This is the third of this year’s Copic-coloured Christmas cards and this one is based on the third lesson in the Winter Storybook class from Sandy Allnock over on Art-Classes. I really need to work on drawing tree shapes; these are verging on spooky rather than wintry. The snow helps though... Like the little sheep… Continue reading Christmas cat in the woods
This is the second of this year’s Copic-coloured Christmas cards and this one is based on the second lesson in the Winter Storybook class from Sandy Allnock over on Art-Classes. There were a couple of minor problems making this one. First off, I forgot to mark out the snow caps before colouring in the first… Continue reading Christmas bunny in the hills
This is the first of this year’s Copic-coloured Christmas cards. I would normally be panicking that I’d only just started but I have a vague plan to do some small batches and if it doesn’t work out then so be it. This year I’m putting myself first and crafting for my own well-being. This is… Continue reading Christmas sheep by lake
Time for mum's birthday again and I've used most of my critter stamps in the past, so this year I've done something a little different. A couple of years ago she was running low on her card stash and hadn't been able to get out to pick up a card for my other half's birthday,… Continue reading Mouse among blackberries
Series: Mandala Makers 2020 #1 Oh what a time... I would put more of a definitive timescale on that but my sense of time has become even more broken than usual over the last few months. I had an actual face-to-face (or mask-to-mask) physio appointment a few weeks ago (good thing) and now have some… Continue reading Mandala #1
The last three years I have made "clever" cards for my other half's birthday — twist and pop, interactive, and tunnel — but nothing had inspired me for this year. I had a hunt around Pinterest and really nothing was sparking any ideas. So I had to go back to basics. I've had the Lucy… Continue reading Voyage to Venus
When I printed out the digis for the mouse and bunny, I did a few extra at the same sort of size. I haven't done much Copic colouring recently and these are all nice simple images that can be coloured without too much effort. I kept the card design similar to the previous cards, but… Continue reading Critters & snowflakes
A mouse for my mum and a bunny for my other half's sister. Some things never change. Copic colouring, fussy cutting, die-cuts and glitter are also a Christmas staple. I was originally going to leave a white border around the edge of the images — apart from any aesthetic choices, that tail is quite tricky… Continue reading Critters on snow
I finally made a start on the City Sidewalks class at the start of October, though I didn't manage to make it past the first lesson. It's a good job these courses have lifetime access! Rather than leave it lonely on the side waiting for me to do the other four lessons, I decided to… Continue reading City sidewalks #1
Way back in June 2016 I made two Copic farmyard cards and they have been sitting in my stash ever since. When I went to visit my mum last month I asked her if she would be interested in them because I thought one of my uncles might find them amusing; she said yes, but… Continue reading Farmyard Christmas
I don't think I've ever felt less Christmassy. Really not helped by catching this horrible cold that has been going around and then, just as I thought I might be on the mend after two weeks, getting a 24-hour stomach bug that wiped me out for another week and then, just as I'm starting to… Continue reading Embossed Christmas tree
By the time we got to the middle of October, I was starting to worry that I was running out of time to come up with an idea for my mum's birthday card. I've used all my blackberry images and didn't want to repeat myself unless I absolutely had to — the same goes for… Continue reading Vintage mouse on leaves
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #30 And finally, we reach the last of the art cards I coloured for the last Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge. Probably just in time for the next one to start. It's really satisfying ending up with a neat stack of finished artworks about the size of a… Continue reading Bunnies with heart
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #29 There was so much bright colour in the last card that I just had to calm it down for this one. I wanted to go monochrome but I'd already done the raccoon in greys, so I went for a more sepia tone instead. And I love how it… Continue reading Sepia star
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #28 I thought I had coloured this digi stamp before, but I must have been thinking of another Power Poppy bouquet with a butterfly... I had to go for a super tight crop on this one; I had printed it out larger than usual and there were at least… Continue reading Butterfly daydreams
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