Another masculine card to make. They're hard enough to come up with ideas for when you know the person well, but when it's a nephew who you haven't seen in ages and who is somehow now 22 years old, well... If it was a niece, I'd do flowers, but my fallback for men seems to… Continue reading Purple monster
For some reason, this year I have been feeling particularly uninspired when it comes to making cards. The start of the year is always a tricky time creatively, but it does seem to be lingering, at least for actual card-making. I am more than happy colouring or doing a bit of mixed media or even… Continue reading Watercolour rose
I had printed out the gerbera image in preparation for a previous Daily Marker colouring challenge and it had been lurking in the pile of printed digi stamps ever since. I didn’t colour it with the intention of making a Mother’s Day card, but I was so happy with it once it was finished that… Continue reading Mother’s Day gerbera
Valentine’s Day take 2. After the slight misjudgement in the choice of design for my original card, I had to come up with a replacement. Luckily, Valentine’s Day fell in the middle of the latest Daily Marker colouring challenge, so I had other images to choose from, including this skull with the heart eyepatch. Now,… Continue reading Skull and crossbones
Valentine’s Day (yes I know it was almost two months ago, shush) and apparently this time I took it a bit too weird. Now, I know this is a bit of a dark image, but it amused me and I didn’t think it was too extreme. Apparently, I was wrong. Some people on Instagram loved… Continue reading Love you to pieces
I've been feeling rather uninspired when it comes to making cards this year. I've enjoyed colouring images, but coming up with layouts that I like has been a struggle, and it's doubly hard when it's a birthday card for a fifteen-year-old boy... Originally I was going to do a card with a footballer on it… Continue reading Ratty Birthday
After posting the cards made from the Winter Wonderland class images, I realised that I had missed one. When I did the class, I made a second, portrait, version of the scene from the first lesson. I wasn't completely happy with how the centre part of the horizon worked out so I had a hunt… Continue reading Monster snowscape
January was as unproductive as usual — I really need to accept that anything that actually gets done in January is a bonus — though I did manage to do a couple of bits for the Wanderlust 2019 class. February was mostly taken up with doing the Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge, which included making… Continue reading Winter Wonderland cards
This is probably the first time that I have revisited an old card and made substantial changes to it. I have occasionally added a sentiment to a blank card and there are a couple of cards in my "rework" pile that need something doing with them, but other than that, if I take a card… Continue reading Revisiting elephant footprints
One of the problems with trying out a new craft is that you can seriously misjudge how long it will take you to create something. This card is the perfect example of that. I haven't done any embroidery of any sort since I was a child — mum used to do quite a bit so… Continue reading Cross-stitch Christmas
I make nearly all of my cards A6 size (14.8cm × 10.5cm): it's a nice manageable size and is the most efficient use of A4 card. But once in a while, I decide to scale things up a bit. I've made a couple of larger cards already this Christmas for family, and this one for… Continue reading Ridiculous robins
Yet another image from the printed digi stamp pile. I wasn't planning on putting this on a card — I was just doing it for the Daily Marker colouring challenge — but then my other half spotted it, declared it to be the spirit of Christmas and claimed it as perfect for a friend. I… Continue reading The spirit of Christmas
Another one from the digi pile. Even relatively simple designs from Power Poppy have such a lot of gorgeous detail; they are a joy to colour. I kept the colouring simple and added highlights on the berries with a gold gel pen. Glossy accents gives a bit of dimension and a lot of shine. I… Continue reading Holly berries
Just as I always try to find blackberries and cute critters for my mum, so I have to do bunnies for my other half's sister. I'd used all the nice ones in my stash so I had to go hunt for a new source of wabbits and found Lee Holland, illustrator of lots of cute… Continue reading Bouncing bunny
This next batch of cards is 100% inspired by Emma over at Puddleside Musings — I was especially taken by the sunburst design she created in Making Simple Cards from Scraps. I don't have a lot of Christmassy paper scraps, but I do have whole pads of paper which really need using 🙂 Now, I… Continue reading Patterned paper Christmas
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