Today it is all about creating a masked blended background with distress inks and oxide inks, using dies and stamps with masking paper to mask out the area. The card is finished off with stamps by My Favorite Things colored in the no-line coloring technique with copic markers.
For the card base I went with a square base measuring 4 1/4″ by 4 1/4″. The first part of the mask was cut with a stitched mod square die out of a 4 1/4 strip of masking paper, so that the mask can cover the card base and a little over to the backside as it will not be folded when I blend.
I also stamped a couple of the clouds and a moon from the Witch Way Is The Candy stamp set onto another piece of masking paper and then cut them out with my scissors. These I placed towards the upper left corner in a little arrangement of three.
I did the blending first with the distress inks in the colors Festive Berries and Wilted Violet, but as I was working on Neenah card stock and I went in with a little to heavy hand I just couldn’t get a good blend, so I finally decided to just take out my oxide inks in the same colors and then just blend on top. The oxide inks are a little bit easier to blend and they are also more opaque so it hid a little bit of the original blending. I finished it off with some water droplets flicked with my fingers and then padded off with a paper towel, to add a little bit of texture.
I then finished off the outside with some fussy cutted images, that I had colored in the no-line coloring technique, fastened with some foam tape. And a stamped sentiment. For the inside I stamped a sentiment, used my left over images and then I added splatters as I accidentally gotten some ink on the inside while blending and though it would hide it a bit.
You can follow a long with both the coloring and the card progress in the videos below. And under that you find links to all the products I used and a list of the copics I used to color the images. Hope you have a great day!
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Do you want to learn more about blending with markers? Well I’m here to tell you all about it. I also have a video that shows you in more detail different kinds of blending and how blending really works.
I have had this idea in my head for months, I’ve been wanting to break down my knowledge about coloring into smaller easier to digest videos. Videos that is specially about coloring and not card-making. I love my card-making videos but I wished on more than one occasion that I could point you to a video that goes more in-dept on the subject of coloring.
But before we start coloring we need some good paper, as with most coloring mediums papers really makes the difference. For markers you want a dense paper with a slick surface, the ink still needs to be able to go down into the paper, so the tiniest tiniest texture is needed.
I have used Make It Colorful Blending Cardstock for years and I love it, however you can just as well use X-press It Cardstock which is the Copic brand or the paper that many of my fellow US colorists use, Hammermill Color Copy (the one with the frog on). You can use Neenah, but as it is a little less dense than the other papers it can be harder to blend and it can make the colors bleed outside the lines if you have a heavy hand.
Let’s start with the Solid coloring, to get a good blend you need to learn how to get a good solid, well it will make it much easier anyway. The way alcohol based markers work is that they have an alcohol based medium with pigments in. The darker the color the more pigment. This means also the lighter the color the more alcohol, which also means that lighter pens will be juicer and easier to both blend and get a good solid with.
The trick is to go in a medium speed and make sure to overlap the previous line of ink with the new one just a little bit and before the previous line dries. This will help the pigment to even themselves out in the alcohol and will give you less streaks and a more even result. If your first layer looks a little splotchy, just add a second layer before the first has time to completely dry and you will get that even result you are looking for.
For the blending I card I decided to color in the same colors, but add one more pen to the combinations for every step. I usually tell you which markers I use, but as this more how to use the pens and less about that perfect color combinations I have chosen to leave them out.
I use one marker at the top and adding one per step to have 4 markers at the bottom ghost. The way I blend is to overlap the colors slightly, going from dark to light, and what happens is that the extra alcohol medium in the lighter pen will push the darker pigments a little bit further into the paper and make a the overlapping part be lighter than the darkest tone but darker than the lighter. The gradient isn’t perfect but the more pens you add the easier it is to get that smoother blend. Also the more contrast between the darkest and the lightest the more 3D like dimension you will get.
The last ghost card is all about cross blends, using a color from a completely different color family to add that little extra. The first column I used a marker that had the same value as the grey but a completely different color. Purple, blue, green and orange, in that order and then I did a grey blend with three markers on top. The most important tip with this kind of coloring is NOT to choose a color that is much darker, than the lightest grey. That will cause the alcohol medium in the lightest grey to push the pigment in the colored pencil, unevenly into the paper and that causes a very unpredictable splotchiness.
For the second column I used a marker from another color family as the shadow, always choosing a color that goes towards the cooler spectrum. From the top to the bottom, a Blue shadow with a green blend, a red shadow with a orange blend, a purple shadow with a pink blend (should have chosen a lighter purple though) and lastly a purple shadow with a blue blend. This causes a deeper more natural shadow however they can be a little bit harder to blend if you stray to far away from the base color.
The third column has two colored gradients just because it was fun. It is easier to work with lighter colors and I would recommend using grey to shadow with if you want to have some dimension to them. However I choose to just make the gradients. From the top Mint and Blue, Blue and Purple, Purple and Pink and the last one pink and green. Doesn’t the last one look like a watermelon? All it needs is som black/grey dots in the pink part.
Well if you have read this far, thank you so much for taking the time. I would really appreciate of you left me a comment telling me how you like the content and if there is something else you want to see either here or on my channel or on both.
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Oh gosh! It’s been ages! More than a month to be exact. Last post was the start of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge, and I did not finish it. I thought that my energy was coming back but was hit with some really stressful news (don’t worry it’s all fixed now) so I got sick and haven’t been able to craft at all since. But I’m back today with a Christmas in July card.
I did record this in December but didn’t have time to edit it before I went on vacation, and I finally did! I really really love how the coloring came out so I’ve been eager to share it with you.
The stamp is a digital stamp from Make It Crafty called Waving Santa. I went with the standard Christmas colors, and the card actually went very masculine when I finished it and again really liked the finished card. The background is a masked background stamp from Simon Says Stamp together with a sentiment stamp from My Favourite Things. Super simple but still packs a punch.
I also decided to make a real-time coloring video from the coloring as I had more things to say about the coloring that would fit in a standard card video. Hope you enjoy them both! In the coloring video I bring up a bunch of coloring people I love, so thought I would link them here too 🙂
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Decided to join the 30 Day Coloring Challenge hosted by Kathy over at TheDailyMarker.com. I even decided to record all the coloring and post real-time coloring videos every day!
For Day 1 I’m coloring a character from the Forever Friends stampset from stamptember (think it was 2017). So sorry these are no longer available at simon says stamp any more. But I will put my used stampset up in my etsy store. But if you don’t want to wait for it, just message me. Enjoy the video!
Copic:
W0, W2, W4, W6, R30, R32, R35, R37
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Hi! I have totally fallen in love with the no-line coloring technique, Zoe over at Make It Crafty started it years ago and it came back about a year ago. I was very hesitant, even a little bit scared of trying. But now that I have, I just can’t stop!
I love the softness that it creates, but in todays card (and video) I’m trying it out with some more stronger colors to see if it works. And I kind of like it! Also this is another mermaid creation as I love mermaids and during may in the art world people do mermay, and I decided to join is this year, so all my creations will be mermaid inspired this month.
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Hi everyone! In todays video tutorial I’m showing you how to use the no-line coloring technique on Jojo a digital stamp by Make It Crafty. And how to use that image for a more neutral birthday card.
Jojo is a part of a the Petal Sprites Collection which contains 6 equally cute characters. I did say I thought I had colored every character in this series, but after looking at it I had confused it with another collection and I now have 5 more adorable characters to make into cards!
I’ve used a very soft color combination, and a keen eye can see I used the same colores for the Bluebell fairy from the bloghop earlier this week. Well I did record this video awhile ago so it’s actually the other way around. I just fell in love with the blue purples and I might continue to use it more, maybe.
However the no-line coloring technique is something that most definitely will be used a lot more. It makes the images so much more dimensional and at the same time so much more soft. I still color images with lines to as I do believe that both ways have their own place in card making. The trick with no-line coloring is to make the lines soft enough so when the coloring is done you hardly can see the lines, while keeping them dark enough so you can see them when you are coloring. For me that is printing them with a 20% opacity when I’m using digis, or using London Fog Memento ink for when they are stamps. Another trick is to print/stamp one with black ink on some printer paper to have on the side for reference.
And then finally we have the card making. I knew I wanted to use a Make it Crafty chippy, but I didn’t have any matching happy in my stash (really need to place a new order soon) so I kept with the Birthday one and used my Birdie Brown Alphabet & Numbers Die-namics to write the word happy. I decided to color both the chippy and the diecuts with my markers to perfectly match the coloring. And that was how I put it all together!
If you have come this far, thank you so much for reading my blog, do you have any Make It Crafty Stamps that you want me to make a card with next? Comment down below.
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Good morning everyone! It’s been awhile! I apparently went on a three month hiatus, it wasn’t really planned. I ran out of time preparing for my three week vacation in December and when I got home life and mostly health sort of got in my way. But I finally sat down to do some coloring and gosh did I enjoy it, so I thought I would share the cards I ended up doing.
I did record everything so I also got a video tutorial for you, (I’m on a roll!). When I sat down I decided to work towards my only DT right now. Have been stepping down from most of them, feeling that I’ve not been dependable I decided to just do my own thing. However Make It Crafty was my first DT and when Zoe asked me to stay on I couldn’t say no, I do love her stamps and chippies and her!
I’m using Bailey Blowing Kisses Digi, and decided to print her out with some different opacity, going from 100% down to 25% to decided on which was my favorite. And I think I decided that 25% is a real nice one. Next time I might get even lower to see if I can do true no-line coloring.
After not coloring for three months! Gosh that is a long time, I thought starting in my comfort zone would be a good bet, not making it too hard on myself,. So I gave Bailey some pink hair and kept the rest of the image more neutral letting her expression and her har do the talking. I ended up coloring two images as I really wanted to try another kind of hair texture after the first one. I ended up using the footage from the second one as it was my favorite, who doesn’t love glittery hair?
To finish it off I made two very clean and simple cards. Really trying to make the image the star of the card, and with the softness that was created by having lighter lines, making the cards really simple made the images pop a lot more.
If you have any questions or comment please don’t hesitate to contact me, either through the comment form down below, by email or through social media. You find all the links both above and below.
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Hi Everyone! It’s time for me to join the Save The Crafty YouTuber Video Hop for 2018. This is a hop where over 90 Craft Youtubers come together for 5 days to share their love for crafting but also their viewers, come hop with us and maybe you can find some new youtube crafters to watch!
The hop is circular so where ever you start just hop on for that day, but you can find all the information over at the creator, Justine Hoveys blog. There are some great sponsors and that means that there is some great giveaways! Everything is happening on youtube, so to be in to win hop over to my youtube channel and after watching my video you will find the next crafter in the hop you find it as the first link in my description.
And now to the card! I had so much fun creating this card, figuring out how to make this work, when I got the idea I wasn’t sure that it would, but it did! As you can see on the photos this is a pull tab card, I call it a peekaboo card, as when you pull the tab, 5 little mini elves come peeking out behind the Christmas tree!
A couple of weeks ago, when entering the MFT Superstar completion I designed a peekaboo card where every critter had their own tab, but I wanted to see if I could make all 5 elves be controlled by one tab, to make the peekaboo surprise even more impactful. It was so much fun and you will most likely see more videos/cards like this, giving you a surprise.
Hope you liked my video and hope you come and join the hop, you find my video HERE. Other ways to get to the video on youtube is to hover over the video below and then click on the YouTube text and it should take you to the same video over on Youtube (btw you can do that on all embedded youtube videos, not only mine).
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