Bubbles _ Enthusiasm Just Create

size: 6.5"w x 5"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the overlapping circles, added the words. Painted with various brands of watercolors (the colors don't show up very well especially the pink and gold...)
words: Enthusiasm just creates bubbles: It doesn't keep them from popping. Adora Svitak

Triangles - Good Bad Inbetween

size: 5"sq
On Canson Mixed Media paper drew the overlapping triangles, added the words then painted with various brands of watercolors.
words: Good Bad Inbetween

Forever Chasing Emerald Dreams

I was cleaning up a pile of stuff on one of my wheel-y carts and came across a bunch of glittered pieces I created eons ago... this one is emerald glitter on black paper through a star stencil.
size: 5"sq
I cut strips of just under an inch wide since the piece wasn't the size I wanted and pasted them to create my new frame. Used the cut of corners as decorative elements. Wrote the words with a green ZIG Writer
words: Forever Chasing Emerald Dreams

Emeralds, I think are my favorite gem...

A of F - One Page Booklet - Crazy Is

Our AofF for May is anything using 1 piece of paper. This is the 3rd booklet I've made. I guess I'm kind of addicted...
size closed: 2"sq x .5"thk
I used my Guild's Genoa Bond paper which I completely covered with various colored linear marks and filling in the negative areas with solid color.
Folded to create 16 sections. Cut the paper thru 3 squares in the 1st & 3rd section and then from the opposite side thru the 2nd section.
Glued a very thin line wherever needed to create a page/pocket and then cut out little rectangles to easily slip in and out my white page inserts.
The only text is what's visible.
words: title - "Crazy is as crazy does" on the edge of the cover.
letters spell out MIND BOGGLING

Ruche Weaving - In Silence - Rumi

size: 6"w x 8.5"h
On Value Pack cream toned cardstock cut my slits for the weaving at various widths. Wove with various colors of Ruche textured paper. Added the text to the empty sections using a Juice Up Brown pen.
words: In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. Rumi

Abstract Doodled Circle - Start To Be Great

size: 5" sq
On Genoa Bond Calligraphy paper drew out my circle and doodled with more circles. Colored with Prisma colored pencils (905,906,912,917,918,922). Added text around the circle in funky monoline.
words: You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. Zig Ziglar

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

Woven Tag - Geli Print - All Else Fails

size: 2"w x 7"h (plus ribbon)

Weaving 4 strips (7/10" w) of geli prints done on Genoa Bond paper to create the tag. Gluing the bottom slightly... Hanging with a light blue Sari ribbon.

Punched out tags from white and blue cardstock. Wrote in the words with a white gel pen and a blue ZIG Writer.

words: When all else fails laugh out loud.

Feel Free To Explore

size: 7.5"w x 4.5"h
On Genoa Bond paper using a ZIG Writer for the letters, doodling and ZIG Clean Color markers for the P.
words: Feel free to EXPLORE

Art Of The Fold - One Page Booklet - Think Green

size closed: 2.75"w x 2.25"h x .5"thk
Our AofF for May is anything using 1 piece of paper. I've done a few of these but this time I decided to glue some of the pages and create pockets so the booklet opens like a normal book... I love the results and decided I wanted an all GREEN theme...

I used my Guild's Genoa Bond paper, folded to create 16 sections. Cut the paper thru 1st & 3rd lines from the left edge thru 3 sections, then from the right edge thru the 2nd line thru 3 sections, and folded starting at one end till the end.

Glued a very thin line wherever needed to create a page/pocket and then punching a semi circle either at the edge or top depending on how the page was glued. I reinforced the glued edges with a very thin piece of geli print scraps.

Used various gel pens and Clean Color pens for the colored text.

Created tags to fit the pockets with the Genoa Bond paper and then adhered a piece of a dark green heavy paper. Wrote in green color names using a Gelly Roll white gel pen.

Doodling - Squeezed In Nowhere To Go

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the leafy design with a ZIG Writer and painted with various w/c paints adding white gel pen highlights on the circles.
Text with the ZIG Writer
words: Squeezed In - Nowhere To Go

Doodling - Must Never Be Obvious

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Mixed Media paper created the with a ZIG Writer and painted with various Mica paints and gold gel pen.
Text with a Juice Up pen
words: Ah, but my dear sir, the why must never be obvious. That is the whole point. Agathe Christie. "Five Little Pigs"

Origami Booklet - Beyond The Horizon

size closed: 3.75"w x 3"
I was creating this little booklet at my Guild's play day this past Saturday. I love making these little guys... I'm using one of my recent geli prints I made. Added the text in a style with a ZIG Writer.
words:  Just beyond the horizon of the so-called impossible is infinite possibility. Bryant McGill

BVCG Env Exchange Feb 2026 - Gloria Dawn

I used one of my favorite pieces of Geli print paper for both the card and envie... I really have
to make more...

Semi Circle Doodling - Finding Patterns

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
It was one of those days I just started doodling and this emerged...
On Canson Black Drawing, using a white Gelly roll 08 pen created the semi circles, adding doodling in the wider ones and coloring the thinner ones using Prisma colored pencils. Then  found a quote to go with my design... I chuckled one I found this one...
words: Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom. Denis Prager

Future Intertwined

size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Black Drawing paper created the wavy doodle using a white gel pen... Text written with a pointed nib and Bleed Proof white ink.
words: Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined. Jimmy Carter

On Black - Funky Frame - Frame A Moment

size: 6"w x 4.5"h
On Canson Black Drawing Paper using a Uniball Gold gel pen created the funky intertwined border.
You'd ever know what looks like a blue border is real and beautiful green... go figure painted with US ArtQuest Mica Interference paint.
Text written with a pointed nib.
words: You can frame a moment but you can't frame a life. Armin Houman

On Black - Optical Illusion - Straight Line

size: 4.5"w x 6"h
On Canson Black Drawing Paper using a Gelly Roll white gel pen.
words: The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. Victor Hugo

Floral Border - And A Little Dough

size: 6"sq
On Canson Black Drawing Paper using US Art Quest Mica Color "Pastelle" paints. Added the text with a white Gelly Roll 10 pen.
words: ... Life can be wonderful it you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination, and a little dough.
Charlie Chaplin

Curtains - Secret And Sighs

size: 6"h x 4.5"w
On Canson Black Drawing Paper using various metallic gel pens doodled the curtain design... added the text with a white Gelly Roll 10 pen.
words: ... and the very folds of the curtains contained SECRETS & SIGHS. Anais Nin