Papercrafting, cardmaking and paper art
22 Nov 2016 6 Comments
A final card for the day. Sadly I need a condolence card. It’s been one of those years.
This is my favourite Agapanthus stamp on watercoloured shades of blue for
CAS Colours and Sketches challenge #200 – Colours – monochromatic blues
and
Addicted to CAS Challenge #101 – Ombre
A haiku doesn’t seem appropriate right now.
22 Nov 2016 2 Comments
This one is for a family member who’s just bought her first home. So sweet!
It’s inspired by Time Out challenge #70 Home Sweet Home Photo Challenge
There’s pink in there from the picture, and things with wings…
Fun to see our girl,
once a daredevil, now a
domestic goddess!
21 Nov 2016 4 Comments
in Cards, CAS, Masculine Tags: science
I have scientists in the family. So a science card is bound to find a home. I’ve been commissioned to create cards for scientists too, for a doctor marrying a computer scientist, and for a mitochondrial researcher (a graphical representation of mitochondria makes a great zentangle). Mostly biology related science, but today’s card is more chemistry. I asked the science teacher in the family for a joke…
Difficult to do a haiku for this one… but best to adapt the text really!
I wanted to tell
you a great science joke but
the best jokes argon
Entering this one for The Male Room challenge #48
07 Nov 2016 2 Comments
This is a thank you card in the colours from CAS-ual Friday: orange, brown and kraft. I love the different variations on orange and brown, all subtle due to being stamped on kraft.
This one is for CFC160 CAS-ual Fridays (orange, brown and kraft)
and Time Out #69 Give thanks with a grateful heart. It’s not for Thanksgiving but it is for a couple of people I am very grateful for (and to), which I guess amounts to the same thing.
The haiku for this one is truly autumnal:
Autumn leaves flame red,
orange crunching underfoot:
fade to wet yellow
07 Nov 2016 4 Comments
I found this card very difficult. I had an idea of how the colours should look and the theme, but I tried watercolour paints and pens, and different inks, but I couldn’t get the colours to look right together.
Here is the most passable of my attempts, with coloured cardstock in the end! And the orange is much more orange than it looks in the photo but at this time of the year getting a good photo is near impossible…
This card is entered in the following challenges:
#ctd417
and CASOLOGY Welcome
Which is a bit away from the guidelines because it’s one main image but repeated…. All I can say is. I tried…
And here’s the haiku
Houses drift sadly
through dreams with gentle reproach
Gone, my childhood home.
03 Nov 2016 2 Comments
After two months of no time at all to craft due to being incredibly busy at work, and clearing a house, I’m back at my table trying to recover my mojo!
I don’t really do Halloween or Thanksgiving so I’m sticking to multipurpose cards. This simple CAS card was amazingly difficult to put together. I wanted to use the very pretty patterned paper, but struggled to find card of the right colour. Happily the watercoloured and fussy-cut flower could be made to order. No idea where that stamp came from, though…
This one is inspired by sketch #196 at CAS(E) this Sketch so I’m just sneaking in before the deadline.
Here’s the sketch
11 Sep 2016 Comments Off on Cards in envy: first class card
in Cards
So pleased that my card Squaring Up has been named First Class Card at Cards in Envy for the Hip to be Square challenge. It’s been crazy this week (my work ramps up dramatically at the beginning of term) and I’ve no cards made, so it was thrilling that people liked my card 🙂
I still love that challenge idea – cards that can easily be posted! Don’t we all need plenty of those?
07 Sep 2016 Comments Off on Muse shout out
Yay! My Flying High card won an Honorable Mention at Muse. I’m so thrilled. In such illustrious company too: some beautiful cards inspired by Sarah’s. And I love that it’s voted for by the contributors (the three I voted for are also in the top 6).
06 Sep 2016 3 Comments
in Cards, CAS, Masculine, teen
Maybe a boy (or girl for that matter) would enjoy this one!
I don’t have a pink in my watercolour set so I experimented with colours, and when I looked at the result it reminded me of galaxies (or maybe that was just because it’s Star Trek’s 50th birthday and that was on my mind!) The stamp set was free with a magazine, and the planets I doodled myself.
I’m entering this one in the Stamplorations CAS Card challenge for September.
I love their mixed media inspiration but CAS is more my style!
I’m also entering Craft Stamper’s Take it, make it “Take a stamp” challenge: Anything Goes
We too boldly go
Experimenting in art:
Aim out of this world…
05 Sep 2016 6 Comments
Managed a few cards this weekend, as I’m trying to build up stock for a busy period of family birthdays plus an autumn fair at the care home my dad lives in.
This one is inspired by the colours at CAS Colours and Sketches #189: red, yellow and blue. The card by Jane in the design team really got me thinking (SUCH a fab card!) and here’s where I ended up. I hope it’s still Clean and Simple despite the salamander motif being layered on top!
I’d also like to add this to Daring Cardmakers September Elemental Inspiration: with the exotic beach photo (wish I were there!). The three elements are the exotic location (probably has lizards if not salamanders on sunny rocks!), the border between sea and sand in the middle of the picture (border between red and yellow colours in mine) and the water (watercolour background!).
Rain in Tenerife
Small lizards hide under rocks
Never felt before.
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