Scribbled Lives - wk 49 - New Year - New Beginnings

Size: 7"sq
On Edge Mixed Media using a Zig Writer and Juice Up pen for the outlining the lettering and coloring with metallic gel pens. Added the large dots with Stickles "Thistle" glitter

words: 2025 - New Beginnings

Wax Seals - Philodendron & Shamrock

Size: 1"dia
My last 2 seals I wasn't expecting till December... They're a little plain but when I'm in the mood I'll play with them...
I'm going to try really hard not to buy anymore... we'll see how long I last.

Triangle Brush - Must Have Flowers

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At my recent BVCG Play Day I created this floral design, then add the quote. I bought 3 of these triangle brushes - but for the life of me I can't find the middle size which was my favorite...
size: 7"w x 5.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the floral design,then found a quote I like and added that using a black Zig Calligraphy pen - smaller nib in an unknown font style I found online.

words: I must have flowers always and always. Claude Monet

Doodled Ovals - No Abstract

I created the abstract design using ovals while playing with the gals.
size: 4.75"w x 5.75"h
Cut out a section to fit the quote into. Adhered the pieces to the blue cardstock and then wrote the quote using a Micron .02 pen in basic monoline.

words: There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. Pablo Picasso

Abstract Circles - Find Peace

At my recent BVCG Play Day I created this abstract design and then decided to add the quote in the larger circles...
size: 4"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew my circles with a Zig Writer, then connected them with those curvy bars. I had intended to color everything but then thought better of it with the big circles... Painted the background with Gansai Tambi Graphite Colors (the blue - not that it looks bluish...) then the smaller circles with regular watercolors. Added a white gel pen highlight.

Text written in a style I saw from "Gexeichnete Schriten Von M.J. Grade 1 Plate 23B)
words: Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. Albert Schweitzer

Uncial - Abracadabra & ABCDE

 

 

On Canson Pro Marker paper was playing with the word "Abracadabra" in various size nibs (2.4 & 3.8) and then one in a different Ecoline ink for each letter...

 

The Alphabet This Is:  Using a yellow Ecoline ink and shadowed with a Zig Writer.

 

Uncials - The Impossible - Ghandi

size: 6.5"w x 4"h
Thought I'd try out a quote. A 2.4 parallel pen and a crazy brownish mix.
I goofed a word... and camouflaged it with those big black boxes... then wrote the author into one of them. (problem fixed...)

Scribbled Lives - wk 48 - Thankful - Dr Seuss

I created a doodled abstract design using ovals and used a large part of it for another calligraphy piece... so this frame off cut was lying on my desk. It was a touch to small for the finished piece so cut it apart and adhered it to the red textured cardstock adding the black corners to make it a frame again...
Size: 5.5"w x 7"h
On Edge mixed media paper, wrote out the text with a Juice up pen and colored with Posca colored pencils and blended with a Lyra Splendor Blender. Adhered the frame and then adhered to the red cardstock.

words: You ought to be thankful a whole heaping lot for the places and people you're lucky you're not. Dr Seuss

Yes & Maybe

At my recent BVCG Play Day I created these 2 pieces playing with my Copic Marker.
size: 9"w x 7"h (both approx)
YES: On Genoa Bond Calligraphy Paper double dipped my wide Copic marker into a blue and magenta gouache and wrote out the letters for "yes" in a funky style. Shadowed the right edge with a Caran d'Ache B pencil and paper stump. Added the text with the smaller tip of a Zig Calligraphy pen.
words: Yes is a positive word.

MAYBE: same as "YES" except for using 3 colors (olive green, Magenta and Gold). Shadowed with the Zig Writer. Same text style.
words: Maybe or maybe not.

Crown Book 2- Number Rhymes

Our challenge for our December meeting will be the Crown Book #15 from Hedi Kyle's "Art Of The Fold" book. Last time I did this book was in July of 2021. This one is a bit smaller.
Size: 2.5"w x 4.5"h
I raided my geli print paper (done on Columbia Mills LBS End paper) and used both sides to create this booklet. Since I recently did a floral alphabet book I thought a numbers Kids rhyme booklet was needed...

I'm using one of my favorite funky lettering styles for the text (which I don't know the name of...) done with a Zig Writer.

I found the numbers (a font on my computer) just done in a black outline too pale so added a white inner line using Bleed Proof white and pointed nib. I find they really pop now.

To see larger, individual images, click on link below

http://yogiemp.com/Journals/ArtOfTheFold/CrownBook2_NumberRhymes.html 

Visigothic Knot - Life Is A

I came across something onLine by Risa Gettler and was inspired again...
size: 8"w x 7"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper drew my knotwork then doodled using Gelly Roll Metallic pens, Prisma colored pencils and Uniball white gel pen. Added a circle of Stickles Fine Glitter "Diamond". Text written with a brown Juice Up pen

words: Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awareness. Frederick Lenz

Illuminated Y - You Have To Think

 

Today was supposed to be day 2 for our Uncial class with Barb Fuller... but we had a dump of over a foot of snow with frigid temps... and the roads needless to say were not good, so I cancelled going to class - sigh. Instead I created my version of an illuminated letter picking a "Y" for my name and than getting a quote to fit the oversize letter.
size: 8.5"w x 5.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the large "Y" and then the autumn leaves around it in an oval shape using a brand new Sharpie fine tip pen. Painted with watercolors and Kuretake Mica Gold ink. I doodled into the letter before painting using a small balled stylus.

I left the Madagascar style lettering plain.

words: You have to think anyway so why not think big. Donald Trump

Funky Uncial, Yes, No

 

I'm taking a 2 day class with Barb Fuller (a BVCG Guild Member) in Uncials. It's one of my favorite hands... but does take up a lot of room especially since I don't like using small nibs...
On Canson Pro Marker paper.
The Uncial word was written with a 3.8 and a 2.4 empty Parallel pen using a crazy mix of Ecoline ink I had in a jar (the brownish color) and a reddish. Graphite shadowing.
The Yes and No  were also done with some crazy mixes... shadowed and doodled with a white or gold gel pen.

Perseverance Snail

I came across something on Instagram and was inspired again...
size: 8"w x 7"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew my snail form and then doodled within the lines down with a Zig Writer. Painted with watercolors, dropping in lots of water to get a nice blending effect. Highlighted with a white gel pen and some graphite shading.
Text written in a funky style.
words: By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Charles Spurgeon

Scribbled Lives Wk 47 - Wilderness - Wilderness

Size: 11"h x 7"w
On Canson Pro Marker paper drew out the large word, then erased the area for the first part of the quote. Outlined with a Zig Writer and text with a Juice Up pen. Colored with Posca colored pencils in various shades of autumn - even though we got more than 6" of snow so far...

Uncial _ Yes 1 & Yes 2

  

I'm taking a 2 day class with Barb Fuller (a BVCG Guild Member) in Uncials. It's one of my favorite hands... but does take up a lot of room especially since I don't like using small nibs...

On Canson Pro Marker paper I used a Simply Simons #10 chisel brush (for both "Yes's") - which is a touch smaller than 1/2" and loaded it with water - one letter at a time. Dropped in Ecoline inks into the wetness. Blotted it a bit so it would dry faster...

Top Yes: shadowed on the right side with a Caran c'Ache B pencil and paper stump. Outlined on the left side with a medium toned blue Juice Up pen.

Bottom Yes: wrote the text with a black Juice Up pen and used a yellow colored pencil to shade around the words.
words: YES is a good word

Floral 6pce Wax Seal Set

Size: The seal is approx 3/4" x 1"
This was a set that came with my last seal delivery... Not very well made. The screw mechanism is lousy, the stamp itself is very thin... but they are pretty floral images...
So created 2 of each, one for my sampler and one for my good box.
Only waiting for 2 more seals with a delivery expected in December. These 2 are taking more than 6 weeks to get to me. Can't even remember what I bought...

Funky Letters - Nov 14,24

size: 8.5"w x 7.5"h
Through the Valley Calligraphy Guild we had a mini class with Betty Locke "Just Give Me A Pen". She has such a way with twisting and turning and changing letter sizes. Hard for me... I'm a very mathematical type person and don't have that looseness and free style...
Done on Genoa Bond calligraphy paper, all done with a B pencil except the last line with colors of Juice Up pens.

13 Wax Seals From 6 Seals

Size: various dia
I recently got these 6 seals and finally had a minute (or more...) to try them out. I love all of them BIG GRIN. A coupe of them are rectangle shaped, not easy to get a good border around them but I don't mind so much on these.
Since I had borrowed my friend's ginkgo stamp I figured I'd better get one too... 

Leaf Doodle - Change Your Thoughts

I was in a doodling frame of mind...
size: 6"w x 6.5"h
Done on Canson Mixed Media paper. Drew out the design with a Zig Writer, painted with some green and blue w/c and Kuretake Gold Mica ink.

words: Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

Jacques Herbin Ink - Opportunities

I bought this Jacques Herbin Ink in 2023 and didn't like it very much... (and they were not cheap). So it landed in my drawer till now. I decided to make w/c backgrounds with it to at least finally try to use it up. (Kyanite du Nepal, Cornaline d'Egypte, Emeraude de Chivor.) Interesting names - basically a blue, orange and emerald. The emerald DOES NOT look like a green, more a turquoise/aqua color. The orange mixed with the blue or the Emerald seems to make a nice olivey color so maybe I'll mix some in a smaller container...
Sorry the bottom color should be more greenish blue...
size: 12"w x 8.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper I scratched into the wet painted areas with the end of a paint brush and let dry. Text written with a pointed pen in a script style.

words: Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you  miss them. William Arthur Ward

Scribbled Lives - Wk 46 - Shakspeare - Ring The Alarm Bell

Size: 9.5"w x 7.5"h
On Edge Mixed Media Sketchbook paper using a Copic Wide nib Double dipped into Holbien gouache (combo's Gold, Magenta or Ice Blue). Using a Leonard Round #4 broad edge nib with the same color combos and Sumi ink for the rest of the text.
Shadowed the large word with a B Caran D'Ache pencil and blending with a paper stump.
words: Ring the alarm bell
Blow wind, come wrack,
At least we'll die with harness on out back. Macbeth Act 5, Scene 5

Wax Seals - Leaves

Got  bunch more wax seals - Maple and fern leaves... couldn't resist

Cataloguing them. Love these.

I think ,my favorite in this batch is the multi maple leaf, I'll get better with making an even bulge around the seal...

I keep forgetting to look down on the seal rather than at the seal so not seeing the back edge... Have to train my brain... old  age here so that might take a while...  .

Booklet In A Box - Floral Alphabet - Booklet All

Booklet box created with heavy weight misc white cardstock and covered with my geli print paper. Red cardstock closure with title and one of my wax seals.

3.5"w x 5"h x 3/4" thk.
Opens to approx 7.6'

On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the letters and florals with a Juice Up pen that start with that letter. Coloring with various w/c media (Peerless w/c, ), accenting with gel pens.

 

 

Book In A Box - Floral Alphabet - Y-Z

And the last 2 letters... now all I need to do is finish the box they sit in...

On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the letters and florals with a Juice Up pen that start with that letter. Coloring with various w/c media (Peerless w/c, ), accenting with gel pens and other markers.

Laurie - Cadels

I took a ZOOM class through Edmonton Calligraphy Society with Vivian Mungal - Cadels (Nov 6, 2024)
Size: 5.5"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper penciled my word then painted (using 3 brushes in my hand) with watercolors wetting a section and painting one edge with Peacock Blue and the other edge with Permanent Green #1 (both Holbien). Let dry then with a pointed nib and the blue added the thin lines

Book In A Box - Floral Alphabet - U - X

On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the letters and florals with a Juice Up pen that start with that letter. Coloring with various w/c media (Peerless w/c, ), accenting with gel pens and other markers.

 

BVCG Envelope Exchange - Nov - Violet Smythe

Violet Smythe (Nov 2024)
Env created from Canson Mixed Media paper, funky lettered with an Automatic Pen (from Betty Locke) using a lot of water then spraying with Brusho powder Ost Red, dropping in a touch of walnut crystals and the Neuberg Ebel gold powder. Let dry then shadowed with a gold gel pen.

The card was created for a Scribbled Lives challenge (Cut & Paste) funky letters cut from brown craft cardstock and doodled with a white gel pen.

Scribbled Lives - Wk 45 - John Cage - Art Is Whatever

I had this scrap piece of art background I made several years ago sitting in my stash...and decided to finally use  it. (see pic below). I cut some circles out of it around the areas of the previous cut outs using a circle die and punches.
Size: 9"w x 8"h
I penciled in  my text circle area on white Canson Mixed Media paper wrote out the text with a Uniball Black gel pen. then adhered my art background to it, then adhered all to a white cardstock.

I REALLY like the end result.

 

Book In A Box - Floral Alphabet - Q - T

On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the letters and florals with a Juice Up pen that start with that letter. Coloring with various w/c media (Peerless w/c, ), accenting with gel pens and other markers.

Drum Leaf Binding - Words To Live By

I came across this DRUM LEAF binding on Vintage Page Designs Facebook Nov 4/24 post and decided to play with it…click HERE  for the post

Cut my 5pcs of white Stonehenge paper to 5"h x 10" w and one larger one for the covers. Sprayed with various colors of Distress Spritz (Fossilized Amber, Peacock Feathers, Peeled Paint, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Twisted Citron and Walnut Stain). Sprinkled with Coarse salt and then sprayed with water. Let it dry completely.

Fold the pages in half and  the back side of one folded piece to the back side of the next folded piece until all were attached to each other. Used binder clips to hold the pages together and applied glue to the spine - let dry. Adhered the cover to the first page creased for my spine and then adhere the rest to the back page. Adhered the belt to the front adding a piece to slip my end into for closure. Added one of my wax seals as decoration.

Die cut the large letters using Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations "Vintage Market" alphabet from pink cardstock. Rest of the text was done with a Zebra pointed pen nib in Bookhand style using Holbien Jet Black gouache.

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