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Let’s Have A Monster Party!

craftybit

Hi Guys!

So I’ve been watching loads of art youtube, seeing these wonderful creators create something just starting with pen and paper is inspiring! One of the things that really caught my eye was different coloured outlines, and I thought Hey! I can do that with stamps.

So I started out with what is called No-Line Colouring, it’s been around for a couple of years now and it’s something my friend Zoe started. The idea is to stamp in a very light ink and when you colour the image the lines sort of disappear. But it was coloured lines we wanted, right? Well after colouring my images with my copics, I went over the lines with faber castell polychromos, if you have multiliners in different colours you could use that, but I sort of loved the softness of using the coloured pencils. You could also use ink in different colours, if you have that but then it would be harder to get all the differences, like having blue around the spots on the purple monster.

I do have a small warning tho, if you use the copic markers on top of the pencils you will “melt” them and that can add residue on your marker tips and you might need to change them. So I always do the coloured pencils last so I don’t damage my copic nibs.

Copic:
V000, V01, RV63, V15
B000, B00, BG01, BG02
YG00, YG01, YG03, YG25
RV000, RV00, RV10
YR000, YR00, YR01, YR65, YR65
G000, G00, BG32, BG15
T2, B60, B63

Supplies:

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Acetate Challenge

craftybit

Hi Guys!

This months clean and simple card challenge over at Make It Crafty is Acetate! And even though I use it in my card often, love doing shakers, at first it was a little challenging, to figure out what to do. So I started with the image, which I did in two settings as I just didn’t know what to use for her hair! But I do love how it came out. When it came to acetate my fellow DTs had loads of ideas, you should really head over to the challenge post and while you are there join in! This month you can win chipboard frames! After getting the images finished I just knew I needed to use my flower embossing folder to make the background, and it worked great with acetate too.

Copic:
Skin: E50, E00, E21, E11, E04
Hair: R11, RV42, RV14, RV17
Leafs: YG21, YG25, YG17, G28
Dress & Flowers: T0, T2, T4, 0
Eyes: B63, B39, B37, B45, B21, BG11

Supplies:

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Colouring Balloons

craftybit

Hi guys!

Todays card is all about those balloons, I even have a little mini tutorial on how to colour them with copic alcohol markers. And if you want to play along these balloons are free at the moment over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamp Facebook Group. So no excuses, just come and play along with us!

Copic:
T0, T2, T4, 0, YR000, E93, YR65, E13, BG32, BG15, BG49, B97

Supplies:

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How To Colour Eyes With Copic Markers

craftybit

Hi Guys!

I have a different kind of post/video today, today is a colouring tutorial where we zoom in on the eyes, and I show you my preferred technique of colouring eyes on my stamped images. This tutorial was asked by Chayne over at my youtube channel, and I thought it was time to actually do some more in-depth tutorials. So this is the first one out, the video below is all in real time and I will go through colouring the iris but also some tips on how to colour the pupil and shading the whites. Hope you enjoy the video.

Copic:
B91, B93, B95, B97, B99, T2, T4, T6, T8, T10, 110, B63, E00

Supplies:

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Kayla – How To Sketch A Face

craftybit

Hi Guys!

So after playing with the rainbow yesterday, I remembered the human rainbow. So I decided that todays card I would play around with other ethnicities, so I chosed people with african assent. I chosed to use Kayla by Little Miss Muffet Stamps as she is a Polka Dot Pal and they only come with pupils and eyebrows which gave me the opportunity to sketch my own and make them fit for any kind of person. In the video below I’ll go through a couple of tips of sketching but also how I’ve chosen colours using the Hexagonal Chart for my colour scheme, also that If you want some help in choosing different skin colors you can get the free The Human Rainbow Chart from Sandy Allnocks webpage. I also show you how I put the whole card together.

Copic:
Skin: E53, E34, E35, E57, E47
Lips: R30, R32, E35
Eyes: E42, E44, E47, E49, B63
Hair: E43, E44, E47, E49
Jacket: B02, FBG2, B04, B05
Shirt & Pompoms: T0, T2, T4
Pillow: BG32, BG13, BG15, BG49

Supplies:

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Rainbow Colour Challenge Tag

craftybit

Hi Guys!

There is this little tag going on over at youtube, the rainbow colour challenge tag! Basically make a card with rainbow colours, you don’t need to be tagged to join in, but you need to tag to people. So I tag Sandy Allnock and Tara Sell to join in! So here is my two cards,they are both based from the June Card Kit from Simon Says Stamp. The first one is coloured in copics, and the second one is by Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens. Hope you like them and come and join the challenge you too!

Copic:
Red: R24, R29, R59
Orange: YR04, YR16, YR07
Yellow: Y06, Y08, Y17
Green: YG05, YG07, YG09, G19
Blue: B12, B14, B16, B18
Violet: V01, V12, V15, V17

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pen:
Red: Light Carmine, Carmine Red
Orange: Orange, Bright Yellow
Yellow: Bright Yellow, Yellow
Green: Pale Green, May Green, Green
Blue: Cobalt Blue, Persian Blue, Blue
Violet: Light Violet, Violet

Supplies:

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Some Coffee | Spot Stencilling

craftybit

Hi Guys!

I love these characters from Little Blue Button Stamps, I even think I would go so far as saying that they are my favourite characters of Olga, the designer behind Little Blue Button Stamps. For me they have a “fashion” feel over them, and they get me thinking of the images you see on the cover of a clothing pattern. I love colouring them in sweet and soft pastels. For this card I wanted to try something that I have done just a couple of times, and did on the “sister” card to this, that is Spot Stencilling. The idea is to use colour and a little bit of stencilling to draw focus to the image. How I did that you can see in the video below.

Copic:
Skin: E50, E00, E21, E11, E04, R30, R32
Hair: E40, E41, E42, E43, Y21, YR24, YR27
Dresses: BG000, BG10, BG11, BG34, YR000, YR00, E95, YR65
Coat: W0, W2, W4, 0
Bench: E40, E41, E42, E43

Supplies:

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Create A Smile Challenge Blog Hop – Favorite

craftybit

Hi Guys!

I love challenges, really love challenges as you might know. Well today is a very special day as it marks the launch of the new monthly challenge for Create A Smile Stamps. The theme of this month challenge is “Favorite”. I have so many favorites and I had a hard time picking one! I settled on my favorite background technique, ink smooching, and if you want to see how I did, just scroll down to the video. And below that you find the links to all the supplies I’ve used.

As this is a hop there are prizes! So make sure you hop along with us and come join the fun of a challenge! Make sure to share your creations in the facebook group, we love to see your work! The next stop on the blog is Anja and don’t forget to hop on over to instagram as we are doing the hop there too!

Create A Smile
Sonja K.
Francine
Anika
Birka
Keeway
Justine
Amy
Samantha
Marina
Marika <- You are here
Anja

Supplies:

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Happy Purr-thday

craftybit

Hi Guys!

I don’t know how many times I said this, but I love challenges! And I love combining challenges, the more things I need to but together to work in a card I see the more excited I get. My Favorite Things always have two challenges going at one time, a sketch challenge and a color challenge. Today I combine the active challenges into one card. The tip in my video today is how I make a diecut longer by partial diecutting.

Copic:
E50, E51, E53, E55, R30, R32

Supplies:

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Hello Summer!

craftybit

Hi Guys! I’m a total Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy fan and when I saw that Barbara (owner of Little Miss Muffet Stamps) had made some Towel Day Images I knew that I needed to make something with them. Sadly I didn’t have time to get them done to Towel Day that was this week but I thought that they could be used for other occasions, like a summer card, he does have a bath towel with him. And as it now happens, Simon Says Stamps flickr challenge is Summertime Fun, so thought I would kill two birds with one stone. The colour scheme on Douglas is a very neutral brown, white and blue one. That makes him easier to place on any cards you want, today I wanted to use the Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid blues as I feel they are very summery. With that I choose to use the Flip Flop Season stamp set by Simon Says Stamp to make the card even more summery and fun! The sentiment and the flip flops are stamped on different kind of papers and in the video I show you how the copics blend differently on the two papers. Hope you’ll enjoy the card and the video. Btw if you haven’t seen it yet, you can now subscribe to a newsletter so every time I post a new card you will get an email in your inbox.

Copic: Skin: E50, E00, E21, E11, E04 Hair, Eyes, Shoes & Bag: E42, E43, E44, E47, E49 Tshirt & Towel: T0, T2, T4, 0 Trousers & Details: B21, B23, B37, B39 Letters & Flip Flops: B00, B02, B04, B05 Supplies:

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