It’s time to make a birthday card for my brother again and every year it gets trickier to find suitable images without repeating myself. I had a browse through my collection of digi stamps and came across this happy-grumpy pair of sheep.
It was the middle of a colouring challenge last summer and the call went out to melonise all the things: pick an image and colour it like a watermelon. I could have chosen something simple like a cute little round mouse, but no, I couldn’t take the easy option, I had to pick the wraith girl…
This fairy is a really good image for practising hair and this was coloured when I was just starting to get a handle on how to create highlights. I ought to try it again and see how it turns out with another few months of Copic practise under my belt.
One of our neighbours asked if I could make her a handful of birthday cards as she had a bunch of birthdays coming up. Typical of such requests, there wasn’t a lot (well, any) more detail, so I had to wing it a bit.
I love Power Poppy flowers. And apparently I love colouring them in pink; first the two Mother’s Day cards and now this. I zoomed in close on this one so I could add in plenty of detail on those small flowers. Geraniums come in lots of colour variations and, as the digi stamp is so realistic, I thought I should base the colour scheme on a real one too.
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.
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. Continue reading
