What: I was asked if I would join in wishing a happy birthday to Maggie on Instagram. Her birthday coincides with the first day of Kathy Racoosin’s second Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge, so some colouring was definitely called for. How: This started off with a bit of masking and quite a lot of… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #1
What: My other half's nephew is getting married, so I had to figure out how to make a wedding card. How: I started with the idea of heat embossing flowers in white on vellum, fussy cutting them out and arranging them on a white-on-white stamped background. Try as I might, I could not come up… Continue reading Wedding card: Vellum flowers
What: Copic-coloured elephant with a homemade footprint stamp. Inspired by: Gerda Steiner’s 72H weekend challenge. How: The elephant digital stamp was printed on Copic-safe Neenah solar white card and coloured with Copic markers. The bottom edge was shaped using a border die. Then I realised that neither of the elephant stamp sets I own have… Continue reading Card: Elephant footprints
What: A card with a similar layout to this has been in my Pinterest for a while — I really wanted to have another go at the split panel background (I did a simpler version for the wedding card that will be posted here after the wedding next week). It also gave me the opportunity… Continue reading Blank card: Stinkin’ cute
What: A masculine birthday card for a radio-loving friend. How: After mocking up the layout, I started out by cutting the window for the shaker element. Then I stamped and fussy cut the radio from masking paper so that I could apply the embossing paste through the stencil and still leave space for the radio.… Continue reading Birthday card: Radio shaker
What: This card started off with the idea of having the amigos hanging their signs out of windows and developed from there. I had a long think about what to use to fill the shaker windows — as the card was still quite masculine at this point, I didn't want to add pretty sequins or… Continue reading Birthday card: Amigos shaker
What: This started out as just a quick doodle, but I thought it would make a nice simple card. How: I drew the lavender on piece of Neenah solar white, cut and scored it as a top-folding card, added the sentiment on a die-cut tag and mounted it at the base of the lavender with… Continue reading Just a note: Lavender
What: A simple one-layer card that finally gets me using my stencils. How: I stamped and embossed the sentiment and then positioned the stencil over it. I picked three colours and carefully inked areas of the stencil, masking with scrap paper as needed. I originally left some white space around the sentiment, but then I… Continue reading Birthday card: Simple stencilling
What: A simple one-layer card with a big, bold sentiment. Inspired by: Many moons ago I saw a card which used some simple ink swipes as its basis, but unfortunately it's not one that has survived in either my local inspiration folder or on my Pinterest "interesting cards" board. How: So simple. Choose three inks,… Continue reading Birthday card: Ink swipe
What: Another watercolour experiment. This time I had a play with stamping white circles over it — I hesitate to call it a bokeh effect as that has a very specific meaning in photography (and I know some photographers who doubtless wouldn't be impressed with the term being appropriated like this), but that is what… Continue reading Celebrate: Bokeh watercolour
What: I always have terrible problems with watercolour paper curling up so I bought a couple of pads of different weights to experiment with. How: This is a relatively lightweight paper — 190gsm/90lb — so I stretched it on a board first. I started off with plenty of water, a couple of colours of watercolour… Continue reading Hello card: Spattered watercolour
What: I love stencils, but I don't get round to using them very often so I made a point of creating a card with a stencilled background. The clear-embossed top layer on the flowers doesn't show up very well in the photo, but it looks lovely and shiny in real life. I ended up masking… Continue reading Smile: Masked flowers
What: The always tricky problem of creating cards for men - luckily I managed to find a cute digi stamp that works just perfectly for my other half's dad, who runs a scout group. Supplies: digi stamps: Lilyboo Designs - let's go camping colour: Distress - ink pad - mowed lawn (for edging the card)… Continue reading Birthday card: Copic camping
What: My brother got me some artist's tile cards and a pack of Gelly Roll pens for my birthday, so what better way to say thank you than to use them — and a few other supplies — to create a thank you note. Supplies: colour: Sakura - Gelly Roll - stardust - meteor set… Continue reading Doodled Thank you note
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #1Â - Copic over stamping The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #2Â - Sharpies on Kraft The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #3Â - PITT artist pens The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #4Â - Copics and stamping The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #5Â - Wax pastel crayons… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge round-up
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