It’s always fun to see different styles of images and these forest animals are unlike any others I’ve seen. I kept the colouring simple, adding some basic texturing to the fur and giving them a grassy patch to sit on. I always find it hard to create a layout for coloured pieces like this. After… Continue reading Wolf, fox and bear
This blog post is a little bit different from my usual card write-ups. Towards the end of last year Create A Smile put out a call for card tutorials for a winter mini-magazine they were planning. I made a card, wrote it up and sent it in and then, I guess, life happened and the… Continue reading Penguins tag
I was surprised how well these wax oil pastels worked. I thought I was pushing it — trying them on an image with quite small petals and leaves — and I didn’t expect to be able to get anywhere near the amount of blending I did. It’s another one of those things where you think… Continue reading Crayon flowers on black
It was the middle of a colouring challenge last summer and the call went out to melonise all the things: pick an image and colour it like a watermelon. I could have chosen something simple like a cute little round mouse, but no, I couldn’t take the easy option, I had to pick the wraith… Continue reading Melonised wraith
Cake!!!!! I was tempted to colour rainbow layers but decided to make it into a massive chocolate cake instead. On the digi stamp, the banner says “live it up”, but I wanted a more traditional “happy birthday” so I wrote it in by hand; I could probably have found a stamp that would fit in… Continue reading Layer cake
This fairy is a really good image for practising hair and this was coloured when I was just starting to get a handle on how to create highlights. I ought to try it again and see how it turns out with another few months of Copic practise under my belt. The thing that I really… Continue reading Purple fairy
When it comes to interactive cards, the trickiest thing for me is coming up with a design that makes good use of the movement — I don’t want to add moving parts just for the sake of it. Then I had the idea of having a kite floating in the sky. The background was created… Continue reading Elephant & kite
I love the Gorjuss girls. There’s something about the simplicity of the faces and the poses that is really appealing. I balanced the straightforward Copic colouring with some sparkle on the layout: glitter tape behind the image panel, vellum across the top of that and a pearlised hello. All finished off with some tiny shiny… Continue reading Gorjuss girl in blue
Like the dragons, this fox was coloured for the critters lesson in Sandy Allnock’s Copic Jumpstart class and I am really happy with the fur texture I managed to create. It is possible to get really fine lines with a Copic marker, but you do need a very light hand to do it... The fox… Continue reading Clean and simple fox
Sci-fi, bad movies and shaker cards. Yes it was time to make a birthday card for my other half again. This time I went straight for This Island Earth aka Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie and created an interocitor. Once I found a reasonably clear image of the whole of the interocitor, I used… Continue reading Interocitor
This was made for my neighbour. Some people like bunnies, some people like cats or dogs, and some people, like my neighbour, love meerkats. In fact, making this card for her was the main reason for picking up this stamp set. Doing all this catch-up card blogging is rather fun. It was a bit of… Continue reading Meerkats
This was made for a friend who is a radio geek (among other things) — hence the valves — and whose eyesight is bad enough that I always make an effort to put extra texture or interactive elements in; this one is basically a full-size shaker. Looking back at the photos of this card I… Continue reading Valves shaker
Another little piece of colouring from a previous Daily Marker colouring challenge. This sad little pusscat didn’t really need much embellishment, so I just cut the panel down and mounted it flush on a pearlised card base. Finding a sentiment that matched with the image was the hardest part, but I think this one works… Continue reading Rainy cat
This definitely falls into the really simple category. The sort of card that you can make when you just want to switch your brain off and do a little bit of flat colouring and a lot of easy doodling. I die-cut several overlapping circles in a piece of card, coloured the individual pieces and doodled… Continue reading Doodled die-cut circles
This pencil-coloured unicorn Mae had been sitting around for almost a year before finally being put on a card as part of my brief blitz on my PHD (projects half done) box. I did some tone-on-tone stamping for the lines on the card base and stamped the sentiment over the top of them. The sparkly… Continue reading Purple unicorn Mae
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