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The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge blog hop

Sarah

Hello! Welcome to day 2 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge. Today is the FIRST day of a THREE DAY hop to help jumpstart your creativity. If you’re new to the colouring challenge or have any questions about it you can take a look at Kathy’s introductory post.


If you arrived here from Sandy over at Three Room Studio then you are in the right place. To start at the beginning of the hop go to The Daily Marker’s blog here.

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I love Kathy’s colouring challenges — they are the perfect opportunity to play around with different styles, mediums and techniques.

So, even though I stuck with my favourite Copic markers for the hop, I looked for ways to stretch myself. I’ve only recently started feeling at all comfortable colouring hair so why not jump in the deep end with this digi stamp with her massive stack of hair? And then experiment with adding detail to Copic work with coloured pencils for the first time (I’m really happy with the extra texture it created in the hair).

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There always has to be a little bit of shine somewhere, so I coloured the things in her hair with Spica pens. And while I was at it, took some baby steps into mixed media for the background with layers of Distress stain spray, Distress ink blending through stencils, collage medium, and Distress crayons. There’s a full list of supplies used, including the Copic colours and pencils, at the bottom of this post.

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GIVEAWAY : 12 GOODIE BAGS !

That’s TWELVE CHANCES TO WIN during the three-day hop. The more you comment on each hopper’s blog or Instagram the more chances you have of winning. Winners will be chosen randomly FROM THE BLOGS and INSTAGRAM hop comments. The contest closes at 11pm EST on November 13th and the full list of winners will be announced at 9am EST on Wednesday November 16th over at www.thedailymarker.com.

Now it’s time to hop to my friend Marika over at Craftybit Creations.

Thank you for your visit today and I hope to see you during the colouring challenge. Be sure to use the hashtag so we can find your work, or you can join the Facebook group here.

The full blog hop list

  1. Kathy @ The Daily Marker
  2. Barb @ The Buzz
  3. Sarah @ Criminal Grace
  4. Kim @ This That and the Whole Kaboodle
  5. Jess @ All The Sparkle
  6. Lisa @ My Card Trip
  7. Kymona @ Kreative Kymona
  8. Dana @ Got Joy Creations
  9. Barb @ Enjoying Life
  10. Sonja @ The Art of Stamping
  11. Olga @ PO Corner
  12. Sandy @ Three Room Studio
  13. Sarah @ Crafty Rat <— YOU ARE HERE
  14. Marika @ Craftybit Creations
  15. Monica @ Your Adhesive is Showing
  16. Birka @ Mit Herz und Schere
  17. Steph @ Steph Made It For You
  18. Mayra @ Mayra’s Designs
  19. Jenny @ Handmade by JLY
  20. Liz @ Family Creation Fun
  21. Julia @ Just One More Card

Supplies:

  • centrepiece:
    The East Wind – Lucy Loo bookaholic
    Neenah solar white 216gsm
  • Copic markers / Caran d’Ache Supracolor soft:
    skin – BV000, E11, E00, E000 / 065
    eyes – B02, B04, B06
    eyeshadow – 131
    purple hair – BV29, V09, V17, V12 / 131, 139
    blue hair – B39, B29, B26, B06, B02 / 140, 155
    green hair – G29, G19, FYG2, YG25, YG00 / 239, 245
    yellow hair – Y19, Y06, Y02, Y11 / 240, 030
    orange hair – YR09, YR18, YR16, Y38, Y17 / 030, 060
    red hair – R89, R59, R29, R27, R14 / 070, 080
    book cover – E71, E74, E77
    book pages – W3, W1, W00
    cat – W5, W3, W1, W00, E93 / 008
  • Atyou Spica details:
    quill pen – gold, silver, Copic multiliner 0.1 black
    peacock feather – lavender, olive, melon
    stake – orange, gold
    heart – red, silver, gold
    bird – red, gold
    branch – olive
    nest – gold
    eggs – turquoise, B01
  • sentiment:
    Lawn Fawn – Smitty’s ABCs
    Versafine onyx black
    Distress ink pad – gathered twigs
  • background:
    Reeves acrylic pad
    stencil – Echo Park – rocks
    stencil – Clarity Stamp – petal
    Distress stain spray – mermaid blue, hickory smoke
    Distress ink pads – mermaid blue, hickory smoke
    Distress collage medium – crazing
    Distress collage medium – vintage
    Distress crayon – mermaid blue, picket fence
    Wink of Luna – silver
  • embellishments:
    tiny silver and gold metal stars
  • card base:
    Hunkydory adorable scorable – cotton white
    Centura pearl – silver (base layer)

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157 thoughts on “The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge blog hop”

  1. Oh my goodness!! The coloring is absolutely amazing!! The hair looks like it is REAL and would be soft to the touch. Great design!

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  5. Wow! Wow! Very impressive. I love the rainbow hair – that even looks like hair. This is great. 🙂 Good job. Plus, I really like all the layers you have with the inking, stamping, die cuts and embellishments. 🙂

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  8. Oh my god, what an amazing image and colouring. It looks so beautul and perfect.♥
    Many hugs
    Angela

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  25. I love your card, your colouring is amazing, I think the colours you used for the hair are awesome and it looks so silky! Your entire card is really gorgeous!

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  31. This looks just like me…except I don’t have a cat or long hair, nor do I color it. I do have blue eyes and usually have my nose in a book though. 😉 Absolutely gorgeous coloring.

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  42. I was totally impressed by the rainbow hair and how well done it is, but I laughed out loud when I scrolled down and saw the eyeshadow!!! Thanks so much. (I am still smiling!)

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  45. What a fun piece! I admire your guts in even attempting the multicolored hair! And it turned out fantastic!

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  47. AMAZING! When I grow up I want to color like you!!! Oops, too late! I can only keep plodding along. I love everything about this card! All I can say(since my jaw dropped to the floor) is AMAZING! Thank you for sharing your incredible creation and talent!

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    1. It’s really not too late. I only started cardmaking around three years ago and only picked up my first Copics just over two years ago. And I hadn’t done much in the way of art or colouring since I left school (which was quite some time ago) and, to be honest, I wasn’t much good at it then 😁

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        1. I did about half of Online Card Classes “Copic Markers for Card Makers” before getting distracted – that was a really good grounding. I also did Sandy Allnock’s “Copic Jumpstart” class which makes you think about colour a lot more. But mostly I watched Youtube videos 🙂
          Take a look at my latest post for links to the classes and me thinking about the learning process…

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  48. WHOA!!!! SARAH!!! THAT is AMAZING! I can only hope to ever colour like that! Fanyastic work, my dear!

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  49. That is the most gorgeous hair I have ever seen!!!! and thanks so much for sharing your project list.

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