Black White Design - Stand Firm

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the design with a ZIG Writer and shadowed with Caran d'Ache Grafwood B pencil and paper stump/
Lettering done with a black Staedtler Calligraphy Duo pen and a ZIG Writer
words: Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow. Dante Alighieri

Linear Bkgrd - Relax Play Enjoy

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the bkgr'd with every color of ZIG Clean Color Real Brush pens I have. Then created the black lines to make the colors stand out more.
Words done with a black Staedtler Calligraphy Duo pen in my style of lettering adding a white highlight with white paint.
words: Relax Play Enjoy

Black White Floral - Be Bold Be Brave

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the design with a ZIG Writer and shadowed with Caran d'Ache Grafwood B pencil and paper stump/
Lettering done with a black Staedtler Calligraphy Duo pen and a ZIG Writer
words: Be Bold, Be Brave enough to be yourself. Queen Latifa

BVCG Env Exc 2025 - Diana Carwithen

 Diana Carwithen (Dec 2025)
Env created on Canson Mixed Media paper (I think). Drew out the elongated letters of her name and colored with every color of my ZIG Calligraphy marker set...

The card was from my stash... I'm trying to use them up.

Gingerbread Letters - ECS - Sally Towers-Sybllis

I took a fun class with The Edmonton Calligraphy Society recently where Sally Towers-Sybllis taught us a funky lettering style - Gingerbread letters.

I did the exemplar in my Canson Mixed Media book using various medias - ZIG Writer for outlines and shadow, w/c to paint each letter in various shades of ochre/browns etc, then detailed with various gel and metallic pens, finally adding the blue colored shaded area with a Prisma Colored pencil. Love this style of lettering with all the doodling etc... right up my alley.

Then I created the card on Staples white 110#cardstock. trimmed down and punched the corners, adhered to the blue cardstock and then onto a brown card base.

words: Thinking of you

Art Of The Fold - Pop Up Card - From Me To You

The challenge for our next Art Of The Fold Group (Dec 2025) had us making this kind of structure. A bit challenging... I would make my tabs a little shorter.
 

size closed: 6"w x 7.5"h
The card base was made from a slightly textured 12 x 12 paper and the rest made with various brands of cardstock, the butterflies from gelli prints made on Columbia Mills LBS End paper.

Lettering on the front was done with DecoColor Premium gold pen and then shadow outlined with a ZIG Writer.

Ovals and butterflies punched out. and the inside lettering hand cut from another geli print paper..

On Black - Ribbon - Lucy Locket

size: 6"w x 7"h
On black textured cardstock created the ribbon using Uniball white gel pen and Prisma colored pencil. Then looked at the finished artwork and said it need a quote...
Text written with a green metallic Gelly Roll pen in my funky style.
words: Lucy Locket lost her pocket, Kitty Fisher found it; There was not a penny in it, but a ribbon round it.
Mother Goose - Kate Greenaway

Hanukkah Cards 2025

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Staples 110 cardstock created the Hanukkah cards using Calligraphy marker pens for the blue card & Kuretake metallic paint for the copper/gold card
words: Happy Hanukkah

Scribbled Lives wk 50 - One Word - Imagine

Size: 6.5"w x 4.5"h
On St Armand cold press w/c paper drew out the letters to spell IMAGINE, adding a 3D effect. Colored with various brands of w/c, the background with my favorite blue (Holbien Peacock Blue), when dry doodled in the letters.

PS this will be my last Scribbled Lives post. I've decided not to join for 2026. I've had a good 5 years...

Do Kind Things - 4 Ways

size: each 4" sq
On Genoa Bond calligraphy paper created the 1st design in black and white in funky lettering using a Staedtler 3.5 calligraphy pen. Liked it and asked myself what it would look like colored... so traced the original design with a ZIG Writerand colored with Prisma colored pencils and a Lyra blender pencil.
Then I asked myself what would it look like doodled, so created one with outline letters and then one with solid black letters and doodle them (uniball white gel pen)
I like all 4 of them...
words: Do kind things You'll feel better.

Yellow Flowers - Enjoy The Sunshine

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the floral artwork, painted with various brands of watercolor and linear work with a Juice Up pen.
Words done with the Juice Up pen in my serif style lettering...
words: If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. Morris West

Gifts - Love Without Giving

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the gift boxes artwork, painted with various brands of watercolor including white gold Kuretake w/c.
Words done with a pointed nib in my script writing style with Sumi ink. Then added the hearts with a red ZIG writer.
words: you can give without loving but you cannot love without giving. Amy Carmichael

Funky S - Sing I Tell You

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the funky "S" doodle with butterfly... (Didn't realize what I was doing until the end when I looked at it... and said that looks like an "S") painted with various brands of watercolor. added some doodling and gel pen accents.
Words with some gold Kuretake w/c and the rest in serif style lettering with a ZIG Writer.
words: Sing, I tell you... and all the angels will sing with you. Suzy Kassem

WC - Plums - Plum Blossom

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper painted the plum design with various brands of w/c. Wrote out the haiku text with a Staedtler 3002 pen size 2.0

words: moon, plum blossoms, this that, and the day goes. Kobayashi Issa

Noblot Ink - Each Of Us

size: 8"w x 9"h
On Arches Text Wove paper, drew out the text in a Fusion Lettering style learnt in Christine Ahmad's calligraphy class recently. I used a Noblot Ink Pencil and then activating the pencil with a White Taklon Series 970 size 000 brush, giving this beautiful colored text...
Thanks to Kerri Forster for the nudge to play with this pencil

Scribbled Lives - wk49 - Giving - Don't Just Think Do

 

wk 49 - Giving - Don't Just Think Do
Size: 4" x 6.5" (not incl pens)
On misc Black cardstock wrote out the words using the gold pen (DecoColor Premium) in my funky style the shadowed with a white gel pen (Uniball)
words: Don't Just think do...

Abstract Floral - Free Therapy

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the floral design using various colors and brands of gel pens, adding the doodle flowers with a blue Juice Up pen.
Text done with a Staedtler 3002 pen size 2.0

words: Smile, it's free therapy

Alpha A - O - More Than Letters

size:  6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper  wrote out the alphabet from A to O in a monoline style and then bordered each letter to create the white spaces. Painted each section with various brands of w/c both solidly and water blended. When dry added my text.
words: More than letters mingle souls. John Donne

Pencil Doodle - Photography Is

size: 5"sq
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper drew a bunch of wavy lines crossing each other using a Blackwing 223 pencil... then started to doodle in them and adding shading. Text with a ZIG Writer
words: Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henry Cartien Bresson

Lemons - Artificial Flavors

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the lemon artwork and painted with w/c.
Drew out the words with a ZIG Writer in a funky lettering style and painted the main word with w/c.
words: We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish from real lemons.

Christine Ahmad - Fusion Letters Booklet

I used a heavy weight white cardstock from my stash (no idea what make it is...) cut 5 sheets to 7.25"w x 10"h, folded in half for a landscape mode booklet. Did a basic 3 hole stitch booklet using the same cardstock (used it all up...) and 4ply Olive Drab waxed linen thread (Crawford Threads Belfast)

Drew out the title using  ZIG Writer and painted with Yasutomo Pearl metallic w/c. and needless to say... I had a spelling mistake so created a funky letter and squeezed it in.

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 2 - Yes

ID: Yes
size: 4.5" sq
On Black/Black paper drew out my word and colored with Yasutomo metallic paints, outlined with Uniball white gel pen.
words: Yes

Scribbled Lives 2025 - Wk 48 - B&W Quote - Crazy Is

wk 48 - B&W - Crazy Is
Size: 5.5"w x 5"h
On Genoa Bond paper using a Juice Up pen drew out the funky lettering for something I saw all the time...
words: Crazy is as Crazy does

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 2 - Peace On Earth

ID: Peace On Earth
size: 6"w x 3.5"h
On Black/Black paper drew out my word and colored with Yasutomo metallic paints, outlined with Uniball gold gel pen. Added the lettering with he gold gel pen.
words: Peace on Earth

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 2 - Happiness Held

Happiness Held
size: 6"w x 5"h
On Black/Black paper drew out my word and colored with Yasutomo metallic paints, outlined with Uniball white gel pen. Added the lettering with a white Juice Up pen.
words: Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower. Harrigan

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 2 - Yogi

ID: Yogi with Blocks
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper drew out my name in the funkier style and colored with Prisma colored pencils. Added the squares behind my name
words: Yogi 

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 1 - Auric

ID: Auric - Relating to Gold
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out my word and painted with Gansai Tambi gold paints. Regular w/c for the stones.
words: Auric relating to gold

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 1 - Just Because

ID: Just Because I Care
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out my words and painted with w/c and a bit of doodling. Gold border with Gansai Tambi gold paint and a funky border
words: Just because I care

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 1 - Laugh Out Loud

ID: Laugh Out Loud
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out my word and colored with Gelly Roll metallic gel pens and uniball white gel pen ad w/c
words: Laugh out loud

Scribbled Lives - Wk 47 - Expressive Mark Making

wk 47 - Expressive Mark Making
Size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Genoa Bond paper using a ZIG Writer created my marks then wrote the text underneath.
words: MARK MAKING - expressive mark making

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 1 - Enjoy

ID: Enjoy your day
size: 3"w x 2.5"h
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper drew out my word and colored with Prisma colored pencils, adding  graphite shading.
words: Enjoy your day