Month: July 2018

Design Teams, Make It Crafty, Real Time Coloring, Uncategorized, Videos

Venora the Royal

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Hi Everyone!

Marika here with another card, and today’s card is a continuation of the card I posted here 2 weeks ago. Do you like me find digital stamps that you really love but you would love even more if you just could replace on part, on accessory? Well you can! This is sounding way to much like a commercial but it’s true!

At Make It Crafty you can find loads of digital stamps and some of them has like Alwina the Good Witch from the previous card post accessories that you can add to the main image. When Alwina was released there where a couple of other stamps that also was released with the same possibility. And by the way if you aren’t a fan of halloweeny images or just want some more summery images, there was also a release with summer babes in bikinis that also have a bunch of accessories. But back to the card at hand.

The image I’m using today is Venora the Wizard, she is the sister of Alwina and Esmeralda which all three got some extra accessories, that you get if you buy the images. The first time I saw Venora I thought that her clothing was very reminiscent of old Swedish Kings, so this time around I wanted to make her a royal too. So instead of adding her accessories, which is a wizards hat, a gnarly looking staff and a cape, I gave her the spire and crown from Alwina, and a Royal Venora was born.

As I wanted to keep as much of the previous cards aesthetics I dug up a pattern paper that had the same pattering as from the previous card but in a different color (I was just very lucky that I found it). However when adding the character to the card I felt it left to much white space, but I fixed that by stamping my sentiments all over that side of the card and the card felt much more even. If you want to know more about that or see how I colored Venora you can look at the videos below.

Copic:
Clothes: BG45, BG10, BG0000, Y21, Y26
Skin: E50, E00, E21, E11, E04, R30, R32
Hair, Eyes & Belt: E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, E47, E49

Supplies:

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Lawn Fawn

Happy Mail and new oxide inks!

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Hi everyone!

Today’s post is a little bit different, I’ve been laying sick for the past week with some kind of viral infection, to be honest I probably had it for months but I’m not good at resting and also my immune system isn’t what it’s supposed to be. But no more about that.

As I haven’t been crafting, I have done what many of us done when we can’t craft, I have shopped, the joy of online shopping! And my packages have just arrived! Let’s take them in the order they arrived, swedish postal service decided to hold my package hostage, I don’t mind paying taxes on what I order, but it took over 3 weeks to be transported from customs to me (which is about 40 min by car btw).

So the first to arrive was my Lawn Fawn order, Lawn Fawn had a great deal (think it was 15% off) so decided to splurge, there was so many stamps and dies I really wanted and also a pattern paper and some inks may have fallen into the shopping basket. You might not see all that I shopped in the photo, but I have linked everything below.

The second package that arrived today was the one that got stuck in customs, that might not be as exciting as the lawn fawn one, but I got some really needed supplies. I’m down to my last tape runner and a half, my stamps have gotten dirty and who doesn’t need some purple tape!

Also have you seen that Tim Holtz has released a new set of 12 Distress Oxides Ink! They will most definitely fall into my next shopping bag, how about you?

Supplies:

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Coloring, Design Teams, Make It Crafty, Real Time Coloring, Videos

Sparkling Queen | Coloring Sparkle Effects

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Hi Everyone! Have you heard yet that the coloring challenges are ending? Well there is one last left, and it’s as easy as can be as it is Anything Goes! With the challenges ending I knew I wanted to “go out with a bang” (don’t worry, I’m not going any where). But I wanted to create something spectacular, but at the same time very much me, clean and simple with a twist.

So todays twist is coloring glitter effects! Zoe introduced me to this technique and I want to add it to everything, but I’m trying to keep myself a little bit contained tho. But with this being the last I’m adding to my whole character. I’ve choosen to go with Alwina the Good Witch and with her spire and crown I felt she looked like a queen so that is what I went with.

I choosed to go with reds and yellow as they are royal colours, but I wanted it to be towards the softer spectrum, so she is more coral than red and then I went with my favourite yellows for the golden tone. With the colors being very soft and I didn’t want her hair to be the focal part, I choose to go with a ash blond color. Then I went to town on adding all the sparkles, there is two videos for that, you can either look at the card making video and get the sped up version or you can go for the real time and see every little dot as I made them.
I had printed Alwina out rather on the bigger side (well big for me, she still fits on an A2 card size, 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″) so there was not much room for anything else, and also I really wanted her to be the crown of the card. So I finished it up with a little strip of pattern paper that both matches the dress but also simplifies the silhouette, and some chipboard pieces to make the card a little more even.

Copic:
R00, R21, R22, R14
Y21, Y26
E50, E00, E21, E11, E04
E40, E41, E42, E43, E44, E47, E49, B63

Supplies:

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