While making cards, working in my sketchbook, painting, or making collages I frequently spend time looking online at other people’s work. Especially now while I’m learning to color images with watercolor pencils, Faber-Castell, and Copic pens. The challenge I’ve given myself is two fold…(1) come up with my own style, which will take a bit of time but I know it will be a melding of the coloring process (which I love) and all the ephemera papers I’ve collected over the years. And (2) draw my own images, rather than be dependent all the time on stamps (more on this in a future post).
So to get started here is one of my newest cards – a Magnolia image set together with some wonderful scraps of papers I’ve collected: tempera paint splattered painting from children’s art camp given to me by a teacher and a tiny bit of Swedish text taken from a children’s hobby books I recently bought
Beautiful Debrah! Love how you melded your ephemera into the card. I love the two-fold challenge. What a great way to stay focused when you spend time crafting. I’ll have to think of how to phrase one of my own.
Thank you for this beautiful card!
I’m so glad that I get to know you and itś good too have you as a creative friend. We will absolutely stay in toutch.