Sometimes you start a card knowing exactly what you’re going to create. Sometimes you start with a rough idea and it develops smoothly as you go along. And sometimes you get cards like this one. I recently picked up the double-cut alphabet dies and thought I’d make a quick thank you card to test them… Continue reading Thank you: Inlaid letters
This card was created on 4th November; day 4 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. I don’t have a lot of full-size background stamps, but I just had to pick up these balloons from Create A Smile. For some reason my brain came up with the bright idea of colouring it and then… Continue reading Thanks: Balloons
The colouring was done on 12th July: day 8 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. Another cute free digi stamp from Just Inklined and some more Copic colouring; I do use other mediums occasionally, but I have to say that me and Copics just get on 🙂 I didn’t have a plan for… Continue reading Thanks: Red-headed girl
September’s challenge over at Seven Hills Crafts is a sketch. One of these days I’ll figure out how to interpret sketches in a novel and interesting way (and still have it recognisable), but today is not that day. Instead, I’ve used the sketch as is, but divided it into layers with the pots at the… Continue reading Thanks: Succulent sketch
For August, Seven Hills Crafts challenged us to create a card with “geometry”. After discarding the idea of stamped lines or grids as too easy — I like to try to challenge myself and not run with the first idea I come up with when I see a challenge theme — I remembered the mini scenery… Continue reading Thank you: Geometry with lacy flower
Quite often I’ll be inspired by a card I’ve seen; I’ll get a flash of an idea triggered by a layout or a technique or just the way someone has used a particular stamp. But I always try to put my own interpretation on it, to use it as a springboard to something completely different.… Continue reading Thank you: Magician’s bunny
For this Copic Jumpstart homework, Sandy challenged us to get our flower stamps out. Rather than trying to create loads of dimension on each petal, I chose to go with the more pastel approach, mainly because I usually go for stronger colours and contrast and I wanted to stretch myself by doing something out of my… Continue reading Thanks: Split bouquet
So many new ideas to try in this class. The next step on from just having a plain acetate card base is to have an embossed one; it’s an interesting technique, but it does warp the acetate so, depending on the embossing folder used, it could be more appropriate for creating embellishments. How: For the… Continue reading Embossed acetate cards
What: Day thirty of the second Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. A thank you to Kathy Racoosin for running the challenge and somehow finding the time to comment on everyone's pictures. How: The hardest part about making this card was leaving so much white space on it. I made a card base from Neenah… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #30
What: My brother got me some artist's tile cards and a pack of Gelly Roll pens for my birthday, so what better way to say thank you than to use them — and a few other supplies — to create a thank you note. Supplies: colour: Sakura - Gelly Roll - stardust - meteor set… Continue reading Doodled Thank you note
What: Day thirty — the last day — of The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge. The motivation behind this card is simple: to say a huge thank you to Kathy Racoosin for organising this challenge; it pushed me to use supplies that had been sitting unused on my shelves and to try things that… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge #30
Crafty Rat 