Welcome to our 9th challenge ~ Copic marker coloring techniques for Eyes.
We would like to extend a special
Thank You to everyone who joined us for our last challenge ~
Botanicals. We were all in awe of each and every submission!! And, thank you for stopping back today, we’re so happy you’re here!
This challenge is being sponsored by the very cool, very hip, very
InStyle Stamps ~ home of whimsical, retro, anime rubber stamps, digital images and scrapbook supplies.
Virginia, the owner of
InStyle Stamps, has graciously given an
ISS digital Anime image to each design team member for this challenge. Their anime images are perfect examples to showcase coloroing eyes with Copics, and can be purchased in digital format for INSTANT download by you. We also have a very special guest designer joining us this week –
Melissa Earnest, the
Creative Director of ISS. Melissa has not only created a Copic project to share with us today, she has also posted a special
tutorial for coloring Anime Eyes! I know you’ll love it! It’s VERY informative.
(Lots of business this week!) We also would like to introduce a brand new
Copic Creations Design Team member ~
Pam Sparks!! Pam is a Mega-talented stamper and Copic artist. Be sure to stop by her blog to see her fantastic creations! Welcome aboard Pam! We also are fortunate enough this month to have another guest designer joining us for this challenge ~
Crissy Armstrong. Crissy is also a phenominal Copic artist and she has some great coloring tutorials on her blog that we hope you will have time to check out!
Our VERY COOL sponsor,
InStyle Stamps, will be awarding one lucky participant a prize package of a brand new collection of FIVE stamp images that are being released this month! Here’s a sneak peak of one of the adorable images ~
Cynthia … Fairy Extrodinaire:
PLEASE NOTE: You have until August 14th, 12:00 p.m. CDT to submit your artwork and be eligible for a chance to win this weeks prize; The winner will be announced along with our next challenge post on August 15th.
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Drum roll please!!
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The lucky winner of last weeks Botanicals challenge is ~ No. 11
Congratulations Claire!! You have won a
Flourishes stamp set of your choice, along with the gorgeous botanical set ~ Sweet Peas. Our sincere thanks to all the awesome ladies at
Flourishes for their wonderful sponsorship of the
Botanicals challenge.
[Claire, please contact us with your choice of stamp set from Flourishes and your mailing address. Congrats!]
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Listed below, are some amazing tutorials to guide you in this challenge. As always, please don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions.
Special thanks this week to …
Melissa Earnest, Mme. Designs
How to Color Anime Eyes – A Copic Tutorial
Marianne Walker, I Like Markers ~
Coloring Eyes Part 1
Coloring Eyes Part 2 – Realistic Eyes
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♥ COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 9 GALLERY ♥
♥ CHERYL ROWLEY ♥
Kimmie
B41 and B21
♥ CLAUDIA ROSA ♥
B21 & B23
♥ CRISSY ARSTRONG ♥
Tommy
G05, G02, G00
♥ JANE WETZEL ♥
Nico
B00, B14, B24
♥ JODI-ANN LEE ♥
Janice
B02, B04, BG11
♥ KAREN WITTER ♥
Mieko
B000, B02, B04, Colorless Blender
♥ MARY GIEMZA ♥
Princess Clarissa
BG34, YG41, BG10
♥ MELISSA EARNEST ♥
Mellie
♥ PAM SPARKS ♥
Tommy
E57,55,53 & YG99,95,91
♥ RACHEL JAKES ♥
Mieko
E55/E57/E59
♥ SUZANNE DEAN ♥
Princess Clarissa
EB95,B91
We hope you will join us in this challenge and share your CREATIONS with us. A Mister Linky has been included below. Please don’t forget to stop back on August 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.
Copic Creations 
Great Challenge and wonderful DT cards!
I was the first to enter this time! yay!
hugs,
jorunn
Wow! The DT really hit it home with these images! Fantastic coloring!
Thanks so much – I was thrilled to find that I had won the flourishes stamps! Had great fun with this challenge again. Really fab cards from the DT – so inspirational
WONDERFUL cards DT! I love all of your samples!!! Thanks for the fun challenge and to ISS for sponsoring! It’s so fun to see how others use the images that I usually play with! 🙂
Fab challenge and fab tuts.
I don’t do Manga – I hope that’s okay – I’m just waiting for Linky to work – he says he’s busy at the moment!
Hugs,
Eiglas
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Wow!! Absolutely fabulous DT cards – such inspiration!! And thanks for the challenge – I had fun trying this out!
This turned out to be a really fun challenge. I now realize that I need more stamps that have beautiful eyes! Thanks for the tutorials on doing eyes, it was a great help.