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Birthday Card Tutorial | No-Line Coloring

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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.

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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Close up of Hersey Chocolate Bar Box with winter theme
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Snowed In | Hersey Chocolate Bar Box

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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.

Close up of showing the depth created by stamping trees in two different colors on the Hersey Chocolate Bar Box

Copic: E33, E25, E59, E49, E50. E51, E53, W0, W2, W4, R30, R27

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Blowing Kisses | Clean & Simple Valentine Cards

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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.

Copic:
E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R30, R32, E41, E42, E43, E44, E49, E33, E25, E59, T0, T2, T4, RV10, RV21, RV13, RV25, RV29

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Clean & Simple Christmas – Upgrade the Background

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Hi Everyone! Marika here with another card and tutorial. Todays card is based on a wonderful chipboard sentiment from Make It Crafty. I wanted it to be the main part of the card so I concentrated on making the background simple and clean to make that sentiment pop just a little bit extra. 

After doing the ink blending I felt that it was a little bit to clean, I wanted to add some more texture to it. So I whipped out a stencil from Create A Smile Stamps and one of my newest purchases, a tub of 3D Glossy Gel from Prima. The glossy gel is like a texture paste but in gel form so it makes a very soft and glossy texture and that paired perfectly with texture from the watercolour card stock I used for the blending. 

To finish it up I picked out a sentiment from Tweet Holidays by My Favourite Stamps that ended in Christmas, and then cut the Christmas away and letting my chipboard word being that last word. It was a real fun card to make and relatively quick, not counting the drying time of that gel tho.

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Peekaboo Pull-Tab Card | Save The Crafty Youtuber Video Hop 2018

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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).

Copic:
E00, E11, R30
YR21, Y26, Y28
E44, E47
R35, R37
G24, G43, G46
T0, T2, 0

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