Cards................

Well having managed to find a bit of free time to do as I please, I have actually started making some cards again.......just simple ones using prints of some of my artwork........ here are the first two.

P is for.......................

Panda! I made this card using an image of a panda that I drew awhile ago, and some oriental background papers from Papermania's lovely Oriental spice pad. The card was finished off with an oriental text peel off.

N is for..................

This is my entry this week for the Alphabet Challenge, we are up to N now! I have used one of my stamps for a Nightime bear!

M is for...................... Medusa

This week on the Alphabet challenge we have made it all the way to M..........so here is my M for Medusa card. The main picture is an embroidery that I designed and made several years ago. I then drew the cobra with a fine ink pen, just to finish the card off. Many thanks for looking.

Easel card

I've had these Easel card blanks for years, and never got around to doing anything with them! Last night a friend was playing with some that she had, which inspired me to dig mine out and have a go. Of course I cheated and printed out out of my landscape oil paintings that I did several years ago. edged it with distress ink and a peel off and hey presto.......job done!

K is for ...................

Kingfisher! This weeks letter on my Alphabet challenge blog is K. I have used a painting of a Kingfisher that I did some years ago, and then drew bulrushes in the background with a fine black pen. I drew the panel again with a fine black pen and drew a darker shadow round two sides to make it appear raised. The edge of the card was finished with a gold peeloff.

J is for.....................

Jack-in-the-Box,......... obviously! I couldn't think of anything else to do for J so I drew this Jack-in-the-box. He is coloured in with various water soluble pencils/crayons. I drew a border with a gold Krylon and decorated the edge of the card with a punch and adhered a bit of gold embossed card on the inside of the card.

"Man" Card!

I had to make a "man" card today, don't we all hate making them! Anyway, I decided that I would try and make a card featuring a car that my guy used to own. I therefore drew and coloured the Jag. I coloured it using Aquatone sticks, and then to make it shimmer I added a bit of clear stardust Sakura gelly roll pen, and watercoloured it out across the whole car. I have again used one of the lovely Kanban distressed card blanks, and attached the car with 3D foam pads. The greeting was then handwritten using a silver Galaxy marker. (My biggest worry was that I had got the right model of car, apparently I did! :) )

Last one.................

Another simple card, using the last of the printed portraits. Made in exactly the same way as the last one. This is a little old pony named Phoebe.

Very simple card

I'm still using the pictures that I printed out of some of my pet portraits, and this card is about as simple as they get! I cut the picture out, and glued it to the card blank. I added copper coloured peel offs, and used a black marker pen to draw a shadow effect round the image to make it appear raised. (The orginal painting was done on wood, which is why the grain can be seen through the painting) The pony is Foldor Skylark, another one that I bred myself, and who is now showjumping locally and also doing very well apparently.

And another................

Another print of a painting I did some while ago. This one is a watercolour and ink portrait of a horse that I bred a few years ago, when I was breeding horses. Her name is Foldor Zenna, and she now lives at a local riding school, and is doing very well showjumping at various shows during the summer months.

Heron panel card

Another simple card today, this time using a print of one of my paintings. I matted the piccy on gold mirri card and attached it to the card blank using 3D pads. I then created the two side panels using gold peel offs, and drew the bulrushes in with a black pen. I finished it off by drawing a black shadow around the bottom and side of the panels.

E is for..................

It is E week on the Alphabet challenge blog So I have done Encaustic art and Elephant! I drew the elephant, and coloured him with watercolour pencils. The panel was done with unusaully, (for me) colourful encaustic waxes, mounted and attached to one of the distressed card blanks.

Last one.................?

...........at least for today! Same old, .............encaustic panel, triple matted and attached to another distressed card blank.

Red planet!

And another one, simple card, encaustic panel matted onto gold mirri and attached to distressed card blank with 3D pads, and peel off sentiment added to finish off.

And....................

..........another one.........bet you're getting bored now! Another of the encaustic panels, with more of the holographic silver fish. (Even if they look blue in the scan!)

And another.................................

.........not pink this time! Another of the encaustic art panels I did the other day, with some hand scribed holographic card fishes.

Encaustic card...............bit pink!!!

The other day I had a bit of a play with my encaustic art waxes, and this is one of the results! It was done on a piece of black encaustic card, mounted onto black and then cerise, (not really pink) mirri card and attached to a Kanban silver/black distressed card blank.

Eyeball card

Now this is definitely a bit outside the box! The theme for this weeks challenge on Step Outside Your Box Saturdays is eyes. Well I was looking through an old sketchbook, and found this picture that I had drawn about 30 years ago!!! I scanned it and tweaked the colouring and then mounted it on a card, which I finished off with peeloffs.

A Bird in the hand..................

The Tanda Teaser Challenge this week is to encorporate a bird image into your work. I used my heron silhouette stamp onto a brayered background. I also used my barbed wire stamp down the edge of the card. I cut around the edge of the barbed wire and used a black pen to shadow the wire. I covered the inside of the card with some decorative paper, and used the same paper to mount the heron panel, along with some gold mirri card. The leaf was also cut from the same sheet of paper.