Sarah Gray

Welcome to June and our new Take 3 Challenge prompts! This month we are working with pastels as our colours, using flowers as our theme and adding stripes to our makes. This is a lovely combo and I thought that I would put a few easy cards together to help get you started :) These 3 cards feature different ways to incorporate stripes in to your projects with masking, stencils and washi tape. First up I decided to use different widths of masking tape across the cardfront before blending...

I am now over two thirds of the way through the 100 day project and this little daily creative ritual has got me thinking about how valuable repetition can be.... This exercise in creative repetition has helped me to: Focus - I don't sit down every day with a blank piece of paper and a question mark about what to do which often leads to procrastination. Be MORE creative - I have needed to think about ways of adding variation within the constraints that I have set. I have been undertaking the...

I haven't been making cards much recently....art journaling, slow stitching, mixed media projects have all been absorbing my attention and I have got out of practice. However, 2 things have sparked my card making mojo again: Working on my 100 day project The new products that we are releasing this Friday. The process of working on small abstracts every day as part of my 100 days of mixed media circles is really transferable to card making - simplifying designs down to blocks of colour and...