jubilant

i don't quite know what it is, but i'm feeling quite jubilant today!  maybe it's because it's wednesday (getting close to the weekend, woo hoo!), or maybe it's because my chocolate stash has been re-stocked with a very nice vintage of 72% bittersweet goodness.....

or maybe it's because for the first time in a long time i pulled out one of my favorite lettering tools.....my pentel color brush (it's like a waterbrush, but it's pre-filled with ink, and the nylon brush tip is nice and springy and always comes back to a fabulous point!)!   yep, maybe that's what it is.....catching up with an old lettering friend always makes me woo-hoo-orange-and-red-bittersweet-choco-happy!!


{journal page created using a pentel black color brush, koi watercolor,
micron pen and graphite pencil}

celebrate you!

no one in this whole wide wonderful world can be you better than you!! let's celebrate!!

journal page finished using hand-carved stamps, pentel colorbrush, micron pens and watercolor pencils

fabriano bliss

julie prichard suggested that we use this fabriano medioevalis paper for our third book structure in her online class, super nova. i ordered a box of this from dick blick....and boy do i love it!

my first project with this paper was giving it a "test run" by creating this little piece using my pentel colorbrush, micron pens and watercolor pencils. and then my second project was filming a video of this entire process, editing it in imovie (huge learning curve here!!), and then trying to do the you tube thing. unfortunately, by the time it reached you tube, the quality suffered and i'm trying to figure out how to fix it before i put it back out there in cyberspace. so....in a way, this is like seeing the finished project before you see the process....kind of like eating dessert before your dinner. no surprise that i would find a food analogy to go with a computer issue....