Today's card features the Altenew Oriental Orchids stamp set, and I'm joining in with the the Altenew April inspiration challenge. The challenge image is from Thailand and features a colour palette of navy, lilac, turquoise and white. I heat embossed flowers and leaves from the set in white embossing powder. I used my Zig Clean Colour… Continue reading Altenew April Inspiration Challenge
It's such a grey, wet day today, I thought I'd make a bright summery card to lift my mood. How I made this card: On a piece of white watercolour card, I stamped lollipops from the Altenew Way Too Sweet stamp set with Versafine Onyx Black ink. Once all the images were stamped, I created… Continue reading Birthday Lollipops
I thought I'd have a go at the watercolour lifting technique that Jennifer McGuire demonstrated on a recent card. I decided to make a masculine card with the technique. How I made this card: I chose to use my zig clean colour real brush pens to do the background. I scribbled blues and greens in… Continue reading Watercolour Lifting
I love this doodle buds set! It's very versatile and really lends itself to different colouring techniques. This time I decided to go for a messy watercolour look. This was a quick and simple card to make. I stamped the images onto watercolour card with Versafine onyx black ink and set it aside to dry.… Continue reading Daily Marker Colouring Challenge: Doodle Buds
As part of the Daily Marker 30 day challenge, I've been stamping images and colouring them in using different techniques. I created this peony background on Day 4, and I wanted to turn it into a card. How I made this card: I stamped and heat embossed in gold some flowers and leaves from the… Continue reading Daily Marker Colouring Challenge: Peonies and Embossing
I got some sparkle embossing powder at the same time as the WPlus9 Doodle Buds set, so I decided to have fun and create a background using them both. How I made this card: I cut a piece of watercolour card to a6 size. I then stamped flowers and leaves from the WPlus9 doodle… Continue reading WPlus9 Doodle Buds background
Having recently got some Zig Clean Colour Real Brush pens, I wanted some stamped images to colour in. The WPlus9 Doodle Buds stamp set is a really fun set of flower images, leaves and stems. It's great for a variety of colouring techniques too. I wanted to create a clean and simple card to show… Continue reading CAS with WPlus9 Doodle Buds
There is a fabulous card drive ongoing at the moment, collecting cards to be given alongside a book to parents who have lost a child in pregnancy. I cannot begin to comprehend how utterly devastating it must be to lose a child, and I hope that this campaign offers a little bit of comfort to… Continue reading Lasting Hearts Card Drive
I've been enjoying colouring with my new Zig clean colour brush pens, and wanted to make a card using some of the images. I don't have many outline images at the moment, but one of my favourites set is the Altenew Oriental Orchid stamp set and it has outline images perfect for colouring. How I… Continue reading Orchids and Zig Clean Colour Brush Pens
I finally got my hands of a set of the Zig Clean Colour Real Brush pens this weekend. I've seen these used a lot by other crafters online, and have been thinking about getting some for a while. They aren't that easy to find in the UK so when I found a set of 24… Continue reading Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Pens – First Impressions
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