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

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - Day 1 - Hello

ID: Hello
size: 7"w x 3"h
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper drew out my word and colored with Prisma colored pencils and gel pens.
words: hello

Funky Lettering with Christine Ahmad - alphabet

ID: Funky Lettering with Shading
size:
Calligraphy weekend class with my Guild BVCG

This was a 2 day lettering class. This was the 2nd style with shading and protrusions on the letters. I really like this style...

Christine Ahmad - Day 1 - believe

ID: Believe
size: 6"w x 3"h
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper drew out my word and colored with Prisma colored pencils adding white gel pen dots and a shadow with Tombow N75
words: believe and you're halfway there

Abstract Doodle - Crazy Is As

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the doodle design and painted with various w/c.
Drew out the words with a ZIG Writer in a funky block style and painted with w/c.
words: Crazy is as crazy does!

Patchwork Quilt

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper and painted the patchwork and lettering design using various w/c.
Monoline lettering with a ZIG Writer and a gelly Roll white pen
words: Sleeping under a patchwork quilt

Floral - Throw The Pot With It

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper and painted the floral design using various w/c.
Monoline serif lettering with a Juice Up pen
words: If someone throws a stone at you, throw a flower at them, but remember to throw the pot with it...

Scribbled Lives - wk 46 - Mr Rogers - IPOY

wk 46 - Mr Rogers - IPOY
Size: 8"w x 5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the bow and painted with Kuretake gold & copper metallic w/c. Added white gel pen stitching and graphite shadow.
Text in a serif style with a ZIG Writer.
words: The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! and the tinsel! the trimmings! the trappings! Dr Seuss

Candle In Your Heart - Rumi

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Pen & Ink paper created the candle, then doodled it using Kuretake Gem colors and some reg w/c.
Funky lettering  hand drawn and t
words: There is a candle in your heart ready to be kindled. Rumi

BVCG Env Exc - Laurie Broadhurst - Nov 2025

ID: Laurie Bradhurst (Nov 2025)
Env created on Canson Mixed Media paper. Drew out some circles and with a broad edge red ZIG Calligraphy pen wrote out Laurie's name. Painted with Kuretake Yellow Gold paint between the letters. Added "Laurie with a black ZIG Writer. Edged a border on the envie with the same gold

The card is a funky center fold. Wrote out the AUTUMN word with various colors of the Calligraphy markers. The "vibes" word doodled with a black ZIG Writer. The leaf created with various scraps of paper glued to another sheet and die cut with Tim's "Layered Leaf" Sizzix Bigs die.

Circles - Your Thoughts Are

Size: 9"w x 5" h
On Canson Pen & Ink paper drew out the rock and painted with w/c. Text in an extended monoline style
words: You must become the rock the river cannot wash away.
Richard J Mayne

Orange - Color Me Orange

size: 2.25"h x 3.5"w
I came across something in my stash while I was looking for something else... I didn't have a date on it so have no idea when I actually created it... but it must have been eons ago since I don't remember it. Anyway liked it so created this piece.
On Canson Pen & Ink paper kind of drew out the letters then went over them with a ZIG Calligraphy marker (small edge). Colored the internal areas using Prisma colored pencils. Then decided to add the image of an orange.
I'm pleased with the results.
words: Color Me Orange