Open Spine Ribbon Booklet

I saw something on-line and was intrigued... I should have written the link name because I couldn't find it again to see if I did it the same way... c'est la vie.

Size closed: 6"w x 7"h x 1"thk

I cut some Columbia Mills LBS End Paper to 11.5 x 7" and folded in half. each signature has 8 of these folded pages and there are 6 signatures.
I pierced 12 holes either 1/2" apart or 3/4" apart depending on the size of ribbon I was using.
Each signature had the ribbons going thru the binding as I was binding the booklet. A little awkward but Love the results.
Added brass corner protectors.

 

Deco Rose - B&W - Persian Proverb

I was going thru a bunch of stuff from Helen Williams (I don't know what happened to her but one day she was very active and then nothing...) and felt like playing with her Deco Roses.
size: 5.5"sq
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper drew out the roses using  Juice Up pen and a Zig Writer.. Added graphite shadow. Quote done in a serif style monoline.

words: The world is a rose, smell it, and pass it to your friends. Persian Proverb

2 Tangled Hearts Doodled

I created this doodle a couple weeks ago...
Size: 3.75"w x 6.5"h
On Canal Paper Montreal - St Armand used a Juice Up Pen, painted with Peerless and Gansai Tambi Starry Colors gold watercolors. Added Stickles glitter and white gel pen highlights.

Scenic Scene - Haiku - Such Stillness

I came across this background I made eons ago and finally decided to put something on it. I really love the way this background evolved - serendipitously
size: 8.25"w x 5"h
On an unknown mixed media (blotches and touch of rubber stamping and wet on wet technique.

Haiku written with a Juice Up pen
words:
such stillness
the cry of the cicadas
sink into the rocks
Matsuo Bashő translated by Donald Keene

Field Flowers In Vase WC

Field Flowers in Vase (W/C)
Not sure which I like better. There are elements in both that I really like... You can see the other one HERE

I scanned my line image and printed on Canal Paper Montreal, St Armand then used Peerless watercolors and some metallic gel pens

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 29 - Rumi - Be Still

I just got the latest VCG Newsletter with the cover using these funky letters by Judy Black and had to use them...
Size: 6.5"w x 8"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the funky letters using a Sharpie pen and colored with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils and lots of water...
words: Sit, be still, and listen. Rumi

Floral Circle - Faith Is The Substance

size: 6"sq
On a linen textured cardstock drew a circle and designed the floral arrangement. Used 22.75k gold leaf for the leaves and inscribed the vein with a small balled stylus. Painted with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils.
words: faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen

Doodled Circle & Rect in Circle

Again something I saw in my Pinterest feed... the rectangle circle then I added all the other circles.
Size: 5.5" x 7"
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper using a Juice up pen and Posca colored pencils and metallic gel pens. Added white gel pen highlights.

Curly flowers - Pink & Blue

I'm going thru my books by Helen William which I purchased eons ago. I loved her doodling and drawing skills... (and then 1 day she was gone... no idea what happened to her).

I love this curly flower (can't think of what it reminds me of...)
size: 6"sq each
On Staples 110# cardstock both outline with Juice Up pen

The pink above painted with Derwent Inktense watercolors.

The blue below painted with Peerless w/c's, added white gel highlights...

 

BVCG Env Exchange - July 2024 - Donna Uncles

Donna Uncles (July 2024)
Env created from Arches Text Wove and lettered with a Juice Up pen in a funky style, painted with Peerless watercolors and a bit of cross hatching.

The doodling is something I saw in a book by Helen Williams (Design To Detail). Leaves painted with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils. 

The card was made during a Pat Blair floral ZOOM class

Mushrooms - Overcharge You

I don't know where I came across these kinds of mushroom image - but I LOVE mushrooms... so had to draw them.
size: 9"w x 6"h
On a Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the mushrooms with a Juice Up pen, painted with Peerless watercolors in very funky colors.... The quote written with a Juice Up pen in a serif style monoline lettering.

words: If our mushrooms make you hallucinate, please inform us immediately so we can overcharge you. Scott Adams

Doodled Frames - Doodling Is Fun

Again something I saw in my Pinterest feed... the rectangles then added the circle and words.
Size: 5" sq
I created the design on regular paper, scanned it and printed it out on Staples 110# cardstock. Colored with Posca colored pencils and metallic gelly roll pens. Graphite shading.
words: Doodling Is Fun

ALPHABET-ically Speaking - Victor Hugo

I'm sitting outside on this glorious sunny day and had no direction of which direction to go artistically... so I started drawing a big funky "A" and the rest evolved... on thought after another...
size: 7"w x 6"h
On Canson Pro Marker paper using just about everything I had on my table outside... Juice Up pens, Regular and Metallic Gel pens., Posca Colored pencils. Derwent Inktense, W&N & Peerless watercolors... wrote out the big letters. The I just had to put a big shadow line. When done it needed something else and the "ically speaking..." popped into my head. Then of course I needed a quote to go with it and Victor's was just right...
words: Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet. Victor Hugo

Painted Daisy - Thread Lightly

I'm going thru my books by Helen William which I purchased eons ago. I loved her doodling and drawing skills... (and then 1 day she was gone... no idea what happened to her).
I love this daisy... and of course had to put words to it...
Size: 5.25"w x 4"h
On Staples 110# cardstock outlined the flower with Juice Up pen and painted using Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils.
Quote done with the Juice Up pen in an Art Nouveau style.
words: Thread lightly, she is near. Under the snow, speak gently, she can hear. The daisies grow. Oscar Wilde

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 28 - Flower Colors - Freesia

Freesias are one of my most loved flowers and I love their fragrance.
Size: 9"w x 5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the Freesia using a Juice Up pen. Painted with Peerless w/c. The description of what a Freesia means done with the Juice Up and colored with Posca colored pencils.

words: friendship, trust
thoughtfulness
innocence

Wild Rose - Happiness Radiates

Working outside in the glorious sunshine... and this piece came about... I haven't used Fickle style lettering in quite some time...
size: 9"w x 6.5"h
On a Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the wild Rose image and painted with Peerless watercolors and a touch of Posca colored pencils. The quote written with a Juice Up pen in Fickle style lettering.
words: Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws good things towards you. Maharishi Mahesh

Funky Fold Card - Sunrise Sunset

At my recent get together with the gals, one of them had made a card and was giving instructions to some of the gals... I decided to make one as well without the instructions... Right or wrong... I love the outcome (you can see it here). Then I was cleaning my art room and came across an Xmas card from a friend made in 2015 that was similar but with more and different positioning of folds...
The text is a song which fits into our Guild's Sept theme of Lyrics...
Size: 4"w x 6"h (opens to 12")
I used an orangey cardstock for the base card. Added pieces of my geli print done on Columbia Mills LBS End Paper that gave the illusion of sunset and sunrise... Text written in, monoline with a Juice Up pen. I added weight to the cover letters and some color (yellow & red) with Posca colored pencils.

How To:
Fold it in thirds. Fold the 1st and 3rd sections in half.
Measure the 1/2 way point from left edge to 1st fold line and put a small dot. Use that measurement, place a dot to the right of the 2nd score line. Cut between those points. (I used 1" but can be any size)
Repeat from right edge toward center.
Repeat on bottom.
Add score/fold lines on the upper and lower sections starting with an M fold.
The tall middle section also starts with an M fold.

 

Coffee Tea Or - Accordion Booklet

I am cleaning out my spill over room... and came across some funky tea cup calendar pages from 2010... and had to play with them...

Size: 5.5"w x 4."h x 1/4" thk. Opens to 44"

I used a beige heavy weight Elephant Hide paper  which creases and folds fabulously. Artwork done on Canson Mixed Media paper using a Juice Up pen for outlining and Peerless watercolors.
The cover is part of the 44" folded over. The title colored with Gelly Roll Metallic pens in every color...
The closure is a 1/2" strip of the same paper adhered to the front only and a small loop to hold it closed.

 

Tangled Floral - Joy Deneen Quote

I wasn't very happy with the first piece I did for Scribbled Lives using Joy Deneen's quote... and I was outside doing some artwork and really liked this flower so wrote the quote again. I should have used my Zebra nib instead which gives me finer strokes. c'est la vie.
size: 6.5"sq
On a Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the tangled flower and painted with Peerless watercolors. The quote written with a Nikko G pointed nib and a bunch of brown Ecoline inks I mixed together in my style of script writing...
words: Calligraphy is the ultimate synthesis of what I love: language art and human connection. Joy Deneensize: 6.5"sq

Daffodils In Squares

This is another doodled flower while playing with the gals.

On Genoa Bond paper and using Posca colored pencils.  Grid squares with a Juice Up Pen and blue squares with a Sakura Metallic gel pen.

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 27 - Same Quote - Joy Deneen

Size: 7"w x 9"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper. Sprinkled with Bister powders (yelow, red, blue, green) and using a 2.4 &  3.8 empty Parallel pens dipped in water wrote out the quote, cleaning my nib after every letter. On the larger letters shadowed with a black Juice Up pen.
words: Calligraphy is the ultimate synthesis of what love is: language, art and human connection. Joy Deneen

Workshop Week2024 - Blue Bells - I'll Wait For You

size: 4.5"w x 5.5"h
Taught by Michelle Clemen
I really like the way this turned out.
On Canal Paper Montreal St Armand painted the bluebells. Added the words with a medium blue Juice Up pen
words: I'll wait for you under the bluebells. I'll be there always. Kim Harrison

Funky - 1950's Numbers

One of my friends had used a few of these numbers for an art project and I really liked them... So used my imagination to create the rest of the set... I love the results whether they're right or wrong...

Doodling - CP - Field Flowers in Vase - on GBond

I was doodling flowers - just whatever popped into my head and liking what I was doing so added leaves and a vase.
Size: 5.5" x 7.5"
On Genoa Bond paper and using Posca colored pencils and a Lyra Splender Blender.
Beats me what they're all called or even if they're the right colors...

Doodled - Floral Bookmark - Peerless WC

I was drawing a flower and the next thing I knew it turned into  bookmark size piece...
Size: 3.5" x 9"
Canal Paper Montreal St Armand using a Juice Up pen. Painted with Peerless watercolors

Penny Black - Tulips In Cup - Good Day

I LOVE Penny Black floral stamps but I don't rubber stamp anymore... and I keep meaning to draw/paint them... so this one came into my Instagram feed and caught me at the right moment... I pulled out my Canal w/c Paper and drew out the design. I didn't ink over the lines this time (a rarity for me) but I think it turned out pretty good.
Size card: 5"w x 7"h
I used both Peerless watercolors and Derwent Inktense w/c pencils, and various colors of Juice up pen for the little details.
The words were perfect too so did them in an Art Deco style with a Juice Up pen.
words. Today is a good day to have a good day

Scribbled Lives 2024 - Wk 26 - Symbols - Infinity

Size: 5"h x 10"w
On  a medium toned blue cardstock drew out the symbol using a gold Juice Up pen. Created the letters with a pencil and then painted around them with Gansai Tambi "Yellow Gold". Used a  Gelly Roll metallic blue pen to draw over the letters and a Mattehop pen for the title words

BVCG Galleria Sept 2024 - I Walk The Line

Our Galleria topic for Sept 2024 is Lyrics (we had that topic 2 years ago so I can't use the same lyrics... which were "He Wore Black Denim Trousers"). This one was done by Johnny Cash.
On 12 x 12 scrapbook cardstock I applied Pan Pastels to the upper half of the cardstock (red, violet and gold/copper with a dry baby wipe). Used an eraser to create my letters. Added a white Gelly Roll gel pen highlight to each letter. Created the rest of the text with the gel pen in various funky styles going this way and that...
 

words:
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open ll the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you're mine, I walk the line

I find it very easy to be true
I find myself alone when each day's through
Yes, I'll admit that I'm a fool for you
Because you're mine, I walk the line

Funky Fold - Enjoy This Moment

At my recent get together with the gals, one of them had made a card ad was giving instructions to some of the gals... I decided to make one as well without the instructions... Right or wrong... I love the outcome.
I raided my stash beside me and pulled out a piece of white cardstock. Didn't matter what size it was.
Size: 3"w x 4"h (opens to 12")
Folded it in half and half again. Opened it up to the first in half fold and cut 2 lines from the folded edge to 1/2 way into the end fold. The top and bottom sections had the correct folds so only had to reverse the folds in the cut section.
I added the red cardstock covers and a little border on either end inside.
Another friend sent me some funny word definitions (weird...) Who thinks up these words... I wrote them in Monoline using various colors of Juice Up pens.
Front and center words: Enjoy this moment it's the only one you're sure of
words inside:
When you combine a question mark with an exclamation mark (?!) it's referred to as an INTERROBANG
The way is smells after it rains is called PETRICHOR
When your stomach rumbles that's called a WAMBLE
The day after tomorrow is called OVERMORROW
Finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning is called DYSANIA
The dot over the "i" and "j" is called a TITTLE
Illegible handwriting is called GRIFFONAGE
That sick feeling you get after eating or drinking too much is called CRAPULENCE

Front and center words: Enjoy this moment it's the only one you're sure of

 

Workshop Week 2024 - Plants In Can - Eat Your Veggies

size: 3.5"w x 6.5"h
Taught by Erika Lamar
I like this one as well...
On Genoa Bond calligraphy paper drew out the design using a green Juice Up pen. Painted with markers and colored pencils.
words: Eat your veggies

Workshop Week 2024 - Islamic Geometry Rosette - Blue-Green

size: 4.5"w x 5"h
Taught by Samira Mian
It's fun to do. I need to use my compass to get the proper division lines so things look more equal... but had fun doing this one.
On Genoa bond calligraphy paper using Juice Up pen Gansai Tambi gold silver paint, gold gel pen and Posca colored pencils.

Doodled Leaf - WC - Tagore

Again I saw something in my Pinterest Feed done by Helen Williams. I loved her work and then all of a sudden she was gone. Sad. I loved her pen/ink and doodling style.
I'm pleased with the way mine turned out even if the greens didn't show up as intense or bright enough...
size: 10"w x 9"h
On Canal Paper Montreal - St Armand drew out the leafy swirl and doodles with a Juice Up pen and colored with Derwent Inktense w/c pencils. Added Finetec various gold paints and  graphite shadow.
Text done with a Zebra pointed pen nib and Sumi ink.

words: Let your life lightly dance on the edge of time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore