Altenew and WOW! Blog Hop

Hello!

Today I'm participating in a collaboration blog hop between Altenew and WOW! Embossing Powder. If you came from Sveta's blog you are in a right place, if not please start at the beginning from Altenew blog. Please hop along and have fun!

EDIT: I made this into a video tutorial. Due a technical problems, I got it uploaded to you Youtube a day late. You can watch it here or in HD in YouTube.

GIVEAWAY!

There are prizes to be win - of course. Altenew will draw two $30 gift certificate to their online store and WOW! Embossing Powders will draw also two $30 to their online store. Winners will be picked randomly from the comments left on any of the blogs listed below. Please leave a comment before 28th of February and the winners will be announce on the 29th of February on the Altenew and WOW! blogs.

GET HOPPING!

Here's the blog hop order. 

Altenew Blog

Yana Smakula

Martha Lucia Gomez

Amy Gray

Sarah Jackman Reed

Svitlana Shayevich

Agnieszka Malyszek

Fran Westmoreland

Anna Kossakovskaya

Laurence Colling

May Sukyong Park

Victoria Petrenko

Therese Calvird

Susanne Rose

Sveta Fotinia

Marika Rahtu <--- YOU ARE HERE

WOW Embossing Powder

Supplies:
Stamps: Lace up and Way too Sweet by Altenew.
Dies: Dodec Cover Die and Baby Zoo Die by Altenew.
Inks: Buttercream, Warm Sunshine, Ruby Red , Caramel Toffee and Grapevine Altenew Crisp Inks, Versamark, Versafine Onyx Black.
Embossing Powders: Rainbow Black and Opaque Vanilla white Embossing Powders from WOW!
Paper: Black Canson Vivaldi card stock, Neenah Solar White Card Stock

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a beautiful day!

Marika

Snowflake Grove - A new release from Purple Onion Designs

Hello,

Today's the day that all POD fans have been awaiting for - A new release from Stacey Yacula is available. The new release is called The Snowflake Grove and currently you can get the whole release just $100 until 11/4/2015 or you can buy your favourites separately.  I had tons of fun with these stamps and I'll be sharing my examples within next two weeks. 

For my first card I used Birch House stamp and when I saw it for the first time it figured that if there was a house at the North Pole, that is what it would look like. Since Christmas cards are usually sent in bulk, I tried to keep the design simple enough to be easy to reproduce. 

Stamps used: Birch House and Handwritten Holiday.

First, I coloured the base layer with copic markers that I have listed below in the supplies list. Then I added a bit of details with Faber-Castell Polychromo Coloured Pencils. I blended the sky with ink blending tool and used Distress Inks for blending. I let it dry completely and the I used a stencil to create the snowflakes. I stamped through the stencil with Versamark and then heat embossed the snowflakes with a white glitter embossing powder. They look really neat. I added the snow on the ground with the same technique but used my Versamark pen for it. The die cut panel is popped up with fun foam.

Supplies:
Stamps: Birch House and Handwritten Holiday by Purple Onion Designs
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire, Peacock Feathers Distress Inks, Versamark.
Dies: Die-namics Pierced Rectangles by MFT
Stencil: Falling Snow stencil by SSS
Embossing Powder: Vanilla White Opaque and White Twinkle Embossing Powder by WOW!

Copic Markers: Green: YG03 - YG67, Grey: 0 - N1 - N3 - N5, Brown: E43 - E44, Yellow: YR21

Thank you so much for stopping by today and leaving me such a kind comments on my last post. I've read the through I truly appreciate your kindness. Thank you! Have a great day!

Hugs,
Marika