Monday, June 27, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
A Trio of Fast Winter Cards from the Bits and Pieces Drawer
Here is a three pack of winter and Christmas theme cards that I whipped out in my recent cardmaking session. These were some of the fastest cards. They will serve the purpose of a personalized, non-commercially mass produced card though.
This first card has a very large sticker of Santa holding a Christmas tree. Then I wrote in overly elongated style "merry christmas" using a green Sakura gelly roll pen.
These next two cards are even quicker and simpler than the last one. Years ago in a LSS's scrapbooking indoor yard sale, I got overly excited by a card with the two following images on it. They were not stickers though and for years I have passed them by because it would be difficult to fussy cut them. I decided to just use them up, so I cut them with an obvious border. Glued them down and added a little frosty blue pen stitching around them.
So I can feel good about making use of these bits and pieces and I have three cards to send to someone when the weather gets frosty.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Another Card from the Bits and Pieces Drawer
Here is the next card that I made in my recent cardmaking session. Doing cardmaking in sessions means that I have cards ready to go whenever I feel like writing one. I try to keep in touch with faraway family and friends with my handmade cards. I like that they can keep them and each time that they look at it, it is like getting a new visit.
This gorgeous tulips in a circle image was a rubber stamp image. I rubber stamp in batches to and them throw all the stamped images into a drawer, to have them ready to use whenever I get an urge. I don't know what company made this image, as I unmounted all my wood-mounted rubber stamps a few years ago, to save space.
The card background is a pale cream colored cardstock. The stamped tulip image I colored with Copic markers. I am starting to get a small collection of Copics, which is making shading and highlighting easier. The tulips are orange, with shading around the edges and a reddish orange at the base. The leaves are done in shades of green. The background of the circle is pale lavender and the circle border is two shades of purple. I stamped the image on white cardstock and then inked it with dusty rose shade of ink; just doing a direct ink to paper technique.
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Art Journal Every Day # 17 - Big Pink Flower
Sorry for the long delay in posting the next page in my art journal.
This is the next page in my Art Journal that I am doing as part of the year-long project that Julie Fei Fan Balzer is hosting. You can check it out here: Art Journal Every Day
This page is dominated by the huge pink flower, obviously, lol. It is done with Whispers Strokes markers, pastels, and Zig Watercolor System ColorBrush Twin. I just made this flower up free-form with having any model.
The background is non-stop journaling done with a beautiful blue Sakura gelly roll pen.
This is the next page in my Art Journal that I am doing as part of the year-long project that Julie Fei Fan Balzer is hosting. You can check it out here: Art Journal Every Day
This page is dominated by the huge pink flower, obviously, lol. It is done with Whispers Strokes markers, pastels, and Zig Watercolor System ColorBrush Twin. I just made this flower up free-form with having any model.
The background is non-stop journaling done with a beautiful blue Sakura gelly roll pen.
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