Digi Stamp Coloring

Sorry we haven't been around much, everybody has been off vactioning and such.

I printed a et of my digital stamps so I could color them in. I just tossed them in a document and hit print, but for some reason I really like the way it printed cuz it kinda looks like a cute coloring sheet/coloring book page. And in the picture my hand looks crusty and wrinkled and I don't like.

But, if you're like oh, those are cute digital stamps you can buy them HERE!

Also, I used Copic markers to color in the digital stamps I printed, well, Copics seep through most paper that I use, so I always put something underneath when I color with them. Well, not thinking I put a catalog under my paper and started coloring. The catalog print ened up getting soaked up by the sweet little balloon I was coloring. I don't know if you can tell by the photo, but see those specks of black next to the left eye, uh, oops.

The one thing you can see in my above photo is that the pinks, well orangy pink, isn't blended that well cuz it's kinda hard to tell what colors blend well when you buy the markers. Does anybody know a good Copic pink combo, where they all nicely blend together. I have RV34 (dark pink), RV42 (salmon pink) and RV11 (Pink). I need like a nice inbetween pink color. The RV42, is well, too salmony.

Copic Markers and Design Team

Hello my four lovely friends.  I went out and bought some Copic markers.  I figured since I'm making digital stamps I should know a little about these markers that everybody uses for paper crafts.  This is what I learned.  They're on the expensive side, I only bought four, two pinkies and two bluesies, but I think I needed at least one more of each color to make smoother transitions in the colors.  I also think I should pick up a colorless blender.  I practiced on paper first and then made a little digital stamp to color in. 

I need some more practice, I can't even color in the lines, reasons I need design team members!

When I bought my Copics I felt like I was buying some sorta illegal substance cuz I asked one of the sales people and they told me I had to go ask in framing.  I was like okay, so I went to the framing department.  After waiting a couple minutes a woman came to the counter and I asked her where I could find these markers.  She said, "Hold on a sec," and disappeared.   She then came back with the racks of markers.  I guess they are stolen quite often, so they are kept in hiding!  She supervised as I choose my colors.  She then told me to meet her up front, where I will receive the markers as I pay.  It was an interesting journey to buy some markers!

I added a new digi stamp to my Etsy store also (click in my sidebar to find it in my shop).

Design Team:,

Here's the low down, as you can see from my attempt above

 I'm not that great at the crafty end of digital stamp usage, I'm much better at drawing them!  So I need some people to be on the Melissa T. Liban Illustrations' Cute Crafty Land Design Team, boy that's a mouthful, we'll need to shorten that.

If you're interested you'll need a blog, you'll need to be able to e-mail me your creations and you'll need to make crafty things outta my digital stamps/clipart/ and or digital scrapbooking paper.  I'll send ya a badge for your blog and free cute clipart/digital stamps and scrapbooking paper.  I'm talking to a few people, but I'm looking for a few more.  Leave a comment or click on the contact me in the sidebar if your interested or would like more info.

Bye for now!