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Pretty little pumpkin

October 10, 2019January 31, 2020 craftybit

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:

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?1559654439292

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

July 19, 2018February 11, 2019 craftybit

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:

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?1531470176574

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Sparkling Queen | Coloring Sparkle Effects

July 5, 2018February 11, 2019 craftybit

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

June 29, 2018February 11, 2019 craftybit

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:

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?1529497022105

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You’re My Bestie | Watercolor Background

June 21, 2018February 11, 2019 craftybit

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:

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?1529497022105

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Fiery Dragon – Coloring Scales

June 9, 2018February 11, 2019 craftybit

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:

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?1528278883368

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Spring Skies

March 22, 2018February 11, 2019 craftybit

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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Celebrating Friendships with a hot cuppa!

February 21, 2018February 11, 2019 craftybit

Hi Everyone!

One of my favourite past times with friends is sitting around having a cuppa and chatting. It’s hard to beat face to face interaction with a friend. You can read each other’s body language, laugh out loud and easily get stuck for hours drinking way too much coffee.

Sadly, many of my bestest friends live so far away from me that I don’t get the opportunity to sit across the table and laugh over a cuppa so instead I do what I do best and make them cards that will brighten their day.

So with that in mind, this month we are inspiring you with some gorgeous images illustrated by Krista Smith and a whole range of new chipboard designs relating to Friends, Coffee & Tea!

Please join us on the hop and be inspired for a chance to win one of two Chipboard sets featuring the new friendship cursive sentiment designs. Simply leave a comment on each blog along the way as I will be picking a winner from two random posts. Winners will be announced and contacted Sunday 25th so get your hopping boots on!

My card today is as clean and simple as they go, I wanted the message to come through as good as possible. This card is supposed to be like a soft hug, like a cup of coffee. I knew I wanted to use the new Coffee Hug Sentiment, so I measured the size and then tried out some arrangements in photoshop (creating a rectangle with that size as a temp to see sizes). I finally decided on using a cropped version of the Coffee & Yarn Digi Stamp.

While coloring her skin I realized that I wanted to use her lip color as the color of her shirt and that I loved the softness of it and wanted it to continue through out the card. So I picked out my Distress Paints and colored up the sentiment. To finish the card off I found this cute paper in an old Doodlebug Designs pattern paper stack and then I used a die to cut it to give it a little more interest. Then I put it all on a white cardbase and the card was finished.

Here is a list of the blog hop in case you get lost along the way. Don’t forget to leave a comment on each blog for 10 chances to win!

Zoe – http://makeitcrafty.com/crafts-blog/?p=5133

Delphine – http://delphinesplace.blogspot.fr/

Lucy – http://loopylass2010.blogspot.co.uk

Nicoletta – https://i-love-scrapbooking.blogspot.com/2018/02/make-it-crafty-blog-hop-new-release.html

Lou – https://loopylousloopythoughts.blogspot.com/2018/02/make-it-crafty-new-release-blog-hop.html

Sadia – http://sadilla.blogspot.it

Regan – https://charmedstamping.blogspot.com/2018/02/make-it-crafty-blog-hop-new-release.html

Marika – YOU ARE HERE!

Deborah – http://deborahsshiningcards.blogspot.be

Andrea – https://craftyandrea.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/celebrating-friendships-with-hot-cuppa.html

Copic:
Skin: E50, E00, E21, E11, E04, R30, R32

Hair & Eyes: E55, E57, E59, E49

Shirt: R30, R32, E04

Supplies:

https://linkdeli.com/widget.js?1518439322996

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Unicorn Shadowbox

February 9, 2018February 11, 2019 craftybit

Hi everyone!

Today’s videos is a little bit different, today I have made a shadow box with the help of the Make It Crafty 3D chippies. I love the Make It Crafty chippies, they are gorgeous, easy to work with and due to their lighter tone you can color them with loads of different medias. I prefer to use distress paints, but copic markers works great too.

To get the right size for my image I measured the inside of the shadow box. I then arranged a scene with the Rainbow Meadow digi stamp, cropping it to only show the clouds and the rainbow and then add the Baby Unicorn digi stamp as a focal image. I colored the scene with copic markers and finished it of by coating the unicorn in Nuvo Glitter glue. I colored the shadow box and the extra chippies with distress paints and then covered the details with glitter also.

This was a great project to put together and hope to create a bunch more like this in the future.

Copic:
B000, B00, BG01, B02, 0, T0, T2, T4, R22, YR02, Y13, G02, BV04, N0, N2, N4, BV01, BV02, BV04, BV08, RV13, RV14, RV19

Supplies:

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Violet’s Red Rose – Colouring a bush

January 20, 2018February 11, 2019 craftybit

Hi Everyone!

Had a lot of fun creating todays card, I got to play with the newly released Violet’s Red Rose by Make It Crafty. When finished colouring her I felt she needed something more and decided to add a rose bush behind her. I knew the kind of style I wanted so I googled for some illustrated bushes and then did a couple of test runs on some separate cardstock. When happy with my result I then tried it out on my coloured image. I love experimenting and I love feeling that I got something that I didn’t got before, and this really turned out how I envisioned it.

For the rest of the card I didn’t want to much detail but I knew I wanted to continue that bush into the card. So I blended on some Bristol with different green distress inks and edged it in brown to match the card base. For a sentiment I knew I didn’t want to cover up my colouring to much, so the hand-lettered chipboard words from Make It Crafty worked perfect! The backing piece is made to give that little outline (that I usually leave on my images too), to make the word pop and be able to layer on top of colouring without taking away from the colouring or getting lost in it.