Magical Friends by Mona Hauge

February 1, 2026

Step by Step by Mona Hauge

Hello everyone,

Mona here with my latest Step by Step Tutorial called Magical Friends, hope you like it. 🧚

Step 1.

Multifarious card white size A5.

Let’s start with the beautiful Bria Rose LAV355 stamped in Versafine Clair Pinecone. Now we build a fence with the Hobbits Door Accessories LAV967, also stamped in Versafine Clair Pinecone.

Cover everything with Liquid Maskin Fluid and let it dry before the next step.

Step 2.

We want both the Tree of Courage LAV657 and the Tree of Hope LAV658 and in the corner behind the fence we stamp our Magical Friend, The Unicorn 2 LAV185, all in Versafine Clair Pinecone.

Cover all in Liquid Masking Fluid.

Step 3.

Be sure that the Masking Fluid is dry before stamping the beautiful Foxglove LAV475 in Versafine Clair Shady Lane. Do both first and second generation stamping. This helps to give more depth to our picture. Now we ink up only on Bria Rose’s flower and stamp it like you see in the picture, also in Versafine Clair Shady Lane. Remember to use a paper towel or wet wipe to clean off the ink that is on top of the Masking layer, otherwise it will smudge on to your card when you start removing the Masking.

Step 4.

For our sky we will use Elements ink Dark Denim, Blue Atol and Violet Chalk and for our ground we will use Elements ink Olive and Pixie Green..

Step 5.

Use a Waterbrush to create texture both on the ground and in the sky.

Step 6.

We need some more flowers and some lush leaves. Stamp the Wild Foliage LAV980 for leaves on the trees in Versafine Clair Shady Lane. In the same ink colour, use the Flora Set LAV698 to give the “floating flowers” some stems and add some among the undergrowth. Stamp all in both first and second generation stamping.

Step 7.

Time to remove all of the Masking. It is very important that our card must be 100% dry. Any moisture in the paper will make it tear when you start rubbing on it. Use a heat tool if you are not sure if it is dry.

Now we can apply some Panpastel Hansa Yellow to give our sky a magical glow.

Step 8.

For colouring the different objects I love to use the Mondeluz Watercolour Pencils because they are so soft and they blend so perfectly together even without water. We have a brown fence, brown Fairy, brown trees and a brown Unicorn, so to create variety we will use different shades and blending of colours. The Magical friends will be dark brown with a lot of black for shading, and some white and beige for highlights. The trees will have a more medium warm brown, reddish brown and just a little bit of black for shade. and some white for highlights. And finally the fence will have light brown colour with lots of ochre and just a tiny bit of black and then white to create some highlights..

Use a Beige Posca Pen to colour most of the foxgloves.

Step 9.

Our Flora Set flowers we can colour with some Sky Blue and Blue Posca Pens, our Bria Rose flower we can colour with some Apricot Posca Pen and when the Posca has dried we can use our Mondeluz Watercolours to create some more shades of orange. For our Foxgloves we will use some pink and purple Mondeluz.

Step 10.

We are almost finished, we just need some highlights on everything and for this we will use a Signo Uniball pen White or any White Ink pen that you prefer. And the final thing we will do is add some Posca Pen splatters with our white Posca Pen.

Now we have our finished picture. I hope you enjoyed following my tutorial.

If you have any questions , please just send me a message and I will answer as soon as I can.

Big hugs from Mona