It's been another odd year. More Covid-19 but fewer people seeming to take it seriously. We're still taking it seriously in this house so I have been extremely grateful to have had my arts and crafts to keep me distracted. Card making I've just made the cards I needed to make this year. I even… Continue reading 2021 round-up
When I did the watercolour rose page for Wanderlust earlier this year, I had a spare rose left over and no idea what to do with it. It ended up floating around my craft room for ages and every time I came across it I would have another think about what I could do with… Continue reading Pink rose
The last Christmas card of the year and one of my favourites. One of my other half's nieces got a new kitty cat earlier this year and she has turned into a self-confessed crazy cat lady and absolutely adores Tommy. So, when I came across this digi stamp I just had to try and turn… Continue reading Christmas kitty
Copic markers: beak & feet - E31 base, W3, W5, W7, W9white feathers - W00, W1, W3, W5yellow feathers - YG0000, YG00, C3 Polychromos pencils: beak - 274 warm grey 5, 186 terra cottawhite feathers - 271 warm grey 2yellow feathers - 102 cream, 107 cadmium yellowhighlights - 103 ivory Supplies: digital stamps:Some Odd Girl… Continue reading Just coloured: cockatoo
A card for a friend who doesn't do Christmas and who really appreciates the turning point that is the winter solstice. I too am glad that the shortest day has passed and, although it will take a while to be really noticeable, the light is returning. I tried to make a similar design to this… Continue reading Winter solstice trees
Why does everything that seems like a couple of years ago turn out to actually be four? The last two Covid years seem to take up no space at all in remembering when things happened. Anyway, four years ago I coloured a version of this digi stamp — it comes with three versions: one with… Continue reading Holly, mistletoe and a candy cane
I was tidying up a bit and found three strips of paper left over from another project (from cutting the paper into squares for the Woodland abstracts). Rather than put them away and continue tidying, I turned them into this abstract triptych with acrylic paint, alcohol and gilding flakes. The tidying still isn’t finished… Apologies… Continue reading Green & gold abstracts
Whenever I make anything there are the inevitable odds and ends that are left over and they tend to get unceremoniously dumped into a convenient box and forgotten about. Over time I had accumulated at least four such piles and I decided it was time to have a sort through. Nothing much got thrown out… Continue reading Foiled Christmas trios
Copic markers: skin - E00, E11, E04hair - B41, C5, C7, C9, 100red - R24, R27, R29, R89"wings" - R24, R27, R29, R89 glaze of W4body stocking - T3, T4, T5black "wings" - T6, T7, T8straps - W6, W8, W10 Polychromos pencils: skin - 169 caput mortuumhair - 157 dark indigored - 219 deep scarlet… Continue reading Just coloured: Lucy Loo devil
I never really got a lot of use out of my Brother Scan-n-Cut — it was always hard work trying to get a clean cut from it — in theory it should have been great, but in practice I just didn't get on with it. Then my other half bought me a Cricut Maker and… Continue reading Glittery Christmas trees
Mice for my mum and bunnies for my sister-in-law — it's become traditional when it comes to card-making. Everyone else gets random subjects on their cards, but these two are very rarely altered; even when I gave mum a snowman card last year, I put a little mouse inside. This bunny is one of a… Continue reading Bunny wrapped up warm
I have two sets of the Pebeo decorative paints so, when I made the oak leaf canvas with the Prisme paints, I made another one with the Pebeo Moon set. This time I created a horse chestnut leaf and built the contour lines around that shape. Again, I was limited to the six colours in… Continue reading Horse chestnut leaf canvas
This was another of those ideas that arrived in the Pinterest email. The stars looked really pretty and I was curious how they were made. As it turns out, it's a lot simpler than it first looks: each star is made in two parts that are then fixed together. This blog post has good instructions… Continue reading Quick play: Swedish stars
Copic markers: skin - YR000, E21, E11cast shadow on skin - BV02hair - E50, YR21, Y26, E44jacket/belt - E25, E47, E49zip/buttons/buckle - Y26, E25top/jeans - B95, B97, B99hat/wrist strap - BG90, BG93, BG96, BG99hat ribbon/glasses - B91, B93, B95, B97pink details - R20, R85 Staedtler Triplus fineliners: hat/wrist strap - 057 olive greenstripes on top… Continue reading Just coloured: rebel
I'd seen a few "small square on a card base" Christmas card designs go past on blogs and Pinterest, so that's where the basic layout for these came from. Other than that, I just wanted to create little wintery landscapes. To make it a bit different, I decided to use some Powertex. "Powertex is the… Continue reading Powertex landscape cards
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