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

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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...)

Fall Leaves - Autumn Wins You Best

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the leafy design and painted with various w/c. Text in funky lettering with  ZIG Writer

words: Autumn wins you best by this it's mute appeal to sympathy for it's decay. Robert Browning

Abstract Flowers - When Time Is Right

size: 4.5"w x 6"h

On Canson Mixed Media paper created the funky floral design and painted with various w/c. Text in funky lettering

words: Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right. Stephen Richards

Floral - Every Word Count

size: 4.5"w x 6"h

On Canson Mixed Media paper created the floral design and painted with various w/c. Text in funky lettering with  ZIG Writer

words: Make Every Word Count

Alphabets Book

Size closed: 6"sq x 1.5"thk
I have soooo much paper and cardstock I decided to use some of my 12" x 12" and make a miniscule dent in my stock... so picked a dark blue, pink, cranberry, light blue, olive green, yellow, turquoise and grape. Cut them in half and folded in half.

The covers are a cream toned cardstock folded in half for added strength and hiding the ends of the glued ribbon binding.

Punched 4 holes in each color signature and bound with a similar color 4ply wax linen thread over the 1.5" polka dotted ribbon. The ends of the ribbon woven under the slits I cut in the covers and glued on the inside.

Title written out in a funky lettering with a ZIG Writer.

I've already filled over 1/2 the book with funky alphabets..

Sand & Sea Booklet

Size closed: 6"w x 4.5"h x 1/8"thk

I had this gorgeous strip of a geli print I had laying in my stash and decided to use it... I added a piece of an orangey cardstock for stability and then Genoa bond calligraphy paper. Sewed it with a three hole basic binding with a turquoise waxed linen thread and added some beads.
Love the way it turned out. I've already put a drawing into it while sitting outside under my umbrella.

Art of the Fold - Brush Booklet - Ideas

 

size closed: 5.5"w x 2"h x 1/4"thk

Our AofF for Oct is anything from Chapter 2 in Alisa Golden's 100 Bindings Book. She has some interesting booklets but I find her instructions lacking...

I had end strips from another project so decided to use them... Parchment paper and Genoa Bond paper. The binding is made from an end piece of a geli print.

I've been gathering funky lettering from my Pinterest feed and decided to use one of them... It's a bit large and time consuming but I really like the effects I can get with it. 

http://yogiemp.com/Journals/ArtOfTheFold/AofF_BrushBooklet_Ideas.html

Black White - Exclamation

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew vertical and horizontal lines and then rounded the square edges to create a rocky look... Added the title letters
words: Exclamation.

Doodle - Brain In A Fog

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the abstract design using the thick end of a black ZIG Writer. Painted with various w/c. Doodled in some sections with various metallic gel pens. Added the text.
words: When your brain is in a fog wing it!

Under Over Round About

size: 6"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the abstract design. Painted with metallic mica paints. Words in a funky lettering style I came across recently and they look like paperclips...
words: Under Over Round About

Florals - You're More Than One Can See

On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the florals and colored with Prisma colored pencils. Text in a funky style I came across on Pinterest.

words: you're more that one can see

In A World Of Ups And Downs

On Canson Mixed Media paper created the wavy lines for border, then added the florals and the checkerboard bkg'rd. colored with glitter gel pens and prisma colored pencils.

words: In a world of ups and downs keep going up.

Leafy Vine Border - I Want Summer

size: 6.5"w x 5.5"h
On Basic Black Cardstock drew out the leafy vine border using my new batch of Uniball metallic gel pens (gold, silver, white & bronze).
Lettering in a funky style I came across using the white and dots of the bronze.
words: I want summer, but it feels like winter.

Failure Is The Opportunity

size: 6"w x 7"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper using the large end of a ZIG Writer to create the inner frame work. Using various Prismacolor markers - pointed end wrote out the colorful words and the small end of the ZIG Writer for the smaller words. Graphite shadowing.
Background was the large tip of the Prismacolor markers.
words: Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Abstract Floral Border - Never Give Up

size: 6"wx 4"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the funky floral border, colored with Prisma colored pencils and metallic paints. Text written in another funky style lettering I've come across.
words: Never, never, never give up

Half Circle Border - When In Rome

size: 6"w 4"h
On Genoa Bond calligraphy paper drew out the half circle border and painted with various metallic paints. Text written in one of the recent funky fonts I found on Line.
words: When In Rome Have Fun

Leaves - Autumn Is Here

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the leafy design adding the text and then erasing the unwanted lines... created line work in some of the leaves and the rest painted with various brands of w/c. Used a copper Signo Unibal gel pen to color some of the negative spaces in the words.
words: Autumn is here the leaves are falling

Linear Doodle - Exceptions To Every Rule

size: 4"w x 4.25"h
On Black cardstock created the linear and doodle design with a Unibal white gel pen. Colored with Prisma colored pencils. added the text in a positive negative style.
words: Exceptions To Every Rule

Abstract Line Bkgr'd - Life's Joys

size: 4.5"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the linear bkgr'd, painted with various w/c and doodled in others adding graphite shadowing. Used metallic copper paint for the text.
words: Life's Joys

Art Of The Fold _ Booklet _ Dos A Dos

Our homework for our Art of the Fold Sept meeting was to make a DOS-A-Dos booklet. I think this was the 1st one I've made...? I like how it turned out.

size closed: 4"w x 4.5"h x 1/8"thk
Our AofF for Sept is this DOS A DOS booklet which I don't think I've ever made before...
I used a linear textured red cardstock for the covers. The decorations are cut from a piece of scrapbook paper. The pages are a yellowish parchment paper sewn into the covers with a 4ply red waxed linen thread in a basic 3 hole stitch. And I decided it needed a belt to hold it closed.

Kites - The Wind Is Blowing

size: 6"w x 5.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the text main words in a funky style and painted with Mica paints then shadowed with  graphite. Wrote out the smaller words in the same lettering style but in monoline. Drew in the kites with prisma colored pencils.
words: The wind is blowing the kites are flying.

Circles - L'Amour

This is my favorite piece I've done in the past few days...

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the circles, doodled in some and used Mica Paints and Prisma Colored pencils in others blending with a Lyra Splendor Blender. Added the text with a Juice Up pen.
words: l'amour

Circles - Bulls Eye

size: 5"w x 5.5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew out the circles adding text and painting around the lettering using various media (Metallic Mica paint, Prisma colored pencils, ZIG Writer, gel pens
words: Are you running around in circles? Slow down - enjoy the day.
Bullseye