Competition piece

Hi there!

Having finished my pencil class colouring, I immediately started on the next.

My drawing teacher (Johannah Basford - authour of great colouring books) announced a competition on a free fairy house image from her book "World of Flowers". The image is available from her website, should you care to join in.

Each day I see so many gorgeous colourings in Johannah Basfords Facebook group, and I look and hopefully also lean from the images in there.

Johannah is more about drawing than colouring I think, so I've used some techniques in my image that I've learned from looking at these pictures and of course from my colouring classes in Kit and Clowder as well.

I.e. the background  is actually from a monthly pencil class a few years back, which I thought would be a nice addition to the image. 

It was not easy to do the background an in retrospect, I should have done that before doing the rest of the picture, as particularly the green contaminated the yellow, when I got too close to it. 

I'm also always uncertain about what colours to use for everything in such big pieces with flowers, but I think it's nice and rather simple this one. 

However, I'm really pleased with this colouring ad hope that you like it too. 

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February 2020 Pencil class - Kit and Clowder

Hi there,

When I have the time, one of the things I love the most is my colouring classes from Kit and Clowder and this months class is no exception. There are so many techniques to learn each month and it is always so enjoyable and a great mindfulness thing to do them. 

I love the fact that you can keep layering colours until you are satisfied with the result. Sometimes it takes a long time for me to do a class, but that's mainly because I cannot sit in the same position for hours on end anymore, so in between chapters I have to do something else or sit in another chair/my sofa or take one of my daily walks.

This month the theme was a sunset on a Hawaian beach featuring a La La Land digital stamp. The La La Land stamps are soooo great to do classes with and we've used them before. Right now I have the Paris Eiffel Tower pencil class on my writing desk, which was another awesome class.
We've done farmer/garden images, a boy fishing, a fire truck etc. etc. with the La La Land digital stamps.

I think that's the stamp designer I love the most for my classes, when featuring people - like Power Poppy is when featuring flowers.

Well, no more talk and down to business, here comes my finished image:

I learned about the sunset sky and its reflection on water, the sand, a straw roof on a hut, the bamboo pole, the background with the palms, the heart in the san and the girl and her outfit. That's a lot in one class, but it's so fun.

When you think of how much work Alyce has put into each class - step by step leaflet, and each chapter video filmed as well, not to mention negotiating discount on the stamp used - and I suspect she sometimes does the backgrounds herself as well - the price for a class is really, really cheap and if you also buy the markers class there's a discount on that as well.
I haven't regretted signing up for both classes and will keep doing them. 

I hope you like it as much as I do.

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Birthday cards for the guys

Hi there,

Below you'll find some birthday cards that I made for guys in my family.

The first one is for my eldest nephew (celebrated this weekend), the next for my youngest nephew, whose 20th birthday was celebrated late January and the last one for my nieces husband, whose birthday was a few days earlier than that.

I've used the same set of papers for these three cards, as there're something in each of these photos, that I can connect to the three guys. There's not any flowers, gems, bows etc. on these cards, as it's my impression that they don't care much about accessories on cards, so I've made them CAS cards instead. I also love to make cards without all the fuss.

My eldest nephew has a pair of fashion cowboy trousers just like these, so I chose this picture for him. 

My youngest nephew just graduated college last summer, so I chose a photo with a backpack for him, and he's also saving in order to get his drivers license. 

This card for my nieces husband symbolizes that he's an employee in a private company where the dress code might be more formal (jacket and tie) not that I think it's required in his case. 

I'm just old school and imagine that it's still like this, as it was, when I was working in a couple of private companies.

That's all for now. Please feel free to leave me a comment if you like my projects and if you'd like to see my cards/projects etc. on a regular basis, please join my blog or my instagram.

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