Cuddly Buddly Lilyboo Designs Cupcake Love

I have  Lilyboo digital images to share with you today!

For my card I merged Lilyboo's Cupcake Love and Lilyboo's Spring Bench digital images to make a scene and colored it with Copic markers.

I thought this scene would be a nice way to practice my new skills from the Copic Intermediate class I took a week ago.  The first example is we learned how to color an image similar to the tree on my card.  Another noticeable thing would be the greenery under the bench actually looks like it's under and behind the bench, the greenery on the tulips do too.  I worked on my cast shadows around the image for added interest and Lily really looks like she's sitting on the bench instead of being part of the bench, lightening her hair a little with Y21 made a difference there!  Can you tell what color her socks are?  They're supposed to be white so I lightly shaded them with the lightest green I used in the greenery below her G20.  I added a Quickkutz die cut sun to the upper right corner to help complete my scene and show my light source.  Then added dots of Y11, Y13 & Y35 radiating outward for sunshine.

After I'd walked away for awhile I came back and made the Happy Birthday sentiment on my computer and cut it out with a Stampin' Up! Word Window punch.  It took a few tries to find just the right spot for it.  I knew I wanted it on the left side of my card toward the bottom to possibly three quarters of the way up.  I moved it up and down and settled on right where it is now.  After looking at the card to see if I was "done" I realized there is that triangular shape on it that draws our eye around the card.  Can you see it?  If you drew a line from one bright yellow item to another on my card front you'd end up with a triangle.  Hmmm... funny the things we do to balance our cards without thinking about it or maybe knowing why?

Now I have a question for you!  

Can you see the big mistake on my card where I thought I might have to throw it away and start over?

As I was coloring I was going to add a cast shadow to the left side of her dress using B91, starting light and if it needed more I'd try B93.  Before I left for Las Vegas last week I filled several of my Copic markers or should I say over filled!  I didn't even get the chance to touch the marker tip to the paper before it dripped, oh no!!  I dabbed up what I could with a dry cotton ball that was on the table and let the rest dry.  I was able to remove some of the blue with my blender marker pushing it onto the cupcake wrapper I hadn't colored yet, then I just worked it the best I could using the R81, R83 & B93 markers.  Quite a cupcake shadow now that I've drawn your attention to it!  That's one of the things I really like about Copic markers, you can usually fix mistakes...  

Here are the Copic markers I used:  

Dress: R81, R83, R85, B91, B95

Bench:  E53, E25, E29, E99

Tree:  E31, E35, E47, YG01, YG03, YG25, G46

Dark Greenery:  G20, G21, G24, G46

Tulips:  Y00, Y11, Y13, Y35

Cupcake:  R89, R83, B91, B41

Hair:  E33, E35, E37, Y21 

Skin:  E00, E01, E11, R20

Background:  B0000, B01

Sunshine:  Y11, Y13, Y35

Shoes:  N1, N3, N5

Socks:  G20

The card stock colors are Stampin' Up! Garden Green, Nut Brown, Astro Brights Galaxy Gold and Copic X Press It blending card.  Everything but the Copic X Press It was in my scrap pile beside my paper trimmer, I love it when that happens!

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