Yet another masculine birthday card; this time for my younger nephew. One of his passions is football, but that leaves me cold, so comic book style it is 🙂 I did start out by looking for suitable lettering and graphics online — and there are a lot of comic book resources out there — but… Continue reading Birthday: WOW!
This is a super cute image that provides plenty of opportunity to practise colouring hair and, especially, folds in clothing.The Copic colouring was pretty straightforward (as much as hair and folds ever are) and I did like the end result, but I wanted to add something more to it. One thing I’ve been experimenting with… Continue reading Blank: Girl in a denim dress
I always make two Mother’s Day cards; the first one was for my other half’s mum and this one — which has to be a Mothering Sunday card — is for mine. Another Power Poppy digi because Marcella’s gorgeous illustrations make it so easy to create beautiful images. Individually, the greens for the leaves don’t… Continue reading Mothering Sunday: Pink camellias
It’s Mother’s Day, so that means flowers. And it’s the perfect opportunity to use some of the Power Poppy digis that I’ve accumulated. First up: the climbing clematis. I didn’t have any plan for the card design when I started so I just concentrated on enjoying doing the colouring. Once I’d finished with the Copic… Continue reading Mother’s Day: Pink clematis
For me, dimension pretty much means popping something up on foam tape on the front of a card. There have been a few exceptions — an action wobbler here and there and a box card that I now realise never made it onto the blog (adds to todo list) — but certainly nothing that wouldn’t… Continue reading Wedding: Mixed media
I was still feeling a little uninspired when the time came to make a birthday card for the older of my two nephews, so I kept it simple with a variation on a card I made at the very start of the year. This alternative personalised layout occurred to me almost as soon as I’d… Continue reading Personalised birthday banners
I’ve been so disconnected recently that I nearly missed the start of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. This is challenge number seven and I’ve taken part in all the previous ones; I haven’t always coloured every day, but it’s always been fun, not only creating, but also seeing what everyone else is… Continue reading Easter: Bunny and eggs
My other half came back from Brussels last weekend with a horrid cold and I thought I’d managed to avoid it, but no such luck. Add to that a weekend visit from my brother, which meant a lot more talking than usual, and now my voice has disappeared almost completely. Luckily I don’t need to… Continue reading Deadpool Valentine
I’ve been on the My Creative Scoop mailing list for a while — I like Mindy’s colouring style, but I’m rubbish at getting around to things that don’t have a deadline, so I have yet to colour any of her freebies or follow any of the tutorials on her site. What I did do though was… Continue reading Neve and snowman
The frenzy of Christmas card making, Christmas itself, and New Year always combine to leave me run-down and uninspired in January. Add in having a horrible cold over Christmas, the exceptionally cold grey miserable weather, and the horror show that is UK and US politics at the moment and it has been a nightmare trying… Continue reading Hello: Bird and bee
And so we start the year with a masculine birthday card. Something similar went past in my Pinterest feed and I thought I’d have a go at adapting the design to work with the supplies I already have. (I do not need another alphabet die set… I do not need another alphabet die set… I… Continue reading Birthday: Rainbow happy strips
In the week before Christmas I was laid low with the horrible cold-flu thing that seems to have been doing the rounds recently; I rallied enough to enjoy Christmas dinner with the neighbours (just as well I didn’t have to cook that day), but I am still not one hundred per cent over it… All… Continue reading Christmas: One last yeti
I had intended to make more cards with this set, but I ended up not needing to. It will definitely get used for some birthday cards though (and there’s always next Christmas)… Last year my mum asked me to make a card for her to give to her brother — he always gets her cards… Continue reading Christmas: Candles over snow flurry
I try not to give cash for presents, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. This year for instance: my younger nephew was collecting cash for a new jacket and I topped up my older nephew’s gift with a “beer token”. For the first one, I created a Santa-style envelope, attaching it to the card base using the… Continue reading Christmas: Money cards
I originally coloured Unicorn Mae in October last year and she had been languishing in my stash before finally being put on a card as part of a brief blitz on my PHD (projects half done) box. Her red and blonde colouring suggested she’d fit nicely on a Christmas card, so I got out the… Continue reading Christmas: Unicorn Mae
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