If you have been following me on Instagram you might have seen my social distancing cards. Been doing loads of them to send out to friends and family. While sharing them on facebook I got asked to do a video tutorial on how I color hair. And of course I obliged 🙂
So here is the coloring tutorial and if you are curios on what materials I used for the cards you can see it in the list below. I kept the card pretty simple as I knew I wanted to make many of the cards and I wanted to reduce the time it took to make them.
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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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Hi! Todays video is all about how to dye variegated threads for cardmaking using craft materials that you might have in your craft room. A big disclaimer though, do not use these techniques if you are going to use it on fabric, non of these threads are waterproof and some of them will shed pigments and that will ruin your fabric. However they work splendidly with stitching on paper/cardstock.
I’ve used four different mediums to dye the threads, the first is Distress Stains, however you can use Distress Ink pads or refills instead if you only have them. I used Aged Mahogany and Spun Sugar, but again you can use any colors you want, I went a little monochromatic as then I knew that blending them would not create mud.
The second medium I used was Spray Inks, these come in so many different colors and brands. I’ve used ColorBox Spritzers in the color Pinkolicious and Dylusions Ink Spray in the color Crushed Grape. These are super pigmented and I needed to use water to make them move in the threads. If you have mica based sprays they make your threads shine and glitter.
The third medium is my beloved copic markers, I used RV21, RV23 and RV19. When I felt I was finished I used some Isopropanol to spread the pigment more even over the thread. If you want to add more color after I would use Blending Solution instead of Isopropanol. This way made the threads a little bit stiffer than the other methods.
The forth and last medium was Zig Real Brush Pens and Tombow Markers. These are a little more like working with watercolors, which by the way would work great too! I found that the markers where a lot dryer and that I needed to spray my thread with some water first to make the color move a little more.
Thank you so much for coming here, I hope you enjoyed these techniques, if you try them please share them with me on instagram tagging me @craftybitcreations. And use the hashtag #4waystodyethreadsforcardmaking
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Hi Everyone, here with a new card and video tutorial. Todays video is all about a pattern paper diagonal cut background technique that produces two backgrounds in one go, and I’ll show you two different ways of making these into cards.
For the first card I’m using Cute Lil Angel and coloring her with my copic markers in some different yet very christmasy way. I combine her together with a stamped sentiment from Simon Says Stamp, and then put the background on a white Neenah cardbase.
For the second card I’m using the Merry Word Chipboard and the Christmas Word Chipboard as my sentiment and focal image. I really love the layering with these chipboard pieces making it stand out from even the busiest backgrounds.
Hope you enjoy the cards! Have you started creating your Christmas Cards to get a head start before December is rolling in?
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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.
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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.
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Hi Everyone! Do I have something fun for you today! I love challenges, and I’m trying to get back to entering some, as it was a long time since. It was also way to long since I was using my Lawn Fawn stamps so decided to join the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge this week which is Flowers, Floral & Foliage.
As usually when starting out for any challenge I collect all my stamps set and dies that could suit the challenge, and doing that I saw my pillow box die and a plan started growing. Something I love doing is creating groupings of foliage in a corner and add flowers and other details to that group. So that is what I decided I wanted to do.
I started with some tone on tone stamping on the pillow box, this will make the background not so plain, but at the same time be so soft that it won’t compete with our details. I then stamped up loads and loads of foliage and detail stamps from multiple stamps sets, colored them all in with copic markers and cut them all out. When doing this kind of creations is when I miss not having the coordinating dies.
Then I layered all the different images and glued them down, and the box was finished. If you want to see in more details every set, watch the video below. Where you also find the real time coloring video where I go through the coloring. Also for all the pens and materials used, you find that detail underneath the videos as always. Happy Crafting!
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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.
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