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