Todays card have combined multiple pattern papers and dies to make a colorful valentines card. It’s topped off with a copic colored digital stamp called Carley Cupid by Stamp Anniething. There is two videos, one for the cardmaking and one for you coloring lovers out there, I’m back with a real-time coloring video too.
This card was started with that I yet again saw a beautiful card made by Stampin Steve and I knew I needed to finally bite the bullet and get me some Stamp Anniething stamps. When jumping on the site I saw there also were a couple of digital stamps I decided to start there.
Carley Cupid Valentine Card
This all came together very fast as I really, really wanted to use Carley Cupid and Valentines is coming fast. When this goes live it should only be on day left (it’s actually only two days left as I write this), and I really wanted to get it up before.
I decided to yet again play around with the no-line coloring technique and before choosing colors I had a little flip through some of my pattern papers and I ended up going pattern paper crazy. So decided for a simple and limited color scheme on the the cute little girl.
Hope you enjoyed my card and tutorial and Happy Valentines!
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I love making different kind of smaller projects with my craft supplies, and these paperclip flags are perfect to use up those scrap pieces you have laying around that you just don’t wanna throw out.
Four valentine paperclip flags made with lawn fawn pattern papers and stamps.
I recently started to really use my planner and take part of the planner community on social media. I found these kind of flags there but wanted to make them in my way, more like little notes than just decorative pieces for my planner. And while I was at it I made a little tutorial on how I make them.
For the theme, I knew I wanted to do valentine, I also knew that I wanted to dig out some of my lovely pattern papers that I haven’t used in a while. And as happened I have subscribed to the Lawn Fanatics email list and their launch email for the active challenge came into my box. The challenge is “For the birds”, so I dived into my stamp collection and ended up pulling out a whole bunch! I also picked out some valentiny paper packs and I started playing.
Large valentine paperclip flags made with lawn fawn pattern papers and stamps.
The first flag is the larger of the one, it’s created on the 78 mm (3 1/8″) paperclip and the flag measures 2 1/2″ in width. The larger size made it possible to use a bigger sentiment. To ground the sentiment I used a couple of thin paper strips in different patterns, and then as a little pop I added a cute little bird.
Medium valentine paperclip flag made with lawn fawn pattern papers and stamps.
Next flag up is on a very colorful bright rainbow striped paper, so the sentiments and the image used is a little more block colored so they pop a little bit more. I again used some stripes of pattern paper to ground one of the sentiments. I tried finding papers that where less patterned but still had a little bit. It’s made for the 45 mm (1 11/16″) paperclip and the flag measures 1 3/8″ in width.
Small valentine paperclip flag made with lawn fawn pattern papers and stamps.
The third flag is made on a tone on tone pattern paper which gave me the possibility to add a sentiment that is a little more busy. I hand cut around the sentiment to keep the movement in it. Then I added a little bird and some hearts that almost look like they are the notes from the bird singing. I added some glitter drops to the heart just because I wanted it to have that little extra. This flag is created for the smallest paperclip that measures 32 mm (1 5/16″) and the flag measures 1″ in width.
Small valentine paperclip flag made with lawn fawn pattern papers and stamps.
The last flag was just a little extra, I had found this little speech bubble with a heart in it and I just wanted to use it! So I stamped up another bird that could tweet it out and colored it to match. It’s also created on the smallest paperclip I had.
Hope you liked the flags and the tutorial. If you decide to use my tutorial I would love to see your creations!
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I don’t know about you, but I have loads of candy left from Christmas, at least the ones I don’t eat myself. So for my Hershey Nuggets I made a 9 piece treat box that I’ve given to my family as belated new year gifts. They where very appreciated so I thought I would make a tutorial on how to make them.
These treat boxes is not only fitted perfectly for 9 nuggets, you can also get 4 from a letter sized piece of cardstock and one sheet of transparency film.
Hershey Nugget 9 Piece Treat Box Duo Tutorial
The box is made up by a base and a lid. The base is a 4″ x 5″ piece of card stock, scored on all sides at 1/2″, tabbed on the long side as shown in the video and put together with some score tape. The lid is a 4 1/16″ x 5 1/16″ piece of transparency film, scored on all sides at 1/2″ , tabbed on the long side as shown in the video and put together with some score tape.
Hershey Nugget 9 Piece Treat Box Duo Tutorial
The Hershey Nuggets are individually wrapped in 3″ x 1″ pieces of pattern paper. After adding them to the treat box and closed the lid, the box was wrapped in red organza ribbon. As a the last detail, a diecut tiny tag and a diecut snowflake was put together and tied to the ribbon with some bakers twine.
Hershey Nugget 9 Piece Treat Box Duo Tutorial
I had a lot of fun making these boxes and I will most likely make more, but with some other card stock and pattern papers. I might make some for some easter treats. If you decide to follow my tutorial and share on social media please tag me so I can see what you have made.
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It’s with tears in my eyes I’m writing this. Zoe is closing down Make It Crafty. Zoe took me under her wing and into her Design Team in 2013 and there I have stayed. She have taught me so much about coloring and she’s a big part of why I and how I evolved my crafting footprint here on the internet.
So today we are doing a last blog hop, to celebrate what has been. On every blog in the hop you can win a surprise gift from Zoe. On my blog I want you to tell me you favorite digi stamp you have gotten from the Make It Crafty store.
The card I have done for this blog post is made with the free with purchase fairies, that you will get with any purchase from the Make It Crafty store until it’s closed.
As with many of my cards, it’s simple and created to showcase the stamp more than anything. It’s an A2 card base, with a stitched rectangle out of latte cardstock. I cut out the snowflakes and the sentiment out of some white glitter cardstock and filled up the background. To make the fairy stand out a little bit extra I cut out a stitched hexagon in some vellum to put behind the fairy.
Today it is all about creating a masked blended background with distress inks and oxide inks, using dies and stamps with masking paper to mask out the area. The card is finished off with stamps by My Favorite Things colored in the no-line coloring technique with copic markers.
For the card base I went with a square base measuring 4 1/4″ by 4 1/4″. The first part of the mask was cut with a stitched mod square die out of a 4 1/4 strip of masking paper, so that the mask can cover the card base and a little over to the backside as it will not be folded when I blend.
I also stamped a couple of the clouds and a moon from the Witch Way Is The Candy stamp set onto another piece of masking paper and then cut them out with my scissors. These I placed towards the upper left corner in a little arrangement of three.
I did the blending first with the distress inks in the colors Festive Berries and Wilted Violet, but as I was working on Neenah card stock and I went in with a little to heavy hand I just couldn’t get a good blend, so I finally decided to just take out my oxide inks in the same colors and then just blend on top. The oxide inks are a little bit easier to blend and they are also more opaque so it hid a little bit of the original blending. I finished it off with some water droplets flicked with my fingers and then padded off with a paper towel, to add a little bit of texture.
I then finished off the outside with some fussy cutted images, that I had colored in the no-line coloring technique, fastened with some foam tape. And a stamped sentiment. For the inside I stamped a sentiment, used my left over images and then I added splatters as I accidentally gotten some ink on the inside while blending and though it would hide it a bit.
You can follow a long with both the coloring and the card progress in the videos below. And under that you find links to all the products I used and a list of the copics I used to color the images. Hope you have a great day!
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Do you want to learn more about blending with markers? Well I’m here to tell you all about it. I also have a video that shows you in more detail different kinds of blending and how blending really works.
I have had this idea in my head for months, I’ve been wanting to break down my knowledge about coloring into smaller easier to digest videos. Videos that is specially about coloring and not card-making. I love my card-making videos but I wished on more than one occasion that I could point you to a video that goes more in-dept on the subject of coloring.
But before we start coloring we need some good paper, as with most coloring mediums papers really makes the difference. For markers you want a dense paper with a slick surface, the ink still needs to be able to go down into the paper, so the tiniest tiniest texture is needed.
I have used Make It Colorful Blending Cardstock for years and I love it, however you can just as well use X-press It Cardstock which is the Copic brand or the paper that many of my fellow US colorists use, Hammermill Color Copy (the one with the frog on). You can use Neenah, but as it is a little less dense than the other papers it can be harder to blend and it can make the colors bleed outside the lines if you have a heavy hand.
Let’s start with the Solid coloring, to get a good blend you need to learn how to get a good solid, well it will make it much easier anyway. The way alcohol based markers work is that they have an alcohol based medium with pigments in. The darker the color the more pigment. This means also the lighter the color the more alcohol, which also means that lighter pens will be juicer and easier to both blend and get a good solid with.
The trick is to go in a medium speed and make sure to overlap the previous line of ink with the new one just a little bit and before the previous line dries. This will help the pigment to even themselves out in the alcohol and will give you less streaks and a more even result. If your first layer looks a little splotchy, just add a second layer before the first has time to completely dry and you will get that even result you are looking for.
For the blending I card I decided to color in the same colors, but add one more pen to the combinations for every step. I usually tell you which markers I use, but as this more how to use the pens and less about that perfect color combinations I have chosen to leave them out.
I use one marker at the top and adding one per step to have 4 markers at the bottom ghost. The way I blend is to overlap the colors slightly, going from dark to light, and what happens is that the extra alcohol medium in the lighter pen will push the darker pigments a little bit further into the paper and make a the overlapping part be lighter than the darkest tone but darker than the lighter. The gradient isn’t perfect but the more pens you add the easier it is to get that smoother blend. Also the more contrast between the darkest and the lightest the more 3D like dimension you will get.
The last ghost card is all about cross blends, using a color from a completely different color family to add that little extra. The first column I used a marker that had the same value as the grey but a completely different color. Purple, blue, green and orange, in that order and then I did a grey blend with three markers on top. The most important tip with this kind of coloring is NOT to choose a color that is much darker, than the lightest grey. That will cause the alcohol medium in the lightest grey to push the pigment in the colored pencil, unevenly into the paper and that causes a very unpredictable splotchiness.
For the second column I used a marker from another color family as the shadow, always choosing a color that goes towards the cooler spectrum. From the top to the bottom, a Blue shadow with a green blend, a red shadow with a orange blend, a purple shadow with a pink blend (should have chosen a lighter purple though) and lastly a purple shadow with a blue blend. This causes a deeper more natural shadow however they can be a little bit harder to blend if you stray to far away from the base color.
The third column has two colored gradients just because it was fun. It is easier to work with lighter colors and I would recommend using grey to shadow with if you want to have some dimension to them. However I choose to just make the gradients. From the top Mint and Blue, Blue and Purple, Purple and Pink and the last one pink and green. Doesn’t the last one look like a watermelon? All it needs is som black/grey dots in the pink part.
Well if you have read this far, thank you so much for taking the time. I would really appreciate of you left me a comment telling me how you like the content and if there is something else you want to see either here or on my channel or on both.
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I just love fall! Christmas has always been my favorite holiday with the smell of pine and spices. But since Pumpkin Spice came to Sweden, surprisingly enough it was just a couple of years ago, curtesy of Starbucks, fall has slowly become my favorite.
Here in Sweden the leaves are slowly turning orange and red, and right now is that perfect mid stage where some is still green and none is brown. And even though I did use this very stamp last year. I felt I wanted to use it again. This time using the no-line coloring technique and also choosing a very different pumpkin color. Have seen these awesome different ones that exist in the states and decided that a greenish one would be cool.
The background is made the same way as last year and I combined it with another chipboard piece. This year I used a layered saying turning it into a friendship card fit for fall. I didn’t do a video this time around just cuddled up with my copic markers and let them lead the way. My absolute favorite part is the face, the softness of the no-line coloring and the added detail of the color pencil and white gelpen just made it pop.
I hope you are enjoying fall and all its bounty. Until next time I hope you have an awesome day!
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I’m very passionated about coloring, coloring was what made me really enjoy cardmaking. I do feel a bit rusty, going from doing it on almost a daily basis to not picking up a marker for months. But I still wanted to join in with the challenge.
Whether your preferred medium is paint, marker, or pencil, coloring is a skill you’ve honed since those early years spent with Crayolas and a favorite coloring book. The MFT collection of images is vast, so now is your opportunity to show off your exceptional coloring skills!
My preferred medium is definitely markers, I picked up my first markers 7 years ago and I now have the whole Copic set and I love them. I usually color the characters separately and then make a clean and simple cards. But this time around I wanted to do something that I really wanna learn more about, that is making a one layer scene.
The stampset I used is Friends at first Sip, and I wanted to continue with the autumn theme. As the coffee wagon was smaller than the characters I decided to give it a little bit of debt. The idea went through a bunch of different iterations. It started out being based on the topiaries that exists in the stampset, but I quickly realised that they wouldn’t fit the way I wanted on a A2 card and I wanted to stay in that size. But the idea of drinking coffee in the park stayed.
I hope you enjoy this, and did you get inspired to try you too? Leave a comment down below with your answer.
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First out is the Clean & Simple Genius category, and I would say that most of my cards fall into that category, less is more have always been my motto. The promt for the challenge says:
The challenge rules are to use exclusively MFT products when it comes to stamps, dies stencils and pattern papers, but you can use cardstocks and inks from other manufacturers if you don’t have the MFT ones. (there are more rules and you can find them on their website)
I knew I wanted to do an autumn card, the temperatures here have been falling and the leaves are turning orange. So for my first card I use the Fall Friends stampset.
For the background I have used a smootching technique, where I press a inkpad on to my Tim Holtz glass mat, spray a little bit of water to make the ink move, and then smootch the paper into the ink puddle. I repeated that a couple of times, drying the card with a heat gun in between. I both used different amounts of water in the ink and also different ink colors. As a last couple of layers I also added some oxide ink, they give a lovely almost chalk like finish. And then I took some dark brown ink and splattered with a number 4 brush for small pricks of brown to break up my little sea of orange.
I’ve chosen to add my blob of color (and my little focal images) in the bottom left corner, using the rule of thirds technique placing them on the lower left intersection, as it will give good balance and a little bit of air around the characters. I also used the color and small splatters to pull the eye towards the end of the card.
My last addition to the card was the sentiment, I was contemplating to leave it out but after stepping away for awhile decided that the top was to white and needed that little extra detail. The sentiment was stamped on a the first background panel I made, that didn’t came out as I wanted. But it worked perfectly for the sentiment.
Hope you like the card and you enjoyed my little thought process on how I made the card.
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Oh gosh! It’s been ages! More than a month to be exact. Last post was the start of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge, and I did not finish it. I thought that my energy was coming back but was hit with some really stressful news (don’t worry it’s all fixed now) so I got sick and haven’t been able to craft at all since. But I’m back today with a Christmas in July card.
I did record this in December but didn’t have time to edit it before I went on vacation, and I finally did! I really really love how the coloring came out so I’ve been eager to share it with you.
The stamp is a digital stamp from Make It Crafty called Waving Santa. I went with the standard Christmas colors, and the card actually went very masculine when I finished it and again really liked the finished card. The background is a masked background stamp from Simon Says Stamp together with a sentiment stamp from My Favourite Things. Super simple but still packs a punch.
I also decided to make a real-time coloring video from the coloring as I had more things to say about the coloring that would fit in a standard card video. Hope you enjoy them both! In the coloring video I bring up a bunch of coloring people I love, so thought I would link them here too 🙂
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