iCopic Lover: The Color of Metal

Beep-Beep I Love You

Hi there!   Happy Friday!    I am excited to share this DT card and tutorial I created for iCopic.  This adorable image is  a rubber stamp called Beep Beep I Love You from Whiff of Joy at iCopic  Metallic colors are my favorite things to color.   Some look like copper, gold, patina, pewter, tin, silver an may more.    Although there are many types of metal, I wanted to color this adorable robot a simple shiny silver color.  

Shiny silvery metal is a cool color so I selected the Cool Grey Copic Markers to color the robot.  

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 This kind of silver has a sharper contrast between the shadow and highlights than the softer metal. The shiny metal also has some reflective light.   I used my colorless blender and lightly pushed the color from my highlight area to the darker  area. Remember that the colorless blender is a "pusher: of color. I rarely do this however, I think it worked well on the metal.   I then went back and darkened by shadow areas and blended toward the highlighted area.    

Tip:  Start with the most detailed or challenging area of your image.  Since coloring the metal was my challenge,  I started with that color in case I made a mistake.  I then colored the green combos, red flowers and then the blue monitor.  Isn't he just the cutest little thing?  

 I used the green and yellow-green  color combos.   I used G21, G24, YG61 and G28 for the Green areas of the Robot and the foliage.  I sparingly  used G82 for the deep shadow area.

 I used YR00 for the highlight in the flowers.  I used R20 and R22 for my mid tones and R24 for my dark tones.  I sparingly used R46 with a light coat of c3 and R46 on top again for the very darkest of shadows. 

 The monitor was colored with B21 for the shadow areas and BG10 and B000 for mid tones.  I used B0000 for my highlighted areas.  

I used Clockworks embossing folder for my top layer because I think it coordinates nicely with a robot.  I adhered my layers and used hand quilled roses and heart shaped rhinestones for my embellishments.


I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Top Tip Tuesday - Valentine (Tip)
• Splitcoaststampers: Free 4 All Friday - Have a Heart or Two
• Crafts and Me - Bright Colors!
• Make It Monday - Anything Goes!
• The Shabby Tea Room - Love is in the Air
• I Break for Challenges - I Break For Love!
• Crafty Purple Frog Challenges - Valentine's Day - Show Us some Love!

Thank you for taking the time to view my card.  I hope you enjoyed it. Please stop by iCopic Blog and see all the wonderful creations the Design Team have created for you!