Cats and cards

Hi everyone how's it going, I hope everyone got great weather and having fun crafting.

First off a bookatrix card.

I was inspired to try this after seeing my best friend Sarah do an amazing bookatrix card for a friend who was leaving work to be a happy granny.
Sarah does these great books with complmenting colours and eye catching detail yet they are unclutered and light i'm rather jealous of her ability to make them so nice. She use's vellum and prints lovley asying on it for the front layer.

I dont have a great printer so instead i used a saying stamp from The Unmounted Stamp Company. I should have done it in purple but was having problems getting the ink to stay on the vellum.

I used mixed card stock flower things i got cheap from hobby craft and silver stickers. It no where near as nice as the one Sarah did but i have learnt loads in making it.

Next

Our cat Bilbo....

I just have to show you the look on her face....

Pee'd off or what.

I think she was having a bad hair day or something.

Anyway that's all form me so far i have artists block and don't feel motivated to do anything though i really should.

Take care everyone and happy crafting.

Leaving Card

This is a leaving card for a great lady at work.

Why Witches well shall we say its an office joke that shes in on.

Hand drawn and mounted on card. I CANT BELEIVE HOW EXPENSIVE A4 ENVELOPES ARE!

Cough.

Anyway take care and happy crafting.

Little dragon and bunny work

Hi everyone, hope your all well and the weathers nice and sunny.


Here's my little dragon,
Can you help him grow big and strong.



The site is safe and sercure all he needs is a freindly click now and then. He is very lonley.

Also heres a quick scan of the rabbit drawing i'm working on:



I am now working on the ears as these are harder and fiddly, I used to think Bunnies were easy to draw.

Dutch look so simple, I was wrong there are so many colours there, shadow and detail. I have a even better respect for them. I still need to do a good 12 hours with this to polish it up. I'm happy with the head and shape it now down to layers.
I just hope the owner will like it.

I need to do this more, it makes me feel good. Drawing like this and using differernt mediums is fun though can get samie though, Thats way i do such a wide range of stuff. I'm Not going to stop drawing other things.

Anyway Take care

Happy crafting
Many thanks
From Me

I'm back

Hi everyone,

I'm back, no more Jury duty for me. Saddly this means i have to go back to work which is not so great.

Anyway on with the cards. There are four to show you today.

I was having a sort though of my craft stuff I have so much to use and make. I decided to do a group of speed cards (under 5mins to make).

I had already coloured the images, which i keep in a little box and have to hand and i also have a box of cutout shapes so all i had to do was work out a layout and extras.

Though i still had to think carefully before using the glue and foam pads. It was also quite hard to find bits of card that went with the colours used on the images.

The bits that i used to make all of these cares are:

1. Pennyblack Images
2. Gems
3. Coloured card
4. Promarkers
5. Metalic sticker
6. Glue & foam pads

I find it a good way of providing my family with cards with these simple quick no fun designs.

I am sorting out some personal fun over the next few weeks i then hope to have some more cards and stuff to show as well as an update on my Smudge the rabbit drawing.

I have also stuck a little chat bok on the site and will be playing with the layout so sorry if things start looking very strange.

I will be up loading some stuff later, so till then take care.....

......and happy crafting.

Another type of bookmark

Hi everyone, Hows it going i hope you are all having great weather where you all are.

After seeing Sarah of fluffs creations blogg (great blog) corner book mark i felt inspired and thought i would have a try. It was alot harder than i first thought.

So i followed the instructions .

It was hard not to add gems. and stuff to them but i know they would not last long, so i aimed to keep them simple and yet colourfull at the same time.

First off tried using 4 inch card, but i felt this was to big so i went down to 3 inch card.

All of these were made using :

• Card
• Stamped images
• Punches
• Gold pens.

I think i might make some more later, i hope you like them so far.

I'm off on Jury service next week so will not be updating for a good 2 weeks. i hope to have more cards done to.

Till then,

Take care and happy crafting to you all.

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I have had the gingle & the oh so cute images from TV in my head. For days it has been with me........ so to get rid of it I just did a 10 min sketch in limited colours of a little mearcat. It seems to have gotten it out of my mind now.

For this pic I used:

1. Prismacolour pencils
2. Cheap cream card
3. 2B & H grade pencils
4. Sprayed with fixative

Plus I really need to get back in to real life work again. as well as working in pencil and colour.

For a rought sketch i'm quite happy with it, and it has reminded my of what i can do when i'm in the right mood to draw.

Feed back always welcome, I might fame and sell this or get a few prints done.

Take care everyone. Happy crafting to you all.

Latest cards

Hi everyone,

Today i have two cards to show.

The first is for a granmother done with:

1. Papermaina paper stock
2. Orange card
3. Cat stamp
4. Gold Stickers
5. Gemstones
6. Nestibilities circile and scallop
7. Foam squares.

I thought that the colours were a nice suttle mix and gentle enough, I have been trying to steer away from pinks and blues and see what else there is.

The next card could be used for birthdays or other celbratery things. I have not used the new penny black stamp that i got at the NEC this year until now.

This was made with:

Papermaina paper
Green card
Gold stickers
Penny black mouse stamp
Foam squares
Sentiment stamp
Nestibilites oval

For this card i have monted the flower and bee on foam pad to bring it out of the oval where the mouse is.

I hope you like these, till next time take care and happy crafting.