Challenge No. 8 ~ Botanicals
Welcome back! It’s our 8th challenge featuring ~ Copic marker coloring techniques for Botanicals ~ sponsored by the premiere floral stamp company ~ Flourishes!!
A special Thank You to everyone who joined us in last week’s challenge of coloring Brunette Hair … your projects were truly amazing!! It was such a pleasure to see your beautiful creations and to learn from YOU!
The Design Team is very excited to show you our Copic Botanical Creations using actual Flourishes stamp sets! ~ generously provided by the very lovely ladies at Flourishes, llc.
In case you are not familiar with our sponsor, Flourishes carries a number of products for stampers and papercrafters. Their line of high quality clear stamp sets are made in the USA and are some of the best drawn images available to stampers today. While we are focusing on beautiful botanical images this week, Flourishes provides a wide variety of images, all in a timeless and classic style that stampers can use from year to year.
Flourishes special Copic Marker Collections are perfect for beginners and experts alike as the markers are grouped according to natural color blends. Grouped in three, four or five markers per package in colors that will provide a natural blend from light to dark. Their store also carries its Classic White and Ivory cardstock – a sturdy cardstock selected specifically to work with Copic Markers. Be sure to visit their store at www.flourishes.org and check out the newsletter at www.flourishesnewsletter.blogspot.com. One lucky winner of this weeks challenge will have receive a Flourishes stamp set of their choice, along with this gorgeous botanical set ~ Sweet Peas:
Flourishes ~ Sweet Peas
PLEASE NOTE: You have until July 31st, 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 1st.
Listed below, are various Copic technique tutorials to guide you in this week’s floral coloring challenge.
Special thanks to …
Marianne Walker, I Like Markers ~
Suzanne Dean, Scrap Bitz ~
Video Tutorial – Coloring Flower Images
Video Tutorial – Cindy Lawrence
Splitcoast Stampers – Kathy Sanders
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♥ COPIC CREATIONS’ CHALLENGE NO. 8 GALLERY ♥
RV10, 17, 10, 30, 83
BV00, BV02, BV04, YG11, BG93, G21
![Signs of Spring copy.jpg-W[1]](https://copiccreations.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/signs-of-spring-copy-w1.jpg?w=600 "Signs of Spring copy.jpg-W[1]")
Y11, Y15, Y19, Y00, G40, G21, G99
YG13,G24,G28,Y000,Y02,Y17,E0000,BV01,BV04,BV08,B21,B24,B26, Colorless Blender
R14, R17, R22, R24, R27, R32, Y08, y11, Y15, Y17, Y38, YG03, YG11, YG63, YG6y7, V000, V06, V09, V17, G29
R81, R83, R85, R89
R89, R29, R27, R24, R22, R20
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 1st for our next challenge and the announcement of the winner of this challenge.
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Participant Cards:
Cindy Cook
Cindy Cook
Copic Creations 
Just found your challenge site … love what your design team has done. I’m new to Copics, but thought I’d post a card anyway. Thanks.
Joxx
I am doing the “happy dance”!! Thank you so much for the opportunity to participate in the challenges on this blog. I hav learned so much about Copics and just love looking at all the great designs that the DT and others post. A ScorPal! That’s awesome!! A special thanks to Diana!
The Copic Creations design team have created some gorgeous cards – these botanical beauties are amazing and we’re looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!
Nancy
Flourishes Stamps
I LOVE this challenge. Thanks for creating it for me;)
I could stare at the DT amazing samples all day long!!
They are so gorgeous.
I LOVE doing these challenges and I came across a stamp I’d not used in AGES and fell in love with it again.
Viv xx
What a fun challenge! I love my copics and of course Flourishes stamps 🙂 The DT samples are so gorgeous!!
What could be better than a Flourishes image colored with Copic markers? I am so excited to be able to participate this week. The DT samples are beautiful. Thanks for a great challenge.
Thank you for the challenge. I enjoyed this challenge a lot! LOVE the samples.
Another fabulous challenge and your examples are amazing!!
I ended up doing two (both on the same post) and nearly forgot
to enter them into the challenge. Got my dizzy head on again.
hugs Heather xx
Wow! All of the DT’s creations are so beautiful! This is my first time participating in one of your challenges. I didn’t see any instructions for using a keyword, so let me know if I’ve forgotten to include anything.
Here’s a link to my card on my blog:
http://wheremmsgather.blogspot.com/2009/07/featured-stamper_19.html
I am so pleased to have found you – what a great DT and what lovely challenges and info! Thanks x
Wow, what awesome projects! I don’t have any Flourishes stamps (yet) but after seeing all of these samples, I think I have to start collecting! Thanks for the great challenge, and all the wonderful information on how to use my new favorite markers. 🙂
Wow! What great cards and coloring, and what a great challenge!
This is a great challenge, and I just got the perfect stamp set from Flourishes to color! I don’t know why my entry didn’t show up on Mr. Linky, so I’ll post it here (just in case) and try Mr. Linky again.
Here is my card.
All these cards are so very beautiful! I have posted my card on my blog and uploaded the link to Mr. Linky, but just in case here is a link to my posting. Thank you for the opportunity to win some wonderful stamps!
Thank you ladies for a great challenge and also for the wonderful inspiration you provide with your DT cards, all so beautiful. Chris 🙂
Absolutely gorgeous DT samples and great challenge! I had a blast making my card and took forever with all the coloring and shading!
Thanks for the opportunity to participate. I’m glad I found your site–there are so many helpful tips for coloring with Copics. I love my new Copic markers!
Your DT did a great job on this one! They are all beautiful. My card can be found at http://billiesscrappetique.blogspot.com/2009/07/character-cafe-feature-friday_24.html#links
Wonderful challenge and samples – the DT’s cards are gorgeous! I’ve linked mine above – scroll down to the second card on my post. 🙂
So sorry, I had the wrong link! It’s fixed on #31.
This is so much fun, I just had to make another card. Besides, I really, really want that Sweet Peas stamp, since Sweet Peas are one of my favorite flowers!!! Thanks for the chance to win!
Love the design teams cards. Thanks for the challenge.
Good morning…love all the samples….great flora & fauna! Used Mr. Linky to add mine to the group. Thanks for the challenge.
Another awesome challenge with loads of amazing tutorials! Thanks for the resources for one of my all-time favorite stamping subjects!!