No cards this year

Posted on December 16, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged 1843, Cards, Christmas cards, Digital, Fun, Memory, Post, Postage, Reality, ThinkingLeave a comment

Usually I send cards to my friends, but the local card shop has closed, the post office closed and one of the post boxes has been removed.

I decided I would make a donation to the charity Parkinsons UK instead. They do work on trying to find and resolve the causes of Parkinsons disease. Hopefully I will be helping others in my circumstances.

Cards are a fun way to show you care about your friends and family. They were first sent by the Victorians in 1843. They became more popular in the 1860s and 70s. People used the penny post to send them to their loved ones. I do t really want to stop sending them, but digital life affects reality.

Scratcher art

Posted on June 8, 2025 Posted in Cat, Fine Art, Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Cards, Cat, Drawing, Ideas, Illustration, original art, Prints, Scraper board, SketchingLeave a comment

I saw this again today and I really do like it. I might buy some scraper board to do my own creations. Then if I was to photograph the I could make original artwork to turn into cards and prints. I just wish I had more energy to do it.

Esther Chiltons weekly prompt : Post

Posted on March 12, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged abroad, Birthday, Cards, Christmas, Life, Memory, Post, postman, Present, relative, TimeLeave a comment

Post,…. A relative lives abroad with her partner. I need to remember to send a birthday card and an anniversary card together as the occasions are within a day of each other. Also I’m posting them early (it’s a month away), because it took three weeks to get her Christmas card delivered to her. I also won’t post her presents as she had to pay import tax on the one I sent at Christmas, which cost her more than the price of my gift! The reason for the late delivery of the card ? Her postman waits until he’s got enough letters together before he delivers them!

Heads up

Posted on April 12, 2023 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cards, cover, deck of cards, Design, Experiment, Fun, heads, Profiles, Sketching, topsy turveyLeave a comment

I’m imagining the back of a playing card with a pattern on it like this? Two profiles facing each other, one turned upside down. It’s based on the idea of the two heads on the King, Queen and Jack cards. Are they designed to read from both top and bottom to make it easier for all players to read them?

I am not a graphic designer so I am not sure what criteria I would need to actually make these, but I’m having fun as I experiment again.. Hope you enjoy my scribbles x

Cats

Posted on May 14, 2022 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic, Analogue, Art, Black cat, Cards, Cat, Crafts, Design, Digital, Fun, Ink, Life, Lino cutting, Printing1 Comment

I must do more ‘real’ or analogue art. I mean physical art, not digital drawing or photography. I loved doing these lino cuts as part of my MA final major project. I liked trying to learn a new skill. I could also create cards for sale by doing this. I would maybe use acrylic paints instead of ink? Then I could play with the colours. And by using a lino cut twice but by offsetting the print slightly I could get interesting fringes of colour around the images. Lots of ideas. I just need to do them.

Cards for sale

Posted on April 11, 2022April 12, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Cards, Cheddleton, Fine Art, Green men, Greeting cards, Painting, Train stationLeave a comment

A mixture of my cards for sale at Etruria Industrial Museum. Mostly green men and sea women, but with a card based on a painting of Cheddleton Station building near Leek, Staffordshire, England. I painted it in 2000, I think. I still have the original.

I have a lot of paintings that I never sold. I’m not a sales person and I don’t think I ever will be. I’m more interested in the process and result than selling art afterwards. I worry my family will be burdened with my art when I die!

Pack

Posted on March 22, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, ace, Art, Cards, Digital drawing, Drawing, Hearts, pack, Sketching, Sketching appLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was pack. I’m not sure I got this right. It started with some squiggled lines then I worked on it in the sketch app on my phone. I should have added a card like the ace of hearts but I cannot get neat straight lines so I’ve abandoned it at this stage. X

Reflected idea

Posted on September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Black and white cat, Cards, Cat, Drawing, gold and white cat, SketchingLeave a comment

Tuesdays #bandofsketchers prompt was based on the prompt ‘reflection’. I hadn’t got much time, so I based this on a mirrored photo of one of my cats, the little female one.

I took the liberty of changing the colour to hold with different patterns on each cats coat. The hearts are for how much I love my cats, I also feel it looks a bit like a playing card.

Stall set up

Posted on November 9, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Art, Artist, Busy, Cards, Craft fair, Life, Painting, Tired6 Comments

I couldn’t fit all my pictures onto the stall today, but I got most of them on, plus some prints.

I got up at 7.40 but dispite trying to be there at 8.30 it was after 9 before I got there….ice to scrape off the car and then slow traffic. I’m lucky it didn’t snow, it was forecast!

The village hall is an old school and we were in the main room. Lots of crafts and charity stalls. I won a few things in the raffle and tombola. We finished about two and then it was time to pack up and try and fit all my paintings in my boxes, that’s an art in itself.

Card design…

Posted on October 28, 2019October 28, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Card design, Cards, Filters, InstagramLeave a comment

I’m playing with the filters on my new tablet and want to know what people think about using them to produce images for cards? They make things look more graphic, but perhaps they are overwhelming

Q. Yes or No.?

My only problem? Wrote this on my tablet but couldn’t see a way of adding categories and tags, so I’ve had to complete this on my phone.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Cards