Scribbled Lives 2023 _ Wk 12 - Symbols - Sagittarius

Scribbled Lives 2023 _ Wk 12 - Symbols - Sagittarius

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Onion Skin Binding - Humorous Quotes

Onion Skin Binding - Humorous Quotes. Even though I really don't like the way the booklet turned out... I wasn't in a mood to waste my Stonehenge paper... So put humorous quotes inside.

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Onion Skin Binding - 1st Attempts...

Onion Skin Binding - 1st Attempts... Someone mentioned this booklet structure, so I googled it and was intrigued by the look... NOT EASY TO DO... These are absolutely disgusting... I will try again when I'm more relaxed instead of frustrated...

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3D Circle Fold - Cantaloupe

3D Circle Fold - Cantaloupe, this one done with 5 circles, the white one with 6 circles. Both are the same diameter

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Art of The Fold No 33 - Star Box - Bloom

Art of The Fold No 33 - Star Box - Bloom. As mentioned I wanted a more square type of box... Love this one...

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TG Lettering Challenge 2023 - wk 12 - "l"

TG Lettering Challenge 2023 - wk 12 - "l"

I was in the mood for some  fun and funkiness...

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Art Of The Fold No 33 - Star Book - This n That

Art Of The Fold No 33 - Star Book - This n That. This one was fun... Our next meeting is April 11th. 

I'm trying to make one more square. I made a prototype for it, but it needs a couple of little adjustments... Hopefully I'll get to it tomorrow.

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Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 11 - Asemic - asemic

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 11 - Asemic - asemic. Not my favorite topic... I like things legible... but c'est la vie

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Tunnel Book - Autumn & Rainbow

Tunnel Book - Autumn & Rainbow. A friend sent me some instructions for this structure so I gave it a try. I also found a different way to make it...

Since these were prototypes I haven't done too much decorative stuff... Eventually (my favorite last words...)

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ECS Env Exchange Mrch 2023

Another month... and 2 more envies done for the ECS exchange... Since March is basically green I did Celtic knotwork.

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Funky Lettering Cute as a Button, Pretty as a Picture

Funky Lettering Cute as a Button, Pretty as a Picture

I'm still having fun with funky lettering...

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Funky Brush Lettering - When All Else Fails - and...

Funky Brush Lettering - When All Else Fails - and...

I've been a follower of das.frollein.tina on Instagram for quite a while. She has such a wonderful funky-ness. I'm trying to emulate her but have a long way to go to get her flavor in my lettering...

The "Take Time" piece is what I tried to mimic when seeing it on Instagram. Nowhere close to what her's looks like. sigh!!

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TG Lettering Challenge 2023 - wk 11 - "k"

TG Lettering Challenge 2023 - wk 11 - "k"

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Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 10 - Weathergrams

Scribbled Lives 2023 -  Wk 10 - Weathergrams. We were asked to create 3 of them with haiku.

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BVCG Galleria - April 2023 - Bugs - 99 Little Bugs

BVCG Galleria - April 2023 - Bugs - 99 Little Bugs... some of you computer people can identify with this ditty... I thought it was too cute to pass up.

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BVCG Galleria - April 2023 - Bugs - It Should Work

BVCG Galleria - April 2023 - Bugs - It Should Work. For this one I went in the computer bug direction... That is such a true statement after attempting to fix a bug... famous words "It should work..." I'm ROFL.

I might do this one again on a lighter paper color...

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BVCG Galleria - April 2023 - Bugs - Never Allow

BVCG Galleria - April 2023 - Bugs - Never Allow. What a fun topic... This piece I took in an actual insect bug direction...

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Brush Lettering - Cold Snow Ugh Winter!

My sentiments at the moment...

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TG Lettering Challenge - Wk 10 - "j"

TG Lettering Challenge - Wk 10 - "j" for junk...

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Pointed Brush Lettering - Exception To The Rule

I signed up for a 2 day class with Brecken Cook thru the Idaho Inkspots Calligraphy Group.

I've always struggled with brush lettering. I don't know how many brush pens I've bought over the years looking for that ONE that would make me smile...

This time I'm playing with my Koi watercolor brush pens. They're a touch too soft for me for lettering.

PS I used to be an avid Scrabble player...

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Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 9 - Your own handwriting

My own handwriting... GROSS which is why I usually type all my communications...

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Art Of The Fold 32 - Telescoping Ziggurat - I'm Possible

Our challenge for our  March 14, 2023  meeting is to try the next  structure in the book - Telescoping Ziggurat #32 from Hedi Kyle's "Art Of The Fold" book.

I don't think this is one I'll be playing with again...

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TG Lettering Challenge - Wk 9 -"i"

TG Lettering Challenge - Wk 9 - "i" also done in a circle. It reminds me of one of those minty candies...

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Celtic Knotwork Experiment

After taking Nancy Hays Hills Celtic Knotwork class I decided to experiment a bit. There were a couple questions asked during class and I'm still experimenting...

We had said if there were an odd total number of points across and down we would get a continuous line. And if they total as a positive number the string would be cut.

I decided to experiment with frames and have not come up with a continuous line yet, but have come up with combinations for 2, 3 and 4 strings.

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Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 8 - Celtic - Cairdeas In Border- Shadowed

Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 8 - Celtic - Cairdeas In Border- Shadowed. Yesterday I created one of these borders that didn't quite turn out right... I pondered the problem and realized I had even number of patterns on each side... should have been one odd and one even. So this one is with the right number of patterns... But I'm still not happy since my line thickness is not even - sigh!! but I'm content for the moment and like the overall look.

PS the word means "friendship".

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Celtic Border - Slainte

My Guild BVCG had Nancy Hays Hills trying to teach us Celtic Knotwork... She made it look so easy and even with all her grid patterns that she kindly gave us I still made a mistake somewhere... I think on the bottom section. When I try running a continuous line through the pattern, it gets blocked at one point. Beats me where I went wrong...

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Scribbled Lives 2023 - Wk 7 - Lexophiles - Crisscross Booklet

A friend introduced me to this fun structure back in September 2022 and said she'd teach our Art Of The Fold group how to make one... So of course I'm gong ho... And I was inspired to make one for our Scribbled Lives challenge wk #7 and of course I made a mini booklet...

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Funky - You Only Live Once

With the gals again... and was playing with my Zig Metallic pen and this evolved.

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ECS Feb 2023 Env Exchange

Edmonton Calligraphy Society February Envelope exchange.

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Pointed Pen Funnies - Taking Naps

After taking day 2 of Mike Kecseg's pointed pen class I thought I'd practice with some funnies...

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Brush Lettering - Love & Chocolate

Still practicing my brush letter writing after Amy Bollano's class with ECS this month.

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