Another simple process that gives an interesting result. The background is essentially finger-painting: add blobs of paint to the card and smoosh it around until you are happy with how it looks. Add a few marks and splatters and, once it's dried, you're ready to add the background text. This is not a stamp, it… Continue reading Supply Savvy ATC day 3
The main technique for the second day of the Artful Academy Supply Savvy challenge was using cling film with acrylic paint to create a textured background. I've done this with watercolour paint before and it turned out really nicely, but for some reason it just didn't work that well here — I must give it… Continue reading Supply Savvy ATC day 2
Last November — yes, this is how far I am behind on writing up projects — Artful Academy (or Mixed Up Creative Academy as they were called then) ran a five-day teaser challenge for their Savvy Supply School class. I didn't go on to do the full class at the time, but I did complete… Continue reading Supply Savvy ATC day 1
It's a weird time, creatively and generally. I'm not short of things to do and my mojo, surprisingly, hasn't deserted me, but actually getting up and starting work on something? That's the tricky part. I have managed to do a few bits, but I have to almost catch myself unawares and just start doing something… Continue reading Hand-carved stamps
I'm sure that if the internet and YouTube didn't exist I would still be happily drawing away with a black fineliner or copying other people's art with cheap gouache paints. After all, that's the sort of thing I was doing in my early 20s. But we do have the internet and YouTube, and so I… Continue reading A first try at weaving
The combination of feeling utterly uninspired and also wanting to avoid a repeat of last year's slightly misjudged Valentine card design left me in a bit of a quandary as to what to do for this Valentine's day. Doing nothing was definitely not an option. I remembered that I had a couple of robot picture… Continue reading Valentine robot
How is it the end of February already? And how have I not managed to put together even one blog post this year? It's not even lack of things to post. I've a handful of bits and pieces from last year that got skipped in the effort to get all the Christmas cards written up.… Continue reading Blogging inertia
I was going to stop with the Christmas card making after finishing off the critters and snowflakes — I have plenty of spares from previous years so there was no danger of running out — but this post from Teela over at Every Tuesday caught my eye and I decided that one more quick card-making… Continue reading Snowflakes on watercolour
When I printed out the digis for the mouse and bunny, I did a few extra at the same sort of size. I haven't done much Copic colouring recently and these are all nice simple images that can be coloured without too much effort. I kept the card design similar to the previous cards, but… Continue reading Critters & snowflakes
A mouse for my mum and a bunny for my other half's sister. Some things never change. Copic colouring, fussy cutting, die-cuts and glitter are also a Christmas staple. I was originally going to leave a white border around the edge of the images — apart from any aesthetic choices, that tail is quite tricky… Continue reading Critters on snow
