MARKER GEEK MONDAYS

It’s MARKER geek MONDAY!

Hiya sistahs!

Here’s today’s Marker Geek Monday!  Enjoy!

 

Since Spring is here I thought it would be a good time to share some Copic colour combos for the Woodsies range from Stamping Bella. I absolutely love these little characters, they are so soft and sweet yet full of that character and fun we all love Stamping Bella for.

 

The graphic below shows five different combos for colouring the adorable Petunia seen in the Especially For You Petunia stamp. Of course, these work for any piggy image, including the other Woodsies images and the Stuffies range too.

 

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You will notice that I don’t necessarily stick to colour families when colouring with alcohol based markers like Copics. By playing and mixing shades from different groups you can get a greater variety of results. Learning what works is a case of trial and error, and a good colour chart like Sandy Allnock’s Hex Chart really helps too (I’ll talk in depth about this in a future post, but go grab one – it is a great investment for Copic colouring).

 

I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that your results will look different from mine. Not just because digital representations of colour will not be an exact match for “real life”, but because your results will be affected by a variety of factors: the paper you use, how heavily you lay down colour, the amount of layering you do, the order in which you use the colours etc. The aim of these posts is not to get you replicating my results, but to encourage you to try different combinations, play with your markers and gain more confidence in experimenting. The more colouring you do, the more colours you play with and combine in different ways, the better you will become at colouring in your own style!

 

Have a go and let us know how you got on by sharing your work here in the comments section, over in the Stamping Bella Sistahood chat group on Facebook, directly on the Stamping Bella Facebook page or on Instagram by using the tag #markergeekmonday . You are also welcome to share your own favourite combos. We love hearing from you and sharing the enthusiasm for Stamping Bella!

 

MWAH!

 

~Elaineabella

5 Comments

  1. TinaS says:

    I sooo appreciate your work you put in these tips and tricks…thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge…especially with the petunias I have a hard time to find the right pinky-ness ;)…
    Great Invention these MarkerGeekMondays!
    Hugs from Germany,
    Tina 🙂

  2. Jane Crisci says:

    Thank you Elaine for another great tutorial. I know this takes up
    a lot of precious time and I truly appreciate (and look forward to) every post! Until next week……

  3. Oh I appreciate this immensely!!!! I LOVE Petunia!!!!!

  4. Oh thanks so much for sharing! I’ve tried many different color combinations. I so love mixing different colors together! Sandy Allnock’s Hex Chart is GREAT! 🙂

  5. Lesliebella says:

    Love this one Elaine! I will print it and add it to the rest of your fantastic Marker Geek Monday sheets for reference!!!

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