What: Day twenty-three of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. I wanted to have a go at a Copic piece with a simple background — it's not something I've tried before and a lot more practise will be needed before I'm the slightest bit comfortable doing it. Inspired by: The attempt at a background was… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #23
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The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #22
What: Day twenty-two of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. While collating ideas for new challenge entries, I saw a couple of Copic-on-vellum creations pass by in my Instagram feed; it's something I've been meaning to try and so that's what I sat down to do this morning. Lesson learned: Overly juicy Copic markers… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #22
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #21
What: Day twenty-one of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. I wasn't quite sure where I was going to go with this one, I just knew I had to use the gorgeous Avery Elle furry friends and had a vague idea of using a mask for the background. Much pondering and I ended up… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #21
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #20
What: Day twenty of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. I don't usually send Easter cards, but any excuse for making cards 🙂 The background is blended Distress inks, the rest of the colouring is painted Distress inks, and the very restrained embellishment is white gel pen. Inspired by: Julia Altermann at Just One… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #20
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #19
What: Day nineteen of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. I appear to be going through a phase of things not working out as planned. On the plus side, this does mean I'm getting better at coming up with fixes. How: The plan was to heat emboss the stamp in gold and do a… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #19
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #18
What: Day eighteen of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. I started off with the intention of doing a simple panel with the flower, a couple of leaves and a sentiment. How: I got out the Gelatos that have been sitting on the shelf unused and, well, these are going to take some practise...… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #18
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #17
What: Day seventeen of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. Doodles! Colour! I really enjoyed doing this and was so pleased with the result that I just had to turn it into a card. Inspired by: In the style of Kathy Racoosin's day 15 doodled challenge card. Supplies: stamps: Clearly Besotted - sentimental type… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #17
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #16
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
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
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
Crafty Rat 