Copic Tutorial: Coloring Sand by Ashley Scheffler

Hello Everyone. Ready for part 2 of coloring Sunny Baby? This time the tutorial will be over coloring the sand. Next time we will finish the image and create a card!

Lets get started!

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STEP 1
Here is the image and how I left off from the last tutorial (coloring water). This time I am focusing on the sand part of the image. Gather up the colors you want for the sand. I decided to make the sand more brown and could pull in alot of different color familes to achieve the sandy look. I will be using colors : E51, E31, E33, E37, E57, E77. I also use a product called Mudd Puddles at the end as well for more detail.

STEP 2
Using the lightest color (E53..I know this seems odd since its a higher number, but it is the lightest one I am using out of the color choices) color the entire sand area.

STEP 3
Using E31 I wanted to start adding some shadows to the shells and sand toys in the sand.

STEP 4
Using E33, I just went over the entire sand area and did little dots of color. Just hold your marker upright and lightly press down. If you use too much pressure, the dots will expand as the ink soaks into the paper and become larger.

STEP 5
Repeat step 4 but with the colors E37 and E57.

STEP 6
Now it's time to blend and have the dots not stand out as much. I used E33 and colored over the area again. You could use a lighter brown for a lighter coverage.

STEP 7
I wanted to add back in those darker specks you see on a real beach, so I used E77 and did really small black dots randomly over the sand area to bring out the dots again.

STEP 8 (optional)
I really wanted the beack to appear as real life as I could so I used a product called Mudd Puddles. It comes in different colors and different textures. I used the type called Malibu and just put it on in different areas. It spread on so you can do a lot more coverage.

STEP 9
Here is a close-up of the Mudd Puddles!

There you go...
I hope you found this technique helpful. Next time I will be coloring in the rest of the image and making it into a card!! Please leave a comment if this helped you and what other techniques you would love to learn with Copics!

And the monthly contest winners are......

The winner of 5 free images from TSB as selected by www.random.org is: True Random Number Generator Min:1 Max:31 Result:5-Lorie S.

Our August guest designer also chosen by www.random.org is: True Random Number Generator Min:1 Max:31 Result:14-Amelia.

Last but not least we had 2 ladies that submitted the most projects this month with a total of 5 each so they will both be winning 5 images from TSB: Lori and Marilyn D!

Lorie S, Lori, and Marilyn D- please email at micahzane@yahoo.com with your 5 images choices! Amelia shoot me an email also so I can get your guest designer details!

Congrats to you all on winning and keep those projects coming, the new contest is up and running!

Back to School Blog Hop!!!!

The Stamping Boutique is have a "Back to School" blog hop and I'd love for you to see the beautiful projects my amazing team has worked so hard on. Start with Aletha. and hop along from there. This is my first look as well, so I'm super excited. So. let's get started!

Today's image...

I just finished these kiddos and wanted to get them posted before starting dinner. The baby sister has a look to her that reminds me of my niece, Madyson, when she was born. I can't explain it and I didn't do it on purpose. It just evolved. This is going to be one of my favorites, I think. I can't wait for my sister to see this. Have a wonderful evening, my friends. :D

A Delicious Challenge!

. How about a challenge? Make a card/project using the new "Bunny Birthday" image and post atPaperCraftPlanet and 2 more places (your blog, SCS etc...) then send me an e-mail so I know you've entered. traceydawnn@msn.com. I'll draw a name in one week on Thursday August 5 at at PCP. What should the prize be?? how about the winner's choice of 5 images from the store??? sound fun? ok, let's do it then!
-remember, you can get the image free by becoming a member at the Paper Craft Planet group. Have fun!

Don't forget about our Monthly Contest!

There's still plenty of time to get all those adorable projects using The Stamping Boutique images uploaded in our monthly contest, more info can be found here. Don't miss your chance at winning some FREE images!

More From Our Fabulous Guest Designer Collette.....

"Hi, my name is Collette and I'm married to a wonderfully supportive husband, and am mother to an even more wonderful 15 year old daughter (sorry, Scott, lol). I've been stamping and scrapbooking for about 10 years now and absolutely love the creative outlet. I've always been interested in art, and love the finished product I can come up with at the end of the day. I began with Stampin' Up (which I still thoroughly enjoy), and actually was a consultant for Creative Memories, but had to sign off because I just can't limit myself to one company. I still love many of their products, but couldn't NOT use all the other stuff out there.

I've just begun coloring with Copics these past few months and am now obsessed - well over 150 and still don't have ... well, a few, lol. I love the images that The Stamping Boutique has to offer - and can't wait for 'the next new one' to come out. They're absolutely perfect for coloring with Copics, prisma colored pencils and gamsol - and even watercolor techniques. I'm so glad that I won this guest designer spot for The Stamping Boutique. Thank you so much for the opportunity to share."

Check out my blog here!

Fun For Challenges Sponsor

This week we are sponsoring the Fun For Challenges site, it's a color challenge to use bright summer colors. Check out what fun cards the TSB gals have come up with this week and make sure to enter for your chance at FREE images from the Boutique!

Copic Tutorial- Coloring Water by Ashley Scheffler

Intro- Part 1 of coloring Sunny Baby With A Hat by Ashley Scheffler

Hello Everyone. This time I am doing something a little different. I won't have the image completely colored at the end, but instead next tutorial will be continuing with her since there are a lot of fun techniques you can do to the image! Today's technique is going to be about coloring water or ocean.

Lets get started!


STEP 1
Here is the image we will be coloring today. Perfect time to be coloring a beach image!! You will want to pick your color combos (blues or blue-greens). I use a lot of combos but I seem to always use this one for an ocean image where it is normally darker at the end of what your eye sees and lighter in the front where you first see the water. I will be using B97, B95, B93, and B12. A lot of times I will throw in BG10 as well. I will also be using a white gel pen for highlighting.

STEP 2
Take your darkest color (B97) and shade in the farthest away point and a few of the waves on the bottom where the light would not hit.

STEP 3
Now take your medium color (B95) and go over the darkest color and bring it down more into the front of the ocean.

STEP 4
Take your next lightest color (B93) and continue going over the last two colors and keep bringing it down closer to the beach.

STEP 5
This is where I used B12 and colored in the rest of the water area and went right back over the entire water area to help blend the colors together. I had to do this several times to get the look I wanted.

STEP 6
Of course when you bring your lightest color over your darkest, it will fade it. Repeat steps 1-5 over until you get your desired blending look and how dark you want your darkest color to be and what the contrast will look like.

STEP 7
This is optional but I really like the way it makes the water look and breaks up all the blues. Copic sells opaque paint but I just use my Uni-Ball Signo white gel pen. Just be sure to let it sit and dry for a minute so it does not smear and ruin your coloring you just did! The white resembles the foam that the waves usually make as they roll and hit the beach.

I hope you found this technique helpful. Next time I will be showing you how to color the sand area on this same image!! Please leave a comment if this helped you and what other techniques you would love to learn with Copics!

Don't forget the Copic kit at TLL!

There's blog candy still available at The Latte Lounge!Here's what Melissa had to say,
"Don't forget to spread the word about the blog candy you can win by becoming a follower. You have until August 8th to sign up as a follower for a chance to win!!

The prize includes:
Basic Grey "Max & Whiskers" page kit, 5 pages matching red cardstock, Making Memories puffy letter, Basic Grey "Woolies", Basic Grey "cozy pozies" (both Max & Whiskers)Piggy Tales barn door with hinges, and 8 Cioa,1 multliner specialty pastel kit."
There's still time...

A new/old friend...

It seems I've come a long way in a year. I was looking at a popular snowman image from 2009, "BlogHog snowmen" and really didn't like the quality and a few things about the image. So,I gave the old fellas a face lift and re-drew them, and re-scanned them from scratch. It took me pretty much all day, but I'm so happy I did it. In fact, if you purchased this image last year and would like to exchange it for this one, send it back to me at traceydawnn@msn.com and I'll be happy to send the updated version. If you'd like to purchase it new, it's in the store. I'd don't like sounding like a commercial so I'll stop that. Anyway, I think this one is much better. I think they're even smiling a little brighter. :D

We have a new store and a sale to celebrate!

We have a new store and to celebrate all images are discounted by one dollar!!! The sale will be valid all through digi day Friday. Have a great week everyone!

Blog candy winner!!!

Can you believe Random.org drew number 1 out of 936? Pretty weird! That gives us Fiona as our winner!!!! Please contact me to make arrangements for your prize! Congratulations!
Tracey

Madyson cried!

My sister said that my sweet,17 year-old niece Madyson cried when she saw the stamp of herself playing her guitar! Isn't that so sweet? Madyson is just the most quiet, precious, gentle soul and I can so see her crying when she saw her stamp. Oh, now I'm going to cry. I love you Mady!!!!

Meet Max...

Max the rocker! LOL! My little Russian adopted nephew Max, jammin'. I wonder what he's playing? I have so many more little nieces and nephews to make characters of, this is going to be so fun! Have a super weekend ladies!
Oh! and don't forget the blog candy!

Alexis!

A new addition to the KK's club line. Alexis! Now I need a boy or two.
I hope everyone is having a super Friday and heading into a wonderful weekend!
Only a couple of day left for the blog candy!
Smilz!!!
Tracey

Blog Hop for Bella

Do I have a special treat for you, as I have called on the help of the wonderful design team from The Stamping Boutique to help with a special mission. Today marks the start of the final blog hop for Bella and we are hoping we can overflow her mailbox with love an support! and these ladies Check out these fantastic cards that will be making their way from all over to Bella's mailbox!

For those not not familiar with what we have been doing, we are hosting a very special blog hop to bring some smiles to an AMAZING little girl named Bella. Bella is an 8 year old girl from NH, who over Easter came down with a near fatal infection that has left her without her arms and legs. She is very lucky to be alive as doctors didn't think she would recover from this illness. Bella is a true fighter and you can read more about her incredible story here: Bella's story as well as make donations if you would like. Erin over at Scrap, Stamp, and Be Merry came up with this awesome idea to host 4 blog hops, in order to shower Bella with some love and smiles from all over the world to show her how truly inspiring she is!

There is an awesome Grand Prize too for all you Fabulous card makers out there that join us in our mission to fill Bella's mailbox with love. Check out the Grand Prize package here.

Now what are you waiting for head on over to
Denise's blog to see her beautiful creation and start hopping!

A little girl with a balloon.

Good evening, everyone.
TheStampingBoutique is down for renovations for two weeks, but this little girl will be one of the first images available. We're going to have a new grand opening of the new store next month and a one year birthday party! Big things are to come!
Tracey

Meet our July Guest Designer.....

We are super excited to show you the awesome work of Collette Landwer, our first guest designer selected from our June monthly contest. Collette makes the most beautiful cards and you can see more of her amazing work on her blog Heaven Sent for You. Collette chose to work with images from the Enchantment line, as well as creating cards using a couple of our sweet Audrey images. Don't you love her coloring and overall design and thought she puts into each card. Check back for more of Collette's work in the weeks to come!

Blog candy with Copic specialty kit at The Latte Lounge!

We've started a new blog over at The Latte Lounge and would love to have our friends become members. Follow me over to The Latte Lounge blog to become a member. Leave a comment after joining to enter into the drawing. The drawing will end August 8, 2010. The prize includes:
Basic Grey "Max & Whiskers" page kit, 5 pages matching red cardstock, Making Memories puffy letter, Basic Grey "Woolies", Basic Grey "cozy pozies" (both Max & Whiskers)Piggy Tales barn door with hinges, and 8 Cioa,1 multliner specialty pastel kit.
A great prize for one lucky follower!!!!!
Tracey

"On the drawing board..."

I've had a couple of people ask about showing images in the process of being drawn and I've seen some other artists do this, so as long as you don't mind the mistakes, I don't mind showing them. This is image is one I started today. I'm not sure where I'm going with her yet. I think maybe holding a balloon in the other hand. Something summery whatever it is. I have to start school images next so I'm doing as many summer images as I can. If I get some comments that you all like seeing the "in process" stuff, I'll keep posting them. Remember to link up your projects to the monthly challenge so we can see your work too!!!!

New "Enchantment" image. "Busy Bees"

Hi everyone,
I finished a new image for the "Enchantment" line and thought I'd get it posted before I go out running errands. It's sooooooooo hot here in Indiana. I really need to do some outside work, but I'm such a baby in this weather. I just can't stand it. I'll leave it for tonight when it cools off. I have a feeling everyone is dealing with hot weather at the moment. I think I'll hit McD and have a sweet tea before my errands. mmmmm.... Have a super day!!!!!

Independence Day sale! 40%off!!!!

We're having a sale on all digi's in the store from now until 12pm sunday night. Use coupon code "July4" at checkout. (it's case sensitive)
Happy 4th of July, everyone!

Good afternoon!

Hello everyone,
I hope everyone is having a wonderful day!
I have a couple of images I finished and thought I'd post. I hope you like them. They make me hungry for ice cream.
Have a wonderful holiday weekend!
Tracey

The Latte Lounge Design Team.

I'm so happy to announce
the very first Design Team at The Latte Lounge.


These 3 ladies are already very active in our group. I am so happy they have all agreed to be on the team. So let me introduce each of these fabulous ladies.

Our first new member is the gifted creator and tutorial writer Joanne Davies.


I'm Jo Davies from South Wales UK. I am approaching 30 this year, married to my wonderful husband Greg,with two step daughters aged 14 & 15 and too many animals! I'm crazy about crafting.... Been crafting as far back as I can remember, from knitting to glass painting, rug work, cross stitch, decoupage & card making! I'm a proud member of a few Design Teams, so sorry if you see too much of me in the near future!

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Our second member is the fabulously talented Rhonda Miller. You probably already know her since she’s been active since the rebirth of TLL a few months ago.



I'm Rhonda Miller from Grantsville, UT. I have been married for 11 years and we have 4 wonderful children ages 1 (for anohter month), 6, 7 and 9. I enjoy spending as much time as I can with my family. I love to craft and have been doing it since high school. I have mostly been into card making, but also do cross stitch, plastic canvas and have started doing altered items as well. I have even gotten my kids started and they love to play along in challenges, etc... with me.

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Our third member is the wonderfully talented Noreen Yun



I am Noreen Yun and am from Hong Kong. I am an international student studying in B.C., Canada (but am going home soon). I started my crafting journey a year ago and my favourite has always been card making. I scrapbook and create altered items too. Yes, I call myself an addict to card making and I don't want to join any 12 steps programs. LOL. This is my first ever DT and I feel so honor to be in the team. I hope to meet some new friends, learn from all of you and have an interesting journey together. I hope to see all of you along the ride. ***Big hugs***


As you can see our team is made of fantastic and incredibly talented ladies!! I am so grateful that each of these women accepted the position on the team!! I am looking forward to an awesome journey with all of you!!

Hope you'll stop by and join in the fun!!

Monthly Contest Winners are.....

Thank you to everyone that joined the June contest, we love seeing all your FANTASTIC work an hope you will continue upload your projects for July's contest. Are you ready for the winners of the monthly contest? I used random.org to select our Guest Designer and that person is:


True Random Number Generator Min:1 Max: 79 Result: 26 Powered by RANDOM.ORG-Congrats Collette, please email me at micahzane@yahoo.com so I can give you the scoop on being out guest designer for July and get you some images to work with!

Now the other random person selected to win 5 free images is:

True Random Number Generator Min: 1 Max:79 Result:32 Powered by RANDOM.ORG- Congrats Lori, please email me at micahzane@yahoo.com with the names of your 5 free images so I can get them over to you asap!

Now our DT gals have been having a fierce competition with the awesome projects they have been posting, but the winner is Crystal D. with 8 entries for June! Congrats Crystal please email we your 5 image choices!