Copic Creations Challenge: Colorful Fur

The Copic Goddesses over at the Copic Creations Challenge blog want to see your Copic-filled, colorful fur. StampFairy World is sponsoring this challenge and offering a $10 gift certificate to a randomly selected entry. You can find out more about this challenge and their sponsor here.

The lovely Gerda of StampFairy World, kindly provided me with this digi image of Chubby Halloween 5 sitting wizard bear from the Teddies collection. The stars on his wizard hat make it look as though he’s able to cast some Halloween magic.

I’ve used a few layers of color to fill my furry bear. I began adding color using the popular 3-tone smooth blending technique for some shaded dimension. Using a fun Colorless Blender technique, I pounced a paper towel, dampened with spritzes of colorless blender, to soften some areas of that smoothly blended fur. Finally, I added some of my darkest color to the fibers of a piece of rag and pounced it over places of my image, a.k.a. the nasty rag technique. I love how using these techniques together provides some deep, dark shadows and some soft, light highlights to my furry images.  (This link will take you to another example using the Pounce with Colorless Blender technique.  You can find another example using the Nasty Rag technique here.)

This photo shows a closer view of my Copic-filled purple fur image:

I layered Echo Park’s bats festival paper with Bazzill cardstock to form my easel card. A few Karen Foster green with envy mini brads border my Crafty Secrets’ Costume Cuties’ sentiments that include stamped candy pieces from the same large set.

Websters Pages vintage-inspired netting surrounds my Chubby Halloween bear, while a berry branch with Punch Bunch grape leaves borders one edge.

Here's a closer view of the card front:

This photo shows the decorated inside of my card.  A row of Junkitz’ Halloween buttonz on the base keeps my easel card from sliding closed.

Here’s the completed card showing my Copic-filled, colorful fur on StampFairy World’s Chubby Halloween 5 sitting wizard bear:

Pop over to the Copic Creations Challenge Blog to see how the design team has filled their colorful fur using other StampFairy World digi images. Add your entry for a chance to win a fabulous prize!

I’m entering this card into the following challenges:
Sketch Saturday “Jo’s Sketch” (here)
Secret Crafters “Inspired by a Song” (here) - Do You Believe in Magic by John Cougar Mellencamp
Crafty Emma’s “Make it Magical or Spooky” (here)
Stamp Something “Anything Goes” (here)
iCopic Lover “Contrast” (here)
Totally Paper Crafts “Cute with Buttons” (here)
One Stitch At A Time “Anything Goes” (here)
Paper Sundaes “Finishing Touches - Inside of Card” (here)

Creative Inspirations "Anything Goes" (here)

Copics used:
fur – V91, V93, V95, V99 (techniques: Colorless Blender dampened paper towel; Nasty Rag)
cape, hat – T0, T6, T8
stars, pumpkin – YR12, YR15, YR18
leaves – YG61, YG63, YG67