Playing with Purple: Paper, Ink, and Copic Tutorial

I'm trying lots of new purples today, papers and inks. here is a purple color comparison for you with a few Pop Tones shades and a few SU! shades to give you an idea of their true colors. I'll be using these two Paper Temptress purples in today's sample, Grape Jelly and Grapesicle. (I thought the Grapesicle might be similar to Almost Amethyst, but not when I pulled it out, Amethyst looked really BLUE! it's like an icy purple("Grapesicle", get it??)

Some new purple Copics today, too (all labeled with V for Violet, I found some nice shades to go with the Pop Tone purple papers (say that five times fast LOL!)

Today I stamped my flower from "A Year of Flowers" in , drumroll please, a PURPLE ink, Elegant Eggplant! I know, waterbased, such a rebel!!) But I don't worry about bleeding if I'm coloring with similar shades, and this will soften the look for my card. We'll see! ;) I quickly traced the lines in my petals with VO4, starting at the middle. working outwards. I left the tips white. Oh and BTW, I'm not blending everything today (I know, there I go again!!! it works with this image)

Here I colored in the middle with Y08. TIP: I added a little BV00 outside for a shadow(and over the V04), now that I have all these different pale Copic shades, it's really pretty to pick he very lightest shade you have of a color you are already working with for your shadow, here a very pale violet, instead of always using gray. (If using blues, pick a blue shadow, etc) In real life, in certain lights shadows really do take on a bit of the object's color, very cool...

Now I added my stems and leaf. I colored these in with one coat of YG23 and then went over the area I wanted to be darker with that same color, under the blossoms and the bottom of the leaf. You'll notice there is a deeper purple and yellow in the flowers, sorry I forgot to get that pic! I used Vo6, concentrating on the middle and worked only about half way out on the petals this time. I used YR23 on the underside of the flowers middle to keep the yellow center from looking so"flat".

Last I added G94 to those darker green areas and my BV00 around the stem and leaves. I liked it before, but adding the darker green just gives it more POP!

The base is embossed with CB Floral Fantasy and the mats use Labels One Nesties. I wrapped some SU! moss grosgrain around it and added a little tag using "love" from the "A Year of Flowers" set on an oval punched tag with a brad I colored to match with my YR23 Yellow Copic. The markers are looking a lot pinker here than IRL, does approximate the paper colors nicely. While I love my SU! coordinating cardstocks, I am really enjoying these new Paper Temptress colors, especially now that I have so many shades of Copics I want to play with that are quite different from SU!'s 48.

I enjoyed "breaking the rules" a little bit today! Hope it inspires you to try different things... if you like the way it looks in the end,... why not?? ;)