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
The biggest problem I have when it comes to colouring digi stamps these days is deciding what to do for the background. Especially for images like this one which are crying out for a scene rather than a plain background. I used to be happy putting a bit of a shadow underneath, but then I… Continue reading Christmouse carols
Like so many things, these 5"×5" mini canvases have been sitting in my stash for quite some time. Waiting, I suppose, for me to come up with the right idea and the confidence in my abilities to commit something to canvas rather than paper. Well, thinking like that is why they hadn't been used yet,… Continue reading Oak leaf canvas
Ever since we started watching the Hilda cartoon series on Netflix, I've had the thought in the back of my mind that I wanted to try drawing Twig, the deerfox, but I hadn't got around to doing it. Then the September Scrawlrbox subscription arrived with a selection of black and white supplies and a pad… Continue reading Quick play: Twig on blue
Copic markers: skin - E00, E53, BV00hair - RV17, R27, YR09, YR16, Y38, Y06, YG25, G09, BG15, B06, BV04, V17horn - W04, W0stars - Y06, Y38background - BG0000, BG000 Other colouring: Copic multiliner 0.05 - lavender, pink Supplies: digital stamps:The Paper Shelter - glittery and sparklingpaper and card:Neenah Solar White 216gsm This image was coloured… Continue reading Just coloured: rainbow hair
Another Power Poppy digi stamp gets coloured for the first time. I could have just added a sentiment and created a simple Christmas card with it, but somewhere along the way I had the idea to turn it into a shaker card. I haven't made one of those for ages... checks... four years apparently. The… Continue reading Spiced orange pomander
This is the third encaustic landscape I have made. The first one; I made that one for myself to try out my new iron and waxes (why start with the basics when you can try to create a finished piece first time). The second one; I made that for my brother's birthday and decided then… Continue reading Encaustic landscape III
Before I created the alcohol ink landscape I used for my brother's birthday card, I had a number of practice attempts... I was following the basic instructions in Alcohol Ink Dreamscaping, working out what I liked and didn't. I'm not so keen on spritzing alcohol (that seems even less predictable than laying down the inks… Continue reading Alcohol ink landscapes
Copic markers: dark green - BG93, BG96, BG99light green - YG61, YG93eyes/teeth - C00, C2 Polychromos pencils: dark green - 157 dark indigolight green - 278 chrome oxide green, 173 olive green yellowishhighlights - 103 ivory Other colouring: Staedtler Triplus fineliners Supplies: digital stamps:Some Odd Girl - t-rexpaper and card:Neenah Solar White 216gsm This image… Continue reading Just coloured: T-rex
Yes, it's another Power Poppy digi stamp — I love the quirky arrangement of the baubles and it's something a little different. I wasn't really thinking about the layout of a card when I coloured this (I was not making Christmas cards, I was just doing some relaxing colouring) so I had to do a… Continue reading Forest finds baubles
I showed you the final results from taking Judy Woods free stARTs class last week, and I thought it might be interesting to see how one of the paintings developed from start to finish. The class was very much an exercise in letting go and trusting in the process; we only knew what that day's… Continue reading Woodland abstracts – oak
tunnel Another quick play, this time with alcohol inks. It was inspired by a blog post from Kim Cook over at Thirteen Chairs. tunnel - detail This was also a good opportunity to try out the alcohol inks I got in the July ScrawlrBox subscription. All of my current alcohol inks are Ranger Adirondack ones,… Continue reading Quick play: alcohol ink circles
Not everything has to be a detailed image requiring half my markers, sometimes it's nice to just colour a simple flower. I used a stamp positioner to add the embossing powder after colouring the stamp, a technique described in more detail for this feather card. Copic markers: rose - RV32, RV34, R46 Supplies: stamps:Simply Cards… Continue reading Just coloured: pink rose
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