Man's birthday card

I seem to have a run of male cards to make of late. Most of the men in the close family are not "blokey" blokes..not into fishing, golf, drinking or any of the other things that seem to dominate cards for men. Keeping it simple and clean seems to fit the bill well.  I made this one from scraps.

Baby shower card

A card for a baby-que...a baby shower barbecue. We know the baby is a boy, so I came up with this card based on some similar ones I'd seen on the internet. The bunnies were cut using s die and the tiny stars using a punch. I had cut the onesy by hand with scissors. Pearls make the obvious choice for drawer handles and buttons on the onesy.

Fishy card

A birthday card fpr a young lady who isn't really into girly stuff. Yes, I know..the top of the fish on the left isn't quite straight but by the time I noticed it, it was too late - the glue had dried. These fish were done with a 2 inch circle punch and an elongated heart punch. Cut out both the under and top part, then snip out a piece from the top circle. They do need a smiley face or else they look like rather angry fish! I used different sized pearls for bubbles and hand cut the sea plants from scraps of card using scissors.

70th birthday

A 70th birthday card for a man...not so easy! I eventually settled on a satin look background and kept the whole design very simple. Not wanting to use an actual bow, I simply tied the ribbon into a knot with tails.

Pastel Art - Holly

More of my Colin Bradley art. This time still life. This was easier because I'm a bit more used to drawing plants.

St Peters Snow Scene

This is the St Peters snow scene I mentioned last week. Colin Bradley refers to them as Christmas cards but the finished artwork is far too big to fit on a card as each picture is almost A4 in size. Maybe he is thinking that you could scan your finished artwork and then resize the images for Christmas cards. Not that it's very useful for us Aussies as we don't see snow on the winter, let alone at Christmas! If you don't want to try your hand at doing your own artwork, you're welcome to download the images of mine. (Actually, I'd be chuffed if you used them!)

By the way, Colin is happy for people to post or even sell the artworks they create using his lessons, as long as they credit him, which is why I seem to be name dropping a lot. His lessons are very reasonably priced considering the cost of art lessons, either on line or "real", so I think it only fair that credit is given where it is due.