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    Fairy Maya with Coloured Pencils
    • Aug 7, 2018

    Fairy Maya with Coloured Pencils

    Hi everyone, today I have another card for you using one of the gorgeous Whimsy Stamps fairies: this one is called “Maya”. I was cleaning up my computer and came across this card that I apparently never had published! So let’s get started: I first stamped her on some Strathmore “Drawing” paper (not my favourite paper for coloured pencil by the way) with Versafine “Onyx Black” ink and then started colouring her with my Faber Castell Polychromos coloured pencils. I used the fol
    Kingfisher inspired Mother’s Day Card
    • May 12, 2017

    Kingfisher inspired Mother’s Day Card

    Hi everyone! In January I made a couple of cards with the WPlus9 stamp called “A New Day” (you can find that post, where I made a chickadee and a robin, here: http://www.makeyourlifecolourful.com/single-post/2017/01/08/WPlus9-birds-with-Zig-Clean-Color-Markers ). Today I used the same stamp but with the colours of a different bird in mind: the kingfisher. And, as you can see it's a Mother's Day card! Let me start by saying that I have never used feathers on a card in my whole
    Calender Month Series - March
    • Apr 1, 2017

    Calender Month Series - March

    A little late, but here is my next page for my Calender Month Series and off course this is March! If you don’t know what this Series is about then you can check out my January post here ( http://www.makeyourlifecolourful.com/single-post/2017/01/16/Calender-Month-Series---January) or my February post here (http://www.makeyourlifecolourful.com/single-post/2017/02/23/Calender-Month-Series---February). This month’s pre-set page gives me a light crème colour and a nice middle dar
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