What: Day sixteen of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. This digi stamp is just so cute and it gave me the opportunity to play around with my little tin of supracolor pencils (need more colours!). Lessons Learned: DON'T USE DOVE BLENDER PEN ON INKJET PRINTED IMAGES - or at least be extremely careful.… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #16
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #15
What: Day fifteen of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. I thought I'd take a day off from experimenting and get my Copics out and colour this cute mouse digi stamp from Meljen's Designs. Supplies: digital stamps: Meljen's Designs - little puzzle mouse Copic markers: pink bits - R01, R21 grey bits - W00,… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #15
New baby: Hello bunny
What: The second new baby of the year; this time it's one of my other half's nieces who has expanded the family. When I started making this, we knew the due date, but not whether it was going to be a boy or girl, and I wanted to get as much prepared as possible to… Continue reading New baby: Hello bunny
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #14
What: Day fourteen of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. After I saw Sandy Allnock's beautiful black and white flowers I knew I had to give the technique a go for the colouring challenge. And then I got my Ellie stamp and, well, what better to colour in grey than an elephant... I must… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #14
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #13
What: Day thirteen of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. A fun bit of doodling over Distress ink panels. I liked the result, but I felt like I needed to soften it up a bit, so I added the die-cut flowers. And then all it needed was a sentiment and a few black pearls… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #13
Birthday card: Make a wish
What: I recently got some new stamps from Uniko Studio, including one multi-layer flower, which I really wanted to try out. This is the first time I've used Versamark as an ink in its own right rather than to stick embossing powder to. I didn't originally plan on putting the stripes on the background, but… Continue reading Birthday card: Make a wish
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #12
What: Day twelve of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. My first attempts at using Tombow dual brush markers. How: The yellow flowers were done with marker straight to paper and the pink ones were done by scribbling the markers on an acrylic block and applying with a brush and water. I need a… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #12
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #11
What: Day eleven of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. This is so not what these coloured pencils are designed for. "Perfect for life and nature studies" it says on the tin, not for colouring small fiddly stamped images. Having said that, I am actually quite pleased with how it turned out. Supplies: stamps:… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #11
Easter card: die-cut Easter
What: I coloured the bunny and balloon for day ten of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. Then it occurred to me to use it for an Easter card with a suitably spring-influenced watercolour background and a die cut sentiment. Supplies: stamps: The Greeting Farm - lucky bunnies Clearly Besotted - happy birthday (happy)… Continue reading Easter card: die-cut Easter
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #9
What: Day nine of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. The bunny was watercoloured with Distress ink and is destined to be the centrepiece of a new baby card. Supplies: stamps: Crafter's Companion - bebunni - magazine freebie colour: Distress - ink pads - antique linen, gathered twigs, lipstick paper and card: Ranger -… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #9
Birthday card: Copic girl
What: A birthday card for a friend who writes erotica for fun and profit. The original digital image has a small dog sitting in front of her, but my friend isn't really a dog person and I also wanted to simplify it a bit so the dog had to go (apologies to JadeDragonne for editing… Continue reading Birthday card: Copic girl
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #8
What: Day eight of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. As soon as I got the flower blocks stamp set from Clearly Besotted's latest release, I realised that the outline stamp would be perfect for the colouring challenge. I was originally planning to heat emboss it in white, but when I applied the heat… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #8
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #7
What: Day seven of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. One of the things I love about this challenge is how it encourages you to do the things that you've been meaning to get around to doing and to use the products that have been sitting on the side barely used. I've had all… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #7
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #6
What: Day six of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. Rather than use circles as the basis for my geometric pattern, I raided my dies to find an alternative shape and built the repeating pattern from that. I was determined to keep this one simple and not do any blending, but I couldn't resist… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #6
Blank card: Blue flowers
What: This wasn't made with anyone particular in mind; it was more a case of using some odds and ends that were lying around. The flowers were a Copic practice piece; the background was made by mopping up the overspray after testing my new Color Bloom sprays; the frame was made from some new pearlised… Continue reading Blank card: Blue flowers
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