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
The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge is over and now I get a chance to tidy up my craft supplies and find my desk again. I had a very productive thirty days: I coloured every day and made twenty-seven cards. I've only managed to blog the cards that were made for challenges and had… Continue reading Round-up: The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge
Christmas in July. I really don’t want to end up rushing to make cards in the run-up to Christmas like I did last year, so I’m making a start on them now. How: I printed the digi stamp on some Neenah solar white and coloured it with Copic markers, sticking with the traditional Christmas colour… Continue reading Christmas: Girl with reindeer
Create A Smile is celebrating its second birthday and this month’s challenge is, fittingly, to create a birthday card. That gave me a really good reason to finally ink up the crokisses stamp set, which I absolutely love, but haven’t got around to actually using yet… I also decided that a shaker card would work… Continue reading Birthday: Crocuses
Once again, I’m cutting it fine creating a challenge entry in time… where does the month go? It took a while to figure out what I was going to do for this; there were three palettes to choose from and either of the others would have been easy choices for a floral card (both had… Continue reading Hello: Orange and grey
I swear that next month, whatever image Gerda gives us for the progressive challenge, I am just going to colour it and put it on a card base1. That was, more or less, my intention this month, but then I saw all the creative things that people were doing with this scene and I wanted… Continue reading Hello: Polaroid mermaid
Only a few days to go until The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge starts on July 5th — what on earth happened to June and is there any chance we might get a hint of summer in July? This will be the fifth time the amazing Kathy Racoosin has hosted the challenge; how she… Continue reading The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge
Another catch-up post; this card was originally made on February 25th as part of the Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge.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
Another catch-up post; this card was originally made on February 4th as part of the Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. I am slowly working through my backlog of digi stamps and using them to experiment with different mediums. This is my first proper attempt at colouring with Stabilo markers. How: I wish prints from… Continue reading Hello: Bunny with gift
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
Another catch-up post; this card was originally made on February 9th as part of the Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. I've seen people colouring on kraft card with both Copics and coloured pencils, but it's not something I've tried much. I thought that the colouring challenge was a good opportunity to test both mediums… Continue reading Be original: artist Mae
Another catch-up post; this card was originally made on February 1st on the first day of the Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge. I couldn't share it then though, as the person it was made for also follows me on Instagram, so I restricted myself to posting the circle that was die cut from the… Continue reading Birthday: Butterflies and flowers
Another catch-up post; this card was originally made on March 21st, although the monsters were coloured at the start of February during the Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge. When I picked out the monsters stamp to colour, I knew that it would end up on a birthday card for my younger nephew. Designing cards for adult… Continue reading Birthday: Monstrous party
Another catch-up post; this card was originally made on February 27th. This card was for my mum. For her, it always has to be "Mothering Sunday" rather than "Mother's Day" — something which made finding store-bought cards increasingly tricky. Rather less traditionally, there also have to be some cute critters on there. How: I love… Continue reading Mothering Sunday: Bouquet and birds
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