Birthdays are no respecters of how you're feeling and annoyingly come along even when you have a horrible flu-y cold. And so it was I had to create a masculine card for my neighbour all while reaching for the tissues and breaking into a sweat. Ideal conditions to try something I haven't done before 🙄… Continue reading Whisky glass
This pencil-coloured unicorn Mae had been sitting around for almost a year before finally being put on a card as part of my brief blitz on my PHD (projects half done) box. I did some tone-on-tone stamping for the lines on the card base and stamped the sentiment over the top of them. The sparkly… Continue reading Purple unicorn Mae
Another catch-up post; this card was originally made on February 12th as part of the Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. This is the coloured pencil version of my "colouring on kraft" trial. I find pencils to be physically much harder work than Copics, but I do like the results so I shall persevere, occasionally...… Continue reading Thinking of you: Artist Mae
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
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
Crafty Rat 