Sneaky Peeky – Nubian Treasures

Here is a sneak peek at my latest SVG paper cutting template, the Nubian Treasures set It features the Kudu antelope design artwork, a dimensional mask card and little gift card pouch. This set will be available soon. Watch this space. :)

Watercolour leaves

I spent a windy and rainy London day snug in my ‘woman cave’ painting watercolour leaves The colours used were Permanent Rose, Rose Madder Hue and Purple Lake

leaf cuts with Dylusions

I made some leaf paper cutting templates and inked them with my new Dylusions sprays :) I found some leaves that had prominent veins, and created cutting files from them. I then inked them with crushed grape and cut grass dylusions spray inks as well as Inktense paint blocks.. then used them as stencils as…

Art Journal pages 25.1.2014

Some recently worked on pages from various art journals This was supposed to be an abstract tree form.. A mixed media art journal page dedicated to Karl Blossfeldt I practiced painting vines with gouache.

Nature Journaling – Elmstead Woods

During the summer I did a wildflower survey in Elmstead Woods (South East London) for Plantlife.com and collected leaves from some of the plants I saw. I decided to make a nature journal page using paper copies of the leaves and thought I’d share how I made it. Firstly I pasted a brown paper bag…

Altered desk decor box

Hi, I had some spare time so decided to finish my altered desk decor box Here is my desk during the process I used gold coloured gouache on the box body and legs, then added brads and antiqued bronze chain plus a key trinket. I think it looks quite cute :) I’ve also included these…

Kathy Orta All Occasions Mini Album with Tim Holtz Laboratory Paper

Hi everyone, here is one of the presents I made for christmas, it’s a Kathy Orta All Occasions Mini Album made with Tim Holtz Laboratory Paper. I cut lots of elements on my silhouette cameo and hand painted them with Inktense blocks. it was really good fun, check out the video below too..

Design inspired by nature

Hi all, I’ve been in my craft studio all weekend as its cold and damp here in London. Yesterday I felt inspired to make an antelope head style motif, I knew how I wanted it to look, I just couldn’t remember the name of the species etc. After a good look around the internet I…