This is a variation on a card I made last year. I learned my lesson and, this time, I checked whether mum wanted me to make a card for her to give to her brother before starting work on it. She did want one and, as last year's candle card ended up being repurposed, I… Continue reading Candles and snowflakes
It's been a few months since I last made a shaker card. This little bunny and his frame gave me the perfect opportunity to make another, although the required fussy cutting was quite fiddly. But I know the person it is destined for will appreciate the effort involved. I wasn't completely sure that I'd be… Continue reading Bunny shaker
Rather than go for the traditional Christmas red, I chose to create a shiny blue-purple ribbon for these sprigs of holly and mistletoe. This was another piece of colouring from my projects box that was crying out to be put on a Christmas card, but the trick was coming up with a suitable setting for… Continue reading Merriest berries
Another piece of colouring from the project box. I'd been staring at this for quite a while before I worked out what I wanted to do with it. Earlier this year Nancee created a cute layered card and I was rather taken with the postage stamp die she used to do it. Unfortunately, that die… Continue reading Holly Sparkleberry
Just a cute reindeer prancing across the snow. I coloured this during the Daily Marker colouring challenge and have actually got around to putting him on a card. I loved how the colouring turned out on this, especially around his head, so I didn't want to distract from him too much by making the card… Continue reading Prancing reindeer
I coloured these wreaths just after the last Daily Marker challenge finished and they'd been sitting in my colouring box, forgotten, until the other day when I checked through my to-do list and spotted "Pick Xmas colouring out of stash and turn into cards". I love how these simple cards turned out — maybe I… Continue reading Christmas wreaths
Yes, yes, I've left the challenge until the end of the month again. But it's not like I haven't been busy making other Christmas cards; at this rate, I might even be finished by the end of November! This cute little mouse balancing on his bauble deserved to be the star of the card, so… Continue reading Balancing mouse
My mum's birthday means, as ever, finding some cute little critters (preferably rodents) for her card. Luckily, I recently discovered Isabel Cristina who creates some absolutely adorable digi stamps. I did the colouring for this during the Daily marker challenge, but I knew that it would end up on a card for my mum; I… Continue reading Mouse in a hot air balloon
Okay, who stole the end of October? How did I go from having a week to write up this Halloween card to it being November and I’m having to dash out to post my mum’s birthday card? In typically organised manner, I have already written up that card but didn’t want to post until I’d… Continue reading Pumpkin boo!
Back on my usual form this month and dashing around on the last day to get this cute little raccoon all coloured up and on a card in time to submit it to Gerda Steiner's progressive challenge for October. In my defence (slightly), I did have to get a birthday card for my mum finished… Continue reading Good luck raccoon
I was in the mood for two things: using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers — hereafter known as ziggies for the sake of brevity — and doing a bit of heat embossing. After a couple of busy days creating the mouse at the lake card, I had thought that I would keep that… Continue reading In bloom
The last of my catch-up blog posts! Assuming that I haven’t made more cards than I’ve blogged between scheduling this post and it being published, I am completely caught up. Ahem. This is the last of my catchup blog posts that I had intended completing before I started the 30-day colouring challenge in September. I… Continue reading Monster and teddy
I did it! I coloured something every day for 30 days. I did fail in one respect though... I had intended to try to reduce the size of my printed digis and unused stamps piles and well... cough... that didn’t quite work out as planned 🙄 https://www.instagram.com/p/BZguzbngL4u/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZjVGIIAaE6/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZlsklagnyW/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZoijtVAFza/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZq6Cg_AE8P/
Still going! Some more Copic colouring, some heat embossing techniques and a shiny experiment on vellum. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZTu6nQgMBh/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZWdYaGgOUG https://www.instagram.com/p/BZYk07zgt7o/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZbb2StgcFE/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZeIvMZAcrh/
Another five days colouring and another two stamps sets used, along with a digi stamp that I've had for ages. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZGwgwCgl2w/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZJqEepAiMa/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZMC_qPgwWu/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZOu25LA9ik/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BZRMMxigvuu/
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