Papercrafting designer Sharon Harnist is one of our Design and Education/Instruction team members, and she’s back with us again this month to share a New Year’s project that utilizes several Copic products and a great background/custom paper technique.
Hello, I’m excited to be back again and to share this fun background/custom paper technique! A new year for me means a new calendar, so I hope you will enjoy this project, too.
To create the custom background my calendar is printed on, I started with an acrylic stamping block and scribbled several Copic marker colors onto it:
(Note: I ended up using a larger block than is shown in the photo above, so it would cover the entire surface I would need for my background).
Next, place Copic Colorless Blender Solution in a mister bottle and generously spray the scribbled marker color. Working quickly, before the Blender Solution dries, stamp onto X-Press It Blending Card. I love the speckled, snowy (or rainy!) effect:
Then I used the background paper to print my calendar, trimmed it down to approximately 4.50′” x 5.25”, and backed it with black cardstock. Alternately, you could use one of those tear-off calendars companies send you through the mail as their annual marketing this time of year, and place it on this prettier background!
The Lockhart Stamp Company Snowman With Checkered Hat was stamped onto X-Press It Blending Card with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with these Copic Sketch markers:
To bridge the gap between two shades of colors, I used the Tip-to-Tip technique: Use lighter marker to pick up color off the darker color marker tip and then use lighter marker to color with. Color will start out darker and then gradually fade to the lighter color as the darker color comes off the lighter marker tip, automatically creating a mid-tone of the two shades:
To make the snowman’s face appear cold and icy, I used B0000 around the edges of his face. I used C1 to shade underneath his hat and around the edges of his face to make it appear more rounded, and for shadows underneath his eyes, nose and mouth:
The snowman was cut out and adhered with foam tape to an Inchie Arts Black Twinchie (2”) Square, for stability and contrast. The final snowman image has Pitch Black Atyou Spica Glitter Pen accenting the snowman’s coal mouth pieces, Melon accenting the holly and stripes in his scarf, and Clear accenting his ear muffs and eyes:
The die cut snowflake pieces were accented with icy B0000 by coloring the raised/embossed areas of the X-Press It Card while it was still in the die:
The snowflake pieces were layered together with foam tape and accented with glitter glue. The calendar page is sized to fit into a clear plastic CD holder, with the lid bent back and used as an easel:
I hope you’ll have fun using this background/coloring technique!
You can find more Copic papercrafting inspiration from Sharon here:
Blog: www.PaperFections.com
Copic Color Gallery: http://www.copiccolor.com/Shar
Calendar Supplies:
Copic Sketch Markers: B0000, B21, BG000, BG01, BG02, BV02, BV13, BV17, C1, C2, RV63, RV66 YG03, YG63, YR12
Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pens: Clear, Melon, and Pitch Black
Paper: Copic X-Press It Blending Card; Gina K Designs Pure Luxury Heavy Base Weight Black Onyx cardstock
Stamps: Lockhart Stamp Company Snowman With Checkered Hat (#6004)
Ink: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black
Dies: Spellbinders Create A Flake One dies and Grand Calibur die cutting machine
Accessories: Inchie Arts Black Twinchie Square; Ranger Star Dust Stickles; foam tape, 2012 Grid 2-Page Calendar download, Clear plastic CD holder
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