My second post today.
This afternoon, I made a birthday card, using one of my watercolour doodled birds. I began by measuring and drawing some lines as cutting guides so that I could separate the birds. Then I could use them in projects.
The birds after I had cut them out.
This is the one I decided to use for today’s card.
I have got quite a lot of the “Who Gives a Crap” wrapping paper from my individually wrapped toilet rolls. This paper is so pretty and very useable in craft projects. I chose a pink one to co-ordinate with the doodled bird, and used it to line the envelope. I made the envelope using by envelope punch board.
The simple printed designs on the papers lend themselves very well to added doodling. In this case, I doodled little feathers around the pink lozenge shapes.
Here is the finished card. I matted and layered it onto some pink cardstock, and mounted it on a white card base.
The card with its envelope.
I stamped a “Happy Birthday” sentiment inside, using pink ink.
While I was at it, I also matted and layered the pink and green floral design I did with my recent doodles. A friend had said this one was her favourite. Funny – it was my least favourite! I knew I wouldn’t want to use it in anything, so I decided to mount and frame it, and give it to her, since she had admired it.
Going through my stash, I found a dark green metal photo frame that I bought at the village fete last summer. It is slightly scratched and chipped in places, but that didn’t seem to show too much. The colour and size were just right for my project.
A couple of days ago, I arranged some wet, used teabags on some of my recycled watercolour papers. Having Mark the decorator here, I am getting through a lot of teabags! He loves frequent cups of very strong tea – what we in the UK call “builders’ tea” lol! All builders seen to like tea so strong you could stand the spoon up in it. This is not to the taste of my hubby and me – we both like it weak as dishwater!
Anyway, I tried to compose the arrangements somewhat, so I could perhaps make something reasonable with the marks the drying teabags would leave on the paper.
This afternoon I removed the bags, and this is the result. Some of the bags had burst, and the spilt tea has left tiny spots, which is nice.
When arranging the teabags on the paper to dry, I always try to make them as wrinkly as possible, because that makes much more interesting marks.
I intend to doodle on these, using a sepia archival pen. I may add some colour, too.
It’s been a while since I did this. The last time I did it was in 2014 – was it really that long ago? At that time, I added Zentangle to the marks.
The creases give natural guidelines for the drawing. It’s a fun, easy peasy way of making art, and very relaxing too!
