Copic fun

Fun??? Ha!!!! I can't even begin to tell you the problems I had with this card!!! The Ways To Use It challenge today on SCS was to use your Copic markers. Now, I've had my Copics for quite a while. I've taken a Copic class with the greatest Copic colorer ever, Kathy Sanders. I just can't get it. I can't shade as well as I can with the Prismas. A lot of people use regular cardstock with their Copics, such as Walmart's Georgia Pacific. I color even less well with that paper! My paper of choice is a coated paper called MatteKote. That way I am able to use my blender pen as a paintbrush. I color some Copic onto an artist's palette & pick up the color with my blender pen. That allows for better blending. When your blender pen is actually working. Apparently, somewhere during the course of making this card, I must have touched some glue or something with my blender, because it suddenly wasn't blending anymore. And it's sticky. Ugh. I had to finish with the chisel end, which I *never* use. So ~ my blending stinks even more than it usually does. Anyway, here is the card I did for today's WT challenge:


I used the sketch challenge from yesterday, & I had wanted to use the Color Challenge from Tuesday but I didn't have the right color Copics for that. So to color High Hopes' Juggles the Clown, I went with this fun olive, red & blue combo. This picture will not enlarge when clicked on, because I'm also having camera issues. More on that later. The bottom red piece is from DCWV's summer stack. I used the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder on the olive panel. The olive flower is a Prima, the other flowers are all punches. Some of them I also ran through the Cuttlebug for some texture. I added Crystal Effect to the balls & Stickles to the flower. Done!! Whew!!

I went through some issues when I first started this blog regarding picture size/resolution. Well, lately when I take pictures at the higher resolution, they come out a bit blurry. My good friend Ila has been so kindly & patiently trying to help me, but a lot of camera stuff is over my head. I know enough to be able to edit my pictures so they look ok, but I don't really know a lot about pixels & resolution & quality. For this card, I tried taking the picture at the higher setting I had been using, but again it came out blurry. If I sharpen it in PSP, then when enlarged it looks grainy ~ yuck. So I took the picture at the lowest setting on my camera (.3M) & it came out great!!! The only problem is, using that setting makes it not enlarge-able here. Which *isn't* a problem, because there are so many mistakes on this card I'd rather you not get a close up view!! So.....back to the camera user guide for me. If I can figure it all out, & *IF* I can fix this card & all its mistakes, I will repost the picture so that it does enlarge when you click on it.