We have an amazingly talented guest designer with us today. Her work will simply take your breath away!
Welcome, Marika!
Hi, this is Marika from Me and Minime Crafting. I was so thrilled and honoured when Tasnim asked me to Guest Design for Altenew – one of my favourite stamp companies. I really love their stamps, especially flower stamps; they are so gorgeous and perfect for watercoloring. And here are what I have created – flowers and butterflies with water colours.
The stamp sets used are Persian Motifs, Magnolias for her, Painted Butterflies and Sketchy Rose (sentiment). For all the three cards I stamped the outline images with light water soluble ink and watercolored them with Distress Inks and Kuretake Gansai Tambi- watercolours. I created a border stripes with Distress Inks: Picked Raspberry, Dusty Concord and Chipped Sapphire. I trimmed the one edge of the watercolour panel to overlap the border edge. The watercolour panels are raised up with foam tape and for the finishing touch I added a few sequins. Sentiments are stamped either black ink or versa mark and then heat embossed with either clear Embossing powder or Silver Embossing powder.
Thank you for inviting me as guest designer. It's been a true pleasure. Thank you!
The pleasure is all ours! Thank you very much for creating tehse stunning cards!
34 comments
Wow!! These are Super STUNNING!! Love the colors!!
Your creations are always so lovely. Thank you for sharing them with us.
Stunning cards!! Love each one of them! Congrats on the guest design,Marika!
So beautiful….of the jaw-dropping kind! Marika, you are very talented!!
So beautiful! WOW!!!
Stunning.
Wow these are so stunning :)
Truly beautiful works of art!
Marika!! Thank you for sharing your incredible cards with us:) You have such a way with color and light!
Beautiful!!
Truly beautiful! The colors are wonderful. So rich!
amazing job, you’re a biggest artist!
Marika, these are all so amazingly beautiful!! Wow!
These cards are simply wonderful and in m favourite colours too!
Oh my, absolutely wonderful :-)
Stunning! Both cards are perfectly wonderful! Your colors are extraordinary!
Wow, these cards are amazing!
Your cards are stunning Marika, you never cease to inspire me, your colouring is out of this world!
Absolutely swoon worthy ..Each card is so gorgeous !!
Marika, these cards are so beautiful!!
Gorgeous! Love the beautiful colours!
Wow! Stunning cards – love it!
Oh my, breathtaking!!!!
Stunning!
absolutely WOW!
Wow Doesnt say enough. Beautiful eyecatching brilliant
WOW! These cards are absolutely amazing… Your coloring is breathtaking!
I am truly speechless on the amount of kind words and comments that you are giving me. Thank you so much! I am so glad that you liked them.
Stunning cards Marika! THANK you for the wonderful inspiration :)
A perfect match for the gorgeous Altenew stamps.
These cards are simply amazing.
Absolutely GORGEOUS cards..WOW!!!
Wow! Truly amazing! These card are stunning – please post a video :)
WOW! I mean…simply WOW! Can’t come up with more. Stunning! Love them!