Papercrafting, cardmaking and paper art
26 Feb 2017 9 Comments
in Cards, Masculine, Zendoodle
This zendoodled vintage car was such fun to do!
It’s entered for the Male Room challenge #54 Wheels
and Watercooler Wednesday WWC107 Masculine Anything Goes Challenge
I’m looking forward to giving this one to a car-mad friend.
Speed may be modern
But slow and steady may win:
Venerable age
26 Feb 2017 4 Comments
I think this Elusive Images Celtic cross is a lovely stamp – I have it in two sizes and it comes out for many occasions.
The inks are my nearest to the Peekaboo Peach, Cucumber Crush and Watermelon Wonder of the CAS Colours and Sketches challenge.
Haiku for today’s card:
Now and in the past,
Sometimes a ritual is
calm and comforting.
24 Feb 2017 9 Comments
in Birthday, Cards, CAS, Ladies
For a friend’s birthday of course! I loved the shape of the cards in Susan Raihala’s post at Simplicity on Tuesday: Inspired by Art.
It uses a Kaleidacolour inkpad as well, which Susan has also blogged about. I created a stencil from a big chipboard letter.
Challenges:
19 Feb 2017 4 Comments
I loved the image and the colours at Color Throwdown this week: it reminded me of raku (which the contestants in TV’s “The Great Pottery Throwdown” tried last week!). I immediately knew what I wanted to create. It took a bit of tinkering, though.
The stamp is Inkadinkadoo Delicate Branches. The blue and green inks are Colorbox metallic and there’s a beautiful sheeny sparkle on them that I haven’t really been able to catch with the camera. Here’s a close-up attempt. Shame that half the Colorbox inks have dried out. Not sure why. The ones I wanted to use happily are still juicy. And chestnut roan chalk ink.
Entering challenge Color Throwdown #430
also Cards4Guyz #157 No patterned paper 🙂
And the haiku:
Fly high my great hawk
Light sparkling on your wide wings
Take strength from the sun
16 Feb 2017 4 Comments
in Birthday, Cards, CAS, Ladies
A midweek post. A birthday card for one of my friends who likes riding. I bought the stamp because I thought I’d get a lot of use out of it with horsey friends but I don’t really think it’s my type of thing. Still, after a fair bit of experimentation I hope she likes it!
Watercolours, Colorbox liquid chalk inks (various shades of brown including what sounded appropriate – chestnut roan), Sheena Douglass stamp “From the horse’s mouth” and Papermania sentiment.
Entering this one in CAS(E) this Sketch because I was stumped how to apply this stamp to a design till I saw Chrissy’s sketch!
Also entering Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes
and Crafty Friends Challenge 51 (Anything Goes)
And here’s the haiku:
In the moonlight, ride
Far and fast as you can
Escape the mundane
12 Feb 2017 5 Comments
A Valentine’s card of course. I always like to make a few around this time of year and leave them in my card box for my sweetheart to choose to give me! And there’s always one I put aside for him too…. Always interesting to see which one he picks that he thinks we’ll both like most.
Entering this one in Challenge #156 Love You! at Cards4Guyz. I think the turquoise in combination with the hot pink makes it OK to give to a man.
Watercolours and bling 🙂
And also entered for Cards in Envy challenge Be my Valentine.
and the inspiration photo part of the Fusion challenge (I was inspired by the multiple hearts, though mine aren’t interlocked, the matting/layers and colours – although you could say that pink for Valentines is a bit of a given!)
Love is divine to
Celebrate over the years
We’re never too old.
12 Feb 2017 4 Comments
in Cards, Masculine, Thank you
This is a thank you card for a colleague using the colours from Color Throwdown #429 and Anita’s inspiration card from Muse #202
Here it is:
Using my treasured watercolours, orange and teal blue inks from Hobbycraft (I think I need a newer version of that teal, it’s faded to nearer aqua!), Kanban black pearls, Sheena Douglas Geared Up stamps. I think if I’m going to do this technique again I need to get dies or my old Craft Robo going: using stamps as a template and hand cutting is a bit too naive looking.
Once again we wave,
Thanking you for your good work:
“Au revoir” not “bye”.
12 Feb 2017 2 Comments
in Birthday, Cards, CAS, Masculine
This is a contribution to one of my favourite challenges, The Male Room. One can never have too many male cards. I often need birthday cards for men, so always need ideas. This week’s The Male Room challenge is:
…and this is what I came up with. It’s not completely original as there are lots of “loading” jokes around the Internet, but this is my take on it.
Apologies for the dark photo – it’s pretty dark and rainy here.
We haven’t decided whether to give it to its intended recipient. Most people think it’s hilarious but he might not… What do you think?
An explanation in haiku:
Looking at the world
Through grumpy young eyes, as if
Spiderwebs obscure
29 Jan 2017 Comments Off on Zendoodle rollerskate
in Cards, CAS, Ladies, Leaving, Zendoodle
This card is another in my zendoodle series. Possibly those who liked the Red Heart will appreciate this one. It’s a goodbye card for a colleague and reflects one of her interests. I used pictures from the Internet to create my own outline for the zendoodling.
I’m really delighted that Red Heart was one of the Top 5 featured by Muse and an honourable mention for Watercooler Wednesday. So glad people liked it, especially in such inspirational company! Hope the recipient of the card will like it next month 🙂
And my Triple Mat Nautical card was featured on Cards4Guyz. Shame more people didn’t take up the challenge there – I thought the Design Team’s example cards were excellent and really inspired me to try a new style. Thank you for that, ladies 🙂
And a haiku inspired by Roger McGough’s in the Radio Times.
My proud snowman, now
the only snow on the lawn
gone til next winter…
22 Jan 2017 6 Comments
in Birthday, Cards, Masculine Tags: Nautical
A relative’s birthday is coming up and he loves boats, so I was intrigued to try a new technique (to me) from Cardz4Guyz – triple matting. I needed a new idea for a nautical card and I realise it’s not very original to use nautical stamps for this challenge, but I was pleased that I’ll have something different to send this year.
Entered in Cards4Guyz #153 Triple Mat Technique
The sea absorbs drops
My tears vanish on the tide
Emotions washed clean
9 Dec 2018
Ocean 28 June 2018
#269 12 June 2018
#302 5 June 2018
#272 25 May 2018
24 May 2018
#165 23 May 2018
22 May 2018
#132 Cute 18 May 2018
#284 CAS 4 April 2018
Colours 7 April 2018
Space/Science 4 April 2018
9 March 2018
7 March 2018
27 February 2018
15 January 2018
11 July 2017
6 June 2017
17 May 2107
18 April 2017
28 February 2017
24 January 2017
24 January 2017
24 January 2017
6 September 2016
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