What: Day twenty-seven of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. I stepped away from the Copics and watercolours today and made a card with some alcohol ink instead. Inspired by: The starting point for my design thoughts was a split panel watercolour card. How: The marbled panel was created by first adding drops… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #27
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The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #26
What: Day twenty-six of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. A birthday card for a cat-owning friend and one of my favourite cards. How: The first thing I did was stamp each of the cat stamps on masking paper and fussy cut them out. The background panel was built up from the bottom… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #26
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #25
What: Day twenty-five of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. A watercolour rainbow over sparkly embossing powder. Inspired by: Laura Bassen made a colourful grid card a few weeks ago — it stuck in my mind and I just had to have a go at my own version. How: I stamped the lattice… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #25
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #24
What: Day twenty-four of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. Some simple pencil-coloured flowers today. How: I stamped the flowers and sentiment in black on kraft and coloured them with pencil. For a finishing touch I outlined the flowers and leaves with white gel pen dots and added some along the baseline. Lessons… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #24
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #23
What: Day twenty-three of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge and I thought I’d give the shiny watercolours another go, this time on watercolour paper. How: The background is one I made some time ago and it has been lurking in my stash since then. It was painted with watercolour (a different set)… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #23
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #22
What: Day twenty-two of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. Shimmery watercolour on Neenah desert storm cardstock. Inspired by: Julia Altermann recently painted some shimmery flowers using watercolour on kraft cardstock. How: I stamped the flowers and leaves with Versamark and heat embossed them in white. I should have done them in stages,… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #22
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #21
What: Day twenty-one of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. Our neighbour is in hospital for a few days and I wanted to make a card for her to hopefully raise a smile. How: I stamped the trash can creature and the cloud using Memento ink and then stamped the sentiment with Versamark… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #21
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #20
What: Day twenty of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. A graduation card for when my brother gets his results from Uni in a couple of weeks. How: I printed out the owl and coloured him with Copic markers with the help of Sandy Allnock’s hex chart for choosing colour blends. I was… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #20
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #18
What: Day eighteen of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. A quick Copic-coloured vase of flowers. How: A quick bit of Copic colouring and then masses of white and silver gel pen over the top just for fun. I used the largest circle die I have to round off the top and bottom… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #18
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #17
What: Day seventeen of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. It’s Father’s Day on Sunday and so it’s time to make a card for my other half’s dad. How: Putting together the elements for this card was simple: I printed out the digital stamp and coloured it with Copics, die cut the “happy”,… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #17
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #16
What: Day sixteen of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. Balloons! How: I randomly stamped the balloons in different colours across the card panel and then went over them with coloured pencil in a less than successful attempt to add some shading. The gaps between the balloons were filled in by stamping the… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #16
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #15
What: Day fifteen of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. I’ve been getting a bit carried away with thinking about colouring ideas that I want to try for the challenge and almost forgot about some cards that I actually need to make for upcoming events. This is one of those cards. How: I… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #15
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #14
What: Day fourteen of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. More watercolour smooshing to go with the oh so pretty colour layering hibiscus stamps. How: A bit of practice making sure I knew which way up the stamp layers should go, and a few tests to make sure the different colours would work… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #14
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #13
What: Day thirteen of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. I’ve been meaning to do some embossing and watercolour since day one and I finally got around it today. Inspired by: This was on my list of things to make, but I was reminded of it by Michelle’s card over at the Card… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #13
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #12
What: Day twelve of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge and today I really did simplify the colouring with a cute little critter and his umbrella. Inspired by: The idea for the die-cutting of the panel came from Jennifer McGuire, though I have yet to try the dot shading technique she demonstrates in… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #12
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