The annual hunt for small furry Christmassy critters to go on a card for my mum. I'd narrowed it down to a handful of options, but ultimately this one won out because of the mouse butt. I love that little furry mouse butt 🙂 I decided to keep the design simple and just find a… Continue reading Mice and presents
It's been a few months since I last made a shaker card. This little bunny and his frame gave me the perfect opportunity to make another, although the required fussy cutting was quite fiddly. But I know the person it is destined for will appreciate the effort involved. I wasn't completely sure that I'd be… Continue reading Bunny shaker
Rather than go for the traditional Christmas red, I chose to create a shiny blue-purple ribbon for these sprigs of holly and mistletoe. This was another piece of colouring from my projects box that was crying out to be put on a Christmas card, but the trick was coming up with a suitable setting for… Continue reading Merriest berries
My mum's birthday means, as ever, finding some cute little critters (preferably rodents) for her card. Luckily, I recently discovered Isabel Cristina who creates some absolutely adorable digi stamps. I did the colouring for this during the Daily marker challenge, but I knew that it would end up on a card for my mum; I… Continue reading Mouse in a hot air balloon
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. I wanted to work on the texture for the sheep so I started… Continue reading Autumn 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… Continue reading Melonised wraith
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. The thing that I really… Continue reading Purple fairy
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. Knowing that her tastes swing more to amusing rather than pretty… Continue reading Four monster cards
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… Continue reading Pink geraniums
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. Short of colouring directly onto the card base, this card couldn’t have been much simpler.… Continue reading Easter: Bunny and bird with basket
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. I layered the final coloured piece with some black and patterned paper and mounted… Continue reading Birthday: Animal reading group
For me, dimension pretty much means popping something up on foam tape on the front of a card. There have been a few exceptions — an action wobbler here and there and a box card that I now realise never made it onto the blog (adds to todo list) — but certainly nothing that wouldn’t… Continue reading Wedding: Mixed media
I have to take a break from my Copic markers every now and again — just for a bit of variety — and I do enjoy playing with the Zig real brush markers, even if I do need way more practise with them. When I pulled the digi print from the stack I’d prepared for… Continue reading Christmas: Duck with presents
Happy Christmas! This is pretty much the nearest I get to clean and simple card design: a single digital image and sentiment, coloured with Copic markers, on a white panel bordered with matte gold tape. Luckily these are such sweet images that they don’t need anything more. Supplies: digital stamps: Digistamp Boutique - cute nativity… Continue reading Christmas: Cute nativity
This card was created on 21st November; day 21 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. Skimming around Pinterest, I saw a Craftsy article on “watercolouring” with Copics and I was intrigued… I have a small selection of Various ink refills, so I thought I’d give it a go. How: First, open a window. I didn’t… Continue reading Christmas: Painting with Copics
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