Hi everyone! Today I thought I’d share one of my favorite *must have* stamping supplies.
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Now, on to one of my favorite stamping tools – the Copic Multiliners! For so many reasons, these are not your ordinary pens. Other than black, Multiliners are available in eight colors and a variety of nib sizes.
All Dressed Up Stamps “Hippie Chick” and Paper Smooches “Fun & Flirty”
Multiliners are archival, waterproof, fade resistant and pigment-based. Once dry, they work fabulously with Copic markers and watercolor. Multiliners are available individually, in sets, as disposables or refillables. So many options! I use Multiliners to fill in missing or faded lines from stamped images or to add extra detail to or around an image such as ground, grass or doodles.
Above is a quick visual of the different sizes I like to have on hand. Stamped or digital images have varying line widths so I try to always have several options available for a close match.
I printed All Dressed Up Stamps‘ Hippie Chick (found HERE on Etsy) onto X-Press It Blending Card then colored with Copic markers.
While I love the image as is, I thought little butterfly trails would be cute while also filling some of the white space. Since the lines on the butterflies are so very thin, I used a 0.05 Multiliner to gently dash in the trails.
Using a Sepia Multiliner, I sketched in some grass over the ground shading and I used a Wine Multiliner to add a bit of border detail along the scalloped edge.
Copic markers – BG000, BG11, BG13, BG18, E00, E01, E11, E31, E33, E35, E37, R24, R27, R29, W00, W1, Y21, YR23; black 0.05 Multiliner
The additional detail is small, but I think it makes a big difference, don’t you agree?
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