Category: Videos

Coloring, Create A Smile Stamps, Design Teams, Real Time Coloring, Videos

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

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

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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Create A Smile Stamps, Design Teams, Videos

Slider Card | We are moving!

craftybit

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

Spring Skies

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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Create A Smile Stamps, Videos

Pirate – Box Pop-Up Card

craftybit

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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30 Day Coloring Challenge, Coloring, Real Time Coloring, Videos

Day 23-24 – Coloring Challenge – Cats and Owls

craftybit

Hi Everyone!

Still catching up and while I edit the rest of the videos I thought I would get day 23 and 24 up to you 🙂 Both of the stamps colored is from the You Make My Heart Melt Stamp set, which really match the weather here in Sweden, it’s been snowing all day! Hope you enjoy these while I try to get the rest of the videos up too 🙂

Copic:
Day 23: E50, E51, E53, E55, E57, E59, RV21, RV23, RV25, N4
Day 24: E50, E51, E53, E55, E57, E59, BG10, BG32, BG45, N0, N2, N4

Supplies:

Videos

Save The Crafty Youtuber Blog Hop

craftybit

Hi Everyone!

It is time for an awesome blog hop! Justine Hovey got the brilliant idea to create a blog hop to help those crafty youtuber that is going to be hit with the newmonetization rules from youtube.

I love the idea to make a mixed blog hop with smaller and bigger (and every one inbetween) youtubers to spread the love of craft and share our subscribers and viewers with each other.

Justine has gathered some awesome sponsors to make this blog hop extra sweet. If you hop and comment on every video you will not only be in to win the prizes from that specific video but also a bunch of secret prizes, so come and join us!

ATT: This is a youtube blog hop, to be in to win you have to comment on the youtube video over att youtube! You can find my video HERE!

 

30 Day Coloring Challenge, Coloring, Real Time Coloring, Videos

Day 19-22 – Coloring Challenge – Polar Pals

craftybit

Hi Everyone!

Life is crazy at the moment, with a cold that just don’t seem to give up and spending most of my time looking for work, I just don’t seem to get time to upload my videos. I have been coloring my daily images and recorded them for you. But I gotten a bunch of them edited so I thought I would make one post for a bunch of them. All of the images in todays group is from the Polar Pals stamp set, except for the little baby seal that is from the Frozen Friends set (which was a free with purchase stamp set a couple of months ago). I really wanted to get them up this morning as later today there is an awesome bloghop that I am blessed to be apart of, and my video for that bloghop is using images from these coloring videos.

Copic:
R30, N0, N2, N4, BG10, BG32, BG45, RV21, RV23, RV25

Supplies:

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Make It Crafty, Videos

Unicorn Shadowbox

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:

When possible affiliate links are used, this means that I receive a small commission when products are purchased through the links (at no extra cost to you) I use the money to support my blog and youtube channel. If you like my projects and tutorial please consider supporting me by clicking through these links when you shop. Thanks!