The starting point for this card was one of the smallest pieces in my PHD (projects half done) box. That and a selection from my much under-used patterned paper collection… The “happy birthday” is actually a neat border die (it might have slipped my mind that I actually had this die until I came to… Continue reading Layered fox
These baby dragons are just too adorable. They were created as homework for the critters lesson in a Copic course, but it wasn’t fair to leave them languishing in my PHD box for too long. So I created a blended Distress ink background for them (love that wilted violet) and sat them on a sentiment… Continue reading Baby dragons
I like heat embossing and I like Copic colouring, but they don’t get on too well together. With the possible exception of clear embossing powder, the usual advice is that colouring over embossing powder will damage your nibs. But I wanted to be able to use the two together, so it was time for an… Continue reading Technique: Feather leaves
I always try to match cards to their recipients as much as I can. So my mum gets cute critters and flowers, my other half gets something a bit geeky, his sister gets bunnies, and we seem to be developing a South Wales theme for his dad. Last year I did a picture of Port… Continue reading Birthday: Mumbles lifeboat
I don’t make many Easter cards, in fact this year I’ve only made two: one for my mum and one for my other half’s bunny-loving sister. This card was actually made last year, but never made it onto the blog. Short of colouring directly onto the card base, this card couldn’t have been much simpler.… Continue reading Easter: Bunny and bird with basket
I'm not really doing Easter cards this year, but I had to make one for my mum. I like colouring bunnies, but it is nice to do something a bit different — a little unexpected — so I had a think and came up with a non-traditional chocolate dragon in an Easter egg. I had… Continue reading Easter: Chocolate dragon
It really doesn’t seem like two years since I made a welcome card for baby Amelia, or even a year since her first birthday, but at the start of March I was colouring up a cute animal reading group for her second birthday. I layered the final coloured piece with some black and patterned paper and mounted… Continue reading Birthday: Animal reading group
Yet another masculine birthday card; this time for my younger nephew. One of his passions is football, but that leaves me cold, so comic book style it is 🙂 I did start out by looking for suitable lettering and graphics online — and there are a lot of comic book resources out there — but… Continue reading Birthday: WOW!
This is a super cute image that provides plenty of opportunity to practise colouring hair and, especially, folds in clothing.The Copic colouring was pretty straightforward (as much as hair and folds ever are) and I did like the end result, but I wanted to add something more to it. One thing I’ve been experimenting with… Continue reading Blank: Girl in a denim dress
I always make two Mother’s Day cards; the first one was for my other half’s mum and this one — which has to be a Mothering Sunday card — is for mine. Another Power Poppy digi because Marcella’s gorgeous illustrations make it so easy to create beautiful images. Individually, the greens for the leaves don’t… Continue reading Mothering Sunday: Pink camellias
It’s Mother’s Day, so that means flowers. And it’s the perfect opportunity to use some of the Power Poppy digis that I’ve accumulated. First up: the climbing clematis. I didn’t have any plan for the card design when I started so I just concentrated on enjoying doing the colouring. Once I’d finished with the Copic… Continue reading Mother’s Day: Pink clematis
For me, dimension pretty much means popping something up on foam tape on the front of a card. There have been a few exceptions — an action wobbler here and there and a box card that I now realise never made it onto the blog (adds to todo list) — but certainly nothing that wouldn’t… Continue reading Wedding: Mixed media
I’ve been so disconnected recently that I nearly missed the start of the latest Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. This is challenge number seven and I’ve taken part in all the previous ones; I haven’t always coloured every day, but it’s always been fun, not only creating, but also seeing what everyone else is… Continue reading Easter: Bunny and eggs
My other half came back from Brussels last weekend with a horrid cold and I thought I’d managed to avoid it, but no such luck. Add to that a weekend visit from my brother, which meant a lot more talking than usual, and now my voice has disappeared almost completely. Luckily I don’t need to… Continue reading Deadpool Valentine
I’ve been on the My Creative Scoop mailing list for a while — I like Mindy’s colouring style, but I’m rubbish at getting around to things that don’t have a deadline, so I have yet to colour any of her freebies or follow any of the tutorials on her site. What I did do though was… Continue reading Neve and snowman
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