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
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