I’ve been colouring and cardmaking for a while now. Creating allows me to be in my happy place. I deal with a whole host of health issues – both physical and mental – and crafting gives me the endorphins I am obviously lacking when I’m down or overwhelmed.
I don’t claim to be an expert, quite the opposite, in fact! I see so many cards on Pinterest, other blogs and challenge sites that it can seem pretty daunting. It seems as though my cards are made by a kid in comparison to countless others I’ve seen. And I’m a very harsh critic of my work. However, I have to acknowledge that I have improved by leaps and bounds from when I first started cardmaking and colouring as an adult. And a very wise person consistently reminds me that the fun of creating is in the journey – the process – and not the destination – the finished product.
In being mindful that every person is on their own creative endeavour and not to compare finished outcomes, I have started to enter online challenges a lot more. The next logical step seemed to be starting a blog, not only to help me keep track of the challenges I’ve entered my cards into, but to hopefully also be able to provide some encouragement to others who are just starting out on their creative road trip.
I look forward to sharing my work with you – the good, the bad and the ugly!
Shazza J Creations 
I had no idea there were card making challenges. Sounds fun! I started getting into coloring as an adult too. I love that adult coloring became a craze. My favorite books are the Vive Le Color series. What are your favorite coloring utensils? I got fed up with colored pencils being impossible to get a real sharp point with and have been using Crayola brush markers.
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Hi! Welcome to my blog! 🙂 Yeah, cardmaking challenges are indeed fun, and there are so many – WAY too many for me to keep up with because I’m a very slow colourist.
I love my Copic alcohol markers. They are really fun to use. But I also use Prismacolor pencils, especially when I want to take my mind off something and just concentrate on laying the colours on the page, one layer at a time. It’s been a while since I coloured in a colouring book, because I find that I have the attention span of a five year old most times, so I colour small images and use them on cards that I make for family and friends.
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