Inky Draw School

Hi there,

The first of two weeks of Inky Draw School has now passed. Gosh! times fly by. I'm learning so much and I'm certain that when next week is over, I will have the confidence to draw in my Inky Wonderland book and then colour it too.

I'm learning so much about drawing from Johanna Basford during the 1 hour per day. I'll show you some of the stuff I've drawn so far in relation to the classes. (I'm also experimenting afterwards, but I'll not show you any of those small pieces yet - that'll come down the road).

So this is my project from day 1. - How to align flowers in a circle. Knowing myself and empty spaces I added the flower in the centre.

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The day 2 project was more scary as this is a page from the book Inky Wonderlands that we had to fill with more flowers.

I think it's quite obvious what's the book and what's me, but I'm proud of my work and had so much fun drawing it.

Day 3 - Drawing wildflowers.

The first 4 flowers in each row Johanna showed us how to make. So after class I mirrored them just to know how to do them turning the opposite way.

Day 4 - It's all about fish.

All but one of these fish are outlined in the Inky Wonderland book and we had to draw the patterns on them. Can you guess, which one isn't in the book? LOL I just couldn't help myself so did a fun fish.

Day 5 - Swirls and a crest

These are very versatile. The swirls can be used as borders or letterheads and the crest can be used
as an ordinary crest or you can put your personal info into the empty space in the middle.

It's really fun to see how creative the group members are, both how they combine flowers and you can immediately see, if they've invented a new flower or using another flower from somewhere in the book.

The book is certainly worth the money, so if you like drawing and am a bit anxious about doing it, you can learn lots from just looking in it. Johanna certainly hit the head on the nail again this time. This book is a best seller on Amazon US as well as on Amazon UK.

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Be happy crafting!

Hi there!

So I have something to tell you before the end of the month after all. I did tell you in my last post that I was forgetful, didn't I?

On Tuesday my new pencil colouring class from Kit and Clowder arrived, I did tell you that much :-).
It's called Festive Fun and the image is from "Lili of the Valley". We have previously used their images for our classes. Well, I might as well reveal to you, that Christmas is getting closer real fast, so this will be my first Christmas project this year - although Halloween hasn't been around yet.

I love this image, don't you? There are sooo many techniques in this class, you can't believe it!

Flooring, sky, tree, presents, walls, photos, the rug, shining lights, baubles, stairway, garland, window and walls and last but not least: FUR.

I need to practice a lot more on the fur, I do love how the puppy turned out though, I'm much more confident on how the fur on a puppy or dog lies than on a cat or a bunny. But they're ok.

As always I've used my favourite pencils: Faber Castell Polychromos.

I was dead set on finishing this class today as tomorrow I'm starting another adventure: Inky Draw School.

What is Inky Draw School, you might ask. Many of you probably know Johanna Basford, author of colouring books like "The secret garden", "Lost Ocean", "Ivy and the Inky Butterfly" and more. She has just published "How to DrawIinkyWonderlands" in which she reveals her secrets (I'm sure she still has some left) on how she draws.

Johanna's determined to share this with those that signed up for her Inky Draw School in september. It's a 10 day - and here's the best part, it's a TOTALLY FREE online drawing course from October 21st - November 1st.. I signed up as I love to colour and what would be more fun than being able to draw the images yourself. I've already made two small images that I've coloured. Maybe I'll show them to you one day :-). I'm sure there's room for improvement.

I'll keep you updated on how this project goes. Meanwhile, please feel free to leave me a comment if you like my project, and if you'd like to see my cards/projects etc. on a regular basis, please join my blog or my Instagram.

Be happy crafting!

Forgetful

Hi there!

This morning I had my morning walk in the rain. It was quite beautiful and the smell on trees and grass was awesome. It's been raining since I got out of bed early not so much that a raincoat and ambrella wouldn't keep me dry during my walk. Did I tell you that I walk between 3.5 - 4.5 kilometers every day? I've only had less than ten days since I retired, where I've been unable to walk and it shows on my scales too. So far I've lost 5 kilos - woohoo, I'm proud of myself, not so much about the weight, but especially that I can keep up the walking :-).

When I got home, I made a cute CAS card which I am going to use as a gift, but not thinking further about it, I accidentally giftwrapped it before I remembered to take the usual photo of it. So, unfortunately, I don't have anything to show you today, but early in November I'll have a few things if not before.

I got my colouring classes from Kit and Clowder yesterday, have you seen them?They are gorgeous Christmas projects both of them. So far everything is downloaded and printed and I'm ready to go. Only need to find the actual Polychromous pencils I'm going to use for the pencil class.

Oh, I forgot to warn you against cutting the excess metal from your dies. I made a deep cut on my left thumb yesterday, bleeding all over the kitchen zink until I got hold of a bandaid to stop it. It was quite sore the rest of the day, so please take good care if you use to cut this excess metal off your dies.

I hope that my being forgetful and not take the photo will prevent you from coming back to see more later.

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Be happy crafting!

A birth and another birthday card

Hi there!

Two weeks ago my eldest nephew (Kåre) and his wife (Cæcilie) welcomed their third child into this world and into our family. It was a healthy and very cute boy with quite long dark hair. He was the spitting image of his father, when he was a newborn. Kåre and Cæcilie already have two gorgeous girls, Freyja (7) and Luna (4), who are now very proud big sisters.

The new baby will be Christened "Linus" in the beginning of November.

I gave Kåre and Cæcilie this card to celebrate his birth:

Maybe you remember seeing this card on my Instagram - @kipekr - when I made it last year in August. I'm glad I still had a baby boy card laying around, as I will make a special project for the Christening as I've done to all the children in the family.

I'm afraid I don't recall who the artist of this digi is. I've tried to look in my files, but I have almost 30K digis/colouring pages to go through, so it's an impossible job. I know the name is on the backside of the coloured image, but that's not much of a help. If you know who drew the image, please send me a message, and I'll add it to the text.

Well, Linus' cousin, Holger, who is the youngest child of my eldest niece (Ditte) and her husband (Søren) celebrated his first birthday on Friday last week. Most of my family and some of Sørens family celebrated the birthday at the summerhouse last Saturday. A very nice and sunny but rather cold day.

Of course Holger should have a birthday card as well.

This image is from The Paper Shelter and is called "Baby and his toys". I loved making it for Holger and it was quite suitable too, as he's crawling around very fast at the moment. He's started to stand up supporting himself on tables and chairs etc., so it's a matter of time before he starts walking.

The background here is also blue as on Linus' card, but maybe a bit darker. Then I found some matching chequered paper to put on top of the darker background. However, I still thought something was missing, so I played around a bit and ended up adding another blue square on top of which is the cirkle with the image. Four blue perls and the number 1 did the trick, and I didn't think it needed anything else.

I love CAS cards and I feel this card falls into this category.

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Be happy crafting!