When you have a beautiful detailed die such as this Peony in Bloom cover plate die from Catherine Pooler Designs, you don’t want to spend ages ensuring your colouring is perfectly precise. It can be a faff and well, we want to spend more time crafting. Am I right?! So this little tip helps speed up your process, meaning you don’t have to worry about being precise, and hide messy copic colouring! So let’s get started!
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Tip on how to ide messy copic colouring
Start off by die-cutting the Peony in Bloom cover plate die from white cardstock and adhere this onto another white card panel. Now start to colour in your design with your copic markers and don’t worry if your pens go on to the die-cut – we can cover this up later!

After you have completed your colouring, die-cut the Peony in Bloom cover plate die once more and adhere this new die-cut over the top of the previous one. This will now give you a clean fresh white outline, hiding your messy colouring!

Assembling the card:
To turn this into a card, I trimmed the border off and added the panel on to a 5×7″ card base, adding foam for dimension. For the sentiment, I layered 3 white Blessed word die up and added one more that I had coloured with Twilight ink from Catherine Pooler Designs.

The die-cut sentiment was added to the front of the card. To finish the card off, I added a scattering of sequins from the Flamenco Bay Sequin mix from Catherine Pooler Designs.

Supplies
Hide messy copic colouring
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This post was produced as part of my Brand Ambassador work for Catherine Pooler Designs I have not been paid to make this post, but I am given supplies from Catherine Pooler Designs to use. However, I create projects with creative control and produce projects I am proud of and with products that I love. The information provided is based on my own personal experience – I am not an expert.