FLOWERS (2)

Hello everyone
I haven't been on for a while with having other commitments. This is my first for 2010.

I'm still using my digital painter to paint my cards even though it takes a lot more time -BUT the main thing is I'm still enjoying doing it and thats what a hobby is all about isn't it!

I got the idea for my first card from a Victorian tile I saw, the photo doesn't really show the scale of the decoupage which is a shame, but I was really satisfied with the end result.
Red Poppy

I wanted to be-able to to give this to a man or women, so I've included bronze effect panels ...
Pansies

I wanted to try and do decoupage and pyramage on the same card and came up with this.... Flowers in a vase

Christmas 2009

I've done it ! By that I mean my cards can now be clicked on to enlarged them, I bet you all thought I was loopy not being able to work this out the first time round lol

Snowflakes

Follow the Star!

I painted this next one while remembering the times I watched The Snow Man on video with my grandson when he was a little boy- haaaaa

I'm walking in the air!

Seeing a Robin on a card is a must at Christmas

Winter Scene

Playing Snowballs

Busy Christmas Eve for Santa

ho! ho! ho! And here he is again ready to come down your chimney!

Hello!
Colours of Christmas

Enjoy!

Granddaughter

This is my granddaughter birthday card , its been on the drawing board for over 4 months now while I've been swapping idea's around. Maybe its because I'm getting older or that I just haven't got the training needed because this one took ages to do.

I must have started from scratch 6 times because I wasn't getting the vibe that it was "with it" or " in the right style" for a teenagers card. hehehe - I'm laughing because there's no chance that a women in her sixties can get into the head of a teenager, and I wouldn't want too as life is much too hectic today!

I've gone down the POP ART route which might work or I'll end up flat on my bottom.
Checking out on what is pop art - I find it is left to ones own interpretation and that anything goes.
I've printed it onto a 210 gsm card and I think it is great! (but I would say that wouldn't I )Tackling the insert should be a lot easier as I've already got a picture in my head on what I what to do. Anyway here's the card for you to look at, the features have been taken from a photo of my granddaughter so I believe friends will now its her.

Singing Fish!

A card that will suit anyone who owns a fish!

Singing Fish

New born baby's

It feels like winter in the U.K. --- where has the days go when you could sit out in your garden and feel the warmth on your skin brrrrrrrrYou have probably noticed that I've moved things around a little "sorry" its just me trying to settle in and put my house in order.I'm almost there except for not being able to click onto my cards to view them better. On searching the web I realize I'm not the only one having this problem so in a daft way it makes me feel a little better. Lets hope I'll find away round it soon.

Baby Boy

Baby Girl

This one can be changed from a pink basket to a blue

Flowers

I love flowers and think there is nothing better than sitting in my garden smelling the lavender and admiring all the lovely colours.

I haven't got any Irises but I have fond memories of a cluster of blue ones growing down the side of my parents house as a little girl.

Blue Iris

These Lilies are also gorgous !

Lily

This next one reminds me of the walks I had as a child and then going back home with flowers I'd picked for mum.

Wild Flowers

Does anyone else paint?

This image of an elderly person is one that has purely come out of my imagination, so if it happens to look like anyone CONGRATULATION ! your now in print

As a young child I used to doodle a lot and my writing books at school were covered all over front and back with squiggles and decorative shapes. You can imagine after a few months of sketching my teachers would say "get some folders put on and make them presentable" " Not that there was anything rude on them of cause, they just looked a bit messy! (well) at least in their eyes they did?
There wasn't any of those coloured plastic folders you can buy today, we had to make our own using brown paper, or for a few of us who liked something different patterned wallpaper . We couldn't afford to buy it from the shops, so we would raid our parents leftovers after decorating and did swaps at school so all our books looked a mass of different colours. I carried my books in a leather satchel , no lockers for us they weren't thought of in those days.
I use a computer software (Coral Digital Painter X ) to do my paintings. I can pick and choose from different media's such as oils,water colour, chalk etc. there's no easel to find room for in your home, you don't get your hands messy and no brushes to clean afterwards.
Some will say that this is cheating and the only way to truly paint is to have the smell of the oils and turpentine under your nose to give you that kick of adrenaline before painting. All I will say is try it first before you make your opinion. In any case it suits me and I'm sure million of others.

A mouse can be used but I personally use a Wacom intuos3 which is essentially a pen and tablet (board) that you plug into your computer. This makes it easier for me as I suffer with a few aches and pains in my hands and gripping the mouse hurts like hell after a while. I work from a box room upstairs, if anybody doesn't know - a box room in England is a tiny weeny bedroom that you cannot even swing a cat around in (don't worry its just a saying , I haven't tried it !) You can just managed to fit a single bed in and not much else this way the houses can be advertised as 3 bedroom instead of two?

I'm working on some greeting cards at the moment to give to my hospice shop near to where I live, I've got about 12 different designs which are suitable for children, mums and dads so I'm hoping these will sell to raise a bit of money for them.