Lettering - Explain Yourself

size: 4.5"h x 6"w
I saw something on line and thought I'd play with the concept...
On Canson Mixed Media paper using a ZIG Writer and various watercolors
words: Explain Yourself

Celtic Letters - Dream Big

Continuing on from Pauline Baynes Celtic Letters class last month. Thought I'd play with all 3 BIG GRIN. This was the last exemplar. It's the most tedious which I probably won't play with again...

Dream Big...
size: 9"w x 5.75"h
Used the Mica gold for knot outline and Prisma pencils and a splendor blender for the coloring. Thought I'd play on the "big" word

words: Dream big

Celtic Knotwork - Dreams

Continuing on from Pauline's Celtic Letters class last month. Thought I'd play with all 3 BIG GRIN. This was the 2nd exemplar. I think it's my favorite of the 3...

Dreams Be Your Wings:
size: 7"w x 6"h
Again used the ArtQuest w/c for the main knotwork of the letters then Prisma colored pencils, graphite shading.
words: Let your dreams be your wings.

Celtic Knotwork Lettering - Dream On

Edmonton Calligraphy Society had Pauline Baynes teaching Celtic Letters last month. I was not able to attend but she was kind enough to allow me the handouts. Love all the variations but they are definitely time consuming... She gave 3 exemplars and I thought I'd play with all 3 BIG GRIN. This was the 1st exemplar.

Dream On:
size: 7"w x 5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper,
Outlined with a ZIG Writer, painted with US Art Quest Mica w/c Metallic set, 2B Grafwood pencil and paper stump shadow.
words: Dream On and make them come true.

3D Liner - Joy - Choose Joy

size: 4.5"w x 7.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper lined the JOY letters using a new product to me... Stamperi Contour Black - needle nose tube. When dry adhered my paper to heavy cardstock so it wouldn't warp. Loaded the letters with water and dropped in Kuretake w/c #30 Cad Red, #43 Cad Yellow, #51 Light Green & #62 Turquoise Blue.
Wrote out the rest of the text with a Staedtler Calligraph Black 2.0 broad edge tip.
words: Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. Henri Houwen

Doodling - Squeezed In Nowhere To Go

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the leafy design with a ZIG Writer and painted with various w/c paints adding white gel pen highlights on the circles.
Text with the ZIG Writer
words: Squeezed In - Nowhere To Go

Doodling - Must Never Be Obvious

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the with a ZIG Writer and painted with various Mica paints and gold gel pen.
Text with a Juice Up pen
words: Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point. Agathe Christie. "Five Little Pigs"

Hearts - Love Me Tender

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the words with a Zig Writer in a funky lettering style then added the hatching using a red Juice Up pen. Added the hearts with a gold Uniball Signo pen and added graphite shading. Text with a black Juice Up pen.

words: Love Me Tender Love me true never let me go. Elvis Presley Lyrics

Interlocking Squares - Y

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the interlocking squares design then adding my initial. Painted with w/c and Prisma colored pencils and some Mica metallic gold paint.
words: Y

Rocks - Finding Patterns - Essence Of Wisdom

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the rock design, painted with w/c and adding the thick black outline.
Text written with a ZIG Writer.
words: Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom. Dennis Prayer

Origami Book - Artwork Jan - Mar, 2026

  

Another Origami book, this time holding artwork done in Jan, Feb & Mar this year. 

Created with Bogus Recycled Rough Sketch paper 70# 18" x 24" pad. Used 1 sheet per booklet page and 1 sheet for the links

I stopped at 6pages including the covers,, otherwise it would have become too unwieldy...

I like the results. 

 

Understanding - Bubble Stamp Booklet

4.25"w x 5"h x 1/4" thk.
I had these rubber stamped pages from a long time ago... I had used one of my extra large stamps and embossed with various colors of embossing powder (gold, copper, silver, black), then colored in some of the bubbles using Prisma Colored pencils primarily and one with some w/c.

I wrote synonyms of the word "understanding" on 1"h white cardstock with the arrow shape at the tip. Adhered to each page (one below the other on subsequent pages). Bound the booklet using an accordion glued spine.

I added “do you UNDERSTAND” on the last page…

Doodled - Scarborough Fair

size: 7"w x 4.75"h
I was at my Guild's play day and this song was going thru my head... don't ask why... I have no idea.
On Genoa Bond calligraphy paper wrote out the text with a ZIG Writer, then colored areas with Prisma colored pencils (905, 918, 921, 995, 1003, 1003, 4800).
Was looking at it and then drew the border around it with the bullet tip. Looking at it some more added the border design with a Juice Up pen and the colored pencils.
And that's how most of my work evolves...
words: are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Doodle - Sing To Your Heart's Content

size 4.5"w x 6"h

A piece I did at my Guild's play day this past weekend.

On Canson Mixed Media paper created the border design then added the text using a black ZIG Writer and ZIG Clean Color markers.

words: SING to your heart's content

On Canson Mixed Media paper created the border design then added the text using a black ZIG Writer and ZIG Clean Color markers.

words: SING to your heart's content

Blue Flower - Beauty Is In The Eye

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the flower and leaf design and painted with w/c adding gold Mica paint for the stamens.
words: BEAUTY is in the eye of the beholder.

Abstract Doodle - Write Me Down In History

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the wavy line using a Premium Deco Color gold marker. Doodled with a ZIG Writer Then added the text with a Juice Up pen.
words: You may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust I'll rise. Mary Angelou

Heart Accordion - Floral Advice

I seem to have forgotten to upload this structure...

size: 2.5"sq closed
size: 13"w x 5"h x .25" thk

I folded a piece of 5"h x 13"w Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper accordion style. Cut into it for the heart shapes, as well as cutting to create the square shapes. Colored the petals in the hearts with Prisma colored pencils.

Text written on separate pieces of paper (speckled gray toned stationary paper) and adhered to the structure (it hid the fold lines). Added the title to the cover

Words: If you're going thru hell keep going... but stop and smell the flowers.

A of F - Accordion - Cut Out - Spring Has Sprung

size closed: 2.5"w x 5.5"h
size open: 12"w x 5,5"h
Our AofF for April is anything to do with Spring... That seemed like too open a theme. I have a tendency to like parameters... but I knew I wanted large letters to doodle in... and within very little time this was finished without really thinking... originally I thought I would color the florals but decided to leave it alone.

I used basic Canson Mixed Media 12 x 12 white 98# paper, pencil marked my 1.75" sections for my letters, scored and folded then drew my 1/2" border around the whole thing... Drew my letters, outlined with the bullet end of a ZIG Writer and cut around the negative areas. Drew the floral designs with the fine tip of my ZIG writer and painted the backgrounds with Holbien Peacock Blue.
Wrote in the rest of the text with the fine tip of the ZIG Writer in monoline.

words:  Spring has sprung, the grass has riz, I wonder where the daisies is.

Woven Booklet

I had all these skinny end cuts from geli prints in my off cut basket... and finally decided to use some of them creating these weave patterns... Then I framed them with black cardstock and adhered them to a solid piece of white cardstock and they became covers and page dividers (5 total).
Size closed: 5"w x 7"h x 1"thk
I cut up regular copy paper for the pages (5"w x 10"w x 5shts) and folded in half to create my signatures.

I haven't done hand bound bookbinding in years and really forgot how to do it... so fudged it. Turned out OK. Hung some hand woven beads from scraps as well.

End Cuts - Sewn Skinny Booklet

 

I had these copy paper end cuts size: (1.75"h x 11.5"w) sitting on my desk from another project and said to myself they would make a cute mini booklet... I'm looking at it and thinking I need to pierce my holes to the inside to hide that white coming through. c'est la vie...

Booklet size: (1.75"h x 5.5"w) Ten pages folded in half - 4 signatures and bound them with a simple 3 hole binding technique using dark brown waxed linen thread.
Used cardstock for the covers and wrapped it with a scrap of a pretty scrapbook paper lying on my desk both inside and outside... and with a tiny piece left over made the buckle...

Quilled R - Create To Your Hearts Content

size: 4.5"h x 9"w

On Black Canson paper drew out my letters with a couple of white gel pens till I found one that was working... Doodled in each letter with a different style leaving the "R" for quilling which I haven't done in a whole bunch of years.... I really like the results. Added the rest of the text with a pointed nib and white acrylic Ceramcoat By Delta paint.

words: Create to your hearts content

Weave - Black Border

size: 7"h x 5"w
I started weaving some pieces and then decided to create a book with them using 2 for the covers and then more for some dividers. Haven't decided yet what paper to use between the weaves...
I raided my scraps for all the strips of geli print paper I have (still have a few left...). I'll be making at least 2 more I think. I want a nice sized booklet.
I adhered the weave to some white Staples cardstock then added the black border.
Time will tell what else I'll do...

Funky Flowers - Floral Wonder

size: 4.5"h x 6"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the funky florals using watercolors with gold borders. Added the words with lots of water and a blend of 2 w/c
words: Floral Wonder

Origami Booklets - Geli Prints

size: 4.5"w x 5.5"h x 1.5" thk.
size: 4.75"w x 4.25"h x .75" thk

I made a pile of geli prints at my last gals get together and created Origami Booklets from them... Nothing inside them yet.
The green one has 18pages including the covers. It's the largest I've done one so far. I reinforced the spine using 110lb cardstock and then glued a geli print onto it.
The orangey one has 10 pages including covers.
Both sizes are made from 8.5 x 11 paper depending on the orientation of your folds you can get either size.

3 Page Geli Print Card

Size: 5"w x 6.75"h
One of our Crafty Dozen gals made a card like this and brought it in to show us. She'll be showing some of the gals at the next Wed get together which I won't be at. I only go to P&I for the past while... So thought I'd give it a try on my own. I love the results but left it without words since I have no idea whom to give it to...
It almost reminds me of a baby card...

I used Value Pack blue and some pale pink cardstock and my geli print paper.
The card base is folded with approx 1/2 gutter in the middle for the middle page to fit in and have room for the embellies.
Rounded the corners. Added the pockets for the bookmarks to each page.
Raided my boxes of pre-die cut or electronically cut butterflies and flowers etc. When everything was glued down... I added some mini rhinestones or butterflies made from woven threads.

 

Oodles Of Doodles

size: 4.5"h x 6"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper started with the doodles type of abstract floral images... (imagination needed) using a ZIG Writer, then added the caterpillar, blue background and gold semi border.
Funky words also using Prisma colored pencils and a white gel pen.
words: Oodles of doodles

Origami Booklet - Beyond The Horizon

size closed: 3.75"w x 3"
I was creating this little booklet at my Guild's play day this past Saturday. I love making these little guys... I'm using one of my recent geli prints I made. Added the text in a style with a ZIG Writer.
words:  Just beyond the horizon of the so-called impossible is infinite possibility. Bryant McGill

Origami Booklet - Green Geli Print - With Buckle

size closed: 5" sq
I was in a mood to create a square booklet so pulled out my recently made geli papers. I love making these little booklets... I'm using one of my recent geli prints I made.
Was rummaging for something and came across this molded buckle type thing - I again made eons ago... so thought I'd use it on this belt.
No text in this one yet...

Shadow Letters - Create Without Limits

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
I was at my Saturday Play Day with my Guild and started doing some shadow lettering and this emerged.
On Canson Mixed Media paper started with the black shadow line but found it too dull... so added the pink and green accents.
words: Create without Limits

ECS Env Exchange - Feb 2026 - Edwina Klein

Looks like I got Edwina for a 2nd month...

Env done on Genoa Bond paper in a Western style lettering using the 5.0 end of a ZIG black calligraphy pen, a red pen and adding Uniball gold gel pen dots.

Artwork was made a few years back in Gemma Blacks class. I mounted it onto a light brownish base and then onto a white card base.

Dragonfly With Glitter - Change Of Mind

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the butterfly painting with several US ArtQuest Mica Color palettes, then adding glitter to the large circle/ovals
Created the Dragonfly word in shadow lettering with a ZIG Calligraphy marker.
words: Dragonfly arrives and leaves like a change of mind. David Mitchell