Wednesday, 31 March 2010

WINNER OF MY CANDY

Congratulations Zoe you are the winner if you could please contact me with your address so i can send the candy on to you.
I would like to thank everyone that joined in for doing so, but keep an eye out because i will be putting some more candy up for grabs in the not too distant future.

Saturday, 13 March 2010

Copic Instructor

This certificate, issued by Marianne Walker, certifies that i am now one of three qualified Copic Instructors in the UK. You may have seen a certificate in an earlier earlier post.This certified me as a Copic designer.

Are you interested in learning more about Copic Markers (alcohol markers) and how to get the best out of what you have purchased or you maybe thinking of purchasing ? Please feel free to contact me at paula@craftycow.me.uk or rachel.byass@homecall.co.uk We are in the process of establishing Introdution to the world of Copic's classes/workshops for any crafters that are interested Rachel and i would love to hear from you if you would be interested.
 
COPIC CANDY
 
As an initail promotion i would like to offer some Copic Candy 3 copic sketch markers, 1 copic blender, 1fine liner and 1 spica glitter pen.
So how do you get to win this candy, please make yourself a follower, put a pic of the candy in your side bar to help spread the lurve. You need to add your name and blog address to the Head and Tail Mr linky below this post.
It shall be drawn on the 31st March 2010 at 7pm and the winner will be notified.
Best of luck to you all and thank you.

COPIC LINK HERE

Sunday, 21 February 2010

I'm back from Germany

I left for Frankfurt, Germany with Rachel my friend, on Wednesday 17th February for the first ever Copic Certified Designer training to be held in Europe. Peter Holtz-Kathan, director of Copic distributers for Europe and Ken O'Connell, President of Copic USA, got together to make this event happen in Europe.

 
Product specialist Marianne Walker and Debbie Olson, a regional instructor, both from the USA were in Frankfurt to deliver the content of the course. Peter was our host and Britta, to his right in the picture, is Peter's events organiser and PA.



Whilst there we met other similar minded individuals who wanted to become certified designers. There was Diny Sprakel, Agitte Huberts and Nicole Verkooyen from the Netherlands, (Peter who distributes Copic in the Netherlands accompanied the ladies), Isabelle Weber from Nackenheim Germany and Wendy Kadzidlo from England.



The course focused on colour theory, colouring and blending techniques, shading, airbrushing, inks and the correct use of media. We were also taught how to alter the colour of virtually anything. Marriane told us of a lady who coloured her shoes to match her outfit because she could not find any the right colour.

 
One type of media used was my hair!!! Below is a picture of my hair after Rachel and Marianne airbrushed it.


At the end of the course we were all presented with our certificate as a Copic Certified Designer.



I would just like to thank Peter Holtz for being a wonderful host and Marianne, Debbie and Ken for all their input.

 


It was great to meet new people and i was so impressed that they could all speak perfect English!! puts many of us English to shame.

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Off to Germany tomoro

Made this to send to my cousin who lost her husband suddenly.
I used grey, black and white cardstock.

Monday, 15 February 2010

Another card challenge

I used SU say it with scallops cream, kraft and black cardstock from SU.
I have added this one to colourchefchallenge 39.
Thanks for the challenge and thankyou to anyone that looks and leaves a coment.
      

A challenge card

This card is i used botanical bloom for the flower and the wording was from one of a kind from SU.
This card was added to designdollies.blogspot.com. you had to use grey, lavender and white to enter the challenge.
Thank you for the challenge and also a  thank you for those taking time to look and
 leaving feed back.