Papercrafting, cardmaking and paper art
22 Jan 2017 2 Comments
This card is doodled and watercoloured for someone loved. Valentine, anniversary, birthday. I love those cards which have birds on a wire but I don’t have a suitable stamp, so hearts seemed a suitable replacement.
The colours are taken from Color Throwdown so I’d like to enter it in that challenge ctd426
And also entered in CAS on Sunday challenge 100: Hearts
Just know I love you
I give my heart freely: as
sure as the sun shines.
22 Jan 2017 16 Comments
Not only is it heading for Valentine’s day, but my wedding anniversary comes in a couple of months after that. So I was pleased that there are challenges around suitable for romance. I was inspired by Tracey’s Muse card – Muse challenge no 199.
The Muse card is
And here is my zendoodled take on it:
I’d also like to enter this into the Uniko challenge #39: anything goes with option of Love
and into Watercooler Wednesday #102: love in red on white
Love like evergreen
Start by rooting in good earth:
Grow through many years
28 Dec 2016 4 Comments
in Cards, CAS, Quotations
This stamp is an old one but NBUS, so I was delighted to bring it out for the challenge at CASology: Week #229 TOAST. There’s plenty of Irish ancestry in my genes…
I think it’s most suitable for good wishes on an engagement or wedding, or perhaps a pregnancy – a good new beginnings card at any rate.
My wish for today:
May your cup overflow with
health and happiness
Also entered for Time Out’s New Beginnings Inspired by Words Challenge: ‘With each sunrise we are given a chance for a new beginning’
Sounds a bit like an Irish blessing in itself…
09 Dec 2016 1 Comment
I’ve been wanting to revisit this old Stampin’ Up stamp for this Christmas, so the new sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch #201 got me reaching for it straightaway.
So entering:
Sorry the haiku turned out a bit sad. I expect I’m not the only one feeling it this year though. It’s been a funny old year! The card is jolly enough I hope!
This year I want none.
Presents cannot compensate:
a day without Mum.
09 Dec 2016 2 Comments
I wanted to try a naive doodling theme for Christmas, and this is the first one I liked. I wanted it to be a single layer, but it didn’t look quite right, so there’s a bit of matting going on to frame it a little more.
This one is entered for Less Is More #305 Primary Colours
Paint in primaries
takes me back to my childhood
painting white school walls
05 Dec 2016 2 Comments
in Cards
This is my new(ish) delicate branches stamp and favourite colours of turquoise and purple. The turquoise ink had dried out a bit: too much to stand up next to the strong purple (violet) ink as I originally intended, So I experimented with creating patterns in it with the stamp and stamping as a block. I like the background it creates though it’s slightly larger than I originally intended, working from the CAS(E) sketch.
Let’s call this a creative take on the CAS(E) this sketch #200th challenge.
Mistake is made
But chance turns it to triumph
Serendipity
04 Dec 2016 2 Comments
I love the turquoise/aqua and purple combinations of colours. This one is for the Color Throwdown challenge #421 which includes aqua & purple as well as green. The ribbon is much closer to the green of the challenge in real life though it looks sort of beigy in the photo here… And it’s my favourite agapanthus again. At least I’m getting lots of use out of it!
I’ve been trying to buy some other stamps, but it seems that whenever I find the one I want it’s either out of stock or the shop has closed for a few weeks…
Colours that please me:
easy on the eye and mind.
Inspiration too….
02 Dec 2016 2 Comments
I’ve been wanting to try a simple candle card for a while, too, and along came CAS-ology’s Candle challenge (Week 226)
Mostly watercolour again, including the candles, with just the sentiment added. It’s a design that could also be used for birthdays… but I need Christmas cards!
The year hastens to
its close: quiet or shouty?
Glad to end this year!
Entered in CAS-ology’s challenge:
02 Dec 2016 Comments Off on Christmas sparkle
I’ve had the idea for this card for a while and couldn’t get it to work, but the challenge at CAS-ual Fridays caused me to look at it again. A watercoloured background has been punched into snowflakes on hexagons, with the addition of gems and the roughly cut glitter paper. Intended to have a rustic look but still CAS.
Entered in CAS-ual Fridays (even though there’s no stamping on it…)
Some believe to be
perfect is to deny God.
Nature’s errors are beauty.
02 Dec 2016 Comments Off on Argon winner
Really delighted my Argon card won The Male Room Science Challenge
It’s so nice that there are other science nerds out there – and shows that you can be scientific and creative (of course scientists are creative as well as methodical – it’s how all those discoveries are made!).
I even got scientific with the design, getting out my compass to create the circles for the atom image 🙂 Which is a great discovery because I’ll use that again, so thanks again to The Male Room for this challenge (and for choosing mine as the winner). (It’s also a little ironic that we have more female scientists than male scientists in this family!)
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