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
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 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
It was my brother's birthday at the start of September and, as he spent one summer working with sheep many years ago, of course I had to break out MFT's cute ewes for him. I also added a motorbike to the scene as I don’t think I can remember a time when he didn't have… Continue reading Birthday: Sheep and motorbike
After winning Create A Smile’s “blue” challenge in with my very blue light-up ocean card, I was asked to be a Guest Designer for October’s challenge. The theme for this month is “embellish”. Now, embellishments are normally the last thing I think about when making a card, usually in a “what else does this card… Continue reading Embellish!
I did originally have a far more complicated interactive design in mind for this little parachute piggy. I got close to making it work, but then time was running short and my brain gave up on me, so I decided to keep it simple this month. How: I printed out a couple of piggies on… Continue reading Misc: Just dropping by…
Another thing checked off my “things to try” list: my first box card. The latest challenge from The East Wind is to create a project with some movement in it; including either something that actually moves or a representation of movement. I chose to go with the first one and, after running through various options,… Continue reading Misc: Snow queen box card
September’s challenge over at Seven Hills Crafts is a sketch. One of these days I’ll figure out how to interpret sketches in a novel and interesting way (and still have it recognisable), but today is not that day. Instead, I’ve used the sketch as is, but divided it into layers with the pots at the… Continue reading Thanks: Succulent sketch
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