Guest at Yana Smakula

Hello Friends,

Today I have something very very special to share. My very talented, and all-so-sweet-inside-out- team mate, Yana asked if I liked to guest at her YouTube channel. She asked if I would like to make a tutorial on colouring and of course I said yes! I'm always happy to help!

If you want to see my tutorial, please head over her blog or to her YouTube channel. If you haven't subscribed her channel yet, you should. :) She posts videos regularly and they are so easy to follow. Just love her work and I'm so honoured and thrilled to be in the same team with her! 

Here's the card that I made for the guest video. I made a similar one on my focus post Altenew a couple of days ago, but in this I used coloured pencils over the copics. Hopefully you'll like it! 

Supplies:
Stamps: Painted Butterflies, Birthday Greetings and Botanical Garden from Altenew.
Inks: Frosty Pink, Fayred Leaf and Buttercream Altenew Crisp Inks, Versafine Onyx Black, Shabby Shutters Distress Ink
Paper: Canson Bristol 250gms Smooth Card Stock, a stripe of green textured card stock
Sequins: Lime Sorbet and Lemon Meringue Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh, Clear SSS Sequins
Tomboy Multi Moni Liquid Glue
Ranger Mini Ink Blending Tool Copic Markers: Butterfly: Y21 -YR21 -YR23,  Flowers: RV00 - RV11- RV32 -RV92, Greens: YG91 - YG95

Faber-Castell Polychrome Pencils: 
Flowers: Pink Madder Lake (129), Light Magenta (119), Middle Purple Pink (125), Ivory (103), White (101)
Greens: May Green (170) - Earth Yellowish (168) - Olive Green Yellowish (173) - Chromium Green Opaque (174)
Butterfly: Raw Umber (180) - Green Gold (268) - Naples Yellow (185) - Dark Naples Ochre (184), Black (199)

Thank you so much for visiting! See you soon!

Hugs,
Marika

Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh Blog Hop

Hello!

Today I'm participating an awesome collaboration of Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh. You probably just came from Lisa Elton's blog if not, please start at the beginning from Altenew blog and hop along and have many chances to win prizes along the way.

A few week's back I made my first shaker card and I had so much fun making it so I decided to try to make another. I used a co-ordianting die to cut my shaker window and I used the same die to cut the shaker "space" from fun foam. I found that making a shaker card this way was very easy since you can just glue the layers together. So here is my card:

I made this into a video tutorial. You can watch it here or in HD in Youtube.

Supplies:
Stamps: Bejewelled and Striped Florals from Altenew
Sequins: Lilac Garden Flowers Sequins Mix from Pretty Pink Posh
Dies: Bejewelled Die from Altenew
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, Picked Rasperry Distress Ink
Superfine Silver Embossing Powder by Ranger
Copic Markers: 0 - N0 - N1 - N3 - N5
Wink of Stella Clear Glitter Pen

GIVEAWAY

To celebrate this blog hop, Altenew will draw two winners who will each receive a $30 gift certificate to their online store. Also, Pretty Pink Posh will draw two winners who will receive $30 gift certificate to their online store. Winners will be randomly drawn from all comments left along the hop, comments must be left by Monday, Oct 26 11:59 EDT. Winners will be announced at Altenew and Pretty Pink Posh Blogs shortly after.

GET HOPPING

Your next stop will be incredible Joni Aldaya. Here is also the full list of participants.

Altenew Blog 

Gayatri Murali

Anna Kossakovskaya

Yoonsun Hur

Carissa Wiley

Yana Smakula

Nina- Marie Trapani

Lisa Elton

Marika Rahtu <-- YOU ARE HERE

Joni Andaya

Amy Kolling

Agnieszka Malyszek

Nichol Magouirk

Julia Altermann

May Sukyong Park

Yuki Yoshioka

Amy Gray

Pretty Pink Posh blog

Thank you so much for visiting. Have a great day and have fun hopping! Good luck!

Hugs,
Marika

Just a Note

Hello,

I'm at the Altenew blog today to feature Painted Flowers set. I've seen such a beautiful cards made with this stamp set so this card was a challenge to try to come up something not that usual. What I haven't seen so many times is copics with this set - so I thought I'd give it ago. I added details with coloured pencils. Here is my card:

Stamps used: Painted Flowers and Lace Up.

Stamps used: Painted Flowers and Lace Up.

You can watch my video tutorial here or in HD in YouTube. 

Supplies:
Stamps: Painted Flowers and Lace Up.
Inks: Altenew Crisp Dye Inks Soft Lilac, Lavender Fields, Deep Iris and Jet Black, Hickory Smoke Distress Ink
Paper: Neenah Solar White 80lb, Linen Effect paper 150gms by WHSmith 
Sequins: Pretty Pink Posh Metallic Silver, Assorted Moonlight by SSS
White Thread

Thank you for stopping by today. See you soon!

Hugs,
Marika