Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #13 Raccoons are mostly grey, metal bins are grey, I figured I might as well do the whole image in greyscale and just make the apple red for a pop of colour. When I picked the words to go with this one, I was originally thinking that he was… Continue reading Raccoon in a bin
Another birthday card and once again my inspiration for card-making has deserted me. And it's for a guy so, of course, absolutely nothing in my stash is suitable. Luckily I have my secondary stash of coloured images to fall back on. A quick sort through and I settled on this cute dinosaur and his stack… Continue reading Dino birthday
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #12 I have a tendency to end up with a lot of contrast and strong colours when I'm colouring on auto-pilot with my Copic markers: the rabbit in the rain is a good example. Don't get me wrong, I do love that style of colouring, it's just that some… Continue reading Meditation
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #11 I wanted to try something a little bit different with this one. There was quite a bit of blank space in the background and that called out for something other than a simple colour fill or even a grass/sky landscape. I decided to have a go at… Continue reading Green fairy
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #10 And at the top of the bookaholic's pile of hair is a kitty cat. I used the same technique for the background texture as on the coneflowers: a piece of kitchen roll moistened with 0 refill dabbed lightly all over. It's a simple way to add subtle but… Continue reading Cat on hair
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #09 I coloured the full version of this digi stamp for the Daily Marker Coloring Challenge blog hop back in 2016. It’s a big image and it was easy to get two ATC-sized sections out of it. This first one focuses on the face and only hints at her… Continue reading Bookaholic
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #08 Another Power Poppy digi stamp; this time it's some simple coneflowers rather than a full bouquet and I kept the colouring simple to match. The only thing I did out of the ordinary was to add texture to the background by dabbing lightly and repeatedly with a small… Continue reading Coneflowers
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #07 For this one, I returned to my default, bold, Copic colouring style, taking extra care with the shading. I wanted to create a rainy feel to the background; I laid down a gradient of three blues and then drew sketchy lines over it in the same colours. I… Continue reading Rainy rabbit
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #06 My other half backed Stephanie Law's Succulent Dragons book on Kickstarter for me last year. The book has a mix of full page and smaller images and this is a section from one of the smaller ones. I'm rather taken with these slightly surreal hares. After I stuck… Continue reading Surreal hares
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #05 I used the full version of this digi stamp to make a birthday card for my mum last year. I coloured this one without looking back at what I'd done before and it turned out completely different: none of the colour choices or shading patterns are the same.… Continue reading Bee on blackberry flowers
All the time I was making the art cards for the Daily Marker colouring challenge, there was a nagging voice in the back of my head reminding me that it would be my other half's birthday only two days after the challenge ended and I really ought to be spending a bit of time making… Continue reading Twist-and-pop bots
Series: The Daily Marker Art Card #04 The Paper Shelter is another reliable creator of interesting digi stamps. I really ought to put together an up-to-date list of suppliers I use; a few have unfortunately closed down in the last couple of years. I added texture to the hair with a sharp coloured pencil, the… Continue reading Beach girl
I'm always happy to have an excuse to colour Power Poppy flowers; I chose these pretty sweet peas for my brother's girlfriend's birthday earlier this year. Like all Power Poppy images, this is so beautifully drawn that it's easy to get a good result. The background was more of a challenge. I could have left… Continue reading Sweet peas
The only other Easter card I made this year: the inevitable Easter bunny... Any excuse to colour up a bunny for my other half's sister. It's so satisfying making a card for someone who truly appreciates it; she keeps all my cards and has even been known to "look after" ones I've made for her… Continue reading Easter bunny and egg
I may not have made that many cards this year, but I still manage to take my time writing them up for the blog. Though Easter was less than a month ago, so it could be a lot worse... And I only made two Easter cards this year — this one for my mum and… Continue reading Vintage Easter egg
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