This started out as an experiment, one of those “see a technique, try it” self-contained experiments that have no purpose other than to have a go at something. Of course, me being me, I couldn’t leave a perfectly good bit of string art sitting unused for long. The string art is in four colours —… Continue reading String art and flower
I picked up a set of the Tim Holtz mixed media dies out of curiosity more than anything else. Rather than giving you a positive shape to work with, these dies are designed to leave you with the negative, empty space on a panel, and I wondered what I could do with that. My initial… Continue reading Bricks and butterfly
I was in the mood for two things: using my Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers — hereafter known as ziggies for the sake of brevity — and doing a bit of heat embossing. After a couple of busy days creating the mouse at the lake card, I had thought that I would keep that… Continue reading In bloom
I don't like to waste anything, so I needed to find a use for my patchy glitter kiss test piece. I had a search through my box of finished coloured pieces, looking for something that would go well with the shiny purple. And I found these flowers. I knew they'd been lurking around for a… Continue reading Glossy flowers
This card combines two shiny things: glitter kiss and Perfect Pearls. And I even got to use a bit of patterned paper. I'd had a play with the glitter kiss, seeing how it covered straight to paper and through a stencil. I haven't really figured out how it works yet — sometimes it seems to… Continue reading Butterfly over glitter cells
I finally had to stop procrastinating and actually get around to making a card for my other half's mum's birthday. I love colouring Power Poppy flowers. There's so much detail in the illustrations that I swear the end result would look gorgeous even if you just coloured it flat with no shading. But, of course,… Continue reading Rose and chamomile
We’re heading towards the end of yet another month so it’s time for another challenge card. After last month’s turtle, Gerda Steiner gave us a cute little mouse with a hoard of strawberries to colour. Inspired by the sketch challenge from Seven Hills Crafts, I thought I’d combine the two challenges and make a shaker… Continue reading Strawberry mouse shaker
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
A change of style and medium — no Copic markers! — for this simple flower border. I created a simple mask for the baseline of the border by tearing a piece of copy paper and taping it over the card. Then it was just a case of choosing some similarly sized flower and greenery stamps… Continue reading Flower border
I like heat embossing and I like Copic colouring, but they don’t get on too well together. With the possible exception of clear embossing powder, the usual advice is that colouring over embossing powder will damage your nibs. But I wanted to be able to use the two together, so it was time for an… Continue reading Technique: Feather leaves
This is a super cute image that provides plenty of opportunity to practise colouring hair and, especially, folds in clothing.The Copic colouring was pretty straightforward (as much as hair and folds ever are) and I did like the end result, but I wanted to add something more to it. One thing I’ve been experimenting with… Continue reading Blank: Girl in a denim dress
This was created on 13th July: day 9 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. These art deco style roses were a little time consuming to colour — there are a lot of tiny areas in there — but I love the designs. I may have gone a bit overboard with all the faux… Continue reading Blank: Art deco roses
For the “colouring round objects” lesson in the Copic Jumpstart class, Sandy Allnock masked up a comical pile of vegetables and coloured them. The only vegetation in my stamp collection is floral, so I went further up the food chain and found these decidedly round farmyard animals and stacked those up instead. How: I hadn’t… Continue reading Blank: Copic farmyards
Another catch-up post; this card was originally made on February 25th as part of the Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. I love Some Odd Girl stamp designs, and this pixie is so cute she deserved to star on a nice simple background. How: The pixie was coloured with Copic markers and then fussy cut… Continue reading Blank: Green pixie
Another catch-up post; these cards were originally made between February 13th and 22nd as part of the Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. Earlier this year Santoro came out with mini versions of their Gorjuss girls and my other half picked up a bunch of them for me. I decided to make a selection of blank… Continue reading Blank: Mini Gorjuss girls
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