no-line coloring – Craftybit Creations

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.

Copic:

E50, E00, E21, E11, E04, R30, R32
E33, E23, E25, E59
BV02, BV13, BV04
N0, N2, N4
E50, E51, 0G43, G46

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Supplies:

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Fairy Bloghop

April 1, 2019January 31, 2020 craftybit

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Congratulations to our three winners, randomly selected from three different blogs along the way.

Sandra from Nicoletta’s blog
Fabulous coloring, love the new digi’s!!! Adorable!

Marjeta from Rosie’s blog
As always amazing colored image. Whole card is fantastic.

Henriëtte from Delphine’s blog
Ohh WoW Delphine, what a stunning colouring on this awesome Fairy. I love that you put her in a frame, it also would be a lovey pressent this way. Thank you so much for sharing.

Please contact Zoe via http://www.makeitcrafty.com/contact-us.html and let her know which one is your favourite fairy.
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Yay! We are so excited to share the gorgeous new Flower Fairies from Make it Crafty with you. It has been quite a while since we’ve released new images, that we thought it was worthy of a blog hop and of course a give away. 🙂

It’s just a quick hop, with of course gorgeous colouring to inspire you, so be sure to leave a comment on each blog post so that we know you ‘hopped’ on by. PLUS there are three secret giveaways along the way and if you win, you will be able to choose to keep your favourite fairy!

So without further ado, let me show you the cards I have made, I loved them all and just couldn’t choose so I made cards with them all!

Fairy Bluebell Digi Stamp

Fairy Lily Digi Stamp

Fairy Tulip Digi Stamp

Thank you so much for joining us on this fun little blog hop and I hope you’ll have a quick chance to leave a comment before you continue hopping. I may just be the lucky one hiding a little fairy for you. 😉

Blog Hop List

Of course if you can not wait to find out if you are a winner, be sure to head on over and snap up your favourite fairy now and Zoe will be more than happy to refund you should you win!

Close up of Hersey Chocolate Bar Box with winter theme

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Snowed In | Hersey Chocolate Bar Box

February 20, 2019January 31, 2020 craftybit

Hi everyone! I love making custom packaging to small gifts, and even something as simple as a Hersey Chocolate Bar can become a great present if you put a little time in creating the box and decorate it.

Hersey Chocolate Bar Box, decorated with stamps colored with copic markers.

The box itself is pretty straight forward to create, I made a blueprint with all the measurements for you if you want to recreate it. You can either just save the .png by right clicking on it or if you want a little higher quality you can download the the pdf HERE.

Blueprint of a box sized to fit a Hersey Chocolate Bar.

To decorate the box I decided to go with a small scene created with the Warm & Feathered Hugs stamp set. When creating it it was inches of snow outside and super cozy and all I wanted was to stay indoors and craft. I’ve used a blended layering technique to create some depth in the scene, I also stamped the trees in grey and black to give the trees some depth to. The lighter the tree the further away it feels. For the sentiment I stamped it in the blackest ink I have, and then added some clear embossing powder to make it stand out just a little bit extra.

Close up of sentiment on a Hersey Chocolate Bar Box

To finish it up I used one of the owls, coloring in a no-line coloring technique to be able to give the feathers that whispy feeling. I also kept the owl in neutral colors, adding a pop of red to make the eye being pulled there first.