What: A card made to celebrate Create A Smile’s first birthday. How: A lot of fussy cutting and arranging of masks to finalise the layout of the flowers, followed by much stamping and masking on watercolour paper. The flowers and cup were coloured with Inktense pencils blended with Wink of Stella. I went over the… Continue reading Birthday card: Create a Smile
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Birthday card: Shiny googly-eyed bunny
What: A cutesy birthday card with all the shiny thrown at it for my neighbour. How: I sketched out the rough layout I wanted, fussy cut some masks and used them to figure out the correct stamping order for the bunnies, cupcake elements and flowers. I stamped the bunnies and cupcakes with Memento ink and… Continue reading Birthday card: Shiny googly-eyed bunny
Birthday cards: Twin flowers
What: Birthday cards for twins. I set the bar high last year with mirrored cards so I had to come up with something different this year. Codepope came up with the concept (the cards are for his nieces) and I implemented it. How: I planned out the layout of the cards using post-it notes, just… Continue reading Birthday cards: Twin flowers
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #24
What: Day twenty-four of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. Some simple pencil-coloured flowers today. How: I stamped the flowers and sentiment in black on kraft and coloured them with pencil. For a finishing touch I outlined the flowers and leaves with white gel pen dots and added some along the baseline. Lessons… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #24
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #23
What: Day twenty-three of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge and I thought I’d give the shiny watercolours another go, this time on watercolour paper. How: The background is one I made some time ago and it has been lurking in my stash since then. It was painted with watercolour (a different set)… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #23
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #22
What: Day twenty-two of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. Shimmery watercolour on Neenah desert storm cardstock. Inspired by: Julia Altermann recently painted some shimmery flowers using watercolour on kraft cardstock. How: I stamped the flowers and leaves with Versamark and heat embossed them in white. I should have done them in stages,… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #22
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #18
What: Day eighteen of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. A quick Copic-coloured vase of flowers. How: A quick bit of Copic colouring and then masses of white and silver gel pen over the top just for fun. I used the largest circle die I have to round off the top and bottom… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #18
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #14
What: Day fourteen of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. More watercolour smooshing to go with the oh so pretty colour layering hibiscus stamps. How: A bit of practice making sure I knew which way up the stamp layers should go, and a few tests to make sure the different colours would work… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #14
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #13
What: Day thirteen of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. I’ve been meaning to do some embossing and watercolour since day one and I finally got around it today. Inspired by: This was on my list of things to make, but I was reminded of it by Michelle’s card over at the Card… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #13
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #1
What: I was asked if I would join in wishing a happy birthday to Maggie on Instagram. Her birthday coincides with the first day of Kathy Racoosin’s second Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge, so some colouring was definitely called for. How: This started off with a bit of masking and quite a lot of… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #1
Wedding card: Vellum flowers
What: My other half's nephew is getting married, so I had to figure out how to make a wedding card. How: I started with the idea of heat embossing flowers in white on vellum, fussy cutting them out and arranging them on a white-on-white stamped background. Try as I might, I could not come up… Continue reading Wedding card: Vellum flowers
Just a note: Lavender
What: This started out as just a quick doodle, but I thought it would make a nice simple card. How: I drew the lavender on piece of Neenah solar white, cut and scored it as a top-folding card, added the sentiment on a die-cut tag and mounted it at the base of the lavender with… Continue reading Just a note: Lavender
Smile: Masked flowers
What: I love stencils, but I don't get round to using them very often so I made a point of creating a card with a stencilled background. The clear-embossed top layer on the flowers doesn't show up very well in the photo, but it looks lovely and shiny in real life. I ended up masking… Continue reading Smile: Masked flowers
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #29
What: Day twenty-nine of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. I was looking for an excuse to try out the shiny new tin of coloured pencils I got for my birthday and these flowers from Altenew are just perfect for colouring. This is the first time I've made the effort to break out the… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #29
The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #26
What: Day twenty-six of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. Another Easter card — luckily I don't need to send many, there's not much time left to get them finished. Inspired by: Kristina Werner's masked flower wreath. Supplies: stamps: Hero arts - flower garden Lawn Fawn - happy easter colour: Avery Elle - pigment… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #26
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