Doodling Around

Time to doodle!  There's a new challenge over on the Sassy Cheryl's Challenge Blog...doodling!  Make sure you play along for your chance to win free digital stamps from Sassy Cheryl.

For my card (the card my husband refers to as the card with dead flowers on it), I printed the image from the Sassy Cheryl's digital stamp set "Funky Flowers" onto X-Press It cardstock.  I colored with Copic markers, and played around a little bit doing a yellow color was over the purple flowers.  Hmm.   I added some white highlights with a Uniball Signo pen. After coloring, I cut around the image with detailed scissors and placed aside.

I stamped a large Hero Arts background stamp with Adirondack Pool.  I doodled a frame around the card panel, wrote the sentiment, drew the heart and placed the flowers into the scene.  A purple button and Baker's Twine are the finishing touches to this card.

So, I'm not too crazy about this card after my husband's comments...but, I am so happy to say SCHOOL'S OUT!  IT'S SUMMER!  I'll now have some time to re-do a card, if necessary.  LOL!

Extra Practice Doodling

How is it that I'm still on week one of the class? I think this is actually week three, with week four already being posted for those who are working ahead. Guess I don't want to be an overachiever. LOL.

Stephanie gave us an extra sheet of word doodles just for practice. This was an extremely relaxing process for me. Coloring and doodling. That's what it is all about. I recommend clicking on the picture so you can see the actual size of the doodles.

Summer Doodling

Hey! Thanks to all of you that made it here for the first blog post. I'm happy to know that my stamping buddies have followed me over from the old blog.

As I was setting up this new blog, one night I was just randomly surfing stamping and scrapbooking blogs trying to look for some type of inspiration. Quite by accident, I landed on Stephanie Ackerman's blog entitled Homegrown Hospitality and quickly discovered that she is a doodler. I was quite taken by her work, and learned that she is offering an online course on doodling this summer. I quickly signed up. I was so excited because I've always been interested and intrigued by the art of doodling. Also, I thought that maybe it would loosen me up a bit, and help explore my creativity and get me out of the creative funk that I have been in for almost a month.

Allow me to share with you the results of our Week 1 assignment. Now, don't get too excited. These are Stephanie's doodles, not mine. Our assignment was to color them and add swirls, dots, dashes, etc. It was fun and relaxing. Stay tuned for the next eight weeks of my learning attempts at doodling. I can see some possibilities in terms of integrating this art with my stamping.