Postcards - Thank U From The Heart & Heart Felt Thank You

2 more postcards made...

size: 4"h x 6"w each
A friend's son had a heart attack while running and was kept alive by several bystanders and EMT until an ambulance arrived. She asked for postcards to be made to thank them.

Both made on Staples white cardstock. 

Top image: Drew out the funky Thank-U with a ZIG Writer and a red gel pen inner line. Basic script for the rest of the text.  Added hearts with an Outline pen. Lines in the border.

Bottom image: Serif letters with flowers colored with Prisma colored pencils in a green, yellow and pink. Thank you in a script style, A couple hearts and funky border

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.

Three Flowers - Happiness To Hold

size: 6"w x 7"h
On Canson Black Drawing, using a white Gelly roll 08 gel pen created the flowers and colored with Prisma Colored Pencils. Added the quote with a Gelly Roll 08 pen
words: Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. Japanese Proverb

BVCG - Cowboy Wisdom - Bull, Horse, Fool

My Guild's next challenge is "Cowboy Wisdom". I though this was a good lesson...
size: 5.5"w x 7"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper wrote out the text in a light and heavy funky serif style using both a Juice Up pen and a ZIG Calligraphy Marker

words: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

Yellow Flowers - Enjoy The Sunshine

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the floral artwork, painted with various brands of watercolor and linear work with a Juice Up pen.
Words done with the Juice Up pen in my serif style lettering...
words: If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. Morris West

Christine Ahmad - Day 1 - believe

ID: Believe
size: 6"w x 3"h
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper drew out my word and colored with Prisma colored pencils adding white gel pen dots and a shadow with Tombow N75
words: believe and you're halfway there

Floral - Throw The Pot With It

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Mixed Media paper and painted the floral design using various w/c.
Monoline serif lettering with a Juice Up pen
words: If someone throws a stone at you, throw a flower at them, but remember to throw the pot with it...

Scribbled Lives - wk 46 - Mr Rogers - IPOY

wk 46 - Mr Rogers - IPOY
Size: 8"w x 5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the bow and painted with Kuretake gold & copper metallic w/c. Added white gel pen stitching and graphite shadow.
Text in a serif style with a ZIG Writer.
words: The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! and the tinsel! the trimmings! the trappings! Dr Seuss