No, that's not a self-portait on the cover (and since it came from my nephew I hope it wasn't meant to be either!). I decided to dig out all those old birthday cards my family have made over the years and put them into this book, bedeck it with lots of purple ribbons, the odd flower or two and some pretty paper. Great fun to do, and it makes a great keepsake album. And there's still space for more in there (just in case the family are reading....)
You can tell how much I enjoyed the BPS Doodle all day class, eh?
Entitled scary .... the halloween art card.... which mysteriously disappeared from my pc.... hmmmm......
And the prompt was home - I travel lots so keep thinking that (eventually) all roads lead to home!
This is weeks 39-42: Not anymore; Where would you like to be?; A grateful week, and someone special. 43 was scary - but I can't find the piccy at the mo! Will try to sort that out.
Well I don't know what the UKS party cyber crop did to me, but it's taken ages to recover and get back onto blogger .... I guess I did have to go away for work for a bit though I suppose. But I had great fun one weekend as my mum and sister came to my flat for the weekend and we set up the dining table, brought out the stash, bought in the choccie and champagne and chinese food when necessary, and had a great time! So here's a few shots featuring my wee crop creature with the party bags he made for his pals!
And here's some of the los I managed - the first one was using up scraps from the Banana Frog kit, and the others all followed the cc classes.
More shapes and assignments for the doodling class at BPS - above was to use lines to frame rectangles (practising for photos I guess), and on the rhs, you had to trace round a chipboard shape then doodle round it! The colourful one I did a day or so ago, trying out more ideas from the cover of Maelynn's book, and playing with my pens and pencils.
For this assignment you had to get an older lo that could do with being framed. So I chose this one and used my Uniball Signo white pen, but kinda smudged the corner with the lovely wee white flower that was already on the Rouge de Garance paper so had to go and cover it up with this rather heavy handed splurgey thing. But hey, you live and learn!
Oooh, this is addictive.... the next assignment was to look at the cover of Maelynn's book, so I tried to copy bits in my doodle journal, and in so doing learnt so much about the characteristics of the different pens, and remembered that I had a fab set of colour pencils I could use! This is such fun!
Well, how about this for an excuse to sit and daydream, er I mean practise? I'm doing the bigpicturescrapbooking Doodle All Day class with Maelynn Cheung and loving it. A great book with lots of really clear photos and examples, and daily emails with assignments that are totally achievable (even if it is a bit scary putting pen to paper...) So far I've managed to just doodle! (above) and practise the lines and circles exercises (below).
We also had to search through and test out all our pens on white and black card. These are mostly Sakura souffle (pastel), tombow, jimnie gel rollers (metallic ones) and marvy le plume.
And on the white below are a set of Sakura micron pigment pens 01-05, and on the black, the souffle again, a couple of sakura gelly rolls, the jimnie metallic gell rollers again, white sharpie paint ones, and a krylon gold leafing pen.
This was the first scary thing - to go back to an old layout that needed 'something' and add doodles! So here it is....
