Challenge No. 32 ~ Summer Reading

Welcome back after our long hiatus!    We appreciate you stopping in today and are so glad you didn’t forget about us!!

As promised, we have a “special” challenge today.    We’ve teamed up this week with the amazing Award-Winning Children’s Book Illustrator and Author, Elizabeth O. Dulemba.    

 Elizabeth is a huge advocate for children’s reading and is very familiar with the children’s book industry;  For all you Copic Masters out there, she  also has published several helpful articles for anyone who might be interested in illustrating or writing children’s books!  

So, our challenge this week is READING!  … which includes bookmarks, book gift card holders, reading charts, etc.   Anything you can think of that relates to reading.   The Copic Creations Design Team wanted to take this opportunity to help pass the word that summer reading can be fun AND beneficial to all those “bored” kids out there!   We found this interesting article about the benefits of summer reading for kids.    We have each used one of Elizabeth’s reading images for our samples found below.

The best part, for those not familiar with Elizabeth’s work, is that she publishes a weekly newsletter that includes FREE illustrations for teachers, librarians, booksellers and parents!   All of Elizabeth’s adorable free images can be found here.       So, there’s no excuse NOT to join us this week, since you can download any of these reading images for FREE!!!    

Elizabeth has recently started a Facebook Page and would love it if you would also post your creations there for everyone to see.   Here’s the link . . .  Coloring Page Tuesdays.

AND, Elizabeth will be giving one lucky Copic Creations Challenge participant their choice of

One of her amazing Children’s Books!    

How cool is that??!!!     (Elizabeth’s entire collection of books can be found HERE.)

To sweeten the deal, we are also including for the lucky winner of this challenge,

FOUR Copic markers of your choice from 7 Kids College Fund!!     

Wooo Hooo!!

PLEASE NOTE: You are NOT required to use an image from our sponsor for your Copic Creations project. (Although Elizabeth’s images are free, so there’s NO excuse not to use one!!)     You will have until August 14th, 12:00 p.m. CDT to post 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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Now, after such a long delay, we NEED let you know who the lucky winner(S)!! are from our last challenge!!     [I felt so bad about the mixup with the dates from our last challenge that I spoke with the so-very generous Tiffany of Tiffany Doodles and she has decided to DOUBLE her offer!!]     So, we have TWO winners of TEN digital images from Tiffany!    Wow!  

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LINDA PAYNE OF PAYNE HOLLER CARDS

AND 

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MAUREEN OF DROWNING IN A SEA OF CREATIVE CHAOS

Yay!   Congrats ladies.   Please be sure to send us your email address so we can forward it to Tiffany.

We’d like to extend our sincere appreciation and huge thanks to the awesome Tiffany of Tiffany Doodles for these wonderful prizes!!    You’re the best Tiff ~ we love ya!  

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    No tutorial links this week ~ Anything goes!!

♥ COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 32  GALLERY ♥    

  

   ♥ ASELA HOPKINS ♥  

Hamster

W1, W3, W7, B95, B97, R46, R59, R20, YG95, BG96, E35, E53,0

 

  ♥ CHERYL ROWLEY ♥ 

Bookworm

 

  ♥ HEATHER GILFOY BOND ♥ 

Lion and the Mouse

 E07. 71, 74, 77, 79 : E00, E11 E43 

  ♥ JANE WETZEL ♥ 

Magritte

 

  ♥ JODI-ANN LEE ♥ 

Library Mouse 

 

 

  ♥ KAREN WITTER ♥ 

 A Book is a Ship

and

Reading Monster

 

  ♥ KATIE COTTON ♥ 

Reading Elf Boy 

 

  ♥ LILIAN TAN ♥ 

 Reading Sprite

 

  ♥ MARY B. GIEMZA ♥ 

Spring Blooms 

and

 

  ♥ MARY B. GIEMZA ♥ 

Pirate Poetry

 

  ♥ SUZANNE DEAN ♥ 

Reading Fairy

  R22,R20,R00,YG97,YG95,YG93,G20

 

We hope you will join us for this challenge and share YOUR creations with us. A Mister Linky has been included below. (Sorry that Inlinkz doesn’t work with WordPress!    We would definitely be using that!)   Please don’t forget to stop back on August 15th for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner for this challenge.