Papercrafting, cardmaking and paper art
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
04 Sep 2016 8 Comments
in Birthday, Cards, CAS, Masculine
I have been trying hard to come up with cards that can be used for boys and men. There are so many easy motifs suitable for women (flowers!), but not so many for males.
This card uses some of the same watercoloured background I used in the Squaring Up card, but in a very different context.
I’m entering this in Muse #181 challenge as it’s inspired by Sarah Platt’s stunning card:
and also Seize the Birthday (Anything Goes Birthday)
(edited to add the link – not sure where that went!)
And here’s the haiku:
Are you leaving us?
Fly on: your adventure is
elsewhere. Cut your string.
01 Sep 2016 9 Comments
I’ve got a lot of duty stuff done recently so feel justified in a little playful crafting.
This card is inspired by the challenges at Less is More (Using a peel-off – or several in this case!) and Cards in Envy (Hip to be Square).
The watercolouring of the background took the longest: the result of several trials. I added Woodware Francoise Leaves peel-offs (I’ve had them for a while!) and more peel-offs for the frame (straighter than they look in the photo, honest!).
Feeling square and grey
Age comes before you’re aware
Don’t let it slip in…
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