If you missed our first post on color matching Travel Girl with cardstock, you can find it here.
Before todays post Alison and I want to introduce
ourselves. We realized last week that we had been talking about ourselves and you don't even know who we are, "How Rude".
Alison Slowes has been with October Afternoon for almost a
year. She is in Sourcing and Logistics
which basically mean she has her hands in everything. She has been dabbling in the world of crafts since she was a kid, but really became passionate about it a few years ago.
I’m Ann Ertel and I have been with October Afternoon for about a year and a half. I started out doing assembly in my home and about a year ago I began working here in the office as the Product Assembly Coordinator. I love my job here because I get to do a little bit of everything from painting offices, laying the floor in the owner’s office, and assembling furniture, to organizing assembly and finally fun stuff like creating blog posts (my favorite part so far). I’m also the person who manages our Facebook and Twitter pages. I have a very short attention span so the variety makes it the perfect job for me.
I’ve been scrapbooking and paper crafting for over 19 years. If you follow us on Facebook you have seen some of my stuff. I actually shared one of my original pages from about 15 years ago. I’ve been married for 22 years to a wonderful guy who has incredible patience with my ability to collect scrapbooking supplies. I have two amazing daughters Marissa is 19 and a sophomore at Stout College in Menomonie, Wisconsin and Allison is 16 a junior at Woodbury High School and an amazing ballet dancer. They both work here whenever things get busy and we need bodies. I also have 3 kitties and I volunteer at a small cat shelter so I’m sure as I continue to blog and do the Facebook page you will see plenty of pictures of my furry family.
50 Shades of Red an Adventure in Color Matching – Copic Markers
Funny story, Alison and I first met at a Copic Marker Certification training class. We weren’t working here at OA. We were working for the same company but at different stores. We didn’t realize until recently that we attended the same class. We are both Copic Crazy. I’m jealous because she has more markers than I do, but she shares so it’s all good.
If you haven’t used Copic Markers you are missing out, especially if you like to color. I have always been someone who likes to color, but couldn’t get things to shade and blend the way I wanted until I found Copics a few years ago. They are alcohol based markers instead of the usual water based markers, because of that they blend differently and you can create wonderful bright colors without your paper pilling up. I won’t go into it too much here but you have to look into Copics if you haven’t already used them.
Copic Markers have recently taken the crafting world by storm. We decided to focus on Copic Markers instead of other markers because of their quality, their variety or colors and their availability.
The Copic Markers were a little easier to color match than the cardstock because of the limited number of colors. Copic Markers currently come in 358 colors in three different pen styles. I prefer the Sketch style because of the larger barrel and the brush tip.
While getting ready for this post we were waiting for color samples from Copic but they just weren’t coming fast enough. So I had to head to my local Blick Arts store to do some investigating. So picture me Saturday morning sitting on the floor at our local Blick Arts store in front of the Copic display, Travel Girl 8 x 8 pad and some white paper in my lap going through the markers to find my matches. The staff of the Blick Art store in Roseville, Minnesota were very helpful and pretty much left me alone and let me do what I had to do.
These are the colors we came up with but you may find different combinations that also coordinate.
W7 – Warm Grey No. 7
E81 -Ivory
Y13 - Lemon Yellow
Y23 – Yellowish Beige
Y26 – Mustard
YR14 - Caramel
YR24 – Pale Sepia
G00 – Jade Green
R24– Prawn
R19 – Lipstick Red
BG23 – Coral Sea
BG72 – Ice Ocean
G00 – Jade Green
YG17 – Grass Green
Now for the projects! Alison created this page using stamps from the "See the World" rubber stamp set from the Travel Girl collection.
We all agree that the globes along the left side of the "Plane Ticket" paper are brilliant. What a brilliant way to create a colorful border. She also used her Copic Markers and airbrush system to color some of the banners along the top of the page. See the green ribbon peeking out from behind the bear Tin Pin? It started out white. Since Copics are alcohol based, they are permanent on most surfaces (like ribbon), allowing us to custom color all sorts of things.
I created this layout using our new Daily Flash 6 x 8 sleeve protectors.
This was so much fun to do because I could color little details in the 2 x 2 squares. These are also a great way to use your smaller scraps of paper. I love dimension, and just because I'm using page protectors doesn't mean that I can't use my pop dots. Putting details outside of the protector adds interest and dimension.
As with the cardstock post from last week, you have a chance to win by sharing your favorite marker color matches. You don't have to limit your suggestions to Copics, we would love to hear about any coloring medium. Save your ink pad colors for next week when we will share some good matches for you stampers out there. Share your Travel Girl color matches in the comment section below by July 26th for a chance to win the 'See the World' stamp set.
We encourage you to share your projects using Travel Girl and some Copic coloring in our flickr gallery. Tag your photo TGcolormatch and you could win a Collection Kit!
Entry for these contests will remain open until Friday, July 26.
The winners will be announced Wednesday, July 31.