an Xacto knife.

THEN (here's the different part), I ran some creamy brown colored ink right over the image. That creamy brown ink gave the image a somewhat distressed feel and helped to tone down the bright white of the cardstock so that the image would fit in with the whole feeling of the card.  If you look really closely, you can see some brown ink on some of the edges (on the tips of her scarf, near her shoes, etc).

So my whole point is, don't be afraid to experiment with things and find techniques that work for you! You never know what you will discover!


I used the following Copic Ciao colors:
YG06
YG03
R27
R29
E00
E02
E21

I hope you enjoyed my project for today!

If you’ve been holding out on purchasing your dream Copic Set or an assortment of our Copic Products, NOW is the time to do it! We’ve NEVER offered savings like this! From September 25th to September 26th, take advantage of our Fall Sale. Every Copic Marker and Pen Sets will be 10% off!

We’ve also been taking some time to search for some talent on YOUTUBE to share with all of our followers. We’re hoping to introduce one featured talent a week to inspire and share new project ideas with all of you. This week’s featured talent is Rina of Scrapstress and we just love her use of TGF Stamps and Copic products! Enjoy!

Since Fall is officially here, I am ready for holidays!! One of my favorite holidays is Christmas!! Since I make my own Christmas cards every year, I will definitely be showing you bunches of examples.



I wanted to try something different on this card. I used Reds and Pinks together to color in the little girl's jacket.  Don't be afraid to experiment with using colors from different color families! You might come up with some really unique and fun results!


The following colors were used:

• R27
• R29
• RV21
• RV23
• RV29
• E00
• E21

Everyone already knows that Washi Tape equals awesome, but did you know that you can use it as faux ribbon on your projects? And it is just so cute!

Look at this cute little card using Washi Tape s a ribbon accent:


<a href="http://www.icopic.com/catalog/washi-tape/japanese-washi-masking-tape-set-of-3-mark-s-basic-color-orange.html">The Washi Tape used here can be found by clicking here!</a>

As always, happy creating and we cannot wait to see the all the beautiful entries!

By popular demand, we’re excited to introduce CC Designs, In Style Stamps and Pink Cat Studio to our line of rubber stamps. Come over to meet our newest sweet characters; Lily and Billy from Pink Cat Studios, Ava from In Style Stamps and Swiss Pixies Nora just to name a few. We also have to mention that these characters all have equally adorable entourages!

As one challenge ends, we hope you’re ready for another! iCopic Challenge #3

It’s obvious that at iCopic, we love color! Our challenge colors are inspired by the beautiful colors in our everyday life that add energy and excitement into the routines of our days. Colors draw up memories and lift moods and one of our favorite colors is red. So for Challenge #3 your theme colors are Red, Pink and White. One lucky winner will receive – 1 package of 50 Sheets of the New X-Press Blending Card. The X-Press It Blending Cards are one of the hottest items right now, and here is your chance to win them!

To enter, follow these easy steps:

1. Become a follower of our blog, if you aren’t already.

2. Post your original creation with your entry and the link back to iCopic's Color Challenge on your blog. You can make ANY type of project that includes use of Copics: greeting card, scrapbook page, altered art, 3D project, illustration, etc. Anything goes as long as Copics are used!

3. The colors need to be as close to the challenge’s color theme as possible.

The challenge starts Thursday, September 02, 2010 and will end on Wednesday, September 15th. The winner will be chosen by the True Random Number Generator.

As always, we’re excited to see what everyone comes up with!

Here is an inspiration project to get you started:

It’s the start of September which means summer is drawing to a close, crisp fall nights are on its way, back to school season is here and we’ve been busy adding great new releases at iCopic!

For starters, we’re very excited to introduce New TGF Releases – Sweet and Toxic, Oh, Boy Ian, and Sweet Anya to our collection of growing TGF rubber stamps.

We’ve also added new patterns of Washi tape from our Classiky Line. We spent the summer choosing the best stripes, dots, graph, and gingham patterns out there and they’re now available at iCopic.

A quick congratulation is in order for our 2^nd Challenge Winner, Sandi! We love doing giveaways especially when we get to see what our winners do with their prizes! Sandi sent us a beautiful creation using our Copic markers with the Airbrush System to achieve a look we don’t think any blending/coloring system can give.

September is going to be one busy month for us, stay tuned for new arrivals from InStyle stamps which will be available for order later this month!

What other ways can you use our washi masking tape?