Tag: Make it Crafty

Felicity

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I decided to take my coloring with me and grabbed my pencils since they’re in a nice to-go box that’s easy to travel with.  But before stepping out the door, I stamped Felicity, from Make it Crafty, in black on an over-sized kraft card.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with all the empty spot, but I didn’t care at the moment… I was fixin’ to color and *that* was exciting!  LOL   My main goal for coloring Felicity was to use the kraft cardstock as part of the skin color.  So I kept the coloring of skin to a minimal with just a little cream and a tiny bit of dark brown for a shadow.  Here’s what she looked liked finished…

For the card, I decided a little bit of doodling would be fun and inspired by the Zentangle® method of pattern drawing.  However, I kept it in the corner to balance out the character.  Then for fun, I found a little bird cage charm and added that to the tangles.  Thanks for coming by and I hope you have a great day!

Tress Skating

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Make it Crafty Rubber Stamps are now available at Little Miss Muffet Stamps!

You should have arrived here from the fabulous KATHY!
(For the complete list you can start back on the LMMS Blog HERE.)

Did you hear the news?! Make it Crafty and Little Miss Muffet Stamps are coming together again, and this time on a long term basis. What does this mean?  You’ve seen us combine for Releases and Blog Hops, and now we’re getting together in the Little Miss Muffet Stamps Store! Make it Crafty’s gorgeous Rubber Stamps are now available in the Little Miss Muffet Stamps Store, so you’ll have more choices, more variety and more coloring projects to shop for!
To celebrate, the Design Teams from Little Miss Muffet Stamps and Make it Crafty have put together a Blog Hop to share some inspiration on the latest Make it Crafty Release, featuring the adorable little Tress and Spring Garden Elements… you will be able to create the most adorable scenes. The Girls have done an outstanding job and you’re going to love it!  These images, plus a few others, have already popped in the Little Miss Muffet Stamps Store, and more and more will be added as time goes on. 

For my project, I’ve used Tress Skating.

PRIZES
Blog Hops and prizes go hand in hand and this one is no exception…
You can win a $20 Gift Certificate to the Little Miss Muffet Stamps store! Make sure you leave comments on all stops along the way and TWO random winners will be announced on the Little Miss Muffet Stamps Blog on Saturday 22 February.

DISCOUNTS
Between now and Sunday 23 February, you’ll automatically receive 15% off Make it Crafty Rubber Stamps, PLUS, you’ll receive a free surprise gift in your mail parcel!

The next stop in the hop is lovely, and amazing, MARIKA.

But before you go, don’t forget to leave a comment here for a chance to WIN one of the hidden prizes! Thanks so much for joining the Little Miss Muffet Stamps and Make it Crafty Blog Hop 🙂

Bailey Blowing Kisses

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Love is in the air at Make it Crafty and not just because we have new images but because we have a new illustrator too! Victoria has such a cute style and her images are perfect for colouring enthusiasts of all levels. The style is simple enough for beginners to practice blending yet offer flexibility for the more adventurous colourer to add detail to clothing and hair. We hope you love this new collection as much as we do and to help celebrate we thought we would have a fun blog hop to showcase the new release.

If you’re already floating on the MiC Love Balloon…
you should have arrived from the fantastic MELISSA, 
though if you’re just joining us and want to join the fun, pop on over to Zoe’s Blog Here

PRIZES
It wouldn’t be a Make it Crafty blog hop without prizes so we’ve got hidden prizes 
along the way randomly drawn from the comments section.
Random winners will be announced on the MiC Store Blog on Monday 10th Feb.
DISCOUNTS
PLUS, between now and Sunday 9th, you can order the collection at a discount of 30%, normally discounted at 15%. You don’t need any codes! It’s automatically reduced in store.

For my project I’ve used the Make it Crafty images including Bailey Blowing Kisses plus a few elements from Whimsical Digi Elements and a new hanging branch with the bird on it.  This gal was so fun to color!

To continue floating on the MiC Love Balloon, 
head on over to the amazing ERIN, but before you go, 
don’t forget to leave a comment as I may have one of the lucky hidden prizes!

Thank you so much for joining the fun at MiC and we all hope that you love this new collection of images as much as we do!

Seductive Barb

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I wanted to share the details of my challenge project for this month and is one that I’ve enjoyed very much.  It has a little bit of everything to keep me happy… coloring, character, background and chippies. LOL Plus working with browns was the added bonus!

For this project I pulled out the journal and added another page.  I also combined it with the Australian Day challenge and a lifelong dream of mine… I’m sure putting it all together will easily reveal that I want to be Seductive Barb visiting Zoe in Australia.  🙂

I hope this inspired you and come on over to join the Make it Colourful challenge this month!
Make it Crafty Images:
 
To see the post on the Make it Crafty page, click HERE to view post.

Sugarplums Cherry Emma

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Remember the tutorial I did with the waterfall background?  I have finished coloring the character and placed this image on a card.  😀  To finished this project, I went with some Extreme Color Placement and went with another Avatar image.  This project uses the Ivy Swing rubber stamp from Make it Crafty plus a Sugarplums Cherry Emma from CC Designs.

At first I wasn’t sure how I would like the background and was biting my nails through half of it.  But after cropping the image and finishing the card, it actually looks better than I thought!  Ya, that was a bonus!  LOL  I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by today.  😀

Waterfall Tutorial with Ivy Swing

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I have a background tutorial that I wanted to share on coloring a distant waterfall on a tropical world, far, far away!  The planet of Avatar to be exact, however, you can use this same technique for a waterfall on any of your projects.  First of all, my project uses the Ivy Swing rubber stamp from Make it Crafty plus a Sugarplums Cherry Emma from CC Designs.  The character was stamped first and masked with a sticky-note then the Ivy Swing was stamped on top of that.  The positioning was tricky but I was lucky this time.

I started with the Ivy Swing and colored the leaves, flowers and birds.  The colors are actually listed down on my paper if you’re able to see them but you’re going to need better eye sight than me at the moment.  LOL  Unfortunately, I don’t have the originals either.   But the tutorial is more about the technique than the colors so you can substitute for the colors that you like.

The next plan of action was to sketch in where the water would be falling.  I looked at waterfall pictures and thought it would be something like this.  Next time I would watch the direction of the splashed a little more but this works for now.  I used a lighter color for this step and will bring in the darker colors later.

Here’s the darker colors I was talking about!  I went all the way to the darkest color in the spectrum and then I’m going to work back to the lightest color.  I wasn’t sure what I was doing at this point and was starting to get second guesses – I thought for sure I messed it up.

For the next couple of steps, the basic idea is to work from the darker colors into the lighter colors.  I’m not going to worry about blending at this point and I just want to layer in the colors.  I used colors from dark blue, gray to light blue and light turquoise.

 

The final step was to use the blender pen and the lightest colors to blend in all the layers.  The lower part fades off but when I get that cut off it actually looks better.  That’s the end of the tutorial – the next steps are the finish coloring the character and make a card… to be continued!  But you can find the end of that story on another day!  😀