Altenew Birch Land with watercolour stamping

Hello,

Today I'm over at Altenew blog to share a card that I made using Birch Land stamp set and watercolour stamping. Here are two examples using the same technique. On the first one I used Distress inks and on the second one I used Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers for stamping and blended the stamped images with water brush.

Watecolor stamping with Distress Inks

Watecolor stamping with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

I made the second card for a video tutorial. You can watch it here or in HD in Youtube.

Supplies:

Stamps: Birch Land Finnish and Birch Land 

Inks: Black Soot, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Fryed Burlap, Gathered and Tumbled Glass Twigs Distress Inks, Versafine Onyx Black

Paper: Altenew Pale Gray Card Stock, Daler & Rowney Watercolour Paper 190g/m2 /90lb

Derwent Waterbrush no.2 and Kuretake water brush small

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers: Mid Green (046), Olive Green (043), Yellow (050), Brick Beige (075), Black (010)

Beautiful Lady

Hello!

I'm at the Altenew blog today to feature Beautiful Lady from Altenew's November release. I tried to achieve three different looks by altering colouring mediums and style. On the first card I used Zig Clean Colour Markers and Distress Inks to colour my image. I tried to achieve a look from an old floral books - one might say a vintage look.

Stamps used: Beautiful Lady and Thinking of you.

Supplies:
Stamps: Beautiful Lady and Thinking of you by Altenew.
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers: English Lavender, Dull Blue
Inks: Versafine Onyx Black, Stormy Sky, Dusty Concord, Chipped Sapphire, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters, Crushed Olive, Scattered Straw, Hickory Smoke Distress Inks
Paper: Daler & Rowney Simply... Watercolour Paper 190gms/90lb, SSS Slate Card stock

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For my second card, I wanted to go for very clean and simple, sharp and detailed look – one might say: a modern look. I used no-line colouring with copic markers and coloured pencils to colour my image.

Stamps used: Beautiful Lady.

Supplies: 
Stamps: Beautiful Lady by Altenew
Inks: Buttercream and Frayed Leaf Altenew Crisp Inks, Versafine Onyx Black
Paper: Canson Bristol 250gms Smooth Card Stock, Papermania Textured Card Stock

Copic Markers: Y15 - YR15 - YR16 - UG03 - YG67

Faber-Castell Coloured Pencils: Cadmium Yellow (105) - Green Yellowish (168) - Leaf Green (112) - Juniper Green (165) - Dark Crome Yellow (109) - Cadmium Orange (111) - Dark Cadmium Orange (115) - Van-Dyck-Brown (176)

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On my third card, I wanted to gain a fresh and chic – a party like look. Although it ended up being a thank you- card, I’m quite happy with the result. To colour this card, I stamped the image with Distress Markers and then blended the ink from the image with my water brush. For the stem and leaves, I used Zig Clean Color Marker to stamp them and coloured it with same technique. Since that ink had already dried, it was quite hard to get it blend again so I had to add more colour from the marker. While doing so, the stem and the leaves got more details than the flower part, so after I ended up adding  more details to the flowers too. I used a stencil and watercolored though it to make my background. And of course, splatters finishes up every card.

Stamps used: Beautiful Lady and Sohcahtoa.

Supplies:
Stamps: Beautiful Lady and Sohcahtoa by Altenew

Inks: Versafine Onyx Black, Hickory Smoke Distress Ink, Grapevine Altenew Crisp Ink

Worn Lipstick Distress Marker
Pale Dawn Gray Zig Clean Color Real Brush Marker
Paper: Daler & Rowney Simply... Watercolour Paper 190gms/90lb, SSS Slate and Cotton Candy Card stock, 

I had tons of fun colouring these – as always. Thank you for stopping by today and if you please, let me know what is your favourite! 

Hugs,

Marika

Miss You Lots with Inktense Pencils

Hello crafters,

I was kindly ask to Guest Design at the Time Out Challenges #39 where the theme is Make your Mark. The challenge is still going on for about a week and I did another card for your inspiration. 

I've purchased this adorable little girl called Miss you Lots by Wplus9. I just haven't had time to colour it until now. While I bought these I thought that they would make a perfect gift for my Goddaughters and this is my first one (of quite a many) and it'll be for my niece. Hopefully she likes it when she receives it. It would be super neat if Dawn would use her magical drawing skills and make a set of stamps like this but little boys in them... What would you think? 

I took a close up since those frames were the only ones that I could find while taking a photo... AND they are HUGE!!. I used no-line colouring technique with Inktense Pencils. For the trees on the background I used a stamp from Coming up Roses and did a bit of watercolour stamping. I very much like how this turned out, in particular I like how the dress turned out. (Many many MANY layers of Inktense pencils...) Lol! And I had a blast colouring! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Miss You Lots and Coming up Roses by Wplus9
Inks: Memento Desert Sand. Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters and Gathered Twigs Distress Inks.
Paper: Daler & Rowney Simply... Watercolour paper 190mgs/90lb, medium grain textured surface

Derwent Inktense Pencils: 
Dress: Sicilian Yellow (0220), Cadmiun Orange (0250), Baked Earth (1800) 
Boots: Sicilian Yellow (0220), Spring Green (1550), Light Olive (1540), Sepia Ink (2010) Hair: Tan (1720), Amber (1710), Saddle Brown (1740), Willow (1900) 
Skin: Willow (1900) 
Petticoat: Sepia Ink (2010)
Kitty and stones: Chinese Ink (2030)
Sky: Iris Blue (0900)
Lake: Iron Blue (0840)
Lakeshore: Tan (1720), Saddle Brown (1740), Willow (1900)
Grass: Spring Green (1550), Light Olive (1540)

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Enjoy your day!

Marika

Another new baby card with Purple Onion

Hello!

Hopefully you are not too board with my new baby cards - I needed quite a many this summer. Here is another example, this time I used watercolours. I had a blast playing with these cute Purple Onion stamps and watercoloring this. I just loved how those rocks turned out. 

Stamps used: Sweetheart and Sweet Occasion sentiment set.

Supplies:
Stamps: Sweetheart and Sweet Occasion sentiment set from Purple Onion Designs.
Inks: Versafine Onyx Black
Watercolours: Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours
Paper: Canson 180gms Textured Watercolour Paper

A quick reminder, there is still anniversary sale going on at the Purple Onion Designs. Until 24th of August - all stamps are 25% off. 

Thank you for stopping by today! See you soon!

Marika

Soft Flowers with watercolours

Hello Friends,

Today I am at Altenew blog to share this card. I used Floral Motifs set and very easy and quick watercoloring technique. I find these Floral Motifs flowers to be so cute in their simplicity but for more I am loving the woodgrain background stamp. I just love how versatile it is and the elegance that can be achieve with it. I try to avoid not to use it too much since I would use it in every card that I make. LOL! But here is my card:

Stamp sets used: Floral Motifs, Wood Pallet Background and Birthday Greetings.

Here is video tutorial if you wish to see how I made this:



Supplies:
Stamps: Floral Motifs, Wood Pallet Background and Birthday Greetings by Altenew
Inks: Versafine Onyx Black and Versamark, Dusty Concord Distress Ink.
Embossing Powders: Ranger Super Fine Clear and White Pearl by WOW
Distress Markers: Milled Lavender and Worn Lipstick
Sequins: Neat and Tangled Sweetheart Sequin Mix and Love Sparkles Mix
Card Stock: Neenah Solar White 80lb, Canson Watercolou Paper 180gsm, WHSmith Linen Effect Paper 150gsm
Card base: Papermania A6 300gsm

Thank you for stopping by today! See you soon!

Marika

A new Stacey Yacula stamp release from Purple Onion Designs

Good afternoon,

I have great news to those of you who love Stacey Yacula's stamps from Purple Onion Designs. This next Monday, the 25th of May, Purple Onion is releasing a new collection of stamps by her. The new collection will cover almost every holiday, special occasion and celebration throughout the year.  The collection consists of 25 images and a sentiment set with 20 different sentiments. The newest collection is called Sweet Occasions.

I had been lucky enough to be part of the celebration of this new release and I got to play with a few of the stamps already. Michele, is showing examples what the DT made and mine is also their among those absolutely amazing ladies. SO head over to Purple Onion Designs blog to see the DT creations. When you're over there, please leave a comment and be eligible to win the entire new collection of stamps. Isn't it amazing!?! Also, Stacey Yacula, is giving away a collection of stamps and there are also smaller giveaways on some of the DT's blogs. Make sure you check them out!! 

Here is my card for today:

Instructions: I just thought this adorable image, called Daisy, is perfect for a new baby card. I stamped the image with black pigment ink and then drew the little scene with my pencil. Then I watercolored the images with my watercolour set. After it had completely dried, I drew black lines over my watercolored background with a alcohol marker. I die cut the tag and an extra tag out of some white fun foam. I adhered those two together. I stamped the sentiment using Stamp-A-Magij from the Sweet occasions sentiment set with black pigment ink. I added a bow made from white paper string and adhered the watercoloured panel to a my card base, to where I had adhered those little stripes of designer's paper.

I like how this card came together and I had tons of fun making that background. I hope you got a little inspiration and try to draw your own background. It is so much fun!! I am so keen on doing that at the moment, that I really should focus myself trying to do some other things too. LOL. Next I have little sneak for you, remember to come back on Monday to see the entire collection of stamps and this card with this little fella sitting in a tree. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Daisy and Sweet Occasions sentiment set by Purple Onion Designs

Inks: Versafine Onyx Black

Dies: Timeless Tags 2 by Wplus9

Paper: Canson Watercolour Paper 180gms, Dovecraft Back To Basics IV Designer Paper Pack

Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours: No. 33, 43, 53, 61 and 61

Copic Multi-Liner 0.1 and 0.3

White Paper String (manufacturer unknown)

Card base: Papermania A6 300gms

Thank you for visiting, I would love to hear what you think of these new stamps. I think they are so adorable! See you soon!

Marika

CAS(E) this Sketch Guest Designer

Hello my crafting friends!

Well, you probably know that I love to play along at the CAS(E) this Sketch. Their sketches are so wonderful, versatile and challenging! I also love to visit their gallery since it is always  full of beautiful cards and enormous amount of inspiration. Just love the challenge. So, you might also guess that when Chrissy emailed me and asked IF I liked to be their Guest Designer I screamed so load that my girls thought that I had hurt myself. LOL! Yes, of course! So here is my card for this challenge.

Here is this week's sketch:

If you wish to see how I made this, you can see my video here or watch it in Youtube.




Supplies:
Stamps: Sunflower Set by Sheena, Birthday Wishes, Wood Pallet Background by Altenew
Paper: Canson Watercolour Paper 180gms, Neenah Solar White 80lb, Neenah Desert Storm 80lb.
Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolour set: No. 20, 42, 44, 46, 47, 53 and 54.
Inks: Memento Desert Storm, Versafine Vintage Sepia and Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.
Card base: Papermania A6 300gms card base

I hope you like my cards and got a little bit inspiration! Hope to see you in the gallery this week! And, I've joined Instagram! Yes, #ifeltsosenilenotknowinghowtouseit but now I do. If you wish to follow me on Instagram you can find me here. 

Marika

Magnolias for Her

Hello my dear friends!

I just got back from my vacation to Rome. What a lovely city. We just wondered around the little streets, ate a lot of ice cream and pizza. We also visited Vatican and St. Peter's Basilica. I was so mesmerised by that beautiful art there. So amazed by the talent they had and how they were able to build those beautiful, huge buildings with the equipment they had in those days. This trip was a our first vacation just the two of us, my hubby and me, and we decided that no crafty blogs for me and no work emails for him. So, I am a bit behind visiting you but I'll come visit you soon. 

One amazing thing happened here in blogland while I was in Rome. I started my blog in last August but I had followed through Youtube some crafters prior that and one of those persons is Therese. I loved here tutorials already back then she is one of those first blogists that I started to follow. I adore her cards, they are so cleverly designed and her colouring is amazing. What comes to my colouring skills, I am not trained in any way, I've just watched many tutorials from the internet and tried on my own and I believe I've seen every video Therese has made. So big thanks along many others goes to her. I saw this amazingly wonderful card in Pinterest that she had made for her mom, you can see it here. And when I went to visit her blog today and leave her a comment, I was so blown away that MY IDOL had been inspired by my colouring. What an honour Therese, thank you! And how amazingly, I also have some magnolia cards to share here today that I made for my mother and mother-in-law. :) 

So, today it is my turn to host Altenew blog and I share these two cards of mine and a colouring tutorial how I coloured these magnolias with Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours. 

Well, I don't know what it is but every time I turn on my camera and start filming, everything starts to go wrong as you can see in the video. Too much pressure I guess. After several attempts to try to put that second card together, I finished it but I still felt that something was wrong about it but I couldn't figure out what it is. Luckily I have this awesome crafting friend, we chatted and she pointed out to me what was wrong about the card. Thank you, Kelly! You are the BEST! 

Here are my cards:

Stamps used: Magnolias for Her

Stamps used: Magnolias for Her

Here is the colouring tutorial if you wish to see me colour this.

Supplies:
Stamps: Magnolias for Her by Altenew
Inks: Victorian Velvet Distress Ink
Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours: No.20, 34, 44, 46, 53 and 61.
Card stock: Canson watercolour paper 180gms, WHSmith Linen Effect Paper 150gms
Card base: Papermania A6 300gms

Thank you for visiting and have a good day!

Marika

Freshly Made Sketches #183 and ColourQ Challenge #288

Hello my friends,

This is my entry to the Freshly Made Sketches #183
and to the ColourQ Challenge #288.
This card was Princess of Clean in FMS and
was chosen as ColourQ at the ColourQ.

The inspiration to this card comes from a few challenges. I started to make this card to The Paper Players watercolour challenge but when I started to submit it I noticed that I had missed the deadline. I took the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the colours from ColourQ. I have to admit that there is a bit of grey in the background because while making this I remembered the colours wrong. I thought the grey was in the colours, I am entering this anyway since grey is one of the neutrals and I could have achieved the same look with second generation stamping with black ink. But if the ladies at ColourQ interpret my colours differently, please remove my card from the gallery. I just love the look of these butterfliers - the embossed white veins are think are so beautiful. This stamp is so detailed that it was a pleasure to colour these.

I will enter this into the challenges:
Freshly Made Sketches #183 - the sketch
ColourQ Challenge #288 - the colours

Supplies:

Stamps: Flora and Fauna 2 and Borders and Backgrounds 3 by Wplus9

Dies: Hand Lettered Thanks Die by Wplus9

Inks: Versamark, Pure Color Fairy Dust by Wplus9

Papers: Canson 180gms Watercolour Paper, Neenah Solar White 80lb, Neenah Desert Storm 80lb, Papermani Textured Card Stock 180gms

Embellishments: Neat and Tangled Spring Mix Sequins

Thanks for visiting! Have a wonderful day!

Marika

CAS(E) this Sketch #120, Throwback Thursday #3 and Simon Says Wednesday Challenge

 Hi Everyone!

This is my entry to the CAS(E) this Sketch #120, Throwback Thursday #3
Inkspirational #81.

I've been anxiously waiting for my parcel from Wplus9 to arrive and it finally arrived this Monday. I was so amazed how fast it was shipped (within 2 hours after I placed my order). Delivery to Helsinki was quite fast (about a week) BUT then the parcel was held at the customs and it took almost two weeks to get here... You might be able to believe that every afternoon I was waiting the post to come like a little kid at  Christmas and every time I was disappointed. Just knowing that the parcel is just sitting at the customs to be declared kind of made me crazy... Well, it arrived and my girls and I were as happy to go through all the stuff that we had ordered. My girl wanted to colour the Miss you lots -girl and I went for this gorgeous image of a this little Chickadee. Before we started on Thursday, I went and looked up the newest challenge at the CAS(E) this Sketch. I was so amazed to see how perfectly this stamp was made for their challenge. Thanks for my friend Michele who pointed out for me who this bird really was since I think we only have his relatives living here in Europe.  I googled him and tried to stay true to his real colours, I believe he got more yellow under his chest as he might have but I doesn't really bother me - at all. 

I had a tons of fun watercolouring this image. I stamped the image with light brown ink and I used Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours and as I usually go for one colour and use the shades of that to colour and to add dimension and shading to my watercolours, I wanted to challenge myself to actually colour as it is meant with watercolours. While I was adding another washes of different colours and shades of those colours on top of each other, the bird started to look like a REAL bird. I was so amazed that I had just painted this, so amazed. I've never done anything like this before and I will certainly keep this card to myself. I would like to thank Dawn and Wplus9 for making this stamp since the design is all theirs - I just added the colour.

I will enter this into these challenges:

CAS(E) this Sketch #120 - the sketch

Throwback Thursday Challenge #3 - Use Wplus9 stamp

Inkspirational  #81 - Space - I have lots of white space in my card

Supplies:

Stamps: A new day by Wplus9

Paper: Canson 180gms watercolour paper, Colour Me 180gms card stock (grey)

Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolours: no. 61, 67, 32, 53, 54, 47, 44, 40, 20, 46

Derwent Inktense Pencils: Iron Blue (0840), Iris Blue (0900) (Background)

Thank you for stopping by today! See you soon! 

Another way of watercolouring a Poppy!

Hello!

I am sharing two cards today at Altenew blog. I used all the three layers of that builder stamp set and build up my watercolored flower. I was thinking of different ways to use this stamp set and when I came around this idea I immediately tried it out. I had my kids coming and going and I had about less than an half an hour to finish these images and I believe that magic is that - Do not think! When I was finished I thought, this really looks good and then I cleared the house next day and started filming. I really tried to make this second too perfect and the magic was gone. But I edited the video anyway, I hope you got the idea how I made it. Here are the cards:

The first one made with without thinking too much

A second one made with my punctilious mind.

Here is my how-to -video if you wish to see how I made this.

Supplies:
Stamps: Painted Poppy, Painted Butterflies, Birthday Greetings and Bejeweled by Altenew
Inks: Antique Linen, Spiced Marmalade, Gathered Twigs, Peeled Paint, Tattered Rose and Fried Brick, Black Soot Distress, Inks, Versafine Onyx BlackCard stock: The Langton Watercolour paper 300g/m2, Papermania Textured Card Stock, WHSmith Linen Effect Paper 150gsm

Thank you for visiting. See you soon!

Marika

A watercoloured Poppy

Good afternoon my friends!

Today, I am at the Altenew blog to share two of my watercolored cards and a video tutorial how I painted the other one.

Stamps used: Painted Poppy and Floral Motifs (sentiment).

Here is a close-up:

If you like to see how this card came to together, here it is:

I believe this stamp set is perfect for watercoloring since it gives you the choice to go for loose and more artistic look or for more detailed look if you wish. This other one is made with Distress Inks and I didn't add that much of a detail. I only used Tattered Rose, Fired Brick, Peeled Paint and Black Soot Distress Inks for this one. 

Stamps used: Painted Poppy and Sketchy Rose (sentiment).

Supplies:

Stamps: Painted Poppy, Floral Motifs and Sketchy Rose by Altenew

Inks: Tattered Rose, Peeled Paint, Fired Brick, Tattered Rose, Black Soot, Spiced Marmelade, Rusty Hinge and Gathered Twigs Distress Inks, Versafine Onyx Black and Toffee (sentiments)

Watercolours: Kuretake Gansai Tambi no.43, 31, 33 (flower), 54,43 and 51 (stems).

Cardstock: Canson Watercolour paper 180g/m2, Papermania Textured Cardstock, Brown Inspire Me paper

Embossing Powder: Opaque Vanilla White by WOW!

ATG gun and tape

Tombow Multi Mono Liquid Glue

Card base: Papermania A6 300g/ms White

Thank you for stopping today and I hope you liked there. Have a wonderful day!

Marika

CAS(E) this Sketch #117, CASology #140 and ColourQ #285

Good Afternoon!

This is my entry to the CAS(E) this Sketch #117, CASology #140
and ColourQ #285
This card was CTS Winner, ColourQ at the ColourQ 
and the Winner at CASology.

I made this card a few challenges and more importantly one crafting friend in mind. The sketch is from the CAS(E) this sketch and the theme is from CASology. What can be more spring than butterflies and bright, rainbow colours - at least that was what came to my mind when I thought of the word spring. And so conveniently the ColourQ almost had the colours that I would had gone anyway so I used their colour combo. Then I stopped and one particular person came into my mind who might like this card and she is my dear crafting buddy Kelly! If you haven't visit her before, I encourage you to do so. She is fabulous in her designs and colouring but the talent that I admire the most is the fabulous way how she uses bold and rich colours and she still is able to maintain CAS and very stylish look! This is for you Kelly! Thank you for your endless inspiration! 

I was kind of horrified to start to colour this since I don't think I am good at using this much different colours - I usually stick with neutrals plus one to two colours the most. I stamped the butterflies with light yellowish ink onto a watercolour paper and then watercolored the butterflies. I die cut the sentiment and out of white cardstock (yes! I finally got the courage to do this!!) and adhered four layers on top of each other to get the sentiment to pop up. The little butterflies are hand cut with scissors and then adhered with either foam tape or liquid glue. The watercolour panel is then adhered to the card base. 

I will enter this into these challenges:

CAS(E) this Sketch #117 - the sketch

CASology #140 - spring - butterflies and rainbow colours reminds me of spring

ColourQ #285 - Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight, Kiwi Kiss, Cool Caribbean

Supplies:
Stamps: Flora and Fauna 2 by Wplus9
Dies: Hand lettered Thanks by Wplus9
Inks: Antique Linen Distress Ink
Watercolour: Kuretake Gansai Tambi No. 34, 43, 33, 5, 63 and 20.
Cardstock: Daler Rowney Aquafine Watercolour paper 300g/m2, Canson Watercolour paper 180g/m2, WHSmith Linen Effect paper 150g/m2

Thank you for stopping by today! Have a wonderful Easter holidays!

Marika