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Card catchup
Here are some cards I have made since my last post
Happy half birthday
I have been seeing loads of designs with cats on lately and wanted to make a card for my friend. However her birthday is in December, so I decided to make her a “half birthday” card!
I used a TiddlyInks digital stamp, coloured it with Copics and cut it out. I then used a dotty stencil and distress ink for the background. I made another stencil by cutting out paw shapes and using the holes as the stencil. The sentiment is stamped in Stazon black ink.
I am entering this card in … TiddlyInks Challenge #183 Happy Birthday
TiddlyInks Challenge #183
This is my card for the new TiddlyInks challenge. The digistamp is called Schoolboy from TiddlyInks. I coloured it in with Copics, then cut it out. I stamped a Kraft baseboard with some Crafter’s Companion Journal Jottings stamps using Distress Ink. Then I die cut the numbers and added Distress Ink again. Stuck them on, added the image with sticky buds and die cut the words Happy Birthday on white card coloured with Distress Ink.
Flower Girl card
This is the second Julia Spiri design I bought. Again coloured with Copics and layered up. The embellishments are die cut flowers and Liquid Pearls. The large flower has some sparkle added from a clear Wink of Stella pen.
The fishing is easy…..
This a the card I made for my step-dad’s birthday. The image is from Pachela Studios on Cuddly Buddly.
I printed off the backing papers, then coloured with Copics and cut out the main image. The clouds were stamped and cut out and the sentiment is a set of tiny alphabet stamps from Hobbycraft. I doodled round the edges.
Green Elf card
I discovered Julia Spiri digital stamps about a week ago, and bought a couple of images. The first one is a little elf which I have coloured with my Copic Markers.
I hand drew around the edges of the various papers and scuffed up the edges, then added a couple of brads and some buttons and ribbon. The base card is a Gorjuss card blank and envelope. The sentiment is a rubber stamp free with Creative Stamping magazine a while ago.
Not sure who this card is going to yet.
A sock!
Amazing I know, but I’VE BEEN KNITTING!!! My friend Anne who has recently opened Yarn O’clock asked me to take a ball of one of the new colours of Arne & Carlos sock yarn to knit a sample for the shop. This is sock 1. Basic 60 stitches, round and round with a heel flap, knitted top down.
Arne & Carlos sock yarn from Yarn O’clock
I have started the second one from a different starting point in the ball to see how different it might turn out.
Happy Birthdays.
It’s show off some cards time again, so here are a few I made recently……
Roaaarrrrr!!
In our living room we have some original pencil drawings which we bought a few years ago at the National Exhibition of Wildlife Art, which is held every year at Gordale Garden Centre on the Wirral. The drawings are by the excellent artist Jamie Boots.
The Lookout Post
Restless Slumber
We also have one by Jordan Price from last year, a young artist who was inspired by Jamie.
Tranquility
Whenever we go to the exhibition, we wander around and look at all the pictures mumbling to ourselves that maybe we could do it. We’ve said it for years now and not done anything about it. Colin started to have a go last year but I’ve never drawn in my life so had no idea where to start..
Towards the end of last year Colin noticed that there was a workshop on wildlife drawing in March taken by none other than Jamie Boots! He decided he wanted to go so I thought I’d go too for a weekend away doing something different. I had no expectations and hoped the subject wouldn’t be too complicated for a beginner. So off we went to Kettering a couple of weeks ago.
There were 15 people at the class, most of which had been to one (or more!) of his workshops before. On the desk everyone had the same photo of a lion. We all gathered round while Jamie explained the first part of the drawing – the outline and shading – and then we had to go and make a start. He then came round everyone individually offering advice, before gathering for the next bit and so on.
Half way through day 1 I had produced this and was feeling rather chuffed with myself….
The second day was about learning the techniques for filling in the detail. We weren’t expected to finish the drawing by the end of the two days, but I was even more chuffed with what I’d done by the time we came home.
I haven’t added a great deal since then but I think you can see there is more detail to the side of the nose, the outline and the chin…..
I hope to finish it but it may take a while as it is quite time consuming. But having gone not even expecting to draw a cartoon worm, I think I did pretty well.
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