St Patrick's Day

  International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over and join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #128

St Patrick's Day

Our challenge theme 'St Patrick's Day' has been chosen by Maggie.

St. Patrick.s Day is not really celebrated here in England, come to think of it nor is St. Georges's Day - St George being our Patron Saint.  The only time I remember St Patrick being celebrated was with the nuns at school who would wear a shamrock thingy on their uniforms.  I decided to use the shamrock theme seeing it as similar to a 4 leaf clover and made a good luck card :). The base layer is black and I cut the frame and 4 leaf clover out of a bit of gelli printed paper I did some time ago.

Light and Dark

  International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over and join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #127

Light and Dark

Our challenge theme 'Light and Dark' has been chosen by Hazel.

What a great theme for a challenge chosen by Hazel :).  I decided to design some digital paper for this challenge using light and dark colours in keeping with the theme. I then added a positivity sentiment which loosely linked to light and dark.  Digital papers were designed using Procreate and digital card created using Illustrator.

Valentine’s Day/Love

  IKEsWORLD

Challenge 153

      A/ G with an option of Valentine’s Day/Love 

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :) 

Ahhhhh how can anybody resist a four legged friend bringing you a heart full of love :) :) :) For this card I used Ike's image 'Puppy Love' and coloured digitally using Procreate.  Just a nice afternoon relaxing with my feet up and Ipad to do this bit of colouring lol.

All About Love/Hearts

  International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over and join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #126

All About Love/Hearts

Our challenge theme 'All About Love/Hearts' has been chosen by Debbie.

It is rather nice to colour in a digi which I have not coloured for a few years :).  This image is Mamas love by Amanda Byron and I have coloured it digitally using Procreate.  Still getting to grips with Procreate, like Photoshop it is a very powerful program, a constant learning curve which makes it a pleasure to use as there is always something to learn just around the corner lol.

Get Inky

  International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over and join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #125

Get inky! (stamping and/or background)

Our challenge theme 'Get Inky' has been chosen by Josephine.

Yes, I got very inky creating this card lol.  Lots of stamping using stamps from the 'Creative Stamping' magazine which had just arrived, what an awesome set this month.  I first distress inked a piece of white paper, cut the sections to fit the card base and it was out with the black stamp pad and have loads of fun :) :) 

152 AG with option Include a Sentiment

  IKEsWORLD

Challenge 152

      Anything Goes with an option of Include a Sentiment

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :) 

For my DT creation for the IKEsWORLD challenge this month I have made a digitally coloured DL card to wish you all beautiful dreams this year, 2022.  I can't believe we are now in 2022, time is just flying by :)  

I created the card using Photoshop, adding an alcohol ink background image for the base and using Ike's Dreamcatcher image which I just love.  The image was coloured digitally and then I added the sentiment.  Simple I know but I hope you like it.

Anything But A Card

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Challenge #124

Anything But A Card

Our challenge theme 'Anything But A Card' has been chosen by Christine.

I designed these pet baubles and cut the design on my laser, the name text was also laser etched onto the bauble wooden section. These ones were gifts for my daughter and grandson.  Each bauble has a 2cm plastic 2 piece bauble which is attached with a paper fastener which can be removed and filled.  Nice and easy to put in a tiny gift in or, in future, when the inevitable happens, a memory of the beloved pet, in this case, a dog, 2 cats and a Bearded Dragon.  I do apologies for the photo, it was taken last minute just before I gave them to my daughter to hang on her Christmas tree lol.