Tuesday, 15 March 2016

SF Design A Day 13 -15

Day 15 - Designer's Choice - the prompt Sf has picked for the final is watercolor.
This design includes pen drawing, stamping and watercolor. Below you can see it as a repeating design and I'll enter this one into the competition.


I had another go at day 12, typographical. I used the canvas I posted about recently.

Day 13 - Kawaii [cute]

Day 14 - Found Object - I used some green chicken type wire. I created the background on my tablet.




Monday, 14 March 2016

Helen's Village in a Glass

This is the work of friend Helen - a village in a large brandy shaped glass vase.


You can see Bertie the elephant and other amazing makes on her blog here.

Sunday, 13 March 2016

SF Design A Day 10-12

Day 10 - Steampunk


Day 11 - Dyed
I used kitchen roll, not very successfully
Day 12 - Typographical
I made a collage from till receipts. It could be used as a background with drawings of fruit, vegetables and groceries



Thursday, 10 March 2016

#SFDesignADay - 7-9

Day 9 - Free Software
I used Canva
Day 8 - Photographic
I used a photograph of logs

Day 7 - Vector
I made this drawing to clean up in vector. I used Inkscape to trace the drawing but I didn't know how to alter things after that or how to save the vector as a jpeg for this blog. It would take me a long time to learn it, longer than I had to do this drawing. But I am learning a bit about vector drawing with my cutter software so maybe one day I will get the hang of it, but for now I would say I failed on this challenge.


Monday, 7 March 2016

SF Design A Day - Days 1-6

 I'm joining in with the design a day at Spoonflower.
If you want to join in go here.here
Day 1 - pencil drawing
Day 2 - watercolour
Day 3 -abstract
Day 4 - block prints

I cut my blogs on my Zing

Day 5 - pen and ink
Day 6 - geometric




Friday, 4 March 2016

Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Wooden Heart

I bought a wooden heart which I altered for the happy couple. I used Golden coarse molding paste to make the raised letters with a card stencil I made. I used my Zing cutter to cut out the stencil. Then paint and a bit of roughing up.


Monday, 29 February 2016

Two Knitted Blankets

I used to machine knit and design patterns many moons ago, which resulted in many test swatches. Well recently I came across a bag of these swatches so I made a couple of blankets with them. I've hand stitched them to fleece blankets which makes them lovely and cosy and hides any loose threads on the back. I think I may have enough swatches to make another but it will be the very last.






Monday, 22 February 2016

Border Cut Cards


My first border cut cards using my Zing. The cuts are not perfect but I think I know what the problem was - a dirty mat. The blue one was created using basic shapes in MTC [Make the cut], the white one I created on my tablet then brought it in to MTC to add it to a card shape and then cut it on the Zing.

Friday, 19 February 2016

Cardboard Stencil

I used a cardboard cutout as a stencil and stamp pads for colour. 
Cut on my Zing Air cutting machine. Designed on my tablet.
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Tuesday, 16 February 2016

Wedding Card

A card a made for a couple who were married last Friday. 
My own design but I used my Zing cutting machine to cut it all out.