Art of the Fold- Play Booklet

size closed: 4.5"w x 6"h x 1.5"thk
Our AofF for Nov is anything from Chapter 3 in Alisa Golden's 100 Bindings Book or anything we want...

I decided to make a bunch of signatures with various types of paper... Genoa Bond, Bienfang Drawing paper, Canson Marker paper and Strathmore Charcoal paper. A nice variety to play with...  

I cut my Genoa Bond paper into 4 pieces and folded in half for my signatures. Cut 2 slits to thread my spine pieces through which then had a  strip running vertically thru the folded spine sections to hold the signature in place.

The rest of the papers were cut to size to fit.

Added a narrow black elastic to hold it closed using a square silver brad to hold it in place.

Added the title on the cover in a shaded funky monoline style

Yellow Floral Circle _ Catch Your Eye

Created the flower shapes then added the half circle above and below them. Colored with Prisma colored pencils. Added the red hearts which gave this nice little scallop design. Added the text around the shapes.

Words: Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. Ancien Indian Proverb

Abstract Landscape - Rivers Know

size: 4.5"h x 6"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the horizontal abstract lines using Copper Stickles and Gold Viva Pearl Pen. Painted with w/c and then added the text with a Juice Up pen.
words: Rivers know this. There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
A. A. Milne

AofF - Square Accordion - Friend Booklet

Our AofF for Nov is anything from Chapter 3 in Alisa Golden's 100 Bindings Book. After doing the Brush Booklet I was in a mood to play with this accordion fold structure...

size closed: 1.75sq
size open: 15.5"w x 5.25"h x 1/2"thk
I used 3.5"sq pieces of black cardstock folded (only once) from 1 corner to the opposite corner and then folded in half both ways. Cut red and white triangles, nesting the red onto the white and then onto the black triangles created with my diagonal fold.

Created the fancy letters (I came across on Pinterest) on white cardstock and then cut them down to 1.5" sq and adhered them to the black folded squares.

I adhered each 3.5"sq piece to a 1/4 section of the next sq.(R,I,E,N)

Ice Flow - Some Say

 

On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper drew out a bunch of blobs with a 2B pencil and paper stump to add depth to the blobs to make them look like pieces of ice floating and used a ZIG Writer for the water area...

Text in a funky lettering style

words:  Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. Robert Frost

Celtic Knot - End Of Your Rope

size: 4.5"w x 6"h

On Canson Mixed Media drew out the Celtic knot design and painted with w/c. and metallic paint for the center circle.

Lettering in a basic monoline

words: When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

Fall Leaves - Remember

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper wrote out the word REMEMBER with a split in the middle of the letters in 2 colors of calligraphy markers (red & purple) using a piece of tape as a mask. Leaves painted with various w/c

words: remember

Floral Doodle - Start Where You R

On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the floral doodle border. Painted with various w/c. Lettering done in a funky dot style using a ZIG Writer
words: Start where you R use what you have do what you can.

Grid Doodles - Sunflowers

 

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the grid pattern, doodled in some, flowers in others and sunflower spelt out in the rest. Painted with w/c. Left the lettering unpainted.
words: Sunflowers

BFly - Explore Look And See

Drew the butterfly coloring with Prisma colored pencils. Added the funky lettering with linear hatching on the main word.

words: Explore Look & See

Bubbles - Where Am I

size: 4.5"h x 6"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the bubbles and colored with Prisma colored pencils, metallic gel pens and glitter gel pens. Filled the background with a black ZIG Writer. Funky lettering with hatching.
words: Where am I?

Abstract Flowers - Thrive

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the 3 flowers adding a linear pattern in one. Painted the other 2 adding the circle border using metallic paint. W/c for the background.
words: Thrive

Doodle - What Now - I'm Thinking

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the wavy lines adding doodling in some, dots in some or just coloring in others  using white gel pen or ZIG Writer. Basic outline lettering
words: What Now? I'm Thinking

Yellow Flowers - Eyes Of Beholder

size: 4.5"h x 6"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the floral design coloring with Peerless Transparent w/c.
Lettering in a basic funky monoline
words: Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Pumpkin - Boo Hoo

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the funky lettering and pumpkin and coloring with Peerless Transparent w/c.
words: Boo Hoo it's Pumpkin time

Curve Line Doodle - Start Now

size: 4.5"h x 6"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the curved line design coloring with Peerless Transparent w/c  and gold gel pen and doodling with a ZIG Writer. Lettering in a monoline style.
words: Start now! What are you waiting 4?

Floral - Beauty Is Everywhere

size: 4.5"h x 6"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the floral design coloring with Peerless Transparent w/c  and gold gel pen. Lettering in a funky style I recently came across on Pinterest.
words: Beauty is everywhere

Doodle - Colour Is A Power

size: 6"w x 7"h
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper Created the abstract doodle design using a Juice Up pen, ZIG Writer and Prisma colored pencils.
words: Colour is a power which directly influences the soul. Wassily Kandinsky

Funky Letters - Gigantic

size: 6"w x 3"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the words with giant and funky letters with a ZIG Writer then colored within each with Prisma colored pencils and doodled in the smaller letters
words: Gigantic letters

Floral Doodle - Find Your Path

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the abstract linear design, overlaid the gold line and bordered it with a black line. Added flowers with colored pencils, blobs with graphite shading, and abstract lines/doodles with metallic gel pens.. Lettering in a basic monoline
words: Find your path and follow it.

Berry Branch - Sweeter Than Wine

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the berry branch and colored with Prisma colored pencils. Lettering done in funky lettering style colored with a metallic red gel pen.
words: The darker the berry the sweeter the wine

Circles - Not All Things Are Connected

 size: 6"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out all the circles within a circular area, added circles within each circle the added circles in the center. Painted with metallic gel pens and doodled with a ZIG Writer. Words done in a very funky letteting style with the ZIG pen
words: Not All Things Are Connected

Abstract Boxes - When In Doubt

size: 5.5"w x 6"h
On black cardstock created the boxes and linear design inside them with a white gel pen. Added gold gel pen boxes and serif lettered text.
words: When in doubt rest.

Maple Leaves - Autumn Whispered

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper created the maple leaf design, coloring some with Prisma colored pencils, cross hatching/doodling a couple and keeping one blank... Text with a Juice Up pen in a basic monoline style.
words: Autumn whispered, "I fall but always rise again."

Star Burst - Illuminate The World

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper created the abstract star burst design using various brands of plain and metallic gel pens. Text with a ZIG Writer in a funky monoline style.
words: You were born with the power to illuminate the world.

Abstract Lines - No Way In Or Out

 

size: 4.5"w x 6"h

On Genoa Bond calligraphy paper started drawing abstract circular lines with a green, red and black ZIG Writer intersecting all over the place...Filled some of the negative areas with the black pen,then wrote the text for it. Added some linear marks in the large sections of the letters.

words: No way in or out.

Goldfish - Financial Morals

 On Genoa Bond paper drew out the goldfish and colored with Prisma colored pencils. Text written with a Juice Up pen in a funky monoline style.

words: I have the financial morals of a gold fish, I can't resist temptation. Ruth Dennis

Abstract Floral - Drenched In Sun

 

Size: 4.5"w x 6"h

On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the funky floral sprig. Linear doodles colored with Metallic gel pens. written with a Juice Up pen.

Words: Let us live like flowers wild and beautiful and drenched in sun. Ellen Everett

words 

FloralBallsBorder_LifeIsMadeOf

 

 

Size: 4.5"w x 6"h

On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out all the balls adding flowers  doodles. Colored with Prisma colored pencils and added the black semi background. Monoline lettering with a ZIG Writer.

words: Life is made of many balls in the air, if you don't swing you'll never hit one. 

Grid Flowers - Contemplation

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the grid pattern and shadowed with a 2B pencil and paper stump. Added the flower design with metallic paint and watercolors. Text with a ZIG Writer and then lines with a Juice Up pen.
words: Contemplation

Abstract Doodle - Ordinarily Normal

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the doodle design, colored with metallic gel pens then added the text with a Juice Up pen.
words: Ordinarily Normal

Abstract Letters - Audacity

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the abstract letters for "AUDACITY" and painted with various brands of watercolors. Added shadowing and the linear pattern in the "A". Text with a Juice Up pen.
words: AUDACITY a confident and daring quality, often showing a shocking, rude, or disrespectval disregard for normal rules.
(don't know where I came up with that "Disrespectval" word... but it makes sense to me...)