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Pretty little pumpkin

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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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Supplies:

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Copic:

E50, E00, E21, E11, E04, R30, R32, G12, G21, G24, G43, G46, G94, G29, YG61, YG63, YR21, YR31, Y17, Y38, B60, B63, W0, W2, W4, 0

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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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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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Classy Olivia goes Goth! | How to change the style of an image by adding details with a multiliner

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Hi Everyone! Marika here with another card and video tutorial. You might have seen this card before as it was featured on the Make It Crafty challenge a couple of months ago, (just looked it up, it was in february!!!). I finally gotten to edit the video and I really wanted to share it with you.

So the challenge (in february?!) was to add details with a multiliner, it could really be anything, adding another pattern on a dress, really anything. Just before creating this card, Nicoletta shared her card in our design team group, and I just piggybacked on it. She added net tights on her character and just had to add some on mine, but with a twist.

When I was young I had a pair of lacy fingerless gloves, they where red and one of my priced possessions. Funny thing is that I loved them just as much when I was a toddler as I loved them when I was a mid teen, and I did use them. And that together with Nicolettas card made me create this one.

I really love taking Classy Olivia, which is a very posh girl, and just by adding those details, the lacy tights and and the lacy fingerless gloves, and also adding another color scheme, she is transformed to someone that is a little more like me, well the 16 year old me anyway.

With all the details in the card I felt I wanted to make the card clean and simple, I love clean and simple cards, but clean and simple doesn’t need to be colorless. So I choose a very punchy paper, that had a very light pattern, put that on a black cardbase, I even decorated the inside so that you can write on it without a white gel pen. I then added a sentiment from cardboard pieces, and the last details was a couple of hearts. As usual if you want to see the process you can watch the videos below.

Copic:
RV21, RV23, RV25, RV29
T6, T8, T10, 100
E50, E00, E21, E11, E04
E39, E29, E49, B63

Supplies:

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You Got Superpowers | Interactive Slider Card

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Hi Everyone! Got a new interactive slider card for you today. I love making interactive cards, some more fiddly than others but this one is very simple and very quick to make.

There are so many tools out there today that you can use to make your interactive card, but today I’m just using a craft knife and a pencil, making a very simple track but which fit perfectly for the card I’m making. I’ve made a video below to show you every step to make the card, and I’ll give you a couple of tips along the way.

Sometimes you get an idea to a card the first time you see the stamp set, and I knew that I just needed to make a slider card together with the super mouse from the Superpowers stamp set by Create A Smile Stamps. I wanted to make him fly over something so I dug through the other stamps I had by Create A Smile and I found the Glowing Seaside stamp set with the awesome lighthouse. That coupled with me being on vacation to the west coast of Sweden, which have loads of lighthouses really set the mood to the card and it all came together.

I decided to make a very soft background, just blending on a couple of colors of distress inks, I decided to use Mermaid Lagoon, Pumice Stone, Stormy Skies and Hickory Smoke, but after doing the blending I felt that the hill that I wanted to set the lighthouse on needed a little bit more definition. So I grabbed my trusty Copic Markers and loosely sketched it out, with just a tiny tiny blending. If you choose to do that to, remember that Copic don’t recommend you using the markers over any medias, and that drawing on top of other pigments can ruin your nibs, so it’s on your own risk you do this. Also watercolor cardstock is very porous and will use loads of your ink from your pens, but I felt safe as I used it so little.

Hope you enjoy the card and I see you next week.

Copic:

Mouse: W0, W2, W4, R30, R32, R24, R27, R46, R39
Lighthouse: W0, W2, W4, W6, R24, R27, R46, R39

Supplies:

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You’re My Bestie | Watercolor Background

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Hi Everyone, did you like my dragon last week? I had so much fun creating it, and while looking for a image to use for that card I came across the image I’m using in todays card.

The stamp I’m using is called Sam’s Lizard and is by Make It Crafty, I used the same technique for the scales on the lizard as for the the dragon on last weeks card. I fell in love with the adorable face of Sam and I do not color enough guys or make enough guy cards.

The whole card is in neutral tones, which both works great for male cards but also lends it self for more storybookesk cards. I colored Sam and his Lizard with Copic Markers and added details with a couple of pencils. You really don’t need a full set of pencils, you can come very far with just 12 pen set if you are just using it for details like these, but if you are like me you might want them all.

I knew I wanted to have a very soft background, I was thinking sitting on a wooden dock by the water, but couldn’t find a good digi for it, and then I dawned on me that I wanted the stone wall. So I googled stonewalls to find different sorts, decided on what kind I wanted and sketched one up on my watercolor cardstock. Using watercolors for soft backgrounds are great, they give those soft and watery colors. I have a small 12 pan Winsor & Newton Cotman set, you really don’t need more and it’s a great way to get into watercolors as they are the “student” set and are actually quite affordable.

To get a cohesive look I started off by mixing a grey tone, this set doesn’t have a black, but it’s quite easy to blend together a greyish tone, I used a cold blue and a orangey red to get a purply grey. Then for every color I then add a little of that color and it ended up being really cohesive. I even colored the chipboard sentiment with the same colors to make it tie in.

And you really don’t need any fancy things either to watercolor, the smaller brush I’m using is a Cotman brush and really affordable and then I’m using a IKEA 365+ plate to mix on, have found that I really enjoy mixing on porcelain as the colors have a tendency to bead on plastic but they flow on porcelain.

If you want to see how I created the whole card I have both the card video and the real-time coloring video, you can choose which ever you like the best, or watch both if you want.

Copics:
Skin: E50, E00, E21, E11, E04, R30, R32
Hair: E41, E42, E43, E44
Clothes; E42, E43, E44, E47, T0, T2, T4, 0
Lizard YG01, YG03, YG25, Y17, Y35

Supplies:

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Fiery Dragon – Coloring Scales

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Hi Everyone! I’m here with another card and another tutorial. Today I’m following this months coloring challenge from Make It Crafty, color ANIMALS, with an emphasis on animal textures, feather, fur and scales. Zoe likes to challenge us DT girls a little extra, and this time around she gave us the specific texture to work with. I got scales, and actually did a bunch until I settled on the one I made for this post, You’ll find them at the end of the post.

But first to today card and videos. I ended up choosing the Fiery Dragon, I colored him up before, I even have the honor to have my coloring being on the front of the package for the dragon! Btw I’ve used the digital stamp but you can also get him as a rubber stamp, and right now there is a great sale on rubber stamps!

I have colored Fiery in some gorgeous yellows and oranges with my copic markers and then added the scales with some colored pencils. I then made a smootching background in some blue and greys, I choose blue as it is the complimentary color to orange. I also used Hello Beautiful Chipboard Word and colored it with ditress paints in the same color scheme as the dragon.

Copic:
Y17, Y38, YR15, V12
YR07, YR18, V15

Polychromos:
Ivory, Burnt Ochre, Walnut Brown, DarkChrome Yellow

As I said I did a couple of test, playing with scales, I do really love them but they are very time consuming so decided not to reproduce them for video and go for the dragon instead. But I thought I share them here too to give you some more examples to what you can do for the challenge.

Supplies:

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Slider Card | We are moving!

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Hi everyone!

Don’t worry we are not going anywhere, but today I have a moving card for you! This card is a slider card and I had so much fun creating this card!

Sometimes card ideas come from the smallest thing, and today this whole card started with a party hat! I was going through my stamps trying to decide what to do for this month feature for the Create A Smile Stamps Video Design Team. And my eyes caught this little party hat, and I really thought it looked like a cheese, so with it being on the Cart Full Of Treasures stamp set I just had to fill up that cart with cheese wedges. For the cherry on top, or more the mouse, I knew there where a mouse or two to be found among my other stamps, and I was correct, on the Where Your Heart Is stamp set I found a cute little mouse that fit perfectly on top of my mountain of cheese!

And with a cart being pulled I knew I needed to make a slider card. The slider mechanism is super simple, I just made a slit in the paper, trying to match up the cuts with the floor boards in the paper to make it as invisible as possible. I made the pull mechanism in the same paper to get it to match. For more details on how I created the slider mechanism see the video below.

Copic:
Mouse & Koala: C0, C2, C4, C6, C8, C9, E57, E59, E49, B91, B93, B95, R30, R32
Cart & Cheese: B91, B93, B95, Y13, Y15, Y17, C0, C2, C4, C6, C8, C10

Polychromos:
White, Payne’s Grey, Cold Grey IV, Cold Grey II, Black, Ivory, Sky Blue, Light Ultramarine, Ultramarine, Dark Cadmium Yellow, Dark Chrome Yellow, Burnt Siena, Walnut Brown, Dark Flesh, Light Flesh

Supplies:

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Spring Skies

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Hi Everyone!

Gosh it’s been a month! My new job is keeping me busy and I have a few more things that is keeping me occupied, more of that another time. I finally got a couple of videos edited so today you get my Spring Skies duo. If you haven’t joined in with the spring skies coloring challenge over at Make It Crafty I really recommend you do! It’s loads of fun!

If you are unsure what to do you will find all the details over at the challenge page and there you also find a real awesome discount offer on the Coloring Skies E-book which was a steal even before the discount. So come and join us!

For some more inspiration and a tutorial you can see the videos below of how I made the Incredible Friend card, loads of great tips and tricks on how to color a sky.

Copic:
Skin: E00, E00, E21, E11, E04, R30, R32
Sky: B000, B00, BG01
Wheel barrow and bucket: E41, E42, E43, W0, W2, W4, W6, W8, W10
Grass, boots, overalls: G21, G24, G46
Shirt: W0, W2, W4
Hair: YR16, YR18, E08, E18
Flower: Y08, Y26, Y38
Eyes: E57, E59, E49

Supplies:

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Pirate – Box Pop-Up Card

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Hi Everyone!

Been wanting to do a interactive card for so long, and I’ve been seeing these kind of cards everywhere lately, so I thought I would create one me too!

For the outside I did some simple blending and added a couple of images from the All Hands On Deck stamp set, stamped in Kraft Hybrid ink for a softer look. This card is all about the inside!

As this is a box pop-up card it has a box on the inside that pop-ups when you open it! I dressed the box in some Doodlebug Pattern Paper that looks like wood to make it look like a chest or a pirate ship. I have created a video for you so you can follow along.

Measurements:
Box: 8 1/2″ x 1 1/4 strip Latte Cardstock Score every 2″
Layering Panels: 1 1/8 x 1 7/8″ (4 of them)
Box inner pieces 1/4 x 2 1/2″ Score at 1/4″ on both sides (3 of them)
Fastening tabs: 2×1″ Score at 1/2″ (2 of them)
The cardbase is a standard A2 one, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2″ scored at 4 1/4″

Supplies:

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