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.

Click HERE for more images etc

Book In A Box - Floral Alphabet - M - P

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.

Art Of The Fold - Circle Flag Book - Dragonfly Floral

Our challenge for our  November 12th meeting is to create a Flag Book. Then one of our members created a circle one. She gave us a diagram with 32folds which I tried but couldn't get my sections folded equally and got frustrated... So a few days later, mulled it over and decided to try one with less folds and this is the result. I like it but it doesn't have the same interaction I get with the original folding.

 

Size open: 9"dia including letters

Since we're continuing with our goal to use what we have... I raided my off cut papers... and geli print stuff I made. so this one is made of all scraps.

I cut my circle to 7"dia from heavy weight copy paper, folded in half both ways to get a 90º fold, then measured from 1 point  to the next quarter point and divided that into 4 sections and scored through the center point, repeating until all sections were divided. Creased the fold lines. It doesn't show in the image but the sections are slightly raised.

Created the black cut into a partial circle and adhered the 8 sections to every other folded section.

Die cut the letters Sizzix Alterations Bigz XL Word Play Alphabet from a piece of white cardstock I had sprayed with Distress Spritz (Peacock Blue, Worn Lipstick, Weathered Wood & Fossilized Amber), love the shimmer. Final touch added a small punched out heart between the words.

All the other items were cut with various size punches from geli print papers. I added a 3D pearl sticker to each floral center and glitter to the dragonfly wings.. 

Book In A Box - Floral Alphabet I - L

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.

Wax Seals - 3 Turtles

Size: 1.1"dia
Playing with my Turtles... This is the last of my recent shipment of wax seals. This one is not an easy one to work with if you want multiple colors. The top one is my favorite and the last of the 3 I made. Boy... did I have problems making that one. The wax stuck in the little crevices- frustrating. I guess I had a bit of silver still stuck in one of them sigh!! But my thickness around the edge is getting better.

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 44 - 1 Word 5 Ways- Color

Oh this was a fun exercise Beth Lee. Thanks. Couldn't resist using the word "Color" Big Grin
Size: 7.5"sq
On Canson Mixed Media used some gouache I had laying around from a project a while back... It's extremely rare I use gouache I prefer watercolors...
1: Copic wide 1st double dipping into 2 colors. When dry outlined with a med blue Juice up pen.
2: Pointed pen, Zebra nib into Kuretake Gold Mica ink.
3: Blue Parallel pen into the darkest of the 4 colors I had mixed.
4: Zig Writer in the multi colored work in one of Violet Smythe's funky styles and painted with the gouache.
5: Pointed pen in Dot Lettering as taught by Mina Taylor and dots created with the embossing tool into the rusty orange gouache.

Wax Seals - 4 Roses

   

Playing with my Rose again...
I like them all... except for still having bulges.

Book In A Box - Floral Alphabet - E - H

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.

Wax Seals - 3 Frogs

Size: 1.1"dia
Playing with my Frogs...
I think, my favorite in this batch is the bottom left frog. That one has a pretty even bulge probably because I only used 2 layers instead of my normal 3 or 4. You can see with the other 2 that 3rd layer just goes out of whack...

Abstract WC - Every Sunrise

I was rummaging through some stuff and came across this off cut piece of w/c I did eons ago..
size: 8"w x 6"h
Done on unknown w/c paper adhered to the dark blue cardstock. Quote written with a Gelly Roll white pen in Blue Rider Typeface.

words: Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day. Jhiess Krieg

Book In A Box - Floral Alphabets - A - D

size: 3.5"w x 5"h
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, )

Frog Wax Seal - Said Toad

size: 5"w x 7"h
Created a 3 layers of wax toad seal and adhered to linen cardstock then onto light blue card base.
Quote written with a gold Unibal gel pen in Blue Rider Typeface, then shadowed with a med blue Juice Up pen.
words: "I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing," said toad.

Scribbled Lives - Wk 43 - Same Quote - Apparently

Size: 10.5"w x 8.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper penned my large letters in my Uncial style using I think a pen I got from Betty Locke loaded with a lot of water, sprayed Brusho Ost Red powder into the water, then sprinkled a bit of walnut crystals and then a bit of Neuberg Ebel gold powder (hard to see the gold in the image - sigh). When dry shadowed with a gold Unibal gel pen. Rest of quote written with a Juice up pen in Blue Rider Typeface.

words: Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. Mark Twain

Turtle Wax Seal - Behold The Turtle

size: 5"w x 7"h
Created a 5 layers of wax turtle seal and adhered to Fabriano 1264 then onto dark blue card base.
Quote written with a med blue Juice Up pen in Dot Lettering, then added the blue gel pen dots.
words: Behold the turtle he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant

Pencil Work - Jasmine - Lonely Woods

While playing with my Crafty Dozen friends created this piece.

size: 7"w x 5.5"h
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper wrote out the word "Jasmine" using a Caran d'Ache Grafwood F pencil and paper stump in a funky style. The rest of the text with a Juice Up pen in monoline.

words: Out in the lonely woods the Jasmine burns its fragrant lamps, and turns into a royal court with green festoons the banks of dark lagoons. Henry Timrod

Wax Seals - 4 Apples

Size: 1.1"dia
Playing with one of my newest stamps. Those bulges are driving me crazy...

Made Up Word - Nohowzaway

BVCG November Galleria topic is "Made Up Word". This is so not me... But one of my calligraphy friends (RW) gave me a boost and got me thinking... In the middle of the night I woke up and this word popped into my head. I immediately opened my iPad and wrote down the word because I know 2 seconds later I would have forgotten what word I just thought of... old age is no fun...
size: 9.5"w x 7"h
On Canal St Armand paper drew out the word "Nohowzaway" using a Zig Writer in "Inside Curve Variations" taught by Heidi Stolp. Colored with Kuretake "Gem Colors"  Used an HB pencil and paper stump to shadow the letters.  The rest of the words "no way no how I don't believe u" in "Blue Rider Typeface"
words: NOHOWZAWAY no way no how I don't believe u.

ECS Envelope Exchange Oct 2024 - Arlene Bowles

Arlene Bowles (Oct 2024)
Env: Created the env on Edge Mixed Media Sketchbook paper. I love this Blue Rider Typeface that I discovered a while back for your name on the envie and quote on the card front. Colored with Posca colored pencils. I'm using Tutti Designs Leaves Background "Tutti 388" die from white cardstock then colored with various Distress pads in yellow, red and green. Cut them apart to border the envie.

I've been playing with my wax seals again (it's been years since I used them last...) so had to add one to your card front.

Doodling - Sept 19,24

It seems I never got around to uploading this piece... Just playing at my desk and these ameba shapes evolved. No text - amazing...

On Edge Mixed Media paper using a  Juice Up pen created design.

Scribbled Lives Wk 42 - Tongue Twister - Perfect

Size: 9"h x 6"w
On Canson Pro Marker paper using Lisbet's ZEEP style letters. Wrote out the large letters using a Salmon Kuretake Zig Calligraphy 2.0 marker for large words then shadowed and wrote out the rest of the words with a black Juice Up pen .

words: If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I'm perfectly practiced and practically perfect.

ECS Env Exchange - Oct 2024 - Kathy Gynane

Kathy Gynane (Oct 2024)
Env: I used Edge Mixed Media Sketchbook paper. I love this Blue Rider Typeface that I discovered a while back for your name on the envie and quote on the card front. Colored with Posca colored pencils. I'm using Tutti Designs Maple Vine Frame "Tutti 139" die from white cardstock then colored with various Distress pads in yellow, red and green. Cut the frame apart to border the envie.

I've been playing with my wax seals again (it's been years since I used them last...) so had to add one to your card front.