Copic Marker Europe DT Card - Tara

Hello my lovelies how are you all? Yayyyy its the weekend I soooooooo love weekends I get to spend lots of time with all my family...........what more could I ask for :0)

Todays card is for the Copic Marker Europe blog. Now most of you know my 2 most favourite things to colour are faces/skin & hair I could sit & colour these all day long, these never stress me out, never worry me & I find them so relaxing to do. Everyone has a favourite thing they like to colour, these are mine.

As you know I had a huge love of Sweet Pea stamps as well as Hannnah Lynn but I havnt done a Sweet Pea stamp for sooooooooooo long, well they have now gone digital woooooo hooooooo I lurve digi images the most. So I went over, (yes its took me a while to find out they have gone digital lol) & brought a few images. 

My 2 fave artists over there are Ching-Choux Kuik & Karen Middleton, I love her faces thats she draws. This one is by Karen Middleton & is called 'Tara', isnt she so beautiful!!

I have used 2 of the new dies from MB, LOVE these ones the most I think ;0) I've used 'Fresh Foliage' & cut it out with white card & dabbed Gesso all over it to give it texture. I also cut out 2 of

 'Forget Me Not Stem' in a sage green card.

I decorated inside to compliment the front, I also kept all the flowers neutral so the image would be the main focus. I added a 'Metal Corner' which I painted with white Gesso.

I have added beautiful white & sage green lace from my stash, the green is showing its true colour though for some reason. I also stamped the sentiment in Ivy green.

This pretty lady was of course coloured with Copics, colours used are........

Face - E13, E21, E00, E000, E0000, Cheeks R20 & Lips R85

Hair - C9, C7, C5, C3, C2, C0

Leaves YG97, YG93, YG91 & Blender pen to lighten bits of them.

I also added White Liquid Pearls to the berries.

The background around her was done with G000 & the Blender pen.

I matted her onto a Spellbinders die which was cut out of grey card & then dabbed with White Gesso.

Papers used are Pion Studio Of Memories 'Collage & Ring Of Roses' & I inked all the edges with Weathered Wood DI. Papers are light to let the image again be the main focus.

Ingredients used................

'Tara' by Karen Middleton - Sweet Pea Stamps

Pion Studio Of Memories papers - Live & Love Crafts

Metal Corner - Live & Love Crafts

White Liquid Pearls - Live & Love Crafts

Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts

Scalloped Pearls - Wild Orchid Crafts

Memory Box 'Fresh Foliage' die - My Crafty Heart

Memory Box 'Forget Me Not Stem' - My Crafty Heart

Spellbinders 'Oval' frame

A4 Card, Lace & sentiment are from my stash.

Well thats it from me, I will be round to catch up with you all during the day, its been a rough week but I shall not bore you with the details my lovelies. Anyhoo's hope you all have a lovely weekend, taker care especially if you have snow..........we had a lot of fresh fluffy white stuff last night ;0)

Thank you as always for your support it means the world to me.

Tatty bye, enjoy your weekend my lovelies & take care mmwah xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx