I am still bubbling with enthusiasm over that crop in Sulphur, LA with the 2 Crafty Chicks, Wendy and Amy. Amy does another crop in march in Alexandria, LA called Croppin' on the Red. (Just sayin')
So, in my unwillingness to have only cookie cutter ideas, I drove myself a bit nutty trying to come up with an idea. I really wanted my own paper. The previous ideas were too color saturated to be a background. Or so I kept telling myself. To get the colors I wanted and the look I wanted, I was going to need white as the bulk of the design. Which I believe is called white space. I should have prefaced this with, "I have no design training." :)
That being abundantly clear, I checked out some zentangle and doodling books from my local library. I tried many different designs. I quickly realized that this art form takes lot of practice which translates into lots of time. Fast forward to an easy design choice. EASY is a relative term. They suggested starting with a 5" x 5" paper. Did I listen? No, I am on a schedule. Did I draw circles? No, I can make my own design! Arrogance my be part of the invention process. I thought I was good enough at .... at what? No, I am just an experimenter. <SIGH>
So, I used egg shapes instead of circles and I used 12" x 12" water color paper instead of ANYTHING else. I sketched a border in pencil leaving about a half inch around the sides and made the it about 1 1/2" thick. I then went about spacing the larger eggs around so that they looked balanced, but not uniform. I drew in the other odd sized eggs moving outward from the larger eggs and rotating the paper every 5 minutes or so, in order to keep from clumping sizes together. I found that as I got tired the eggs got bigger because I wanted to finish more quickly. DAYS later, I was finished drawing eggs and started watercoloring the eggs. (Disaster struck, as I am no watercolor expert either, and I panicked. Blah, blah, blah, and in the end I moved on.) Then I used my Micron pen (5) to color in around the eggs. I cut out my border and mounted it on white smooth cardstock.
Molly did the matting of the picture while I made the GOOD egg.
And that, my dear friends, is not even the end of this story. Not even close. Molly, who loves all things original with a twist, scanned this border into her computer and manipulated the colors. So, she has an original design for her scrapbook. For detail, click here. She can tell you more about the technical info than I can. She knows more about Photoshop and deign than the law should allow, but I am NOT jealous or anything. (Heehee)
Until next time, take what you need and leave the rest.
