Flowers In Tulip Vase

Just drew a vase shape and the rest just evolved...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper drew out my decorative vase. Doodled and painted with various brands of w/c and Fine Tech gold's.

Calligraphy with a Juice Up pen in a script style.

words: The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. Malcolm de Chazal

Sunflower - Hold Your Head High

I was in a sunny mood and this flower evolved... I really like the way it turned out.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper drew out my flower design. and painted with various brands of w/c.
Calligraphy with a brown Zig Writer

words: Always hold your head high like a sunflower that stretches toward the light. Malene Rossau

3 Blue Coneflowers In Gold Frame

 Just drawing flowers and this evolved
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper drew out my flower design. and painted with various brands of w/c  Assed the frame with Gansai Tambi light gold

Calligraphy with a blue metallic gel pen.

words: Blue Coneflower

Scribbled Lives - Wk 33 - Layers - Brush Creates

 

wk 33 - Layers - Brush Creates
Size: 8"h X 10"w
First layer: on Strathmore Calligraphy paper in funky lettering using a Zig Writer for outline and a red Sharpie pen to color.
Second layer: on tissue paper protecting sheets from Mylar pad using a Juice Up pen in outline lettering.
Third layer: on Mylar using a blue Ultra Fine point Sharpie pen
Fourth layer: Matted with a piece of textured red cardstock
Fifth layer: Full quote written on a cut circle with a Zig Writer in monoline  

Tangled Frame - Our Destiny

I was playing with a tangle design and it morphed into a frame...
size: 6.5"w x 4.5"h
On Strathmore Calligraphy paper painted the tangle design with FineTech w/c in 2 shades of gold. Metallic gel pen for the dots. Shadowed with a Caran d'Ache B pencil and paper stump
Calligraphy with a green ZIG Clean Color maker.

words: We are permitted to create the frame of our destiny, but what w put in it is ours. Dag Hammarskjold

Red Peony - Flower Power

Another piece done while playing with the gals
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper drew out my flower and colored with Prisma Colored pencils. Added the word FLOWER POWER and hatched with a Juice Up pen.
words: Flower Power

Pink 7 Petal Flower - Bloom

words: Bloom

 I was playing with the gals again and created a few pieces... 2 of which I totally finished. This is one of them.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper drewout my flower and inked with a Zig marker. Painted various brands of w/c's'. Added the word BLOOM and hatched with a Juice Up pen.

Diminish Joy Of Today

I came across this quote and had to play with it...
size: 6.5"sq
On Genoa Bon Calligraphy Paper writing the letters in a funky style seen from Violet Smythe. Using a black Juice Up pen for the headers. Text with a Zig Clean Color (033 Persian Green)

words:
People wait
all day for 5PM
all week for Friday
all summer for winter
all winter for summer
don't let
the pursuit of tomorrow diminish
the joy of today

Success - Catastrophe

I saw something by Gemma Black and liked the way she wrote out a word... so used the idea for my piece.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper created my ovals in various sizes wrote in the letters for the focal word then colored with Zig Clean Color markers in blues and greens. Text written with the fine point of the pen.
words: Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it built on catastrophe. Sumner Redstone

BVCG Env Exc - Aug 2025 - Renate Worthington

Env created onGenoa Bond paper, Funky letters with a Marvy 5.0 Calligraphy marker and doodled with various colored metallic gel pens. Deco roses with Prisma colored pencils.

The insert (not a card) was something I created a long time ago and colored with FineTech metallic paints

Scribbled Lives - wk 32 - I Love Letters

Scribbled Lives wk 32 - I LOVE LETTERS
Not happy with the image colors...
Size: 8\'w x 4.5"h
On St Armand watercolor paper using a Rosemary & Co #08 Triangle Brush double dipping into Gansai Tambi Granulating w/c (Aurora Pink and Orange). Adding graphite shadowing with a Caran d'Ache B pencil and paper stump. Then a small highlight with a Unibal white gel pen.
words: I Love Letters

Try And You're Half Way There

I was playing with all the colors of discarded calligraphy markers I had in a bag using the larger size... checking them out...
 size: 7"sq and 3"w x 5"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper wrote out the words in every color I had. Added a graphite shading.

I then created one (image below) with the small end only and shadowed with a Pilot Juice Up black pen.

words: Try and you're half way there.

 

w/c Abstract - Hills To Climb

 

I had created a large piece of watercolor paper with these dashed lines and cut a piece off it for this piece.

size 7"w x 6"h

words: After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Building Blocks - Civil Society

I was drawing interlocking squares, then added those oval shaped stones... Again no idea where my mind was going...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper colored the squares with a different color of blue or green Prisma colored pencil. A Brown marker for the intersections. Text written with a med Blue Juice Up pen in basic monoline

words: Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society. Alexander McCall Smith

Hexagons - Don't Be Square

Again I had created the hexagons a while back and finally finished it...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Black XL Drawing  paper created the hexagons with a silver gel pen and Juice Up pen. Lettering with the same gel pen.
words: Don't be square be a hexagon.

Blue Flowers - Blooming Branch

I saw an image of a branch of flowers and had to do something with it...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink paper painted the flowers and then outlined with a black Juice Up pen. Text written with a med Blue Juice Up pen in a Renee style lettering and white Uniball gel pen dots.
words: Blossoming branch of blue flowers

On Black - Doodled Gems

I had doodled the gem image a while ago and finally finished it.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Black XL Drawing  paper colored the gem image with Prisma colored pencil. Used Uniball white gel pen as well as a Juice Up and white ink. Lettering with the white gel pen in a funky lettering style.

words: Blooming Gems

Scribbled Lives - wk 31 - Wit/Wisdom - Coffee

Scribbled Lives - wk 31 - Wit/Wisdom - Coffee

image: 5"sq

On Genoa Bond paper Renee M style lettering seen on Kathy Milici onLine posts wrote out the words using 2 brown colors of Kuretake Zig Clean Color markers (060 Brown & 062 Dk Brown). Added dots using W/N Calligraphy white ink.

words: Everyone should believe in something... I believe I will have another coffee.

Swirling Ladder - Bridge To Nowhere

Just started doodling and that ladder thing evolved and then I added the funky plant thingies...
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink Paper, ZIG Writer, Prisma colored pencils. Weaver style writing with a Zig Writer.
words: A bridge, a stairway - to nowhere...

Orange - Orange U Sweet

Trying to get out of the funk with a bit of sweetness...
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink Paper, watercolors, ZIG Clean Color for the lettering.
words: Orange U Sweet?

Floral Tentacles - Gladys Taber

I seem to be in a funk lately... not sure why.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen &Ink Paper, Zig Writer, Prisma Colored pencils. Juice Up pens, gel pens.
words: The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday. Gladys Taber

Pansy In A Pot - Heart Of A Pansy

A friend created a card with stamps and dies with this kind of pansy image. I really liked it and said I was going to make one too...
size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson XL Pen &Ink Paper, Zig Writer, Watercolors, graphite pencil shading and paper stump.
Text written with a Juice Up pen in Weaver style lettering.
words: nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy. Lucy Maude Montgomery

Glazed Donuts - YUM

I guess I must have had a craving for donuts... luckily they were only on paper...
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen &Ink Paper, Zig Writer Prisma Colored pencils. gel pens, graphite pencil shading and paper stump.
words: Glazed Donuts YUM!

Leafy Border - Another Alphabet Whispering

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
Continuing using some of my black drawing paper...
On Canson XL Black Drawing Paper using a white gel pen and Black Edition colored pencils.
Lettering done with a Zebra Pointed pen nib and Twinkles H2º "Indian Copper"
words: There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky. Dejan Stojanovic

Scribbled Lives Wk 30 - William Morris - Strikingly Beautiful

Size: 4.25"w x 5.5"h
On Canson XL Pen &  Ink paper using w/c for the "T" and a ZIG Calligraphy 2.0 marker "Pure Brown". (needless to say the color on the image did not scan well...).
words: There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful. William Morris

Rocky Spiral - To Nowhere

Got my new Granulating Colors from Kuretake. Interesting - not easy to photograph though... I used the Blue and the Orange. I like the variations from one color. Size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson XL Pen & Ink Paper, Kuretake Granulating watercolors, ZIG Writer. Brown Juice Up for the lettering.
words: Rocky Spiral to Nowhere

Abstract Doodle - Unique Stones

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
Another linear design I started with no idea where it would lead...
On Canson XL Pen &Ink Paper using a ZIG Writer for the lines and various brands of watercolors. Found a quote to go with it using Pentel Arts Fine Point Color Pens
words: Our Lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence priceless and irreplaceable. Henry Nouwen

Flower In A Teacup

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
I was playing with this flower... boy that's a lot of pink!!
On Canson XL Pen &Ink Paper using metallic Prisma colored pencils. Lettering a la Lisa Engelbrecht style using Pentel Arts Fine Point Color Pens
words: A Flower In A Teacup

Another Day Another Dollar

I was just doodling playing with my new calligraphy markers and this emerged...
size: 4.5"sq
On Canson XL Pen &Ink Paper

words: Another Day Another Dollar

Kuretake Calligraphy Pen Sampler

Playing with a new set of Kuretake Calligraphy pens trying out both ends. Love all the colors...

Leafy Letters - Leaves Whispering

I've seen this style of letters a few times and finally got down to creating a complete alphabet using some of the ones I saw as my guide.
size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson XL Pen &Ink Paper, Zig Writer and watercolors.

words: Leaves whispering, shimmering, listen to their song.

Double Flap Card - Center Floral Stem

Size card closed: 4.25"sq
opens to: 9"w

I came across this cute card structure on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/p/DMNkDoJs9n_/) uploaded on July 17,2025 by aveereneecarddesigns called a slim line card. Couldn't resist making one...

Cut 110# cardstock to 4.25" x 9"w
Scored at 2", 2.25", 4.125", 4.625", 6.125" & 6.875"
Fold scores: v,v,m,m,v,v

I adhered geli print scraps from my stash... raided my die cuts to create the floral branch adhering only to that 1/2"w section. added amber gems to the floral centers.

Be careful when opening the card... Have both sides folded back to open the flaps to not damage the protruding florals...

Text will be added when I know what it will be used for...