I've had this little secret for a while and today I'm able to share it with you. Jennifer contacted me a a few months back and she asked if I wanted to make a guest video on her channel.. I think I literally stopped breathing for a while while reading that email. I think this is the biggest achievement in my crafting "career" and I felt so honoured just to be asked. I've been following Jennifer for a long and she is the kindest person I know in the crafting community. I think she is just an angel on Earth and I believe we all should follow her by giving away a little bit of kindness every day. Thank you so much, Jennifer! Hopefully I made you proud with my guest video.
I made this card here:
Supplies:
Stamps: Lacy Scrolls and Fresh Freesia fby Altenew
Dies: Pierced Rectangles by My Favourite Things
Inks: Black Soot Distress Ink, Versafine Onyx Black
Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers: English Lavender, Dull Blue
Card Stock: Daler and Rowney Cold Pressed Aquiline Texture Watercolour Paper 140lb, Simon Says Stamp Smoke Card Stock
Detailer Zig BrusH2O Waterbrush by Kuretake
White Vellum
Superfine Clear Embossing Powder by Ranger
Tombow Multi Mono Liquid Glue
3M Scotch Foam Tape
Irresistible by Image Crafts: Tuxedo Black and Silver
Thank you for stopping by today and sharing this wonderful day with me! I think I can't stop smiling tonight.. :) Hugs, Marika
Today I have a card made with Purple Onion Designs stamps. I'm so glad I finally got this video edited and ready for you. I used Chloe - a bunny with a flower - and Bloom No.2 stamps to create my card today. In the video I am concentrating on how to colour a fur and add texture to it to make it look more realistic. I used my go-to colouring technique: copics combined to coloured pencils. Here's my card:
I made this into a video tutorial, you can watch it here or in HD in Youtube.
Supplies: Stamps: Chloe (bunny with flower) and Bloom No.2 Inks: Memento Desert Sand, Versamark Opaque Bright White Embossing Powder by WOW! Copic markers: Chloe: E40 - E41 - E42, Shirt: R00 - R21 - R32, Flowers: E000 - Y21 - YR21 - YR23, Leaves: YG91 - YG93 - YG95 Faber-Castell Polychrome Pencils: Chloe: Ivory (105), Burnt Ochre (187), Raw Umber (180), Burnt Sienna (283), Shirt: Light Flesh (132), Medium Flesh (131), Dark Red (225), Flower: Cream (102), Dark Cadmium Yellow (108), Van-Dyck-Brown (176), Dark Cadmium Orange (115), Cadmium Orange (111), Leaves: May Green (170), Earth Green Yellowish(168), Olive Green Yellowish (173) Thanks for stopping by! Marika
Today I'm so thrilled to be part of Altenew's 2nd Anniversary Blog Hop Celebration. You know, I'm a newbie in the crafting world and I'm kind embarrassed to let you know that I wasn't even crafting at the time of their first blog hop. My hubby went to the US in June that year and I placed my first order for Simon then. I remember that I long went back and forth whether should I order Magnolias for her- set or not. I was so drooling over the beautiful flowers but I wasn't sure if I could ever colour them properly. Well, I decided to order them after all and it has become one of my all time favourites from Altenew.
A year later, Tasnim took me under her loving wings despite of my inexperience in crafting and ever since Altenew has felt like home to me. Thank you so much Tasnim and Jennifer for letting me be part of your Team! It's really been a blast and I've loved every moment of it! Hopefully we have many more years to come ahead of us.
To celebrate Altenew, I made a card with my favourite stamp set and had a blast in colouring it. Hope you like it!
I made this into a video tutorial, you can watch it here or in HD in YouTube.
Be sure to leave comments on each stop by Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 11:59 PM EST for a chance to win! 13 winners will be chosen at random from the collective blogs in the hop list and will be announced on the Altenew blog on Apr 14th.
ALTENEW SPECIAL OFFERS
First 100 orders : 1 free mini stamp set(Starting April 7th at 9:00 AM EST)
Orders over $75 : 1 free mini stamp set (Now through Sunday, April 10, 2016)
GET HOPPING
Hopefully you arrived wonderfully talented Melanie Deasy's blog, if not please start at the beginning from Altenew blog. Next on the hop is Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L.
I'm over at Altenew blog today. I made this first card and I kinda liked it so much that I redid it and made it to an video tutorial. On the second one I used Shimmer Mist and sprayed that to my entire background and that gave it really beautiful shine.
I made this into a video tutorial, you can watch it here or in HD in YouTube. I also have visitor on this one.. turned out to be a less of a hassle than I thought it would be.
Supplies: Stamps: Mini Blossoms and Thinking of You from Altenew Inks: Altene Soft Lilac, Morning Frost, Evening Grey and Moon Rock Crisp Inks, Versafine Onyx Black and VersaMark Clear Matt Dull Embossing Powder from Wow! Black Copic Multiliner 0.5 Sakura Gelly Roll Pen Sheer Shimmer Spritz Sparkel from Imagine Crafts Glossy Accents from Ranger Tomboy Multi Mono Liquid Glue EK Tools Powder Tool Copic Markers: V20 - V22 - V25 - V28 Thank you for stopping by today. Have an amazing day! Hugs, Marika
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.
Wow! I love these cards! The birch trees with the moon card is awesome. So is the monochromatic cabin and snow scene.
Congratulations! Please send an email at winner@altenew.com with the subject line March 2016 blog hop winner Marika, and we will set you up the prize. Thank you all for the kind and sweet encouragement on my first set. It was so lovely to read the comments left on my blog. Thank you. Have a great day! I'll be back soon with another card.
Today I have the most exciting news to share. Way back last year, Tasnim asked if I was interested designing stamps.. well, my first impression was.. me... are you really talking to me about this? Well, I kinda laughed at the whole idea at first, but then I started to think and sketch and you know... things evolved. This whole stamp design thing has been such a big learning curve for me, I had to learn to sketch, trace and above all, I needed to learn how to use Illustrator to be able to get my hand drawn images into digital form... I've been nervously waiting this day to come and I'm so hoping that you'd like my designs.
When we first talked designing stamps with Tasnim, she asked me to do something from my own culture. I started to think about it and when I need to think.. I need to walk too. I went to a walk with Simo, who is a dog of my dear friend - he's so cute by the way - and I thought about what would be something from my culture and of course since this is my first set, I also wanted it to be sort of personal since I knew already at that point that I will put many hours to this thing if I was gonna do this. While walking in the forests with Simo I looked around and had this flashback moment from my youth. We used to have a dog - Cecilia. She was a Tibetan Terrier and she was amazing. I used to take walks with her and we usually went to this little place near my childhood home - it was our place to calm down and sat down for a moment. My childhood home is by the lake and on the other side of the lake there is this little peninsula which is the most beautiful and the most peaceful place - at least to me. It only grows birch trees in that peninsula and we used to sat down to a grass bed with Cecilia and listen to the waves slowly hit the sand with birds singing on the back. Nowadays, someone had brought a bench to that place so I think there's at least one more person who also loves that place.
So that was the inspiration to my first ever set. While designing, I also wanted to make a set that was useable for many different kind of techniques since we all love to do different kinds of things. I'm sharing two of my cards today that I have made with my set and later this week and weeks to come, I'll be sharing more and I will make them into video tutorials as well. So, if you don't want to miss them, please subscribe to my YouTube channel here.
Supplies: Stamps: Birch Land, To the Moon, Winter Cardinal and Sketchy Cities America 2. Inks: Versafine Onyx Black, Tumbled Glass and Stormy Sky Distress Inks, Fairy Dust Pure Color Dye Ink, SSS Smoke Dye Ink Superfine Clear Embossing Powder from Ranger White Jelly Roll Pen Copic Markers: 0 - N0 - N1 - N3 - N5 - N7
I used three shades of grey ink to stamp the images and then I took my copic multi-liner and added the black details to the cottage and to the trees. To create a sky I used a cool grey marker (copics) and added the snow with white gelly roll pen. Supplies: Stamps: Winter Cottage, Snowing and Pine Tree Inks: Fairy Dust Pure Color Dye Ink, SSS Smoke Dye Ink, Jet Black Altenew Crisp Ink
Black Copic Multiliner 0.1 Copic Markes: C0 - C1 - C3 White Jelly Roll Pen Copic Markers: C0 - C1 - C3
GIVEAWAY
To celebrate this release, Altenew is giving away $50 gift certificate to three lucky winners. Please leave a comment on the Altenew blog by Friday March 18th, 11:59 pm EST for a chance to win.
And there is more! I will randomly choose a winner from comments left on this post and the prize will be $30 gift certificate to Altenew online store. Please leave a comment on this post by Friday March 18th, 11:59 pm EST for a chance to win. I will announce the winner on my blog after soon after.
GET HOPPING!
Hopefully you are having fun hopping. Next on the hop is fabulous and so sweet and kind Svetlana Hayevich. If you encounter a broken link along the hop, please start at the beginning from Altenew blog.
I really hope you liked what you saw. Thank you so much for visiting and have a great day!
I'm so happy that this day has finally arrived. A month ago, Maria from Lollygrot Scrapbooking asked me if I was interested taking part in her new blog feature over her blog. She has invented this fun blog feature where she asks to remake one of one's own cards. This sounded so much fun that of course I wanted to participate and said YES! And this was A MONTH ago! :)
I chose to CASE one of my cards, actually I made that one for about a year ago. I used watercolours and very soft look for colouring. I really really loved the lay-out on that one so I wanted to remake the card with different style of colouring and colour theme. Please, head over to Maria's blog and find out what card did I CASE and while you are there, please leave her some love and let's let her know how much we appreciate bloggers who are passionate for giving us these fun blog features. These thing takes time to organise and that is sometimes taken for granted. Thank you, Maria! I'm so thrilled to be part in this and so happy that you asked me. Thank you. By the way, besides being super sweet, Maria is kinda talented too you know, so you may even want to follow her while you're there.
I made this into a video tutorial. You can watch it here or in HD in YouTube.
Supplies: Stamps: Peony Bouquet and Sketchy Rose by Altenew Inks: Sea Glass and Frayed Leaf Altenew Crisp Inks, Versafine Onyx Black Paper: Japanese smooth card stock, manufacturer unknown, Exotics White Silk Paper from Hobby Craft, SSS Smoke Card Stock Copic Markers: YG0000 - BG0000 - BG000 - BG10 - YG03 - YG11 Faber Castell Polychrome Pencils: Cold Grey I (230), Cold Grey II (231), Cold Grey III (232), Cold Grey IV (233), Cold Grey (235), Dark Indico (157), May Green (170), Earth Green Yellowish (168), Chromium Green Opaque (174) Thank you for stopping by today! Have an amazing day! Hugs, Marika
Faber Castell Polychrome Pencils: Light Flesh (132), Medium Flesh (131), Dark Red (225), May Green (170), Greem Yellowish (168), Chromium Green Opaque (174).
Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving me such a kind comments! You are simply wonderful!
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.
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
