A bit of a last minute rush to get a card done for the latest challenge from The East Wind. Lots of house tidying and the like had to be done and that combined with trips to the physio and the dentist had pretty much robbed me of any energy recently! But, I missed the… Continue reading Hello: Diva Lisa
This card was created on 8th November; day 8 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. The latest challenge from The East Wind is a little different; rather than specifying a particular technique or element to incorporate, this time the challenge is to create a project based on a memory in honour of Alzheimer’s… Continue reading Christmas: Trimming the tree
Every now and again I’ll see someone saying that they wish they could colour like someone else. There were even a couple of people said similar things to me in the comments on my Daily Marker blog hop post the other day. I’ve said it myself enough times; looked at other people’s art and despaired at… Continue reading How to colour like me
Hello! Welcome to day 2 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge. Today is the FIRST day of a THREE DAY hop to help jumpstart your creativity. If you’re new to the colouring challenge or have any questions about it you can take a look at Kathy's introductory post. If you arrived here from Sandy… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge blog hop
November (already!) and that means cute critters and blackberries for my mum’s birthday. (It's not for another couple of days, but as she's the only person I know who isn't on the internet, it's safe to post it now 🙂 ) I’m running a bit behind schedule this year — this would normally have been… Continue reading Birthday: Mice and blackberries
This was created on 19th July: day 15 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. Like a lot of the cards I created during the colouring challenge, I didn’t start out with any real idea of what the final card would look like; I was just colouring images for the fun of colouring. This… Continue reading Ice-cream & Polaroid beach scene
This cute hedgehog wrapped up warm in his chunky scarf is the image for October’s progressive challenge from Gerda Steiner Designs. I have to give credit to my other half for coming up with the great pumpkin idea; I love how it turned out. How: I printed the hedgehog on Neenah solar white and coloured… Continue reading The great pumpkin hedgehog
This little spidey is just sooooo cute! I didn’t have a plan for him when I coloured him, but I quickly realised that he would be perfect as the centrepiece of a birthday card for a friend of ours. How: I printed spidey out, coloured him with Copic markers and fussy cut him out. I… Continue reading Cute Spidey
This was created on 6th July: day 2 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. This card was directly inspired by Kathy Racoosin’s colouring book card on day one of the challenge. It’s nice to find a use for some of the pages from the various colouring books I’ve bought and been given.… Continue reading Just a Note: Colouring page
The colouring was done on 12th July: day 8 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. Another cute free digi stamp from Just Inklined and some more Copic colouring; I do use other mediums occasionally, but I have to say that me and Copics just get on 🙂 I didn’t have a plan for… Continue reading Thanks: Red-headed girl
This card was created on 30th July: day 26 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. I loved the black-stamped version of this bear so I decided to be brave and make one of my infrequent attempts at no-line Copic colouring and try to recreate it using the same colour palette. For me, no-line… Continue reading Birthday: No-line bear
This card was created on 29th July: day 25 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. I was going to be good about buying more stamp sets — I have a pile of ones waiting to be inked up — but these bears! How could I resist… How: For a change, I decided to… Continue reading Birthday: Bear and balloons
This was created on 14th July: day 10 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. It’s hard to resist the opportunity to colour a rainbow and this lacy flower stamp just cried out for layers of colour. This was also a bit of an experiment to see how well colouring would work on the… Continue reading Thinking of you: Rainbow lacy flowers
This was created on 1st August: day 28 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. These kitties have so much personality and attitude. When I first saw them I immediately thought the skinny one looked shocked, like maybe he’d just found out someone’s age, and the idea for the card developed from there. How:… Continue reading Birthday: Alley cats
The start of the month brings another freebie digi stamp in the newsletter from The East Wind and another challenge; this time the theme is “in the pink”, inviting pink projects and ones supporting breast cancer awareness. How: The second hardest part was choosing a sentiment, but I had a search for breast cancer awareness… Continue reading Positively pink
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