I think we're up to the eighth colouring challenge hosted by the inimitable Kathy Racoosin over at The Daily Marker. I still don't know how she manages it, even with the help of her team of Goodwill Ambassadors on Instagram. And this year she's doing a Coloring Challenge Road Trip as well! I shall be… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge
I'm used to using glossy accents to highlight eyes or make balloons shiny and things on that scale. I had never thought of using thin lines of it to create rain or water ripples though. For this card, I got out the pico embellisher instead of the glossy accents; it's much more liquid and comes… Continue reading Make a splash
My first mixed media canvas panel. I'm not sure what the original inspiration was, but I had the idea of standing inside a room looking through a window at the moon and once I had enough of a picture in my mind, I started creating it on canvas. The canvas is 8" square. Not huge,… Continue reading Shiny objects canvas
I finally had to stop procrastinating and actually get around to making a card for my other half's mum's birthday. I love colouring Power Poppy flowers. There's so much detail in the illustrations that I swear the end result would look gorgeous even if you just coloured it flat with no shading. But, of course,… Continue reading Rose and chamomile
Why do I always leave making cards for challenges until the end of the month? It's not making the cards that's the problem, it's not even getting the photographs done — I've got that workflow sorted — it's writing up the blog post to go with them. Actually, it's more the "thinking about writing the… Continue reading Cake Monster
I like foil and I like stencils, so how could I not pick up a pot of Deco Foil Transfer Gel when I saw one of my regular shops had it in stock. Rather than just grab a random stencil and quickly try it out, I thought I'd do a more thorough test with a… Continue reading Test: Deco Foil Transfer Gel
This was not planned. This was the result of having a strip of double-sided adhesive sheet and a bit of the rainbow foil left lying on my desk and my head already in glitter mode for the next Sparkle & Shine lessons. I stuck the adhesive strip to a scrap of card, applied the foil… Continue reading Glitter rainbow foil stripe
