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.

Fantasy And Reality

size: 6.5"w x 4.5"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper using Juice Up and Zig Writer to created the design and a Sakura UniBall gold gel pen.
Text written in various styles.
words: Fantasy and Reality often overlap. Walt Disney

Painted Leaves - Grand Tapestry

size: 8"w x 9"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper  using Derwent Intense watercolor pencils painted the leaves.
Text written in a monoline style using 2 shades of Gouache and pointed nib.
words: In the grand tapestry of life, season unfurl like chapters, each one bearing its unique hues, moods, and lessons.

Flag Book - Autumn Leaves

Our challenge for our  "Art Of The Fold" November 11th meeting is to create a Flag Book.
I made one from Hedi Kyle's "Art Of The Fold" book in February 2021. So had to make one with a different technique...
Since we're continuing with our goal to use what we have... I raided my off cut orangey & brownish papers... and a piece of a geli print I made.
I cut my accordion 6"h x 12"w from 12 x 12 scrapbook cardstock and folded in 1" increments. I sandwiched the 2 end pieces between the covers cut from the same cardstock and a piece of Elephant Hide paper for added strength.
Cut the inside tabs from scraps in brown and an olive green cardstock scraps. Cut the leaves from one of my geli print papers using Sizzix  BIGZ "Tattered Leaves" die.
Wrote the quote using a Juice Up pen in Blue Rider Typeface style.

 

 

 

Paisley Letters - B& L & L Colored

Paisley Letter L Colored
size: 4.5"w x 5.5"h
I'm taking a class - Paisley Letters with Cecelia Boschi through the Edmonton Calligraphy Society. Fun. This is from day 2.
The pics below are also day 2 and what we started with getting into the rhythm of the design process.  
On Strathmore Black Field Drawing paper created a template to make my oval shape and then created my design. Inked everything with a silver Juice Up pen then colored with Gelly Roll metallic gel pens (red, green, gold and silver)

Paisley Letter B & prototype L for the colored version.
size: B - 2.5"sq & L - 3"w x 4"h
On Genoa Bond calligraphy paper using a Juice Up pen ad a Zig Writer and  metallic Gelly Roll pens. 

Wax Seals - Florals 2

Got  bunch more wax seals - florals, leaves & Butterflies... couldn't resist

Cataloguing them. Love them the only one not so much is the one with the "roses" word. Not easy to do that one with multiple wax colors so ended up using Sharpie markers.

I think,my favorite in this batch is the single rose stem. Pity the ones on the black background didn't photograph well.

Scribbled Lives Wk 41 - Orange - Orange Types

ID: wk 41 - Orange - Fruit Names
Size: 7.5"sq
My turn for the Scribbled Lives theme...

Created my project on w/c Canal Paper St Armand.
Wet the paper and dropped in Yasutomo Vermillion ink, then blotted up some of the really wet spots. Drew out the letters then outlined with a Juice Up pen. Shadowed with a Sharpie then added the white with Bleed Proof white and a pointed Zebra nib.
words: clementine, orange, mandarin, tangelo, tangerine 

Wax Seals - 8 Frames

Cataloguing my new frame wax seals... There are a couple I REALLY like...

Will have to come up with some artwork for them...

Paisley Letters - G

I'm taking a class - Paisley Letters with Cecelia Boschi through the Edmonton Calligraphy Society. Fun. This deviates quite a bit from what she taught on Day 1 but I just went with the flow of how I felt...

On Canson Mixed Media paper  using a Juice Up pen.  Painted the background using a ZIG Clean Color brush pen "Cobalt Blue". I really like this color. Then painted the details with Gansai Tambi "Blue Gold".

Accordion - Removable Spine - Green - The Garden We Grew

Since the 1st one I created was for a client and I really loved this structure and poem... I had to make one for myself.

Created the text on I believe copy paper that I had pre-cut eons ago... so thought I'd use more of it.
Wrote out the text using a Zebra pointed nib and two colors of green gouache (Holbien Terre Verte & Cypress Green) in "Bullet Rider Typeface" style and trimmed down to 5"w x 4"h.
Cut several strips of this pale green colored Mi-Tientes paper to create the accordion giving me a border of 1/4" all around the text piece.
Created the covers using some of my gelli print paper (front and back of gelli print) around some white cardstock, then slipped the ends of the accordion into the cover and held everything closed with the spine insert (the whole thing is removable if desired)

Paisley Letters - Cecelia Boschi - Practice Sheet Day 1

I'm taking a ZOOM class through Edmonton Calligraphy Society with Cecelia Boschi, Oct 5 & 12, 2024.
My practice sheet from Day 1 using a Zebra pointed pen nib and both Black Gouache and Sumi ink done on Genoa Bond calligraphy paper.

Wax Seals - Y, For You, Good Luck

While playing with my Crafty friends I played with some old and new wax seals getting better at multiple layers. Some are still a little wonky...

The 3 lower stamps "For You"  and "Good Luck" is a new technique I tried. Never seen it done before. I used 2 separate wax seals, it was tricky... I did the word seal first, Then I did the round frame separately. Put it back into my seal, added some translucent wax around the edges of the word seals and pressed my round frame into the soft wax. You can see a little overspill. Will have to figure out how to eliminate that without putting the translucent all over the stamp...

Scribbled Lives Wk 40 - Tyvek - Sampler

Using all the brands and types in my nearby drawers wrote the brand names on this piece of Tyvek... Only the F pencil I used didn't work so well so went over it with an HB pencil.
It was a good exercise if I ever use Tyvek again... Some wrote really well others bled a bit.

Accordion - Removable Spine - The Garden We Grew

I found this structure done by Kit Davey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mofba1elvwU&t=427s)
Created the text on I believe copy paper that I had pre-cut eons ago... so thought I'd use it.
Wrote out the text using a Zebra pointed nib and Sumi ink in "Bullet Rider Typeface" style and trimmed down to 5"w x 4"h.
Cut several strips of this orangey colored Mi-Tientes paper to created the accordion giving me a border of 1/4" all around the text piece.
Created the covers using some of my gelli print paper (front and back of gelli print) around some white cardstock, then slipped the ends of the accordion into the cover and held everything closed with the spine insert (the whole thing is removable if desired).

Title on cover put into a Spellbinders "Fancy Tags Two" die. Sponged over with some Distress "Marmalade".

Wax Seals - Initials LW in Frame

Size 1.5"sq
I'm still not happy with doing 3 layer wax seals that have the large frame mold design. Too many bulges or not good definition... One day I'll get it...but since I was trying out another of the frame stamp molds I got, c'est l vie...
So I melted the violet color which is as close to pink as I could get (her favorite color) to create the frame - that I'm happy with. Then I used transparent wax for the calligraphed letters done on Canson Mixed Media paper ( the one in the circle is pretty good, - the other one is a bit less visible - transparent wax too thick). Then the gold in the larger molds - not so good. Again those big bulges trying to get the wax to move into the crevices. sigh!!

Decorated Floral Script - Y

I got inspired by something I saw on Instagram recently...
size: 3.5"w x 4"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper using a Sharpie and Juice Up pen created my "Y" and floral elements. Colored with Black Edition colored pencils.

A No.2 Pencil

This was my 1st attempt with the Scribbled Lives prompt this week...

On Edge Mixed Media paper using a Caran D'Ache pencil 8B pencil

words: a #2 pencil and a Dream can take you anywhere

Postage Stamp - Sakura Branch 32c

I've been playing with creating postage stamps, Not sure why... but having fun anyway... I'm planing to shrink them in size and then create framed wax seal artwork. Will see how that works out... Hence the scanning so I have lots to mess up with...ROFL
Size 3.5"w x 4.5"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper using a Juice Up Pen. Colored the background with Posca pens but didn't like the color of the sky... so changed to the blue and now it looks like a water and sky background. I kinda like that. Not my original intention... The rest was colored with Black Edtition colored pencils.

Wax Seals - Mushroom & Shamrock

I rec'd 2 more stamps for my collection... so had to play.

I used my electric wax warmer (LOVE that thing) along with my candle burner from Spellbinder's that I recently bought.

I'm enjoying playing with more than 1 or 2 colors of wax. Also used my large brass octagon and scalloped forms, makes the stamp over 1.25"dia. They're not that easy to get enough wax in their shapes to get a full imprint. So several do overs...

Art of the Fold - Spider Book - Landscapes

Our challenge for our  October 8th meeting is to play with the One Sheet Folds #27 Spider Book from Hedi Kyle's "Art Of The Fold" book.
Since our goal this year is to use what we have... I raided my off cut brownish papers... and a piece of a geli print I made which reminded me of a landscape and the rest evolved...  landscape quotes added.
Size closed: 6"w x 3"h x 1"thk
I cut my papers to 3"h x 11"w and scored from the mid fold at 1/8" increments with the last score at approx 1". I added the geli print to the front and back covers but it was a little shy of the full length so have a little brown fore edge.
Quotes written with a Zebra nib in a kind of Italic. Since it was easier to photograph rather than scan the pages, some of the text is a bit distorted...

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 39 - Cut Paste Card - Hi There

7"h x 5"w
Folded a deep brown Recollections cardstock into a 5 x 7" card. Adhered a piece of my gelli print paper. Cut out the thick portions of Carrie Imai's Carrioka Variations style letters from the brown cardstock and adhered them to the card base then added the thin portions of the letters using a Juice Up pen. Doodle the letters with a Gelly Roll white gel pen.

This will go into my next envelope exchange envelope.

ECS Env Exchange - Valerie Louis

Env: Created the env on misc calligraphy paper using my funky lettering style colored with Posca colored pencils. Shadowed with a Zig Writer and graphite pencil and paper stump..

The stenciled card is artwork I created a long time ago and then adhered to a card base.

Wax Seals -Shamrock & Y

Got my initial Y yesterday and so had to try it out... and I love playing with my 4 leaf clover. I like playing with multiple colors but it is fussy and time consuming... and I love playing with the mixes of melted wax. I just throw all my scraps into a pile and melt. Especially in the clover. That bottom one has red, green, gold, bronze, white and a touch of blue.

working with that large postage stamp mold is not easy... round is a lot easier to get wax all around without getting a big bulge in areas or not getting into all the edges. Will find a way to make it easier eventually...

ECS Env Exchange Margret Ingibergsson

ID: Margret Ingibergsson (Sept 2024)
Env: Created the env on misc calligraphy paper. Funky geometric letters using Juice Up pen and colored with Posca colored pencils,
The stenciled card is artwork I created a long time ago and then adhered to a card base.
 

Wax Seal - Maple Leaf in Stamp Mold

I used my electric wax warmer along with my 2 candle burners since I was working with a bunch of colors at the same time... I'm not that happy with the red splotch - but c'est la vie.

So I melted 3 colors and poured a little of each in a tight area to create the maple leaf. Cleaned of the excess and then fussy cut some areas. Poured the white onto my mat and pressed the leaf into that. Fussy cut around the circle. Then mixed gold and a bronze and poured that into my silicone stamp mold.

Size card: 5"w x 7"h
I wrote out the quote using a Zebra nib and 3 colors of Kuretake Gem Colors set in a Dot Alphabet. Adhered the seal to the paper with an adhesive circle then adhered it to a rusty brown card base.
words: Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. Emily Bronte.

 

Initials RV - Roses Are Red

I must still have my Guilds September theme of songs in my head...
Size:  6.5"sq
On Edge Mixed Media Sketchbook paper created the design and inked with a Juice Up pen. Colored with Black Edition colored pencils.
Text written in a basic  monoline.
words:
Roses are red my love
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet, my love
But not as sweet as you
Bobby Vinton

Line Drawing - Weeds Are Flowers Too

Size: 5.5"w x 6.5"h
On Genoa Bond paper drew out the linear weeds... and lettering using a Juice Up pen.
words: Weeds are flowers too once you get to know them. A.A. Milne

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 38 - Pencils - Pencil

Size: 6"w x 3.5"h
On Edge Mixed Media paper using an Eagle Turquoise #4B pencil and a thin paper stump created my word "Pencil".

Wax Seals Catalogued

I was playing with my wax seals and since I have quite a few... I thought I should catalogue them so I could see at a glance what I have. The pic below is just a few of them... BIG GRIN.
I used my electric wax warmer (LOVE that thing)  
Sorry for some of the pics being blurry. 

The pic above are the ones I love. The pic below are mostly UGH!!! not ones I will probably ever use but they came with ones that I wanted...

 

Eucalyptus Branch - Believe In Yourself - Norman Vincent Peale

Size:  5.25"w x 8.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper painted the leaves with various brands of watercolor.
Text written with a Juice Up pen in a basic elongated monoline.
words: Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you can not  be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale

Seahorse WC - Seahorse Wisdom

Size:  6.5"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the seahorse using a Zig Writer, painted with various brands of watercolors in a very wet on wet technique and white details with Bleed Proof white and pointed pen.
Title colored with Black Edition colored pen monoline.
words: Seahorse Wisdom
Live a life filled with wonder
Ride the waves
Be Unique
Cherish the magical moments
Stay anchored